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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 IRQ_WORK
24 bool
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26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
27 bool
28
ff0cfc66 29menu "General setup"
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31config BROKEN
32 bool
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33
34config BROKEN_ON_SMP
35 bool
36 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
37 default y
38
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39config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
40 int
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41 default 32 if !UML
42 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 43 help
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44 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
45 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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48config CROSS_COMPILE
49 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
50 help
51 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
52 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
53 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
54 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
55
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56config COMPILE_TEST
57 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
58 default n
59 help
60 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
61 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
62 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
63 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
64 drivers to compile-test them.
65
66 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
67 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
68 drivers to be distributed.
69
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70config LOCALVERSION
71 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
72 help
73 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
74 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
75 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
76 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
77 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
78 be a maximum of 64 characters.
79
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80config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
81 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
82 default y
83 help
84 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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85 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
86 top of tree revision.
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88 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 89 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 90 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 91 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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93 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
94 by running the command:
95
96 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
97
98 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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100config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
101 bool
102
103config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
104 bool
105
106config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
107 bool
108
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109config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
110 bool
111
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112config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
113 bool
114
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115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
116 bool
117
30d65dbf 118choice
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119 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
120 default KERNEL_GZIP
2d3c6275 121 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
2e9f3bdd 122 help
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123 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
124 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
125 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
126 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
127 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
128
129 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
130 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
131 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
132 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
133
134 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
135 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
136 size matters less.
137
138 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
139
140config KERNEL_GZIP
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141 bool "Gzip"
142 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
143 help
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144 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
145 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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146
147config KERNEL_BZIP2
148 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 149 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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150 help
151 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 152 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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153 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
154 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
155 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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156
157config KERNEL_LZMA
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158 bool "LZMA"
159 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
160 help
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161 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
162 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
163 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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165config KERNEL_XZ
166 bool "XZ"
167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
168 help
169 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
170 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
171 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
172 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
173 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
174 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
175
176 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
177 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
178 and LZO. Compression is slow.
179
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180config KERNEL_LZO
181 bool "LZO"
182 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
183 help
0a4dd35c 184 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 185 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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186 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
187
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188config KERNEL_LZ4
189 bool "LZ4"
190 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
191 help
192 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
193 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
194 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
195
196 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
197 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
198 faster than LZO.
199
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200endchoice
201
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202config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
203 string "Default hostname"
204 default "(none)"
205 help
206 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
207 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
208 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
209 system more usable with less configuration.
210
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211config SWAP
212 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 213 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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214 default y
215 help
216 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 217 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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218 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
219 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
220
221config SYSVIPC
222 bool "System V IPC"
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223 ---help---
224 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
225 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
226 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
227 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
228 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
229 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
230 you'll need to say Y here.
231
232 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
233 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
234 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
235
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236config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
237 bool
238 depends on SYSVIPC
239 depends on SYSCTL
240 default y
241
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242config POSIX_MQUEUE
243 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 244 depends on NET
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245 ---help---
246 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
247 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
248 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
249 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 250 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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251
252 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
253 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
254 operations on message queues.
255
256 If unsure, say Y.
257
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258config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
259 bool
260 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
261 depends on SYSCTL
262 default y
263
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264config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
265 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
266 depends on MMU
267 default y
268 help
269 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
270 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 271 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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272 See the man page for more details.
273
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274config FHANDLE
275 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
276 select EXPORTFS
277 help
278 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
279 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
280 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
281 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
282 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
283 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
284 syscalls.
285
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286config USELIB
287 bool "uselib syscall"
288 default y
289 help
290 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
291 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
292 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
293 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
294 running glibc can safely disable this.
295
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296config AUDIT
297 bool "Auditing support"
298 depends on NET
299 help
300 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
301 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
302 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
303 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
304
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305config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
306 bool
307
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308config AUDITSYSCALL
309 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
7a017721 310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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311 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
312 help
313 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
314 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
315 such as SELinux.
316
317config AUDIT_WATCH
318 def_bool y
319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
320 select FSNOTIFY
321
322config AUDIT_TREE
323 def_bool y
324 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
325 select FSNOTIFY
326
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327source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
328source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
329
330menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
331
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332config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
333 bool
334
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335choice
336 prompt "Cputime accounting"
337 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 338 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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340# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
341config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
342 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 343 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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344 help
345 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
346 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
347 granularity.
348
349 If unsure, say Y.
350
abf917cd 351config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 352 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 353 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 354 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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355 help
356 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
357 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
358 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
359 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
360 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
361 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
362 systems.
363
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364config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
365 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 366 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 367 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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368 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
369 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
370 help
371 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
372 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
373 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
374 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
375 overhead.
376
377 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
378 dynticks subsystem development.
379
380 If unsure, say N.
381
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382config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
383 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
c58b0df1 384 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
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385 help
386 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
387 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
388 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
389 small performance impact.
390
391 If in doubt, say N here.
392
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394
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395config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
396 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
397 help
398 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
399 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
400 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
401 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
402 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
403 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
404 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
405 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
406 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
407
408config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
409 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
410 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
411 default n
412 help
413 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
414 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
415 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
416 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
417 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 418 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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c757249a 420config TASKSTATS
19c92399 421 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
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422 depends on NET
423 default n
424 help
425 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
426 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
427 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
428 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
429 space on task exit.
430
431 Say N if unsure.
432
ca74e92b 433config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 434 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 435 depends on TASKSTATS
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436 help
437 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
438 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
439 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
440 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
441
442 Say N if unsure.
443
18f705f4 444config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 445 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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446 depends on TASKSTATS
447 help
448 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
449 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
450
451 Say N if unsure.
452
453config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 454 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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455 depends on TASK_XACCT
456 help
457 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
458 task has caused.
459
460 Say N if unsure.
461
391dc69c 462endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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465
466choice
467 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 468 default TREE_RCU
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470config TREE_RCU
471 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 472 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
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473 help
474 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
475 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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476 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
477 smaller systems.
c903ff83 478
28f6569a 479config PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 480 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
9fc52d83 481 depends on PREEMPT
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482 help
483 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
484 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
485 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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486 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
487 smaller systems.
f41d911f 488
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489 Select this option if you are unsure.
490
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491config TINY_RCU
492 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 493 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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494 help
495 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
496 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
497 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
498 memory footprint of RCU.
499
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501
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502config SRCU
503 bool
504 help
505 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
506 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
507 sections.
508
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509config TASKS_RCU
510 bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch"
511 default n
83fe27ea 512 select SRCU
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513 help
514 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
515 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
516 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
517
518 If unsure, say N.
519
6bfc09e2 520config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 521 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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522 help
523 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
524 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
525 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
526 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
527
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528config CONTEXT_TRACKING
529 bool
530
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532 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
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533 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
534 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
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535 help
536 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
537 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
538 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
539 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
af71befa 540 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
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d677124b 542 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
91d1aa43 543 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
af71befa 544 adds unnecessary overhead.
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546 If unsure say N
547
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548config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
549 bool "Force context tracking"
550 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 551 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 552 help
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553 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
554 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
555 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
556 dynticks working.
557
558 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
559 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
560 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
561 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
562 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
563 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
564 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
565 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
566 CPUs in the system.
567
99c8b1ea 568 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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570
571 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
572 don't want in production.
573
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576 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
577 range 2 64 if 64BIT
578 range 2 32 if !64BIT
28f6569a 579 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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581 default 32 if !64BIT
582 help
583 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
584 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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585 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
586 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
587 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
588 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
589 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
590 code paths on small(er) systems.
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592 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
593 Take the default if unsure.
594
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595config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
596 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
597 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
598 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
28f6569a 599 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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600 default 16
601 help
602 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
603 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
604 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
605 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
606 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
607 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
608 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
609 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
610 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
611 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
612 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
613 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
614 leaf-level fanouts work well.
615
616 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
617
618 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
619
620 Take the default if unsure.
621
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622config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
623 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
28f6569a 624 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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625 default n
626 help
627 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
628 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
629 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
630 strong NUMA behavior.
631
632 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
633
634 Say N if unsure.
635
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636config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
637 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
3451d024 638 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
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639 default n
640 help
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641 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
642 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
643 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
644 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
645 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
646 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
647 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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650 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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652 Say N if you are unsure.
653
c903ff83 654config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 655 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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657 help
f41d911f 658 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 659 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 660 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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662config RCU_BOOST
663 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 664 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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666 help
667 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
668 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
669 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
670 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
671
672 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
673 Say N here if you are unsure.
674
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676 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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678 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
679 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
680 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
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682 This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
683 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
684 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
685 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
686 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
687 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
688 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
689 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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690 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
691
692 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
693 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
694 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 695 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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697 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
698 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
699 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 700 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 701 set to priority 6 or higher.
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703 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
704
705config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
706 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
707 range 0 3000
708 depends on RCU_BOOST
709 default 500
710 help
711 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
712 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
713 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
714 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
715
716 Accept the default if unsure.
717
3fbfbf7a 718config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 719 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 720 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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722 help
723 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
724 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
725 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
726 asymmetric multiprocessors.
727
728 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
729 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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730 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
731 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
732 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
733 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
734 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
735 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
736 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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34ed6246 738 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
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740
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742 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
743 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 744 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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746 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
747 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
748 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
749 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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751config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
752 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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754 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
755 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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757 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
758 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
759
760 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
761 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
762 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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764config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
765 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
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768 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
769 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
770 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
771 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
772 context.
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774 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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776 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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778config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
779 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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781 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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783 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
784 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
785 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
786 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
787 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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789 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
790 or energy-efficiency reasons.
791
792endchoice
793
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795
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796config BUILD_BIN2C
797 bool
798 default n
799
1da177e4 800config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 801 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 802 select BUILD_BIN2C
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804 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
805 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
806 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
807 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
808 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
809 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
810 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
811 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
812
813config IKCONFIG_PROC
814 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
815 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
816 ---help---
817 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
818 through /proc/config.gz.
819
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821 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
822 range 12 21
f17a32e9 823 default 17
361e9dfb 824 depends on PRINTK
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827 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
828 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
829 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
830
f17a32e9 831 Examples:
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835 14 => 16 KB
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837 12 => 4 KB
838
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840 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 841 depends on SMP
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843 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
844 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 845 depends on PRINTK
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847 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
848 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
849 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
850 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
851 e.g. backtraces.
852
853 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
854 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
855 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
856 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
857 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
858 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
859
860 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
861 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
862
863 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
864 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
865 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
866
867 Examples shift values and their meaning:
868 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
869 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
870 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
871 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
872 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
873 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
874
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876# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
877#
878config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
879 bool
880
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882 bool
883
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885# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
886# balancing logic:
887#
888config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
889 bool
890
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892# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
893#
894config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
895 bool
896
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898# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
899#
900config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
901 bool
902
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904 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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906 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
907 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
908 help
909 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
910 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 911 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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913 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
914
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916 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
917 default y
918 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
919 help
920 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
921 machine.
922
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924 boolean "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 925 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 926 help
23964d2d 927 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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929 controls or device isolation.
930 See
5cdc38f9 931 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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932 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
933 and resource control)
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935 Say N if unsure.
936
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938
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940 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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942 help
943 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
944 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 945 framework.
5cdc38f9 946
23964d2d 947 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 948
5cdc38f9 949config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 950 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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951 help
952 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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954
955config CGROUP_DEVICE
956 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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958 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
959 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
960
961config CPUSETS
962 bool "Cpuset support"
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964 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
965 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
966 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
967 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
968
969 Say N if unsure.
970
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972 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
973 depends on CPUSETS
974 default y
975
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977 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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978 help
979 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 980 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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983 bool
984
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00f0b825 986 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
3e32cb2e 987 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 988 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 989 help
84ad6d70 990 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 991 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
00f0b825 992
c255a458 993config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 994 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 995 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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997 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
998 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
999 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
1000 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
1001 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
1002 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
1003 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
1004 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
1005 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1006 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 1007 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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1009 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 1010config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 1011 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 1012 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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1014 help
1015 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1016 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 1017 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 1018 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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1020 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1021 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 1022 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 1023config MEMCG_KMEM
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1024 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
1025 depends on MEMCG
510fc4e1 1026 depends on SLUB || SLAB
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1028 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1029 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1030 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1031 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1032 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1033 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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1036 allocation attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there
1037 are plenty of kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option
1038 unusable in real life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development
1039 purposes.
1040
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1042 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
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1044 select PAGE_COUNTER
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1046 help
1047 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
1048 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1049 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1050 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1051 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1052 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1053 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1054 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1055 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1056
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1058 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1059 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1060 help
1061 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 1062 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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1064
1065 Say N if unsure.
1066
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1068 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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1069 default n
1070 help
1071 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1072 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1073 tasks.
1074
1075if CGROUP_SCHED
1076config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1077 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1078 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1079 default CGROUP_SCHED
1080
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1082 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1083 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1084 default n
1085 help
1086 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1087 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1088 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1089 restriction.
1090 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1091
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1093 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1095 default n
1096 help
1097 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1098 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1100 realtime bandwidth for them.
1101 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1102
1103endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1104
afc24d49 1105config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 1106 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 1107 depends on BLOCK
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1109 ---help---
1110 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1111 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1112 policies.
1113
1114 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1115 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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1117 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1119 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
e43473b7 1120 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
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1122 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 1123 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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1125 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1126
1127config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1128 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1129 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1130 default n
1131 ---help---
1132 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1133 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1134
23964d2d 1135endif # CGROUPS
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1138 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1139 default n
1140 help
1141 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1142 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1143 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1144 entries.
1145
1146 If unsure, say N here.
1147
8dd2a82c 1148menuconfig NAMESPACES
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1150 default !EXPERT
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1152 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1153 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1154 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1155 different namespaces.
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1160 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1161 default y
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1163 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1164 uname() system call
1165
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1167 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1168 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1169 default y
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1171 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1172 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1173
aee16ce7 1174config USER_NS
19c92399 1175 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1176 default n
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1178 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1179 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1181 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1182 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1183 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1184 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1185 use.
1186
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1188
74bd59bb 1189config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1190 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1191 default y
74bd59bb 1192 help
12d2b8f9 1193 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1194 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1196
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1198 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1199 depends on NET
17a6d441 1200 default y
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1202 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1203 of the network stack.
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1208 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1210 select CGROUP_SCHED
1211 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1212 help
1213 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1214 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1215 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1216 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1217 upon task session.
1218
7af37bec 1219config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1220 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1222 default n
1223 help
1224 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1225 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1226 /sys/block/.
1227
1228 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1229 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1230
1231 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1232 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1233 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1234
1235 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1236 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1237 option enabled.
1238
1239 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1240 need to say Y here.
1241
1242config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1243 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1245 depends on SYSFS
1246 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1247 help
1248 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1249
1250 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1251 option.
1252
1253 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1254 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1255 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1256
1257config RELAY
1258 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1259 help
1260 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1261 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1262 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1263 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1264 user space.
1265
1266 If unsure, say N.
1267
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1268config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1269 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1270 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1271 help
1272 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1273 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1274 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1275 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1276 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1277
1278 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1279 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1280 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1281
1282 If unsure say Y.
1283
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1284if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1285
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1287
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1288endif
1289
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1290config INIT_FALLBACK
1291 bool "Fall back to defaults if init= parameter is bad"
1292 default y
1293 help
1294 If enabled, the kernel will try the default init binaries if an
1295 explicit request from the init= parameter fails.
1296
1297 This can have unexpected effects. For example, booting
1298 with init=/sbin/kiosk_app will run /sbin/init or even /bin/sh
1299 if /sbin/kiosk_app cannot be executed.
1300
1301 The default value of Y is consistent with historical behavior.
1302 Selecting N is likely to be more appropriate for most uses,
1303 especially on kiosks and on kernels that are intended to be
1304 run under the control of a script.
1305
c45b4f1f 1306config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1307 bool "Optimize for size"
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1308 help
1309 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1310 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1311
3a55fb0d 1312 If unsure, say N.
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1314config SYSCTL
1315 bool
1316
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1317config ANON_INODES
1318 bool
1319
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1320config HAVE_UID16
1321 bool
1322
1323config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1324 bool
1325 help
1326 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1327
1328config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1329 bool
1330 help
1331 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1332 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1333 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1334
1335config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1336 bool
1337 help
1338 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1339 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1340 the unaligned access emulation.
1341 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1342
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1343config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1344 bool
1345
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1346# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1347config BPF
1348 bool
1349
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1350menuconfig EXPERT
1351 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1352 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1353 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1354 help
1355 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1356 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1357 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1358 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1359
ae81f9e3 1360config UID16
6a108a14 1361 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
af1839eb 1362 depends on HAVE_UID16
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1363 default y
1364 help
1365 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1366
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1367config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1368 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1369 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1370 ---help---
1371 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1372 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1373 architectures.
1374
1375 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1376
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1377config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1378 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1379 default y
1380 ---help---
1381 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1382 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1383 compatibility with some systems.
1384
1385 If unsure say Y here.
1386
b89a8171 1387config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1388 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1389 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1390 default n
b89a8171 1391 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1392 ---help---
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1393 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1394 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1395 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1396 information.
b89a8171 1397
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1398 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1399 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1400 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1401
c736de60 1402 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1403
1da177e4 1404config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1405 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1406 default y
1407 help
1408 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1409 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1410 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1411
1412config KALLSYMS_ALL
1413 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1414 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1415 help
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1417 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1418 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1419 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1420 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1421
1422 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1423 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1424 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1425 something like this).
1426
1427 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1429config PRINTK
1430 default y
6a108a14 1431 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1432 select IRQ_WORK
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1433 help
1434 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1435 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1436 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1437 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1438 strongly discouraged.
1439
c8538a7a 1440config BUG
6a108a14 1441 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1442 default y
1443 help
1444 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1445 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1446 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1447 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1448 Just say Y.
1449
708e9a79 1450config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1451 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1452 default y
6a108a14 1453 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1454 help
1455 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1456
8761f1ab 1457
e5e1d3cb 1458config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1459 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1460 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1461 select I8253_LOCK
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1462 default y
1463 help
1464 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1465 support, saving some memory.
1466
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1467config BASE_FULL
1468 default y
6a108a14 1469 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1470 help
1471 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1472 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1473 but may reduce performance.
1474
1475config FUTEX
6a108a14 1476 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1477 default y
23f78d4a 1478 select RT_MUTEXES
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1479 help
1480 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1481 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1482 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1483
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1484config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1485 bool
62b4d204 1486 depends on FUTEX
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1487 help
1488 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1489 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1490 checks.
1491
1da177e4 1492config EPOLL
6a108a14 1493 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1494 default y
448e3cee 1495 select ANON_INODES
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1496 help
1497 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1498 support for epoll family of system calls.
1499
fba2afaa 1500config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1501 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1502 select ANON_INODES
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1503 default y
1504 help
1505 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1506 on a file descriptor.
1507
1508 If unsure, say Y.
1509
b215e283 1510config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1511 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1512 select ANON_INODES
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1513 default y
1514 help
1515 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1516 events on a file descriptor.
1517
1518 If unsure, say Y.
1519
e1ad7468 1520config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1521 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1522 select ANON_INODES
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1523 default y
1524 help
1525 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1526 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1527
1528 If unsure, say Y.
1529
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1531config BPF_SYSCALL
1532 bool "Enable bpf() system call" if EXPERT
1533 select ANON_INODES
1534 select BPF
1535 default n
1536 help
1537 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1538 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1539
1da177e4 1540config SHMEM
6a108a14 1541 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1542 default y
1543 depends on MMU
1544 help
1545 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1546 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1547 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1548 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1549 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1550
ebf3f09c 1551config AIO
6a108a14 1552 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1553 default y
1554 help
1555 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1556 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1557 this option saves about 7k.
1558
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1559config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1560 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1561 default y
1562 help
1563 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1564 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1565 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1566 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1567 space.
1568
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1569config PCI_QUIRKS
1570 default y
1571 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1572 depends on PCI
1573 help
1574 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1575 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1576 unaffected by PCI quirks.
ebf3f09c 1577
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1578config EMBEDDED
1579 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1580 option allnoconfig_y
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1581 select EXPERT
1582 help
1583 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1584 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1585 for configuration.
1586
cdd6c482 1587config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1588 bool
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1589 help
1590 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1591
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1592config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1593 bool
1594 help
1595 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1596
57c0c15b 1597menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1598
cdd6c482 1599config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1600 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1601 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1602 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1603 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1604 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1605 select SRCU
0793a61d 1606 help
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1607 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1608 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1609
dd77038d 1610 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1611 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1612
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1613 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1614 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1615 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1616 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1617 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1618 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1619 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1620
57c0c15b 1621 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1622 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1623 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1624 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1625 capabilities on top of those.
1626
1627 Say Y if unsure.
1628
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1629config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1630 default n
1631 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1632 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1633 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1634 help
1635 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1636
1637 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1638 that don't require it.
1639
1640 Say N if unsure.
1641
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1643
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1644config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1645 default y
6a108a14 1646 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1647 help
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1648 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1649 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1650 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1651 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1652
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1653config SLUB_DEBUG
1654 default y
6a108a14 1655 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1656 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1657 help
1658 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1659 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1660 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1661 no support for cache validation etc.
1662
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1663config COMPAT_BRK
1664 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1665 default y
1666 help
1667 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1668 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1669 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1670 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1671 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1672
1673 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1674
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1675choice
1676 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1677 default SLUB
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1678 help
1679 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1680
1681config SLAB
1682 bool "SLAB"
1683 help
1684 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1685 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1686 per cpu and per node queues.
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1688config SLUB
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1689 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1690 help
1691 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1692 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1693 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1694 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1695 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1696 a slab allocator.
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1698config SLOB
6a108a14 1699 depends on EXPERT
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1700 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1701 help
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1702 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1703 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1704 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1706endchoice
1707
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1708config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1709 default y
b39ffbf8 1710 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1711 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1712 help
1713 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1714 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1715 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1716 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1717 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1718
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1719config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1720 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1721 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1722 default n
1723 help
1724 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1725 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1726 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1727 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1728 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1729 then the flag will be ignored.
1730
1731 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1732 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1733
1734 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1735 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1736 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1737 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1738
1739 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1740
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1741config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1742 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
1743 depends on KEYS
1744 help
1745 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in
1746 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will
1747 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
1748 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
1749 keys already in the keyring.
1750
1751 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
1752
125e5645 1753config PROFILING
b309a294 1754 bool "Profiling support"
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1755 help
1756 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1757 by profilers such as OProfile.
1758
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1760# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1761# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1762#
97e1c18e 1763config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1764 bool
97e1c18e 1765
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1767
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1769
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1770config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1771 bool
1772 default n
1773
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1774config SLABINFO
1775 bool
1776 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1777 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1778 default y
1779
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1780config RT_MUTEXES
1781 boolean
ae81f9e3 1782
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1783config BASE_SMALL
1784 int
1785 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1786 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1787
66da5733 1788menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1789 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1790 option modules
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1791 help
1792 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1793 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1794 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1795 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1796 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1797 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1798 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1799 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1800 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1801
1802 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1803 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1804 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1805 this).
1806
1807 If unsure, say Y.
1808
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1809if MODULES
1810
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1811config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1812 bool "Forced module loading"
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1813 default n
1814 help
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1815 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1816 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1817 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1818
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1819config MODULE_UNLOAD
1820 bool "Module unloading"
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1821 help
1822 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1823 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1825 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1826
1827config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1828 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1829 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1830 help
1831 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1832 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1833 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1834 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1835 If unsure, say N.
1836
1da177e4 1837config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1838 bool "Module versioning support"
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1839 help
1840 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1841 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1842 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1843 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1844 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1845 unsure, say N.
1846
1847config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1848 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1849 help
1850 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1851 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1852 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1853 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1854 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1855 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1856 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1857
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1858config MODULE_SIG
1859 bool "Module signature verification"
1860 depends on MODULES
b56e5a17 1861 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
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1862 select KEYS
1863 select CRYPTO
1864 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1865 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1866 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1867 select ASN1
1868 select OID_REGISTRY
1869 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1870 help
1871 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1872 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1873 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1874
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1875 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1876 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1877 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1878 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1879
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1880config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1881 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1882 depends on MODULE_SIG
1883 help
1884 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1885 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1887config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1888 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1889 default y
1890 depends on MODULE_SIG
1891 help
1892 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1893 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1894
1895comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1896 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1897
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1898choice
1899 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1900 depends on MODULE_SIG
1901 help
1902 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1903 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1904 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1905 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1906 the signature on that module.
1907
1908config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1909 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1910 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1911
1912config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1913 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1914 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1915
1916config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1917 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1918 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1919
1920config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1921 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1922 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1923
1924config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1925 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1926 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1927
1928endchoice
1929
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1930config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1931 string
1932 depends on MODULE_SIG
1933 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1934 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1935 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1936 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1937 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1938
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1939config MODULE_COMPRESS
1940 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1941 depends on MODULES
1942 help
1943 This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make
1944 modules_install' is run.
1945
1946 The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the
1947 choice made in "Compression algorithm".
1948
1949 module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip
1950 and xz compressed modules.
1951
1952 When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel
1953 source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that
1954 kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed.
1955
1956 This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside
1957 an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole
1958 initrd or initramfs instead.
1959
1960 This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
1961 compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to
1962 other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
1963
1964choice
1965 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1966 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1967 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1968 help
1969 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1970 'make modules_install'.
1971
1972 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1973
1974config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1975 bool "GZIP"
1976
1977config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1978 bool "XZ"
1979
1980endchoice
1981
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1982endif # MODULES
1983
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1984config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1985 bool
1986 help
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1987 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1988 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1989 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1990 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1991 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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1993config STOP_MACHINE
1994 bool
1995 default y
1996 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1997 help
1998 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 2000source "block/Kconfig"
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2002config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2003 bool
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2005config PADATA
2006 depends on SMP
2007 bool
2008
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2009# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2010# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2011# mappings
2012config BROKEN_RODATA
2013 bool
2014
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2015config ASN1
2016 tristate
2017 help
2018 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2019 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2020 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2021 functions to call on what tags.
2022
6beb0009 2023source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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