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 EXPERIMENTAL 32 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 33 ---help--- 34 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 35 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 36 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 37 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 38 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 39 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 40 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 41 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 42 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 43 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 44 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 45 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 46 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 47 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 48 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 49 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 50 51 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 52 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 53 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 54 55 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 56 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 57 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 58 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 59 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 60 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 61 62config BROKEN 63 bool 64 65config BROKEN_ON_SMP 66 bool 67 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 68 default y 69 70config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 71 int 72 default 32 if !UML 73 default 128 if UML 74 help 75 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 76 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 77 78 79config CROSS_COMPILE 80 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 81 help 82 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 83 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 84 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 85 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 86 87config LOCALVERSION 88 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 89 help 90 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 91 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 92 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 93 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 94 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 95 be a maximum of 64 characters. 96 97config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 98 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 99 default y 100 help 101 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 102 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 103 top of tree revision. 104 105 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 106 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 107 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 108 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 109 110 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 111 by running the command: 112 113 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 114 115 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 116 117config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 118 bool 119 120config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 121 bool 122 123config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 124 bool 125 126config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 127 bool 128 129config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 130 bool 131 132choice 133 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 134 default KERNEL_GZIP 135 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 136 help 137 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 138 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 139 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 140 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 141 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 142 143 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 144 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 145 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 146 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 147 148 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 149 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 150 size matters less. 151 152 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 153 154config KERNEL_GZIP 155 bool "Gzip" 156 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 157 help 158 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 159 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 160 161config KERNEL_BZIP2 162 bool "Bzip2" 163 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 164 help 165 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 166 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 167 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 168 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 169 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 170 171config KERNEL_LZMA 172 bool "LZMA" 173 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 174 help 175 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 176 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 177 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 178 179config KERNEL_XZ 180 bool "XZ" 181 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 182 help 183 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 184 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 185 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 186 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 187 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 188 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 189 190 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 191 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 192 and LZO. Compression is slow. 193 194config KERNEL_LZO 195 bool "LZO" 196 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 197 help 198 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 199 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 200 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 201 202endchoice 203 204config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 205 string "Default hostname" 206 default "(none)" 207 help 208 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 209 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 210 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 211 system more usable with less configuration. 212 213config SWAP 214 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 215 depends on MMU && BLOCK 216 default y 217 help 218 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 219 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 220 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 221 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 222 223config SYSVIPC 224 bool "System V IPC" 225 ---help--- 226 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 227 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 228 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 229 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 230 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 231 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 232 you'll need to say Y here. 233 234 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 235 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 236 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 237 238config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 239 bool 240 depends on SYSVIPC 241 depends on SYSCTL 242 default y 243 244config POSIX_MQUEUE 245 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 246 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 247 ---help--- 248 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 249 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 250 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 251 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 252 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 253 254 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 255 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 256 operations on message queues. 257 258 If unsure, say Y. 259 260config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 261 bool 262 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 263 depends on SYSCTL 264 default y 265 266config FHANDLE 267 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 268 select EXPORTFS 269 help 270 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 271 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 272 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 273 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 274 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 275 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 276 syscalls. 277 278config AUDIT 279 bool "Auditing support" 280 depends on NET 281 help 282 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 283 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 284 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 285 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 286 287config AUDITSYSCALL 288 bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 289 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) 290 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 291 help 292 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 293 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 294 such as SELinux. 295 296config AUDIT_WATCH 297 def_bool y 298 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 299 select FSNOTIFY 300 301config AUDIT_TREE 302 def_bool y 303 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 304 select FSNOTIFY 305 306config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 307 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 308 depends on AUDIT 309 help 310 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 311 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 312 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 313 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 314 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 315 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 316 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 317 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 318 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 319 320source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 321source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 322 323menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 324 325config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 326 bool 327 328choice 329 prompt "Cputime accounting" 330 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 331 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 332 333# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 334config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 335 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 336 depends on !S390 337 help 338 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 339 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 340 granularity. 341 342 If unsure, say Y. 343 344config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 345 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 346 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 347 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 348 help 349 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 350 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 351 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 352 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 353 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 354 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 355 systems. 356 357config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 358 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 359 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT 360 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 361 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 362 help 363 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 364 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 365 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 366 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 367 overhead. 368 369 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 370 dynticks subsystem development. 371 372 If unsure, say N. 373 374config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 375 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 376 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 377 help 378 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 379 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 380 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 381 small performance impact. 382 383 If in doubt, say N here. 384 385endchoice 386 387config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 388 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 389 help 390 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 391 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 392 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 393 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 394 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 395 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 396 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 397 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 398 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 399 400config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 401 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 402 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 403 default n 404 help 405 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 406 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 407 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 408 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 409 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 410 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 411 412config TASKSTATS 413 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 414 depends on NET 415 default n 416 help 417 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 418 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 419 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 420 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 421 space on task exit. 422 423 Say N if unsure. 424 425config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 426 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 427 depends on TASKSTATS 428 help 429 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 430 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 431 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 432 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 433 434 Say N if unsure. 435 436config TASK_XACCT 437 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 438 depends on TASKSTATS 439 help 440 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 441 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 442 443 Say N if unsure. 444 445config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 446 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 447 depends on TASK_XACCT 448 help 449 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 450 task has caused. 451 452 Say N if unsure. 453 454endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 455 456menu "RCU Subsystem" 457 458choice 459 prompt "RCU Implementation" 460 default TREE_RCU 461 462config TREE_RCU 463 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 464 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 465 help 466 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 467 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 468 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 469 smaller systems. 470 471config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 472 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 473 depends on PREEMPT 474 help 475 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 476 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 477 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 478 is also required. It also scales down nicely to 479 smaller systems. 480 481 Select this option if you are unsure. 482 483config TINY_RCU 484 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 485 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 486 help 487 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 488 designed for UP systems from which real-time response 489 is not required. This option greatly reduces the 490 memory footprint of RCU. 491 492config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 493 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 494 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP 495 help 496 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 497 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 498 memory footprint of RCU. 499 500endchoice 501 502config PREEMPT_RCU 503 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 504 help 505 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 506 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 507 508config RCU_STALL_COMMON 509 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 510 help 511 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 512 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 513 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 514 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 515 516config CONTEXT_TRACKING 517 bool 518 519config RCU_USER_QS 520 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" 521 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP 522 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 523 help 524 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and 525 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in 526 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is 527 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't 528 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. 529 530 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full 531 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also 532 adds unnecessary overhead. 533 534 If unsure say N 535 536config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 537 bool "Force context tracking" 538 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 539 help 540 Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to 541 test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended 542 quiescent states. 543 This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the 544 full dynticks mode. 545 546config RCU_FANOUT 547 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 548 range 2 64 if 64BIT 549 range 2 32 if !64BIT 550 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 551 default 64 if 64BIT 552 default 32 if !64BIT 553 help 554 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 555 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 556 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 557 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 558 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 559 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 560 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 561 code paths on small(er) systems. 562 563 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 564 Take the default if unsure. 565 566config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 567 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 568 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 569 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 570 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 571 default 16 572 help 573 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 574 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 575 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 576 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 577 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 578 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 579 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 580 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 581 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 582 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 583 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 584 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 585 leaf-level fanouts work well. 586 587 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 588 589 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 590 591 Take the default if unsure. 592 593config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 594 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 595 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 596 default n 597 help 598 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 599 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 600 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 601 strong NUMA behavior. 602 603 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 604 605 Say N if unsure. 606 607config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 608 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 609 depends on NO_HZ && SMP 610 default n 611 help 612 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods in 613 order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more quickly. 614 On the other hand, this option increases the overhead of the 615 dynticks-idle checking, thus degrading scheduling latency. 616 617 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you don't 618 care about real-time response. 619 620 Say N if you are unsure. 621 622config TREE_RCU_TRACE 623 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 624 select DEBUG_FS 625 help 626 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 627 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 628 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 629 630config RCU_BOOST 631 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 632 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 633 default n 634 help 635 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 636 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 637 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 638 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 639 640 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 641 Say N here if you are unsure. 642 643config RCU_BOOST_PRIO 644 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 645 range 1 99 646 depends on RCU_BOOST 647 default 1 648 help 649 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 650 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 651 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 652 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 653 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 654 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 655 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 656 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 657 658 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 659 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 660 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 661 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 662 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 663 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 664 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 665 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 666 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 667 set to priority 6 or higher. 668 669 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 670 671config RCU_BOOST_DELAY 672 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 673 range 0 3000 674 depends on RCU_BOOST 675 default 500 676 help 677 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 678 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 679 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 680 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 681 682 Accept the default if unsure. 683 684config RCU_NOCB_CPU 685 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 686 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 687 default n 688 help 689 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 690 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 691 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 692 asymmetric multiprocessors. 693 694 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 695 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 696 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuoN") will be created to 697 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded. 698 Nothing prevents this kthread from running on the specified 699 CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted between each 700 callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used to force 701 the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 702 703 Say Y here if you want reduced OS jitter on selected CPUs. 704 Say N here if you are unsure. 705 706endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 707 708config IKCONFIG 709 tristate "Kernel .config support" 710 ---help--- 711 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 712 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 713 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 714 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 715 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 716 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 717 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 718 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 719 720config IKCONFIG_PROC 721 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 722 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 723 ---help--- 724 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 725 through /proc/config.gz. 726 727config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 728 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 729 range 12 21 730 default 17 731 help 732 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 733 Examples: 734 17 => 128 KB 735 16 => 64 KB 736 15 => 32 KB 737 14 => 16 KB 738 13 => 8 KB 739 12 => 4 KB 740 741# 742# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 743# 744config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 745 bool 746 747# 748# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 749# balancing logic: 750# 751config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 752 bool 753 754# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 755# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 756# 757config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 758 bool 759 760# 761# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE 762config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 763 bool 764 765config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE 766 bool 767 default y 768 depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 769 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 770 771config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 772 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 773 default y 774 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 775 help 776 If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 777 machine. 778 779config NUMA_BALANCING 780 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 781 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 782 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 783 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 784 help 785 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 786 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 787 it is references to the node the task is running on. 788 789 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 790 791menuconfig CGROUPS 792 boolean "Control Group support" 793 depends on EVENTFD 794 help 795 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 796 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 797 controls or device isolation. 798 See 799 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 800 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 801 and resource control) 802 803 Say N if unsure. 804 805if CGROUPS 806 807config CGROUP_DEBUG 808 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 809 default n 810 help 811 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 812 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 813 framework. 814 815 Say N if unsure. 816 817config CGROUP_FREEZER 818 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 819 help 820 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 821 cgroup. 822 823config CGROUP_DEVICE 824 bool "Device controller for cgroups" 825 help 826 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 827 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 828 829config CPUSETS 830 bool "Cpuset support" 831 help 832 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 833 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 834 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 835 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 836 837 Say N if unsure. 838 839config PROC_PID_CPUSET 840 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 841 depends on CPUSETS 842 default y 843 844config CGROUP_CPUACCT 845 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 846 help 847 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 848 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 849 850config RESOURCE_COUNTERS 851 bool "Resource counters" 852 help 853 This option enables controller independent resource accounting 854 infrastructure that works with cgroups. 855 856config MEMCG 857 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 858 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 859 select MM_OWNER 860 help 861 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 862 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 863 864 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 865 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 866 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 867 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 868 at boot. 869 870 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 871 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 872 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 873 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 874 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 875 876 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 877 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 878 879config MEMCG_SWAP 880 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 881 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 882 help 883 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 884 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 885 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 886 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 887 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 888 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 889 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 890 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 891 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 892 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 893 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 894 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 895 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 896config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 897 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 898 depends on MEMCG_SWAP 899 default y 900 help 901 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 902 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 903 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 904 and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 905 parameter should have this option unselected. 906 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 907 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 908 then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 909config MEMCG_KMEM 910 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 911 depends on MEMCG && EXPERIMENTAL 912 depends on SLUB || SLAB 913 help 914 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 915 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 916 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 917 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 918 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 919 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 920 921config CGROUP_HUGETLB 922 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" 923 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE && EXPERIMENTAL 924 default n 925 help 926 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. 927 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 928 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 929 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 930 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 931 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 932 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 933 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 934 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 935 936config CGROUP_PERF 937 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 938 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 939 help 940 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 941 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 942 designated cpu. 943 944 Say N if unsure. 945 946menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 947 bool "Group CPU scheduler" 948 default n 949 help 950 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 951 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 952 tasks. 953 954if CGROUP_SCHED 955config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 956 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 957 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 958 default CGROUP_SCHED 959 960config CFS_BANDWIDTH 961 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 962 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 963 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 964 default n 965 help 966 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 967 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 968 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 969 restriction. 970 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 971 972config RT_GROUP_SCHED 973 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 974 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 975 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 976 default n 977 help 978 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 979 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 980 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 981 realtime bandwidth for them. 982 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 983 984endif #CGROUP_SCHED 985 986config BLK_CGROUP 987 bool "Block IO controller" 988 depends on BLOCK 989 default n 990 ---help--- 991 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 992 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 993 policies. 994 995 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 996 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 997 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 998 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 999 1000 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 1001 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 1002 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 1003 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 1004 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 1005 1006 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1007 1008config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1009 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 1010 depends on BLK_CGROUP 1011 default n 1012 ---help--- 1013 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1014 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1015 1016endif # CGROUPS 1017 1018config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1019 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1020 default n 1021 help 1022 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1023 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1024 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1025 entries. 1026 1027 If unsure, say N here. 1028 1029menuconfig NAMESPACES 1030 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1031 default !EXPERT 1032 help 1033 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1034 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1035 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1036 different namespaces. 1037 1038if NAMESPACES 1039 1040config UTS_NS 1041 bool "UTS namespace" 1042 default y 1043 help 1044 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1045 uname() system call 1046 1047config IPC_NS 1048 bool "IPC namespace" 1049 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1050 default y 1051 help 1052 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1053 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1054 1055config USER_NS 1056 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1057 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1058 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED 1059 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1060 1061 default n 1062 help 1063 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1064 to provide different user info for different servers. 1065 If unsure, say N. 1066 1067config PID_NS 1068 bool "PID Namespaces" 1069 default y 1070 help 1071 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1072 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1073 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1074 1075config NET_NS 1076 bool "Network namespace" 1077 depends on NET 1078 default y 1079 help 1080 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1081 of the network stack. 1082 1083endif # NAMESPACES 1084 1085config UIDGID_CONVERTED 1086 # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known 1087 # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t 1088 # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with 1089 # the user namespace. 1090 bool 1091 default y 1092 1093 # Networking 1094 depends on NET_9P = n 1095 1096 # Filesystems 1097 depends on 9P_FS = n 1098 depends on AFS_FS = n 1099 depends on CEPH_FS = n 1100 depends on CIFS = n 1101 depends on CODA_FS = n 1102 depends on GFS2_FS = n 1103 depends on NCP_FS = n 1104 depends on NFSD = n 1105 depends on NFS_FS = n 1106 depends on OCFS2_FS = n 1107 depends on XFS_FS = n 1108 1109config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS 1110 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" 1111 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED 1112 default n 1113 help 1114 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows 1115 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems. 1116 1117 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled 1118 1119config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1120 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1121 select EVENTFD 1122 select CGROUPS 1123 select CGROUP_SCHED 1124 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1125 help 1126 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1127 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1128 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1129 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1130 upon task session. 1131 1132config MM_OWNER 1133 bool 1134 1135config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1136 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1137 depends on SYSFS 1138 default n 1139 help 1140 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1141 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1142 /sys/block/. 1143 1144 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1145 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1146 1147 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1148 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1149 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1150 1151 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1152 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1153 option enabled. 1154 1155 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1156 need to say Y here. 1157 1158config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1159 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1160 default n 1161 depends on SYSFS 1162 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1163 help 1164 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1165 1166 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1167 option. 1168 1169 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1170 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1171 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1172 1173config RELAY 1174 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1175 help 1176 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1177 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1178 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1179 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1180 user space. 1181 1182 If unsure, say N. 1183 1184config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1185 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1186 depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1187 help 1188 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1189 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1190 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1191 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1192 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1193 1194 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1195 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1196 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1197 1198 If unsure say Y. 1199 1200if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1201 1202source "usr/Kconfig" 1203 1204endif 1205 1206config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1207 bool "Optimize for size" 1208 help 1209 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 1210 resulting in a smaller kernel. 1211 1212 If unsure, say N. 1213 1214config SYSCTL 1215 bool 1216 1217config ANON_INODES 1218 bool 1219 1220menuconfig EXPERT 1221 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1222 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1223 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1224 help 1225 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1226 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1227 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1228 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1229 1230config HAVE_UID16 1231 bool 1232 1233config UID16 1234 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1235 depends on HAVE_UID16 1236 default y 1237 help 1238 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1239 1240config SYSCTL_SYSCALL 1241 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 1242 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1243 default n 1244 select SYSCTL 1245 ---help--- 1246 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 1247 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 1248 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 1249 information. 1250 1251 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 1252 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 1253 making your kernel marginally smaller. 1254 1255 If unsure say N here. 1256 1257config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1258 bool 1259 help 1260 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1261 1262config KALLSYMS 1263 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1264 default y 1265 help 1266 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1267 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1268 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1269 1270config KALLSYMS_ALL 1271 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1272 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1273 help 1274 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1275 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1276 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1277 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1278 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1279 1280 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1281 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1282 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1283 something like this). 1284 1285 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1286 1287config HOTPLUG 1288 def_bool y 1289 1290config PRINTK 1291 default y 1292 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1293 select IRQ_WORK 1294 help 1295 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1296 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1297 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1298 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1299 strongly discouraged. 1300 1301config BUG 1302 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1303 default y 1304 help 1305 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1306 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1307 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1308 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1309 Just say Y. 1310 1311config ELF_CORE 1312 depends on COREDUMP 1313 default y 1314 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1315 help 1316 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1317 1318 1319config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1320 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1321 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1322 select I8253_LOCK 1323 default y 1324 help 1325 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1326 support, saving some memory. 1327 1328config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1329 bool 1330 1331config BASE_FULL 1332 default y 1333 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1334 help 1335 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1336 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1337 but may reduce performance. 1338 1339config FUTEX 1340 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1341 default y 1342 select RT_MUTEXES 1343 help 1344 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1345 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1346 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1347 1348config EPOLL 1349 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1350 default y 1351 select ANON_INODES 1352 help 1353 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1354 support for epoll family of system calls. 1355 1356config SIGNALFD 1357 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1358 select ANON_INODES 1359 default y 1360 help 1361 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1362 on a file descriptor. 1363 1364 If unsure, say Y. 1365 1366config TIMERFD 1367 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1368 select ANON_INODES 1369 default y 1370 help 1371 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1372 events on a file descriptor. 1373 1374 If unsure, say Y. 1375 1376config EVENTFD 1377 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1378 select ANON_INODES 1379 default y 1380 help 1381 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1382 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1383 1384 If unsure, say Y. 1385 1386config SHMEM 1387 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1388 default y 1389 depends on MMU 1390 help 1391 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1392 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1393 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1394 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1395 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1396 1397config AIO 1398 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1399 default y 1400 help 1401 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1402 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1403 this option saves about 7k. 1404 1405config EMBEDDED 1406 bool "Embedded system" 1407 select EXPERT 1408 help 1409 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1410 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1411 for configuration. 1412 1413config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1414 bool 1415 help 1416 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1417 1418config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1419 bool 1420 help 1421 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1422 1423menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1424 1425config PERF_EVENTS 1426 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1427 default y if PROFILING 1428 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1429 select ANON_INODES 1430 select IRQ_WORK 1431 help 1432 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1433 by software and hardware. 1434 1435 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1436 use of generic tracepoints. 1437 1438 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1439 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1440 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1441 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1442 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1443 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1444 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1445 1446 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1447 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1448 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1449 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1450 capabilities on top of those. 1451 1452 Say Y if unsure. 1453 1454config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1455 default n 1456 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1457 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1458 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1459 help 1460 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1461 1462 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1463 that don't require it. 1464 1465 Say N if unsure. 1466 1467endmenu 1468 1469config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1470 default y 1471 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1472 help 1473 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1474 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1475 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1476 if VM event counters are disabled. 1477 1478config PCI_QUIRKS 1479 default y 1480 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1481 depends on PCI 1482 help 1483 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1484 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1485 unaffected by PCI quirks. 1486 1487config SLUB_DEBUG 1488 default y 1489 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1490 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1491 help 1492 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1493 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1494 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1495 no support for cache validation etc. 1496 1497config COMPAT_BRK 1498 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1499 default y 1500 help 1501 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1502 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1503 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1504 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1505 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1506 1507 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1508 1509choice 1510 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1511 default SLUB 1512 help 1513 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1514 1515config SLAB 1516 bool "SLAB" 1517 help 1518 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 1519 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 1520 per cpu and per node queues. 1521 1522config SLUB 1523 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1524 help 1525 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 1526 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 1527 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 1528 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 1529 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 1530 a slab allocator. 1531 1532config SLOB 1533 depends on EXPERT 1534 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1535 help 1536 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 1537 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 1538 does not perform as well on large systems. 1539 1540endchoice 1541 1542config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1543 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1544 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1545 default n 1546 help 1547 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1548 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1549 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1550 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1551 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1552 then the flag will be ignored. 1553 1554 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1555 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1556 1557 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1558 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1559 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1560 it is normally safe to say Y here. 1561 1562 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1563 1564config PROFILING 1565 bool "Profiling support" 1566 help 1567 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1568 by profilers such as OProfile. 1569 1570# 1571# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1572# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1573# 1574config TRACEPOINTS 1575 bool 1576 1577source "arch/Kconfig" 1578 1579endmenu # General setup 1580 1581config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1582 bool 1583 default n 1584 1585config SLABINFO 1586 bool 1587 depends on PROC_FS 1588 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1589 default y 1590 1591config RT_MUTEXES 1592 boolean 1593 1594config BASE_SMALL 1595 int 1596 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1597 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1598 1599menuconfig MODULES 1600 bool "Enable loadable module support" 1601 help 1602 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 1603 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 1604 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 1605 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 1606 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 1607 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 1608 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 1609 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 1610 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 1611 1612 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 1613 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 1614 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 1615 this). 1616 1617 If unsure, say Y. 1618 1619if MODULES 1620 1621config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1622 bool "Forced module loading" 1623 default n 1624 help 1625 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 1626 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 1627 is usually a really bad idea. 1628 1629config MODULE_UNLOAD 1630 bool "Module unloading" 1631 help 1632 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 1633 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1634 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1635 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 1636 1637config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 1638 bool "Forced module unloading" 1639 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 1640 help 1641 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 1642 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 1643 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 1644 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 1645 If unsure, say N. 1646 1647config MODVERSIONS 1648 bool "Module versioning support" 1649 help 1650 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 1651 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 1652 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 1653 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 1654 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 1655 unsure, say N. 1656 1657config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 1658 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 1659 help 1660 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 1661 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 1662 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 1663 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 1664 others sometimes change the module source without updating 1665 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 1666 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 1667 1668config MODULE_SIG 1669 bool "Module signature verification" 1670 depends on MODULES 1671 select KEYS 1672 select CRYPTO 1673 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1674 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1675 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 1676 select ASN1 1677 select OID_REGISTRY 1678 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1679 help 1680 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1681 is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1682 Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1683 1684 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1685 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1686 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1687 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1688 1689config MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1690 bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1691 depends on MODULE_SIG 1692 help 1693 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1694 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1695 1696choice 1697 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1698 depends on MODULE_SIG 1699 help 1700 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1701 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1702 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1703 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1704 the signature on that module. 1705 1706config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1707 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1708 select CRYPTO_SHA1 1709 1710config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1711 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1712 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1713 1714config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1715 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1716 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1717 1718config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1719 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1720 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1721 1722config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1723 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1724 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1725 1726endchoice 1727 1728endif # MODULES 1729 1730config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1731 bool 1732 help 1733 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 1734 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 1735 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 1736 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1737 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 1738 1739config STOP_MACHINE 1740 bool 1741 default y 1742 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 1743 help 1744 Need stop_machine() primitive. 1745 1746source "block/Kconfig" 1747 1748config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1749 bool 1750 1751config PADATA 1752 depends on SMP 1753 bool 1754 1755# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 1756# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 1757# mappings 1758config BROKEN_RODATA 1759 bool 1760 1761config ASN1 1762 tristate 1763 help 1764 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 1765 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 1766 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 1767 functions to call on what tags. 1768 1769source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1770