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