1config ARCH 2 string 3 option env="ARCH" 4 5config KERNELVERSION 6 string 7 option env="KERNELVERSION" 8 9config DEFCONFIG_LIST 10 string 11 depends on !UML 12 option defconfig_list 13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14 default "/etc/kernel-config" 15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18 19config CONSTRUCTORS 20 bool 21 depends on !UML 22 23config IRQ_WORK 24 bool 25 26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 27 bool 28 29menu "General setup" 30 31config BROKEN 32 bool 33 34config BROKEN_ON_SMP 35 bool 36 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 37 default y 38 39config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 40 int 41 default 32 if !UML 42 default 128 if UML 43 help 44 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 45 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 46 47 48config CROSS_COMPILE 49 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 50 help 51 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 52 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 53 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 54 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 55 56config COMPILE_TEST 57 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" 58 default n 59 help 60 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are 61 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even 62 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), 63 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such 64 drivers to compile-test them. 65 66 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y 67 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless 68 drivers to be distributed. 69 70config LOCALVERSION 71 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 72 help 73 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 74 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 75 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 76 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 77 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 78 be a maximum of 64 characters. 79 80config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 81 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 82 default y 83 help 84 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 85 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 86 top of tree revision. 87 88 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 89 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 90 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 91 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 92 93 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 94 by running the command: 95 96 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 97 98 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 99 100config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 101 bool 102 103config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 104 bool 105 106config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 107 bool 108 109config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 110 bool 111 112config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 113 bool 114 115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 116 bool 117 118choice 119 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 120 default KERNEL_GZIP 121 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 122 help 123 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 124 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 125 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 126 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 127 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 128 129 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 130 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <[email protected]>. (An older 131 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 132 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 133 134 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 135 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 136 size matters less. 137 138 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 139 140config KERNEL_GZIP 141 bool "Gzip" 142 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 143 help 144 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 145 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 146 147config KERNEL_BZIP2 148 bool "Bzip2" 149 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 150 help 151 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 152 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel 153 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 154 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 155 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 156 157config KERNEL_LZMA 158 bool "LZMA" 159 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 160 help 161 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed 162 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. 163 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 164 165config KERNEL_XZ 166 bool "XZ" 167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 168 help 169 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 170 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 171 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 172 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 173 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 174 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 175 176 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 177 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 178 and LZO. Compression is slow. 179 180config KERNEL_LZO 181 bool "LZO" 182 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 183 help 184 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel 185 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 186 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 187 188config KERNEL_LZ4 189 bool "LZ4" 190 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 191 help 192 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. 193 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at 194 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. 195 196 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel 197 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is 198 faster than LZO. 199 200endchoice 201 202config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 203 string "Default hostname" 204 default "(none)" 205 help 206 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 207 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 208 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 209 system more usable with less configuration. 210 211config SWAP 212 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 213 depends on MMU && BLOCK 214 default y 215 help 216 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 217 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 218 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 219 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 220 221config SYSVIPC 222 bool "System V IPC" 223 ---help--- 224 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 225 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 226 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 227 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 228 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 229 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 230 you'll need to say Y here. 231 232 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 233 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 234 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 235 236config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 237 bool 238 depends on SYSVIPC 239 depends on SYSCTL 240 default y 241 242config POSIX_MQUEUE 243 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 244 depends on NET 245 ---help--- 246 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 247 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 248 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 249 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 250 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 251 252 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 253 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 254 operations on message queues. 255 256 If unsure, say Y. 257 258config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 259 bool 260 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 261 depends on SYSCTL 262 default y 263 264config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH 265 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" 266 depends on MMU 267 default y 268 help 269 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and 270 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges 271 to directly read from or write to another process' address space. 272 See the man page for more details. 273 274config FHANDLE 275 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 276 select EXPORTFS 277 help 278 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 279 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 280 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 281 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 282 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 283 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 284 syscalls. 285 286config USELIB 287 bool "uselib syscall" 288 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 289 help 290 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the 291 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this 292 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or 293 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems 294 running glibc can safely disable this. 295 296config AUDIT 297 bool "Auditing support" 298 depends on NET 299 help 300 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 301 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 302 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included 303 on architectures which support it. 304 305config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 306 bool 307 308config AUDITSYSCALL 309 def_bool y 310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 311 312config AUDIT_WATCH 313 def_bool y 314 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 315 select FSNOTIFY 316 317config AUDIT_TREE 318 def_bool y 319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 320 select FSNOTIFY 321 322source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 323source "kernel/time/Kconfig" 324 325menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 326 327config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 328 bool 329 330choice 331 prompt "Cputime accounting" 332 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 333 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 334 335# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting 336config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING 337 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" 338 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL 339 help 340 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains 341 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies 342 granularity. 343 344 If unsure, say Y. 345 346config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE 347 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" 348 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 349 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 350 help 351 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time 352 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each 353 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel 354 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a 355 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, 356 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned 357 systems. 358 359config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 360 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" 361 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 362 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 363 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 364 select CONTEXT_TRACKING 365 help 366 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full 367 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every 368 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. 369 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant 370 overhead. 371 372 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full 373 dynticks subsystem development. 374 375 If unsure, say N. 376 377config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 378 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" 379 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL 380 help 381 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time 382 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each 383 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a 384 small performance impact. 385 386 If in doubt, say N here. 387 388endchoice 389 390config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 391 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 392 depends on MULTIUSER 393 help 394 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 395 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 396 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 397 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 398 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 399 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 400 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 401 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 402 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 403 404config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 405 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 406 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 407 default n 408 help 409 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 410 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 411 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 412 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 413 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 414 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 415 416config TASKSTATS 417 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" 418 depends on NET 419 depends on MULTIUSER 420 default n 421 help 422 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 423 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 424 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 425 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 426 space on task exit. 427 428 Say N if unsure. 429 430config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 431 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" 432 depends on TASKSTATS 433 select SCHED_INFO 434 help 435 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 436 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 437 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 438 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 439 440 Say N if unsure. 441 442config TASK_XACCT 443 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" 444 depends on TASKSTATS 445 help 446 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 447 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 448 449 Say N if unsure. 450 451config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 452 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" 453 depends on TASK_XACCT 454 help 455 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 456 task has caused. 457 458 Say N if unsure. 459 460endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 461 462menu "RCU Subsystem" 463 464config TREE_RCU 465 bool 466 default y if !PREEMPT && SMP 467 help 468 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 469 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 470 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 471 smaller systems. 472 473config PREEMPT_RCU 474 bool 475 default y if PREEMPT 476 help 477 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 478 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 479 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 480 is also required. It also scales down nicely to 481 smaller systems. 482 483 Select this option if you are unsure. 484 485config TINY_RCU 486 bool 487 default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP 488 help 489 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 490 designed for UP systems from which real-time response 491 is not required. This option greatly reduces the 492 memory footprint of RCU. 493 494config RCU_EXPERT 495 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration" 496 default n 497 help 498 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make 499 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default, 500 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial 501 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all 502 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous 503 obscure RCU options to be set up. 504 505 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU. 506 507 Say N if you are unsure. 508 509config SRCU 510 bool 511 help 512 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version 513 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical 514 sections. 515 516config TASKS_RCU 517 bool 518 default n 519 select SRCU 520 help 521 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses 522 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and 523 user-mode execution as quiescent states. 524 525config RCU_STALL_COMMON 526 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) 527 help 528 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between 529 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow 530 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while 531 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. 532 533config CONTEXT_TRACKING 534 bool 535 536config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE 537 bool "Force context tracking" 538 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING 539 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL 540 help 541 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to 542 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also 543 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full 544 dynticks working. 545 546 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the 547 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the 548 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. 549 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support 550 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU 551 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime 552 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full 553 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all 554 CPUs in the system. 555 556 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an 557 architecture backend for the context tracking. 558 559 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you 560 don't want in production. 561 562 563config RCU_FANOUT 564 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 565 range 2 64 if 64BIT 566 range 2 32 if !64BIT 567 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 568 default 64 if 64BIT 569 default 32 if !64BIT 570 help 571 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 572 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 573 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 574 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 575 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 576 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 577 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 578 code paths on small(er) systems. 579 580 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 581 Take the default if unsure. 582 583config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 584 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 585 range 2 64 if 64BIT 586 range 2 32 if !64BIT 587 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT 588 default 16 589 help 590 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 591 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 592 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 593 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 594 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 595 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 596 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 597 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 598 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 599 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 600 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 601 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 602 leaf-level fanouts work well. 603 604 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 605 606 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 607 608 Take the default if unsure. 609 610config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 611 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 612 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT 613 default n 614 help 615 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if 616 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking 617 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by 618 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay 619 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other 620 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, 621 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). 622 623 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you 624 don't care about increased grace-period durations. 625 626 Say N if you are unsure. 627 628config TREE_RCU_TRACE 629 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU ) 630 select DEBUG_FS 631 help 632 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 633 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 634 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 635 636config RCU_BOOST 637 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 638 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT 639 default n 640 help 641 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 642 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 643 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 644 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 645 646 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 647 Say N here if you are unsure. 648 649config RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 650 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads" 651 range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST 652 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST 653 default 1 if RCU_BOOST 654 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST 655 depends on RCU_EXPERT 656 help 657 This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be 658 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value 659 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a 660 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads 661 running at a real-time priority level, you should set 662 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority 663 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 664 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 665 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 666 667 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 668 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 669 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 670 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to 671 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 672 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 673 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 674 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 675 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be 676 set to priority 6 or higher. 677 678 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 679 680config RCU_BOOST_DELAY 681 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 682 range 0 3000 683 depends on RCU_BOOST 684 default 500 685 help 686 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 687 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 688 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 689 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 690 691 Accept the default if unsure. 692 693config RCU_NOCB_CPU 694 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" 695 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 696 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL 697 default n 698 help 699 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or 700 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU 701 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered 702 asymmetric multiprocessors. 703 704 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of 705 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. 706 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to 707 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, 708 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and 709 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running 710 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted 711 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used 712 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. 713 714 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. 715 Say N here if you are unsure. 716 717choice 718 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" 719 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 720 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU 721 help 722 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked 723 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified 724 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by 725 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 726 727config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE 728 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 729 help 730 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. 731 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be 732 no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU 733 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will 734 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. 735 736 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at 737 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs 738 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. 739 740config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO 741 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" 742 help 743 This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU 744 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins 745 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs 746 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. 747 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq 748 context. 749 750 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time 751 or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists 752 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. 753 754config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL 755 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" 756 help 757 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= 758 boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will 759 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for 760 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with 761 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter 762 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during 763 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. 764 765 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time 766 or energy-efficiency reasons. 767 768endchoice 769 770config RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT 771 bool 772 default n 773 help 774 This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time, 775 as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot. 776 The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from 777 rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked 778 at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before 779 init is exec'ed. 780 781 Accept the default if unsure. 782 783endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 784 785config BUILD_BIN2C 786 bool 787 default n 788 789config IKCONFIG 790 tristate "Kernel .config support" 791 select BUILD_BIN2C 792 ---help--- 793 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 794 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 795 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 796 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 797 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 798 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 799 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 800 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 801 802config IKCONFIG_PROC 803 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 804 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 805 ---help--- 806 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 807 through /proc/config.gz. 808 809config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 810 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 811 range 12 25 812 default 17 813 depends on PRINTK 814 help 815 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 816 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 817 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced 818 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter. 819 820 Examples: 821 17 => 128 KB 822 16 => 64 KB 823 15 => 32 KB 824 14 => 16 KB 825 13 => 8 KB 826 12 => 4 KB 827 828config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT 829 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)" 830 depends on SMP 831 range 0 21 832 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL 833 default 0 if BASE_SMALL 834 depends on PRINTK 835 help 836 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size 837 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution 838 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few 839 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported, 840 e.g. backtraces. 841 842 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and 843 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems 844 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of 845 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring 846 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set 847 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation. 848 849 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is 850 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer. 851 852 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring 853 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case 854 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup. 855 856 Examples shift values and their meaning: 857 17 => 128 KB for each CPU 858 16 => 64 KB for each CPU 859 15 => 32 KB for each CPU 860 14 => 16 KB for each CPU 861 13 => 8 KB for each CPU 862 12 => 4 KB for each CPU 863 864# 865# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 866# 867config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 868 bool 869 870config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK 871 bool 872 873# 874# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler 875# balancing logic: 876# 877config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 878 bool 879 880# 881# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages 882# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture 883# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is 884# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for 885# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush 886# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. 887config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 888 bool 889 890# 891# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound 892# 893config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 894 bool 895 896# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions 897# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. 898# 899config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 900 bool 901 902config NUMA_BALANCING 903 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" 904 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 905 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY 906 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION 907 help 908 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. 909 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when 910 it has references to the node the task is running on. 911 912 This system will be inactive on UMA systems. 913 914config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED 915 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" 916 default y 917 depends on NUMA_BALANCING 918 help 919 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA 920 machine. 921 922menuconfig CGROUPS 923 bool "Control Group support" 924 select KERNFS 925 help 926 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 927 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 928 controls or device isolation. 929 See 930 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 931 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 932 and resource control) 933 934 Say N if unsure. 935 936if CGROUPS 937 938config PAGE_COUNTER 939 bool 940 941config MEMCG 942 bool "Memory controller" 943 select PAGE_COUNTER 944 select EVENTFD 945 help 946 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup. 947 948config MEMCG_SWAP 949 bool "Swap controller" 950 depends on MEMCG && SWAP 951 help 952 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup. 953 954config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED 955 bool "Swap controller enabled by default" 956 depends on MEMCG_SWAP 957 default y 958 help 959 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 960 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 961 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 962 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line 963 parameter should have this option unselected. 964 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 965 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 966 then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 967config MEMCG_KMEM 968 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" 969 depends on MEMCG 970 depends on SLUB || SLAB 971 help 972 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 973 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 974 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 975 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 976 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 977 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 978 979config BLK_CGROUP 980 bool "IO controller" 981 depends on BLOCK 982 default n 983 ---help--- 984 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 985 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 986 policies. 987 988 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 989 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 990 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 991 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 992 993 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 994 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 995 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 996 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 997 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 998 999 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 1000 1001config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 1002 bool "IO controller debugging" 1003 depends on BLK_CGROUP 1004 default n 1005 ---help--- 1006 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 1007 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 1008 1009config CGROUP_WRITEBACK 1010 bool 1011 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP 1012 default y 1013 1014menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 1015 bool "CPU controller" 1016 default n 1017 help 1018 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 1019 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 1020 tasks. 1021 1022if CGROUP_SCHED 1023config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1024 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 1025 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1026 default CGROUP_SCHED 1027 1028config CFS_BANDWIDTH 1029 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 1030 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1031 default n 1032 help 1033 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 1034 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 1035 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 1036 restriction. 1037 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 1038 1039config RT_GROUP_SCHED 1040 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 1041 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 1042 default n 1043 help 1044 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 1045 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 1046 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 1047 realtime bandwidth for them. 1048 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 1049 1050endif #CGROUP_SCHED 1051 1052config CGROUP_PIDS 1053 bool "PIDs controller" 1054 help 1055 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a 1056 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the 1057 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it 1058 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a 1059 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a 1060 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The 1061 PIDs cgroup subsystem is designed to stop this from happening. 1062 1063 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching 1064 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs subsystem), 1065 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to 1066 attach to a cgroup. 1067 1068config CGROUP_FREEZER 1069 bool "Freezer controller" 1070 help 1071 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 1072 cgroup. 1073 1074config CGROUP_HUGETLB 1075 bool "HugeTLB controller" 1076 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE 1077 select PAGE_COUNTER 1078 default n 1079 help 1080 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages. 1081 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. 1082 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't 1083 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies 1084 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access 1085 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know 1086 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The 1087 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means 1088 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. 1089 1090config CPUSETS 1091 bool "Cpuset controller" 1092 help 1093 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 1094 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 1095 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 1096 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 1097 1098 Say N if unsure. 1099 1100config PROC_PID_CPUSET 1101 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 1102 depends on CPUSETS 1103 default y 1104 1105config CGROUP_DEVICE 1106 bool "Device controller" 1107 help 1108 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for 1109 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 1110 1111config CGROUP_CPUACCT 1112 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller" 1113 help 1114 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the 1115 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 1116 1117config CGROUP_PERF 1118 bool "Perf controller" 1119 depends on PERF_EVENTS 1120 help 1121 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring 1122 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 1123 designated cpu. 1124 1125 Say N if unsure. 1126 1127config CGROUP_DEBUG 1128 bool "Example controller" 1129 default n 1130 help 1131 This option enables a simple controller that exports 1132 debugging information about the cgroups framework. 1133 1134 Say N. 1135 1136endif # CGROUPS 1137 1138config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 1139 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 1140 select PROC_CHILDREN 1141 default n 1142 help 1143 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 1144 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 1145 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 1146 entries. 1147 1148 If unsure, say N here. 1149 1150menuconfig NAMESPACES 1151 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 1152 depends on MULTIUSER 1153 default !EXPERT 1154 help 1155 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 1156 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 1157 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 1158 different namespaces. 1159 1160if NAMESPACES 1161 1162config UTS_NS 1163 bool "UTS namespace" 1164 default y 1165 help 1166 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 1167 uname() system call 1168 1169config IPC_NS 1170 bool "IPC namespace" 1171 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 1172 default y 1173 help 1174 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 1175 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 1176 1177config USER_NS 1178 bool "User namespace" 1179 default n 1180 help 1181 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 1182 to provide different user info for different servers. 1183 1184 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is 1185 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be 1186 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to 1187 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can 1188 use. 1189 1190 If unsure, say N. 1191 1192config PID_NS 1193 bool "PID Namespaces" 1194 default y 1195 help 1196 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 1197 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 1198 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 1199 1200config NET_NS 1201 bool "Network namespace" 1202 depends on NET 1203 default y 1204 help 1205 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 1206 of the network stack. 1207 1208endif # NAMESPACES 1209 1210config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 1211 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 1212 select CGROUPS 1213 select CGROUP_SCHED 1214 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 1215 help 1216 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 1217 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 1218 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 1219 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 1220 upon task session. 1221 1222config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1223 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 1224 depends on SYSFS 1225 default n 1226 help 1227 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 1228 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 1229 /sys/block/. 1230 1231 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 1232 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 1233 1234 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 1235 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 1236 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 1237 1238 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 1239 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 1240 option enabled. 1241 1242 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1243 need to say Y here. 1244 1245config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 1246 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 1247 default n 1248 depends on SYSFS 1249 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 1250 help 1251 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 1252 1253 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 1254 option. 1255 1256 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 1257 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 1258 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 1259 1260config RELAY 1261 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 1262 help 1263 This option enables support for relay interface support in 1264 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 1265 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 1266 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 1267 user space. 1268 1269 If unsure, say N. 1270 1271config BLK_DEV_INITRD 1272 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 1273 depends on BROKEN || !FRV 1274 help 1275 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 1276 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 1277 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 1278 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 1279 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 1280 1281 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 1282 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 1283 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 1284 1285 If unsure say Y. 1286 1287if BLK_DEV_INITRD 1288 1289source "usr/Kconfig" 1290 1291endif 1292 1293config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 1294 bool "Optimize for size" 1295 help 1296 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to 1297 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel. 1298 1299 If unsure, say N. 1300 1301config SYSCTL 1302 bool 1303 1304config ANON_INODES 1305 bool 1306 1307config HAVE_UID16 1308 bool 1309 1310config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 1311 bool 1312 help 1313 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. 1314 1315config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN 1316 bool 1317 help 1318 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap 1319 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn 1320 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. 1321 1322config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW 1323 bool 1324 help 1325 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap 1326 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle 1327 the unaligned access emulation. 1328 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference 1329 1330config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1331 bool 1332 1333# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on 1334config BPF 1335 bool 1336 1337menuconfig EXPERT 1338 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1339 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1340 select DEBUG_KERNEL 1341 help 1342 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 1343 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 1344 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 1345 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 1346 1347config UID16 1348 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 1349 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER 1350 default y 1351 help 1352 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1353 1354config MULTIUSER 1355 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT 1356 default y 1357 help 1358 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and 1359 capabilities. 1360 1361 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all 1362 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for 1363 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid, 1364 setgid, and capset. 1365 1366 If unsure, say Y here. 1367 1368config SGETMASK_SYSCALL 1369 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT 1370 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH 1371 ---help--- 1372 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls 1373 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some 1374 architectures. 1375 1376 If unsure, leave the default option here. 1377 1378config SYSFS_SYSCALL 1379 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT 1380 default y 1381 ---help--- 1382 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. 1383 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break 1384 compatibility with some systems. 1385 1386 If unsure say Y here. 1387 1388config SYSCTL_SYSCALL 1389 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 1390 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1391 default n 1392 select SYSCTL 1393 ---help--- 1394 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 1395 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 1396 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 1397 information. 1398 1399 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 1400 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 1401 making your kernel marginally smaller. 1402 1403 If unsure say N here. 1404 1405config KALLSYMS 1406 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1407 default y 1408 help 1409 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1410 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1411 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1412 1413config KALLSYMS_ALL 1414 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1415 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1416 help 1417 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1418 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1419 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1420 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1421 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1422 1423 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1424 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1425 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1426 something like this). 1427 1428 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1429 1430config PRINTK 1431 default y 1432 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1433 select IRQ_WORK 1434 help 1435 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1436 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1437 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1438 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1439 strongly discouraged. 1440 1441config BUG 1442 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1443 default y 1444 help 1445 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1446 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1447 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1448 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1449 Just say Y. 1450 1451config ELF_CORE 1452 depends on COREDUMP 1453 default y 1454 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1455 help 1456 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1457 1458 1459config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1460 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1461 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1462 select I8253_LOCK 1463 default y 1464 help 1465 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1466 support, saving some memory. 1467 1468config BASE_FULL 1469 default y 1470 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1471 help 1472 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1473 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1474 but may reduce performance. 1475 1476config FUTEX 1477 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1478 default y 1479 select RT_MUTEXES 1480 help 1481 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1482 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1483 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1484 1485config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG 1486 bool 1487 depends on FUTEX 1488 help 1489 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 1490 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime 1491 checks. 1492 1493config EPOLL 1494 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1495 default y 1496 select ANON_INODES 1497 help 1498 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1499 support for epoll family of system calls. 1500 1501config SIGNALFD 1502 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1503 select ANON_INODES 1504 default y 1505 help 1506 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1507 on a file descriptor. 1508 1509 If unsure, say Y. 1510 1511config TIMERFD 1512 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1513 select ANON_INODES 1514 default y 1515 help 1516 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1517 events on a file descriptor. 1518 1519 If unsure, say Y. 1520 1521config EVENTFD 1522 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1523 select ANON_INODES 1524 default y 1525 help 1526 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1527 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1528 1529 If unsure, say Y. 1530 1531# syscall, maps, verifier 1532config BPF_SYSCALL 1533 bool "Enable bpf() system call" 1534 select ANON_INODES 1535 select BPF 1536 default n 1537 help 1538 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF 1539 programs and maps via file descriptors. 1540 1541config SHMEM 1542 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1543 default y 1544 depends on MMU 1545 help 1546 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1547 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1548 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1549 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1550 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1551 1552config AIO 1553 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1554 default y 1555 help 1556 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1557 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1558 this option saves about 7k. 1559 1560config ADVISE_SYSCALLS 1561 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT 1562 default y 1563 help 1564 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by 1565 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file 1566 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no 1567 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save 1568 space. 1569 1570config USERFAULTFD 1571 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" 1572 select ANON_INODES 1573 depends on MMU 1574 help 1575 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and 1576 handle page faults in userland. 1577 1578config PCI_QUIRKS 1579 default y 1580 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1581 depends on PCI 1582 help 1583 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1584 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1585 unaffected by PCI quirks. 1586 1587config MEMBARRIER 1588 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT 1589 default y 1590 help 1591 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory 1592 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute 1593 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming 1594 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a 1595 compiler barrier. 1596 1597 If unsure, say Y. 1598 1599config EMBEDDED 1600 bool "Embedded system" 1601 option allnoconfig_y 1602 select EXPERT 1603 help 1604 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1605 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1606 for configuration. 1607 1608config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1609 bool 1610 help 1611 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1612 1613config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1614 bool 1615 help 1616 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1617 1618menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1619 1620config PERF_EVENTS 1621 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1622 default y if PROFILING 1623 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1624 select ANON_INODES 1625 select IRQ_WORK 1626 select SRCU 1627 help 1628 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1629 by software and hardware. 1630 1631 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1632 use of generic tracepoints. 1633 1634 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1635 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1636 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1637 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1638 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1639 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1640 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1641 1642 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1643 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1644 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1645 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1646 capabilities on top of those. 1647 1648 Say Y if unsure. 1649 1650config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1651 default n 1652 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1653 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC 1654 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1655 help 1656 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1657 1658 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1659 that don't require it. 1660 1661 Say N if unsure. 1662 1663endmenu 1664 1665config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1666 default y 1667 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1668 help 1669 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1670 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1671 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1672 if VM event counters are disabled. 1673 1674config SLUB_DEBUG 1675 default y 1676 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1677 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1678 help 1679 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1680 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1681 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1682 no support for cache validation etc. 1683 1684config COMPAT_BRK 1685 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1686 default y 1687 help 1688 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1689 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1690 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1691 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1692 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1693 1694 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1695 1696choice 1697 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1698 default SLUB 1699 help 1700 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1701 1702config SLAB 1703 bool "SLAB" 1704 help 1705 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 1706 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 1707 per cpu and per node queues. 1708 1709config SLUB 1710 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1711 help 1712 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 1713 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 1714 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 1715 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 1716 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 1717 a slab allocator. 1718 1719config SLOB 1720 depends on EXPERT 1721 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1722 help 1723 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 1724 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 1725 does not perform as well on large systems. 1726 1727endchoice 1728 1729config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL 1730 default y 1731 depends on SLUB && SMP 1732 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" 1733 help 1734 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing 1735 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism 1736 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared 1737 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. 1738 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. 1739 1740config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1741 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1742 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1743 default n 1744 help 1745 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1746 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1747 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1748 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1749 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1750 then the flag will be ignored. 1751 1752 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1753 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1754 1755 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1756 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1757 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1758 it is normally safe to say Y here. 1759 1760 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1761 1762config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1763 def_bool n 1764 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 1765 select KEYS 1766 select CRYPTO 1767 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE 1768 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE 1769 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA 1770 select ASN1 1771 select OID_REGISTRY 1772 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER 1773 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER 1774 help 1775 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system 1776 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for 1777 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob 1778 verification. 1779 1780config PROFILING 1781 bool "Profiling support" 1782 help 1783 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1784 by profilers such as OProfile. 1785 1786# 1787# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1788# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1789# 1790config TRACEPOINTS 1791 bool 1792 1793source "arch/Kconfig" 1794 1795endmenu # General setup 1796 1797config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1798 bool 1799 default n 1800 1801config SLABINFO 1802 bool 1803 depends on PROC_FS 1804 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1805 default y 1806 1807config RT_MUTEXES 1808 bool 1809 1810config BASE_SMALL 1811 int 1812 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1813 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1814 1815menuconfig MODULES 1816 bool "Enable loadable module support" 1817 option modules 1818 help 1819 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 1820 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 1821 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 1822 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 1823 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 1824 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 1825 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 1826 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 1827 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 1828 1829 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 1830 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 1831 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 1832 this). 1833 1834 If unsure, say Y. 1835 1836if MODULES 1837 1838config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1839 bool "Forced module loading" 1840 default n 1841 help 1842 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 1843 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 1844 is usually a really bad idea. 1845 1846config MODULE_UNLOAD 1847 bool "Module unloading" 1848 help 1849 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 1850 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1851 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1852 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 1853 1854config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 1855 bool "Forced module unloading" 1856 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD 1857 help 1858 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 1859 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 1860 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 1861 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 1862 If unsure, say N. 1863 1864config MODVERSIONS 1865 bool "Module versioning support" 1866 help 1867 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 1868 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 1869 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 1870 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 1871 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 1872 unsure, say N. 1873 1874config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 1875 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 1876 help 1877 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 1878 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 1879 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 1880 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 1881 others sometimes change the module source without updating 1882 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 1883 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 1884 1885config MODULE_SIG 1886 bool "Module signature verification" 1887 depends on MODULES 1888 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 1889 help 1890 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature 1891 is simply appended to the module. For more information see 1892 Documentation/module-signing.txt. 1893 1894 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a 1895 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto 1896 library. 1897 1898 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the 1899 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the 1900 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and 1901 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. 1902 1903config MODULE_SIG_FORCE 1904 bool "Require modules to be validly signed" 1905 depends on MODULE_SIG 1906 help 1907 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a 1908 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. 1909 1910config MODULE_SIG_ALL 1911 bool "Automatically sign all modules" 1912 default y 1913 depends on MODULE_SIG 1914 help 1915 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, 1916 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. 1917 1918comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" 1919 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL 1920 1921choice 1922 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" 1923 depends on MODULE_SIG 1924 help 1925 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during 1926 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel 1927 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not 1928 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check 1929 the signature on that module. 1930 1931config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1932 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" 1933 select CRYPTO_SHA1 1934 1935config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1936 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" 1937 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1938 1939config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1940 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" 1941 select CRYPTO_SHA256 1942 1943config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1944 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" 1945 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1946 1947config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1948 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" 1949 select CRYPTO_SHA512 1950 1951endchoice 1952 1953config MODULE_SIG_HASH 1954 string 1955 depends on MODULE_SIG 1956 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 1957 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 1958 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 1959 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 1960 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 1961 1962config MODULE_COMPRESS 1963 bool "Compress modules on installation" 1964 depends on MODULES 1965 help 1966 1967 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or 1968 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below. 1969 1970 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz. 1971 1972 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be 1973 compressed upon installation. 1974 1975 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient 1976 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead. 1977 1978 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules. 1979 1980 If in doubt, say N. 1981 1982choice 1983 prompt "Compression algorithm" 1984 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS 1985 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1986 help 1987 This determines which sort of compression will be used during 1988 'make modules_install'. 1989 1990 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported. 1991 1992config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP 1993 bool "GZIP" 1994 1995config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ 1996 bool "XZ" 1997 1998endchoice 1999 2000endif # MODULES 2001 2002config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP 2003 def_bool y 2004 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING 2005 2006config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 2007 bool 2008 help 2009 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 2010 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 2011 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 2012 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 2013 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 2014 2015source "block/Kconfig" 2016 2017config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 2018 bool 2019 2020config PADATA 2021 depends on SMP 2022 bool 2023 2024# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains 2025# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section 2026# mappings 2027config BROKEN_RODATA 2028 bool 2029 2030config ASN1 2031 tristate 2032 help 2033 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output 2034 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to 2035 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what 2036 functions to call on what tags. 2037 2038source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 2039