rcu: Allow TREE_PREEMPT_RCU on UP systems
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1 config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5 config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
9 config 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
19 config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
22
23 config HAVE_IRQ_WORK
24 bool
25
26 config IRQ_WORK
27 bool
28 depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
29
30 config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
31 bool
32
33 menu "General setup"
34
35 config EXPERIMENTAL
36 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
37 ---help---
38 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
39 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
40 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
41 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
42 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
43 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
44 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
45 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
46 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
47 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
48 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
49 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
50 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
51 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
52 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
53 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
54
55 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
56 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
57 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
58
59 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
60 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
61 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
62 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
63 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
64 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
65
66 config BROKEN
67 bool
68
69 config BROKEN_ON_SMP
70 bool
71 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
72 default y
73
74 config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
75 int
76 default 32 if !UML
77 default 128 if UML
78 help
79 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
80 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
81
82
83 config CROSS_COMPILE
84 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
85 help
86 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
87 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
88 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
89 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
90
91 config LOCALVERSION
92 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
93 help
94 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
95 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
96 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
97 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
98 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
99 be a maximum of 64 characters.
100
101 config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
102 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
103 default y
104 help
105 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
106 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
107 top of tree revision.
108
109 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
110 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
111 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
112 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
113
114 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
115 by running the command:
116
117 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
118
119 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
120
121 config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
122 bool
123
124 config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
125 bool
126
127 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
128 bool
129
130 config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
131 bool
132
133 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
134 bool
135
136 choice
137 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
138 default KERNEL_GZIP
139 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
140 help
141 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
142 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
143 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
144 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
145 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
146
147 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
148 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
149 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
150 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
151
152 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
153 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
154 size matters less.
155
156 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
157
158 config KERNEL_GZIP
159 bool "Gzip"
160 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
161 help
162 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
163 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
164
165 config KERNEL_BZIP2
166 bool "Bzip2"
167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
168 help
169 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
170 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
171 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
172 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
173 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
174
175 config KERNEL_LZMA
176 bool "LZMA"
177 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
178 help
179 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
180 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
181 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
182
183 config KERNEL_XZ
184 bool "XZ"
185 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
186 help
187 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
188 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
189 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
190 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
191 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
192 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
193
194 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
195 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
196 and LZO. Compression is slow.
197
198 config KERNEL_LZO
199 bool "LZO"
200 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
201 help
202 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
203 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
204 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
205
206 endchoice
207
208 config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
209 string "Default hostname"
210 default "(none)"
211 help
212 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
213 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
214 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
215 system more usable with less configuration.
216
217 config SWAP
218 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
219 depends on MMU && BLOCK
220 default y
221 help
222 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
223 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
224 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
225 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
226
227 config SYSVIPC
228 bool "System V IPC"
229 ---help---
230 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
231 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
232 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
233 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
234 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
235 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
236 you'll need to say Y here.
237
238 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
239 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
240 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
241
242 config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
243 bool
244 depends on SYSVIPC
245 depends on SYSCTL
246 default y
247
248 config POSIX_MQUEUE
249 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
250 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
251 ---help---
252 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
253 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
254 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
255 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
256 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
257
258 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
259 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
260 operations on message queues.
261
262 If unsure, say Y.
263
264 config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
265 bool
266 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
267 depends on SYSCTL
268 default y
269
270 config FHANDLE
271 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
272 select EXPORTFS
273 help
274 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
275 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
276 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
277 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
278 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
279 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
280 syscalls.
281
282 config AUDIT
283 bool "Auditing support"
284 depends on NET
285 help
286 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
287 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
288 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
289 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
290
291 config AUDITSYSCALL
292 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
293 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
294 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
295 help
296 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
297 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
298 such as SELinux.
299
300 config AUDIT_WATCH
301 def_bool y
302 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
303 select FSNOTIFY
304
305 config AUDIT_TREE
306 def_bool y
307 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
308 select FSNOTIFY
309
310 config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
311 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
312 depends on AUDIT
313 help
314 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
315 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
316 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
317 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central
318 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older
319 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
320 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows
321 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
322 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
323
324 source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
325 source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
326
327 menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
328
329 choice
330 prompt "Cputime accounting"
331 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
332 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING if PPC64
333
334 # Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
335 config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
336 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
337 depends on !S390
338 help
339 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
340 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
341 granularity.
342
343 If unsure, say Y.
344
345 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
346 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
347 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
348 help
349 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
350 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
351 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
352 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
353 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
354 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
355 systems.
356
357 config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
358 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
359 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
360 help
361 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
362 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
363 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
364 small performance impact.
365
366 If in doubt, say N here.
367
368 endchoice
369
370 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
371 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
372 help
373 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
374 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
375 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
376 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
377 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
378 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
379 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
380 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
381 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
382
383 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
384 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
385 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
386 default n
387 help
388 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
389 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
390 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
391 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
392 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
393 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
394
395 config TASKSTATS
396 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
397 depends on NET
398 default n
399 help
400 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
401 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
402 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
403 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
404 space on task exit.
405
406 Say N if unsure.
407
408 config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
409 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
410 depends on TASKSTATS
411 help
412 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
413 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
414 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
415 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
416
417 Say N if unsure.
418
419 config TASK_XACCT
420 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
421 depends on TASKSTATS
422 help
423 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
424 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
425
426 Say N if unsure.
427
428 config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
429 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
430 depends on TASK_XACCT
431 help
432 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
433 task has caused.
434
435 Say N if unsure.
436
437 endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
438
439 menu "RCU Subsystem"
440
441 choice
442 prompt "RCU Implementation"
443 default TREE_RCU
444
445 config TREE_RCU
446 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
447 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
448 help
449 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
450 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
451 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
452 smaller systems.
453
454 config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
455 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
456 depends on PREEMPT
457 help
458 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
459 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
460 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
461 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
462 smaller systems.
463
464 Select this option if you are unsure.
465
466 config TINY_RCU
467 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
468 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
469 help
470 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
471 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
472 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
473 memory footprint of RCU.
474
475 config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
476 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
477 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
478 help
479 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
480 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
481 memory footprint of RCU.
482
483 endchoice
484
485 config PREEMPT_RCU
486 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
487 help
488 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
489 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
490
491 config RCU_STALL_COMMON
492 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
493 help
494 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
495 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
496 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
497 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
498
499 config CONTEXT_TRACKING
500 bool
501
502 config RCU_USER_QS
503 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
504 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
505 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
506 help
507 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
508 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
509 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
510 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
511 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
512
513 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
514 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
515 adds unnecessary overhead.
516
517 If unsure say N
518
519 config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
520 bool "Force context tracking"
521 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
522 help
523 Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
524 test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
525 quiescent states.
526 This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
527 full dynticks mode.
528
529 config RCU_FANOUT
530 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
531 range 2 64 if 64BIT
532 range 2 32 if !64BIT
533 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
534 default 64 if 64BIT
535 default 32 if !64BIT
536 help
537 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
538 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
539 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
540 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
541 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
542 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
543 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
544 code paths on small(er) systems.
545
546 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
547 Take the default if unsure.
548
549 config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
550 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
551 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
552 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
553 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
554 default 16
555 help
556 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
557 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
558 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
559 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
560 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
561 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
562 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
563 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
564 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
565 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
566 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
567 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
568 leaf-level fanouts work well.
569
570 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
571
572 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
573
574 Take the default if unsure.
575
576 config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
577 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
578 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
579 default n
580 help
581 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
582 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
583 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
584 strong NUMA behavior.
585
586 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
587
588 Say N if unsure.
589
590 config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
591 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
592 depends on NO_HZ && SMP
593 default n
594 help
595 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods in
596 order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more quickly.
597 On the other hand, this option increases the overhead of the
598 dynticks-idle checking, thus degrading scheduling latency.
599
600 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you don't
601 care about real-time response.
602
603 Say N if you are unsure.
604
605 config TREE_RCU_TRACE
606 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
607 select DEBUG_FS
608 help
609 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
610 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
611 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
612
613 config RCU_BOOST
614 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
615 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
616 default n
617 help
618 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
619 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
620 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
621 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
622
623 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
624 Say N here if you are unsure.
625
626 config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
627 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
628 range 1 99
629 depends on RCU_BOOST
630 default 1
631 help
632 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
633 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
634 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
635 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
636 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
637 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
638 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
639 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
640
641 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
642 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
643 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
644 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
645 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
646 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
647 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
648 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
649 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
650 set to priority 6 or higher.
651
652 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
653
654 config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
655 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
656 range 0 3000
657 depends on RCU_BOOST
658 default 500
659 help
660 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
661 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
662 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
663 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
664
665 Accept the default if unsure.
666
667 config RCU_NOCB_CPU
668 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
669 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
670 default n
671 help
672 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
673 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
674 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
675 asymmetric multiprocessors.
676
677 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
678 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
679 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuoN") will be created to
680 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded.
681 Nothing prevents this kthread from running on the specified
682 CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted between each
683 callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used to force
684 the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
685
686 Say Y here if you want reduced OS jitter on selected CPUs.
687 Say N here if you are unsure.
688
689 endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
690
691 config IKCONFIG
692 tristate "Kernel .config support"
693 ---help---
694 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
695 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
696 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
697 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
698 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
699 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
700 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
701 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
702
703 config IKCONFIG_PROC
704 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
705 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
706 ---help---
707 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
708 through /proc/config.gz.
709
710 config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
711 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
712 range 12 21
713 default 17
714 help
715 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
716 Examples:
717 17 => 128 KB
718 16 => 64 KB
719 15 => 32 KB
720 14 => 16 KB
721 13 => 8 KB
722 12 => 4 KB
723
724 #
725 # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
726 #
727 config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
728 bool
729
730 #
731 # For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
732 # balancing logic:
733 #
734 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
735 bool
736
737 # For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
738 # all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
739 #
740 config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
741 bool
742
743 #
744 # For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
745 config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
746 bool
747
748 config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
749 bool
750 default y
751 depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
752 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
753
754 config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
755 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
756 default y
757 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
758 help
759 If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
760 machine.
761
762 config NUMA_BALANCING
763 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
764 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
765 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
766 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
767 help
768 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
769 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
770 it is references to the node the task is running on.
771
772 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
773
774 menuconfig CGROUPS
775 boolean "Control Group support"
776 depends on EVENTFD
777 help
778 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
779 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
780 controls or device isolation.
781 See
782 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
783 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
784 and resource control)
785
786 Say N if unsure.
787
788 if CGROUPS
789
790 config CGROUP_DEBUG
791 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
792 default n
793 help
794 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
795 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
796 framework.
797
798 Say N if unsure.
799
800 config CGROUP_FREEZER
801 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
802 help
803 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
804 cgroup.
805
806 config CGROUP_DEVICE
807 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
808 help
809 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
810 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
811
812 config CPUSETS
813 bool "Cpuset support"
814 help
815 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
816 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
817 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
818 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
819
820 Say N if unsure.
821
822 config PROC_PID_CPUSET
823 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
824 depends on CPUSETS
825 default y
826
827 config CGROUP_CPUACCT
828 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
829 help
830 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
831 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
832
833 config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
834 bool "Resource counters"
835 help
836 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
837 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
838
839 config MEMCG
840 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
841 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
842 select MM_OWNER
843 help
844 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
845 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
846
847 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
848 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
849 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
850 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
851 at boot.
852
853 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
854 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
855 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
856 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
857 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
858
859 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
860 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
861
862 config MEMCG_SWAP
863 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
864 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
865 help
866 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
867 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
868 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
869 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
870 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
871 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
872 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
873 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
874 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
875 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
876 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
877 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
878 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
879 config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
880 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
881 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
882 default y
883 help
884 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
885 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
886 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
887 and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
888 parameter should have this option unselected.
889 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
890 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
891 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
892 config MEMCG_KMEM
893 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
894 depends on MEMCG && EXPERIMENTAL
895 depends on SLUB || SLAB
896 help
897 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
898 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
899 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
900 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
901 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
902 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
903
904 config CGROUP_HUGETLB
905 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
906 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE && EXPERIMENTAL
907 default n
908 help
909 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
910 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
911 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
912 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
913 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
914 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
915 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
916 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
917 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
918
919 config CGROUP_PERF
920 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
921 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
922 help
923 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
924 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
925 designated cpu.
926
927 Say N if unsure.
928
929 menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
930 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
931 default n
932 help
933 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
934 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
935 tasks.
936
937 if CGROUP_SCHED
938 config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
939 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
940 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
941 default CGROUP_SCHED
942
943 config CFS_BANDWIDTH
944 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
945 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
946 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
947 default n
948 help
949 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
950 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
951 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
952 restriction.
953 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
954
955 config RT_GROUP_SCHED
956 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
957 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
958 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
959 default n
960 help
961 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
962 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
963 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
964 realtime bandwidth for them.
965 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
966
967 endif #CGROUP_SCHED
968
969 config BLK_CGROUP
970 bool "Block IO controller"
971 depends on BLOCK
972 default n
973 ---help---
974 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
975 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
976 policies.
977
978 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
979 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
980 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
981 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
982
983 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
984 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
985 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
986 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
987 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
988
989 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
990
991 config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
992 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
993 depends on BLK_CGROUP
994 default n
995 ---help---
996 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
997 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
998
999 endif # CGROUPS
1000
1001 config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1002 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1003 default n
1004 help
1005 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1006 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1007 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1008 entries.
1009
1010 If unsure, say N here.
1011
1012 menuconfig NAMESPACES
1013 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
1014 default !EXPERT
1015 help
1016 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1017 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1018 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1019 different namespaces.
1020
1021 if NAMESPACES
1022
1023 config UTS_NS
1024 bool "UTS namespace"
1025 default y
1026 help
1027 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1028 uname() system call
1029
1030 config IPC_NS
1031 bool "IPC namespace"
1032 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
1033 default y
1034 help
1035 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1036 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1037
1038 config USER_NS
1039 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1040 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
1041 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
1042 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
1043
1044 default n
1045 help
1046 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1047 to provide different user info for different servers.
1048 If unsure, say N.
1049
1050 config PID_NS
1051 bool "PID Namespaces"
1052 default y
1053 help
1054 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
1055 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
1056 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1057
1058 config NET_NS
1059 bool "Network namespace"
1060 depends on NET
1061 default y
1062 help
1063 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1064 of the network stack.
1065
1066 endif # NAMESPACES
1067
1068 config UIDGID_CONVERTED
1069 # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
1070 # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
1071 # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
1072 # the user namespace.
1073 bool
1074 default y
1075
1076 # Networking
1077 depends on NET_9P = n
1078
1079 # Filesystems
1080 depends on 9P_FS = n
1081 depends on AFS_FS = n
1082 depends on CEPH_FS = n
1083 depends on CIFS = n
1084 depends on CODA_FS = n
1085 depends on GFS2_FS = n
1086 depends on NCP_FS = n
1087 depends on NFSD = n
1088 depends on NFS_FS = n
1089 depends on OCFS2_FS = n
1090 depends on XFS_FS = n
1091
1092 config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
1093 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
1094 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
1095 default n
1096 help
1097 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
1098 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
1099
1100 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
1101
1102 config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1103 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
1104 select EVENTFD
1105 select CGROUPS
1106 select CGROUP_SCHED
1107 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1108 help
1109 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1110 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1111 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1112 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1113 upon task session.
1114
1115 config MM_OWNER
1116 bool
1117
1118 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1119 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
1120 depends on SYSFS
1121 default n
1122 help
1123 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1124 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1125 /sys/block/.
1126
1127 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1128 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1129
1130 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1131 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1132 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1133
1134 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1135 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1136 option enabled.
1137
1138 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1139 need to say Y here.
1140
1141 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
1142 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
1143 default n
1144 depends on SYSFS
1145 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1146 help
1147 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1148
1149 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1150 option.
1151
1152 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1153 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1154 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1155
1156 config RELAY
1157 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1158 help
1159 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1160 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1161 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1162 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1163 user space.
1164
1165 If unsure, say N.
1166
1167 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1168 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1169 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1170 help
1171 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1172 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1173 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1174 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1175 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1176
1177 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1178 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1179 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1180
1181 If unsure say Y.
1182
1183 if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1184
1185 source "usr/Kconfig"
1186
1187 endif
1188
1189 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
1190 bool "Optimize for size"
1191 help
1192 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1193 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1194
1195 If unsure, say Y.
1196
1197 config SYSCTL
1198 bool
1199
1200 config ANON_INODES
1201 bool
1202
1203 menuconfig EXPERT
1204 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1205 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1206 select DEBUG_KERNEL
1207 help
1208 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1209 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1210 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1211 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1212
1213 config HAVE_UID16
1214 bool
1215
1216 config UID16
1217 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
1218 depends on HAVE_UID16
1219 default y
1220 help
1221 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1222
1223 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
1224 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
1225 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1226 default n
1227 select SYSCTL
1228 ---help---
1229 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1230 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1231 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1232 information.
1233
1234 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1235 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1236 making your kernel marginally smaller.
1237
1238 If unsure say N here.
1239
1240 config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1241 bool
1242 help
1243 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1244
1245 config KALLSYMS
1246 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1247 default y
1248 help
1249 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1250 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1251 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1252
1253 config KALLSYMS_ALL
1254 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1255 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1256 help
1257 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1258 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1259 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1260 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1261 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1262
1263 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1264 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1265 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1266 something like this).
1267
1268 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1269
1270 config HOTPLUG
1271 def_bool y
1272
1273 config PRINTK
1274 default y
1275 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
1276 help
1277 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1278 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1279 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1280 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1281 strongly discouraged.
1282
1283 config BUG
1284 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1285 default y
1286 help
1287 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1288 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1289 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1290 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1291 Just say Y.
1292
1293 config ELF_CORE
1294 depends on COREDUMP
1295 default y
1296 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1297 help
1298 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1299
1300
1301 config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1302 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
1303 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1304 select I8253_LOCK
1305 default y
1306 help
1307 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1308 support, saving some memory.
1309
1310 config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1311 bool
1312
1313 config BASE_FULL
1314 default y
1315 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
1316 help
1317 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1318 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1319 but may reduce performance.
1320
1321 config FUTEX
1322 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1323 default y
1324 select RT_MUTEXES
1325 help
1326 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1327 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1328 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1329
1330 config EPOLL
1331 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1332 default y
1333 select ANON_INODES
1334 help
1335 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1336 support for epoll family of system calls.
1337
1338 config SIGNALFD
1339 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1340 select ANON_INODES
1341 default y
1342 help
1343 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1344 on a file descriptor.
1345
1346 If unsure, say Y.
1347
1348 config TIMERFD
1349 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1350 select ANON_INODES
1351 default y
1352 help
1353 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1354 events on a file descriptor.
1355
1356 If unsure, say Y.
1357
1358 config EVENTFD
1359 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1360 select ANON_INODES
1361 default y
1362 help
1363 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1364 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1365
1366 If unsure, say Y.
1367
1368 config SHMEM
1369 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
1370 default y
1371 depends on MMU
1372 help
1373 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1374 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1375 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1376 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1377 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1378
1379 config AIO
1380 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1381 default y
1382 help
1383 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1384 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1385 this option saves about 7k.
1386
1387 config EMBEDDED
1388 bool "Embedded system"
1389 select EXPERT
1390 help
1391 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1392 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1393 for configuration.
1394
1395 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1396 bool
1397 help
1398 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
1399
1400 config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1401 bool
1402 help
1403 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1404
1405 menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
1406
1407 config PERF_EVENTS
1408 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1409 default y if PROFILING
1410 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1411 select ANON_INODES
1412 select IRQ_WORK
1413 help
1414 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1415 by software and hardware.
1416
1417 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
1418 use of generic tracepoints.
1419
1420 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1421 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
1422 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1423 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1424 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1425 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1426 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1427
1428 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1429 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
1430 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
1431 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1432 capabilities on top of those.
1433
1434 Say Y if unsure.
1435
1436 config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1437 default n
1438 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1439 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1440 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1441 help
1442 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1443
1444 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1445 that don't require it.
1446
1447 Say N if unsure.
1448
1449 endmenu
1450
1451 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1452 default y
1453 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1454 help
1455 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1456 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1457 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1458 if VM event counters are disabled.
1459
1460 config PCI_QUIRKS
1461 default y
1462 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1463 depends on PCI
1464 help
1465 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1466 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1467 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1468
1469 config SLUB_DEBUG
1470 default y
1471 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1472 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
1473 help
1474 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1475 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1476 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1477 no support for cache validation etc.
1478
1479 config COMPAT_BRK
1480 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1481 default y
1482 help
1483 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1484 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1485 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1486 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1487 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1488
1489 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1490
1491 choice
1492 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1493 default SLUB
1494 help
1495 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1496
1497 config SLAB
1498 bool "SLAB"
1499 help
1500 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
1501 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
1502 per cpu and per node queues.
1503
1504 config SLUB
1505 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1506 help
1507 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1508 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1509 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1510 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
1511 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1512 a slab allocator.
1513
1514 config SLOB
1515 depends on EXPERT
1516 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1517 help
1518 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1519 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1520 does not perform as well on large systems.
1521
1522 endchoice
1523
1524 config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1525 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1526 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1527 default n
1528 help
1529 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1530 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1531 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1532 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1533 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1534 then the flag will be ignored.
1535
1536 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1537 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1538
1539 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1540 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1541 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1542 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1543
1544 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1545
1546 config PROFILING
1547 bool "Profiling support"
1548 help
1549 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1550 by profilers such as OProfile.
1551
1552 #
1553 # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1554 # dynamically changed for a probe function.
1555 #
1556 config TRACEPOINTS
1557 bool
1558
1559 source "arch/Kconfig"
1560
1561 endmenu # General setup
1562
1563 config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1564 bool
1565 default n
1566
1567 config SLABINFO
1568 bool
1569 depends on PROC_FS
1570 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1571 default y
1572
1573 config RT_MUTEXES
1574 boolean
1575
1576 config BASE_SMALL
1577 int
1578 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1579 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1580
1581 menuconfig MODULES
1582 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1583 help
1584 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1585 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1586 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1587 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1588 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1589 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1590 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1591 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1592 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1593
1594 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1595 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1596 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1597 this).
1598
1599 If unsure, say Y.
1600
1601 if MODULES
1602
1603 config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1604 bool "Forced module loading"
1605 default n
1606 help
1607 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1608 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1609 is usually a really bad idea.
1610
1611 config MODULE_UNLOAD
1612 bool "Module unloading"
1613 help
1614 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1615 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1616 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1617 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
1618
1619 config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1620 bool "Forced module unloading"
1621 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1622 help
1623 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1624 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1625 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1626 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1627 If unsure, say N.
1628
1629 config MODVERSIONS
1630 bool "Module versioning support"
1631 help
1632 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1633 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1634 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1635 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1636 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1637 unsure, say N.
1638
1639 config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1640 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
1641 help
1642 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1643 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1644 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1645 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1646 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1647 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1648 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1649
1650 config MODULE_SIG
1651 bool "Module signature verification"
1652 depends on MODULES
1653 select KEYS
1654 select CRYPTO
1655 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1656 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1657 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1658 select ASN1
1659 select OID_REGISTRY
1660 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1661 help
1662 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1663 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1664 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1665
1666 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1667 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1668 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1669 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1670
1671 config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1672 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1673 depends on MODULE_SIG
1674 help
1675 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1676 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1677
1678 choice
1679 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1680 depends on MODULE_SIG
1681 help
1682 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1683 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1684 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1685 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1686 the signature on that module.
1687
1688 config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1689 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1690 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1691
1692 config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1693 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1694 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1695
1696 config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1697 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1698 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1699
1700 config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1701 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1702 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1703
1704 config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1705 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1706 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1707
1708 endchoice
1709
1710 endif # MODULES
1711
1712 config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1713 bool
1714 help
1715 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1716 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
1717 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1718 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1719 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
1720
1721 config STOP_MACHINE
1722 bool
1723 default y
1724 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1725 help
1726 Need stop_machine() primitive.
1727
1728 source "block/Kconfig"
1729
1730 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1731 bool
1732
1733 config PADATA
1734 depends on SMP
1735 bool
1736
1737 # Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1738 # that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1739 # mappings
1740 config BROKEN_RODATA
1741 bool
1742
1743 config ASN1
1744 tristate
1745 help
1746 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
1747 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
1748 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
1749 functions to call on what tags.
1750
1751 source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"