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  1. config ARCH
  2. string
  3. option env="ARCH"
  4. config KERNELVERSION
  5. string
  6. option env="KERNELVERSION"
  7. config DEFCONFIG_LIST
  8. string
  9. depends on !UML
  10. option defconfig_list
  11. default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
  12. default "/etc/kernel-config"
  13. default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
  14. default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
  15. default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
  16. config CONSTRUCTORS
  17. bool
  18. depends on !UML
  19. config IRQ_WORK
  20. bool
  21. config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
  22. bool
  23. menu "General setup"
  24. config BROKEN
  25. bool
  26. config BROKEN_ON_SMP
  27. bool
  28. depends on BROKEN || !SMP
  29. default y
  30. config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
  31. int
  32. default 32 if !UML
  33. default 128 if UML
  34. help
  35. Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
  36. variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
  37. config CROSS_COMPILE
  38. string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
  39. help
  40. Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
  41. default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
  42. need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
  43. directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
  44. config COMPILE_TEST
  45. bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
  46. default n
  47. help
  48. Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
  49. intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
  50. when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
  51. developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
  52. drivers to compile-test them.
  53. If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
  54. here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
  55. drivers to be distributed.
  56. config LOCALVERSION
  57. string "Local version - append to kernel release"
  58. help
  59. Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
  60. This will show up when you type uname, for example.
  61. The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
  62. any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
  63. object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
  64. be a maximum of 64 characters.
  65. config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
  66. bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
  67. default y
  68. help
  69. This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
  70. release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
  71. top of tree revision.
  72. A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
  73. if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
  74. appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
  75. set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
  76. (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
  77. by running the command:
  78. $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
  79. which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
  80. config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
  81. bool
  82. config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
  83. bool
  84. config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
  85. bool
  86. config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
  87. bool
  88. config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
  89. bool
  90. config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
  91. bool
  92. choice
  93. prompt "Kernel compression mode"
  94. default KERNEL_GZIP
  95. depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
  96. help
  97. The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
  98. Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
  99. in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
  100. Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
  101. Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
  102. If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
  103. kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
  104. version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
  105. supplied by Christian Ludwig)
  106. High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
  107. are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
  108. size matters less.
  109. If in doubt, select 'gzip'
  110. config KERNEL_GZIP
  111. bool "Gzip"
  112. depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
  113. help
  114. The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
  115. between compression ratio and decompression speed.
  116. config KERNEL_BZIP2
  117. bool "Bzip2"
  118. depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
  119. help
  120. Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
  121. Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
  122. size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
  123. Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
  124. will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
  125. config KERNEL_LZMA
  126. bool "LZMA"
  127. depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
  128. help
  129. This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
  130. is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
  131. The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
  132. config KERNEL_XZ
  133. bool "XZ"
  134. depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
  135. help
  136. XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
  137. BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
  138. code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
  139. comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
  140. filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
  141. will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
  142. The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
  143. speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
  144. and LZO. Compression is slow.
  145. config KERNEL_LZO
  146. bool "LZO"
  147. depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
  148. help
  149. Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
  150. size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
  151. (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
  152. config KERNEL_LZ4
  153. bool "LZ4"
  154. depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
  155. help
  156. LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
  157. A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
  158. <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
  159. Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
  160. is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
  161. faster than LZO.
  162. endchoice
  163. config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
  164. string "Default hostname"
  165. default "(none)"
  166. help
  167. This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
  168. calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
  169. but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
  170. system more usable with less configuration.
  171. config SWAP
  172. bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
  173. depends on MMU && BLOCK
  174. default y
  175. help
  176. This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
  177. for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
  178. used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
  179. in your computer. If unsure say Y.
  180. config SYSVIPC
  181. bool "System V IPC"
  182. ---help---
  183. Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
  184. system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
  185. exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
  186. and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
  187. you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
  188. DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
  189. you'll need to say Y here.
  190. You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
  191. section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
  192. <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
  193. config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
  194. bool
  195. depends on SYSVIPC
  196. depends on SYSCTL
  197. default y
  198. config POSIX_MQUEUE
  199. bool "POSIX Message Queues"
  200. depends on NET
  201. ---help---
  202. POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
  203. queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
  204. of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
  205. programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
  206. queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
  207. POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
  208. and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
  209. operations on message queues.
  210. If unsure, say Y.
  211. config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
  212. bool
  213. depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
  214. depends on SYSCTL
  215. default y
  216. config FHANDLE
  217. bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
  218. select EXPORTFS
  219. help
  220. If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
  221. file names to handle and then later use the handle for
  222. different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
  223. userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
  224. of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
  225. get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
  226. syscalls.
  227. config AUDIT
  228. bool "Auditing support"
  229. depends on NET
  230. help
  231. Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
  232. kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
  233. logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
  234. auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
  235. config AUDITSYSCALL
  236. bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
  237. depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PARISC || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
  238. default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
  239. help
  240. Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
  241. can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
  242. such as SELinux.
  243. config AUDIT_WATCH
  244. def_bool y
  245. depends on AUDITSYSCALL
  246. select FSNOTIFY
  247. config AUDIT_TREE
  248. def_bool y
  249. depends on AUDITSYSCALL
  250. select FSNOTIFY
  251. source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
  252. source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
  253. menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
  254. config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
  255. bool
  256. choice
  257. prompt "Cputime accounting"
  258. default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
  259. default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
  260. # Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
  261. config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
  262. bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
  263. depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
  264. help
  265. This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
  266. statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
  267. granularity.
  268. If unsure, say Y.
  269. config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
  270. bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
  271. depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
  272. select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
  273. help
  274. Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
  275. accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
  276. kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
  277. between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
  278. small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
  279. this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
  280. systems.
  281. config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
  282. bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
  283. depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
  284. depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
  285. select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
  286. select CONTEXT_TRACKING
  287. help
  288. Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
  289. dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
  290. kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
  291. The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
  292. overhead.
  293. For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
  294. dynticks subsystem development.
  295. If unsure, say N.
  296. config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
  297. bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
  298. depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
  299. help
  300. Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
  301. accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
  302. transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
  303. small performance impact.
  304. If in doubt, say N here.
  305. endchoice
  306. config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
  307. bool "BSD Process Accounting"
  308. help
  309. If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
  310. kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
  311. information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
  312. that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
  313. information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
  314. command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
  315. list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
  316. up to the user level program to do useful things with this
  317. information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
  318. config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
  319. bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
  320. depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
  321. default n
  322. help
  323. If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
  324. in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
  325. process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
  326. with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
  327. for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
  328. at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
  329. config TASKSTATS
  330. bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
  331. depends on NET
  332. default n
  333. help
  334. Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
  335. generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
  336. statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
  337. responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
  338. space on task exit.
  339. Say N if unsure.
  340. config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
  341. bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
  342. depends on TASKSTATS
  343. help
  344. Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
  345. resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
  346. in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
  347. relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
  348. Say N if unsure.
  349. config TASK_XACCT
  350. bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
  351. depends on TASKSTATS
  352. help
  353. Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
  354. to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
  355. Say N if unsure.
  356. config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
  357. bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
  358. depends on TASK_XACCT
  359. help
  360. Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
  361. task has caused.
  362. Say N if unsure.
  363. endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
  364. menu "RCU Subsystem"
  365. choice
  366. prompt "RCU Implementation"
  367. default TREE_RCU
  368. config TREE_RCU
  369. bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
  370. depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
  371. select IRQ_WORK
  372. help
  373. This option selects the RCU implementation that is
  374. designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
  375. thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
  376. smaller systems.
  377. config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
  378. bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
  379. depends on PREEMPT
  380. select IRQ_WORK
  381. help
  382. This option selects the RCU implementation that is
  383. designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
  384. thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
  385. is also required. It also scales down nicely to
  386. smaller systems.
  387. Select this option if you are unsure.
  388. config TINY_RCU
  389. bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
  390. depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
  391. help
  392. This option selects the RCU implementation that is
  393. designed for UP systems from which real-time response
  394. is not required. This option greatly reduces the
  395. memory footprint of RCU.
  396. endchoice
  397. config PREEMPT_RCU
  398. def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
  399. help
  400. This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
  401. the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
  402. config RCU_STALL_COMMON
  403. def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
  404. help
  405. This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
  406. the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
  407. the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
  408. making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
  409. config CONTEXT_TRACKING
  410. bool
  411. config RCU_USER_QS
  412. bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
  413. depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
  414. select CONTEXT_TRACKING
  415. help
  416. This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
  417. puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
  418. userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
  419. excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
  420. try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
  421. Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
  422. dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
  423. adds unnecessary overhead.
  424. If unsure say N
  425. config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
  426. bool "Force context tracking"
  427. depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
  428. default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
  429. help
  430. The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
  431. support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
  432. other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
  433. dynticks working.
  434. This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
  435. context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
  436. requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
  437. Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
  438. for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
  439. userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
  440. accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
  441. dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
  442. CPUs in the system.
  443. Say Y only if you're working on the developpement of an
  444. architecture backend for the context tracking.
  445. Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
  446. don't want in production.
  447. config RCU_FANOUT
  448. int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
  449. range 2 64 if 64BIT
  450. range 2 32 if !64BIT
  451. depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
  452. default 64 if 64BIT
  453. default 32 if !64BIT
  454. help
  455. This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
  456. of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
  457. large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
  458. root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
  459. The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
  460. systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
  461. itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
  462. code paths on small(er) systems.
  463. Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
  464. Take the default if unsure.
  465. config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
  466. int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
  467. range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
  468. range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
  469. depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
  470. default 16
  471. help
  472. This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
  473. implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
  474. against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
  475. scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
  476. want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
  477. lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
  478. (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
  479. value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
  480. number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
  481. initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
  482. are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
  483. skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
  484. leaf-level fanouts work well.
  485. Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
  486. Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
  487. Take the default if unsure.
  488. config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
  489. bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
  490. depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
  491. default n
  492. help
  493. This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
  494. regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
  495. testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
  496. strong NUMA behavior.
  497. Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
  498. Say N if unsure.
  499. config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
  500. bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
  501. depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
  502. default n
  503. help
  504. This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
  505. they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
  506. these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
  507. default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
  508. parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
  509. hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
  510. for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
  511. Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
  512. don't care about increased grace-period durations.
  513. Say N if you are unsure.
  514. config TREE_RCU_TRACE
  515. def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
  516. select DEBUG_FS
  517. help
  518. This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
  519. TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
  520. trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
  521. config RCU_BOOST
  522. bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
  523. depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
  524. default n
  525. help
  526. This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
  527. block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
  528. This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
  529. callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
  530. Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
  531. Say N here if you are unsure.
  532. config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
  533. int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
  534. range 1 99
  535. depends on RCU_BOOST
  536. default 1
  537. help
  538. This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
  539. preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
  540. with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
  541. threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
  542. RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
  543. real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
  544. of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
  545. applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
  546. Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
  547. thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
  548. multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
  549. that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
  550. a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
  551. conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
  552. tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
  553. thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
  554. the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
  555. set to priority 6 or higher.
  556. Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
  557. config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
  558. int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
  559. range 0 3000
  560. depends on RCU_BOOST
  561. default 500
  562. help
  563. This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
  564. a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
  565. readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
  566. blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
  567. Accept the default if unsure.
  568. config RCU_NOCB_CPU
  569. bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
  570. depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
  571. default n
  572. help
  573. Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
  574. real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
  575. callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
  576. asymmetric multiprocessors.
  577. This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
  578. CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
  579. For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
  580. invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
  581. and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
  582. "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
  583. on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
  584. between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
  585. to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
  586. Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
  587. Say N here if you are unsure.
  588. choice
  589. prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
  590. default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
  591. help
  592. This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
  593. from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
  594. at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
  595. the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
  596. config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
  597. bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
  598. depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
  599. help
  600. This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
  601. Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
  602. no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
  603. kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
  604. invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
  605. Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
  606. boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
  607. configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
  608. config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
  609. bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
  610. depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
  611. help
  612. This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
  613. callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
  614. with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
  615. CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
  616. All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
  617. context.
  618. Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
  619. or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
  620. is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
  621. config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
  622. bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
  623. depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
  624. help
  625. This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
  626. boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
  627. be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
  628. this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
  629. "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
  630. on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
  631. RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
  632. Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
  633. or energy-efficiency reasons.
  634. endchoice
  635. endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
  636. config IKCONFIG
  637. tristate "Kernel .config support"
  638. ---help---
  639. This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
  640. contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
  641. of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
  642. on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
  643. image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
  644. input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
  645. It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
  646. /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
  647. config IKCONFIG_PROC
  648. bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
  649. depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
  650. ---help---
  651. This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
  652. through /proc/config.gz.
  653. config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
  654. int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
  655. range 12 21
  656. default 17
  657. help
  658. Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
  659. Examples:
  660. 17 => 128 KB
  661. 16 => 64 KB
  662. 15 => 32 KB
  663. 14 => 16 KB
  664. 13 => 8 KB
  665. 12 => 4 KB
  666. #
  667. # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
  668. #
  669. config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
  670. bool
  671. config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
  672. bool
  673. #
  674. # For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
  675. # balancing logic:
  676. #
  677. config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
  678. bool
  679. #
  680. # For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
  681. #
  682. config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
  683. bool
  684. # For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
  685. # all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
  686. #
  687. config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
  688. bool
  689. #
  690. # For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
  691. config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
  692. bool
  693. config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
  694. bool
  695. default y
  696. depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
  697. depends on NUMA_BALANCING
  698. config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
  699. bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
  700. default y
  701. depends on NUMA_BALANCING
  702. help
  703. If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
  704. machine.
  705. config NUMA_BALANCING
  706. bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
  707. depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
  708. depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
  709. depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
  710. help
  711. This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
  712. The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
  713. it has references to the node the task is running on.
  714. This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
  715. menuconfig CGROUPS
  716. boolean "Control Group support"
  717. depends on EVENTFD
  718. help
  719. This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
  720. use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
  721. controls or device isolation.
  722. See
  723. - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
  724. - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
  725. and resource control)
  726. Say N if unsure.
  727. if CGROUPS
  728. config CGROUP_DEBUG
  729. bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
  730. default n
  731. help
  732. This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
  733. exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
  734. framework.
  735. Say N if unsure.
  736. config CGROUP_FREEZER
  737. bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
  738. help
  739. Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
  740. cgroup.
  741. config CGROUP_DEVICE
  742. bool "Device controller for cgroups"
  743. help
  744. Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
  745. a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
  746. config CPUSETS
  747. bool "Cpuset support"
  748. help
  749. This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
  750. allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
  751. Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
  752. This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
  753. Say N if unsure.
  754. config PROC_PID_CPUSET
  755. bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
  756. depends on CPUSETS
  757. default y
  758. config CGROUP_CPUACCT
  759. bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
  760. help
  761. Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
  762. total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
  763. config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
  764. bool "Resource counters"
  765. help
  766. This option enables controller independent resource accounting
  767. infrastructure that works with cgroups.
  768. config MEMCG
  769. bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
  770. depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
  771. select MM_OWNER
  772. help
  773. Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
  774. memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
  775. Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
  776. associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
  777. 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
  778. usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
  779. at boot.
  780. Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
  781. sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
  782. this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
  783. disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
  784. (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
  785. This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
  786. could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
  787. config MEMCG_SWAP
  788. bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
  789. depends on MEMCG && SWAP
  790. help
  791. Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
  792. enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
  793. when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
  794. usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
  795. is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
  796. adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
  797. Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
  798. be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
  799. is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
  800. there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
  801. if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
  802. Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
  803. size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
  804. config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
  805. bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
  806. depends on MEMCG_SWAP
  807. default y
  808. help
  809. Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
  810. a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
  811. which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
  812. and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
  813. parameter should have this option unselected.
  814. For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
  815. select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
  816. then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
  817. config MEMCG_KMEM
  818. bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
  819. depends on MEMCG
  820. depends on SLUB || SLAB
  821. help
  822. The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
  823. the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
  824. fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
  825. Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
  826. the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
  827. will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
  828. config CGROUP_HUGETLB
  829. bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
  830. depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE
  831. default n
  832. help
  833. Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
  834. When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
  835. The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
  836. support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
  837. that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
  838. HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
  839. beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
  840. control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
  841. that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
  842. config CGROUP_PERF
  843. bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
  844. depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
  845. help
  846. This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
  847. threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
  848. designated cpu.
  849. Say N if unsure.
  850. menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
  851. bool "Group CPU scheduler"
  852. default n
  853. help
  854. This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
  855. bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
  856. tasks.
  857. if CGROUP_SCHED
  858. config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
  859. bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
  860. depends on CGROUP_SCHED
  861. default CGROUP_SCHED
  862. config CFS_BANDWIDTH
  863. bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
  864. depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
  865. default n
  866. help
  867. This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
  868. tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
  869. set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
  870. restriction.
  871. See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
  872. config RT_GROUP_SCHED
  873. bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
  874. depends on CGROUP_SCHED
  875. default n
  876. help
  877. This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
  878. to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
  879. schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
  880. realtime bandwidth for them.
  881. See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
  882. endif #CGROUP_SCHED
  883. config BLK_CGROUP
  884. bool "Block IO controller"
  885. depends on BLOCK
  886. default n
  887. ---help---
  888. Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
  889. cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
  890. policies.
  891. Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
  892. control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
  893. to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
  894. block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
  895. This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
  896. One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
  897. enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
  898. CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
  899. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
  900. See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
  901. config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
  902. bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
  903. depends on BLK_CGROUP
  904. default n
  905. ---help---
  906. Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
  907. files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
  908. endif # CGROUPS
  909. config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  910. bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
  911. default n
  912. help
  913. Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
  914. In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
  915. data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
  916. entries.
  917. If unsure, say N here.
  918. menuconfig NAMESPACES
  919. bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
  920. default !EXPERT
  921. help
  922. Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
  923. the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
  924. or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
  925. different namespaces.
  926. if NAMESPACES
  927. config UTS_NS
  928. bool "UTS namespace"
  929. default y
  930. help
  931. In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
  932. uname() system call
  933. config IPC_NS
  934. bool "IPC namespace"
  935. depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
  936. default y
  937. help
  938. In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
  939. different IPC objects in different namespaces.
  940. config USER_NS
  941. bool "User namespace"
  942. select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
  943. default n
  944. help
  945. This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
  946. to provide different user info for different servers.
  947. When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
  948. recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
  949. enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
  950. limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
  951. use.
  952. If unsure, say N.
  953. config PID_NS
  954. bool "PID Namespaces"
  955. default y
  956. help
  957. Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
  958. processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
  959. pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
  960. config NET_NS
  961. bool "Network namespace"
  962. depends on NET
  963. default y
  964. help
  965. Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
  966. of the network stack.
  967. endif # NAMESPACES
  968. config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
  969. bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
  970. default n
  971. help
  972. While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
  973. the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
  974. Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
  975. config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
  976. bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
  977. select EVENTFD
  978. select CGROUPS
  979. select CGROUP_SCHED
  980. select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
  981. help
  982. This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
  983. automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
  984. of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
  985. desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
  986. upon task session.
  987. config MM_OWNER
  988. bool
  989. config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
  990. bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
  991. depends on SYSFS
  992. default n
  993. help
  994. This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
  995. devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
  996. /sys/block/.
  997. This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
  998. passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
  999. This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
  1000. which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
  1001. major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
  1002. Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
  1003. the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
  1004. option enabled.
  1005. Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
  1006. need to say Y here.
  1007. config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
  1008. bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
  1009. default n
  1010. depends on SYSFS
  1011. depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
  1012. help
  1013. Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
  1014. See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
  1015. option.
  1016. Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
  1017. need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
  1018. enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
  1019. config RELAY
  1020. bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
  1021. help
  1022. This option enables support for relay interface support in
  1023. certain file systems (such as debugfs).
  1024. It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
  1025. facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
  1026. user space.
  1027. If unsure, say N.
  1028. config BLK_DEV_INITRD
  1029. bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
  1030. depends on BROKEN || !FRV
  1031. help
  1032. The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
  1033. boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
  1034. before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
  1035. load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
  1036. etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
  1037. If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
  1038. also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
  1039. 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
  1040. If unsure say Y.
  1041. if BLK_DEV_INITRD
  1042. source "usr/Kconfig"
  1043. endif
  1044. config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
  1045. bool "Optimize for size"
  1046. help
  1047. Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
  1048. resulting in a smaller kernel.
  1049. If unsure, say N.
  1050. config SYSCTL
  1051. bool
  1052. config ANON_INODES
  1053. bool
  1054. config HAVE_UID16
  1055. bool
  1056. config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
  1057. bool
  1058. help
  1059. Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
  1060. config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
  1061. bool
  1062. help
  1063. Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
  1064. Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
  1065. about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
  1066. config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
  1067. bool
  1068. help
  1069. Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
  1070. Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
  1071. the unaligned access emulation.
  1072. see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
  1073. config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
  1074. bool
  1075. menuconfig EXPERT
  1076. bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
  1077. # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
  1078. select DEBUG_KERNEL
  1079. help
  1080. This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
  1081. to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
  1082. environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
  1083. Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
  1084. config UID16
  1085. bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
  1086. depends on HAVE_UID16
  1087. default y
  1088. help
  1089. This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
  1090. config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
  1091. bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
  1092. depends on PROC_SYSCTL
  1093. default n
  1094. select SYSCTL
  1095. ---help---
  1096. sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
  1097. to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
  1098. using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
  1099. information.
  1100. Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
  1101. trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
  1102. making your kernel marginally smaller.
  1103. If unsure say N here.
  1104. config KALLSYMS
  1105. bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
  1106. default y
  1107. help
  1108. Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
  1109. symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
  1110. somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
  1111. config KALLSYMS_ALL
  1112. bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
  1113. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
  1114. help
  1115. Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
  1116. OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
  1117. sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
  1118. cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
  1119. names of variables from the data sections, etc).
  1120. This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
  1121. image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
  1122. size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
  1123. something like this).
  1124. Say N unless you really need all symbols.
  1125. config PRINTK
  1126. default y
  1127. bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
  1128. select IRQ_WORK
  1129. help
  1130. This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
  1131. eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
  1132. and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
  1133. very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
  1134. strongly discouraged.
  1135. config BUG
  1136. bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
  1137. default y
  1138. help
  1139. Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
  1140. the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
  1141. numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
  1142. option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
  1143. Just say Y.
  1144. config ELF_CORE
  1145. depends on COREDUMP
  1146. default y
  1147. bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
  1148. help
  1149. Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
  1150. config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
  1151. bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
  1152. depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
  1153. select I8253_LOCK
  1154. default y
  1155. help
  1156. This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
  1157. support, saving some memory.
  1158. config BASE_FULL
  1159. default y
  1160. bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
  1161. help
  1162. Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
  1163. kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
  1164. but may reduce performance.
  1165. config FUTEX
  1166. bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
  1167. default y
  1168. select RT_MUTEXES
  1169. help
  1170. Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
  1171. support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
  1172. run glibc-based applications correctly.
  1173. config EPOLL
  1174. bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
  1175. default y
  1176. select ANON_INODES
  1177. help
  1178. Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
  1179. support for epoll family of system calls.
  1180. config SIGNALFD
  1181. bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
  1182. select ANON_INODES
  1183. default y
  1184. help
  1185. Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
  1186. on a file descriptor.
  1187. If unsure, say Y.
  1188. config TIMERFD
  1189. bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
  1190. select ANON_INODES
  1191. default y
  1192. help
  1193. Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
  1194. events on a file descriptor.
  1195. If unsure, say Y.
  1196. config EVENTFD
  1197. bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
  1198. select ANON_INODES
  1199. default y
  1200. help
  1201. Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
  1202. kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
  1203. If unsure, say Y.
  1204. config SHMEM
  1205. bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
  1206. default y
  1207. depends on MMU
  1208. help
  1209. The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
  1210. It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
  1211. to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
  1212. option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
  1213. which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
  1214. config AIO
  1215. bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
  1216. default y
  1217. help
  1218. This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
  1219. by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
  1220. this option saves about 7k.
  1221. config PCI_QUIRKS
  1222. default y
  1223. bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
  1224. depends on PCI
  1225. help
  1226. This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
  1227. bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
  1228. unaffected by PCI quirks.
  1229. config EMBEDDED
  1230. bool "Embedded system"
  1231. select EXPERT
  1232. help
  1233. This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
  1234. an embedded system so certain expert options are available
  1235. for configuration.
  1236. config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
  1237. bool
  1238. help
  1239. See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
  1240. config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
  1241. bool
  1242. help
  1243. See tools/perf/design.txt for details
  1244. menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
  1245. config PERF_EVENTS
  1246. bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
  1247. default y if PROFILING
  1248. depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
  1249. select ANON_INODES
  1250. select IRQ_WORK
  1251. help
  1252. Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
  1253. by software and hardware.
  1254. Software events are supported either built-in or via the
  1255. use of generic tracepoints.
  1256. Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
  1257. counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
  1258. types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
  1259. suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
  1260. kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
  1261. when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
  1262. used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
  1263. The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
  1264. these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
  1265. system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
  1266. provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
  1267. capabilities on top of those.
  1268. Say Y if unsure.
  1269. config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
  1270. default n
  1271. bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
  1272. depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
  1273. select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
  1274. help
  1275. Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
  1276. Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
  1277. that don't require it.
  1278. Say N if unsure.
  1279. endmenu
  1280. config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
  1281. default y
  1282. bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
  1283. help
  1284. VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
  1285. This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
  1286. on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
  1287. if VM event counters are disabled.
  1288. config SLUB_DEBUG
  1289. default y
  1290. bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
  1291. depends on SLUB && SYSFS
  1292. help
  1293. SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
  1294. result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
  1295. SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
  1296. no support for cache validation etc.
  1297. config COMPAT_BRK
  1298. bool "Disable heap randomization"
  1299. default y
  1300. help
  1301. Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
  1302. also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
  1303. This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
  1304. disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
  1305. /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
  1306. On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
  1307. choice
  1308. prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
  1309. default SLUB
  1310. help
  1311. This option allows to select a slab allocator.
  1312. config SLAB
  1313. bool "SLAB"
  1314. help
  1315. The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
  1316. well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
  1317. per cpu and per node queues.
  1318. config SLUB
  1319. bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
  1320. help
  1321. SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
  1322. instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
  1323. Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
  1324. of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
  1325. and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
  1326. a slab allocator.
  1327. config SLOB
  1328. depends on EXPERT
  1329. bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
  1330. help
  1331. SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
  1332. allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
  1333. does not perform as well on large systems.
  1334. endchoice
  1335. config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
  1336. default y
  1337. depends on SLUB && SMP
  1338. bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
  1339. help
  1340. Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
  1341. that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
  1342. in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
  1343. which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
  1344. Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
  1345. config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
  1346. bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
  1347. depends on EXPERT && !MMU
  1348. default n
  1349. help
  1350. Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
  1351. from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
  1352. userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
  1353. mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
  1354. providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
  1355. then the flag will be ignored.
  1356. This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
  1357. ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
  1358. Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
  1359. enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
  1360. userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
  1361. it is normally safe to say Y here.
  1362. See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
  1363. config PROFILING
  1364. bool "Profiling support"
  1365. help
  1366. Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
  1367. by profilers such as OProfile.
  1368. #
  1369. # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
  1370. # dynamically changed for a probe function.
  1371. #
  1372. config TRACEPOINTS
  1373. bool
  1374. source "arch/Kconfig"
  1375. endmenu # General setup
  1376. config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
  1377. bool
  1378. default n
  1379. config SLABINFO
  1380. bool
  1381. depends on PROC_FS
  1382. depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
  1383. default y
  1384. config RT_MUTEXES
  1385. boolean
  1386. config BASE_SMALL
  1387. int
  1388. default 0 if BASE_FULL
  1389. default 1 if !BASE_FULL
  1390. config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
  1391. bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
  1392. depends on KEYS
  1393. help
  1394. Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in
  1395. the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will
  1396. by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
  1397. userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
  1398. keys already in the keyring.
  1399. Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
  1400. menuconfig MODULES
  1401. bool "Enable loadable module support"
  1402. option modules
  1403. help
  1404. Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
  1405. be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
  1406. permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
  1407. tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
  1408. many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
  1409. answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
  1410. useful for infrequently used options which are not required
  1411. for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
  1412. modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
  1413. If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
  1414. modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
  1415. where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
  1416. this).
  1417. If unsure, say Y.
  1418. if MODULES
  1419. config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
  1420. bool "Forced module loading"
  1421. default n
  1422. help
  1423. Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
  1424. --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
  1425. is usually a really bad idea.
  1426. config MODULE_UNLOAD
  1427. bool "Module unloading"
  1428. help
  1429. Without this option you will not be able to unload any
  1430. modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
  1431. anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
  1432. and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
  1433. config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
  1434. bool "Forced module unloading"
  1435. depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
  1436. help
  1437. This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
  1438. kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
  1439. without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
  1440. rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
  1441. If unsure, say N.
  1442. config MODVERSIONS
  1443. bool "Module versioning support"
  1444. help
  1445. Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
  1446. Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
  1447. compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
  1448. to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
  1449. make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
  1450. unsure, say N.
  1451. config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
  1452. bool "Source checksum for all modules"
  1453. help
  1454. Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
  1455. field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
  1456. sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
  1457. see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
  1458. others sometimes change the module source without updating
  1459. the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
  1460. will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
  1461. config MODULE_SIG
  1462. bool "Module signature verification"
  1463. depends on MODULES
  1464. select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
  1465. select KEYS
  1466. select CRYPTO
  1467. select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
  1468. select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
  1469. select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
  1470. select ASN1
  1471. select OID_REGISTRY
  1472. select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
  1473. help
  1474. Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
  1475. is simply appended to the module. For more information see
  1476. Documentation/module-signing.txt.
  1477. !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
  1478. module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
  1479. debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
  1480. inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
  1481. config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
  1482. bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
  1483. depends on MODULE_SIG
  1484. help
  1485. Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
  1486. key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
  1487. config MODULE_SIG_ALL
  1488. bool "Automatically sign all modules"
  1489. default y
  1490. depends on MODULE_SIG
  1491. help
  1492. Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
  1493. modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
  1494. comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
  1495. depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
  1496. choice
  1497. prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
  1498. depends on MODULE_SIG
  1499. help
  1500. This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
  1501. signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
  1502. directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
  1503. possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
  1504. the signature on that module.
  1505. config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
  1506. bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
  1507. select CRYPTO_SHA1
  1508. config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
  1509. bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
  1510. select CRYPTO_SHA256
  1511. config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
  1512. bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
  1513. select CRYPTO_SHA256
  1514. config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
  1515. bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
  1516. select CRYPTO_SHA512
  1517. config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
  1518. bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
  1519. select CRYPTO_SHA512
  1520. endchoice
  1521. config MODULE_SIG_HASH
  1522. string
  1523. depends on MODULE_SIG
  1524. default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
  1525. default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
  1526. default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
  1527. default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
  1528. default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
  1529. endif # MODULES
  1530. config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
  1531. bool
  1532. help
  1533. Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
  1534. cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
  1535. with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
  1536. it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
  1537. and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
  1538. config STOP_MACHINE
  1539. bool
  1540. default y
  1541. depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
  1542. help
  1543. Need stop_machine() primitive.
  1544. source "block/Kconfig"
  1545. config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
  1546. bool
  1547. config PADATA
  1548. depends on SMP
  1549. bool
  1550. # Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
  1551. # that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
  1552. # mappings
  1553. config BROKEN_RODATA
  1554. bool
  1555. config ASN1
  1556. tristate
  1557. help
  1558. Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
  1559. that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
  1560. inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
  1561. functions to call on what tags.
  1562. source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"