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Roman Zippel80daa562008-01-14 04:51:16 +01001config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -07009config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrussob2670eac2006-10-19 23:28:23 -070011 depends on !UML
Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -070012 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
Sam Ravnborg73531902008-05-25 23:03:18 +020016 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -070017 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
Peter Oberparleiterb99b87f72009-06-17 16:28:03 -070019config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
Peter Oberparleiterb99b87f72009-06-17 16:28:03 -070022
Peter Zijlstrae360adb2010-10-14 14:01:34 +080023config IRQ_WORK
24 bool
Peter Zijlstrae360adb2010-10-14 14:01:34 +080025
David Daney1dbdc6f2012-04-19 14:59:57 -070026config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
27 bool
28
Al Boldiff0cfc62007-07-31 00:39:23 -070029menu "General setup"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070030
31config EXPERIMENTAL
32 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
33 ---help---
34 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
35 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
36 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
37 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
38 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
39 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
40 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
41 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
42 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
43 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
44 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
45 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
46 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
47 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
48 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
49 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
50
51 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
52 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
53 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
54
55 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
56 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
57 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
58 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
59 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
60 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
61
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070062config BROKEN
63 bool
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070064
65config BROKEN_ON_SMP
66 bool
67 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
68 default y
69
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070070config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
71 int
Adrian Bunkdd673bc2006-06-30 01:55:51 -070072 default 32 if !UML
73 default 128 if UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070074 help
Randy Dunlap34ad92c22005-10-30 15:01:46 -080075 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
76 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070077
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070078
Roland McGrath84336462009-12-21 16:24:06 -080079config CROSS_COMPILE
80 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
81 help
82 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
83 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
84 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
85 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
86
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070087config LOCALVERSION
88 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
89 help
90 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
91 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
92 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
93 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
94 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
95 be a maximum of 64 characters.
96
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040097config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
98 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
99 default y
100 help
101 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200102 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
103 top of tree revision.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400104
105 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200106 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400107 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200108 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400109
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200110 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
111 by running the command:
112
113 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
114
115 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400116
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800117config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
118 bool
119
120config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
121 bool
122
123config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
124 bool
125
Lasse Collin3ebe1242011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800126config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
127 bool
128
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800129config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
130 bool
131
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100132choice
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800133 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
134 default KERNEL_GZIP
Lasse Collin3ebe1242011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800135 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800136 help
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100137 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
138 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
139 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
140 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
141 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
142
143 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
144 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
145 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
146 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
147
148 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
149 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
150 size matters less.
151
152 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
153
154config KERNEL_GZIP
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800155 bool "Gzip"
156 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
157 help
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800158 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
159 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100160
161config KERNEL_BZIP2
162 bool "Bzip2"
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800163 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100164 help
165 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
Randy Dunlap0a4dd352012-05-31 16:26:46 -0700166 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800167 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
168 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
169 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100170
171config KERNEL_LZMA
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800172 bool "LZMA"
173 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
174 help
Randy Dunlap0a4dd352012-05-31 16:26:46 -0700175 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
176 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
177 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100178
Lasse Collin3ebe1242011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800179config KERNEL_XZ
180 bool "XZ"
181 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
182 help
183 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
184 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
185 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
186 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
187 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
188 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
189
190 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
191 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
192 and LZO. Compression is slow.
193
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800194config KERNEL_LZO
195 bool "LZO"
196 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
197 help
Randy Dunlap0a4dd352012-05-31 16:26:46 -0700198 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
Stephan Sperber681b3042010-07-14 11:23:08 +0200199 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800200 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
201
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100202endchoice
203
Josh Triplettbd5dc172011-06-15 15:08:28 -0700204config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
205 string "Default hostname"
206 default "(none)"
207 help
208 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
209 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
210 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
211 system more usable with less configuration.
212
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700213config SWAP
214 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200215 depends on MMU && BLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700216 default y
217 help
218 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
Jesper Juhl92c35042006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100219 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700220 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
221 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
222
223config SYSVIPC
224 bool "System V IPC"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700225 ---help---
226 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
227 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
228 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
229 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
230 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
231 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
232 you'll need to say Y here.
233
234 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
235 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
236 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
237
Eric W. Biedermana5494dc2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800238config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
239 bool
240 depends on SYSVIPC
241 depends on SYSCTL
242 default y
243
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700244config POSIX_MQUEUE
245 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
246 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
247 ---help---
248 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
249 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
250 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
251 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
Robert P. J. Dayb0e37652007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200252 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700253
254 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
255 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
256 operations on message queues.
257
258 If unsure, say Y.
259
Serge E. Hallynbdc8e5f2009-04-06 19:01:11 -0700260config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
261 bool
262 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
263 depends on SYSCTL
264 default y
265
Aneesh Kumar K.V990d6c22011-01-29 18:43:26 +0530266config FHANDLE
267 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
268 select EXPORTFS
269 help
270 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
271 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
272 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
273 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
274 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
275 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
276 syscalls.
277
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700278config AUDIT
279 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a492005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100280 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700281 help
282 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
283 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
284 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
285 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
286
287config AUDITSYSCALL
288 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
Will Deacon8f827a12012-07-06 15:48:16 +0100289 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700290 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
291 help
292 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
293 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
Eric Paris67640b62009-12-17 20:12:06 -0500294 such as SELinux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700295
Eric Paris939a67f2009-12-17 20:12:06 -0500296config AUDIT_WATCH
297 def_bool y
298 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
299 select FSNOTIFY
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700300
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400301config AUDIT_TREE
302 def_bool y
Eric Paris63c882a2009-05-21 17:02:01 -0400303 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
Eric Paris28a3a7e2009-12-17 20:12:05 -0500304 select FSNOTIFY
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400305
Eric Paris633b4542012-01-03 14:23:08 -0500306config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
307 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
308 depends on AUDIT
309 help
Linus Torvaldsf429ee32012-01-17 16:06:51 -0800310 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
Eric Paris633b4542012-01-03 14:23:08 -0500311 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
312 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
313 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central
314 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older
315 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
316 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows
317 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
318 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
319
Thomas Gleixnerd9817eb2010-09-27 12:45:59 +0000320source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
Thomas Gleixner764e0da2012-05-21 23:16:18 +0200321source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
Thomas Gleixnerd9817eb2010-09-27 12:45:59 +0000322
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200323menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
324
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200325choice
326 prompt "Cputime accounting"
327 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
328 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING if PPC64
329
330# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
331config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
332 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
333 depends on !S390
334 help
335 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
336 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
337 granularity.
338
339 If unsure, say Y.
340
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200341config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
342 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
343 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200344 help
345 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
346 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
347 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
348 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
349 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
350 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
351 systems.
352
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200353config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
354 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
355 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
356 help
357 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
358 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
359 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
360 small performance impact.
361
362 If in doubt, say N here.
363
364endchoice
365
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200366config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
367 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
368 help
369 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
370 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
371 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
372 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
373 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
374 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
375 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
376 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
377 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
378
379config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
380 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
381 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
382 default n
383 help
384 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
385 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
386 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
387 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
388 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
389 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
390
391config TASKSTATS
392 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
393 depends on NET
394 default n
395 help
396 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
397 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
398 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
399 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
400 space on task exit.
401
402 Say N if unsure.
403
404config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
405 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
406 depends on TASKSTATS
407 help
408 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
409 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
410 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
411 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
412
413 Say N if unsure.
414
415config TASK_XACCT
416 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
417 depends on TASKSTATS
418 help
419 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
420 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
421
422 Say N if unsure.
423
424config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
425 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
426 depends on TASK_XACCT
427 help
428 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
429 task has caused.
430
431 Say N if unsure.
432
433endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
434
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800435menu "RCU Subsystem"
436
437choice
438 prompt "RCU Implementation"
Paul E. McKenney31c9a242009-04-02 21:06:25 -0700439 default TREE_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800440
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800441config TREE_RCU
442 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
Paul E. McKenney687d7a92010-07-21 06:52:40 -0700443 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800444 help
445 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
446 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
Paul E. McKenneyc17ef452009-06-23 17:12:47 -0700447 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
448 smaller systems.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800449
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700450config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700451 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
Paul E. McKenney8008e122011-06-08 16:31:33 -0700452 depends on PREEMPT && SMP
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700453 help
454 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
455 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
456 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
Paul E. McKenneybbe3eae2009-09-13 09:15:08 -0700457 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
458 smaller systems.
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700459
Paul E. McKenney9b1d82f2009-10-25 19:03:50 -0700460config TINY_RCU
461 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
Paul E. McKenney8008e122011-06-08 16:31:33 -0700462 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
Paul E. McKenney9b1d82f2009-10-25 19:03:50 -0700463 help
464 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
465 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
466 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
467 memory footprint of RCU.
468
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700469config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
470 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
Paul E. McKenney8008e122011-06-08 16:31:33 -0700471 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700472 help
473 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
474 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
475 memory footprint of RCU.
476
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800477endchoice
478
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700479config PREEMPT_RCU
480 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
481 help
482 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
483 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
484
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200485config RCU_USER_QS
486 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
487 depends on HAVE_RCU_USER_QS && SMP
488 help
489 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
490 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
491 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
492 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
493 to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
494
Frederic Weisbeckerd6771242012-10-11 01:48:28 +0200495 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
496 tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
497 unnecessary overhead.
498
499 If unsure say N
500
Frederic Weisbecker1fd2b442012-07-11 20:26:40 +0200501config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
502 bool "Force userspace extended QS by default"
503 depends on RCU_USER_QS
504 help
505 Set the hooks in user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
506 test this feature that treats userspace as an extended quiescent
507 state until we have a real user like a full adaptive nohz option.
508
Frederic Weisbeckerd6771242012-10-11 01:48:28 +0200509 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
510 tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
511 unnecessary overhead.
512
513 If unsure say N
514
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800515config RCU_FANOUT
516 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
517 range 2 64 if 64BIT
518 range 2 32 if !64BIT
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700519 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800520 default 64 if 64BIT
521 default 32 if !64BIT
522 help
523 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
524 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
Paul E. McKenney4d87ffa2010-08-04 17:31:12 -0700525 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
526 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
527 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
528 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
529 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
530 code paths on small(er) systems.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800531
532 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
533 Take the default if unsure.
534
Paul E. McKenney8932a632012-04-19 12:20:14 -0700535config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
536 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
537 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
538 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
539 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
540 default 16
541 help
542 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
543 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
544 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
545 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
546 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
547 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
548 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
549 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
550 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
551 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
552 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
553 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
554 leaf-level fanouts work well.
555
556 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
557
558 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
559
560 Take the default if unsure.
561
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800562config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
563 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700564 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800565 default n
566 help
567 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
568 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
569 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
570 strong NUMA behavior.
571
572 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
573
574 Say N if unsure.
575
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800576config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
577 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
Paul E. McKenneyb807fbf2011-11-03 14:56:12 -0700578 depends on NO_HZ && SMP
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800579 default n
580 help
581 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
Paul E. McKenneyb807fbf2011-11-03 14:56:12 -0700582 in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more
583 quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead
584 of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with
585 large numbers of CPUs.
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800586
587 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
588 if you have relatively few CPUs.
589
590 Say N if you are unsure.
591
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800592config TREE_RCU_TRACE
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700593 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800594 select DEBUG_FS
595 help
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700596 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
597 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
598 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800599
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700600config RCU_BOOST
601 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
Paul E. McKenney27f4d282011-02-07 12:47:15 -0800602 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700603 default n
604 help
605 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
606 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
607 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
608 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
609
610 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
611 Say N here if you are unsure.
612
613config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
614 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
615 range 1 99
616 depends on RCU_BOOST
617 default 1
618 help
Paul E. McKenneyc9336642012-04-18 16:20:18 -0700619 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
620 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
621 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
622 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
623 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
624 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
625 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
626 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
627
628 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
629 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
630 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
631 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
632 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
633 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
634 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
635 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
636 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
637 set to priority 6 or higher.
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700638
639 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
640
641config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
642 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
643 range 0 3000
644 depends on RCU_BOOST
645 default 500
646 help
647 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
648 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
649 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
650 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
651
652 Accept the default if unsure.
653
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800654endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
655
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700656config IKCONFIG
Ross Birof2443ab2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700657 tristate "Kernel .config support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700658 ---help---
659 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
660 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
661 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
662 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
663 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
664 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
665 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
666 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
667
668config IKCONFIG_PROC
669 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
670 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
671 ---help---
672 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
673 through /proc/config.gz.
674
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700675config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
676 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
677 range 12 21
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700678 default 17
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700679 help
680 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700681 Examples:
682 17 => 128 KB
683 16 => 64 KB
684 15 => 32 KB
685 14 => 16 KB
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700686 13 => 8 KB
687 12 => 4 KB
688
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800689#
690# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
691#
692config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
693 bool
694
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800695menuconfig CGROUPS
696 boolean "Control Group support"
Kirill A. Shutemov0dea1162010-03-10 15:22:20 -0800697 depends on EVENTFD
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700698 help
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800699 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800700 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
701 controls or device isolation.
702 See
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800703 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
Li Zefan45ce80f2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800704 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
705 and resource control)
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700706
707 Say N if unsure.
708
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800709if CGROUPS
710
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700711config CGROUP_DEBUG
712 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
Paul Menage418d7d82008-04-29 01:00:05 -0700713 default n
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700714 help
715 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
716 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800717 framework.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700718
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800719 Say N if unsure.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700720
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700721config CGROUP_FREEZER
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800722 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800723 help
724 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700725 cgroup.
726
Serge E. Hallyn08ce5f12008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700727config CGROUP_DEVICE
728 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
Serge E. Hallyn08ce5f12008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700729 help
730 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
731 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
732
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700733config CPUSETS
734 bool "Cpuset support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700735 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700736 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700737 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
738 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
739 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
740
741 Say N if unsure.
742
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800743config PROC_PID_CPUSET
744 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
745 depends on CPUSETS
746 default y
747
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100748config CGROUP_CPUACCT
749 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100750 help
751 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800752 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100753
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800754config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
755 bool "Resource counters"
756 help
757 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800758 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800759
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700760config MEMCG
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800761 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
Daniel Lezcano79ae9c22010-10-27 15:34:39 -0700762 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700763 select MM_OWNER
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800764 help
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700765 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo21acb9c2009-02-04 10:12:08 +0100766 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800767
768 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700769 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
770 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
771 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
772 at boot.
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800773
774 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700775 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
776 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
777 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
Li Zefanc9d54092009-01-07 18:07:35 -0800778 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800779
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700780 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
781 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
782
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700783config MEMCG_SWAP
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki65e0e812010-08-10 18:02:56 -0700784 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700785 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800786 help
787 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
788 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
789 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
790 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
791 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
792 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
793 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
794 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
795 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
796 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
WANG Cong00a66d22011-07-25 17:12:12 -0700797 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki627991a2009-04-02 16:57:47 -0700798 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
799 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700800config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800801 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700802 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800803 default y
804 help
805 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
806 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
Jim Cromie43d547f2010-12-17 14:32:36 -0700807 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800808 and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
809 parameter should have this option unselected.
810 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
811 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
WANG Cong00a66d22011-07-25 17:12:12 -0700812 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700813config MEMCG_KMEM
Glauber Costae5671df2011-12-11 21:47:01 +0000814 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700815 depends on MEMCG && EXPERIMENTAL
Glauber Costae5671df2011-12-11 21:47:01 +0000816 default n
817 help
818 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
819 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
820 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
821 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
822 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
823 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800824
Aneesh Kumar K.V2bc64a22012-07-31 16:42:12 -0700825config CGROUP_HUGETLB
826 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
827 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE && EXPERIMENTAL
828 default n
829 help
830 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
831 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
832 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
833 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
834 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
835 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
836 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
837 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
838 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
839
Stephane Eraniane5d13672011-02-14 11:20:01 +0200840config CGROUP_PERF
841 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
842 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
843 help
844 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
Li Zefan2d0f2522011-03-03 14:26:20 +0800845 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
Stephane Eraniane5d13672011-02-14 11:20:01 +0200846 designated cpu.
847
848 Say N if unsure.
849
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100850menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
851 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100852 default n
853 help
854 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
855 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
856 tasks.
857
858if CGROUP_SCHED
859config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
860 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
861 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
862 default CGROUP_SCHED
863
Paul Turnerab84d312011-07-21 09:43:28 -0700864config CFS_BANDWIDTH
865 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
866 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
867 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
868 default n
869 help
870 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
871 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
872 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
873 restriction.
874 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
875
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100876config RT_GROUP_SCHED
877 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
878 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
879 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
880 default n
881 help
882 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
Li Zefan32bd7eb2010-03-24 13:17:19 +0800883 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100884 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
885 realtime bandwidth for them.
886 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
887
888endif #CGROUP_SCHED
889
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200890config BLK_CGROUP
Tejun Heo32e380a2012-03-05 13:14:54 -0800891 bool "Block IO controller"
Daniel Lezcano79ae9c22010-10-27 15:34:39 -0700892 depends on BLOCK
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200893 default n
894 ---help---
895 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
896 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
897 policies.
898
899 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
900 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
Vivek Goyale43473b2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400901 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
902 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200903
904 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
Vivek Goyale43473b2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400905 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
Michael Witten79e2e752011-01-16 21:43:10 +0000906 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
907 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
Michael Wittenc5e05912011-01-17 00:08:41 +0000908 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200909
910 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
911
912config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
913 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
914 depends on BLK_CGROUP
915 default n
916 ---help---
917 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
918 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
919
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800920endif # CGROUPS
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800921
Cyrill Gorcunov067bce12012-01-12 17:20:49 -0800922config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
923 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
924 default n
925 help
926 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
927 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
928 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
929 entries.
930
931 If unsure, say N here.
932
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700933menuconfig NAMESPACES
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800934 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
935 default !EXPERT
Pavel Emelyanovc5289a692008-02-08 04:18:19 -0800936 help
937 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
938 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
939 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
940 different namespaces.
941
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700942if NAMESPACES
943
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800944config UTS_NS
945 bool "UTS namespace"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700946 default y
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800947 help
948 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
949 uname() system call
950
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800951config IPC_NS
952 bool "IPC namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700953 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700954 default y
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800955 help
956 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
Serge E. Hallyn614b84c2009-04-06 19:01:08 -0700957 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800958
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800959config USER_NS
960 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700961 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -0700962 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -0800963 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -0700964
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -0800965 default n
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800966 help
967 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
968 to provide different user info for different servers.
969 If unsure, say N.
970
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800971config PID_NS
Daniel Lezcano9bd38c22010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700972 bool "PID Namespaces"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700973 default y
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800974 help
Heikki Orsila12d2b8f2008-07-06 15:48:02 +0300975 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100976 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800977 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
978
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -0800979config NET_NS
980 bool "Network namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700981 depends on NET
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700982 default y
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -0800983 help
984 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
985 of the network stack.
986
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700987endif # NAMESPACES
988
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -0700989config UIDGID_CONVERTED
990 # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
991 # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
992 # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
993 # the user namespace.
994 bool
995 default y
996
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -0700997 # Networking
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -0700998 depends on NET_9P = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -0700999
1000 # Filesystems
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001001 depends on 9P_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001002 depends on AFS_FS = n
1003 depends on AUTOFS4_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001004 depends on CEPH_FS = n
1005 depends on CIFS = n
1006 depends on CODA_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001007 depends on FUSE_FS = n
1008 depends on GFS2_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001009 depends on NCP_FS = n
1010 depends on NFSD = n
1011 depends on NFS_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001012 depends on OCFS2_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001013 depends on XFS_FS = n
1014
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -08001015config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
1016 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001017 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -08001018 default n
1019 help
1020 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
1021 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
1022
1023 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
1024
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01001025config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1026 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
1027 select EVENTFD
1028 select CGROUPS
1029 select CGROUP_SCHED
1030 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1031 help
1032 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1033 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1034 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1035 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1036 upon task session.
1037
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001038config MM_OWNER
1039 bool
1040
1041config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Ferenc Wagner5d6a4ea2011-01-10 19:04:22 +01001042 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001043 depends on SYSFS
1044 default n
1045 help
1046 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1047 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1048 /sys/block/.
1049
1050 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1051 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1052
1053 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1054 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1055 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1056
1057 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1058 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1059 option enabled.
1060
1061 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1062 need to say Y here.
1063
1064config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
Ferenc Wagner5d6a4ea2011-01-10 19:04:22 +01001065 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001066 default n
1067 depends on SYSFS
1068 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1069 help
1070 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1071
1072 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1073 option.
1074
1075 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1076 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1077 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1078
1079config RELAY
1080 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1081 help
1082 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1083 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1084 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1085 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1086 user space.
1087
1088 If unsure, say N.
1089
Dimitri Gorokhovikf9916332007-03-06 01:42:17 -08001090config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1091 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1092 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1093 help
1094 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1095 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1096 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1097 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1098 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1099
1100 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1101 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1102 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1103
1104 If unsure say Y.
1105
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -08001106if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1107
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +02001108source "usr/Kconfig"
1109
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -08001110endif
1111
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001112config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar96fffeb2008-04-28 01:39:43 +02001113 bool "Optimize for size"
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001114 help
1115 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1116 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1117
jkacur775a7222008-07-16 00:31:16 +02001118 If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001119
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -07001120config SYSCTL
1121 bool
1122
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001123config ANON_INODES
1124 bool
1125
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001126menuconfig EXPERT
1127 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
Josh Triplettf505c552011-06-05 18:23:58 -07001128 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1129 select DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001130 help
1131 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1132 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1133 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1134 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1135
Catalin Marinasaf1839e2012-10-08 16:28:08 -07001136config HAVE_UID16
1137 bool
1138
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001139config UID16
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001140 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
Catalin Marinasaf1839e2012-10-08 16:28:08 -07001141 depends on HAVE_UID16
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001142 default y
1143 help
1144 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1145
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001146config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001147 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
Eric W. Biederman26a70342009-11-05 05:26:41 -08001148 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
WANG Congc736de62011-11-02 13:39:25 -07001149 default n
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001150 select SYSCTL
1151 ---help---
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -08001152 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1153 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1154 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1155 information.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001156
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -08001157 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1158 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1159 making your kernel marginally smaller.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001160
WANG Congc736de62011-11-02 13:39:25 -07001161 If unsure say N here.
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001162
Catalin Marinas7ac57a82012-10-08 16:28:16 -07001163config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1164 bool
1165 help
1166 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1167
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001168config KALLSYMS
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001169 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001170 default y
1171 help
1172 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1173 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1174 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1175
1176config KALLSYMS_ALL
1177 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1178 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1179 help
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001180 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1181 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1182 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1183 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1184 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001185
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001186 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1187 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1188 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1189 something like this).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001190
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001191 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001192
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -08001193config HOTPLUG
Greg Kroah-Hartman45f035a2012-09-04 17:01:08 -07001194 def_bool y
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -08001195
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001196config PRINTK
1197 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001198 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
Frederic Weisbecker74876a92012-10-12 18:00:23 +02001199 select IRQ_WORK
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001200 help
1201 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1202 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1203 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1204 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1205 strongly discouraged.
1206
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -07001207config BUG
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001208 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -07001209 default y
1210 help
1211 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1212 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1213 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1214 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1215 Just say Y.
1216
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001217config ELF_CORE
Alex Kelly046d6622012-10-04 17:15:23 -07001218 depends on COREDUMP
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001219 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001220 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001221 help
1222 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1223
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001224
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +02001225config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001226 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001227 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
Ralf Baechle15f304b2011-06-01 19:04:59 +01001228 select I8253_LOCK
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +02001229 default y
1230 help
1231 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1232 support, saving some memory.
1233
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001234config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1235 bool
1236
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001237config BASE_FULL
1238 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001239 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001240 help
1241 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1242 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1243 but may reduce performance.
1244
1245config FUTEX
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001246 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001247 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d4a2006-06-27 02:54:53 -07001248 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001249 help
1250 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1251 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1252 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1253
1254config EPOLL
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001255 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001256 default y
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001257 select ANON_INODES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001258 help
1259 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1260 support for epoll family of system calls.
1261
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -07001262config SIGNALFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001263 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001264 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -07001265 default y
1266 help
1267 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1268 on a file descriptor.
1269
1270 If unsure, say Y.
1271
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -07001272config TIMERFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001273 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001274 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -07001275 default y
1276 help
1277 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1278 events on a file descriptor.
1279
1280 If unsure, say Y.
1281
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -07001282config EVENTFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001283 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001284 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -07001285 default y
1286 help
1287 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1288 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1289
1290 If unsure, say Y.
1291
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001292config SHMEM
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001293 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001294 default y
1295 depends on MMU
1296 help
1297 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1298 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1299 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1300 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1301 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1302
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001303config AIO
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001304 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001305 default y
1306 help
1307 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1308 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1309 this option saves about 7k.
1310
Randy Dunlap6befe5f2011-04-26 12:33:21 -07001311config EMBEDDED
1312 bool "Embedded system"
1313 select EXPERT
1314 help
1315 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1316 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1317 for configuration.
1318
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001319config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001320 bool
Mike Frysinger018df722009-06-12 13:17:43 -04001321 help
1322 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001323
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001324config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1325 bool
1326 help
1327 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1328
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001329menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001330
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001331config PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001332 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
Robert Richter392d65a2012-04-05 18:24:44 +02001333 default y if PROFILING
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001334 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar4c59e462008-12-08 19:38:33 +01001335 select ANON_INODES
Peter Zijlstrae360adb2010-10-14 14:01:34 +08001336 select IRQ_WORK
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001337 help
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001338 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1339 by software and hardware.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001340
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001341 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001342 use of generic tracepoints.
1343
1344 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1345 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001346 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1347 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1348 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1349 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1350 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1351
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001352 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001353 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001354 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001355 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1356 capabilities on top of those.
1357
1358 Say Y if unsure.
1359
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001360config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1361 default n
1362 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1363 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1364 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1365 help
1366 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1367
1368 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1369 that don't require it.
1370
1371 Say N if unsure.
1372
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001373endmenu
1374
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001375config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1376 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001377 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001378 help
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001379 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1380 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001381 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001382 if VM event counters are disabled.
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001383
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +02001384config PCI_QUIRKS
1385 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001386 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
Geert Uytterhoeven61cfc7e2008-10-22 08:53:25 +02001387 depends on PCI
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +02001388 help
1389 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1390 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1391 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1392
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001393config SLUB_DEBUG
1394 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001395 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
Christoph Lameterf6acb632008-04-29 16:16:06 -07001396 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001397 help
1398 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1399 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1400 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1401 no support for cache validation etc.
1402
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001403config COMPAT_BRK
1404 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1405 default y
1406 help
1407 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1408 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1409 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001410 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001411 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1412
1413 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1414
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001415choice
1416 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
Christoph Lametera0acd822007-07-17 04:03:32 -07001417 default SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001418 help
1419 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1420
1421config SLAB
1422 bool "SLAB"
1423 help
1424 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -07001425 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001426 per cpu and per node queues.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001427
1428config SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001429 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1430 help
1431 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1432 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1433 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1434 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001435 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1436 a slab allocator.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001437
1438config SLOB
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001439 depends on EXPERT
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001440 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1441 help
Matt Mackall37291452008-02-04 22:29:38 -08001442 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1443 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1444 does not perform as well on large systems.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001445
1446endchoice
1447
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001448config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1449 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001450 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001451 default n
1452 help
1453 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1454 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1455 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1456 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1457 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1458 then the flag will be ignored.
1459
1460 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1461 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1462
1463 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1464 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1465 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1466 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1467
1468 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1469
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001470config PROFILING
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +01001471 bool "Profiling support"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001472 help
1473 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1474 by profilers such as OProfile.
1475
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001476#
1477# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1478# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1479#
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001480config TRACEPOINTS
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001481 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001482
Mathieu Desnoyersfb32e032008-02-02 15:10:33 -05001483source "arch/Kconfig"
1484
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001485endmenu # General setup
1486
Dmitry Baryshkovee7e5512008-06-29 14:18:46 +04001487config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1488 bool
1489 default n
1490
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001491config SLABINFO
1492 bool
1493 depends on PROC_FS
Christoph Lameter0f389ec2008-04-14 18:53:02 +03001494 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001495 default y
1496
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001497config RT_MUTEXES
1498 boolean
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001499
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001500config BASE_SMALL
1501 int
1502 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1503 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1504
Jan Engelhardt66da5732007-07-15 23:39:29 -07001505menuconfig MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001506 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1507 help
1508 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1509 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1510 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1511 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1512 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1513 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1514 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1515 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1516 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1517
1518 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1519 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1520 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1521 this).
1522
1523 If unsure, say Y.
1524
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001525if MODULES
1526
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001527config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1528 bool "Forced module loading"
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001529 default n
1530 help
Rusty Russell91e37a72008-05-09 16:25:28 +10001531 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1532 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1533 is usually a really bad idea.
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001534
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001535config MODULE_UNLOAD
1536 bool "Module unloading"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001537 help
1538 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1539 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
Denys Vlasenkof7f5b672008-07-22 19:24:26 -05001540 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1541 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001542
1543config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1544 bool "Forced module unloading"
1545 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1546 help
1547 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1548 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1549 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1550 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1551 If unsure, say N.
1552
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001553config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +01001554 bool "Module versioning support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001555 help
1556 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1557 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1558 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1559 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1560 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1561 unsure, say N.
1562
1563config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1564 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001565 help
1566 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1567 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1568 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1569 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1570 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1571 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1572 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1573
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01001574config MODULE_SIG
1575 bool "Module signature verification"
1576 depends on MODULES
David Howells48ba2462012-09-26 10:11:03 +01001577 select KEYS
1578 select CRYPTO
1579 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1580 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1581 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1582 select ASN1
1583 select OID_REGISTRY
1584 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01001585 help
1586 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1587 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1588 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1589
David Howellsea0b6dc2012-09-26 10:09:50 +01001590 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1591 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1592 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1593 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1594
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01001595config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1596 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1597 depends on MODULE_SIG
1598 help
1599 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1600 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
David Howellsea0b6dc2012-09-26 10:09:50 +01001601
1602choice
1603 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1604 depends on MODULE_SIG
1605 help
1606 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1607 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1608 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1609 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1610 the signature on that module.
1611
1612config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1613 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1614 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1615
1616config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1617 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1618 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1619
1620config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1621 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1622 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1623
1624config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1625 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1626 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1627
1628config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1629 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1630 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1631
1632endchoice
1633
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001634endif # MODULES
1635
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301636config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1637 bool
1638 help
Rusty Russell5f054e32012-03-29 15:38:31 +10301639 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1640 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301641 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1642 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001643 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301644
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001645config STOP_MACHINE
1646 bool
1647 default y
1648 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1649 help
1650 Need stop_machine() primitive.
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01001651
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01001652source "block/Kconfig"
Avi Kivitye98c3202007-10-16 23:27:31 -07001653
1654config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1655 bool
Paul E. McKenneye260be62008-01-25 21:08:24 +01001656
Steffen Klassert16295be2010-01-06 19:47:10 +11001657config PADATA
1658 depends on SMP
1659 bool
1660
Andi Kleen754b7b62012-10-04 17:11:27 -07001661# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1662# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1663# mappings
1664config BROKEN_RODATA
1665 bool
1666
David Howells4520c6a2012-09-21 23:31:13 +01001667config ASN1
1668 tristate
1669 help
1670 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
1671 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
1672 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
1673 functions to call on what tags.
1674
Thomas Gleixner6beb0002009-11-09 15:21:34 +00001675source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"