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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
Patrick Bellasiffbceda2015-06-23 09:17:54 +0100977config CGROUP_SCHEDTUNE
978 bool "CFS tasks boosting cgroup subsystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
979 depends on SCHED_TUNE
980 help
981 This option provides the "schedtune" controller which improves the
982 flexibility of the task boosting mechanism by introducing the support
983 to define "per task" boost values.
984
985 This new controller:
986 1. allows only a two layers hierarchy, where the root defines the
987 system-wide boost value and its direct childrens define each one a
988 different "class of tasks" to be boosted with a different value
989 2. supports up to 16 different task classes, each one which could be
990 configured with a different boost value
991
992 Say N if unsure.
993
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -0700994config MEMCG
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -0500995 bool "Memory controller"
Johannes Weiner3e32cb22014-12-10 15:42:31 -0800996 select PAGE_COUNTER
Tejun Heo79bd9812013-11-22 18:20:42 -0500997 select EVENTFD
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800998 help
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -0500999 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -08001000
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -07001001config MEMCG_SWAP
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -05001002 bool "Swap controller"
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -07001003 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -08001004 help
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -05001005 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
1006
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -07001007config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -05001008 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
Andrew Mortonc255a452012-07-31 16:43:02 -07001009 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08001010 default y
1011 help
1012 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1013 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
Jim Cromie43d547f2010-12-17 14:32:36 -07001014 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07001015 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08001016 parameter should have this option unselected.
1017 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1018 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
WANG Cong00a66d22011-07-25 17:12:12 -07001019 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -08001020
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001021config BLK_CGROUP
1022 bool "IO controller"
1023 depends on BLOCK
Aneesh Kumar K.V2bc64a22012-07-31 16:42:12 -07001024 default n
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001025 ---help---
1026 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1027 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1028 policies.
Aneesh Kumar K.V2bc64a22012-07-31 16:42:12 -07001029
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001030 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1031 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1032 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1033 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
Stephane Eraniane5d13672011-02-14 11:20:01 +02001034
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001035 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1036 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
1037 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
1038 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1039 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1040
seokhoon.yoon9991a9c2016-08-02 14:03:13 -07001041 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001042
1043config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1044 bool "IO controller debugging"
1045 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1046 default n
1047 ---help---
1048 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1049 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1050
1051config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
1052 bool
1053 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
1054 default y
Stephane Eraniane5d13672011-02-14 11:20:01 +02001055
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +01001056menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
Johannes Weinera0166ec2015-12-17 17:19:56 -05001057 bool "CPU controller"
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +01001058 default n
1059 help
1060 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1061 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1062 tasks.
1063
1064if CGROUP_SCHED
1065config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1066 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1067 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1068 default CGROUP_SCHED
1069
Paul Turnerab84d312011-07-21 09:43:28 -07001070config CFS_BANDWIDTH
1071 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
Paul Turnerab84d312011-07-21 09:43:28 -07001072 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1073 default n
1074 help
1075 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1076 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1077 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1078 restriction.
1079 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1080
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +01001081config RT_GROUP_SCHED
1082 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +01001083 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1084 default n
1085 help
1086 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
Li Zefan32bd7eb2010-03-24 13:17:19 +08001087 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +01001088 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
1089 realtime bandwidth for them.
1090 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1091
1092endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1093
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001094config CGROUP_PIDS
1095 bool "PIDs controller"
1096 help
1097 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
1098 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
1099 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
1100 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
1101 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
1102 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
Parav Pandit6cc578d2016-03-05 11:30:56 +05301103 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001104
1105 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
Parav Pandit6cc578d2016-03-05 11:30:56 +05301106 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001107 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
1108 attach to a cgroup.
1109
1110config CGROUP_FREEZER
1111 bool "Freezer controller"
1112 help
1113 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
1114 cgroup.
1115
Johannes Weiner489c2a22016-01-20 15:02:41 -08001116 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
1117 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1118
1119 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1120
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001121config CGROUP_HUGETLB
1122 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1123 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1124 select PAGE_COUNTER
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +02001125 default n
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001126 help
1127 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1128 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1129 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1130 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1131 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1132 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1133 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1134 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1135 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +02001136
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001137config CPUSETS
1138 bool "Cpuset controller"
1139 help
1140 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1141 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1142 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1143 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +02001144
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001145 Say N if unsure.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +02001146
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001147config PROC_PID_CPUSET
1148 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1149 depends on CPUSETS
Tejun Heo89e9b9e2015-05-22 17:13:36 -04001150 default y
1151
Johannes Weiner6bf024e2015-12-17 17:19:57 -05001152config CGROUP_DEVICE
1153 bool "Device controller"
1154 help
1155 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1156 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1157
1158config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1159 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1160 help
1161 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1162 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1163
1164config CGROUP_PERF
1165 bool "Perf controller"
1166 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1167 help
1168 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1169 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1170 designated cpu.
1171
1172 Say N if unsure.
1173
1174config CGROUP_DEBUG
1175 bool "Example controller"
1176 default n
1177 help
1178 This option enables a simple controller that exports
1179 debugging information about the cgroups framework.
1180
1181 Say N.
1182
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -08001183endif # CGROUPS
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -08001184
Syed Rameez Mustafadddcab72016-09-07 16:18:27 -07001185config SCHED_HMP
1186 bool "Scheduler support for heterogenous multi-processor systems"
1187 depends on SMP && FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1188 help
1189 This feature will let the scheduler optimize task placement on
1190 systems made of heterogeneous cpus i.e cpus that differ either
1191 in their instructions per-cycle capability or the maximum
1192 frequency they can attain.
1193
1194config SCHED_HMP_CSTATE_AWARE
1195 bool "CPU C-state aware scheduler"
1196 depends on SCHED_HMP
1197 help
1198 This feature will let the HMP scheduler optimize task placement
1199 with CPUs C-state. If this is enabled, scheduler places tasks
1200 onto the shallowest C-state CPU among the most power efficient CPUs.
1201
Olav Haugan9306c802016-08-18 17:22:44 -07001202config SCHED_CORE_CTL
1203 bool "QTI Core Control"
1204 depends on SMP
1205 help
1206 This options enables the core control functionality in
1207 the scheduler. Core control automatically offline and
1208 online cores based on cpu load and utilization.
1209
1210 If unsure, say N here.
1211
Cyrill Gorcunov067bce12012-01-12 17:20:49 -08001212config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1213 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
Iago López Galeiras2e13ba52015-06-25 15:00:57 -07001214 select PROC_CHILDREN
Cyrill Gorcunov067bce12012-01-12 17:20:49 -08001215 default n
1216 help
1217 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1218 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1219 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1220 entries.
1221
1222 If unsure, say N here.
1223
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001224menuconfig NAMESPACES
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001225 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
Iulia Manda28138932015-04-15 16:16:41 -07001226 depends on MULTIUSER
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001227 default !EXPERT
Pavel Emelyanovc5289a62008-02-08 04:18:19 -08001228 help
1229 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1230 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1231 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1232 different namespaces.
1233
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001234if NAMESPACES
1235
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -08001236config UTS_NS
1237 bool "UTS namespace"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001238 default y
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -08001239 help
1240 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1241 uname() system call
1242
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -08001243config IPC_NS
1244 bool "IPC namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001245 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001246 default y
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -08001247 help
1248 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
Serge E. Hallyn614b84c2009-04-06 19:01:08 -07001249 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -08001250
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -08001251config USER_NS
Kees Cook19c92392012-10-02 11:19:29 -07001252 bool "User namespace"
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -08001253 default n
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -08001254 help
1255 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1256 to provide different user info for different servers.
Eric W. Biedermane11f0ae2013-01-25 16:48:31 -08001257
1258 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
Johannes Weinerd886f4e2016-01-20 15:02:47 -08001259 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1260 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1261 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
Eric W. Biedermane11f0ae2013-01-25 16:48:31 -08001262
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -08001263 If unsure, say N.
1264
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -08001265config PID_NS
Daniel Lezcano9bd38c22010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001266 bool "PID Namespaces"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001267 default y
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -08001268 help
Heikki Orsila12d2b8f2008-07-06 15:48:02 +03001269 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001270 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -08001271 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1272
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -08001273config NET_NS
1274 bool "Network namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001275 depends on NET
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -07001276 default y
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -08001277 help
1278 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1279 of the network stack.
1280
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -07001281endif # NAMESPACES
1282
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01001283config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1284 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01001285 select CGROUPS
1286 select CGROUP_SCHED
1287 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1288 help
1289 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1290 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1291 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1292 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1293 upon task session.
1294
Patrick Bellasi62c1c062015-06-22 18:11:44 +01001295config SCHED_TUNE
1296 bool "Boosting for CFS tasks (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1297 help
1298 This option enables the system-wide support for task boosting.
1299 When this support is enabled a new sysctl interface is exposed to
1300 userspace via:
1301 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_cfs_boost
1302 which allows to set a system-wide boost value in range [0..100].
1303
1304 The currently boosting strategy is implemented in such a way that:
1305 - a 0% boost value requires to operate in "standard" mode by
1306 scheduling all tasks at the minimum capacities required by their
1307 workload demand
1308 - a 100% boost value requires to push at maximum the task
1309 performances, "regardless" of the incurred energy consumption
1310
1311 A boost value in between these two boundaries is used to bias the
1312 power/performance trade-off, the higher the boost value the more the
1313 scheduler is biased toward performance boosting instead of energy
1314 efficiency.
1315
1316 Since this support exposes a single system-wide knob, the specified
1317 boost value is applied to all (CFS) tasks in the system.
1318
1319 If unsure, say N.
1320
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001321config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Ferenc Wagner5d6a4ea2011-01-10 19:04:22 +01001322 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001323 depends on SYSFS
1324 default n
1325 help
1326 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1327 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1328 /sys/block/.
1329
1330 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1331 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1332
1333 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1334 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1335 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1336
1337 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1338 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1339 option enabled.
1340
1341 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1342 need to say Y here.
1343
1344config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
Ferenc Wagner5d6a4ea2011-01-10 19:04:22 +01001345 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001346 default n
1347 depends on SYSFS
1348 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1349 help
1350 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1351
1352 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1353 option.
1354
1355 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1356 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1357 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1358
1359config RELAY
1360 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
Peter Zijlstra26b56792016-10-11 13:54:33 -07001361 select IRQ_WORK
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -07001362 help
1363 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1364 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1365 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1366 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1367 user space.
1368
1369 If unsure, say N.
1370
Dimitri Gorokhovikf9916332007-03-06 01:42:17 -08001371config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1372 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1373 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1374 help
1375 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1376 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1377 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1378 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1379 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1380
1381 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1382 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1383 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1384
1385 If unsure say Y.
1386
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -08001387if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1388
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +02001389source "usr/Kconfig"
1390
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -08001391endif
1392
Arnd Bergmann877417e2016-04-25 17:35:27 +02001393choice
1394 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1395 default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1396
1397config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1398 bool "Optimize for performance"
1399 help
1400 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1401 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1402 helpful compile-time warnings.
1403
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001404config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar96fffeb2008-04-28 01:39:43 +02001405 bool "Optimize for size"
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001406 help
Masahiro Yamada31a4af72014-08-05 14:43:07 +09001407 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1408 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001409
Kirill Smelkov3a55fb02012-11-02 15:41:01 +04001410 If unsure, say N.
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -08001411
Arnd Bergmann877417e2016-04-25 17:35:27 +02001412endchoice
1413
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -07001414config SYSCTL
1415 bool
1416
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001417config ANON_INODES
1418 bool
1419
Mike Frysinger657a5202013-04-30 15:28:45 -07001420config HAVE_UID16
1421 bool
1422
1423config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1424 bool
1425 help
1426 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1427
1428config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1429 bool
1430 help
1431 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1432 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1433 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1434
1435config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1436 bool
1437 help
1438 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1439 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1440 the unaligned access emulation.
1441 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1442
Mike Frysinger657a5202013-04-30 15:28:45 -07001443config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1444 bool
1445
Alexei Starovoitovf89b7752014-10-23 18:41:08 -07001446# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1447config BPF
1448 bool
1449
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001450menuconfig EXPERT
1451 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
Josh Triplettf505c552011-06-05 18:23:58 -07001452 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1453 select DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001454 help
1455 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1456 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1457 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1458 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1459
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001460config UID16
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001461 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
Iulia Manda28138932015-04-15 16:16:41 -07001462 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001463 default y
1464 help
1465 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1466
Iulia Manda28138932015-04-15 16:16:41 -07001467config MULTIUSER
1468 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1469 default y
1470 help
1471 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1472 capabilities.
1473
1474 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1475 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1476 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1477 setgid, and capset.
1478
1479 If unsure, say Y here.
1480
Fabian Frederickf6187762014-06-04 16:11:12 -07001481config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1482 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1483 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1484 ---help---
1485 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1486 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1487 architectures.
1488
1489 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1490
Fabian Frederick6af9f7b2014-04-03 14:48:25 -07001491config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1492 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1493 default y
1494 ---help---
1495 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1496 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1497 compatibility with some systems.
1498
1499 If unsure say Y here.
1500
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001501config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001502 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
Eric W. Biederman26a70342009-11-05 05:26:41 -08001503 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
WANG Congc736de62011-11-02 13:39:25 -07001504 default n
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001505 select SYSCTL
1506 ---help---
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -08001507 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1508 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1509 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1510 information.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001511
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -08001512 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1513 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1514 making your kernel marginally smaller.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -07001515
WANG Congc736de62011-11-02 13:39:25 -07001516 If unsure say N here.
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001517
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001518config KALLSYMS
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001519 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001520 default y
1521 help
1522 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1523 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1524 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1525
1526config KALLSYMS_ALL
1527 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1528 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1529 help
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001530 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1531 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1532 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1533 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1534 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001535
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001536 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1537 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1538 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1539 something like this).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001540
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001541 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001542
Ard Biesheuvel4d5d5662016-03-15 14:58:12 -07001543config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1544 bool
Randy Dunlap076501f2016-07-06 16:06:53 -07001545 depends on KALLSYMS
Ard Biesheuvel4d5d5662016-03-15 14:58:12 -07001546 default X86_64 && SMP
1547
Ard Biesheuvel2213e9a2016-03-15 14:58:19 -07001548config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1549 bool
1550 depends on KALLSYMS
1551 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
1552 help
1553 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1554 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1555 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1556 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1557 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1558 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1559 address encountered in the image.
1560
1561 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1562 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1563 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1564 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1565
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001566config PRINTK
1567 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001568 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
Frederic Weisbecker74876a92012-10-12 18:00:23 +02001569 select IRQ_WORK
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001570 help
1571 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1572 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1573 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1574 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1575 strongly discouraged.
1576
Petr Mladek42a0bb32016-05-20 17:00:33 -07001577config PRINTK_NMI
1578 def_bool y
1579 depends on PRINTK
1580 depends on HAVE_NMI
1581
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -07001582config BUG
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001583 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -07001584 default y
1585 help
1586 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1587 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1588 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1589 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1590 Just say Y.
1591
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001592config ELF_CORE
Alex Kelly046d6622012-10-04 17:15:23 -07001593 depends on COREDUMP
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001594 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001595 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001596 help
1597 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1598
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001599
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +02001600config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001601 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001602 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
Ralf Baechle15f304b2011-06-01 19:04:59 +01001603 select I8253_LOCK
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +02001604 default y
1605 help
1606 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1607 support, saving some memory.
1608
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001609config BASE_FULL
1610 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001611 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001612 help
1613 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1614 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1615 but may reduce performance.
1616
1617config FUTEX
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001618 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001619 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d4a2006-06-27 02:54:53 -07001620 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001621 help
1622 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1623 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1624 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1625
Heiko Carstens03b8c7b2014-03-02 13:09:47 +01001626config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1627 bool
Josh Triplett62b4d202014-10-03 16:19:24 -07001628 depends on FUTEX
Heiko Carstens03b8c7b2014-03-02 13:09:47 +01001629 help
1630 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1631 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1632 checks.
1633
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001634config EPOLL
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001635 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001636 default y
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001637 select ANON_INODES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001638 help
1639 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1640 support for epoll family of system calls.
1641
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -07001642config SIGNALFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001643 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001644 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -07001645 default y
1646 help
1647 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1648 on a file descriptor.
1649
1650 If unsure, say Y.
1651
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -07001652config TIMERFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001653 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001654 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -07001655 default y
1656 help
1657 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1658 events on a file descriptor.
1659
1660 If unsure, say Y.
1661
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -07001662config EVENTFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001663 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001664 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -07001665 default y
1666 help
1667 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1668 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1669
1670 If unsure, say Y.
1671
Alexei Starovoitovf89b7752014-10-23 18:41:08 -07001672# syscall, maps, verifier
1673config BPF_SYSCALL
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +02001674 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
Alexei Starovoitovf89b7752014-10-23 18:41:08 -07001675 select ANON_INODES
1676 select BPF
1677 default n
1678 help
1679 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1680 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1681
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001682config SHMEM
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001683 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001684 default y
1685 depends on MMU
1686 help
1687 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1688 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1689 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1690 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1691 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1692
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001693config AIO
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001694 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001695 default y
1696 help
1697 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
Mike Frysinger657a5202013-04-30 15:28:45 -07001698 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1699 this option saves about 7k.
1700
Josh Triplettd3ac21c2014-08-17 19:41:09 -05001701config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1702 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1703 default y
1704 help
1705 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1706 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1707 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1708 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1709 space.
1710
Andrea Arcangelia14c1512015-09-04 15:46:54 -07001711config USERFAULTFD
1712 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1713 select ANON_INODES
Andrea Arcangelia14c1512015-09-04 15:46:54 -07001714 depends on MMU
1715 help
1716 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1717 handle page faults in userland.
1718
Mike Frysinger657a5202013-04-30 15:28:45 -07001719config PCI_QUIRKS
1720 default y
1721 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1722 depends on PCI
1723 help
1724 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1725 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1726 unaffected by PCI quirks.
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001727
Mathieu Desnoyers5b25b132015-09-11 13:07:39 -07001728config MEMBARRIER
1729 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1730 default y
1731 help
1732 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1733 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1734 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1735 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1736 compiler barrier.
1737
1738 If unsure, say Y.
1739
Randy Dunlap6befe5f2011-04-26 12:33:21 -07001740config EMBEDDED
1741 bool "Embedded system"
Josh Triplett5d2acfc2014-04-07 15:39:09 -07001742 option allnoconfig_y
Randy Dunlap6befe5f2011-04-26 12:33:21 -07001743 select EXPERT
1744 help
1745 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1746 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1747 for configuration.
1748
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001749config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001750 bool
Mike Frysinger018df722009-06-12 13:17:43 -04001751 help
1752 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001753
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001754config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1755 bool
1756 help
1757 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1758
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001759menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001760
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001761config PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001762 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
Robert Richter392d65a2012-04-05 18:24:44 +02001763 default y if PROFILING
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001764 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar4c59e462008-12-08 19:38:33 +01001765 select ANON_INODES
Peter Zijlstrae360adb2010-10-14 14:01:34 +08001766 select IRQ_WORK
Pranith Kumar83fe27e2014-12-05 11:24:45 -05001767 select SRCU
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001768 help
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001769 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1770 by software and hardware.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001771
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001772 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001773 use of generic tracepoints.
1774
1775 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1776 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001777 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1778 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1779 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1780 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1781 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1782
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001783 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001784 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001785 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001786 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1787 capabilities on top of those.
1788
1789 Say Y if unsure.
1790
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001791config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1792 default n
1793 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
Michael Ellermancb307112015-05-04 16:26:39 +10001794 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001795 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1796 help
1797 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1798
1799 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1800 that don't require it.
1801
1802 Say N if unsure.
1803
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001804endmenu
1805
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001806config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1807 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001808 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001809 help
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001810 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1811 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001812 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001813 if VM event counters are disabled.
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001814
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001815config SLUB_DEBUG
1816 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001817 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
Christoph Lameterf6acb632008-04-29 16:16:06 -07001818 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001819 help
1820 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1821 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1822 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1823 no support for cache validation etc.
1824
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001825config COMPAT_BRK
1826 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1827 default y
1828 help
1829 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1830 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1831 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001832 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001833 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1834
1835 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1836
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001837choice
1838 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
Christoph Lametera0acd822007-07-17 04:03:32 -07001839 default SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001840 help
1841 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1842
1843config SLAB
1844 bool "SLAB"
Kees Cook04385fc2016-06-23 15:20:59 -07001845 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001846 help
1847 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -07001848 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001849 per cpu and per node queues.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001850
1851config SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001852 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
Kees Cooked18adc2016-06-23 15:24:05 -07001853 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001854 help
1855 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1856 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1857 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1858 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001859 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1860 a slab allocator.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001861
1862config SLOB
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001863 depends on EXPERT
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001864 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1865 help
Matt Mackall37291452008-02-04 22:29:38 -08001866 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1867 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1868 does not perform as well on large systems.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001869
1870endchoice
1871
Thomas Garnierc7ce4f602016-05-19 17:10:37 -07001872config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1873 default n
Thomas Garnier210e7a42016-07-26 15:21:59 -07001874 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Thomas Garnierc7ce4f602016-05-19 17:10:37 -07001875 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1876 help
Thomas Garnier210e7a42016-07-26 15:21:59 -07001877 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
Thomas Garnierc7ce4f602016-05-19 17:10:37 -07001878 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1879 allocator against heap overflows.
1880
Joonsoo Kim345c9052013-06-19 14:05:52 +09001881config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1882 default y
Uwe Kleine-Königb39ffbf2013-07-17 16:54:59 +02001883 depends on SLUB && SMP
Joonsoo Kim345c9052013-06-19 14:05:52 +09001884 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1885 help
1886 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1887 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1888 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1889 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1890 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1891
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001892config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1893 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001894 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001895 default n
1896 help
1897 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1898 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1899 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1900 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1901 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1902 then the flag will be ignored.
1903
1904 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1905 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1906
1907 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1908 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1909 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1910 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1911
1912 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1913
David Howells091f6e22015-07-20 21:16:28 +01001914config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1915 def_bool n
1916 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1917 select KEYS
1918 select CRYPTO
David Howellsd43de6c2016-03-03 21:49:27 +00001919 select CRYPTO_RSA
David Howells091f6e22015-07-20 21:16:28 +01001920 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1921 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
David Howells091f6e22015-07-20 21:16:28 +01001922 select ASN1
1923 select OID_REGISTRY
1924 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1925 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
Peter Foley82c04ff2014-04-18 15:07:11 -07001926 help
David Howells091f6e22015-07-20 21:16:28 +01001927 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1928 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1929 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1930 verification.
Peter Foley82c04ff2014-04-18 15:07:11 -07001931
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001932config PROFILING
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +01001933 bool "Profiling support"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001934 help
1935 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1936 by profilers such as OProfile.
1937
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001938#
1939# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1940# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1941#
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001942config TRACEPOINTS
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001943 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001944
Mathieu Desnoyersfb32e032008-02-02 15:10:33 -05001945source "arch/Kconfig"
1946
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001947endmenu # General setup
1948
Dmitry Baryshkovee7e5512008-06-29 14:18:46 +04001949config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1950 bool
1951 default n
1952
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001953config SLABINFO
1954 bool
1955 depends on PROC_FS
Christoph Lameter0f389ec2008-04-14 18:53:02 +03001956 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001957 default y
1958
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001959config RT_MUTEXES
Christoph Jaeger6341e622014-12-20 15:41:11 -05001960 bool
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001961
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001962config BASE_SMALL
1963 int
1964 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1965 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1966
Jan Engelhardt66da5732007-07-15 23:39:29 -07001967menuconfig MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001968 bool "Enable loadable module support"
Yann E. MORIN11097a02013-08-11 16:07:50 +02001969 option modules
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001970 help
1971 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1972 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1973 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1974 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1975 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1976 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1977 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1978 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1979 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1980
1981 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1982 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1983 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1984 this).
1985
1986 If unsure, say Y.
1987
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001988if MODULES
1989
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001990config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1991 bool "Forced module loading"
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001992 default n
1993 help
Rusty Russell91e37a72008-05-09 16:25:28 +10001994 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1995 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1996 is usually a really bad idea.
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001997
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001998config MODULE_UNLOAD
1999 bool "Module unloading"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002000 help
2001 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
2002 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
Denys Vlasenkof7f5b672008-07-22 19:24:26 -05002003 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2004 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002005
2006config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
2007 bool "Forced module unloading"
Kees Cook19c92392012-10-02 11:19:29 -07002008 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002009 help
2010 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
2011 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
2012 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
2013 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
2014 If unsure, say N.
2015
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002016config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +01002017 bool "Module versioning support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002018 help
2019 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
2020 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
2021 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
2022 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
2023 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
2024 unsure, say N.
2025
2026config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
2027 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002028 help
2029 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2030 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2031 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2032 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2033 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2034 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2035 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2036
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002037config MODULE_SIG
2038 bool "Module signature verification"
2039 depends on MODULES
David Howells091f6e22015-07-20 21:16:28 +01002040 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002041 help
2042 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2043 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2044 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
2045
David Howells228c37f2015-08-11 12:38:54 +01002046 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2047 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2048 library.
2049
David Howellsea0b6dc2012-09-26 10:09:50 +01002050 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2051 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2052 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2053 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2054
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002055config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
2056 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2057 depends on MODULE_SIG
2058 help
2059 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2060 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
David Howellsea0b6dc2012-09-26 10:09:50 +01002061
Michal Marekd9d8d7e2013-01-25 13:41:31 +10302062config MODULE_SIG_ALL
2063 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2064 default y
2065 depends on MODULE_SIG
2066 help
2067 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2068 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2069
2070comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2071 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2072
David Howellsea0b6dc2012-09-26 10:09:50 +01002073choice
2074 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2075 depends on MODULE_SIG
2076 help
2077 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2078 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2079 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2080 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2081 the signature on that module.
2082
2083config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2084 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2085 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2086
2087config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2088 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2089 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2090
2091config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2092 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2093 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2094
2095config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2096 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2097 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2098
2099config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2100 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2101 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2102
2103endchoice
2104
Michal Marek22753672013-01-25 13:41:00 +10302105config MODULE_SIG_HASH
2106 string
2107 depends on MODULE_SIG
2108 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2109 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2110 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2111 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2112 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2113
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302114config MODULE_COMPRESS
2115 bool "Compress modules on installation"
2116 depends on MODULES
2117 help
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302118
Rusty Russellb6c09b52015-06-16 12:16:22 +09302119 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2120 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302121
Rusty Russellb6c09b52015-06-16 12:16:22 +09302122 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302123
Rusty Russellb6c09b52015-06-16 12:16:22 +09302124 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2125 compressed upon installation.
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302126
Rusty Russellb6c09b52015-06-16 12:16:22 +09302127 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2128 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302129
Rusty Russellb6c09b52015-06-16 12:16:22 +09302130 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2131
2132 If in doubt, say N.
Bertrand Jacquinbeb50df2014-08-27 20:31:56 +09302133
2134choice
2135 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2136 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2137 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2138 help
2139 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2140 'make modules_install'.
2141
2142 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2143
2144config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2145 bool "GZIP"
2146
2147config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2148 bool "XZ"
2149
2150endchoice
2151
Nicolas Pitredbacb0e2016-01-26 21:51:05 -05002152config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2153 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2154 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2155 help
2156 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2157 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2158 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2159 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2160
2161 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2162 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2163 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2164 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2165
Valdis Kletnieksf1cb6372016-08-02 14:07:27 -07002166 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
Nicolas Pitredbacb0e2016-01-26 21:51:05 -05002167
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04002168endif # MODULES
2169
Peter Zijlstra6c9692e2015-05-27 11:09:37 +09302170config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2171 def_bool y
2172 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2173
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10302174config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2175 bool
2176 help
Rusty Russell5f054e32012-03-29 15:38:31 +10302177 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2178 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10302179 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2180 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01002181 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10302182
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01002183source "block/Kconfig"
Avi Kivitye98c3202007-10-16 23:27:31 -07002184
2185config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2186 bool
Paul E. McKenneye260be62008-01-25 21:08:24 +01002187
Steffen Klassert16295be2010-01-06 19:47:10 +11002188config PADATA
2189 depends on SMP
2190 bool
2191
David Howells4520c6a2012-09-21 23:31:13 +01002192config ASN1
2193 tristate
2194 help
2195 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2196 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2197 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2198 functions to call on what tags.
2199
Thomas Gleixner6beb0002009-11-09 15:21:34 +00002200source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"