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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
ff0cfc66 29menu "General setup"
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31config BROKEN
32 bool
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33
34config BROKEN_ON_SMP
35 bool
36 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
37 default y
38
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39config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
40 int
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41 default 32 if !UML
42 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 43 help
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44 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
45 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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48config CROSS_COMPILE
49 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
50 help
51 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
52 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
53 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
54 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
55
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56config COMPILE_TEST
57 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
58 default n
59 help
60 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
61 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
62 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
63 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
64 drivers to compile-test them.
65
66 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
67 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
68 drivers to be distributed.
69
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70config LOCALVERSION
71 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
72 help
73 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
74 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
75 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
76 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
77 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
78 be a maximum of 64 characters.
79
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80config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
81 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
82 default y
83 help
84 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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85 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
86 top of tree revision.
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88 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 89 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 90 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 91 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 92
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93 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
94 by running the command:
95
96 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
97
98 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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100config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
101 bool
102
103config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
104 bool
105
106config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
107 bool
108
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109config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
110 bool
111
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112config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
113 bool
114
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115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
116 bool
117
30d65dbf 118choice
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119 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
120 default KERNEL_GZIP
2d3c6275 121 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
2e9f3bdd 122 help
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123 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
124 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
125 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
126 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
127 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
128
129 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
130 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
131 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
132 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
133
134 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
135 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
136 size matters less.
137
138 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
139
140config KERNEL_GZIP
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141 bool "Gzip"
142 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
143 help
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144 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
145 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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146
147config KERNEL_BZIP2
148 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 149 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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150 help
151 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 152 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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153 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
154 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
155 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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156
157config KERNEL_LZMA
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158 bool "LZMA"
159 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
160 help
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161 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
162 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
163 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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165config KERNEL_XZ
166 bool "XZ"
167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
168 help
169 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
170 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
171 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
172 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
173 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
174 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
175
176 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
177 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
178 and LZO. Compression is slow.
179
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180config KERNEL_LZO
181 bool "LZO"
182 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
183 help
0a4dd35c 184 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 185 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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186 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
187
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188config KERNEL_LZ4
189 bool "LZ4"
190 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
191 help
192 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
193 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
194 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
195
196 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
197 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
198 faster than LZO.
199
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200endchoice
201
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202config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
203 string "Default hostname"
204 default "(none)"
205 help
206 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
207 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
208 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
209 system more usable with less configuration.
210
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211config SWAP
212 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 213 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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214 default y
215 help
216 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 217 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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218 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
219 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
220
221config SYSVIPC
222 bool "System V IPC"
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223 ---help---
224 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
225 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
226 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
227 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
228 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
229 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
230 you'll need to say Y here.
231
232 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
233 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
234 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
235
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236config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
237 bool
238 depends on SYSVIPC
239 depends on SYSCTL
240 default y
241
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242config POSIX_MQUEUE
243 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 244 depends on NET
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245 ---help---
246 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
247 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
248 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
249 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 250 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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251
252 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
253 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
254 operations on message queues.
255
256 If unsure, say Y.
257
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258config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
259 bool
260 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
261 depends on SYSCTL
262 default y
263
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264config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
265 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
266 depends on MMU
267 default y
268 help
269 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
270 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 271 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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272 See the man page for more details.
273
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274config FHANDLE
275 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
276 select EXPORTFS
277 help
278 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
279 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
280 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
281 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
282 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
283 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
284 syscalls.
285
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286config USELIB
287 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 288 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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289 help
290 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
291 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
292 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
293 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
294 running glibc can safely disable this.
295
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296config AUDIT
297 bool "Auditing support"
298 depends on NET
299 help
300 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
301 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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302 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
303 on architectures which support it.
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305config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
306 bool
307
391dc69c 308config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 309 def_bool y
7a017721 310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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312config AUDIT_WATCH
313 def_bool y
314 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
315 select FSNOTIFY
316
317config AUDIT_TREE
318 def_bool y
319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
320 select FSNOTIFY
321
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322source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
323source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
324
325menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
326
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327config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
328 bool
329
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330choice
331 prompt "Cputime accounting"
332 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 333 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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335# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
336config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
337 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 338 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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339 help
340 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
341 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
342 granularity.
343
344 If unsure, say Y.
345
abf917cd 346config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 347 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 348 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 349 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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350 help
351 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
352 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
353 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
354 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
355 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
356 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
357 systems.
358
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359config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
360 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 361 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 362 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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363 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
364 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
365 help
366 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
367 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
368 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
369 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
370 overhead.
371
372 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
373 dynticks subsystem development.
374
375 If unsure, say N.
376
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377config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
378 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
c58b0df1 379 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
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380 help
381 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
382 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
383 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
384 small performance impact.
385
386 If in doubt, say N here.
387
388endchoice
389
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390config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
391 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 392 depends on MULTIUSER
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393 help
394 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
395 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
396 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
397 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
398 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
399 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
400 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
401 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
402 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
403
404config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
405 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
406 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
407 default n
408 help
409 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
410 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
411 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
412 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
413 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 414 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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c757249a 416config TASKSTATS
19c92399 417 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 418 depends on NET
2813893f 419 depends on MULTIUSER
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420 default n
421 help
422 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
423 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
424 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
425 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
426 space on task exit.
427
428 Say N if unsure.
429
ca74e92b 430config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 431 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 432 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 433 select SCHED_INFO
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434 help
435 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
436 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
437 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
438 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
439
440 Say N if unsure.
441
18f705f4 442config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 443 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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444 depends on TASKSTATS
445 help
446 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
447 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
448
449 Say N if unsure.
450
451config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 452 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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453 depends on TASK_XACCT
454 help
455 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
456 task has caused.
457
458 Say N if unsure.
459
391dc69c 460endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
d9817ebe 461
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462menu "RCU Subsystem"
463
c903ff83 464config TREE_RCU
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465 bool
466 default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
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467 help
468 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
469 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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470 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
471 smaller systems.
c903ff83 472
28f6569a 473config PREEMPT_RCU
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474 bool
475 default y if PREEMPT
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476 help
477 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
478 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
479 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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480 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
481 smaller systems.
f41d911f 482
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483 Select this option if you are unsure.
484
9b1d82fa 485config TINY_RCU
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486 bool
487 default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
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488 help
489 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
490 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
491 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
492 memory footprint of RCU.
493
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494config RCU_EXPERT
495 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
496 default n
497 help
498 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
499 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
500 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
501 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
502 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
503 obscure RCU options to be set up.
504
505 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
506
507 Say N if you are unsure.
508
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509config SRCU
510 bool
511 help
512 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
513 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
514 sections.
515
8315f422 516config TASKS_RCU
82d0f4c0 517 bool
8315f422 518 default n
83fe27ea 519 select SRCU
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520 help
521 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
522 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
523 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
524
6bfc09e2 525config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 526 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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527 help
528 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
529 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
530 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
531 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
532
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533config CONTEXT_TRACKING
534 bool
535
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536config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
537 bool "Force context tracking"
538 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 539 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 540 help
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541 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
542 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
543 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
544 dynticks working.
545
546 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
547 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
548 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
549 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
550 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
551 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
552 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
553 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
554 CPUs in the system.
555
99c8b1ea 556 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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557 architecture backend for the context tracking.
558
559 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
560 don't want in production.
561
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563config RCU_FANOUT
564 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
565 range 2 64 if 64BIT
566 range 2 32 if !64BIT
05c5df31 567 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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569 default 32 if !64BIT
570 help
571 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
572 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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573 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
574 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
575 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
576 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
577 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
578 code paths on small(er) systems.
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580 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
581 Take the default if unsure.
582
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583config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
584 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
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585 range 2 64 if 64BIT
586 range 2 32 if !64BIT
47d631af 587 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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588 default 16
589 help
590 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
591 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
592 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
593 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
594 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
595 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
596 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
597 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
598 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
599 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
600 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
601 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
602 leaf-level fanouts work well.
603
604 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
605
606 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
607
608 Take the default if unsure.
609
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610config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
611 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
78cae10b 612 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
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613 default n
614 help
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615 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
616 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
617 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
618 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
619 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
620 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
621 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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623 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
624 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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626 Say N if you are unsure.
627
c903ff83 628config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 629 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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631 help
f41d911f 632 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 633 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 634 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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636config RCU_BOOST
637 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
78cae10b 638 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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639 default n
640 help
641 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
642 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
643 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
644 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
645
646 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
647 Say N here if you are unsure.
648
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650 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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652 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
653 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
654 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
26730f55 655 depends on RCU_EXPERT
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657 This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
658 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
659 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
660 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
661 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
662 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
663 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
664 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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666
667 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
668 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
669 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 670 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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672 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
673 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
674 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 675 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 676 set to priority 6 or higher.
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678 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
679
680config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
681 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
682 range 0 3000
683 depends on RCU_BOOST
684 default 500
685 help
686 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
687 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
688 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
689 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
690
691 Accept the default if unsure.
692
3fbfbf7a 693config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 694 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 695 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
be55fa2a 696 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
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698 help
699 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
700 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
701 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
702 asymmetric multiprocessors.
703
704 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
705 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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707 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
708 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
709 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
710 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
711 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
712 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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716
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718 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
719 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 720 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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723 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
724 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
725 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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727config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
728 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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730 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
731 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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733 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
734 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
735
736 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
737 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
738 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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740config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
741 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
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744 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
745 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
746 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
747 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
748 context.
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750 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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752 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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754config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
755 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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757 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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759 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
760 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
761 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
762 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
763 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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765 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
766 or energy-efficiency reasons.
767
768endchoice
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771 bool
772 default n
773 help
774 This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
775 as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
776 The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
777 rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
778 at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
779 init is exec'ed.
780
781 Accept the default if unsure.
782
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784
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785config BUILD_BIN2C
786 bool
787 default n
788
1da177e4 789config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 790 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 791 select BUILD_BIN2C
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792 ---help---
793 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
794 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
795 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
796 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
797 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
798 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
799 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
800 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
801
802config IKCONFIG_PROC
803 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
804 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
805 ---help---
806 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
807 through /proc/config.gz.
808
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810 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 811 range 12 25
f17a32e9 812 default 17
361e9dfb 813 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 814 help
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816 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
817 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
818 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
819
f17a32e9 820 Examples:
23b2899f 821 17 => 128 KB
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824 14 => 16 KB
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826 12 => 4 KB
827
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829 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 830 depends on SMP
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832 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
833 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 834 depends on PRINTK
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836 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
837 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
838 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
839 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
840 e.g. backtraces.
841
842 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
843 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
844 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
845 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
846 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
847 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
848
849 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
850 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
851
852 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
853 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
854 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
855
856 Examples shift values and their meaning:
857 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
858 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
859 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
860 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
861 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
862 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
863
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865# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
866#
867config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
868 bool
869
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871 bool
872
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874# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
875# balancing logic:
876#
877config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
878 bool
879
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881# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
882# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
883# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
884# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
885# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
886# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
887config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
888 bool
889
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891# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
892#
893config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
894 bool
895
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897# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
898#
899config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
900 bool
901
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903 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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905 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
906 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
907 help
908 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
909 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 910 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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912 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
913
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915 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
916 default y
917 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
918 help
919 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
920 machine.
921
23964d2d 922menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 923 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 924 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 925 help
23964d2d 926 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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928 controls or device isolation.
929 See
5cdc38f9 930 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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931 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
932 and resource control)
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934 Say N if unsure.
935
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937
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939 bool
940
c255a458 941config MEMCG
a0166ec4 942 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 943 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 944 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 945 help
a0166ec4 946 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 947
c255a458 948config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 949 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 950 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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953
c255a458 954config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 955 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 956 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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958 help
959 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
960 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 961 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 962 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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964 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
965 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 966 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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969 bool "IO controller"
970 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 971 default n
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973 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
974 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
975 policies.
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978 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
979 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
980 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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983 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
984 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
985 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
986 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
987
988 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
989
990config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
991 bool "IO controller debugging"
992 depends on BLK_CGROUP
993 default n
994 ---help---
995 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
996 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
997
998config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
999 bool
1000 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
1001 default y
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7c941438 1003menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 1004 bool "CPU controller"
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1006 help
1007 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1008 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1009 tasks.
1010
1011if CGROUP_SCHED
1012config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1013 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1014 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1015 default CGROUP_SCHED
1016
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1018 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1020 default n
1021 help
1022 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1023 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1024 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1025 restriction.
1026 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1027
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1029 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1031 default n
1032 help
1033 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1034 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1036 realtime bandwidth for them.
1037 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1038
1039endif #CGROUP_SCHED
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1042 bool "PIDs controller"
1043 help
1044 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
1045 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
1046 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
1047 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
1048 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
1049 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
1050 PIDs cgroup subsystem is designed to stop this from happening.
1051
1052 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
1053 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs subsystem),
1054 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
1055 attach to a cgroup.
1056
1057config CGROUP_FREEZER
1058 bool "Freezer controller"
1059 help
1060 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
1061 cgroup.
1062
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1064 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1065
1066 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1067
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1069 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1070 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1071 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 1072 default n
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1074 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1075 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1076 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1077 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1078 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1079 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1080 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1081 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1082 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
afc24d49 1083
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1085 bool "Cpuset controller"
1086 help
1087 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1088 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1089 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1090 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1091
6bf024e6 1092 Say N if unsure.
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1095 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1096 depends on CPUSETS
1097 default y
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1100 bool "Device controller"
1101 help
1102 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1103 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1104
1105config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1106 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1107 help
1108 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1109 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1110
1111config CGROUP_PERF
1112 bool "Perf controller"
1113 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1114 help
1115 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1116 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1117 designated cpu.
1118
1119 Say N if unsure.
1120
1121config CGROUP_DEBUG
1122 bool "Example controller"
afc24d49 1123 default n
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1125 This option enables a simple controller that exports
1126 debugging information about the cgroups framework.
afc24d49 1127
6bf024e6 1128 Say N.
89e9b9e0 1129
23964d2d 1130endif # CGROUPS
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1133 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
2e13ba54 1134 select PROC_CHILDREN
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1136 help
1137 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1138 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1139 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1140 entries.
1141
1142 If unsure, say N here.
1143
8dd2a82c 1144menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1145 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1146 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1147 default !EXPERT
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1149 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1150 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1151 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1152 different namespaces.
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1157 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1158 default y
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1160 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1161 uname() system call
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1164 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1165 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1166 default y
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1168 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1169 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1170
aee16ce7 1171config USER_NS
19c92399 1172 bool "User namespace"
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1175 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1176 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1178 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1180 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1181 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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1184
74bd59bb 1185config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1186 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1187 default y
74bd59bb 1188 help
12d2b8f9 1189 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1190 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1194 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1195 depends on NET
17a6d441 1196 default y
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1198 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1199 of the network stack.
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1204 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1206 select CGROUP_SCHED
1207 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1208 help
1209 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1210 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1211 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1212 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1213 upon task session.
1214
7af37bec 1215config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1216 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1218 default n
1219 help
1220 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1221 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1222 /sys/block/.
1223
1224 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1225 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1226
1227 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1228 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1229 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1230
1231 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1232 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1233 option enabled.
1234
1235 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1236 need to say Y here.
1237
1238config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1239 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1240 default n
1241 depends on SYSFS
1242 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1243 help
1244 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1245
1246 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1247 option.
1248
1249 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1250 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1251 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1252
1253config RELAY
1254 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1255 help
1256 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1257 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1258 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1259 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1260 user space.
1261
1262 If unsure, say N.
1263
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1264config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1265 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1266 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1267 help
1268 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1269 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1270 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1271 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1272 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1273
1274 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1275 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1276 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1277
1278 If unsure say Y.
1279
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1280if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1281
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1283
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1284endif
1285
c45b4f1f 1286config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1287 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1288 help
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1289 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1290 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1291
3a55fb0d 1292 If unsure, say N.
c45b4f1f 1293
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1294config SYSCTL
1295 bool
1296
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1297config ANON_INODES
1298 bool
1299
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1300config HAVE_UID16
1301 bool
1302
1303config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1304 bool
1305 help
1306 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1307
1308config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1309 bool
1310 help
1311 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1312 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1313 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1314
1315config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1316 bool
1317 help
1318 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1319 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1320 the unaligned access emulation.
1321 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1322
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1323config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1324 bool
1325
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1326# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1327config BPF
1328 bool
1329
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1330menuconfig EXPERT
1331 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1332 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1333 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1334 help
1335 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1336 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1337 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1338 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1339
ae81f9e3 1340config UID16
6a108a14 1341 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1342 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1343 default y
1344 help
1345 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1346
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1348 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1349 default y
1350 help
1351 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1352 capabilities.
1353
1354 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1355 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1356 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1357 setgid, and capset.
1358
1359 If unsure, say Y here.
1360
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1361config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1362 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1363 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1364 ---help---
1365 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1366 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1367 architectures.
1368
1369 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1370
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1371config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1372 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1373 default y
1374 ---help---
1375 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1376 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1377 compatibility with some systems.
1378
1379 If unsure say Y here.
1380
b89a8171 1381config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1382 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1383 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1384 default n
b89a8171 1385 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1386 ---help---
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1387 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1388 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1389 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1390 information.
b89a8171 1391
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1392 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1393 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1394 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1395
c736de60 1396 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1397
1da177e4 1398config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1399 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1400 default y
1401 help
1402 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1403 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1404 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1405
1406config KALLSYMS_ALL
1407 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1408 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1409 help
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1410 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1411 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1412 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1413 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1414 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1415
1416 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1417 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1418 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1419 something like this).
1420
1421 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1423config PRINTK
1424 default y
6a108a14 1425 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1426 select IRQ_WORK
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1427 help
1428 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1429 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1430 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1431 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1432 strongly discouraged.
1433
c8538a7a 1434config BUG
6a108a14 1435 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1436 default y
1437 help
1438 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1439 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1440 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1441 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1442 Just say Y.
1443
708e9a79 1444config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1445 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1446 default y
6a108a14 1447 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1448 help
1449 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1450
8761f1ab 1451
e5e1d3cb 1452config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1453 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1454 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1455 select I8253_LOCK
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1456 default y
1457 help
1458 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1459 support, saving some memory.
1460
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1461config BASE_FULL
1462 default y
6a108a14 1463 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1464 help
1465 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1466 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1467 but may reduce performance.
1468
1469config FUTEX
6a108a14 1470 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1471 default y
23f78d4a 1472 select RT_MUTEXES
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1473 help
1474 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1475 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1476 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1477
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1478config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1479 bool
62b4d204 1480 depends on FUTEX
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1481 help
1482 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1483 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1484 checks.
1485
1da177e4 1486config EPOLL
6a108a14 1487 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1488 default y
448e3cee 1489 select ANON_INODES
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1490 help
1491 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1492 support for epoll family of system calls.
1493
fba2afaa 1494config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1495 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1496 select ANON_INODES
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1497 default y
1498 help
1499 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1500 on a file descriptor.
1501
1502 If unsure, say Y.
1503
b215e283 1504config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1505 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1506 select ANON_INODES
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1507 default y
1508 help
1509 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1510 events on a file descriptor.
1511
1512 If unsure, say Y.
1513
e1ad7468 1514config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1515 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1516 select ANON_INODES
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1517 default y
1518 help
1519 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1520 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1521
1522 If unsure, say Y.
1523
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1525config BPF_SYSCALL
e1abf2cc 1526 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
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1527 select ANON_INODES
1528 select BPF
1529 default n
1530 help
1531 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1532 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1533
1da177e4 1534config SHMEM
6a108a14 1535 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1536 default y
1537 depends on MMU
1538 help
1539 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1540 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1541 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1542 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1543 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1544
ebf3f09c 1545config AIO
6a108a14 1546 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1547 default y
1548 help
1549 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1550 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1551 this option saves about 7k.
1552
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1553config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1554 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1555 default y
1556 help
1557 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1558 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1559 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1560 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1561 space.
1562
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1563config USERFAULTFD
1564 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1565 select ANON_INODES
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1566 depends on MMU
1567 help
1568 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1569 handle page faults in userland.
1570
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1571config PCI_QUIRKS
1572 default y
1573 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1574 depends on PCI
1575 help
1576 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1577 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1578 unaffected by PCI quirks.
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1580config MEMBARRIER
1581 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1582 default y
1583 help
1584 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1585 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1586 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1587 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1588 compiler barrier.
1589
1590 If unsure, say Y.
1591
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1592config EMBEDDED
1593 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1594 option allnoconfig_y
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1595 select EXPERT
1596 help
1597 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1598 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1599 for configuration.
1600
cdd6c482 1601config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1602 bool
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1603 help
1604 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1606config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1607 bool
1608 help
1609 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1610
57c0c15b 1611menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 1613config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1614 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1615 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1616 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1617 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1618 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1619 select SRCU
0793a61d 1620 help
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1621 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1622 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1623
dd77038d 1624 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1625 use of generic tracepoints.
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1627 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1628 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1629 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1630 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1631 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1632 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1633 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1634
57c0c15b 1635 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1636 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1637 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1638 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1639 capabilities on top of those.
1640
1641 Say Y if unsure.
1642
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1643config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1644 default n
1645 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1646 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1647 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1648 help
1649 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1650
1651 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1652 that don't require it.
1653
1654 Say N if unsure.
1655
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1656endmenu
1657
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1658config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1659 default y
6a108a14 1660 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1661 help
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1662 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1663 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1664 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1665 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1666
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1667config SLUB_DEBUG
1668 default y
6a108a14 1669 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1670 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1671 help
1672 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1673 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1674 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1675 no support for cache validation etc.
1676
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1677config COMPAT_BRK
1678 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1679 default y
1680 help
1681 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1682 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1683 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1684 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1685 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1686
1687 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1688
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1689choice
1690 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1691 default SLUB
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1692 help
1693 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1694
1695config SLAB
1696 bool "SLAB"
1697 help
1698 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1699 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1700 per cpu and per node queues.
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1702config SLUB
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1703 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1704 help
1705 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1706 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1707 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1708 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1709 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1710 a slab allocator.
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1712config SLOB
6a108a14 1713 depends on EXPERT
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1714 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1715 help
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1716 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1717 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1718 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1720endchoice
1721
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1722config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1723 default y
b39ffbf8 1724 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1725 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1726 help
1727 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1728 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1729 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1730 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1731 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1732
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1733config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1734 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1735 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1736 default n
1737 help
1738 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1739 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1740 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1741 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1742 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1743 then the flag will be ignored.
1744
1745 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1746 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1747
1748 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1749 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1750 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1751 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1752
1753 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1754
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1755config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1756 def_bool n
1757 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1758 select KEYS
1759 select CRYPTO
1760 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1761 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1762 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1763 select ASN1
1764 select OID_REGISTRY
1765 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1766 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1767 help
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1768 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1769 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1770 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1771 verification.
82c04ff8 1772
125e5645 1773config PROFILING
b309a294 1774 bool "Profiling support"
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1775 help
1776 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1777 by profilers such as OProfile.
1778
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1779#
1780# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1781# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1782#
97e1c18e 1783config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1784 bool
97e1c18e 1785
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1786source "arch/Kconfig"
1787
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1788endmenu # General setup
1789
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1790config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1791 bool
1792 default n
1793
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1794config SLABINFO
1795 bool
1796 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1797 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1798 default y
1799
ae81f9e3 1800config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1801 bool
ae81f9e3 1802
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1803config BASE_SMALL
1804 int
1805 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1806 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1807
66da5733 1808menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1809 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1810 option modules
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1811 help
1812 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1813 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1814 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1815 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1816 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1817 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1818 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1819 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1820 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1821
1822 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1823 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1824 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1825 this).
1826
1827 If unsure, say Y.
1828
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1829if MODULES
1830
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1831config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1832 bool "Forced module loading"
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1833 default n
1834 help
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1835 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1836 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1837 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1838
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1839config MODULE_UNLOAD
1840 bool "Module unloading"
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1841 help
1842 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1843 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1844 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1845 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1846
1847config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1848 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1849 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1850 help
1851 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1852 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1853 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1854 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1855 If unsure, say N.
1856
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0d541643 1858 bool "Module versioning support"
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1859 help
1860 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1861 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1862 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1863 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1864 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1865 unsure, say N.
1866
1867config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1868 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1870 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1871 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1872 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1873 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1874 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1875 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1876 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1877
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1879 bool "Module signature verification"
1880 depends on MODULES
091f6e26 1881 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
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1883 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1884 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1885 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1886
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1888 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1889 library.
1890
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1891 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1892 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1893 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1894 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1895
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1897 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1898 depends on MODULE_SIG
1899 help
1900 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1901 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1904 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1905 default y
1906 depends on MODULE_SIG
1907 help
1908 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1909 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1910
1911comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1912 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1913
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1915 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1916 depends on MODULE_SIG
1917 help
1918 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1919 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1920 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1921 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1922 the signature on that module.
1923
1924config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1925 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1926 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1927
1928config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1929 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1930 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1931
1932config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1933 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1934 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1935
1936config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1937 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1938 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1939
1940config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1941 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1942 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1943
1944endchoice
1945
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1946config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1947 string
1948 depends on MODULE_SIG
1949 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1950 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1951 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1952 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1953 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1954
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1955config MODULE_COMPRESS
1956 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1957 depends on MODULES
1958 help
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1960 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1961 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 1963 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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1965 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1966 compressed upon installation.
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1968 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1969 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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1971 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1972
1973 If in doubt, say N.
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1975choice
1976 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1977 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1978 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1979 help
1980 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1981 'make modules_install'.
1982
1983 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1984
1985config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1986 bool "GZIP"
1987
1988config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1989 bool "XZ"
1990
1991endchoice
1992
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1994
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1995config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
1996 def_bool y
1997 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
1998
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1999config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2000 bool
2001 help
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2002 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2003 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2004 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2005 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2006 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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3a65dfe8 2008source "block/Kconfig"
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2010config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2011 bool
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2013config PADATA
2014 depends on SMP
2015 bool
2016
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2017# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2018# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2019# mappings
2020config BROKEN_RODATA
2021 bool
2022
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2023config ASN1
2024 tristate
2025 help
2026 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2027 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2028 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2029 functions to call on what tags.
2030
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