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1config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
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9config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
b2670eac 11 depends on !UML
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12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
73531905 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
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17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
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19config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
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23config IRQ_WORK
24 bool
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26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
27 bool
28
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29config 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
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36 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
ff0cfc66 39menu "General setup"
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41config BROKEN
42 bool
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43
44config BROKEN_ON_SMP
45 bool
46 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
47 default y
48
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49config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
50 int
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51 default 32 if !UML
52 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 53 help
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54 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
55 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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58config 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
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66config COMPILE_TEST
67 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 68 depends on !UML
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69 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
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81config 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
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91config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
92 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
93 default y
ac3339ba 94 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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95 help
96 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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97 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
98 top of tree revision.
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99
100 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 101 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 102 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 103 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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105 (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".)
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112config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
113 bool
114
115config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
116 bool
117
118config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
119 bool
120
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121config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
122 bool
123
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124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
125 bool
126
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127config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
128 bool
129
30d65dbf 130choice
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131 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
132 default KERNEL_GZIP
2d3c6275 133 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
2e9f3bdd 134 help
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135 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
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153 bool "Gzip"
154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
155 help
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156 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
157 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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158
159config KERNEL_BZIP2
160 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 161 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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162 help
163 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 164 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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165 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.
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169config KERNEL_LZMA
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170 bool "LZMA"
171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
172 help
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173 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.
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177config 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
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192config KERNEL_LZO
193 bool "LZO"
194 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
195 help
0a4dd35c 196 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 197 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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198 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
199
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200config 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
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212endchoice
213
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214config 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
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223config SWAP
224 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 225 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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226 default y
227 help
228 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 229 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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230 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"
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235 ---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
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248config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
249 bool
250 depends on SYSVIPC
251 depends on SYSCTL
252 default y
253
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254config POSIX_MQUEUE
255 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 256 depends on NET
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257 ---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
b0e37650 262 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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263
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
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270config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
271 bool
272 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
273 depends on SYSCTL
274 default y
275
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276config 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
a2a368d9 283 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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284 See the man page for more details.
285
391dc69c 286config FHANDLE
f76be617 287 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
391dc69c 288 select EXPORTFS
f76be617 289 default y
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290 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
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299config USELIB
300 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 301 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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302 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
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309config AUDIT
310 bool "Auditing support"
311 depends on NET
312 help
313 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
314 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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315 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
316 on architectures which support it.
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318config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
319 bool
320
391dc69c 321config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 322 def_bool y
7a017721 323 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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325config AUDIT_WATCH
326 def_bool y
327 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
328 select FSNOTIFY
329
330config AUDIT_TREE
331 def_bool y
332 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
333 select FSNOTIFY
334
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335source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
336source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
337
338menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
339
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340config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
341 bool
342
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343choice
344 prompt "Cputime accounting"
345 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 346 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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348# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
349config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
350 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 351 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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352 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
abf917cd 359config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 360 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 361 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 362 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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363 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
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372config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
373 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 374 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 375 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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376 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
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391
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392config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
393 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 394 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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395 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
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403config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
404 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 405 depends on MULTIUSER
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406 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
37a4c940 427 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 428
c757249a 429config TASKSTATS
19c92399 430 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 431 depends on NET
2813893f 432 depends on MULTIUSER
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433 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
ca74e92b 443config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 444 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 445 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 446 select SCHED_INFO
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447 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
18f705f4 455config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 456 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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457 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
19c92399 465 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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466 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
391dc69c 473endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
d9817ebe 474
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476
c903ff83 477config TREE_RCU
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478 bool
479 default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
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480 help
481 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
482 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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483 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
484 smaller systems.
c903ff83 485
28f6569a 486config PREEMPT_RCU
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487 bool
488 default y if PREEMPT
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489 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
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493 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
494 smaller systems.
f41d911f 495
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496 Select this option if you are unsure.
497
9b1d82fa 498config TINY_RCU
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499 bool
500 default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
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501 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
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507config 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
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522config SRCU
523 bool
d160a727 524 default y
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525 help
526 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
527 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
528 sections.
529
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530config CLASSIC_SRCU
531 bool "Use v4.11 classic SRCU implementation"
532 default n
533 depends on RCU_EXPERT && SRCU
534 help
535 This option selects the traditional well-tested classic SRCU
536 implementation from v4.11, as might be desired for enterprise
537 Linux distributions. Without this option, the shiny new
538 Tiny SRCU and Tree SRCU implementations are used instead.
539 At some point, it is hoped that Tiny SRCU and Tree SRCU
540 will accumulate enough test time and confidence to allow
541 Classic SRCU to be dropped entirely.
542
543 Say Y if you need a rock-solid SRCU.
544
545 Say N if you would like help test Tree SRCU.
546
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547config TINY_SRCU
548 bool
677df9d4 549 default y if SRCU && TINY_RCU && !CLASSIC_SRCU
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550 help
551 This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU.
552
553config TREE_SRCU
554 bool
677df9d4 555 default y if SRCU && !TINY_RCU && !CLASSIC_SRCU
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556 help
557 This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU.
558
8315f422 559config TASKS_RCU
82d0f4c0 560 bool
8315f422 561 default n
83fe27ea 562 select SRCU
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563 help
564 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
565 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
566 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
567
6bfc09e2 568config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 569 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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570 help
571 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
572 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
573 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
574 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
575
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576config RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST
577 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_SRCU || TREE_SRCU )
578
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579config CONTEXT_TRACKING
580 bool
581
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582config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
583 bool "Force context tracking"
584 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 585 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 586 help
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587 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
588 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
589 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
590 dynticks working.
591
592 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
593 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
594 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
595 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
596 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
597 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
598 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
599 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
600 CPUs in the system.
601
99c8b1ea 602 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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603 architecture backend for the context tracking.
604
605 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
606 don't want in production.
607
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609config RCU_FANOUT
610 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
611 range 2 64 if 64BIT
612 range 2 32 if !64BIT
05c5df31 613 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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614 default 64 if 64BIT
615 default 32 if !64BIT
616 help
617 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
618 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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619 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
620 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
621 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
622 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
623 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
624 code paths on small(er) systems.
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626 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
627 Take the default if unsure.
628
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629config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
630 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
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631 range 2 64 if 64BIT
632 range 2 32 if !64BIT
47d631af 633 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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635 help
636 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
637 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
638 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
639 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
640 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
641 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
642 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
643 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
644 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
645 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
646 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
647 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
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649 fanout to a large number will likely cause problematic
650 lock contention on the leaf-level rcu_node structures unless
651 you boot with the skew_tick kernel parameter.
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653 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
654
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655 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems, but
656 please understand that you may also need to set the skew_tick
657 kernel boot parameter to avoid contention on the rcu_node
658 structure's locks.
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660 Take the default if unsure.
661
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663 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
78cae10b 664 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
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666 help
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668 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
669 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
670 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
671 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
672 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
673 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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676 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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678 Say N if you are unsure.
679
c903ff83 680config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 681 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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683 help
f41d911f 684 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 685 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 686 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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689 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
78cae10b 690 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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692 help
693 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
694 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
695 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
696 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
697
698 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
699 Say N here if you are unsure.
700
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702 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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704 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
705 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
706 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
26730f55 707 depends on RCU_EXPERT
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710 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
711 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
712 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
713 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
714 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
715 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
716 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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718
719 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
720 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
721 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 722 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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724 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
725 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
726 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 727 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 728 set to priority 6 or higher.
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730 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
731
732config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
733 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
734 range 0 3000
735 depends on RCU_BOOST
736 default 500
737 help
738 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
739 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
740 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
741 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
742
743 Accept the default if unsure.
744
3fbfbf7a 745config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 746 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 747 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
be55fa2a 748 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
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750 help
751 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
752 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
753 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
754 asymmetric multiprocessors.
755
756 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
757 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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758 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
759 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
760 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
761 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
762 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
763 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
764 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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768
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770 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
771 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 772 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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775 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
776 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
777 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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779config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
780 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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782 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
783 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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785 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
786 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
787
788 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
789 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
790 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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792config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
793 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
911af505 794 help
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796 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
797 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
798 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
799 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
800 context.
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802 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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804 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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806config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
807 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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809 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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811 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
812 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
813 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
814 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
815 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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817 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
818 or energy-efficiency reasons.
819
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823
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824config BUILD_BIN2C
825 bool
826 default n
827
1da177e4 828config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 829 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 830 select BUILD_BIN2C
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831 ---help---
832 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
833 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
834 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
835 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
836 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
837 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
838 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
839 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
840
841config IKCONFIG_PROC
842 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
843 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
844 ---help---
845 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
846 through /proc/config.gz.
847
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849 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 850 range 12 25
f17a32e9 851 default 17
361e9dfb 852 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 853 help
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855 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
856 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
857 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
858
f17a32e9 859 Examples:
23b2899f 860 17 => 128 KB
f17a32e9 861 16 => 64 KB
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863 14 => 16 KB
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865 12 => 4 KB
866
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868 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 869 depends on SMP
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870 range 0 21
871 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
872 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 873 depends on PRINTK
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875 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
876 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
877 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
878 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
879 e.g. backtraces.
880
881 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
882 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
883 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
884 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
885 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
886 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
887
888 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
889 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
890
891 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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893 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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895 Examples shift values and their meaning:
896 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
897 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
898 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
899 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
900 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
901 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
902
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904 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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906 default 13
f92bac3b 907 depends on PRINTK
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909 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
910 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
911 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
912 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
913 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
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917 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
918
919 Examples:
920 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
921 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
922 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
923 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
924 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
925 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
926
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928# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
929#
930config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
931 bool
932
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934 bool
935
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937# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
938# balancing logic:
939#
940config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
941 bool
942
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944# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
945# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
946# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
947# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
948# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
949# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
950config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
951 bool
952
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954# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
955#
956config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
957 bool
958
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960# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
961#
962config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
963 bool
964
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966 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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968 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
969 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
970 help
971 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
972 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 973 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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975 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
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978 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
979 default y
980 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
981 help
982 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
983 machine.
984
23964d2d 985menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 986 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 987 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 988 help
23964d2d 989 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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990 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
991 controls or device isolation.
992 See
5cdc38f9 993 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
9991a9c8 994 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 995 and resource control)
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997 Say N if unsure.
998
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1000
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1002 bool
1003
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a0166ec4 1005 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 1006 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 1007 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 1008 help
a0166ec4 1009 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 1010
c255a458 1011config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 1012 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 1013 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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1015 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
1016
c255a458 1017config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 1018 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 1019 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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1020 default y
1021 help
1022 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1023 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 1024 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 1025 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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1027 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1028 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 1029 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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1032 bool "IO controller"
1033 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 1034 default n
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1036 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1037 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1038 policies.
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1041 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1042 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1043 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1046 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
1047 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
1048 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1049 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1050
9991a9c8 1051 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
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1053config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1054 bool "IO controller debugging"
1055 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1056 default n
1057 ---help---
1058 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1059 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1060
1061config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
1062 bool
1063 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
1064 default y
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a0166ec4 1067 bool "CPU controller"
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1069 help
1070 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1071 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1072 tasks.
1073
1074if CGROUP_SCHED
1075config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1076 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1077 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1078 default CGROUP_SCHED
1079
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1081 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1083 default n
1084 help
1085 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1086 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1087 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1088 restriction.
1089 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1090
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1092 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1094 default n
1095 help
1096 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1097 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1099 realtime bandwidth for them.
1100 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1101
1102endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1103
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1105 bool "PIDs controller"
1106 help
1107 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
1108 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
1109 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
1110 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
1111 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
1112 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 1113 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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1115 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
6cc578df 1116 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
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1118 attach to a cgroup.
1119
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1121 bool "RDMA controller"
1122 help
1123 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
1124 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
1125 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
1126 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
1127 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
1128 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
1129
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1131 bool "Freezer controller"
1132 help
1133 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
1134 cgroup.
1135
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1137 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1138
1139 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1140
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1142 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1143 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1144 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 1145 default n
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1147 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1148 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1149 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1150 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1151 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1152 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1153 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1154 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1155 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
afc24d49 1156
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1158 bool "Cpuset controller"
1159 help
1160 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1161 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1162 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1163 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1164
6bf024e6 1165 Say N if unsure.
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1168 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1169 depends on CPUSETS
1170 default y
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1173 bool "Device controller"
1174 help
1175 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1176 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1177
1178config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1179 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1180 help
1181 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1182 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1183
1184config CGROUP_PERF
1185 bool "Perf controller"
1186 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1187 help
1188 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1189 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1190 designated cpu.
1191
1192 Say N if unsure.
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1195 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1199 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1200 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1201
1202 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1203 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1204 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1205 inet sockets.
1206
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1208 bool "Example controller"
afc24d49 1209 default n
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1211 This option enables a simple controller that exports
1212 debugging information about the cgroups framework.
afc24d49 1213
6bf024e6 1214 Say N.
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1216config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
1217 bool
1218 default n
1219
23964d2d 1220endif # CGROUPS
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1222config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1223 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
2e13ba54 1224 select PROC_CHILDREN
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1225 default n
1226 help
1227 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1228 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1229 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1230 entries.
1231
1232 If unsure, say N here.
1233
8dd2a82c 1234menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1235 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1236 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1237 default !EXPERT
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1238 help
1239 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1240 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1241 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1242 different namespaces.
1243
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1244if NAMESPACES
1245
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1246config UTS_NS
1247 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1248 default y
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1249 help
1250 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1251 uname() system call
1252
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1253config IPC_NS
1254 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1255 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1256 default y
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1257 help
1258 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1259 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1260
aee16ce7 1261config USER_NS
19c92399 1262 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1263 default n
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1264 help
1265 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1266 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1267
1268 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1269 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1270 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1271 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1273 If unsure, say N.
1274
74bd59bb 1275config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1276 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1277 default y
74bd59bb 1278 help
12d2b8f9 1279 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1280 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1281 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1282
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1283config NET_NS
1284 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1285 depends on NET
17a6d441 1286 default y
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1287 help
1288 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1289 of the network stack.
1290
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1291endif # NAMESPACES
1292
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1293config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1294 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1295 select CGROUPS
1296 select CGROUP_SCHED
1297 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1298 help
1299 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1300 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1301 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1302 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1303 upon task session.
1304
7af37bec 1305config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1306 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1307 depends on SYSFS
1308 default n
1309 help
1310 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1311 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1312 /sys/block/.
1313
1314 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1315 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1316
1317 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1318 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1319 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1320
1321 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1322 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1323 option enabled.
1324
1325 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1326 need to say Y here.
1327
1328config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1329 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1330 default n
1331 depends on SYSFS
1332 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1333 help
1334 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1335
1336 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1337 option.
1338
1339 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1340 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1341 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1342
1343config RELAY
1344 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 1345 select IRQ_WORK
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1346 help
1347 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1348 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1349 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1350 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1351 user space.
1352
1353 If unsure, say N.
1354
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1355config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1356 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1357 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1358 help
1359 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1360 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1361 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1362 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1363 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1364
1365 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1366 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1367 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1368
1369 If unsure say Y.
1370
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1371if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1372
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1373source "usr/Kconfig"
1374
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1375endif
1376
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1377choice
1378 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1379 default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1380
1381config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1382 bool "Optimize for performance"
1383 help
1384 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1385 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1386 helpful compile-time warnings.
1387
c45b4f1f 1388config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1389 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1390 help
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1391 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1392 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1393
3a55fb0d 1394 If unsure, say N.
c45b4f1f 1395
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1396endchoice
1397
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1398config SYSCTL
1399 bool
1400
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1401config ANON_INODES
1402 bool
1403
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1404config HAVE_UID16
1405 bool
1406
1407config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1408 bool
1409 help
1410 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1411
1412config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1413 bool
1414 help
1415 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1416 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1417 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1418
1419config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1420 bool
1421 help
1422 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1423 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1424 the unaligned access emulation.
1425 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1426
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1427config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1428 bool
1429
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1430# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1431config BPF
1432 bool
1433
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1434menuconfig EXPERT
1435 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1436 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1437 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1438 help
1439 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1440 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1441 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1442 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1443
ae81f9e3 1444config UID16
6a108a14 1445 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1446 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1447 default y
1448 help
1449 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1450
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1451config MULTIUSER
1452 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1453 default y
1454 help
1455 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1456 capabilities.
1457
1458 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1459 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1460 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1461 setgid, and capset.
1462
1463 If unsure, say Y here.
1464
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1465config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1466 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1467 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1468 ---help---
1469 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1470 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1471 architectures.
1472
1473 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1474
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1475config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1476 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1477 default y
1478 ---help---
1479 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1480 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1481 compatibility with some systems.
1482
1483 If unsure say Y here.
1484
b89a8171 1485config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1486 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1487 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1488 default n
b89a8171 1489 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1490 ---help---
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1491 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1492 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1493 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1494 information.
b89a8171 1495
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1496 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1497 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1498 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1499
c736de60 1500 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1501
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1502config POSIX_TIMERS
1503 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1504 default y
1505 help
1506 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1507 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1508 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1509
1510 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1511 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1512 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1513 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1514 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1515 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1516
1517 If unsure say y.
1518
1da177e4 1519config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1520 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1521 default y
1522 help
1523 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1524 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1525 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1526
1527config KALLSYMS_ALL
1528 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1529 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1530 help
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1531 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1532 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1533 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1534 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1535 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1536
1537 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1538 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1539 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1540 something like this).
1541
1542 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1544config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1545 bool
076501ff 1546 depends on KALLSYMS
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1547 default X86_64 && SMP
1548
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1549config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1550 bool
1551 depends on KALLSYMS
1552 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
1553 help
1554 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1555 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1556 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1557 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1558 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1559 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1560 address encountered in the image.
1561
1562 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1563 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1564 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1565 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1566
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1567config PRINTK
1568 default y
6a108a14 1569 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1570 select IRQ_WORK
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1571 help
1572 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1573 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1574 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1575 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1576 strongly discouraged.
1577
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1578config PRINTK_NMI
1579 def_bool y
1580 depends on PRINTK
1581 depends on HAVE_NMI
1582
c8538a7a 1583config BUG
6a108a14 1584 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1585 default y
1586 help
1587 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1588 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1589 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1590 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1591 Just say Y.
1592
708e9a79 1593config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1594 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1595 default y
6a108a14 1596 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1597 help
1598 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1599
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e5e1d3cb 1601config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1602 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1603 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1604 select I8253_LOCK
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1605 default y
1606 help
1607 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1608 support, saving some memory.
1609
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1610config BASE_FULL
1611 default y
6a108a14 1612 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1613 help
1614 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1615 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1616 but may reduce performance.
1617
1618config FUTEX
6a108a14 1619 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1620 default y
23f78d4a 1621 select RT_MUTEXES
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1622 help
1623 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1624 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1625 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1626
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1627config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1628 bool
62b4d204 1629 depends on FUTEX
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1630 help
1631 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1632 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1633 checks.
1634
1da177e4 1635config EPOLL
6a108a14 1636 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1637 default y
448e3cee 1638 select ANON_INODES
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1639 help
1640 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1641 support for epoll family of system calls.
1642
fba2afaa 1643config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1644 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1645 select ANON_INODES
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1646 default y
1647 help
1648 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1649 on a file descriptor.
1650
1651 If unsure, say Y.
1652
b215e283 1653config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1654 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1655 select ANON_INODES
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1656 default y
1657 help
1658 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1659 events on a file descriptor.
1660
1661 If unsure, say Y.
1662
e1ad7468 1663config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1664 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1665 select ANON_INODES
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1666 default y
1667 help
1668 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1669 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1670
1671 If unsure, say Y.
1672
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1674config BPF_SYSCALL
e1abf2cc 1675 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
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1676 select ANON_INODES
1677 select BPF
1678 default n
1679 help
1680 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1681 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1682
1da177e4 1683config SHMEM
6a108a14 1684 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1685 default y
1686 depends on MMU
1687 help
1688 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1689 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1690 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1691 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1692 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1693
ebf3f09c 1694config AIO
6a108a14 1695 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1696 default y
1697 help
1698 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1699 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1700 this option saves about 7k.
1701
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1702config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1703 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1704 default y
1705 help
1706 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1707 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1708 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1709 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1710 space.
1711
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1712config USERFAULTFD
1713 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1714 select ANON_INODES
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1715 depends on MMU
1716 help
1717 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1718 handle page faults in userland.
1719
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1720config PCI_QUIRKS
1721 default y
1722 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1723 depends on PCI
1724 help
1725 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1726 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1727 unaffected by PCI quirks.
ebf3f09c 1728
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1729config MEMBARRIER
1730 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1731 default y
1732 help
1733 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1734 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1735 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1736 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1737 compiler barrier.
1738
1739 If unsure, say Y.
1740
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1741config EMBEDDED
1742 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1743 option allnoconfig_y
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1744 select EXPERT
1745 help
1746 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1747 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1748 for configuration.
1749
cdd6c482 1750config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1751 bool
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1752 help
1753 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1754
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1755config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1756 bool
1757 help
1758 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1759
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1760config PC104
1761 bool "PC/104 support"
1762 help
1763 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1764 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1765 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1766
57c0c15b 1767menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1768
cdd6c482 1769config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1770 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1771 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1772 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1773 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1774 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1775 select SRCU
0793a61d 1776 help
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1777 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1778 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1779
dd77038d 1780 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1781 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1782
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1783 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1784 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1785 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1786 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1787 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1788 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1789 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1790
57c0c15b 1791 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1792 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1793 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1794 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1795 capabilities on top of those.
1796
1797 Say Y if unsure.
1798
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1799config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1800 default n
1801 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1802 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1803 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1804 help
1805 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1806
1807 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1808 that don't require it.
1809
1810 Say N if unsure.
1811
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1813
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1814config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1815 default y
6a108a14 1816 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1817 help
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1818 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1819 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1820 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1821 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1822
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1823config SLUB_DEBUG
1824 default y
6a108a14 1825 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1826 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1827 help
1828 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1829 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1830 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1831 no support for cache validation etc.
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1834 default n
1835 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1836 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1837 help
1838 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1839 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1840 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1841 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1842 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1843 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1844 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1845 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1846
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1848 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1849 default y
1850 help
1851 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1852 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1853 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1854 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1855 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1856
1857 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1858
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1860 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1861 default SLUB
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1863 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1864
1865config SLAB
1866 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1867 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1869 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1870 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1871 per cpu and per node queues.
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1873config SLUB
81819f0f 1874 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1875 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1876 help
1877 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1878 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1879 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1880 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1882 a slab allocator.
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1884config SLOB
6a108a14 1885 depends on EXPERT
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1886 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1887 help
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1888 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1889 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1890 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1893
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1894config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1895 default n
210e7a43 1896 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1897 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1898 help
210e7a43 1899 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1900 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1901 allocator against heap overflows.
1902
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1903config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1904 default y
b39ffbf8 1905 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1906 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1907 help
1908 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1909 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1910 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1911 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1912 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1913
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1914config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1915 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1916 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1917 default n
1918 help
1919 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1920 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1921 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1922 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1923 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1924 then the flag will be ignored.
1925
1926 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1927 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1928
1929 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1930 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1931 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1932 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1933
1934 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1935
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1937 def_bool n
1938 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1939 select KEYS
1940 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1941 select CRYPTO_RSA
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1942 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1943 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1944 select ASN1
1945 select OID_REGISTRY
1946 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1947 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1948 help
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1949 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1950 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1951 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1952 verification.
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125e5645 1954config PROFILING
b309a294 1955 bool "Profiling support"
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1957 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1958 by profilers such as OProfile.
1959
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1961# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1962# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1963#
97e1c18e 1964config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1965 bool
97e1c18e 1966
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1968
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1970
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1971config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1972 bool
1973 default n
1974
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1975config SLABINFO
1976 bool
1977 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1978 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1979 default y
1980
ae81f9e3 1981config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1982 bool
ae81f9e3 1983
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1984config BASE_SMALL
1985 int
1986 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1987 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1988
66da5733 1989menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1990 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1991 option modules
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1992 help
1993 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1994 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1995 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1996 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1997 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1998 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1999 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
2000 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
2001 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
2002
2003 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
2004 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
2005 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
2006 this).
2007
2008 If unsure, say Y.
2009
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2011
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2012config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
2013 bool "Forced module loading"
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2014 default n
2015 help
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2016 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
2017 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
2018 is usually a really bad idea.
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2020config MODULE_UNLOAD
2021 bool "Module unloading"
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2022 help
2023 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
2024 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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2025 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
2026 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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2028config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
2029 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 2030 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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2031 help
2032 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
2033 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
2034 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
2035 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
2036 If unsure, say N.
2037
1da177e4 2038config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 2039 bool "Module versioning support"
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2040 help
2041 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
2042 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
2043 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
2044 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
2045 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
2046 unsure, say N.
2047
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2049 bool
2050 depends on MODVERSIONS
2051
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2052config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
2053 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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2054 help
2055 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2056 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2057 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2058 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2059 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2060 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2061 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2062
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2064 bool "Module signature verification"
2065 depends on MODULES
091f6e26 2066 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
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2067 help
2068 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2069 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2070 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
2071
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2072 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2073 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2074 library.
2075
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2076 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2077 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2078 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2079 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2080
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2082 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2083 depends on MODULE_SIG
2084 help
2085 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2086 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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2088config MODULE_SIG_ALL
2089 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2090 default y
2091 depends on MODULE_SIG
2092 help
2093 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2094 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2095
2096comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2097 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2098
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2100 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2101 depends on MODULE_SIG
2102 help
2103 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2104 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2105 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2106 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2107 the signature on that module.
2108
2109config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2110 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2111 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2112
2113config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2114 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2115 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2116
2117config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2118 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2119 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2120
2121config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2122 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2123 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2124
2125config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2126 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2127 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2128
2129endchoice
2130
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2132 string
2133 depends on MODULE_SIG
2134 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2135 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2136 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2137 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2138 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2139
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2140config MODULE_COMPRESS
2141 bool "Compress modules on installation"
2142 depends on MODULES
2143 help
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2145 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2146 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 2148 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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2150 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2151 compressed upon installation.
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2153 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2154 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2156 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2157
2158 If in doubt, say N.
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2159
2160choice
2161 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2162 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2163 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2164 help
2165 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2166 'make modules_install'.
2167
2168 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2169
2170config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2171 bool "GZIP"
2172
2173config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2174 bool "XZ"
2175
2176endchoice
2177
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2178config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2179 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2180 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2181 help
2182 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2183 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2184 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2185 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2186
2187 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2188 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2189 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2190 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2191
f1cb637e 2192 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2195
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2197 def_bool y
2198 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2199
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2200config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2201 bool
2202 help
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2203 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2204 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2205 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2206 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
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2211config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2212 bool
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2214config PADATA
2215 depends on SMP
2216 bool
2217
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2218config ASN1
2219 tristate
2220 help
2221 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2222 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2223 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2224 functions to call on what tags.
2225
6beb0009 2226source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"