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 CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 265 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 266 depends on MMU 267 default y 268 help 269 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 270 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 271 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 272 See the man page for more details. 273 274config FHANDLE 275 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 276 select EXPORTFS 277 help 278 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 279 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 280 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 281 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 282 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 283 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 284 syscalls. 285 286config USELIB 287 bool "uselib syscall" 288 default y 289 help 290 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 291 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 292 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 293 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 294 running glibc can safely disable this. 295 296config AUDIT 297 bool "Auditing support" 298 depends on NET 299 help 300 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 301 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 302 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 303 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 304 305config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 306 bool 307 308config AUDITSYSCALL 309 bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 311 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 312 help 313 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 314 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 315 such as SELinux. 316 317config AUDIT_WATCH 318 def_bool y 319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 320 select FSNOTIFY 321 322config AUDIT_TREE 323 def_bool y 324 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 325 select FSNOTIFY 326 327source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 328source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 329 330menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 331 332config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 333 bool 334 335choice 336 prompt "Cputime accounting" 337 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 338 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 339 340# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 341config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 342 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 343 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 344 help 345 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 346 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 347 granularity. 348 349 If unsure, say Y. 350 351config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 352 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 353 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 354 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 355 help 356 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 357 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 358 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 359 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 360 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 361 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 362 systems. 363 364config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 365 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 366 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 367 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 368 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 369 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 370 help 371 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 372 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 373 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 374 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 375 overhead. 376 377 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 378 dynticks subsystem development. 379 380 If unsure, say N. 381 382config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 383 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 384 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 385 help 386 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 387 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 388 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 389 small performance impact. 390 391 If in doubt, say N here. 392 393endchoice 394 395config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 396 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 397 help 398 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 399 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 400 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 401 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 402 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 403 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 404 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 405 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 406 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 407 408config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 409 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 410 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 411 default n 412 help 413 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 414 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 415 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 416 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 417 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 418 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 419 420config TASKSTATS 421 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 422 depends on NET 423 default n 424 help 425 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 426 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 427 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 428 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 429 space on task exit. 430 431 Say N if unsure. 432 433config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 434 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 435 depends on TASKSTATS 436 help 437 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 438 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 439 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 440 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 441 442 Say N if unsure. 443 444config TASK_XACCT 445 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 446 depends on TASKSTATS 447 help 448 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 449 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 450 451 Say N if unsure. 452 453config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 454 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 455 depends on TASK_XACCT 456 help 457 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 458 task has caused. 459 460 Say N if unsure. 461 462endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 463 464menu "RCU Subsystem" 465 466choice 467 prompt "RCU Implementation" 468 default TREE_RCU 469 470config TREE_RCU 471 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 472 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 473 select IRQ_WORK 474 help 475 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 476 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 477 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 478 smaller systems. 479 480config PREEMPT_RCU 481 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 482 depends on PREEMPT 483 select IRQ_WORK 484 help 485 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 486 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 487 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 488 is also required. It also scales down nicely to 489 smaller systems. 490 491 Select this option if you are unsure. 492 493config TINY_RCU 494 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 495 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 496 help 497 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 498 designed for UP systems from which real-time response 499 is not required. This option greatly reduces the 500 memory footprint of RCU. 501 502endchoice 503 504config TASKS_RCU 505 bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch" 506 default n 507 help 508 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses 509 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and 510 user-mode execution as quiescent states. 511 512 If unsure, say N. 513 514config RCU_STALL_COMMON 515 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 516 help 517 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 518 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 519 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 520 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 521 522config CONTEXT_TRACKING 523 bool 524 525config RCU_USER_QS 526 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 527 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 528 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 529 help 530 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 531 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 532 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 533 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 534 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 535 536 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 537 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 538 adds unnecessary overhead. 539 540 If unsure say N 541 542config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 543 bool "Force context tracking" 544 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 545 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 546 help 547 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 548 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 549 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 550 dynticks working. 551 552 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 553 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 554 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 555 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 556 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 557 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 558 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 559 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 560 CPUs in the system. 561 562 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 563 architecture backend for the context tracking. 564 565 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 566 don't want in production. 567 568 569config RCU_FANOUT 570 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 571 range 2 64 if 64BIT 572 range 2 32 if !64BIT 573 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 574 default 64 if 64BIT 575 default 32 if !64BIT 576 help 577 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 578 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 579 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 580 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 581 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 582 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 583 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 584 code paths on small(er) systems. 585 586 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 587 Take the default if unsure. 588 589config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 590 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 591 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 592 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 593 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 594 default 16 595 help 596 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 597 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 598 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 599 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 600 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 601 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 602 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 603 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 604 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 605 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 606 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 607 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 608 leaf-level fanouts work well. 609 610 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 611 612 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 613 614 Take the default if unsure. 615 616config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 617 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 618 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 619 default n 620 help 621 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 622 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 623 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 624 strong NUMA behavior. 625 626 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 627 628 Say N if unsure. 629 630config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 631 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 632 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP 633 default n 634 help 635 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 636 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 637 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 638 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 639 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 640 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 641 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 642 643 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 644 don't care about increased grace-period durations. 645 646 Say N if you are unsure. 647 648config TREE_RCU_TRACE 649 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU ) 650 select DEBUG_FS 651 help 652 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 653 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 654 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 655 656config RCU_BOOST 657 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 658 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 659 default n 660 help 661 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 662 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 663 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 664 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 665 666 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 667 Say N here if you are unsure. 668 669config RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 670 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads" 671 range 1 99 672 depends on RCU_BOOST 673 default 1 674 help 675 This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be 676 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value 677 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a 678 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads 679 running at a real-time priority level, you should set 680 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority 681 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 682 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 683 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 684 685 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 686 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 687 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 688 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to 689 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 690 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 691 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 692 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 693 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be 694 set to priority 6 or higher. 695 696 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 697 698config RCU_BOOST_DELAY 699 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 700 range 0 3000 701 depends on RCU_BOOST 702 default 500 703 help 704 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 705 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 706 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 707 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 708 709 Accept the default if unsure. 710 711config RCU_NOCB_CPU 712 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 713 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 714 default n 715 help 716 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 717 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 718 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 719 asymmetric multiprocessors. 720 721 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 722 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 723 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 724 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 725 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 726 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 727 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 728 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 729 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 730 731 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 732 Say N here if you are unsure. 733 734choice 735 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 736 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 737 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 738 help 739 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 740 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 741 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 742 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 743 744config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 745 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 746 help 747 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 748 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 749 no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 750 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 751 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 752 753 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 754 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 755 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 756 757config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 758 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 759 help 760 This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 761 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 762 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 763 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 764 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 765 context. 766 767 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 768 or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 769 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 770 771config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 772 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 773 help 774 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 775 boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 776 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 777 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 778 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 779 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 780 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 781 782 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 783 or energy-efficiency reasons. 784 785endchoice 786 787endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 788 789config BUILD_BIN2C 790 bool 791 default n 792 793config IKCONFIG 794 tristate "Kernel .config support" 795 select BUILD_BIN2C 796 ---help--- 797 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 798 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 799 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 800 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 801 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 802 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 803 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 804 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 805 806config IKCONFIG_PROC 807 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 808 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 809 ---help--- 810 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 811 through /proc/config.gz. 812 813config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 814 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 815 range 12 21 816 default 17 817 depends on PRINTK 818 help 819 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 820 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 821 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 822 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 823 824 Examples: 825 17 => 128 KB 826 16 => 64 KB 827 15 => 32 KB 828 14 => 16 KB 829 13 => 8 KB 830 12 => 4 KB 831 832config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 833 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 834 depends on SMP 835 range 0 21 836 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 837 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 838 depends on PRINTK 839 help 840 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 841 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 842 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 843 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 844 e.g. backtraces. 845 846 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 847 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 848 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 849 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 850 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 851 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 852 853 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 854 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 855 856 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 857 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case 858 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 859 860 Examples shift values and their meaning: 861 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 862 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 863 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 864 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 865 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 866 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 867 868# 869# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 870# 871config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 872 bool 873 874config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 875 bool 876 877# 878# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 879# balancing logic: 880# 881config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 882 bool 883 884# 885# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 886# 887config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 888 bool 889 890# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 891# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 892# 893config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 894 bool 895 896config NUMA_BALANCING 897 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 898 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 899 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 900 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 901 help 902 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 903 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 904 it has references to the node the task is running on. 905 906 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 907 908config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 909 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 910 default y 911 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 912 help 913 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 914 machine. 915 916menuconfig CGROUPS 917 boolean "Control Group support" 918 select KERNFS 919 help 920 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 921 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 922 controls or device isolation. 923 See 924 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 925 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 926 and resource control) 927 928 Say N if unsure. 929 930if CGROUPS 931 932config CGROUP_DEBUG 933 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 934 default n 935 help 936 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 937 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 938 framework. 939 940 Say N if unsure. 941 942config CGROUP_FREEZER 943 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 944 help 945 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 946 cgroup. 947 948config CGROUP_DEVICE 949 bool "Device controller for cgroups" 950 help 951 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 952 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 953 954config CPUSETS 955 bool "Cpuset support" 956 help 957 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 958 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 959 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 960 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 961 962 Say N if unsure. 963 964config PROC_PID_CPUSET 965 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 966 depends on CPUSETS 967 default y 968 969config CGROUP_CPUACCT 970 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 971 help 972 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 973 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 974 975config PAGE_COUNTER 976 bool 977 978config MEMCG 979 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 980 select PAGE_COUNTER 981 select EVENTFD 982 help 983 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 984 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 985 986config MEMCG_SWAP 987 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 988 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 989 help 990 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 991 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 992 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 993 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 994 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 995 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 996 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 997 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 998 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 999 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 1000 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 1001 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 1002 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 1003config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 1004 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 1005 depends on MEMCG_SWAP 1006 default y 1007 help 1008 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 1009 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 1010 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 1011 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 1012 parameter should have this option unselected. 1013 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 1014 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 1015 then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 1016config MEMCG_KMEM 1017 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 1018 depends on MEMCG 1019 depends on SLUB || SLAB 1020 help 1021 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 1022 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 1023 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 1024 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 1025 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 1026 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 1027 1028 WARNING: Current implementation lacks reclaim support. That means 1029 allocation attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there 1030 are plenty of kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option 1031 unusable in real life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development 1032 purposes. 1033 1034config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1035 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 1036 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1037 select PAGE_COUNTER 1038 default n 1039 help 1040 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 1041 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1042 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1043 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1044 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1045 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1046 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1047 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1048 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1049 1050config CGROUP_PERF 1051 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 1052 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 1053 help 1054 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 1055 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1056 designated cpu. 1057 1058 Say N if unsure. 1059 1060menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1061 bool "Group CPU scheduler" 1062 default n 1063 help 1064 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1065 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1066 tasks. 1067 1068if CGROUP_SCHED 1069config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1070 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1071 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1072 default CGROUP_SCHED 1073 1074config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1075 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1076 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1077 default n 1078 help 1079 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1080 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1081 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1082 restriction. 1083 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1084 1085config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1086 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1087 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1088 default n 1089 help 1090 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1091 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1092 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1093 realtime bandwidth for them. 1094 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 1095 1096endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1097 1098config BLK_CGROUP 1099 bool "Block IO controller" 1100 depends on BLOCK 1101 default n 1102 ---help--- 1103 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 1104 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 1105 policies. 1106 1107 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 1108 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 1109 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 1110 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 1111 1112 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1113 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 1114 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 1115 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1116 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1117 1118 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1119 1120config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1121 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1122 depends on BLK_CGROUP 1123 default n 1124 ---help--- 1125 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1126 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1127 1128endif # CGROUPS 1129 1130config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1131 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1132 default n 1133 help 1134 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1135 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1136 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1137 entries. 1138 1139 If unsure, say N here. 1140 1141menuconfig NAMESPACES 1142 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1143 default !EXPERT 1144 help 1145 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1146 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1147 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1148 different namespaces. 1149 1150if NAMESPACES 1151 1152config UTS_NS 1153 bool "UTS namespace" 1154 default y 1155 help 1156 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1157 uname() system call 1158 1159config IPC_NS 1160 bool "IPC namespace" 1161 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1162 default y 1163 help 1164 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1165 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1166 1167config USER_NS 1168 bool "User namespace" 1169 default n 1170 help 1171 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1172 to provide different user info for different servers. 1173 1174 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1175 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1176 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1177 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1178 use. 1179 1180 If unsure, say N. 1181 1182config PID_NS 1183 bool "PID Namespaces" 1184 default y 1185 help 1186 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1187 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1188 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1189 1190config NET_NS 1191 bool "Network namespace" 1192 depends on NET 1193 default y 1194 help 1195 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1196 of the network stack. 1197 1198endif # NAMESPACES 1199 1200config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1201 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1202 select CGROUPS 1203 select CGROUP_SCHED 1204 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1205 help 1206 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1207 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1208 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1209 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1210 upon task session. 1211 1212config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1213 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1214 depends on SYSFS 1215 default n 1216 help 1217 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1218 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1219 /sys/block/. 1220 1221 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1222 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1223 1224 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1225 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1226 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1227 1228 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1229 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1230 option enabled. 1231 1232 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1233 need to say Y here. 1234 1235config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1236 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1237 default n 1238 depends on SYSFS 1239 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1240 help 1241 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1242 1243 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1244 option. 1245 1246 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1247 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1248 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1249 1250config RELAY 1251 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1252 help 1253 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1254 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1255 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1256 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1257 user space. 1258 1259 If unsure, say N. 1260 1261config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1262 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1263 depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1264 help 1265 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1266 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1267 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1268 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1269 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1270 1271 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1272 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1273 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1274 1275 If unsure say Y. 1276 1277if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1278 1279source "usr/Kconfig" 1280 1281endif 1282 1283config INIT_FALLBACK 1284 bool "Fall back to defaults if init= parameter is bad" 1285 default y 1286 help 1287 If enabled, the kernel will try the default init binaries if an 1288 explicit request from the init= parameter fails. 1289 1290 This can have unexpected effects. For example, booting 1291 with init=/sbin/kiosk_app will run /sbin/init or even /bin/sh 1292 if /sbin/kiosk_app cannot be executed. 1293 1294 The default value of Y is consistent with historical behavior. 1295 Selecting N is likely to be more appropriate for most uses, 1296 especially on kiosks and on kernels that are intended to be 1297 run under the control of a script. 1298 1299config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1300 bool "Optimize for size" 1301 help 1302 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1303 resulting in a smaller kernel. 1304 1305 If unsure, say N. 1306 1307config SYSCTL 1308 bool 1309 1310config ANON_INODES 1311 bool 1312 1313config HAVE_UID16 1314 bool 1315 1316config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1317 bool 1318 help 1319 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1320 1321config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1322 bool 1323 help 1324 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1325 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1326 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1327 1328config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1329 bool 1330 help 1331 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1332 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1333 the unaligned access emulation. 1334 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1335 1336config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1337 bool 1338 1339# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1340config BPF 1341 bool 1342 1343menuconfig EXPERT 1344 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1345 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1346 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1347 help 1348 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1349 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1350 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1351 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1352 1353config UID16 1354 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1355 depends on HAVE_UID16 1356 default y 1357 help 1358 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1359 1360config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1361 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1362 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1363 ---help--- 1364 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1365 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1366 architectures. 1367 1368 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1369 1370config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1371 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1372 default y 1373 ---help--- 1374 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1375 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1376 compatibility with some systems. 1377 1378 If unsure say Y here. 1379 1380config SYSCTL_SYSCALL 1381 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 1382 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1383 default n 1384 select SYSCTL 1385 ---help--- 1386 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 1387 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 1388 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 1389 information. 1390 1391 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 1392 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 1393 making your kernel marginally smaller. 1394 1395 If unsure say N here. 1396 1397config KALLSYMS 1398 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1399 default y 1400 help 1401 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1402 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1403 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1404 1405config KALLSYMS_ALL 1406 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1407 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1408 help 1409 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1410 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1411 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1412 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1413 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1414 1415 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1416 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1417 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1418 something like this). 1419 1420 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1421 1422config PRINTK 1423 default y 1424 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1425 select IRQ_WORK 1426 help 1427 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1428 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1429 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1430 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1431 strongly discouraged. 1432 1433config BUG 1434 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1435 default y 1436 help 1437 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1438 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1439 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1440 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1441 Just say Y. 1442 1443config ELF_CORE 1444 depends on COREDUMP 1445 default y 1446 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1447 help 1448 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1449 1450 1451config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1452 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1453 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1454 select I8253_LOCK 1455 default y 1456 help 1457 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1458 support, saving some memory. 1459 1460config BASE_FULL 1461 default y 1462 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1463 help 1464 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1465 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1466 but may reduce performance. 1467 1468config FUTEX 1469 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1470 default y 1471 select RT_MUTEXES 1472 help 1473 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1474 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1475 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1476 1477config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 1478 bool 1479 depends on FUTEX 1480 help 1481 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 1482 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 1483 checks. 1484 1485config EPOLL 1486 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1487 default y 1488 select ANON_INODES 1489 help 1490 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1491 support for epoll family of system calls. 1492 1493config SIGNALFD 1494 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1495 select ANON_INODES 1496 default y 1497 help 1498 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1499 on a file descriptor. 1500 1501 If unsure, say Y. 1502 1503config TIMERFD 1504 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1505 select ANON_INODES 1506 default y 1507 help 1508 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1509 events on a file descriptor. 1510 1511 If unsure, say Y. 1512 1513config EVENTFD 1514 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1515 select ANON_INODES 1516 default y 1517 help 1518 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1519 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1520 1521 If unsure, say Y. 1522 1523# syscall, maps, verifier 1524config BPF_SYSCALL 1525 bool "Enable bpf() system call" if EXPERT 1526 select ANON_INODES 1527 select BPF 1528 default n 1529 help 1530 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1531 programs and maps via file descriptors. 1532 1533config SHMEM 1534 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1535 default y 1536 depends on MMU 1537 help 1538 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1539 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1540 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1541 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1542 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1543 1544config AIO 1545 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1546 default y 1547 help 1548 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1549 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1550 this option saves about 7k. 1551 1552config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1553 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1554 default y 1555 help 1556 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1557 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1558 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1559 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1560 space. 1561 1562config PCI_QUIRKS 1563 default y 1564 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1565 depends on PCI 1566 help 1567 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1568 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1569 unaffected by PCI quirks. 1570 1571config EMBEDDED 1572 bool "Embedded system" 1573 option allnoconfig_y 1574 select EXPERT 1575 help 1576 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1577 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1578 for configuration. 1579 1580config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1581 bool 1582 help 1583 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1584 1585config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1586 bool 1587 help 1588 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1589 1590menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1591 1592config PERF_EVENTS 1593 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1594 default y if PROFILING 1595 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1596 select ANON_INODES 1597 select IRQ_WORK 1598 help 1599 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1600 by software and hardware. 1601 1602 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1603 use of generic tracepoints. 1604 1605 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1606 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1607 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1608 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1609 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1610 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1611 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1612 1613 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1614 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1615 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1616 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1617 capabilities on top of those. 1618 1619 Say Y if unsure. 1620 1621config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1622 default n 1623 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1624 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1625 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1626 help 1627 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1628 1629 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1630 that don't require it. 1631 1632 Say N if unsure. 1633 1634endmenu 1635 1636config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1637 default y 1638 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1639 help 1640 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1641 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1642 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1643 if VM event counters are disabled. 1644 1645config SLUB_DEBUG 1646 default y 1647 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1648 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1649 help 1650 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1651 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1652 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1653 no support for cache validation etc. 1654 1655config COMPAT_BRK 1656 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1657 default y 1658 help 1659 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1660 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1661 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1662 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1663 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1664 1665 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1666 1667choice 1668 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1669 default SLUB 1670 help 1671 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1672 1673config SLAB 1674 bool "SLAB" 1675 help 1676 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 1677 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 1678 per cpu and per node queues. 1679 1680config SLUB 1681 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1682 help 1683 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 1684 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 1685 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 1686 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 1687 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 1688 a slab allocator. 1689 1690config SLOB 1691 depends on EXPERT 1692 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1693 help 1694 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 1695 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 1696 does not perform as well on large systems. 1697 1698endchoice 1699 1700config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1701 default y 1702 depends on SLUB && SMP 1703 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1704 help 1705 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1706 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1707 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1708 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1709 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1710 1711config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1712 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1713 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1714 default n 1715 help 1716 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1717 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1718 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1719 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1720 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1721 then the flag will be ignored. 1722 1723 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1724 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1725 1726 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1727 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1728 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1729 it is normally safe to say Y here. 1730 1731 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1732 1733config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1734 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys" 1735 depends on KEYS 1736 help 1737 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in 1738 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will 1739 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but 1740 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by 1741 keys already in the keyring. 1742 1743 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking. 1744 1745config PROFILING 1746 bool "Profiling support" 1747 help 1748 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1749 by profilers such as OProfile. 1750 1751# 1752# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1753# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1754# 1755config TRACEPOINTS 1756 bool 1757 1758source "arch/Kconfig" 1759 1760endmenu # General setup 1761 1762config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1763 bool 1764 default n 1765 1766config SLABINFO 1767 bool 1768 depends on PROC_FS 1769 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1770 default y 1771 1772config RT_MUTEXES 1773 boolean 1774 1775config BASE_SMALL 1776 int 1777 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1778 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1779 1780menuconfig MODULES 1781 bool "Enable loadable module support" 1782 option modules 1783 help 1784 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 1785 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 1786 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 1787 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 1788 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 1789 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 1790 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 1791 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 1792 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 1793 1794 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 1795 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 1796 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 1797 this). 1798 1799 If unsure, say Y. 1800 1801if MODULES 1802 1803config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1804 bool "Forced module loading" 1805 default n 1806 help 1807 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 1808 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 1809 is usually a really bad idea. 1810 1811config MODULE_UNLOAD 1812 bool "Module unloading" 1813 help 1814 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 1815 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1816 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1817 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 1818 1819config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 1820 bool "Forced module unloading" 1821 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 1822 help 1823 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 1824 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 1825 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 1826 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 1827 If unsure, say N. 1828 1829config MODVERSIONS 1830 bool "Module versioning support" 1831 help 1832 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 1833 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 1834 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 1835 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 1836 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 1837 unsure, say N. 1838 1839config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 1840 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 1841 help 1842 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 1843 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 1844 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 1845 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 1846 others sometimes change the module source without updating 1847 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 1848 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 1849 1850config MODULE_SIG 1851 bool "Module signature verification" 1852 depends on MODULES 1853 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1854 select KEYS 1855 select CRYPTO 1856 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1857 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1858 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 1859 select ASN1 1860 select OID_REGISTRY 1861 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1862 help 1863 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1864 is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1865 Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1866 1867 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1868 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1869 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1870 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1871 1872config MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1873 bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1874 depends on MODULE_SIG 1875 help 1876 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1877 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1878 1879config MODULE_SIG_ALL 1880 bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1881 default y 1882 depends on MODULE_SIG 1883 help 1884 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1885 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1886 1887comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1888 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1889 1890choice 1891 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1892 depends on MODULE_SIG 1893 help 1894 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1895 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1896 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1897 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1898 the signature on that module. 1899 1900config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1901 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1902 select CRYPTO_SHA1 1903 1904config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1905 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1906 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1907 1908config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1909 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1910 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1911 1912config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1913 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1914 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1915 1916config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1917 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1918 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1919 1920endchoice 1921 1922config MODULE_SIG_HASH 1923 string 1924 depends on MODULE_SIG 1925 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1926 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1927 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1928 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1929 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1930 1931config MODULE_COMPRESS 1932 bool "Compress modules on installation" 1933 depends on MODULES 1934 help 1935 This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make 1936 modules_install' is run. 1937 1938 The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the 1939 choice made in "Compression algorithm". 1940 1941 module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip 1942 and xz compressed modules. 1943 1944 When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel 1945 source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that 1946 kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed. 1947 1948 This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside 1949 an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole 1950 initrd or initramfs instead. 1951 1952 This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is 1953 compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to 1954 other layer the uncompressed but signed payload. 1955 1956choice 1957 prompt "Compression algorithm" 1958 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1959 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1960 help 1961 This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1962 'make modules_install'. 1963 1964 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1965 1966config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1967 bool "GZIP" 1968 1969config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1970 bool "XZ" 1971 1972endchoice 1973 1974endif # MODULES 1975 1976config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1977 bool 1978 help 1979 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 1980 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 1981 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 1982 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1983 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 1984 1985config STOP_MACHINE 1986 bool 1987 default y 1988 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 1989 help 1990 Need stop_machine() primitive. 1991 1992source "block/Kconfig" 1993 1994config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1995 bool 1996 1997config PADATA 1998 depends on SMP 1999 bool 2000 2001# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 2002# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 2003# mappings 2004config BROKEN_RODATA 2005 bool 2006 2007config ASN1 2008 tristate 2009 help 2010 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 2011 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 2012 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 2013 functions to call on what tags. 2014 2015source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2016