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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 HAVE_IRQ_WORK
24 bool
25
26config IRQ_WORK
27 bool
28 depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
29
David Daney1dbdc6f2012-04-19 14:59:57 -070030config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
31 bool
32
Al Boldiff0cfc62007-07-31 00:39:23 -070033menu "General setup"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070034
35config EXPERIMENTAL
36 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
37 ---help---
38 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
39 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
40 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
41 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
42 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
43 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
44 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
45 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
46 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
47 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
48 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
49 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
50 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
51 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
52 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
53 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
54
55 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
56 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
57 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
58
59 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
60 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
61 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
62 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
63 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
64 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
65
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070066config BROKEN
67 bool
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070068
69config BROKEN_ON_SMP
70 bool
71 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
72 default y
73
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070074config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
75 int
Adrian Bunkdd673bc2006-06-30 01:55:51 -070076 default 32 if !UML
77 default 128 if UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070078 help
Randy Dunlap34ad92c2005-10-30 15:01:46 -080079 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
80 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070081
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070082
Roland McGrath84336462009-12-21 16:24:06 -080083config CROSS_COMPILE
84 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
85 help
86 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
87 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
88 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
89 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
90
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070091config LOCALVERSION
92 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
93 help
94 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
95 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
96 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
97 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
98 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
99 be a maximum of 64 characters.
100
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400101config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
102 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
103 default y
104 help
105 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200106 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
107 top of tree revision.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400108
109 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200110 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400111 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200112 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400113
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200114 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
115 by running the command:
116
117 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
118
119 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400120
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800121config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
122 bool
123
124config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
125 bool
126
127config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
128 bool
129
Lasse Collin3ebe1242011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800130config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
131 bool
132
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800133config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
134 bool
135
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100136choice
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800137 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
138 default KERNEL_GZIP
Lasse Collin3ebe1242011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800139 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800140 help
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100141 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
142 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
143 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
144 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
145 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
146
147 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
148 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
149 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
150 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
151
152 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
153 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
154 size matters less.
155
156 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
157
158config KERNEL_GZIP
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800159 bool "Gzip"
160 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
161 help
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800162 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
163 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100164
165config KERNEL_BZIP2
166 bool "Bzip2"
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100168 help
169 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
Randy Dunlap0a4dd352012-05-31 16:26:46 -0700170 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800171 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
172 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
173 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100174
175config KERNEL_LZMA
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800176 bool "LZMA"
177 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
178 help
Randy Dunlap0a4dd352012-05-31 16:26:46 -0700179 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
180 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
181 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100182
Lasse Collin3ebe1242011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800183config KERNEL_XZ
184 bool "XZ"
185 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
186 help
187 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
188 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
189 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
190 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
191 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
192 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
193
194 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
195 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
196 and LZO. Compression is slow.
197
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800198config KERNEL_LZO
199 bool "LZO"
200 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
201 help
Randy Dunlap0a4dd352012-05-31 16:26:46 -0700202 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
Stephan Sperber681b3042010-07-14 11:23:08 +0200203 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800204 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
205
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100206endchoice
207
Josh Triplettbd5dc172011-06-15 15:08:28 -0700208config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
209 string "Default hostname"
210 default "(none)"
211 help
212 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
213 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
214 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
215 system more usable with less configuration.
216
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700217config SWAP
218 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200219 depends on MMU && BLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700220 default y
221 help
222 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
Jesper Juhl92c35042006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100223 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700224 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
225 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
226
227config SYSVIPC
228 bool "System V IPC"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700229 ---help---
230 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
231 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
232 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
233 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
234 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
235 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
236 you'll need to say Y here.
237
238 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
239 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
240 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
241
Eric W. Biedermana5494dc2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800242config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
243 bool
244 depends on SYSVIPC
245 depends on SYSCTL
246 default y
247
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700248config POSIX_MQUEUE
249 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
250 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
251 ---help---
252 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
253 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
254 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
255 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
Robert P. J. Dayb0e37652007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200256 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700257
258 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
259 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
260 operations on message queues.
261
262 If unsure, say Y.
263
Serge E. Hallynbdc8e5f2009-04-06 19:01:11 -0700264config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
265 bool
266 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
267 depends on SYSCTL
268 default y
269
Aneesh Kumar K.V990d6c22011-01-29 18:43:26 +0530270config FHANDLE
271 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
272 select EXPORTFS
273 help
274 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
275 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
276 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
277 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
278 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
279 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
280 syscalls.
281
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700282config AUDIT
283 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a492005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100284 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700285 help
286 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
287 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
288 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
289 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
290
291config AUDITSYSCALL
292 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
Will Deacon8f827a12012-07-06 15:48:16 +0100293 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700294 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
295 help
296 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
297 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
Eric Paris67640b62009-12-17 20:12:06 -0500298 such as SELinux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700299
Eric Paris939a67f2009-12-17 20:12:06 -0500300config AUDIT_WATCH
301 def_bool y
302 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
303 select FSNOTIFY
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700304
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400305config AUDIT_TREE
306 def_bool y
Eric Paris63c882a2009-05-21 17:02:01 -0400307 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
Eric Paris28a3a7e2009-12-17 20:12:05 -0500308 select FSNOTIFY
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400309
Eric Paris633b4542012-01-03 14:23:08 -0500310config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
311 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
312 depends on AUDIT
313 help
Linus Torvaldsf429ee32012-01-17 16:06:51 -0800314 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
Eric Paris633b4542012-01-03 14:23:08 -0500315 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
316 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
317 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central
318 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older
319 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
320 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows
321 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
322 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
323
Thomas Gleixnerd9817eb2010-09-27 12:45:59 +0000324source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
Thomas Gleixner764e0da2012-05-21 23:16:18 +0200325source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
Thomas Gleixnerd9817eb2010-09-27 12:45:59 +0000326
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200327menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
328
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200329choice
330 prompt "Cputime accounting"
331 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
332 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING if PPC64
333
334# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
335config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
336 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
337 depends on !S390
338 help
339 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
340 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
341 granularity.
342
343 If unsure, say Y.
344
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200345config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
346 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
347 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200348 help
349 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
350 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
351 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
352 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
353 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
354 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
355 systems.
356
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200357config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
358 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
359 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
360 help
361 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
362 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
363 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
364 small performance impact.
365
366 If in doubt, say N here.
367
368endchoice
369
Frederic Weisbecker391dc692012-09-09 14:22:07 +0200370config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
371 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
372 help
373 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
374 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
375 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
376 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
377 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
378 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
379 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
380 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
381 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
382
383config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
384 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
385 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
386 default n
387 help
388 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
389 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
390 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
391 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
392 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
393 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
394
395config TASKSTATS
396 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
397 depends on NET
398 default n
399 help
400 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
401 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
402 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
403 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
404 space on task exit.
405
406 Say N if unsure.
407
408config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
409 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
410 depends on TASKSTATS
411 help
412 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
413 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
414 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
415 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
416
417 Say N if unsure.
418
419config TASK_XACCT
420 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
421 depends on TASKSTATS
422 help
423 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
424 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
425
426 Say N if unsure.
427
428config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
429 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
430 depends on TASK_XACCT
431 help
432 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
433 task has caused.
434
435 Say N if unsure.
436
437endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
438
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800439menu "RCU Subsystem"
440
441choice
442 prompt "RCU Implementation"
Paul E. McKenney31c9a242009-04-02 21:06:25 -0700443 default TREE_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800444
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800445config TREE_RCU
446 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
Paul E. McKenney687d7a92010-07-21 06:52:40 -0700447 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800448 help
449 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
450 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
Paul E. McKenneyc17ef452009-06-23 17:12:47 -0700451 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
452 smaller systems.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800453
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700454config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700455 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
Paul E. McKenney8008e122011-06-08 16:31:33 -0700456 depends on PREEMPT && SMP
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700457 help
458 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
459 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
460 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
Paul E. McKenneybbe3eae2009-09-13 09:15:08 -0700461 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
462 smaller systems.
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700463
Paul E. McKenney9b1d82f2009-10-25 19:03:50 -0700464config TINY_RCU
465 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
Paul E. McKenney8008e122011-06-08 16:31:33 -0700466 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
Paul E. McKenney9b1d82f2009-10-25 19:03:50 -0700467 help
468 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
469 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
470 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
471 memory footprint of RCU.
472
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700473config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
474 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
Paul E. McKenney8008e122011-06-08 16:31:33 -0700475 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700476 help
477 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
478 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
479 memory footprint of RCU.
480
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800481endchoice
482
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700483config PREEMPT_RCU
484 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
485 help
486 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
487 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
488
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200489config RCU_USER_QS
490 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
491 depends on HAVE_RCU_USER_QS && SMP
492 help
493 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
494 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
495 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
496 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
497 to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
498
Frederic Weisbeckerd6771242012-10-11 01:48:28 +0200499 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
500 tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
501 unnecessary overhead.
502
503 If unsure say N
504
Frederic Weisbecker1fd2b442012-07-11 20:26:40 +0200505config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
506 bool "Force userspace extended QS by default"
507 depends on RCU_USER_QS
508 help
509 Set the hooks in user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
510 test this feature that treats userspace as an extended quiescent
511 state until we have a real user like a full adaptive nohz option.
512
Frederic Weisbeckerd6771242012-10-11 01:48:28 +0200513 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
514 tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
515 unnecessary overhead.
516
517 If unsure say N
518
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800519config RCU_FANOUT
520 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
521 range 2 64 if 64BIT
522 range 2 32 if !64BIT
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700523 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800524 default 64 if 64BIT
525 default 32 if !64BIT
526 help
527 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
528 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
Paul E. McKenney4d87ffa2010-08-04 17:31:12 -0700529 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
530 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
531 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
532 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
533 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
534 code paths on small(er) systems.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800535
536 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
537 Take the default if unsure.
538
Paul E. McKenney8932a632012-04-19 12:20:14 -0700539config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
540 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
541 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
542 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
543 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
544 default 16
545 help
546 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
547 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
548 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
549 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
550 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
551 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
552 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
553 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
554 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
555 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
556 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
557 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
558 leaf-level fanouts work well.
559
560 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
561
562 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
563
564 Take the default if unsure.
565
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800566config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
567 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700568 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800569 default n
570 help
571 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
572 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
573 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
574 strong NUMA behavior.
575
576 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
577
578 Say N if unsure.
579
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800580config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
581 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
Paul E. McKenneyb807fbf2011-11-03 14:56:12 -0700582 depends on NO_HZ && SMP
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800583 default n
584 help
585 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
Paul E. McKenneyb807fbf2011-11-03 14:56:12 -0700586 in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more
587 quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead
588 of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with
589 large numbers of CPUs.
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800590
591 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
592 if you have relatively few CPUs.
593
594 Say N if you are unsure.
595
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800596config TREE_RCU_TRACE
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700597 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800598 select DEBUG_FS
599 help
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700600 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
601 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
602 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800603
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700604config RCU_BOOST
605 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
Paul E. McKenney27f4d282011-02-07 12:47:15 -0800606 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700607 default n
608 help
609 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
610 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
611 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
612 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
613
614 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
615 Say N here if you are unsure.
616
617config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
618 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
619 range 1 99
620 depends on RCU_BOOST
621 default 1
622 help
Paul E. McKenneyc9336642012-04-18 16:20:18 -0700623 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
624 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
625 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
626 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
627 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
628 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
629 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
630 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
631
632 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
633 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
634 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
635 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
636 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
637 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
638 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
639 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
640 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
641 set to priority 6 or higher.
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700642
643 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
644
645config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
646 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
647 range 0 3000
648 depends on RCU_BOOST
649 default 500
650 help
651 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
652 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
653 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
654 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
655
656 Accept the default if unsure.
657
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800658endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
659
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700660config IKCONFIG
Ross Birof2443ab2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700661 tristate "Kernel .config support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700662 ---help---
663 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
664 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
665 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
666 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
667 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
668 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
669 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
670 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
671
672config IKCONFIG_PROC
673 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
674 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
675 ---help---
676 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
677 through /proc/config.gz.
678
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700679config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
680 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
681 range 12 21
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700682 default 17
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700683 help
684 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700685 Examples:
686 17 => 128 KB
687 16 => 64 KB
688 15 => 32 KB
689 14 => 16 KB
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700690 13 => 8 KB
691 12 => 4 KB
692
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800693#
694# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
695#
696config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
697 bool
698
Andrea Arcangelibe3a7282012-10-04 01:50:47 +0200699#
700# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
701# balancing logic:
702#
703config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
704 bool
705
706# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
707# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
708#
709config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
710 bool
711
712#
713# For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
714config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
715 bool
716
717config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
718 bool
719 default y
720 depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
721 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
722
723config NUMA_BALANCING
724 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
725 default y
726 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
727 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
728 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
729 help
730 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
731 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
732 it is references to the node the task is running on.
733
734 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
735
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800736menuconfig CGROUPS
737 boolean "Control Group support"
Kirill A. Shutemov0dea1162010-03-10 15:22:20 -0800738 depends on EVENTFD
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700739 help
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800740 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800741 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
742 controls or device isolation.
743 See
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800744 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
Li Zefan45ce80f2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800745 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
746 and resource control)
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700747
748 Say N if unsure.
749
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800750if CGROUPS
751
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700752config CGROUP_DEBUG
753 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
Paul Menage418d7d82008-04-29 01:00:05 -0700754 default n
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700755 help
756 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
757 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800758 framework.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700759
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800760 Say N if unsure.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700761
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700762config CGROUP_FREEZER
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800763 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800764 help
765 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700766 cgroup.
767
Serge E. Hallyn08ce5f12008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700768config CGROUP_DEVICE
769 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
Serge E. Hallyn08ce5f12008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700770 help
771 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
772 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
773
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700774config CPUSETS
775 bool "Cpuset support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700776 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700777 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700778 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
779 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
780 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
781
782 Say N if unsure.
783
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800784config PROC_PID_CPUSET
785 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
786 depends on CPUSETS
787 default y
788
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100789config CGROUP_CPUACCT
790 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100791 help
792 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800793 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100794
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800795config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
796 bool "Resource counters"
797 help
798 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800799 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800800
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700801config MEMCG
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800802 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
Daniel Lezcano79ae9c22010-10-27 15:34:39 -0700803 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700804 select MM_OWNER
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800805 help
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700806 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo21acb9c2009-02-04 10:12:08 +0100807 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800808
809 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700810 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
811 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
812 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
813 at boot.
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800814
815 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700816 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
817 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
818 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
Li Zefanc9d54092009-01-07 18:07:35 -0800819 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800820
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700821 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
822 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
823
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700824config MEMCG_SWAP
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki65e0e812010-08-10 18:02:56 -0700825 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700826 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800827 help
828 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
829 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
830 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
831 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
832 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
833 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
834 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
835 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
836 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
837 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
WANG Cong00a66d22011-07-25 17:12:12 -0700838 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki627991a2009-04-02 16:57:47 -0700839 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
840 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700841config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800842 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700843 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800844 default y
845 help
846 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
847 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
Jim Cromie43d547f2010-12-17 14:32:36 -0700848 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800849 and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
850 parameter should have this option unselected.
851 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
852 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
WANG Cong00a66d22011-07-25 17:12:12 -0700853 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700854config MEMCG_KMEM
Glauber Costae5671df2011-12-11 21:47:01 +0000855 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700856 depends on MEMCG && EXPERIMENTAL
Glauber Costae5671df2011-12-11 21:47:01 +0000857 default n
858 help
859 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
860 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
861 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
862 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
863 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
864 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800865
Aneesh Kumar K.V2bc64a22012-07-31 16:42:12 -0700866config CGROUP_HUGETLB
867 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
868 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE && EXPERIMENTAL
869 default n
870 help
871 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
872 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
873 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
874 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
875 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
876 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
877 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
878 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
879 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
880
Stephane Eraniane5d13672011-02-14 11:20:01 +0200881config CGROUP_PERF
882 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
883 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
884 help
885 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
Li Zefan2d0f2522011-03-03 14:26:20 +0800886 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
Stephane Eraniane5d13672011-02-14 11:20:01 +0200887 designated cpu.
888
889 Say N if unsure.
890
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100891menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
892 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100893 default n
894 help
895 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
896 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
897 tasks.
898
899if CGROUP_SCHED
900config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
901 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
902 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
903 default CGROUP_SCHED
904
Paul Turnerab84d312011-07-21 09:43:28 -0700905config CFS_BANDWIDTH
906 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
907 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
908 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
909 default n
910 help
911 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
912 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
913 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
914 restriction.
915 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
916
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100917config RT_GROUP_SCHED
918 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
919 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
920 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
921 default n
922 help
923 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
Li Zefan32bd7eb2010-03-24 13:17:19 +0800924 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100925 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
926 realtime bandwidth for them.
927 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
928
929endif #CGROUP_SCHED
930
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200931config BLK_CGROUP
Tejun Heo32e380a2012-03-05 13:14:54 -0800932 bool "Block IO controller"
Daniel Lezcano79ae9c22010-10-27 15:34:39 -0700933 depends on BLOCK
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200934 default n
935 ---help---
936 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
937 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
938 policies.
939
940 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
941 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
Vivek Goyale43473b2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400942 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
943 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200944
945 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
Vivek Goyale43473b2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400946 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
Michael Witten79e2e752011-01-16 21:43:10 +0000947 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
948 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
Michael Wittenc5e05912011-01-17 00:08:41 +0000949 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200950
951 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
952
953config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
954 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
955 depends on BLK_CGROUP
956 default n
957 ---help---
958 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
959 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
960
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800961endif # CGROUPS
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800962
Cyrill Gorcunov067bce12012-01-12 17:20:49 -0800963config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
964 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
965 default n
966 help
967 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
968 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
969 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
970 entries.
971
972 If unsure, say N here.
973
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700974menuconfig NAMESPACES
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800975 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
976 default !EXPERT
Pavel Emelyanovc5289a62008-02-08 04:18:19 -0800977 help
978 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
979 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
980 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
981 different namespaces.
982
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700983if NAMESPACES
984
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800985config UTS_NS
986 bool "UTS namespace"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700987 default y
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800988 help
989 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
990 uname() system call
991
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800992config IPC_NS
993 bool "IPC namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700994 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700995 default y
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800996 help
997 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
Serge E. Hallyn614b84c2009-04-06 19:01:08 -0700998 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800999
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -08001000config USER_NS
1001 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001002 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001003 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -08001004 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001005
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -08001006 default n
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -08001007 help
1008 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1009 to provide different user info for different servers.
1010 If unsure, say N.
1011
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -08001012config PID_NS
Daniel Lezcano9bd38c22010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001013 bool "PID Namespaces"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001014 default y
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -08001015 help
Heikki Orsila12d2b8f2008-07-06 15:48:02 +03001016 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001017 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -08001018 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1019
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -08001020config NET_NS
1021 bool "Network namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001022 depends on NET
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001023 default y
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -08001024 help
1025 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1026 of the network stack.
1027
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001028endif # NAMESPACES
1029
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001030config UIDGID_CONVERTED
1031 # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
1032 # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
1033 # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
1034 # the user namespace.
1035 bool
1036 default y
1037
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001038 # Networking
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001039 depends on NET_9P = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001040
1041 # Filesystems
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001042 depends on 9P_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001043 depends on AFS_FS = n
1044 depends on AUTOFS4_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001045 depends on CEPH_FS = n
1046 depends on CIFS = n
1047 depends on CODA_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001048 depends on FUSE_FS = n
1049 depends on GFS2_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001050 depends on NCP_FS = n
1051 depends on NFSD = n
1052 depends on NFS_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001053 depends on OCFS2_FS = n
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001054 depends on XFS_FS = n
1055
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -08001056config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
1057 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
Eric W. Biedermane1c972b2012-04-21 04:09:01 -07001058 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -08001059 default n
1060 help
1061 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
1062 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
1063
1064 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
1065
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01001066config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1067 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
1068 select EVENTFD
1069 select CGROUPS
1070 select CGROUP_SCHED
1071 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1072 help
1073 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1074 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1075 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1076 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1077 upon task session.
1078
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001079config MM_OWNER
1080 bool
1081
1082config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Ferenc Wagner5d6a4ea2011-01-10 19:04:22 +01001083 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001084 depends on SYSFS
1085 default n
1086 help
1087 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1088 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1089 /sys/block/.
1090
1091 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1092 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1093
1094 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1095 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1096 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1097
1098 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1099 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1100 option enabled.
1101
1102 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1103 need to say Y here.
1104
1105config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
Ferenc Wagner5d6a4ea2011-01-10 19:04:22 +01001106 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001107 default n
1108 depends on SYSFS
1109 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1110 help
1111 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1112
1113 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1114 option.
1115
1116 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1117 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1118 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1119
1120config RELAY
1121 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1122 help
1123 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1124 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1125 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1126 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1127 user space.
1128
1129 If unsure, say N.
1130
Dimitri Gorokhovikf9916332007-03-06 01:42:17 -08001131config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1132 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1133 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1134 help
1135 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1136 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1137 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1138 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1139 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1140
1141 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1142 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1143 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1144
1145 If unsure say Y.
1146
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -08001147if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1148
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +02001149source "usr/Kconfig"
1150
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -08001151endif
1152
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001153config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar96fffeb2008-04-28 01:39:43 +02001154 bool "Optimize for size"
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001155 help
1156 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1157 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1158
jkacur775a7222008-07-16 00:31:16 +02001159 If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001160
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -07001161config SYSCTL
1162 bool
1163
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001164config ANON_INODES
1165 bool
1166
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001167menuconfig EXPERT
1168 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
Josh Triplettf505c552011-06-05 18:23:58 -07001169 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1170 select DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001171 help
1172 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1173 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1174 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1175 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1176
Catalin Marinasaf1839e2012-10-08 16:28:08 -07001177config HAVE_UID16
1178 bool
1179
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001180config UID16
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001181 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
Catalin Marinasaf1839e2012-10-08 16:28:08 -07001182 depends on HAVE_UID16
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001183 default y
1184 help
1185 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1186
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001187config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001188 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
Eric W. Biederman26a70342009-11-05 05:26:41 -08001189 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
WANG Congc736de62011-11-02 13:39:25 -07001190 default n
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001191 select SYSCTL
1192 ---help---
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -08001193 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1194 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1195 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1196 information.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001197
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -08001198 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1199 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1200 making your kernel marginally smaller.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001201
WANG Congc736de62011-11-02 13:39:25 -07001202 If unsure say N here.
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001203
Catalin Marinas7ac57a82012-10-08 16:28:16 -07001204config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1205 bool
1206 help
1207 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1208
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001209config KALLSYMS
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001210 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001211 default y
1212 help
1213 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1214 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1215 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1216
1217config KALLSYMS_ALL
1218 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1219 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1220 help
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001221 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1222 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1223 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1224 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1225 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001226
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001227 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1228 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1229 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1230 something like this).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001231
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001232 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001233
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -08001234config HOTPLUG
Greg Kroah-Hartman45f035a2012-09-04 17:01:08 -07001235 def_bool y
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -08001236
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001237config PRINTK
1238 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001239 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001240 help
1241 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1242 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1243 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1244 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1245 strongly discouraged.
1246
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -07001247config BUG
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001248 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -07001249 default y
1250 help
1251 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1252 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1253 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1254 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1255 Just say Y.
1256
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001257config ELF_CORE
Alex Kelly046d6622012-10-04 17:15:23 -07001258 depends on COREDUMP
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001259 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001260 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001261 help
1262 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1263
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001264
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +02001265config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001266 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001267 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
Ralf Baechle15f304b2011-06-01 19:04:59 +01001268 select I8253_LOCK
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +02001269 default y
1270 help
1271 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1272 support, saving some memory.
1273
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001274config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1275 bool
1276
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001277config BASE_FULL
1278 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001279 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001280 help
1281 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1282 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1283 but may reduce performance.
1284
1285config FUTEX
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001286 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001287 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d4a2006-06-27 02:54:53 -07001288 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001289 help
1290 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1291 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1292 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1293
1294config EPOLL
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001295 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001296 default y
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001297 select ANON_INODES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001298 help
1299 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1300 support for epoll family of system calls.
1301
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -07001302config SIGNALFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001303 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001304 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -07001305 default y
1306 help
1307 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1308 on a file descriptor.
1309
1310 If unsure, say Y.
1311
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -07001312config TIMERFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001313 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001314 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -07001315 default y
1316 help
1317 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1318 events on a file descriptor.
1319
1320 If unsure, say Y.
1321
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -07001322config EVENTFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001323 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001324 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -07001325 default y
1326 help
1327 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1328 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1329
1330 If unsure, say Y.
1331
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001332config SHMEM
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001333 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001334 default y
1335 depends on MMU
1336 help
1337 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1338 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1339 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1340 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1341 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1342
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001343config AIO
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001344 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001345 default y
1346 help
1347 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1348 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1349 this option saves about 7k.
1350
Randy Dunlap6befe5f2011-04-26 12:33:21 -07001351config EMBEDDED
1352 bool "Embedded system"
1353 select EXPERT
1354 help
1355 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1356 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1357 for configuration.
1358
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001359config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001360 bool
Mike Frysinger018df722009-06-12 13:17:43 -04001361 help
1362 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001363
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001364config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1365 bool
1366 help
1367 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1368
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001369menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001370
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001371config PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001372 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
Robert Richter392d65a2012-04-05 18:24:44 +02001373 default y if PROFILING
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001374 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar4c59e462008-12-08 19:38:33 +01001375 select ANON_INODES
Peter Zijlstrae360adb2010-10-14 14:01:34 +08001376 select IRQ_WORK
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001377 help
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001378 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1379 by software and hardware.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001380
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001381 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001382 use of generic tracepoints.
1383
1384 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1385 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001386 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1387 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1388 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1389 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1390 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1391
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001392 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001393 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001394 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001395 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1396 capabilities on top of those.
1397
1398 Say Y if unsure.
1399
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001400config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1401 default n
1402 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1403 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1404 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1405 help
1406 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1407
1408 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1409 that don't require it.
1410
1411 Say N if unsure.
1412
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001413endmenu
1414
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001415config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1416 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001417 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001418 help
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001419 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1420 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001421 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001422 if VM event counters are disabled.
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001423
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +02001424config PCI_QUIRKS
1425 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001426 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
Geert Uytterhoeven61cfc7e2008-10-22 08:53:25 +02001427 depends on PCI
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +02001428 help
1429 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1430 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1431 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1432
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001433config SLUB_DEBUG
1434 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001435 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
Christoph Lameterf6acb632008-04-29 16:16:06 -07001436 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001437 help
1438 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1439 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1440 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1441 no support for cache validation etc.
1442
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001443config COMPAT_BRK
1444 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1445 default y
1446 help
1447 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1448 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1449 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001450 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001451 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1452
1453 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1454
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001455choice
1456 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
Christoph Lametera0acd822007-07-17 04:03:32 -07001457 default SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001458 help
1459 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1460
1461config SLAB
1462 bool "SLAB"
1463 help
1464 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -07001465 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001466 per cpu and per node queues.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001467
1468config SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001469 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1470 help
1471 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1472 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1473 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1474 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001475 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1476 a slab allocator.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001477
1478config SLOB
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001479 depends on EXPERT
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001480 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1481 help
Matt Mackall37291452008-02-04 22:29:38 -08001482 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1483 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1484 does not perform as well on large systems.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001485
1486endchoice
1487
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001488config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1489 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001490 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001491 default n
1492 help
1493 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1494 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1495 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1496 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1497 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1498 then the flag will be ignored.
1499
1500 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1501 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1502
1503 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1504 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1505 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1506 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1507
1508 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1509
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001510config PROFILING
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +01001511 bool "Profiling support"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001512 help
1513 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1514 by profilers such as OProfile.
1515
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001516#
1517# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1518# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1519#
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001520config TRACEPOINTS
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001521 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001522
Mathieu Desnoyersfb32e032008-02-02 15:10:33 -05001523source "arch/Kconfig"
1524
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001525endmenu # General setup
1526
Dmitry Baryshkovee7e5512008-06-29 14:18:46 +04001527config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1528 bool
1529 default n
1530
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001531config SLABINFO
1532 bool
1533 depends on PROC_FS
Christoph Lameter0f389ec2008-04-14 18:53:02 +03001534 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001535 default y
1536
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001537config RT_MUTEXES
1538 boolean
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001539
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001540config BASE_SMALL
1541 int
1542 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1543 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1544
Jan Engelhardt66da5732007-07-15 23:39:29 -07001545menuconfig MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001546 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1547 help
1548 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1549 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1550 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1551 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1552 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1553 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1554 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1555 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1556 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1557
1558 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1559 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1560 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1561 this).
1562
1563 If unsure, say Y.
1564
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001565if MODULES
1566
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001567config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1568 bool "Forced module loading"
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001569 default n
1570 help
Rusty Russell91e37a72008-05-09 16:25:28 +10001571 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1572 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1573 is usually a really bad idea.
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001574
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001575config MODULE_UNLOAD
1576 bool "Module unloading"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001577 help
1578 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1579 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
Denys Vlasenkof7f5b672008-07-22 19:24:26 -05001580 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1581 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001582
1583config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1584 bool "Forced module unloading"
1585 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1586 help
1587 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1588 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1589 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1590 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1591 If unsure, say N.
1592
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001593config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +01001594 bool "Module versioning support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001595 help
1596 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1597 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1598 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1599 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1600 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1601 unsure, say N.
1602
1603config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1604 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001605 help
1606 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1607 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1608 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1609 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1610 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1611 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1612 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1613
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01001614config MODULE_SIG
1615 bool "Module signature verification"
1616 depends on MODULES
David Howells48ba2462012-09-26 10:11:03 +01001617 select KEYS
1618 select CRYPTO
1619 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1620 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1621 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1622 select ASN1
1623 select OID_REGISTRY
1624 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01001625 help
1626 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1627 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1628 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1629
David Howellsea0b6dc2012-09-26 10:09:50 +01001630 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1631 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1632 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1633 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1634
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01001635config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1636 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1637 depends on MODULE_SIG
1638 help
1639 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1640 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
David Howellsea0b6dc2012-09-26 10:09:50 +01001641
1642choice
1643 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1644 depends on MODULE_SIG
1645 help
1646 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1647 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1648 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1649 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1650 the signature on that module.
1651
1652config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1653 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1654 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1655
1656config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1657 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1658 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1659
1660config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1661 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1662 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1663
1664config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1665 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1666 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1667
1668config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1669 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1670 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1671
1672endchoice
1673
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001674endif # MODULES
1675
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301676config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1677 bool
1678 help
Rusty Russell5f054e32012-03-29 15:38:31 +10301679 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1680 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301681 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1682 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001683 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301684
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001685config STOP_MACHINE
1686 bool
1687 default y
1688 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1689 help
1690 Need stop_machine() primitive.
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01001691
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01001692source "block/Kconfig"
Avi Kivitye98c3202007-10-16 23:27:31 -07001693
1694config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1695 bool
Paul E. McKenneye260be62008-01-25 21:08:24 +01001696
Steffen Klassert16295be2010-01-06 19:47:10 +11001697config PADATA
1698 depends on SMP
1699 bool
1700
Andi Kleen754b7b62012-10-04 17:11:27 -07001701# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1702# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1703# mappings
1704config BROKEN_RODATA
1705 bool
1706
David Howells4520c6a2012-09-21 23:31:13 +01001707config ASN1
1708 tristate
1709 help
1710 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
1711 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
1712 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
1713 functions to call on what tags.
1714
Thomas Gleixner6beb0002009-11-09 15:21:34 +00001715source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"