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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"
288 default y
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
302 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
303 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
304
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305config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
306 bool
307
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308config AUDITSYSCALL
309 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
7a017721 310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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311 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
312 help
313 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
314 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
315 such as SELinux.
316
317config AUDIT_WATCH
318 def_bool y
319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
320 select FSNOTIFY
321
322config AUDIT_TREE
323 def_bool y
324 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
325 select FSNOTIFY
326
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327source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
328source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
329
330menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
331
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332config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
333 bool
334
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335choice
336 prompt "Cputime accounting"
337 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 338 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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339
340# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
341config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
342 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 343 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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344 help
345 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
346 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
347 granularity.
348
349 If unsure, say Y.
350
abf917cd 351config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 352 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 353 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 354 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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355 help
356 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
357 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
358 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
359 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
360 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
361 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
362 systems.
363
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364config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
365 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 366 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 367 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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368 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
369 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
370 help
371 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
372 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
373 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
374 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
375 overhead.
376
377 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
378 dynticks subsystem development.
379
380 If unsure, say N.
381
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382config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
383 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
c58b0df1 384 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
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385 help
386 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
387 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
388 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
389 small performance impact.
390
391 If in doubt, say N here.
392
393endchoice
394
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395config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
396 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
397 help
398 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
399 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
400 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
401 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
402 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
403 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
404 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
405 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
406 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
407
408config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
409 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
410 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
411 default n
412 help
413 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
414 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
415 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
416 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
417 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 418 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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c757249a 420config TASKSTATS
19c92399 421 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
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422 depends on NET
423 default n
424 help
425 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
426 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
427 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
428 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
429 space on task exit.
430
431 Say N if unsure.
432
ca74e92b 433config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 434 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 435 depends on TASKSTATS
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436 help
437 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
438 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
439 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
440 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
441
442 Say N if unsure.
443
18f705f4 444config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 445 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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446 depends on TASKSTATS
447 help
448 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
449 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
450
451 Say N if unsure.
452
453config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 454 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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455 depends on TASK_XACCT
456 help
457 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
458 task has caused.
459
460 Say N if unsure.
461
391dc69c 462endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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464menu "RCU Subsystem"
465
466choice
467 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 468 default TREE_RCU
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470config TREE_RCU
471 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 472 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
016a8d5b 473 select IRQ_WORK
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474 help
475 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
476 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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477 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
478 smaller systems.
c903ff83 479
f41d911f 480config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 481 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
9fc52d83 482 depends on PREEMPT
53614714 483 select IRQ_WORK
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484 help
485 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
486 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
487 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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488 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
489 smaller systems.
f41d911f 490
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491 Select this option if you are unsure.
492
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493config TINY_RCU
494 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 495 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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496 help
497 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
498 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
499 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
500 memory footprint of RCU.
501
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503
a57eb940 504config PREEMPT_RCU
127781d1 505 def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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506 help
507 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
ab74fdfd 508 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and, in the old days, TINY_PREEMPT_RCU.
a57eb940 509
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510config TASKS_RCU
511 bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch"
512 default n
513 help
514 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
515 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
516 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
517
518 If unsure, say N.
519
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520config RCU_STALL_COMMON
521 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
522 help
523 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
524 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
525 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
526 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
527
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528config CONTEXT_TRACKING
529 bool
530
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531config RCU_USER_QS
532 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
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533 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
534 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
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535 help
536 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
537 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
538 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
539 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
af71befa 540 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
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d677124b 542 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
91d1aa43 543 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
af71befa 544 adds unnecessary overhead.
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545
546 If unsure say N
547
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548config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
549 bool "Force context tracking"
550 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 551 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 552 help
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553 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
554 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
555 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
556 dynticks working.
557
558 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
559 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
560 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
561 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
562 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
563 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
564 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
565 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
566 CPUs in the system.
567
99c8b1ea 568 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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569 architecture backend for the context tracking.
570
571 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
572 don't want in production.
573
d677124b 574
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575config RCU_FANOUT
576 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
577 range 2 64 if 64BIT
578 range 2 32 if !64BIT
f41d911f 579 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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580 default 64 if 64BIT
581 default 32 if !64BIT
582 help
583 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
584 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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585 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
586 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
587 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
588 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
589 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
590 code paths on small(er) systems.
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592 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
593 Take the default if unsure.
594
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595config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
596 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
597 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
598 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
599 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
600 default 16
601 help
602 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
603 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
604 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
605 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
606 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
607 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
608 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
609 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
610 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
611 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
612 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
613 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
614 leaf-level fanouts work well.
615
616 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
617
618 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
619
620 Take the default if unsure.
621
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622config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
623 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
f41d911f 624 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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625 default n
626 help
627 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
628 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
629 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
630 strong NUMA behavior.
631
632 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
633
634 Say N if unsure.
635
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636config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
637 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
3451d024 638 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
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639 default n
640 help
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641 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
642 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
643 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
644 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
645 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
646 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
647 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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650 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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652 Say N if you are unsure.
653
c903ff83 654config TREE_RCU_TRACE
f41d911f 655 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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657 help
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658 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
659 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
660 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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662config RCU_BOOST
663 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 664 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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666 help
667 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
668 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
669 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
670 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
671
672 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
673 Say N here if you are unsure.
674
675config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
676 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
677 range 1 99
678 depends on RCU_BOOST
679 default 1
680 help
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681 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
682 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
683 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
684 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
685 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
686 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
687 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
688 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
689
690 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
691 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
692 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
693 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
694 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
695 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
696 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
697 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
698 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
699 set to priority 6 or higher.
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701 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
702
703config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
704 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
705 range 0 3000
706 depends on RCU_BOOST
707 default 500
708 help
709 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
710 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
711 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
712 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
713
714 Accept the default if unsure.
715
3fbfbf7a 716config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 717 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
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719 default n
720 help
721 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
722 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
723 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
724 asymmetric multiprocessors.
725
726 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
727 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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728 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
729 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
730 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
731 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
732 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
733 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
734 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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737 Say N here if you are unsure.
738
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740 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
741 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
742 help
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744 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
745 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
746 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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748config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
749 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
f4579fc5 750 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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752 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
753 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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755 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
756 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
757
758 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
759 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
760 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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762config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
763 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
f4579fc5 764 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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767 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
768 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
769 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
770 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
771 context.
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773 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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775 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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777config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
778 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
779 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
780 help
781 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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783 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
784 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
785 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
786 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
787 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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789 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
790 or energy-efficiency reasons.
791
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796config BUILD_BIN2C
797 bool
798 default n
799
1da177e4 800config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 801 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 802 select BUILD_BIN2C
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804 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
805 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
806 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
807 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
808 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
809 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
810 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
811 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
812
813config IKCONFIG_PROC
814 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
815 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
816 ---help---
817 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
818 through /proc/config.gz.
819
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821 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
822 range 12 21
f17a32e9 823 default 17
361e9dfb 824 depends on PRINTK
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827 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
828 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
829 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
830
f17a32e9 831 Examples:
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835 14 => 16 KB
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837 12 => 4 KB
838
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840 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 841 depends on SMP
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843 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
844 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 845 depends on PRINTK
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847 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
848 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
849 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
850 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
851 e.g. backtraces.
852
853 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
854 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
855 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
856 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
857 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
858 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
859
860 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
861 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
862
863 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
864 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
865 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
866
867 Examples shift values and their meaning:
868 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
869 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
870 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
871 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
872 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
873 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
874
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876# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
877#
878config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
879 bool
880
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882 bool
883
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885# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
886# balancing logic:
887#
888config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
889 bool
890
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892# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
893#
894config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
895 bool
896
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898# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
899#
900config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
901 bool
902
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904 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
905 default y
906 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
907 help
6d56a410 908 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
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910
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912 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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914 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
915 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
916 help
917 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
918 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 919 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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921 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
922
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924 boolean "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 925 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 926 help
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929 controls or device isolation.
930 See
5cdc38f9 931 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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933 and resource control)
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935 Say N if unsure.
936
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940 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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942 help
943 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
944 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 945 framework.
5cdc38f9 946
23964d2d 947 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 948
5cdc38f9 949config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 950 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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952 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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954
955config CGROUP_DEVICE
956 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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958 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
959 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
960
961config CPUSETS
962 bool "Cpuset support"
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964 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
965 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
966 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
967 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
968
969 Say N if unsure.
970
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972 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
973 depends on CPUSETS
974 default y
975
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977 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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979 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 980 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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983 bool "Resource counters"
984 help
985 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 986 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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c255a458 988config MEMCG
00f0b825 989 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
79ae9c29 990 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
79bd9814 991 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 992 help
84ad6d70 993 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 994 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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996 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
84ad6d70 997 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
f60e2a96 998 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
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999 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
1000 at boot.
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1002 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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1004 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
1005 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 1006 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
00f0b825 1007
c255a458 1008config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 1009 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 1010 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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1012 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
1013 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
1014 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
1015 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
1016 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
1017 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
1018 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
1019 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
1020 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1021 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 1022 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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1024 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 1025config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 1026 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 1027 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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1029 help
1030 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1031 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 1032 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 1033 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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1035 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1036 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 1037 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 1038config MEMCG_KMEM
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1039 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
1040 depends on MEMCG
510fc4e1 1041 depends on SLUB || SLAB
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1043 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1044 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1045 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1046 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1047 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1048 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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1051 allocation attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there
1052 are plenty of kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option
1053 unusable in real life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development
1054 purposes.
1055
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1057 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
19c92399 1058 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE
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1060 help
1061 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
1062 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1063 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1064 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1065 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1066 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1067 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1068 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1069 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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1072 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1073 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1074 help
1075 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 1076 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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1078
1079 Say N if unsure.
1080
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1082 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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1084 help
1085 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1086 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1087 tasks.
1088
1089if CGROUP_SCHED
1090config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1091 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1092 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1093 default CGROUP_SCHED
1094
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1096 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1098 default n
1099 help
1100 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1101 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1102 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1103 restriction.
1104 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1105
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1107 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1109 default n
1110 help
1111 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1112 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1114 realtime bandwidth for them.
1115 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1116
1117endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1118
afc24d49 1119config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 1120 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 1121 depends on BLOCK
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1123 ---help---
1124 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1125 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1126 policies.
1127
1128 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1129 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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1131 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1133 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
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1136 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
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1139 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1140
1141config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1142 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1143 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1144 default n
1145 ---help---
1146 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1147 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1148
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1152 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1153 default n
1154 help
1155 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1156 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1157 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1158 entries.
1159
1160 If unsure, say N here.
1161
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1164 default !EXPERT
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1166 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1167 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1168 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1169 different namespaces.
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1174 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1175 default y
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1177 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1178 uname() system call
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1181 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1182 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1183 default y
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1185 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1186 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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aee16ce7 1188config USER_NS
19c92399 1189 bool "User namespace"
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1192 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1193 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1195 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1196 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1197 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1198 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1199 use.
1200
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1202
74bd59bb 1203config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1204 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1205 default y
74bd59bb 1206 help
12d2b8f9 1207 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
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1212 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1213 depends on NET
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1216 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1217 of the network stack.
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1221config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1222 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1224 select CGROUP_SCHED
1225 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1226 help
1227 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1228 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1229 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1230 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1231 upon task session.
1232
7af37bec 1233config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1234 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1235 depends on SYSFS
1236 default n
1237 help
1238 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1239 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1240 /sys/block/.
1241
1242 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1243 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1244
1245 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1246 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1247 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1248
1249 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1250 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1251 option enabled.
1252
1253 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1254 need to say Y here.
1255
1256config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1257 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1258 default n
1259 depends on SYSFS
1260 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1261 help
1262 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1263
1264 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1265 option.
1266
1267 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1268 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1269 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1270
1271config RELAY
1272 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1273 help
1274 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1275 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1276 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1277 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1278 user space.
1279
1280 If unsure, say N.
1281
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1282config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1283 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1284 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1285 help
1286 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1287 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1288 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1289 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1290 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1291
1292 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1293 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1294 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1295
1296 If unsure say Y.
1297
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1298if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1299
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1301
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1302endif
1303
c45b4f1f 1304config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1305 bool "Optimize for size"
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1306 help
1307 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1308 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1309
3a55fb0d 1310 If unsure, say N.
c45b4f1f 1311
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1312config SYSCTL
1313 bool
1314
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1315config ANON_INODES
1316 bool
1317
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1318config HAVE_UID16
1319 bool
1320
1321config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1322 bool
1323 help
1324 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1325
1326config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1327 bool
1328 help
1329 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1330 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1331 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1332
1333config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1334 bool
1335 help
1336 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1337 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1338 the unaligned access emulation.
1339 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1340
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1341config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1342 bool
1343
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1344menuconfig EXPERT
1345 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1346 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1347 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1348 help
1349 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1350 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1351 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1352 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1353
ae81f9e3 1354config UID16
6a108a14 1355 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
af1839eb 1356 depends on HAVE_UID16
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1357 default y
1358 help
1359 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
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
1da177e4 1524config SHMEM
6a108a14 1525 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1526 default y
1527 depends on MMU
1528 help
1529 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1530 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1531 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1532 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1533 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1534
ebf3f09c 1535config AIO
6a108a14 1536 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1537 default y
1538 help
1539 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1540 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1541 this option saves about 7k.
1542
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1543config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1544 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1545 default y
1546 help
1547 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1548 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1549 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1550 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1551 space.
1552
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1553config PCI_QUIRKS
1554 default y
1555 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1556 depends on PCI
1557 help
1558 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1559 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1560 unaffected by PCI quirks.
ebf3f09c 1561
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1562config EMBEDDED
1563 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1564 option allnoconfig_y
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1565 select EXPERT
1566 help
1567 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1568 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1569 for configuration.
1570
cdd6c482 1571config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1572 bool
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1573 help
1574 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1576config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1577 bool
1578 help
1579 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1580
57c0c15b 1581menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 1583config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1584 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1585 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1586 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1587 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1588 select IRQ_WORK
0793a61d 1589 help
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1590 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1591 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1592
dd77038d 1593 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1594 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1595
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1596 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1597 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1598 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1599 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1600 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1601 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1602 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1603
57c0c15b 1604 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1605 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1606 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1607 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1608 capabilities on top of those.
1609
1610 Say Y if unsure.
1611
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1612config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1613 default n
1614 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1615 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1616 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1617 help
1618 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1619
1620 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1621 that don't require it.
1622
1623 Say N if unsure.
1624
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1626
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1627config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1628 default y
6a108a14 1629 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1630 help
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1631 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1632 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1633 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1634 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1635
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1636config SLUB_DEBUG
1637 default y
6a108a14 1638 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1639 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1640 help
1641 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1642 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1643 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1644 no support for cache validation etc.
1645
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1647 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1648 default y
1649 help
1650 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1651 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1652 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1653 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1654 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1655
1656 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1657
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1658choice
1659 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1660 default SLUB
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1661 help
1662 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1663
1664config SLAB
1665 bool "SLAB"
1666 help
1667 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1668 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1669 per cpu and per node queues.
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1671config SLUB
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1672 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1673 help
1674 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1675 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1676 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1677 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1678 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1679 a slab allocator.
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1681config SLOB
6a108a14 1682 depends on EXPERT
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1683 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1684 help
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1685 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1686 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1687 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1689endchoice
1690
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1691config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1692 default y
b39ffbf8 1693 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1694 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1695 help
1696 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1697 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1698 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1699 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1700 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1701
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1702config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1703 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1704 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1705 default n
1706 help
1707 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1708 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1709 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1710 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1711 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1712 then the flag will be ignored.
1713
1714 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1715 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1716
1717 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1718 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1719 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1720 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1721
1722 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1723
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1724config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1725 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
1726 depends on KEYS
1727 help
1728 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in
1729 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will
1730 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
1731 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
1732 keys already in the keyring.
1733
1734 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
1735
125e5645 1736config PROFILING
b309a294 1737 bool "Profiling support"
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1738 help
1739 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1740 by profilers such as OProfile.
1741
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1743# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1744# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1745#
97e1c18e 1746config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1747 bool
97e1c18e 1748
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1750
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1752
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1753config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1754 bool
1755 default n
1756
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1757config SLABINFO
1758 bool
1759 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1760 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1761 default y
1762
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1763config RT_MUTEXES
1764 boolean
ae81f9e3 1765
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1766config BASE_SMALL
1767 int
1768 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1769 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1770
66da5733 1771menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1772 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1773 option modules
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1774 help
1775 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1776 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1777 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1778 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1779 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1780 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1781 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1782 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1783 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1784
1785 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1786 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1787 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1788 this).
1789
1790 If unsure, say Y.
1791
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1792if MODULES
1793
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1794config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1795 bool "Forced module loading"
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1796 default n
1797 help
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1798 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1799 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1800 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1801
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1802config MODULE_UNLOAD
1803 bool "Module unloading"
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1804 help
1805 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1806 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1808 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1809
1810config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1811 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1812 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1813 help
1814 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1815 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1816 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1817 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1818 If unsure, say N.
1819
1da177e4 1820config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1821 bool "Module versioning support"
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1822 help
1823 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1824 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1825 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1826 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1827 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1828 unsure, say N.
1829
1830config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1831 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1832 help
1833 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1834 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1835 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1836 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1837 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1838 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1839 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1840
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1842 bool "Module signature verification"
1843 depends on MODULES
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1845 select KEYS
1846 select CRYPTO
1847 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1848 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1849 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1850 select ASN1
1851 select OID_REGISTRY
1852 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1853 help
1854 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1855 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1856 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1857
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1858 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1859 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1860 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1861 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1862
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1863config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1864 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1865 depends on MODULE_SIG
1866 help
1867 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1868 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1870config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1871 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1872 default y
1873 depends on MODULE_SIG
1874 help
1875 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1876 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1877
1878comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1879 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1880
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1882 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1883 depends on MODULE_SIG
1884 help
1885 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1886 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1887 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1888 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1889 the signature on that module.
1890
1891config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1892 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1893 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1894
1895config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1896 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1897 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1898
1899config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1900 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1901 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1902
1903config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1904 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1905 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1906
1907config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1908 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1909 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1910
1911endchoice
1912
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1913config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1914 string
1915 depends on MODULE_SIG
1916 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1917 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1918 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1919 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1920 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1921
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1923 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1924 depends on MODULES
1925 help
1926 This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make
1927 modules_install' is run.
1928
1929 The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the
1930 choice made in "Compression algorithm".
1931
1932 module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip
1933 and xz compressed modules.
1934
1935 When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel
1936 source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that
1937 kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed.
1938
1939 This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside
1940 an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole
1941 initrd or initramfs instead.
1942
1943 This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
1944 compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to
1945 other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
1946
1947choice
1948 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1949 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1950 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1951 help
1952 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1953 'make modules_install'.
1954
1955 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1956
1957config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1958 bool "GZIP"
1959
1960config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1961 bool "XZ"
1962
1963endchoice
1964
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1966
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1967config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1968 bool
1969 help
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1970 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1971 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1972 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1973 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1974 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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1976config STOP_MACHINE
1977 bool
1978 default y
1979 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1980 help
1981 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 1983source "block/Kconfig"
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1985config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1986 bool
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1988config PADATA
1989 depends on SMP
1990 bool
1991
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1992# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1993# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1994# mappings
1995config BROKEN_RODATA
1996 bool
1997
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1998config ASN1
1999 tristate
2000 help
2001 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2002 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2003 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2004 functions to call on what tags.
2005
6beb0009 2006source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"