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1config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
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9config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
b2670eac 11 depends on !UML
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12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
73531905 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
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17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
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19config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
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23config HAVE_IRQ_WORK
24 bool
25
26config IRQ_WORK
27 bool
28 depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
29
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30config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
31 bool
32
ff0cfc66 33menu "General setup"
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34
35config 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56 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are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
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66config BROKEN
67 bool
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68
69config BROKEN_ON_SMP
70 bool
71 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
72 default y
73
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74config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
75 int
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76 default 32 if !UML
77 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 78 help
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79 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
80 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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83config 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
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91config 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
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101config 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
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106 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
107 top of tree revision.
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108
109 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 110 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 111 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 112 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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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".)
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121config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
122 bool
123
124config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
125 bool
126
127config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
128 bool
129
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130config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
131 bool
132
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133config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
134 bool
135
30d65dbf 136choice
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137 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
138 default KERNEL_GZIP
3ebe1243 139 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2e9f3bdd 140 help
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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
158config KERNEL_GZIP
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159 bool "Gzip"
160 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
161 help
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162 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
163 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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165config KERNEL_BZIP2
166 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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168 help
169 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 170 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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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.
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175config KERNEL_LZMA
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176 bool "LZMA"
177 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
178 help
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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.
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183config 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
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198config KERNEL_LZO
199 bool "LZO"
200 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
201 help
0a4dd35c 202 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 203 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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204 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
205
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206endchoice
207
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208config 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
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217config SWAP
218 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 219 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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220 default y
221 help
222 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 223 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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224 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
225 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
226
227config SYSVIPC
228 bool "System V IPC"
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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
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242config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
243 bool
244 depends on SYSVIPC
245 depends on SYSCTL
246 default y
247
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248config 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
b0e37650 256 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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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
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264config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
265 bool
266 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
267 depends on SYSCTL
268 default y
269
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270config 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
282config 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
291config 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
300config AUDIT_WATCH
301 def_bool y
302 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
303 select FSNOTIFY
304
305config AUDIT_TREE
306 def_bool y
307 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
308 select FSNOTIFY
309
310config 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
324source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
325source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
326
327menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
328
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329choice
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
335config 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
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345config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
346 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
347 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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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
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357config 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
368endchoice
369
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370config 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
383config 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
37a4c940 393 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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395config 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
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408config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
409 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 410 depends on TASKSTATS
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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
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419config 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
428config 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
391dc69c 437endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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440
441choice
442 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 443 default TREE_RCU
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445config TREE_RCU
446 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 447 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
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448 help
449 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
450 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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451 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
452 smaller systems.
c903ff83 453
f41d911f 454config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 455 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
8008e129 456 depends on PREEMPT && SMP
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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
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461 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
462 smaller systems.
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464config TINY_RCU
465 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 466 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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467 help
468 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
469 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
470 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
471 memory footprint of RCU.
472
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473config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
474 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 475 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
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476 help
477 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
478 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
479 memory footprint of RCU.
480
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482
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483config PREEMPT_RCU
484 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
485 help
486 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
487 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
488
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489config CONTEXT_TRACKING
490 bool
491
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492config RCU_USER_QS
493 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
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494 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
495 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
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496 help
497 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
498 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
499 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
500 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
af71befa 501 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
2b1d5024 502
d677124b 503 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
91d1aa43 504 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
af71befa 505 adds unnecessary overhead.
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506
507 If unsure say N
508
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509config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
510 bool "Force context tracking"
511 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
1fd2b442 512 help
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513 Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
514 test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
515 quiescent states.
516 This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
517 full dynticks mode.
d677124b 518
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519config RCU_FANOUT
520 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
521 range 2 64 if 64BIT
522 range 2 32 if !64BIT
f41d911f 523 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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524 default 64 if 64BIT
525 default 32 if !64BIT
526 help
527 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
528 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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529 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
530 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
531 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
532 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
533 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
534 code paths on small(er) systems.
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536 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
537 Take the default if unsure.
538
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539config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
540 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
541 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
542 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
543 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
544 default 16
545 help
546 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
547 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
548 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
549 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
550 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
551 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
552 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
553 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
554 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
555 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
556 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
557 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
558 leaf-level fanouts work well.
559
560 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
561
562 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
563
564 Take the default if unsure.
565
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567 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
f41d911f 568 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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569 default n
570 help
571 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
572 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
573 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
574 strong NUMA behavior.
575
576 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
577
578 Say N if unsure.
579
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580config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
581 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
b807fbff 582 depends on NO_HZ && SMP
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583 default n
584 help
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585 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods in
586 order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more quickly.
587 On the other hand, this option increases the overhead of the
588 dynticks-idle checking, thus degrading scheduling latency.
589
590 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you don't
591 care about real-time response.
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593 Say N if you are unsure.
594
c903ff83 595config TREE_RCU_TRACE
f41d911f 596 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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597 select DEBUG_FS
598 help
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599 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
600 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
601 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
c903ff83 602
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603config RCU_BOOST
604 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 605 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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606 default n
607 help
608 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
609 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
610 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
611 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
612
613 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
614 Say N here if you are unsure.
615
616config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
617 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
618 range 1 99
619 depends on RCU_BOOST
620 default 1
621 help
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622 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
623 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
624 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
625 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
626 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
627 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
628 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
629 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
630
631 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
632 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
633 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
634 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
635 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
636 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
637 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
638 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
639 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
640 set to priority 6 or higher.
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642 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
643
644config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
645 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
646 range 0 3000
647 depends on RCU_BOOST
648 default 500
649 help
650 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
651 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
652 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
653 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
654
655 Accept the default if unsure.
656
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658 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
659 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
660 default n
661 help
662 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
663 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
664 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
665 asymmetric multiprocessors.
666
667 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
668 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
669 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuoN") will be created to
670 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded.
671 Nothing prevents this kthread from running on the specified
672 CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted between each
673 callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used to force
674 the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
675
676 Say Y here if you want reduced OS jitter on selected CPUs.
677 Say N here if you are unsure.
678
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680
1da177e4 681config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 682 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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683 ---help---
684 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
685 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
686 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
687 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
688 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
689 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
690 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
691 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
692
693config IKCONFIG_PROC
694 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
695 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
696 ---help---
697 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
698 through /proc/config.gz.
699
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701 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
702 range 12 21
f17a32e9 703 default 17
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705 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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707 17 => 128 KB
708 16 => 64 KB
709 15 => 32 KB
710 14 => 16 KB
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712 12 => 4 KB
713
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715# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
716#
717config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
718 bool
719
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721# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
722# balancing logic:
723#
724config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
725 bool
726
727# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
728# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
729#
730config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
731 bool
732
733#
734# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
735config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
736 bool
737
738config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
739 bool
740 default y
741 depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
742 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
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745 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
746 default y
747 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
748 help
749 If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
750 machine.
751
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753 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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755 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
756 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
757 help
758 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
759 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
760 it is references to the node the task is running on.
761
762 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
763
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765 boolean "Control Group support"
0dea1168 766 depends on EVENTFD
5cdc38f9 767 help
23964d2d 768 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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770 controls or device isolation.
771 See
5cdc38f9 772 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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774 and resource control)
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776 Say N if unsure.
777
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779
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781 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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783 help
784 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
785 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 786 framework.
5cdc38f9 787
23964d2d 788 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 789
5cdc38f9 790config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 791 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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793 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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795
796config CGROUP_DEVICE
797 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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799 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
800 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
801
802config CPUSETS
803 bool "Cpuset support"
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805 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
806 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
807 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
808 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
809
810 Say N if unsure.
811
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813 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
814 depends on CPUSETS
815 default y
816
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818 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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820 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 821 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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824 bool "Resource counters"
825 help
826 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 827 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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c255a458 829config MEMCG
00f0b825 830 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
79ae9c29 831 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 832 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 833 help
84ad6d70 834 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 835 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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837 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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839 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
840 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
841 at boot.
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843 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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845 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
846 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 847 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
00f0b825 848
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850 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
851
c255a458 852config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 853 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 854 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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856 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
857 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
858 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
859 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
860 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
861 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
862 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
863 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
864 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
865 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 866 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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868 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 869config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 870 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 871 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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872 default y
873 help
874 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
875 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 876 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
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878 parameter should have this option unselected.
879 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
880 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 881 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 882config MEMCG_KMEM
e5671dfa 883 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
c255a458 884 depends on MEMCG && EXPERIMENTAL
510fc4e1 885 depends on SLUB || SLAB
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886 help
887 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
888 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
889 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
890 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
891 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
892 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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895 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
896 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE && EXPERIMENTAL
897 default n
898 help
899 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
900 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
901 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
902 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
903 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
904 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
905 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
906 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
907 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
908
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910 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
911 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
912 help
913 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 914 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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916
917 Say N if unsure.
918
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920 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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922 help
923 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
924 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
925 tasks.
926
927if CGROUP_SCHED
928config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
929 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
930 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
931 default CGROUP_SCHED
932
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934 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
935 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
936 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
937 default n
938 help
939 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
940 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
941 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
942 restriction.
943 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
944
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946 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
947 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
948 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
949 default n
950 help
951 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 952 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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954 realtime bandwidth for them.
955 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
956
957endif #CGROUP_SCHED
958
afc24d49 959config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 960 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 961 depends on BLOCK
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963 ---help---
964 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
965 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
966 policies.
967
968 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
969 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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971 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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973 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
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976 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 977 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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979 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
980
981config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
982 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
983 depends on BLK_CGROUP
984 default n
985 ---help---
986 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
987 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
988
23964d2d 989endif # CGROUPS
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992 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
993 default n
994 help
995 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
996 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
997 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
998 entries.
999
1000 If unsure, say N here.
1001
8dd2a82c 1002menuconfig NAMESPACES
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1004 default !EXPERT
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1006 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1007 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1008 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1009 different namespaces.
1010
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1014 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1015 default y
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1017 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1018 uname() system call
1019
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1021 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1022 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1023 default y
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1025 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1026 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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1029 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
8dd2a82c 1030 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
e1c972b6 1031 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
5673a94c 1032 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
e1c972b6 1033
5673a94c 1034 default n
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1036 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1037 to provide different user info for different servers.
1038 If unsure, say N.
1039
74bd59bb 1040config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1041 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1042 default y
74bd59bb 1043 help
12d2b8f9 1044 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1045 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1047
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1049 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1050 depends on NET
17a6d441 1051 default y
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1053 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1054 of the network stack.
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1057
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1059 # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
1060 # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
1061 # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
1062 # the user namespace.
1063 bool
1064 default y
1065
e1c972b6 1066 # Networking
e1c972b6 1067 depends on NET_9P = n
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1069 # Filesystems
e1c972b6 1070 depends on 9P_FS = n
e1c972b6 1071 depends on AFS_FS = n
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1073 depends on CIFS = n
1074 depends on CODA_FS = n
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1077 depends on NFSD = n
1078 depends on NFS_FS = n
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1080 depends on XFS_FS = n
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1083 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
e1c972b6 1084 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
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1086 help
1087 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
1088 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
1089
1090 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
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1093 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
1094 select EVENTFD
1095 select CGROUPS
1096 select CGROUP_SCHED
1097 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1098 help
1099 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1100 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1101 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1102 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1103 upon task session.
1104
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1106 bool
1107
1108config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1109 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1111 default n
1112 help
1113 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1114 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1115 /sys/block/.
1116
1117 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1118 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1119
1120 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1121 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1122 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1123
1124 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1125 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1126 option enabled.
1127
1128 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1129 need to say Y here.
1130
1131config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1132 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1134 depends on SYSFS
1135 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1136 help
1137 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1138
1139 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1140 option.
1141
1142 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1143 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1144 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1145
1146config RELAY
1147 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1148 help
1149 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1150 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1151 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1152 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1153 user space.
1154
1155 If unsure, say N.
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1158 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1159 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1160 help
1161 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1162 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1163 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1164 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1165 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1166
1167 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1168 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1169 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1170
1171 If unsure say Y.
1172
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c45b4f1f 1179config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1180 bool "Optimize for size"
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1182 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1183 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1184
3a55fb0d 1185 If unsure, say N.
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1188 bool
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1191 bool
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1194 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1196 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1198 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1199 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1200 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1201 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1202
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1204 bool
1205
ae81f9e3 1206config UID16
6a108a14 1207 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
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1210 help
1211 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1212
b89a8171 1213config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1214 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1215 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1216 default n
b89a8171 1217 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1218 ---help---
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1220 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1221 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1222 information.
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1225 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1226 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1227
c736de60 1228 If unsure say N here.
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1231 bool
1232 help
1233 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1234
1da177e4 1235config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1236 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1238 help
1239 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1240 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1241 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1242
1243config KALLSYMS_ALL
1244 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1245 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1246 help
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1248 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1249 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1250 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1251 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1252
1253 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1254 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1255 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1256 something like this).
1257
1258 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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712f47ce 1260config HOTPLUG
45f035ab 1261 def_bool y
712f47ce 1262
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1263config PRINTK
1264 default y
6a108a14 1265 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
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1266 help
1267 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1268 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1269 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1270 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1271 strongly discouraged.
1272
c8538a7a 1273config BUG
6a108a14 1274 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1275 default y
1276 help
1277 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1278 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1279 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1280 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1281 Just say Y.
1282
708e9a79 1283config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1284 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1285 default y
6a108a14 1286 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1287 help
1288 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1289
8761f1ab 1290
e5e1d3cb 1291config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1292 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1293 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1294 select I8253_LOCK
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1295 default y
1296 help
1297 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1298 support, saving some memory.
1299
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1300config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1301 bool
1302
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1303config BASE_FULL
1304 default y
6a108a14 1305 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1306 help
1307 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1308 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1309 but may reduce performance.
1310
1311config FUTEX
6a108a14 1312 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1313 default y
23f78d4a 1314 select RT_MUTEXES
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1315 help
1316 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1317 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1318 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1319
1320config EPOLL
6a108a14 1321 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1322 default y
448e3cee 1323 select ANON_INODES
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1324 help
1325 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1326 support for epoll family of system calls.
1327
fba2afaa 1328config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1329 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1330 select ANON_INODES
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1331 default y
1332 help
1333 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1334 on a file descriptor.
1335
1336 If unsure, say Y.
1337
b215e283 1338config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1339 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1340 select ANON_INODES
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1341 default y
1342 help
1343 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1344 events on a file descriptor.
1345
1346 If unsure, say Y.
1347
e1ad7468 1348config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1349 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1350 select ANON_INODES
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1351 default y
1352 help
1353 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1354 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1355
1356 If unsure, say Y.
1357
1da177e4 1358config SHMEM
6a108a14 1359 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1360 default y
1361 depends on MMU
1362 help
1363 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1364 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1365 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1366 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1367 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1368
ebf3f09c 1369config AIO
6a108a14 1370 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1371 default y
1372 help
1373 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1374 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1375 this option saves about 7k.
1376
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1378 bool "Embedded system"
1379 select EXPERT
1380 help
1381 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1382 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1383 for configuration.
1384
cdd6c482 1385config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1386 bool
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1387 help
1388 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1390config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1391 bool
1392 help
1393 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1394
57c0c15b 1395menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1396
cdd6c482 1397config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1398 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1399 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1400 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1401 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1402 select IRQ_WORK
0793a61d 1403 help
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1404 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1405 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1406
dd77038d 1407 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1408 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1409
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1410 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1411 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1412 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1413 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1414 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1415 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1416 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1417
57c0c15b 1418 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1419 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1420 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1421 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1422 capabilities on top of those.
1423
1424 Say Y if unsure.
1425
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1426config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1427 default n
1428 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1429 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1430 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1431 help
1432 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1433
1434 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1435 that don't require it.
1436
1437 Say N if unsure.
1438
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1440
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1441config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1442 default y
6a108a14 1443 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1444 help
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1445 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1446 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1447 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1448 if VM event counters are disabled.
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1450config PCI_QUIRKS
1451 default y
6a108a14 1452 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
61cfc7e4 1453 depends on PCI
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1454 help
1455 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1456 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1457 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1458
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1459config SLUB_DEBUG
1460 default y
6a108a14 1461 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1462 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1463 help
1464 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1465 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1466 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1467 no support for cache validation etc.
1468
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1470 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1471 default y
1472 help
1473 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1474 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1475 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1476 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1478
1479 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1480
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1481choice
1482 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1483 default SLUB
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1484 help
1485 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1486
1487config SLAB
1488 bool "SLAB"
1489 help
1490 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1491 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1492 per cpu and per node queues.
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1494config SLUB
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1495 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1496 help
1497 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1498 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1499 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1500 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1501 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1502 a slab allocator.
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1504config SLOB
6a108a14 1505 depends on EXPERT
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1506 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1507 help
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1508 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1509 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1510 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1512endchoice
1513
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1514config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1515 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1516 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1517 default n
1518 help
1519 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1520 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1521 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1522 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1523 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1524 then the flag will be ignored.
1525
1526 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1527 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1528
1529 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1530 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1531 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1532 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1533
1534 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1535
125e5645 1536config PROFILING
b309a294 1537 bool "Profiling support"
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1538 help
1539 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1540 by profilers such as OProfile.
1541
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1543# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1544# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1545#
97e1c18e 1546config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1547 bool
97e1c18e 1548
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1549source "arch/Kconfig"
1550
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1552
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1553config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1554 bool
1555 default n
1556
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1557config SLABINFO
1558 bool
1559 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1560 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1561 default y
1562
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1563config RT_MUTEXES
1564 boolean
ae81f9e3 1565
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1566config BASE_SMALL
1567 int
1568 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1569 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1570
66da5733 1571menuconfig MODULES
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1572 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1573 help
1574 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1575 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1576 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1577 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1578 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1579 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1580 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1581 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1582 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1583
1584 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1585 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1586 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1587 this).
1588
1589 If unsure, say Y.
1590
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1592
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1593config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1594 bool "Forced module loading"
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1595 default n
1596 help
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1597 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1598 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1599 is usually a really bad idea.
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1601config MODULE_UNLOAD
1602 bool "Module unloading"
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1603 help
1604 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1605 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1606 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1607 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1609config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1610 bool "Forced module unloading"
1611 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1612 help
1613 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1614 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1615 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1616 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1617 If unsure, say N.
1618
1da177e4 1619config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1620 bool "Module versioning support"
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1621 help
1622 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1623 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1624 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1625 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1626 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1627 unsure, say N.
1628
1629config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1630 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1631 help
1632 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1633 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1634 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1635 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1636 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1637 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1638 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1639
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1641 bool "Module signature verification"
1642 depends on MODULES
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1643 select KEYS
1644 select CRYPTO
1645 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1646 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1647 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1648 select ASN1
1649 select OID_REGISTRY
1650 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1651 help
1652 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1653 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1654 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1655
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1656 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1657 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1658 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1659 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1660
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1661config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1662 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1663 depends on MODULE_SIG
1664 help
1665 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1666 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
ea0b6dcf 1667
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1668config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1669 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1670 default y
1671 depends on MODULE_SIG
1672 help
1673 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1674 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1675
1676comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1677 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1678
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1679choice
1680 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1681 depends on MODULE_SIG
1682 help
1683 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1684 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1685 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1686 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1687 the signature on that module.
1688
1689config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1690 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1691 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1692
1693config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1694 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1695 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1696
1697config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1698 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1699 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1700
1701config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1702 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1703 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1704
1705config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1706 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1707 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1708
1709endchoice
1710
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1712 string
1713 depends on MODULE_SIG
1714 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1715 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1716 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1717 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1718 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1719
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1721
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1722config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1723 bool
1724 help
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1725 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1726 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1727 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1728 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1729 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
98a79d6a 1730
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1731config STOP_MACHINE
1732 bool
1733 default y
1734 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1735 help
1736 Need stop_machine() primitive.
3a65dfe8 1737
3a65dfe8 1738source "block/Kconfig"
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1740config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1741 bool
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1743config PADATA
1744 depends on SMP
1745 bool
1746
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1747# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1748# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1749# mappings
1750config BROKEN_RODATA
1751 bool
1752
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1753config ASN1
1754 tristate
1755 help
1756 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
1757 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
1758 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
1759 functions to call on what tags.
1760
6beb0009 1761source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"