1config ARCH 2 string 3 option env="ARCH" 4 5config KERNELVERSION 6 string 7 option env="KERNELVERSION" 8 9config DEFCONFIG_LIST 10 string 11 depends on !UML 12 option defconfig_list 13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14 default "/etc/kernel-config" 15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18 19config CONSTRUCTORS 20 bool 21 depends on !UML 22 23config IRQ_WORK 24 bool 25 26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 27 bool 28 29menu "General setup" 30 31config BROKEN 32 bool 33 34config BROKEN_ON_SMP 35 bool 36 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 37 default y 38 39config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 40 int 41 default 32 if !UML 42 default 128 if UML 43 help 44 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 45 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 46 47 48config CROSS_COMPILE 49 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 50 help 51 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 52 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 53 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 54 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 55 56config COMPILE_TEST 57 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 58 default n 59 help 60 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 61 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 62 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 63 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 64 drivers to compile-test them. 65 66 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 67 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 68 drivers to be distributed. 69 70config LOCALVERSION 71 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 72 help 73 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 74 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 75 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 76 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 77 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 78 be a maximum of 64 characters. 79 80config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 81 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 82 default y 83 help 84 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 85 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 86 top of tree revision. 87 88 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 89 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 90 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 91 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 92 93 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 94 by running the command: 95 96 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 97 98 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 99 100config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 101 bool 102 103config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 104 bool 105 106config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 107 bool 108 109config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 110 bool 111 112config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 113 bool 114 115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 116 bool 117 118choice 119 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 120 default KERNEL_GZIP 121 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 122 help 123 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 124 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 125 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 126 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 127 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 128 129 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 130 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 131 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 132 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 133 134 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 135 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 136 size matters less. 137 138 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 139 140config KERNEL_GZIP 141 bool "Gzip" 142 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 143 help 144 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 145 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 146 147config KERNEL_BZIP2 148 bool "Bzip2" 149 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 150 help 151 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 152 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 153 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 154 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 155 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 156 157config KERNEL_LZMA 158 bool "LZMA" 159 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 160 help 161 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 162 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 163 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 164 165config KERNEL_XZ 166 bool "XZ" 167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 168 help 169 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 170 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 171 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 172 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 173 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 174 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 175 176 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 177 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 178 and LZO. Compression is slow. 179 180config KERNEL_LZO 181 bool "LZO" 182 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 183 help 184 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 185 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 186 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 187 188config KERNEL_LZ4 189 bool "LZ4" 190 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 191 help 192 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 193 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 194 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 195 196 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 197 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 198 faster than LZO. 199 200endchoice 201 202config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 203 string "Default hostname" 204 default "(none)" 205 help 206 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 207 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 208 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 209 system more usable with less configuration. 210 211config SWAP 212 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 213 depends on MMU && BLOCK 214 default y 215 help 216 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 217 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 218 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 219 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 220 221config SYSVIPC 222 bool "System V IPC" 223 ---help--- 224 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 225 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 226 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 227 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 228 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 229 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 230 you'll need to say Y here. 231 232 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 233 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 234 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 235 236config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 237 bool 238 depends on SYSVIPC 239 depends on SYSCTL 240 default y 241 242config POSIX_MQUEUE 243 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 244 depends on NET 245 ---help--- 246 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 247 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 248 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 249 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 250 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 251 252 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 253 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 254 operations on message queues. 255 256 If unsure, say Y. 257 258config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 259 bool 260 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 261 depends on SYSCTL 262 default y 263 264config FHANDLE 265 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 266 select EXPORTFS 267 help 268 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 269 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 270 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 271 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 272 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 273 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 274 syscalls. 275 276config AUDIT 277 bool "Auditing support" 278 depends on NET 279 help 280 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 281 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 282 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 283 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 284 285config AUDITSYSCALL 286 bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 287 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) 288 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 289 help 290 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 291 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 292 such as SELinux. 293 294config AUDIT_WATCH 295 def_bool y 296 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 297 select FSNOTIFY 298 299config AUDIT_TREE 300 def_bool y 301 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 302 select FSNOTIFY 303 304config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 305 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 306 depends on AUDIT 307 help 308 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 309 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 310 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 311 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 312 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 313 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 314 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 315 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 316 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 317 318source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 319source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 320 321menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 322 323config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 324 bool 325 326choice 327 prompt "Cputime accounting" 328 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 329 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 330 331# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 332config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 333 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 334 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 335 help 336 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 337 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 338 granularity. 339 340 If unsure, say Y. 341 342config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 343 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 344 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 345 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 346 help 347 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 348 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 349 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 350 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 351 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 352 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 353 systems. 354 355config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 356 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 357 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT 358 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 359 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 360 help 361 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 362 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 363 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 364 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 365 overhead. 366 367 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 368 dynticks subsystem development. 369 370 If unsure, say N. 371 372config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 373 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 374 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 375 help 376 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 377 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 378 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 379 small performance impact. 380 381 If in doubt, say N here. 382 383endchoice 384 385config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 386 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 387 help 388 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 389 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 390 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 391 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 392 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 393 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 394 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 395 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 396 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 397 398config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 399 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 400 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 401 default n 402 help 403 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 404 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 405 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 406 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 407 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 408 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 409 410config TASKSTATS 411 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 412 depends on NET 413 default n 414 help 415 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 416 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 417 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 418 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 419 space on task exit. 420 421 Say N if unsure. 422 423config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 424 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 425 depends on TASKSTATS 426 help 427 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 428 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 429 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 430 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 431 432 Say N if unsure. 433 434config TASK_XACCT 435 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 436 depends on TASKSTATS 437 help 438 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 439 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 440 441 Say N if unsure. 442 443config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 444 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 445 depends on TASK_XACCT 446 help 447 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 448 task has caused. 449 450 Say N if unsure. 451 452endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 453 454menu "RCU Subsystem" 455 456choice 457 prompt "RCU Implementation" 458 default TREE_RCU 459 460config TREE_RCU 461 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 462 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 463 select IRQ_WORK 464 help 465 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 466 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 467 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 468 smaller systems. 469 470config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 471 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 472 depends on PREEMPT 473 select IRQ_WORK 474 help 475 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 476 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 477 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 478 is also required. It also scales down nicely to 479 smaller systems. 480 481 Select this option if you are unsure. 482 483config TINY_RCU 484 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 485 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 486 help 487 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 488 designed for UP systems from which real-time response 489 is not required. This option greatly reduces the 490 memory footprint of RCU. 491 492endchoice 493 494config PREEMPT_RCU 495 def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 496 help 497 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 498 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 499 500config RCU_STALL_COMMON 501 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 502 help 503 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 504 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 505 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 506 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 507 508config CONTEXT_TRACKING 509 bool 510 511config RCU_USER_QS 512 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 513 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 514 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 515 help 516 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 517 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 518 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 519 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 520 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 521 522 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 523 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 524 adds unnecessary overhead. 525 526 If unsure say N 527 528config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 529 bool "Force context tracking" 530 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 531 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 532 help 533 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 534 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 535 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 536 dynticks working. 537 538 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 539 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 540 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 541 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 542 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 543 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 544 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 545 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 546 CPUs in the system. 547 548 Say Y only if you're working on the developpement of an 549 architecture backend for the context tracking. 550 551 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 552 don't want in production. 553 554 555config RCU_FANOUT 556 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 557 range 2 64 if 64BIT 558 range 2 32 if !64BIT 559 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 560 default 64 if 64BIT 561 default 32 if !64BIT 562 help 563 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 564 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 565 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 566 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 567 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 568 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 569 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 570 code paths on small(er) systems. 571 572 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 573 Take the default if unsure. 574 575config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 576 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 577 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 578 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 579 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 580 default 16 581 help 582 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 583 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 584 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 585 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 586 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 587 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 588 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 589 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 590 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 591 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 592 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 593 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 594 leaf-level fanouts work well. 595 596 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 597 598 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 599 600 Take the default if unsure. 601 602config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 603 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 604 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 605 default n 606 help 607 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 608 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 609 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 610 strong NUMA behavior. 611 612 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 613 614 Say N if unsure. 615 616config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 617 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 618 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 619 default n 620 help 621 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 622 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 623 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 624 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 625 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 626 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 627 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 628 629 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 630 don't care about increased grace-period durations. 631 632 Say N if you are unsure. 633 634config TREE_RCU_TRACE 635 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 636 select DEBUG_FS 637 help 638 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 639 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 640 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 641 642config RCU_BOOST 643 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 644 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 645 default n 646 help 647 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 648 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 649 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 650 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 651 652 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 653 Say N here if you are unsure. 654 655config RCU_BOOST_PRIO 656 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 657 range 1 99 658 depends on RCU_BOOST 659 default 1 660 help 661 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 662 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 663 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 664 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 665 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 666 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 667 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 668 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 669 670 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 671 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 672 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 673 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 674 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 675 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 676 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 677 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 678 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 679 set to priority 6 or higher. 680 681 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 682 683config RCU_BOOST_DELAY 684 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 685 range 0 3000 686 depends on RCU_BOOST 687 default 500 688 help 689 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 690 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 691 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 692 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 693 694 Accept the default if unsure. 695 696config RCU_NOCB_CPU 697 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 698 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 699 default n 700 help 701 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 702 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 703 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 704 asymmetric multiprocessors. 705 706 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 707 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 708 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 709 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 710 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 711 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 712 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 713 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 714 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 715 716 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 717 Say N here if you are unsure. 718 719choice 720 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 721 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 722 help 723 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 724 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 725 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 726 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 727 728config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 729 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 730 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 731 help 732 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 733 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 734 no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 735 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 736 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 737 738 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 739 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 740 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 741 742config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 743 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 744 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL 745 help 746 This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 747 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 748 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 749 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 750 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 751 context. 752 753 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 754 or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 755 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 756 757config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 758 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 759 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 760 help 761 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 762 boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 763 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 764 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 765 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 766 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 767 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 768 769 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 770 or energy-efficiency reasons. 771 772endchoice 773 774endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 775 776config IKCONFIG 777 tristate "Kernel .config support" 778 ---help--- 779 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 780 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 781 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 782 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 783 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 784 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 785 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 786 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 787 788config IKCONFIG_PROC 789 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 790 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 791 ---help--- 792 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 793 through /proc/config.gz. 794 795config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 796 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 797 range 12 21 798 default 17 799 help 800 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 801 Examples: 802 17 => 128 KB 803 16 => 64 KB 804 15 => 32 KB 805 14 => 16 KB 806 13 => 8 KB 807 12 => 4 KB 808 809# 810# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 811# 812config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 813 bool 814 815config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 816 bool 817 818# 819# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 820# balancing logic: 821# 822config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 823 bool 824 825# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 826# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 827# 828config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 829 bool 830 831# 832# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE 833config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 834 bool 835 836config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE 837 bool 838 default y 839 depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 840 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 841 842config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 843 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 844 default y 845 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 846 help 847 If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 848 machine. 849 850config NUMA_BALANCING 851 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 852 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 853 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 854 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 855 help 856 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 857 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 858 it is references to the node the task is running on. 859 860 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 861 862menuconfig CGROUPS 863 boolean "Control Group support" 864 depends on EVENTFD 865 help 866 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 867 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 868 controls or device isolation. 869 See 870 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 871 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 872 and resource control) 873 874 Say N if unsure. 875 876if CGROUPS 877 878config CGROUP_DEBUG 879 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 880 default n 881 help 882 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 883 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 884 framework. 885 886 Say N if unsure. 887 888config CGROUP_FREEZER 889 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 890 help 891 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 892 cgroup. 893 894config CGROUP_DEVICE 895 bool "Device controller for cgroups" 896 help 897 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 898 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 899 900config CPUSETS 901 bool "Cpuset support" 902 help 903 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 904 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 905 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 906 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 907 908 Say N if unsure. 909 910config PROC_PID_CPUSET 911 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 912 depends on CPUSETS 913 default y 914 915config CGROUP_CPUACCT 916 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 917 help 918 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 919 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 920 921config RESOURCE_COUNTERS 922 bool "Resource counters" 923 help 924 This option enables controller independent resource accounting 925 infrastructure that works with cgroups. 926 927config MEMCG 928 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 929 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 930 select MM_OWNER 931 help 932 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 933 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 934 935 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 936 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 937 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 938 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 939 at boot. 940 941 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 942 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 943 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 944 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 945 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 946 947 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 948 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 949 950config MEMCG_SWAP 951 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 952 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 953 help 954 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 955 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 956 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 957 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 958 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 959 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 960 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 961 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 962 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 963 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 964 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 965 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 966 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 967config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 968 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 969 depends on MEMCG_SWAP 970 default y 971 help 972 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 973 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 974 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 975 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 976 parameter should have this option unselected. 977 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 978 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 979 then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 980config MEMCG_KMEM 981 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 982 depends on MEMCG 983 depends on SLUB || SLAB 984 help 985 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 986 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 987 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 988 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 989 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 990 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 991 992config CGROUP_HUGETLB 993 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 994 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE 995 default n 996 help 997 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 998 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 999 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1000 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1001 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1002 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1003 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1004 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1005 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1006 1007config CGROUP_PERF 1008 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 1009 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 1010 help 1011 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 1012 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1013 designated cpu. 1014 1015 Say N if unsure. 1016 1017menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1018 bool "Group CPU scheduler" 1019 default n 1020 help 1021 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1022 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1023 tasks. 1024 1025if CGROUP_SCHED 1026config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1027 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1028 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1029 default CGROUP_SCHED 1030 1031config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1032 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1033 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1034 default n 1035 help 1036 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1037 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1038 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1039 restriction. 1040 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1041 1042config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1043 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1044 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1045 default n 1046 help 1047 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1048 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1049 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1050 realtime bandwidth for them. 1051 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 1052 1053endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1054 1055config BLK_CGROUP 1056 bool "Block IO controller" 1057 depends on BLOCK 1058 default n 1059 ---help--- 1060 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1061 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1062 policies. 1063 1064 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1065 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1066 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1067 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1068 1069 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1070 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 1071 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 1072 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1073 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1074 1075 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1076 1077config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1078 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1079 depends on BLK_CGROUP 1080 default n 1081 ---help--- 1082 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1083 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1084 1085endif # CGROUPS 1086 1087config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1088 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1089 default n 1090 help 1091 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1092 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1093 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1094 entries. 1095 1096 If unsure, say N here. 1097 1098menuconfig NAMESPACES 1099 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1100 default !EXPERT 1101 help 1102 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1103 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1104 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1105 different namespaces. 1106 1107if NAMESPACES 1108 1109config UTS_NS 1110 bool "UTS namespace" 1111 default y 1112 help 1113 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1114 uname() system call 1115 1116config IPC_NS 1117 bool "IPC namespace" 1118 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1119 default y 1120 help 1121 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1122 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1123 1124config USER_NS 1125 bool "User namespace" 1126 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1127 1128 default n 1129 help 1130 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1131 to provide different user info for different servers. 1132 1133 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1134 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1135 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1136 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1137 use. 1138 1139 If unsure, say N. 1140 1141config PID_NS 1142 bool "PID Namespaces" 1143 default y 1144 help 1145 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1146 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1147 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1148 1149config NET_NS 1150 bool "Network namespace" 1151 depends on NET 1152 default y 1153 help 1154 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1155 of the network stack. 1156 1157endif # NAMESPACES 1158 1159config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1160 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" 1161 default n 1162 help 1163 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows 1164 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems. 1165 1166 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled 1167 1168config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1169 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1170 select EVENTFD 1171 select CGROUPS 1172 select CGROUP_SCHED 1173 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1174 help 1175 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1176 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1177 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1178 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1179 upon task session. 1180 1181config MM_OWNER 1182 bool 1183 1184config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1185 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1186 depends on SYSFS 1187 default n 1188 help 1189 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1190 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1191 /sys/block/. 1192 1193 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1194 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1195 1196 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1197 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1198 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1199 1200 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1201 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1202 option enabled. 1203 1204 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1205 need to say Y here. 1206 1207config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1208 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1209 default n 1210 depends on SYSFS 1211 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1212 help 1213 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1214 1215 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1216 option. 1217 1218 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1219 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1220 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1221 1222config RELAY 1223 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1224 help 1225 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1226 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1227 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1228 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1229 user space. 1230 1231 If unsure, say N. 1232 1233config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1234 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1235 depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1236 help 1237 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1238 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1239 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1240 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1241 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1242 1243 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1244 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1245 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1246 1247 If unsure say Y. 1248 1249if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1250 1251source "usr/Kconfig" 1252 1253endif 1254 1255config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1256 bool "Optimize for size" 1257 help 1258 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1259 resulting in a smaller kernel. 1260 1261 If unsure, say N. 1262 1263config SYSCTL 1264 bool 1265 1266config ANON_INODES 1267 bool 1268 1269config HAVE_UID16 1270 bool 1271 1272config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1273 bool 1274 help 1275 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1276 1277config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1278 bool 1279 help 1280 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1281 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1282 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1283 1284config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1285 bool 1286 help 1287 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1288 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1289 the unaligned access emulation. 1290 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1291 1292config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1293 bool 1294 1295menuconfig EXPERT 1296 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1297 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1298 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1299 help 1300 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1301 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1302 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1303 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1304 1305config UID16 1306 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1307 depends on HAVE_UID16 1308 default y 1309 help 1310 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1311 1312config SYSCTL_SYSCALL 1313 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 1314 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1315 default n 1316 select SYSCTL 1317 ---help--- 1318 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 1319 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 1320 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 1321 information. 1322 1323 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 1324 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 1325 making your kernel marginally smaller. 1326 1327 If unsure say N here. 1328 1329config KALLSYMS 1330 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1331 default y 1332 help 1333 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1334 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1335 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1336 1337config KALLSYMS_ALL 1338 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1339 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1340 help 1341 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1342 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1343 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1344 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1345 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1346 1347 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1348 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1349 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1350 something like this). 1351 1352 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1353 1354config PRINTK 1355 default y 1356 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1357 select IRQ_WORK 1358 help 1359 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1360 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1361 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1362 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1363 strongly discouraged. 1364 1365config BUG 1366 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1367 default y 1368 help 1369 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1370 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1371 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1372 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1373 Just say Y. 1374 1375config ELF_CORE 1376 depends on COREDUMP 1377 default y 1378 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1379 help 1380 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1381 1382 1383config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1384 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1385 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1386 select I8253_LOCK 1387 default y 1388 help 1389 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1390 support, saving some memory. 1391 1392config BASE_FULL 1393 default y 1394 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1395 help 1396 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1397 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1398 but may reduce performance. 1399 1400config FUTEX 1401 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1402 default y 1403 select RT_MUTEXES 1404 help 1405 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1406 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1407 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1408 1409config EPOLL 1410 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1411 default y 1412 select ANON_INODES 1413 help 1414 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1415 support for epoll family of system calls. 1416 1417config SIGNALFD 1418 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1419 select ANON_INODES 1420 default y 1421 help 1422 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1423 on a file descriptor. 1424 1425 If unsure, say Y. 1426 1427config TIMERFD 1428 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1429 select ANON_INODES 1430 default y 1431 help 1432 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1433 events on a file descriptor. 1434 1435 If unsure, say Y. 1436 1437config EVENTFD 1438 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1439 select ANON_INODES 1440 default y 1441 help 1442 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1443 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1444 1445 If unsure, say Y. 1446 1447config SHMEM 1448 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1449 default y 1450 depends on MMU 1451 help 1452 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1453 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1454 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1455 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1456 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1457 1458config AIO 1459 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1460 default y 1461 help 1462 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1463 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1464 this option saves about 7k. 1465 1466config PCI_QUIRKS 1467 default y 1468 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1469 depends on PCI 1470 help 1471 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1472 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1473 unaffected by PCI quirks. 1474 1475config EMBEDDED 1476 bool "Embedded system" 1477 select EXPERT 1478 help 1479 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1480 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1481 for configuration. 1482 1483config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1484 bool 1485 help 1486 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1487 1488config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1489 bool 1490 help 1491 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1492 1493menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1494 1495config PERF_EVENTS 1496 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1497 default y if PROFILING 1498 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1499 select ANON_INODES 1500 select IRQ_WORK 1501 help 1502 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1503 by software and hardware. 1504 1505 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1506 use of generic tracepoints. 1507 1508 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1509 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1510 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1511 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1512 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1513 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1514 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1515 1516 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1517 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1518 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1519 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1520 capabilities on top of those. 1521 1522 Say Y if unsure. 1523 1524config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1525 default n 1526 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1527 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1528 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1529 help 1530 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1531 1532 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1533 that don't require it. 1534 1535 Say N if unsure. 1536 1537endmenu 1538 1539config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1540 default y 1541 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1542 help 1543 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1544 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1545 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1546 if VM event counters are disabled. 1547 1548config SLUB_DEBUG 1549 default y 1550 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1551 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1552 help 1553 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1554 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1555 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1556 no support for cache validation etc. 1557 1558config COMPAT_BRK 1559 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1560 default y 1561 help 1562 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1563 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1564 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1565 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1566 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1567 1568 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1569 1570choice 1571 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1572 default SLUB 1573 help 1574 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1575 1576config SLAB 1577 bool "SLAB" 1578 help 1579 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 1580 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 1581 per cpu and per node queues. 1582 1583config SLUB 1584 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1585 help 1586 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 1587 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 1588 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 1589 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 1590 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 1591 a slab allocator. 1592 1593config SLOB 1594 depends on EXPERT 1595 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1596 help 1597 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 1598 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 1599 does not perform as well on large systems. 1600 1601endchoice 1602 1603config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1604 default y 1605 depends on SLUB && SMP 1606 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1607 help 1608 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1609 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1610 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1611 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1612 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1613 1614config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1615 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1616 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1617 default n 1618 help 1619 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1620 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1621 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1622 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1623 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1624 then the flag will be ignored. 1625 1626 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1627 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1628 1629 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1630 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1631 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1632 it is normally safe to say Y here. 1633 1634 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1635 1636config PROFILING 1637 bool "Profiling support" 1638 help 1639 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1640 by profilers such as OProfile. 1641 1642# 1643# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1644# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1645# 1646config TRACEPOINTS 1647 bool 1648 1649source "arch/Kconfig" 1650 1651endmenu # General setup 1652 1653config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1654 bool 1655 default n 1656 1657config SLABINFO 1658 bool 1659 depends on PROC_FS 1660 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1661 default y 1662 1663config RT_MUTEXES 1664 boolean 1665 1666config BASE_SMALL 1667 int 1668 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1669 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1670 1671menuconfig MODULES 1672 bool "Enable loadable module support" 1673 option modules 1674 help 1675 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 1676 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 1677 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 1678 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 1679 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 1680 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 1681 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 1682 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 1683 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 1684 1685 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 1686 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 1687 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 1688 this). 1689 1690 If unsure, say Y. 1691 1692if MODULES 1693 1694config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1695 bool "Forced module loading" 1696 default n 1697 help 1698 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 1699 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 1700 is usually a really bad idea. 1701 1702config MODULE_UNLOAD 1703 bool "Module unloading" 1704 help 1705 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 1706 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1707 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1708 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 1709 1710config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 1711 bool "Forced module unloading" 1712 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 1713 help 1714 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 1715 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 1716 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 1717 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 1718 If unsure, say N. 1719 1720config MODVERSIONS 1721 bool "Module versioning support" 1722 help 1723 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 1724 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 1725 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 1726 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 1727 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 1728 unsure, say N. 1729 1730config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 1731 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 1732 help 1733 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 1734 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 1735 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 1736 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 1737 others sometimes change the module source without updating 1738 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 1739 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 1740 1741config MODULE_SIG 1742 bool "Module signature verification" 1743 depends on MODULES 1744 select KEYS 1745 select CRYPTO 1746 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1747 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1748 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 1749 select ASN1 1750 select OID_REGISTRY 1751 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1752 help 1753 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1754 is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1755 Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1756 1757 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1758 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1759 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1760 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1761 1762config MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1763 bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1764 depends on MODULE_SIG 1765 help 1766 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1767 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1768 1769config MODULE_SIG_ALL 1770 bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1771 default y 1772 depends on MODULE_SIG 1773 help 1774 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1775 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1776 1777comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1778 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1779 1780choice 1781 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1782 depends on MODULE_SIG 1783 help 1784 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1785 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1786 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1787 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1788 the signature on that module. 1789 1790config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1791 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1792 select CRYPTO_SHA1 1793 1794config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1795 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1796 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1797 1798config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1799 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1800 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1801 1802config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1803 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1804 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1805 1806config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1807 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1808 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1809 1810endchoice 1811 1812config MODULE_SIG_HASH 1813 string 1814 depends on MODULE_SIG 1815 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1816 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1817 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1818 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1819 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1820 1821endif # MODULES 1822 1823config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1824 bool 1825 help 1826 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 1827 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 1828 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 1829 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1830 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 1831 1832config STOP_MACHINE 1833 bool 1834 default y 1835 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 1836 help 1837 Need stop_machine() primitive. 1838 1839source "block/Kconfig" 1840 1841config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1842 bool 1843 1844config PADATA 1845 depends on SMP 1846 bool 1847 1848# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1849# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1850# mappings 1851config BROKEN_RODATA 1852 bool 1853 1854config ASN1 1855 tristate 1856 help 1857 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 1858 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 1859 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 1860 functions to call on what tags. 1861 1862source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1863