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