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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 Oberparleiterb99b87f2009-06-17 16:28:03 -070019config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
Peter Oberparleiterb99b87f2009-06-17 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
Andy Lutomirskic65eacb2016-09-13 14:29:24 -070029config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
30 bool
31 help
32 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
33 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
34 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
35
Andy Lutomirskic6c314a2016-09-15 22:45:43 -070036 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
37 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
38
Al Boldiff0cfc62007-07-31 00:39:23 -070039menu "General setup"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070040
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070041config BROKEN
42 bool
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070043
44config BROKEN_ON_SMP
45 bool
46 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
47 default y
48
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070049config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
50 int
Adrian Bunkdd673bc2006-06-30 01:55:51 -070051 default 32 if !UML
52 default 128 if UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070053 help
Randy Dunlap34ad92c2005-10-30 15:01:46 -080054 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
55 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070056
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070057
Roland McGrath84336462009-12-21 16:24:06 -080058config CROSS_COMPILE
59 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
60 help
61 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
62 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
63 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
64 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
65
Jiri Slaby4bb16672013-05-22 10:56:24 +020066config COMPILE_TEST
67 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
Richard Weinbergerbc083a62016-08-02 14:03:27 -070068 depends on !UML
Jiri Slaby4bb16672013-05-22 10:56:24 +020069 default n
70 help
71 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
72 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
73 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
74 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
75 drivers to compile-test them.
76
77 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
78 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
79 drivers to be distributed.
80
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070081config LOCALVERSION
82 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
83 help
84 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
85 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
86 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
87 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
88 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
89 be a maximum of 64 characters.
90
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040091config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
92 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
93 default y
Alexey Dobriyanac3339b2016-08-02 14:07:21 -070094 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040095 help
96 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020097 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
98 top of tree revision.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040099
100 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200101 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400102 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200103 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400104
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200105 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
106 by running the command:
107
108 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
109
110 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400111
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800112config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
113 bool
114
115config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
116 bool
117
118config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
119 bool
120
Lasse Collin3ebe1242011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800121config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
122 bool
123
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
125 bool
126
Kyungsik Leee76e1fd2013-07-08 16:01:46 -0700127config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
128 bool
129
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100130choice
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800131 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
132 default KERNEL_GZIP
H. Peter Anvin2d3c6272013-11-14 21:43:47 -0800133 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800134 help
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100135 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
136 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
137 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
138 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
139 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
140
141 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
142 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
143 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
144 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
145
146 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
147 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
148 size matters less.
149
150 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
151
152config KERNEL_GZIP
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800153 bool "Gzip"
154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
155 help
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800156 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
157 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100158
159config KERNEL_BZIP2
160 bool "Bzip2"
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800161 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100162 help
163 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
Randy Dunlap0a4dd352012-05-31 16:26:46 -0700164 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800165 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
166 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
167 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100168
169config KERNEL_LZMA
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800170 bool "LZMA"
171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
172 help
Randy Dunlap0a4dd352012-05-31 16:26:46 -0700173 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
174 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
175 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100176
Lasse Collin3ebe1242011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800177config KERNEL_XZ
178 bool "XZ"
179 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
180 help
181 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
182 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
183 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
184 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
185 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
186 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
187
188 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
189 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
190 and LZO. Compression is slow.
191
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800192config KERNEL_LZO
193 bool "LZO"
194 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
195 help
Randy Dunlap0a4dd352012-05-31 16:26:46 -0700196 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
Stephan Sperber681b3042010-07-14 11:23:08 +0200197 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800198 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
199
Kyungsik Leee76e1fd2013-07-08 16:01:46 -0700200config KERNEL_LZ4
201 bool "LZ4"
202 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
203 help
204 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
205 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
206 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
207
208 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
209 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
210 faster than LZO.
211
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100212endchoice
213
Josh Triplettbd5dc172011-06-15 15:08:28 -0700214config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
215 string "Default hostname"
216 default "(none)"
217 help
218 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
219 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
220 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
221 system more usable with less configuration.
222
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700223config SWAP
224 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200225 depends on MMU && BLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700226 default y
227 help
228 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
Jesper Juhl92c35042006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100229 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700230 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
231 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
232
233config SYSVIPC
234 bool "System V IPC"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700235 ---help---
236 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
237 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
238 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
239 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
240 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
241 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
242 you'll need to say Y here.
243
244 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
245 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
246 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
247
Eric W. Biedermana5494dc2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800248config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
249 bool
250 depends on SYSVIPC
251 depends on SYSCTL
252 default y
253
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700254config POSIX_MQUEUE
255 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
Kees Cook19c92392012-10-02 11:19:29 -0700256 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700257 ---help---
258 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
259 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
260 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
261 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
Robert P. J. Dayb0e37652007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200262 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700263
264 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
265 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
266 operations on message queues.
267
268 If unsure, say Y.
269
Serge E. Hallynbdc8e5f2009-04-06 19:01:11 -0700270config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
271 bool
272 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
273 depends on SYSCTL
274 default y
275
Konstantin Khlebnikov226b4cc2014-06-04 16:10:50 -0700276config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
277 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
278 depends on MMU
279 default y
280 help
281 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
282 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
Geert Uytterhoevena2a368d2014-08-12 13:46:11 -0700283 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
Konstantin Khlebnikov226b4cc2014-06-04 16:10:50 -0700284 See the man page for more details.
285
Aneesh Kumar K.V990d6c22011-01-29 18:43:26 +0530286config FHANDLE
Andi Kleenf76be612016-04-01 14:31:40 -0700287 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
Aneesh Kumar K.V990d6c22011-01-29 18:43:26 +0530288 select EXPORTFS
Andi Kleenf76be612016-04-01 14:31:40 -0700289 default y
Aneesh Kumar K.V990d6c22011-01-29 18:43:26 +0530290 help
291 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
292 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
293 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
294 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
295 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
296 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
297 syscalls.
298
Josh Triplett69369a72014-04-03 14:48:27 -0700299config USELIB
300 bool "uselib syscall"
Riku Voipiob2113a42016-01-15 16:58:13 -0800301 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
Josh Triplett69369a72014-04-03 14:48:27 -0700302 help
303 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
304 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
305 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
306 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
307 running glibc can safely disable this.
308
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700309config AUDIT
310 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a492005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100311 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700312 help
313 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
314 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
Paul Moorecb74ed22016-01-13 09:18:55 -0500315 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
316 on architectures which support it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700317
AKASHI Takahiro7a017722014-02-25 18:16:24 +0900318config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
319 bool
320
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700321config AUDITSYSCALL
Paul Moorecb74ed22016-01-13 09:18:55 -0500322 def_bool y
AKASHI Takahiro7a017722014-02-25 18:16:24 +0900323 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700324
Eric Paris939a67f2009-12-17 20:12:06 -0500325config AUDIT_WATCH
326 def_bool y
327 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
328 select FSNOTIFY
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700329
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400330config AUDIT_TREE
331 def_bool y
Eric Paris63c882a2009-05-21 17:02:01 -0400332 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
Eric Paris28a3a7e2009-12-17 20:12:05 -0500333 select FSNOTIFY
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400334
Thomas Gleixnerd9817eb2010-09-27 12:45:59 +0000335source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
Thomas Gleixner764e0da2012-05-21 23:16:18 +0200336source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
Thomas Gleixnerd9817eb2010-09-27 12:45:59 +0000337
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200338menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
339
Frederic Weisbeckerabf917c2012-07-25 07:56:04 +0200340config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
341 bool
342
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200343choice
344 prompt "Cputime accounting"
345 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
Stephen Rothwell02fc8d32013-02-08 14:19:38 +1100346 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200347
348# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
349config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
350 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
Frederic Weisbeckerc58b0df2013-04-26 15:16:31 +0200351 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200352 help
353 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
354 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
355 granularity.
356
357 If unsure, say Y.
358
Frederic Weisbeckerabf917c2012-07-25 07:56:04 +0200359config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200360 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
Frederic Weisbeckerc58b0df2013-04-26 15:16:31 +0200361 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
Frederic Weisbeckerabf917c2012-07-25 07:56:04 +0200362 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200363 help
364 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
365 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
366 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
367 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
368 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
369 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
370 systems.
371
Frederic Weisbeckerabf917c2012-07-25 07:56:04 +0200372config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
373 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
Kevin Hilmanff3fb252013-09-16 15:28:19 -0700374 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
Kevin Hilman554b0002013-09-16 15:28:21 -0700375 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
Frederic Weisbeckerabf917c2012-07-25 07:56:04 +0200376 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
377 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
378 help
379 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
380 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
381 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
382 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
383 overhead.
384
385 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
386 dynticks subsystem development.
387
388 If unsure, say N.
389
Rik van Rielb58c3582016-07-13 16:50:02 +0200390endchoice
391
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200392config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
393 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
Rik van Rielb58c3582016-07-13 16:50:02 +0200394 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200395 help
396 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
397 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
398 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
399 small performance impact.
400
401 If in doubt, say N here.
402
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200403config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
404 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
Iulia Manda28138932015-04-15 16:16:41 -0700405 depends on MULTIUSER
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200406 help
407 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
408 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
409 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
410 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
411 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
412 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
413 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
414 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
415 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
416
417config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
418 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
419 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
420 default n
421 help
422 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
423 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
424 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
425 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
426 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
427 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
428
429config TASKSTATS
Kees Cook19c92392012-10-02 11:19:29 -0700430 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200431 depends on NET
Iulia Manda28138932015-04-15 16:16:41 -0700432 depends on MULTIUSER
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200433 default n
434 help
435 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
436 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
437 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
438 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
439 space on task exit.
440
441 Say N if unsure.
442
443config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
Kees Cook19c92392012-10-02 11:19:29 -0700444 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200445 depends on TASKSTATS
Naveen N. Raof6db8342015-06-25 23:53:37 +0530446 select SCHED_INFO
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200447 help
448 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
449 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
450 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
451 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
452
453 Say N if unsure.
454
455config TASK_XACCT
Kees Cook19c92392012-10-02 11:19:29 -0700456 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200457 depends on TASKSTATS
458 help
459 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
460 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
461
462 Say N if unsure.
463
464config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
Kees Cook19c92392012-10-02 11:19:29 -0700465 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200466 depends on TASK_XACCT
467 help
468 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
469 task has caused.
470
471 Say N if unsure.
472
473endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
474
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800475menu "RCU Subsystem"
476
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800477config TREE_RCU
Pranith Kumare72aeaf2015-04-21 17:29:42 -0400478 bool
479 default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800480 help
481 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
482 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
Paul E. McKenneyc17ef452009-06-23 17:12:47 -0700483 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
484 smaller systems.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800485
Pranith Kumar28f65692014-09-22 14:00:48 -0400486config PREEMPT_RCU
Pranith Kumare72aeaf2015-04-21 17:29:42 -0400487 bool
488 default y if PREEMPT
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700489 help
490 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
491 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
492 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
Paul E. McKenneybbe3eae2009-09-13 09:15:08 -0700493 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
494 smaller systems.
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700495
Paul E. McKenney9fc52d82013-01-08 15:48:33 -0800496 Select this option if you are unsure.
497
Paul E. McKenney9b1d82f2009-10-25 19:03:50 -0700498config TINY_RCU
Pranith Kumare72aeaf2015-04-21 17:29:42 -0400499 bool
500 default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
Paul E. McKenney9b1d82f2009-10-25 19:03:50 -0700501 help
502 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
503 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
504 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
505 memory footprint of RCU.
506
Paul E. McKenney78cae102015-04-20 12:19:45 -0700507config RCU_EXPERT
508 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
509 default n
510 help
511 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
512 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
513 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
514 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
515 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
516 obscure RCU options to be set up.
517
518 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
519
520 Say N if you are unsure.
521
Pranith Kumar83fe27e2014-12-05 11:24:45 -0500522config SRCU
523 bool
524 help
525 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
526 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
527 sections.
528
Paul E. McKenney8315f422014-06-27 13:42:20 -0700529config TASKS_RCU
Paul E. McKenney82d0f4c2015-04-20 05:42:50 -0700530 bool
Paul E. McKenney8315f422014-06-27 13:42:20 -0700531 default n
Paul E. McKenney570dd3c2016-06-15 08:56:53 -0700532 depends on !UML
Pranith Kumar83fe27e2014-12-05 11:24:45 -0500533 select SRCU
Paul E. McKenney8315f422014-06-27 13:42:20 -0700534 help
535 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
536 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
537 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
538
Paul E. McKenney6bfc09e2012-10-19 12:49:17 -0700539config RCU_STALL_COMMON
Pranith Kumar28f65692014-09-22 14:00:48 -0400540 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
Paul E. McKenney6bfc09e2012-10-19 12:49:17 -0700541 help
542 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
543 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
544 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
545 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
546
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100547config CONTEXT_TRACKING
548 bool
549
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100550config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
551 bool "Force context tracking"
552 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
Frederic Weisbeckerd84d27a2013-07-24 21:59:29 +0200553 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
Frederic Weisbecker1fd2b442012-07-11 20:26:40 +0200554 help
Frederic Weisbeckerd84d27a2013-07-24 21:59:29 +0200555 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
556 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
557 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
558 dynticks working.
559
560 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
561 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
562 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
563 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
564 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
565 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
566 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
567 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
568 CPUs in the system.
569
Paul Gortmaker99c8b1e2013-10-24 10:07:47 -0400570 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
Frederic Weisbeckerd84d27a2013-07-24 21:59:29 +0200571 architecture backend for the context tracking.
572
573 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
574 don't want in production.
575
Frederic Weisbeckerd6771242012-10-11 01:48:28 +0200576
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800577config RCU_FANOUT
578 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
579 range 2 64 if 64BIT
580 range 2 32 if !64BIT
Paul E. McKenney05c5df32015-04-20 14:27:43 -0700581 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800582 default 64 if 64BIT
583 default 32 if !64BIT
584 help
585 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
586 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
Paul E. McKenney4d87ffa2010-08-04 17:31:12 -0700587 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
588 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
589 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
590 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
591 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
592 code paths on small(er) systems.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800593
594 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
595 Take the default if unsure.
596
Paul E. McKenney8932a632012-04-19 12:20:14 -0700597config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
598 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
Paul E. McKenney8739c5c2015-04-20 18:27:54 -0700599 range 2 64 if 64BIT
600 range 2 32 if !64BIT
Paul E. McKenney47d631a2015-04-21 09:12:13 -0700601 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
Paul E. McKenney8932a632012-04-19 12:20:14 -0700602 default 16
603 help
604 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
605 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
606 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
607 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
608 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
609 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
610 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
611 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
612 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
613 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
614 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
615 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
616 leaf-level fanouts work well.
617
618 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
619
620 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
621
622 Take the default if unsure.
623
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800624config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
625 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
Paul E. McKenney78cae102015-04-20 12:19:45 -0700626 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800627 default n
628 help
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -0800629 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
630 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
631 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
632 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
633 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
634 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
635 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800636
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -0800637 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
638 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800639
640 Say N if you are unsure.
641
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800642config TREE_RCU_TRACE
Pranith Kumar28f65692014-09-22 14:00:48 -0400643 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800644 select DEBUG_FS
645 help
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700646 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
Pranith Kumar28f65692014-09-22 14:00:48 -0400647 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700648 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800649
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700650config RCU_BOOST
651 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
Paul E. McKenney78cae102015-04-20 12:19:45 -0700652 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700653 default n
654 help
655 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
656 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
657 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
658 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
659
660 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
661 Say N here if you are unsure.
662
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -0500663config RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
664 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
Paul E. McKenneya94844b2014-12-12 07:37:48 -0800665 range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST
666 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
667 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
668 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
Paul E. McKenney26730f52015-04-21 09:22:14 -0700669 depends on RCU_EXPERT
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700670 help
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -0500671 This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
672 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
673 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
674 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
675 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
676 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
677 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
678 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
Paul E. McKenneyc9336642012-04-18 16:20:18 -0700679 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
680
681 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
682 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
683 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -0500684 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
Paul E. McKenneyc9336642012-04-18 16:20:18 -0700685 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
686 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
687 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
688 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -0500689 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
Paul E. McKenneyc9336642012-04-18 16:20:18 -0700690 set to priority 6 or higher.
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700691
692 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
693
694config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
695 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
696 range 0 3000
697 depends on RCU_BOOST
698 default 500
699 help
700 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
701 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
702 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
703 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
704
705 Accept the default if unsure.
706
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -0700707config RCU_NOCB_CPU
Paul E. McKenney9a5739d2013-03-28 20:48:36 -0700708 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
Pranith Kumar28f65692014-09-22 14:00:48 -0400709 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenneybe55fa22015-06-02 05:29:18 -0700710 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -0700711 default n
712 help
713 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
714 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
715 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
716 asymmetric multiprocessors.
717
718 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
719 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -0800720 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
721 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
722 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
723 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
724 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
725 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
726 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -0700727
Paul E. McKenney34ed62462013-01-07 13:37:42 -0800728 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -0700729 Say N here if you are unsure.
730
Paul E. McKenney911af502013-02-11 10:23:27 -0800731choice
732 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
733 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
Stefan Hengelein45687792014-09-02 19:55:11 +0200734 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
Paul E. McKenney911af502013-02-11 10:23:27 -0800735 help
Paul E. McKenney676c3dc2013-04-30 14:49:42 -0700736 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
737 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
738 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
739 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
Paul E. McKenney911af502013-02-11 10:23:27 -0800740
741config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
742 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
Paul E. McKenney911af502013-02-11 10:23:27 -0800743 help
744 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
745 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
Paul E. McKenney676c3dc2013-04-30 14:49:42 -0700746 no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
747 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
748 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
749
750 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
751 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
752 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
Paul E. McKenney911af502013-02-11 10:23:27 -0800753
754config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
755 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
Paul E. McKenney911af502013-02-11 10:23:27 -0800756 help
Paul E. McKenney676c3dc2013-04-30 14:49:42 -0700757 This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
758 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
759 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
760 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
761 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
762 context.
Paul E. McKenney911af502013-02-11 10:23:27 -0800763
764 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
Paul E. McKenney676c3dc2013-04-30 14:49:42 -0700765 or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
766 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
Paul E. McKenney911af502013-02-11 10:23:27 -0800767
768config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
769 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
Paul E. McKenney911af502013-02-11 10:23:27 -0800770 help
771 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
Paul E. McKenney676c3dc2013-04-30 14:49:42 -0700772 boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
773 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
774 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
775 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
776 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
777 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
Paul E. McKenney911af502013-02-11 10:23:27 -0800778
779 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
780 or energy-efficiency reasons.
781
782endchoice
783
Paul E. McKenneyee425712015-02-19 10:51:32 -0800784config RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT
785 bool
786 default n
787 help
788 This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
789 as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
790 The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
791 rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
792 at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
793 init is exec'ed.
794
795 Accept the default if unsure.
796
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800797endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
798
Vivek Goyalde5b56b2014-08-08 14:25:41 -0700799config BUILD_BIN2C
800 bool
801 default n
802
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700803config IKCONFIG
Ross Birof2443ab2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700804 tristate "Kernel .config support"
Vivek Goyalde5b56b2014-08-08 14:25:41 -0700805 select BUILD_BIN2C
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700806 ---help---
807 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
808 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
809 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
810 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
811 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
812 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
813 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
814 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
815
816config IKCONFIG_PROC
817 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
818 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
819 ---help---
820 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
821 through /proc/config.gz.
822
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700823config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
824 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
Ingo Molnarfb39f982015-07-01 10:19:11 +0200825 range 12 25
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700826 default 17
Josh Triplett361e9df2014-10-03 16:00:54 -0700827 depends on PRINTK
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700828 help
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -0700829 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
830 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
831 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
832 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
833
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700834 Examples:
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -0700835 17 => 128 KB
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700836 16 => 64 KB
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -0700837 15 => 32 KB
838 14 => 16 KB
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700839 13 => 8 KB
840 12 => 4 KB
841
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -0700842config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
843 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
Geert Uytterhoeven2240a312014-10-13 15:51:11 -0700844 depends on SMP
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -0700845 range 0 21
846 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
847 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
Josh Triplett361e9df2014-10-03 16:00:54 -0700848 depends on PRINTK
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -0700849 help
850 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
851 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
852 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
853 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
854 e.g. backtraces.
855
856 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
857 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
858 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
859 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
860 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
861 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
862
863 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
864 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
865
866 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
Geert Uytterhoeven5e0d8d52016-06-05 10:47:02 +0200867 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
868 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -0700869
870 Examples shift values and their meaning:
871 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
872 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
873 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
874 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
875 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
876 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
877
Petr Mladek427934b2016-05-20 17:00:39 -0700878config NMI_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
879 int "Temporary per-CPU NMI log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
880 range 10 21
881 default 13
882 depends on PRINTK_NMI
883 help
884 Select the size of a per-CPU buffer where NMI messages are temporary
885 stored. They are copied to the main log buffer in a safe context
886 to avoid a deadlock. The value defines the size as a power of 2.
887
888 NMI messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
889 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
890 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
891
892 Examples:
893 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
894 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
895 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
896 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
897 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
898 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
899
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800900#
901# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
902#
903config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
904 bool
905
Stephen Boyd38ff87f2013-06-01 23:39:40 -0700906config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
907 bool
908
Andrea Arcangelibe3a7282012-10-04 01:50:47 +0200909#
910# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
911# balancing logic:
912#
913config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
914 bool
915
Peter Zijlstrabe5e6102013-11-18 18:27:06 +0100916#
Mel Gorman72b252a2015-09-04 15:47:32 -0700917# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
918# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
919# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
920# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
921# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
922# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
923config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
924 bool
925
926#
Peter Zijlstrabe5e6102013-11-18 18:27:06 +0100927# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
928#
929config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
930 bool
931
Andrea Arcangelibe3a7282012-10-04 01:50:47 +0200932# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
933# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
934#
935config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
936 bool
937
Andrea Arcangelibe3a7282012-10-04 01:50:47 +0200938config NUMA_BALANCING
939 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
Andrea Arcangelibe3a7282012-10-04 01:50:47 +0200940 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
941 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
942 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
943 help
944 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
945 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
Paul Gortmaker6d56a412013-08-13 11:06:50 -0400946 it has references to the node the task is running on.
Andrea Arcangelibe3a7282012-10-04 01:50:47 +0200947
948 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
949
Aneesh Kumar K.V6f7c97e2014-12-10 15:43:37 -0800950config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
951 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
952 default y
953 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
954 help
955 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
956 machine.
957
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800958menuconfig CGROUPS
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -0500959 bool "Control Group support"
Tejun Heo2bd59d42014-02-11 11:52:49 -0500960 select KERNFS
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700961 help
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800962 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800963 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
964 controls or device isolation.
965 See
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800966 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
seokhoon.yoon9991a9c2016-08-02 14:03:13 -0700967 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
Li Zefan45ce80f2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800968 and resource control)
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700969
970 Say N if unsure.
971
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800972if CGROUPS
973
Johannes Weiner3e32cb22014-12-10 15:42:31 -0800974config PAGE_COUNTER
975 bool
976
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700977config MEMCG
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -0500978 bool "Memory controller"
Johannes Weiner3e32cb22014-12-10 15:42:31 -0800979 select PAGE_COUNTER
Tejun Heo79bd9812013-11-22 18:20:42 -0500980 select EVENTFD
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800981 help
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -0500982 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800983
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700984config MEMCG_SWAP
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -0500985 bool "Swap controller"
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700986 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800987 help
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -0500988 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
989
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700990config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -0500991 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700992 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800993 default y
994 help
995 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
996 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
Jim Cromie43d547f2010-12-17 14:32:36 -0700997 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -0700998 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800999 parameter should have this option unselected.
1000 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1001 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
WANG Cong00a66d22011-07-25 17:12:12 -07001002 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -08001003
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001004config BLK_CGROUP
1005 bool "IO controller"
1006 depends on BLOCK
Aneesh Kumar K.V2bc64a22012-07-31 16:42:12 -07001007 default n
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001008 ---help---
1009 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1010 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1011 policies.
Aneesh Kumar K.V2bc64a22012-07-31 16:42:12 -07001012
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001013 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1014 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1015 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1016 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
Stephane Eraniane5d13672011-02-14 11:20:01 +02001017
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001018 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1019 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
1020 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
1021 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1022 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1023
seokhoon.yoon9991a9c2016-08-02 14:03:13 -07001024 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001025
1026config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1027 bool "IO controller debugging"
1028 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1029 default n
1030 ---help---
1031 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1032 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1033
1034config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
1035 bool
1036 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
1037 default y
Stephane Eraniane5d13672011-02-14 11:20:01 +02001038
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +01001039menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -05001040 bool "CPU controller"
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +01001041 default n
1042 help
1043 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1044 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1045 tasks.
1046
1047if CGROUP_SCHED
1048config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1049 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1050 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1051 default CGROUP_SCHED
1052
Paul Turnerab84d312011-07-21 09:43:28 -07001053config CFS_BANDWIDTH
1054 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
Paul Turnerab84d312011-07-21 09:43:28 -07001055 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1056 default n
1057 help
1058 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1059 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1060 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1061 restriction.
1062 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1063
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +01001064config RT_GROUP_SCHED
1065 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +01001066 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1067 default n
1068 help
1069 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
Li Zefan32bd7eb2010-03-24 13:17:19 +08001070 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +01001071 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
1072 realtime bandwidth for them.
1073 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1074
1075endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1076
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001077config CGROUP_PIDS
1078 bool "PIDs controller"
1079 help
1080 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
1081 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
1082 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
1083 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
1084 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
1085 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
Parav Pandit6cc578d2016-03-05 11:30:56 +05301086 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001087
1088 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
Parav Pandit6cc578d2016-03-05 11:30:56 +05301089 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001090 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
1091 attach to a cgroup.
1092
Parav Pandit39d3e752017-01-10 00:02:13 +00001093config CGROUP_RDMA
1094 bool "RDMA controller"
1095 help
1096 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
1097 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
1098 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
1099 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
1100 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
1101 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
1102
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001103config CGROUP_FREEZER
1104 bool "Freezer controller"
1105 help
1106 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
1107 cgroup.
1108
Johannes Weiner489c2a22016-01-20 15:02:41 -08001109 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1110 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1111
1112 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1113
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001114config CGROUP_HUGETLB
1115 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1116 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1117 select PAGE_COUNTER
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +02001118 default n
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001119 help
1120 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1121 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1122 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1123 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1124 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1125 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1126 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1127 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1128 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +02001129
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001130config CPUSETS
1131 bool "Cpuset controller"
1132 help
1133 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1134 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1135 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1136 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +02001137
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001138 Say N if unsure.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +02001139
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001140config PROC_PID_CPUSET
1141 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1142 depends on CPUSETS
Tejun Heo89e9b9e2015-05-22 17:13:36 -04001143 default y
1144
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001145config CGROUP_DEVICE
1146 bool "Device controller"
1147 help
1148 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1149 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1150
1151config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1152 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1153 help
1154 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1155 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1156
1157config CGROUP_PERF
1158 bool "Perf controller"
1159 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1160 help
1161 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1162 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1163 designated cpu.
1164
1165 Say N if unsure.
1166
Daniel Mack30070982016-11-23 16:52:26 +01001167config CGROUP_BPF
1168 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
Andy Lutomirski483c4932016-12-16 08:33:45 -08001169 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
1170 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
Daniel Mack30070982016-11-23 16:52:26 +01001171 help
1172 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1173 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1174
1175 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1176 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1177 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1178 inet sockets.
1179
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001180config CGROUP_DEBUG
1181 bool "Example controller"
1182 default n
1183 help
1184 This option enables a simple controller that exports
1185 debugging information about the cgroups framework.
1186
1187 Say N.
1188
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -08001189endif # CGROUPS
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -08001190
Cyrill Gorcunov067bce12012-01-12 17:20:49 -08001191config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1192 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
Iago López Galeiras2e13ba52015-06-25 15:00:57 -07001193 select PROC_CHILDREN
Cyrill Gorcunov067bce12012-01-12 17:20:49 -08001194 default n
1195 help
1196 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1197 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1198 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1199 entries.
1200
1201 If unsure, say N here.
1202
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001203menuconfig NAMESPACES
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001204 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
Iulia Manda28138932015-04-15 16:16:41 -07001205 depends on MULTIUSER
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001206 default !EXPERT
Pavel Emelyanovc5289a62008-02-08 04:18:19 -08001207 help
1208 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1209 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1210 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1211 different namespaces.
1212
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001213if NAMESPACES
1214
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -08001215config UTS_NS
1216 bool "UTS namespace"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001217 default y
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -08001218 help
1219 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1220 uname() system call
1221
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -08001222config IPC_NS
1223 bool "IPC namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001224 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001225 default y
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -08001226 help
1227 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
Serge E. Hallyn614b84c2009-04-06 19:01:08 -07001228 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -08001229
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -08001230config USER_NS
Kees Cook19c92392012-10-02 11:19:29 -07001231 bool "User namespace"
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -08001232 default n
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -08001233 help
1234 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1235 to provide different user info for different servers.
Eric W. Biedermane11f0ae2013-01-25 16:48:31 -08001236
1237 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
Johannes Weinerd886f4e2016-01-20 15:02:47 -08001238 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1239 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1240 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
Eric W. Biedermane11f0ae2013-01-25 16:48:31 -08001241
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -08001242 If unsure, say N.
1243
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -08001244config PID_NS
Daniel Lezcano9bd38c22010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001245 bool "PID Namespaces"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001246 default y
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -08001247 help
Heikki Orsila12d2b8f2008-07-06 15:48:02 +03001248 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001249 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -08001250 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1251
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -08001252config NET_NS
1253 bool "Network namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001254 depends on NET
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001255 default y
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -08001256 help
1257 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1258 of the network stack.
1259
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001260endif # NAMESPACES
1261
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01001262config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1263 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01001264 select CGROUPS
1265 select CGROUP_SCHED
1266 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1267 help
1268 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1269 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1270 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1271 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1272 upon task session.
1273
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001274config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Ferenc Wagner5d6a4ea2011-01-10 19:04:22 +01001275 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001276 depends on SYSFS
1277 default n
1278 help
1279 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1280 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1281 /sys/block/.
1282
1283 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1284 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1285
1286 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1287 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1288 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1289
1290 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1291 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1292 option enabled.
1293
1294 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1295 need to say Y here.
1296
1297config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
Ferenc Wagner5d6a4ea2011-01-10 19:04:22 +01001298 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001299 default n
1300 depends on SYSFS
1301 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1302 help
1303 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1304
1305 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1306 option.
1307
1308 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1309 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1310 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1311
1312config RELAY
1313 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
Peter Zijlstra26b56792016-10-11 13:54:33 -07001314 select IRQ_WORK
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001315 help
1316 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1317 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1318 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1319 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1320 user space.
1321
1322 If unsure, say N.
1323
Dimitri Gorokhovikf9916332007-03-06 01:42:17 -08001324config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1325 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1326 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1327 help
1328 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1329 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1330 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1331 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8c27ceff32016-10-18 10:12:27 -02001332 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
Dimitri Gorokhovikf9916332007-03-06 01:42:17 -08001333
1334 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1335 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1336 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1337
1338 If unsure say Y.
1339
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -08001340if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1341
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +02001342source "usr/Kconfig"
1343
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -08001344endif
1345
Arnd Bergmann877417e2016-04-25 17:35:27 +02001346choice
1347 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1348 default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1349
1350config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1351 bool "Optimize for performance"
1352 help
1353 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1354 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1355 helpful compile-time warnings.
1356
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001357config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar96fffeb2008-04-28 01:39:43 +02001358 bool "Optimize for size"
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001359 help
Masahiro Yamada31a4af72014-08-05 14:43:07 +09001360 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1361 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001362
Kirill Smelkov3a55fb02012-11-02 15:41:01 +04001363 If unsure, say N.
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001364
Arnd Bergmann877417e2016-04-25 17:35:27 +02001365endchoice
1366
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -07001367config SYSCTL
1368 bool
1369
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001370config ANON_INODES
1371 bool
1372
Mike Frysinger657a5202013-04-30 15:28:45 -07001373config HAVE_UID16
1374 bool
1375
1376config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1377 bool
1378 help
1379 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1380
1381config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1382 bool
1383 help
1384 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1385 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1386 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1387
1388config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1389 bool
1390 help
1391 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1392 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1393 the unaligned access emulation.
1394 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1395
Mike Frysinger657a5202013-04-30 15:28:45 -07001396config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1397 bool
1398
Alexei Starovoitovf89b7752014-10-23 18:41:08 -07001399# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1400config BPF
1401 bool
1402
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001403menuconfig EXPERT
1404 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
Josh Triplettf505c552011-06-05 18:23:58 -07001405 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1406 select DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001407 help
1408 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1409 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1410 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1411 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1412
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001413config UID16
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001414 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
Iulia Manda28138932015-04-15 16:16:41 -07001415 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001416 default y
1417 help
1418 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1419
Iulia Manda28138932015-04-15 16:16:41 -07001420config MULTIUSER
1421 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1422 default y
1423 help
1424 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1425 capabilities.
1426
1427 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1428 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1429 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1430 setgid, and capset.
1431
1432 If unsure, say Y here.
1433
Fabian Frederickf6187762014-06-04 16:11:12 -07001434config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1435 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1436 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1437 ---help---
1438 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1439 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1440 architectures.
1441
1442 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1443
Fabian Frederick6af9f7b2014-04-03 14:48:25 -07001444config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1445 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1446 default y
1447 ---help---
1448 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1449 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1450 compatibility with some systems.
1451
1452 If unsure say Y here.
1453
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001454config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001455 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
Eric W. Biederman26a70342009-11-05 05:26:41 -08001456 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
WANG Congc736de62011-11-02 13:39:25 -07001457 default n
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001458 select SYSCTL
1459 ---help---
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -08001460 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1461 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1462 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1463 information.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001464
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -08001465 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1466 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1467 making your kernel marginally smaller.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001468
WANG Congc736de62011-11-02 13:39:25 -07001469 If unsure say N here.
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001470
Nicolas Pitrebaa73d92016-11-11 00:10:10 -05001471config POSIX_TIMERS
1472 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1473 default y
1474 help
1475 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1476 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1477 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1478
1479 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1480 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1481 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1482 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1483 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1484 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1485
1486 If unsure say y.
1487
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001488config KALLSYMS
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001489 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001490 default y
1491 help
1492 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1493 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1494 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1495
1496config KALLSYMS_ALL
1497 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1498 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1499 help
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001500 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1501 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1502 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1503 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1504 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001505
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001506 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1507 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1508 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1509 something like this).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001510
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001511 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001512
Ard Biesheuvel4d5d5662016-03-15 14:58:12 -07001513config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1514 bool
Randy Dunlap076501f2016-07-06 16:06:53 -07001515 depends on KALLSYMS
Ard Biesheuvel4d5d5662016-03-15 14:58:12 -07001516 default X86_64 && SMP
1517
Ard Biesheuvel2213e9a2016-03-15 14:58:19 -07001518config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1519 bool
1520 depends on KALLSYMS
1521 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
1522 help
1523 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1524 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1525 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1526 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1527 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1528 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1529 address encountered in the image.
1530
1531 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1532 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1533 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1534 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1535
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001536config PRINTK
1537 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001538 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
Frederic Weisbecker74876a92012-10-12 18:00:23 +02001539 select IRQ_WORK
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001540 help
1541 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1542 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1543 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1544 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1545 strongly discouraged.
1546
Petr Mladek42a0bb32016-05-20 17:00:33 -07001547config PRINTK_NMI
1548 def_bool y
1549 depends on PRINTK
1550 depends on HAVE_NMI
1551
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -07001552config BUG
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001553 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -07001554 default y
1555 help
1556 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1557 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1558 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1559 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1560 Just say Y.
1561
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001562config ELF_CORE
Alex Kelly046d6622012-10-04 17:15:23 -07001563 depends on COREDUMP
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001564 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001565 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001566 help
1567 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1568
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001569
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +02001570config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001571 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001572 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
Ralf Baechle15f304b2011-06-01 19:04:59 +01001573 select I8253_LOCK
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +02001574 default y
1575 help
1576 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1577 support, saving some memory.
1578
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001579config BASE_FULL
1580 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001581 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001582 help
1583 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1584 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1585 but may reduce performance.
1586
1587config FUTEX
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001588 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001589 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d4a2006-06-27 02:54:53 -07001590 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001591 help
1592 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1593 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1594 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1595
Heiko Carstens03b8c7b2014-03-02 13:09:47 +01001596config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1597 bool
Josh Triplett62b4d202014-10-03 16:19:24 -07001598 depends on FUTEX
Heiko Carstens03b8c7b2014-03-02 13:09:47 +01001599 help
1600 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1601 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1602 checks.
1603
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001604config EPOLL
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001605 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001606 default y
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001607 select ANON_INODES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001608 help
1609 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1610 support for epoll family of system calls.
1611
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -07001612config SIGNALFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001613 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001614 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -07001615 default y
1616 help
1617 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1618 on a file descriptor.
1619
1620 If unsure, say Y.
1621
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -07001622config TIMERFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001623 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001624 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -07001625 default y
1626 help
1627 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1628 events on a file descriptor.
1629
1630 If unsure, say Y.
1631
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -07001632config EVENTFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001633 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001634 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -07001635 default y
1636 help
1637 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1638 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1639
1640 If unsure, say Y.
1641
Alexei Starovoitovf89b7752014-10-23 18:41:08 -07001642# syscall, maps, verifier
1643config BPF_SYSCALL
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +02001644 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
Alexei Starovoitovf89b7752014-10-23 18:41:08 -07001645 select ANON_INODES
1646 select BPF
1647 default n
1648 help
1649 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1650 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1651
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001652config SHMEM
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001653 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001654 default y
1655 depends on MMU
1656 help
1657 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1658 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1659 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1660 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1661 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1662
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001663config AIO
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001664 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001665 default y
1666 help
1667 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
Mike Frysinger657a5202013-04-30 15:28:45 -07001668 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1669 this option saves about 7k.
1670
Josh Triplettd3ac21c2014-08-17 19:41:09 -05001671config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1672 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1673 default y
1674 help
1675 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1676 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1677 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1678 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1679 space.
1680
Andrea Arcangelia14c1512015-09-04 15:46:54 -07001681config USERFAULTFD
1682 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1683 select ANON_INODES
Andrea Arcangelia14c1512015-09-04 15:46:54 -07001684 depends on MMU
1685 help
1686 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1687 handle page faults in userland.
1688
Mike Frysinger657a5202013-04-30 15:28:45 -07001689config PCI_QUIRKS
1690 default y
1691 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1692 depends on PCI
1693 help
1694 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1695 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1696 unaffected by PCI quirks.
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001697
Mathieu Desnoyers5b25b132015-09-11 13:07:39 -07001698config MEMBARRIER
1699 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1700 default y
1701 help
1702 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1703 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1704 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1705 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1706 compiler barrier.
1707
1708 If unsure, say Y.
1709
Randy Dunlap6befe5f2011-04-26 12:33:21 -07001710config EMBEDDED
1711 bool "Embedded system"
Josh Triplett5d2acfc2014-04-07 15:39:09 -07001712 option allnoconfig_y
Randy Dunlap6befe5f2011-04-26 12:33:21 -07001713 select EXPERT
1714 help
1715 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1716 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1717 for configuration.
1718
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001719config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001720 bool
Mike Frysinger018df722009-06-12 13:17:43 -04001721 help
1722 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001723
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001724config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1725 bool
1726 help
1727 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1728
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001729menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001730
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001731config PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001732 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
Robert Richter392d65a2012-04-05 18:24:44 +02001733 default y if PROFILING
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001734 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar4c59e462008-12-08 19:38:33 +01001735 select ANON_INODES
Peter Zijlstrae360adb2010-10-14 14:01:34 +08001736 select IRQ_WORK
Pranith Kumar83fe27e2014-12-05 11:24:45 -05001737 select SRCU
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001738 help
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001739 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1740 by software and hardware.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001741
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001742 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001743 use of generic tracepoints.
1744
1745 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1746 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001747 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1748 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1749 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1750 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1751 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1752
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001753 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001754 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001755 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001756 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1757 capabilities on top of those.
1758
1759 Say Y if unsure.
1760
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001761config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1762 default n
1763 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
Michael Ellermancb307112015-05-04 16:26:39 +10001764 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001765 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1766 help
1767 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1768
1769 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1770 that don't require it.
1771
1772 Say N if unsure.
1773
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001774endmenu
1775
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001776config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1777 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001778 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001779 help
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001780 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1781 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001782 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001783 if VM event counters are disabled.
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001784
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001785config SLUB_DEBUG
1786 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001787 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
Christoph Lameterf6acb632008-04-29 16:16:06 -07001788 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001789 help
1790 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1791 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1792 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1793 no support for cache validation etc.
1794
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001795config COMPAT_BRK
1796 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1797 default y
1798 help
1799 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1800 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1801 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001802 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001803 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1804
1805 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1806
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001807choice
1808 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
Christoph Lametera0acd822007-07-17 04:03:32 -07001809 default SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001810 help
1811 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1812
1813config SLAB
1814 bool "SLAB"
Kees Cook04385fc2016-06-23 15:20:59 -07001815 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001816 help
1817 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -07001818 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001819 per cpu and per node queues.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001820
1821config SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001822 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
Kees Cooked18adc2016-06-23 15:24:05 -07001823 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001824 help
1825 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1826 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1827 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1828 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001829 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1830 a slab allocator.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001831
1832config SLOB
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001833 depends on EXPERT
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001834 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1835 help
Matt Mackall37291452008-02-04 22:29:38 -08001836 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1837 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1838 does not perform as well on large systems.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001839
1840endchoice
1841
Thomas Garnierc7ce4f602016-05-19 17:10:37 -07001842config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1843 default n
Thomas Garnier210e7a42016-07-26 15:21:59 -07001844 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Thomas Garnierc7ce4f602016-05-19 17:10:37 -07001845 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1846 help
Thomas Garnier210e7a42016-07-26 15:21:59 -07001847 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
Thomas Garnierc7ce4f602016-05-19 17:10:37 -07001848 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1849 allocator against heap overflows.
1850
Joonsoo Kim345c9052013-06-19 14:05:52 +09001851config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1852 default y
Uwe Kleine-Königb39ffbf2013-07-17 16:54:59 +02001853 depends on SLUB && SMP
Joonsoo Kim345c9052013-06-19 14:05:52 +09001854 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1855 help
1856 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1857 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1858 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1859 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1860 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1861
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001862config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1863 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001864 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001865 default n
1866 help
1867 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1868 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1869 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1870 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1871 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1872 then the flag will be ignored.
1873
1874 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1875 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1876
1877 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1878 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1879 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1880 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1881
1882 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1883
David Howells091f6e22015-07-20 21:16:28 +01001884config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1885 def_bool n
1886 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1887 select KEYS
1888 select CRYPTO
David Howellsd43de6c2016-03-03 21:49:27 +00001889 select CRYPTO_RSA
David Howells091f6e22015-07-20 21:16:28 +01001890 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1891 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
David Howells091f6e22015-07-20 21:16:28 +01001892 select ASN1
1893 select OID_REGISTRY
1894 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1895 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
Peter Foley82c04ff2014-04-18 15:07:11 -07001896 help
David Howells091f6e22015-07-20 21:16:28 +01001897 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1898 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1899 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1900 verification.
Peter Foley82c04ff2014-04-18 15:07:11 -07001901
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001902config PROFILING
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +01001903 bool "Profiling support"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001904 help
1905 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1906 by profilers such as OProfile.
1907
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001908#
1909# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1910# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1911#
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001912config TRACEPOINTS
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001913 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001914
Mathieu Desnoyersfb32e032008-02-02 15:10:33 -05001915source "arch/Kconfig"
1916
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001917endmenu # General setup
1918
Dmitry Baryshkovee7e5512008-06-29 14:18:46 +04001919config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1920 bool
1921 default n
1922
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001923config SLABINFO
1924 bool
1925 depends on PROC_FS
Christoph Lameter0f389ec2008-04-14 18:53:02 +03001926 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001927 default y
1928
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001929config RT_MUTEXES
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -05001930 bool
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001931
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001932config BASE_SMALL
1933 int
1934 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1935 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1936
Jan Engelhardt66da5732007-07-15 23:39:29 -07001937menuconfig MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001938 bool "Enable loadable module support"
Yann E. MORIN11097a02013-08-11 16:07:50 +02001939 option modules
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001940 help
1941 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1942 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1943 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1944 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1945 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1946 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1947 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1948 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1949 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1950
1951 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1952 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1953 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1954 this).
1955
1956 If unsure, say Y.
1957
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001958if MODULES
1959
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001960config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1961 bool "Forced module loading"
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001962 default n
1963 help
Rusty Russell91e37a72008-05-09 16:25:28 +10001964 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1965 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1966 is usually a really bad idea.
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001967
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001968config MODULE_UNLOAD
1969 bool "Module unloading"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001970 help
1971 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1972 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
Denys Vlasenkof7f5b672008-07-22 19:24:26 -05001973 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1974 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001975
1976config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1977 bool "Forced module unloading"
Kees Cook19c92392012-10-02 11:19:29 -07001978 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001979 help
1980 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1981 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1982 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1983 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1984 If unsure, say N.
1985
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001986config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +01001987 bool "Module versioning support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001988 help
1989 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1990 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1991 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1992 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1993 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1994 unsure, say N.
1995
1996config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1997 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001998 help
1999 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2000 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2001 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2002 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2003 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2004 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2005 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2006
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002007config MODULE_SIG
2008 bool "Module signature verification"
2009 depends on MODULES
David Howells091f6e22015-07-20 21:16:28 +01002010 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002011 help
2012 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2013 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2014 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
2015
David Howells228c37f2015-08-11 12:38:54 +01002016 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2017 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2018 library.
2019
David Howellsea0b6dc2012-09-26 10:09:50 +01002020 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2021 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2022 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2023 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2024
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002025config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2026 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2027 depends on MODULE_SIG
2028 help
2029 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2030 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
David Howellsea0b6dc2012-09-26 10:09:50 +01002031
Michal Marekd9d8d7e2013-01-25 13:41:31 +10302032config MODULE_SIG_ALL
2033 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2034 default y
2035 depends on MODULE_SIG
2036 help
2037 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2038 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2039
2040comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2041 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2042
David Howellsea0b6dc2012-09-26 10:09:50 +01002043choice
2044 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2045 depends on MODULE_SIG
2046 help
2047 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2048 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2049 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2050 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2051 the signature on that module.
2052
2053config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2054 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2055 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2056
2057config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2058 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2059 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2060
2061config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2062 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2063 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2064
2065config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2066 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2067 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2068
2069config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2070 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2071 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2072
2073endchoice
2074
Michal Marek22753672013-01-25 13:41:00 +10302075config MODULE_SIG_HASH
2076 string
2077 depends on MODULE_SIG
2078 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2079 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2080 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2081 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2082 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2083
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302084config MODULE_COMPRESS
2085 bool "Compress modules on installation"
2086 depends on MODULES
2087 help
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302088
Rusty Russellb6c09b52015-06-16 12:16:22 +09302089 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2090 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302091
Rusty Russellb6c09b52015-06-16 12:16:22 +09302092 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302093
Rusty Russellb6c09b52015-06-16 12:16:22 +09302094 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2095 compressed upon installation.
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302096
Rusty Russellb6c09b52015-06-16 12:16:22 +09302097 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2098 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302099
Rusty Russellb6c09b52015-06-16 12:16:22 +09302100 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2101
2102 If in doubt, say N.
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302103
2104choice
2105 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2106 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2107 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2108 help
2109 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2110 'make modules_install'.
2111
2112 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2113
2114config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2115 bool "GZIP"
2116
2117config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2118 bool "XZ"
2119
2120endchoice
2121
Nicolas Pitredbacb0e2016-01-26 21:51:05 -05002122config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2123 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2124 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2125 help
2126 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2127 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2128 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2129 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2130
2131 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2132 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2133 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2134 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2135
Valdis Kletnieksf1cb6372016-08-02 14:07:27 -07002136 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
Nicolas Pitredbacb0e2016-01-26 21:51:05 -05002137
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04002138endif # MODULES
2139
Peter Zijlstra6c9692e2015-05-27 11:09:37 +09302140config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2141 def_bool y
2142 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2143
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10302144config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2145 bool
2146 help
Rusty Russell5f054e32012-03-29 15:38:31 +10302147 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2148 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10302149 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2150 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01002151 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10302152
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01002153source "block/Kconfig"
Avi Kivitye98c3202007-10-16 23:27:31 -07002154
2155config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2156 bool
Paul E. McKenneye260be62008-01-25 21:08:24 +01002157
Steffen Klassert16295be2010-01-06 19:47:10 +11002158config PADATA
2159 depends on SMP
2160 bool
2161
David Howells4520c6a2012-09-21 23:31:13 +01002162config ASN1
2163 tristate
2164 help
2165 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2166 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2167 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2168 functions to call on what tags.
2169
Thomas Gleixner6beb0002009-11-09 15:21:34 +00002170source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"