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1config DEFCONFIG_LIST
2 string
b2670eac 3 depends on !UML
face4374 4 option defconfig_list
47f38ae0 5 default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
face4374 6 default "/etc/kernel-config"
47f38ae0 7 default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
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8 default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
9 default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
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11config CC_IS_GCC
12 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
13
14config GCC_VERSION
15 int
16 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC
17 default 0
18
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19config CC_IS_CLANG
20 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
21
22config CLANG_VERSION
23 int
24 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
25
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26config CONSTRUCTORS
27 bool
28 depends on !UML
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30config IRQ_WORK
31 bool
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33config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
34 bool
35
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36config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
37 bool
38 help
39 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
40 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
41 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
42
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43 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
44 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
45
ff0cfc66 46menu "General setup"
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48config BROKEN
49 bool
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50
51config BROKEN_ON_SMP
52 bool
53 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
54 default y
55
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56config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
57 int
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58 default 32 if !UML
59 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 60 help
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61 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
62 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 63
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64config COMPILE_TEST
65 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 66 depends on !UML
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67 default n
68 help
69 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
70 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
71 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
72 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
73 drivers to compile-test them.
74
75 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
76 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
77 drivers to be distributed.
78
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79config LOCALVERSION
80 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
81 help
82 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
83 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
84 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
85 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
86 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
87 be a maximum of 64 characters.
88
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89config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
90 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
91 default y
ac3339ba 92 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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93 help
94 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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95 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
96 top of tree revision.
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97
98 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 99 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 100 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 101 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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103 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
104 by running the command:
105
106 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
107
108 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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110config BUILD_SALT
111 string "Build ID Salt"
112 default ""
113 help
114 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
115 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
116 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
117 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
118
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119config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
120 bool
121
122config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
123 bool
124
125config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
126 bool
127
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128config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
129 bool
130
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131config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
132 bool
133
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134config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
135 bool
136
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137config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
138 bool
139
30d65dbf 140choice
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141 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
142 default KERNEL_GZIP
f16466af 143 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
2e9f3bdd 144 help
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145 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
146 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
147 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
148 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
149 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
150
151 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
152 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
153 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
154 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
155
156 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
157 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
158 size matters less.
159
160 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
161
162config KERNEL_GZIP
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163 bool "Gzip"
164 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
165 help
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166 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
167 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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169config KERNEL_BZIP2
170 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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172 help
173 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 174 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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175 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
176 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
177 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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179config KERNEL_LZMA
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180 bool "LZMA"
181 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
182 help
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183 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
184 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
185 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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187config KERNEL_XZ
188 bool "XZ"
189 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
190 help
191 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
192 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
193 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
194 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
195 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
196 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
197
198 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
199 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
200 and LZO. Compression is slow.
201
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202config KERNEL_LZO
203 bool "LZO"
204 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
205 help
0a4dd35c 206 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 207 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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208 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
209
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210config KERNEL_LZ4
211 bool "LZ4"
212 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
213 help
214 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
215 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
216 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
217
218 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
219 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
220 faster than LZO.
221
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222config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
223 bool "None"
224 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
225 help
226 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
227 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
228 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
229 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
230 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
231
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232endchoice
233
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234config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
235 string "Default hostname"
236 default "(none)"
237 help
238 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
239 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
240 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
241 system more usable with less configuration.
242
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243#
244# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can
245# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
246#
247config ARCH_NO_SWAP
248 bool
249
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250config SWAP
251 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
17c46a6a 252 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
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253 default y
254 help
255 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 256 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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257 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
258 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
259
260config SYSVIPC
261 bool "System V IPC"
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262 ---help---
263 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
264 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
265 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
266 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
267 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
268 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
269 you'll need to say Y here.
270
271 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
272 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
273 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
274
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275config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
276 bool
277 depends on SYSVIPC
278 depends on SYSCTL
279 default y
280
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281config POSIX_MQUEUE
282 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 283 depends on NET
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284 ---help---
285 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
286 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
287 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
288 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 289 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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290
291 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
292 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
293 operations on message queues.
294
295 If unsure, say Y.
296
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297config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
298 bool
299 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
300 depends on SYSCTL
301 default y
302
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303config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
304 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
305 depends on MMU
306 default y
307 help
308 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
309 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 310 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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311 See the man page for more details.
312
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313config USELIB
314 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 315 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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316 help
317 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
318 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
319 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
320 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
321 running glibc can safely disable this.
322
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323config AUDIT
324 bool "Auditing support"
325 depends on NET
326 help
327 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
328 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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329 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
330 on architectures which support it.
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332config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
333 bool
334
391dc69c 335config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 336 def_bool y
7a017721 337 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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339config AUDIT_WATCH
340 def_bool y
341 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
342 select FSNOTIFY
343
344config AUDIT_TREE
345 def_bool y
346 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
347 select FSNOTIFY
348
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349source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
350source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
87a4c375 351source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
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352
353menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
354
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355config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
356 bool
357
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358choice
359 prompt "Cputime accounting"
360 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 361 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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362
363# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
364config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
365 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 366 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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367 help
368 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
369 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
370 granularity.
371
372 If unsure, say Y.
373
abf917cd 374config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 375 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 376 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 377 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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378 help
379 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
380 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
381 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
382 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
383 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
384 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
385 systems.
386
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387config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
388 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 389 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 390 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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391 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
392 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
393 help
394 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
395 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
396 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
397 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
398 overhead.
399
400 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
401 dynticks subsystem development.
402
403 If unsure, say N.
404
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406
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407config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
408 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 409 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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410 help
411 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
412 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
413 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
414 small performance impact.
415
416 If in doubt, say N here.
417
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418config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
419 def_bool y
420 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
421 depends on SMP
422
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423config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
424 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 425 depends on MULTIUSER
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426 help
427 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
428 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
429 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
430 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
431 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
432 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
433 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
434 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
435 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
436
437config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
438 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
439 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
440 default n
441 help
442 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
443 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
3903bf94 444 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
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445 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
446 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 447 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 448
c757249a 449config TASKSTATS
19c92399 450 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 451 depends on NET
2813893f 452 depends on MULTIUSER
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453 default n
454 help
455 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
456 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
457 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
458 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
459 space on task exit.
460
461 Say N if unsure.
462
ca74e92b 463config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 464 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 465 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 466 select SCHED_INFO
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467 help
468 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
469 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
470 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
471 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
472
473 Say N if unsure.
474
18f705f4 475config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 476 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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477 depends on TASKSTATS
478 help
479 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
480 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
481
482 Say N if unsure.
483
484config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 485 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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486 depends on TASK_XACCT
487 help
488 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
489 task has caused.
490
491 Say N if unsure.
492
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493config PSI
494 bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
495 help
496 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
497 and IO capacity are in the system.
498
499 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
500 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
501 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
502 delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
503
504 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt.
505
506 Say N if unsure.
507
391dc69c 508endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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510config CPU_ISOLATION
511 bool "CPU isolation"
414a2dc1 512 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
2c43838c 513 default y
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514 help
515 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
516 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
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517 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
518 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
519
520 Say Y if unsure.
5c4991e2 521
0af92d46 522source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
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524config BUILD_BIN2C
525 bool
526 default n
527
1da177e4 528config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 529 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 530 select BUILD_BIN2C
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531 ---help---
532 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
533 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
534 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
535 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
536 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
537 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
538 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
539 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
540
541config IKCONFIG_PROC
542 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
543 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
544 ---help---
545 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
546 through /proc/config.gz.
547
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548config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
549 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 550 range 12 25
f17a32e9 551 default 17
361e9dfb 552 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 553 help
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554 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
555 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
556 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
557 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
558
f17a32e9 559 Examples:
23b2899f 560 17 => 128 KB
f17a32e9 561 16 => 64 KB
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563 14 => 16 KB
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564 13 => 8 KB
565 12 => 4 KB
566
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567config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
568 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 569 depends on SMP
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570 range 0 21
571 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
572 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 573 depends on PRINTK
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574 help
575 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
576 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
577 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
578 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
579 e.g. backtraces.
580
581 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
582 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
583 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
584 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
585 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
586 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
587
588 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
589 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
590
591 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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592 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
593 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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595 Examples shift values and their meaning:
596 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
597 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
598 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
599 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
600 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
601 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
602
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603config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
604 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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605 range 10 21
606 default 13
f92bac3b 607 depends on PRINTK
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609 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
610 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
611 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
612 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
613 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
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f92bac3b 615 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
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616 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
617 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
618
619 Examples:
620 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
621 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
622 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
623 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
624 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
625 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
626
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628# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
629#
630config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
631 bool
632
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633config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
634 bool
635
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636#
637# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
638# balancing logic:
639#
640config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
641 bool
642
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644# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
645# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
646# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
647# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
648# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
649# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
650config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
651 bool
652
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653#
654# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
655#
656config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
657 bool
658
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659# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
660# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
661#
662config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
663 bool
664
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665config NUMA_BALANCING
666 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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667 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
668 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
669 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
670 help
671 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
672 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 673 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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675 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
676
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677config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
678 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
679 default y
680 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
681 help
682 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
683 machine.
684
23964d2d 685menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 686 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 687 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 688 help
23964d2d 689 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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690 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
691 controls or device isolation.
692 See
5cdc38f9 693 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
9991a9c8 694 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 695 and resource control)
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697 Say N if unsure.
698
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699if CGROUPS
700
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701config PAGE_COUNTER
702 bool
703
c255a458 704config MEMCG
a0166ec4 705 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 706 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 707 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 708 help
a0166ec4 709 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 710
c255a458 711config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 712 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 713 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
c077719b 714 help
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715 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
716
c255a458 717config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 718 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 719 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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720 default y
721 help
722 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
723 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 724 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 725 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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726 parameter should have this option unselected.
727 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
728 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 729 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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731config MEMCG_KMEM
732 bool
733 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
734 default y
735
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736config BLK_CGROUP
737 bool "IO controller"
738 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 739 default n
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740 ---help---
741 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
742 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
743 policies.
2bc64a20 744
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745 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
746 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
747 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
748 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
e5d1367f 749
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750 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
751 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
752 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
753 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
754 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
755
9991a9c8 756 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
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758config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
759 bool "IO controller debugging"
760 depends on BLK_CGROUP
761 default n
762 ---help---
763 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
764 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
765
766config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
767 bool
768 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
769 default y
e5d1367f 770
7c941438 771menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 772 bool "CPU controller"
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774 help
775 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
776 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
777 tasks.
778
779if CGROUP_SCHED
780config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
781 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
782 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
783 default CGROUP_SCHED
784
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786 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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787 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
788 default n
789 help
790 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
791 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
792 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
793 restriction.
cd33d880 794 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
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796config RT_GROUP_SCHED
797 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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798 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
799 default n
800 help
801 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 802 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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803 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
804 realtime bandwidth for them.
805 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
806
807endif #CGROUP_SCHED
808
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810 bool "PIDs controller"
811 help
812 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
813 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
814 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
815 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
816 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
817 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 818 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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820 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
6cc578df 821 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
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822 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
823 attach to a cgroup.
824
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825config CGROUP_RDMA
826 bool "RDMA controller"
827 help
828 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
829 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
830 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
831 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
832 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
833 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
834
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835config CGROUP_FREEZER
836 bool "Freezer controller"
837 help
838 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
839 cgroup.
840
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842 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
843
844 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
845
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846config CGROUP_HUGETLB
847 bool "HugeTLB controller"
848 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
849 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 850 default n
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851 help
852 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
853 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
854 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
855 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
856 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
857 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
858 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
859 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
860 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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862config CPUSETS
863 bool "Cpuset controller"
e1d4eeec 864 depends on SMP
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865 help
866 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
867 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
868 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
869 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 870
6bf024e6 871 Say N if unsure.
afc24d49 872
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873config PROC_PID_CPUSET
874 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
875 depends on CPUSETS
876 default y
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878config CGROUP_DEVICE
879 bool "Device controller"
880 help
881 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
882 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
883
884config CGROUP_CPUACCT
885 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
886 help
887 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
888 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
889
890config CGROUP_PERF
891 bool "Perf controller"
892 depends on PERF_EVENTS
893 help
894 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
895 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
896 designated cpu.
897
898 Say N if unsure.
899
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901 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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903 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
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904 help
905 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
906 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
907
908 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
909 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
910 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
911 inet sockets.
912
6bf024e6 913config CGROUP_DEBUG
23b0be48 914 bool "Debug controller"
afc24d49 915 default n
23b0be48 916 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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917 help
918 This option enables a simple controller that exports
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919 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
920 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
921 interfaces are not stable.
afc24d49 922
6bf024e6 923 Say N.
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926 bool
927 default n
928
23964d2d 929endif # CGROUPS
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8dd2a82c 931menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 932 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 933 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 934 default !EXPERT
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935 help
936 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
937 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
938 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
939 different namespaces.
940
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941if NAMESPACES
942
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943config UTS_NS
944 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 945 default y
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946 help
947 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
948 uname() system call
949
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950config IPC_NS
951 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 952 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 953 default y
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954 help
955 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 956 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 957
aee16ce7 958config USER_NS
19c92399 959 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 960 default n
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961 help
962 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
963 to provide different user info for different servers.
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965 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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967 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
968 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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971
74bd59bb 972config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 973 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 974 default y
74bd59bb 975 help
12d2b8f9 976 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 977 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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978 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
979
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980config NET_NS
981 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 982 depends on NET
17a6d441 983 default y
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984 help
985 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
986 of the network stack.
987
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989
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990config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
991 bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
992 select PROC_CHILDREN
993 default n
994 help
995 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
996 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
997 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
998 entries.
999
1000 If unsure, say N here.
1001
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1003 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1005 select CGROUP_SCHED
1006 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1007 help
1008 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1009 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1010 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1011 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1012 upon task session.
1013
7af37bec 1014config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1015 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1016 depends on SYSFS
1017 default n
1018 help
1019 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1020 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1021 /sys/block/.
1022
1023 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1024 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1025
1026 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1027 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1028 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1029
1030 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1031 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1032 option enabled.
1033
1034 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1035 need to say Y here.
1036
1037config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1038 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1039 default n
1040 depends on SYSFS
1041 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1042 help
1043 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1044
1045 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1046 option.
1047
1048 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1049 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1050 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1051
1052config RELAY
1053 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 1054 select IRQ_WORK
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1056 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1057 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1058 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1059 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1060 user space.
1061
1062 If unsure, say N.
1063
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1065 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
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1066 help
1067 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1068 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1069 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1070 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1071 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1073 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1074 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1075 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1076
1077 If unsure say Y.
1078
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1079if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1080
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1082
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1083endif
1084
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1086 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
2cc3ce24 1087 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
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1089config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1090 bool "Optimize for performance"
1091 help
1092 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1093 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1094 helpful compile-time warnings.
1095
c45b4f1f 1096config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1097 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1098 help
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1099 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1100 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1101
3a55fb0d 1102 If unsure, say N.
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1105
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1106config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1107 bool
1108 help
1109 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
1110 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
1111 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
1112 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
1113 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
1114 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
1115
1116config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1117 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1118 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1119 depends on EXPERT
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1120 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1121 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
5d20ee31 1122 help
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1123 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
1124 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
1125 and linking with --gc-sections.
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1127 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
1128 code and static data, particularly for small configs and
1129 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
1130 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
1131 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
1132 own risk.
1133
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1135 bool
1136
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1137config ANON_INODES
1138 bool
1139
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1141 bool
1142
1143config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1144 bool
1145 help
1146 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1147
1148config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1149 bool
1150 help
1151 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1152 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1153 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1154
1155config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1156 bool
1157 help
1158 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1159 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1160 the unaligned access emulation.
1161 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1162
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1163config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1164 bool
1165
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1166# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1167config BPF
1168 bool
1169
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1171 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1173 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1174 help
1175 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1176 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1177 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1178 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1179
ae81f9e3 1180config UID16
6a108a14 1181 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1182 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1183 default y
1184 help
1185 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1186
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1188 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1189 default y
1190 help
1191 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1192 capabilities.
1193
1194 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1195 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1196 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1197 setgid, and capset.
1198
1199 If unsure, say Y here.
1200
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1201config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1202 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
a687a533 1203 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
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1204 ---help---
1205 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1206 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1207 architectures.
1208
1209 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1210
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1211config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1212 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1213 default y
1214 ---help---
1215 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1216 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1217 compatibility with some systems.
1218
1219 If unsure say Y here.
1220
b89a8171 1221config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1222 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1223 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1224 default n
b89a8171 1225 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1226 ---help---
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1227 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1228 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1229 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1230 information.
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1232 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1233 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1234 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1235
c736de60 1236 If unsure say N here.
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1238config FHANDLE
1239 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1240 select EXPORTFS
1241 default y
1242 help
1243 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1244 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1245 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1246 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1247 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1248 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1249 syscalls.
1250
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1251config POSIX_TIMERS
1252 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1253 default y
1254 help
1255 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1256 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1257 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1258
1259 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1260 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1261 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1262 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1263 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1264 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1265
1266 If unsure say y.
1267
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1268config PRINTK
1269 default y
6a108a14 1270 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1271 select IRQ_WORK
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1272 help
1273 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1274 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1275 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1276 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1277 strongly discouraged.
1278
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1279config PRINTK_NMI
1280 def_bool y
1281 depends on PRINTK
1282 depends on HAVE_NMI
1283
c8538a7a 1284config BUG
6a108a14 1285 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1286 default y
1287 help
1288 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1289 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1290 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1291 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1292 Just say Y.
1293
708e9a79 1294config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1295 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1296 default y
6a108a14 1297 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1298 help
1299 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1300
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e5e1d3cb 1302config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1303 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1304 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1305 select I8253_LOCK
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1306 default y
1307 help
1308 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1309 support, saving some memory.
1310
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1311config BASE_FULL
1312 default y
6a108a14 1313 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1314 help
1315 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1316 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1317 but may reduce performance.
1318
1319config FUTEX
6a108a14 1320 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1321 default y
bc2eecd7 1322 imply RT_MUTEXES
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1323 help
1324 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1325 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1326 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1327
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1328config FUTEX_PI
1329 bool
1330 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1331 default y
1332
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1333config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1334 bool
62b4d204 1335 depends on FUTEX
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1336 help
1337 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1338 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1339 checks.
1340
1da177e4 1341config EPOLL
6a108a14 1342 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1343 default y
448e3cee 1344 select ANON_INODES
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1345 help
1346 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1347 support for epoll family of system calls.
1348
fba2afaa 1349config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1350 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1351 select ANON_INODES
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1352 default y
1353 help
1354 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1355 on a file descriptor.
1356
1357 If unsure, say Y.
1358
b215e283 1359config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1360 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1361 select ANON_INODES
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1362 default y
1363 help
1364 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1365 events on a file descriptor.
1366
1367 If unsure, say Y.
1368
e1ad7468 1369config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1370 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1371 select ANON_INODES
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1372 default y
1373 help
1374 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1375 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1376
1377 If unsure, say Y.
1378
1da177e4 1379config SHMEM
6a108a14 1380 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1381 default y
1382 depends on MMU
1383 help
1384 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1385 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1386 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1387 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1388 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1389
ebf3f09c 1390config AIO
6a108a14 1391 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1392 default y
1393 help
1394 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1395 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1396 this option saves about 7k.
1397
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1398config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1399 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1400 default y
1401 help
1402 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1403 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1404 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1405 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1406 space.
1407
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1408config MEMBARRIER
1409 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1410 default y
1411 help
1412 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1413 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1414 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1415 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1416 compiler barrier.
1417
1418 If unsure, say Y.
1419
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1420config KALLSYMS
1421 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1422 default y
1423 help
1424 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1425 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1426 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1427
1428config KALLSYMS_ALL
1429 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1430 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1431 help
1432 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1433 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1434 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1435 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1436 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1437
1438 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1439 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1440 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1441 something like this).
1442
1443 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1444
1445config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1446 bool
1447 depends on KALLSYMS
1448 default X86_64 && SMP
1449
1450config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1451 bool
1452 depends on KALLSYMS
a687a533 1453 default !IA64
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1454 help
1455 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1456 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1457 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1458 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1459 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1460 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1461 address encountered in the image.
1462
1463 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1464 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1465 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1466 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1467
1468# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1469
1470# syscall, maps, verifier
1471config BPF_SYSCALL
1472 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1473 select ANON_INODES
1474 select BPF
bae77c5e 1475 select IRQ_WORK
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1476 default n
1477 help
1478 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1479 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1480
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1481config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1482 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1483 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1484 help
1485 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1486 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1487
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1488config USERFAULTFD
1489 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1490 select ANON_INODES
1491 depends on MMU
1492 help
1493 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1494 handle page faults in userland.
1495
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1496config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
1497 bool
1498
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1499config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
1500 bool
1501
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1502config RSEQ
1503 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1504 default y
1505 depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1506 select MEMBARRIER
1507 help
1508 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1509 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1510 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1511 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1512 per-CPU data.
1513
1514 If unsure, say Y.
1515
1516config DEBUG_RSEQ
1517 default n
1518 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1519 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1520 help
1521 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1522
1523 If unsure, say N.
1524
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1525config EMBEDDED
1526 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1527 option allnoconfig_y
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1528 select EXPERT
1529 help
1530 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1531 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1532 for configuration.
1533
cdd6c482 1534config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1535 bool
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1536 help
1537 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1539config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1540 bool
1541 help
1542 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1543
ad90a3de 1544config PC104
424529fb 1545 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
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1546 help
1547 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1548 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1549 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1550
57c0c15b 1551menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1552
cdd6c482 1553config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1554 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1555 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1556 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1557 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1558 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1559 select SRCU
0793a61d 1560 help
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1561 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1562 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1563
dd77038d 1564 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1565 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1566
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1567 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1568 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1569 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1570 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1571 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1572 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1573 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1574
57c0c15b 1575 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1576 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1577 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1578 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1579 capabilities on top of those.
1580
1581 Say Y if unsure.
1582
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1583config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1584 default n
1585 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1586 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1587 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1588 help
1589 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1590
1591 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1592 that don't require it.
1593
1594 Say N if unsure.
1595
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1596endmenu
1597
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1598config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1599 default y
6a108a14 1600 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1601 help
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1602 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1603 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1604 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1605 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1606
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1607config SLUB_DEBUG
1608 default y
6a108a14 1609 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1610 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1611 help
1612 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1613 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1614 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1615 no support for cache validation etc.
1616
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1617config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1618 default n
1619 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1620 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1621 help
1622 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1623 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1624 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1625 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1626 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1627 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1628 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1629 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1630
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1631config COMPAT_BRK
1632 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1633 default y
1634 help
1635 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1636 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1637 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1638 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1639 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1640
1641 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1642
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1643choice
1644 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1645 default SLUB
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1646 help
1647 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1648
1649config SLAB
1650 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1651 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1652 help
1653 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1654 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1655 per cpu and per node queues.
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1656
1657config SLUB
81819f0f 1658 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1659 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1660 help
1661 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1662 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1663 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1664 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1665 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1666 a slab allocator.
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1667
1668config SLOB
6a108a14 1669 depends on EXPERT
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1670 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1671 help
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1672 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1673 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1674 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1676endchoice
1677
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1678config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
1679 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
1680 default y
1681 help
1682 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
1683 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
1684 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
1685 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
1686 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
1687 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
1688 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
1689 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
1690 command line.
1691
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1692config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1693 default n
210e7a43 1694 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1695 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1696 help
210e7a43 1697 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1698 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1699 allocator against heap overflows.
1700
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1701config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
1702 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
1703 depends on SLUB
1704 help
1705 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
1706 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
1707 sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
1708 freelist exploit methods.
1709
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1710config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1711 default y
b39ffbf8 1712 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1713 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1714 help
1715 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1716 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1717 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1718 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1719 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1720
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1721config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1722 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1723 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1724 default n
1725 help
1726 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
3903bf94 1727 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
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1728 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1729 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1730 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1731 then the flag will be ignored.
1732
1733 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1734 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1735
1736 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1737 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1738 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1739 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1740
1741 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1742
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1743config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1744 def_bool n
1745 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1746 select KEYS
1747 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1748 select CRYPTO_RSA
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1749 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1750 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1751 select ASN1
1752 select OID_REGISTRY
1753 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1754 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1755 help
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1756 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1757 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1758 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1759 verification.
82c04ff8 1760
125e5645 1761config PROFILING
b309a294 1762 bool "Profiling support"
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1763 help
1764 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1765 by profilers such as OProfile.
1766
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1767#
1768# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1769# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1770#
97e1c18e 1771config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1772 bool
97e1c18e 1773
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1774endmenu # General setup
1775
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1776source "arch/Kconfig"
1777
ae81f9e3 1778config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1779 bool
ae81f9e3 1780
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1781config BASE_SMALL
1782 int
1783 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1784 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1785
66da5733 1786menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1787 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1788 option modules
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1789 help
1790 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1791 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1792 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1793 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1794 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1795 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1796 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1797 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1798 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1799
1800 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1801 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1802 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1803 this).
1804
1805 If unsure, say Y.
1806
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1807if MODULES
1808
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1809config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1810 bool "Forced module loading"
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1811 default n
1812 help
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1813 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1814 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1815 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1816
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1817config MODULE_UNLOAD
1818 bool "Module unloading"
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1819 help
1820 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1821 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1822 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1823 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1824
1825config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1826 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1827 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1828 help
1829 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1830 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1831 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1832 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1833 If unsure, say N.
1834
1da177e4 1835config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1836 bool "Module versioning support"
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1837 help
1838 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1839 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1840 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1841 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1842 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1843 unsure, say N.
1844
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1845config MODULE_REL_CRCS
1846 bool
1847 depends on MODVERSIONS
1848
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1849config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1850 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1851 help
1852 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1853 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1854 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1855 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1856 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1857 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1858 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1859
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1860config MODULE_SIG
1861 bool "Module signature verification"
1862 depends on MODULES
091f6e26 1863 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
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1865 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1866 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
cbdc8217 1867 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
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1870 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1871 library.
1872
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1873 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1874 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1875 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1876 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1877
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1878config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1879 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1880 depends on MODULE_SIG
1881 help
1882 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1883 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1885config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1886 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1887 default y
1888 depends on MODULE_SIG
1889 help
1890 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1891 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1892
1893comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1894 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1895
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1897 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1898 depends on MODULE_SIG
1899 help
1900 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1901 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1902 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1903 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1904 the signature on that module.
1905
1906config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1907 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1908 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1909
1910config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1911 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1912 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1913
1914config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1915 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1916 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1917
1918config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1919 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1920 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1921
1922config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1923 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1924 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1925
1926endchoice
1927
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1928config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1929 string
1930 depends on MODULE_SIG
1931 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1932 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1933 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1934 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1935 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1936
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1937config MODULE_COMPRESS
1938 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1939 depends on MODULES
1940 help
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1942 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1943 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 1945 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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1947 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1948 compressed upon installation.
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1950 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1951 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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1953 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1954
1955 If in doubt, say N.
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1957choice
1958 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1959 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1960 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1961 help
1962 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1963 'make modules_install'.
1964
1965 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1966
1967config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1968 bool "GZIP"
1969
1970config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1971 bool "XZ"
1972
1973endchoice
1974
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1975config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
1976 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
1977 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
1978 help
1979 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
1980 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
1981 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
1982 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
1983
1984 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
1985 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
1986 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
1987 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
1988
f1cb637e 1989 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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1992
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1993config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
1994 def_bool y
1995 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
1996
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1997config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1998 bool
1999 help
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2000 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2001 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2003 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2004 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
98a79d6a 2005
3a65dfe8 2006source "block/Kconfig"
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2008config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2009 bool
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2011config PADATA
2012 depends on SMP
2013 bool
2014
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2015config ASN1
2016 tristate
2017 help
2018 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2019 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2020 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2021 functions to call on what tags.
2022
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2025config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2026 bool
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2028# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
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2030# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
2031# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
2032# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
2033# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
2034# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
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2036 def_bool n