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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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87
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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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
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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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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
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473 help
474 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
475 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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476 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
477 smaller systems.
c903ff83 478
28f6569a 479config PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 480 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
9fc52d83 481 depends on PREEMPT
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482 help
483 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
484 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
485 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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486 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
487 smaller systems.
f41d911f 488
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489 Select this option if you are unsure.
490
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491config TINY_RCU
492 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 493 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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494 help
495 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
496 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
497 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
498 memory footprint of RCU.
499
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502config SRCU
503 bool
504 help
505 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
506 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
507 sections.
508
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509config TASKS_RCU
510 bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch"
511 default n
83fe27ea 512 select SRCU
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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
6bfc09e2 520config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 521 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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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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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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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
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570
571 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
572 don't want in production.
573
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576 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
577 range 2 64 if 64BIT
578 range 2 32 if !64BIT
28f6569a 579 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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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
28f6569a 599 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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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"
28f6569a 624 depends on TREE_RCU || 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
28f6569a 655 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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657 help
f41d911f 658 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 659 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 660 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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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
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676 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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678 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
679 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
680 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
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683 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
684 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
685 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
686 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
687 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
688 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
689 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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691
692 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
693 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
694 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 695 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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697 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
698 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
699 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 700 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 701 set to priority 6 or higher.
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703 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
704
705config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
706 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
707 range 0 3000
708 depends on RCU_BOOST
709 default 500
710 help
711 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
712 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
713 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
714 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
715
716 Accept the default if unsure.
717
3fbfbf7a 718config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 719 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 720 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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722 help
723 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
724 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
725 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
726 asymmetric multiprocessors.
727
728 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
729 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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731 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
732 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
733 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
734 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
735 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
736 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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740
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742 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
743 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 744 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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747 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
748 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
749 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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751config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
752 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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754 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
755 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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757 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
758 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
759
760 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
761 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
762 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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764config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
765 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
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768 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
769 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
770 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
771 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
772 context.
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774 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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776 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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778config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
779 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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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
792endchoice
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795 bool
796 default n
797 help
798 This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
799 as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
800 The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
801 rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
802 at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
803 init is exec'ed.
804
805 Accept the default if unsure.
806
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808
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810 bool
811 default n
812
1da177e4 813config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 814 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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817 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
818 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
819 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
820 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
821 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
822 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
823 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
824 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
825
826config IKCONFIG_PROC
827 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
828 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
829 ---help---
830 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
831 through /proc/config.gz.
832
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834 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
835 range 12 21
f17a32e9 836 default 17
361e9dfb 837 depends on PRINTK
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840 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
841 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
842 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
843
f17a32e9 844 Examples:
23b2899f 845 17 => 128 KB
f17a32e9 846 16 => 64 KB
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848 14 => 16 KB
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850 12 => 4 KB
851
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853 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 854 depends on SMP
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855 range 0 21
856 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
857 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 858 depends on PRINTK
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860 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
861 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
862 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
863 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
864 e.g. backtraces.
865
866 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
867 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
868 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
869 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
870 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
871 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
872
873 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
874 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
875
876 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
877 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
878 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
879
880 Examples shift values and their meaning:
881 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
882 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
883 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
884 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
885 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
886 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
887
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889# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
890#
891config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
892 bool
893
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895 bool
896
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898# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
899# balancing logic:
900#
901config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
902 bool
903
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905# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
906#
907config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
908 bool
909
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911# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
912#
913config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
914 bool
915
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917 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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919 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
920 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
921 help
922 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
923 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 924 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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926 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
927
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929 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
930 default y
931 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
932 help
933 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
934 machine.
935
23964d2d 936menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 937 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 938 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 939 help
23964d2d 940 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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942 controls or device isolation.
943 See
5cdc38f9 944 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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945 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
946 and resource control)
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948 Say N if unsure.
949
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951
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953 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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955 help
956 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
957 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 958 framework.
5cdc38f9 959
23964d2d 960 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 961
5cdc38f9 962config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 963 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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965 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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967
968config CGROUP_DEVICE
969 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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971 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
972 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
973
974config CPUSETS
975 bool "Cpuset support"
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977 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
978 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
979 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
980 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
981
982 Say N if unsure.
983
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985 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
986 depends on CPUSETS
987 default y
988
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990 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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992 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 993 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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996 bool
997
c255a458 998config MEMCG
00f0b825 999 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
3e32cb2e 1000 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 1001 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 1002 help
84ad6d70 1003 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 1004 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
00f0b825 1005
c255a458 1006config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 1007 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 1008 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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1010 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
1011 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
1012 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
1013 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
1014 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
1015 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
1016 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
1017 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
1018 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1019 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 1020 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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1022 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 1023config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 1024 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 1025 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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1027 help
1028 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1029 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 1030 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 1031 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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1033 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1034 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 1035 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 1036config MEMCG_KMEM
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1037 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
1038 depends on MEMCG
510fc4e1 1039 depends on SLUB || SLAB
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1041 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1042 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1043 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1044 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1045 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1046 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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1049 allocation attempts will fail when close to the limit even if there
1050 are plenty of kmem available for reclaim. That makes this option
1051 unusable in real life so DO NOT SELECT IT unless for development
1052 purposes.
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1055 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
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1057 select PAGE_COUNTER
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1059 help
1060 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
1061 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1062 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1063 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1064 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1065 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1066 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1067 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1068 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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1071 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1072 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1073 help
1074 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 1075 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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1077
1078 Say N if unsure.
1079
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1081 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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1083 help
1084 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1085 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1086 tasks.
1087
1088if CGROUP_SCHED
1089config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1090 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1091 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1092 default CGROUP_SCHED
1093
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1095 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1097 default n
1098 help
1099 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1100 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1101 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1102 restriction.
1103 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1104
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1106 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1108 default n
1109 help
1110 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1111 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1113 realtime bandwidth for them.
1114 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1115
1116endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1117
afc24d49 1118config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 1119 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 1120 depends on BLOCK
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1122 ---help---
1123 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1124 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1125 policies.
1126
1127 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1128 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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1130 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1132 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
e43473b7 1133 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
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1135 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 1136 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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1138 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1139
1140config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1141 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1142 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1143 default n
1144 ---help---
1145 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1146 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1147
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1151 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1152 default n
1153 help
1154 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1155 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1156 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1157 entries.
1158
1159 If unsure, say N here.
1160
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1163 default !EXPERT
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1165 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1166 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1167 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1168 different namespaces.
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1173 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1174 default y
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1176 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1177 uname() system call
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1180 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1181 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1182 default y
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1184 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1185 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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aee16ce7 1187config USER_NS
19c92399 1188 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1189 default n
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1191 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1192 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1194 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1195 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1196 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1197 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1198 use.
1199
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1201
74bd59bb 1202config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1203 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1204 default y
74bd59bb 1205 help
12d2b8f9 1206 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1207 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1209
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1211 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1212 depends on NET
17a6d441 1213 default y
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1215 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1216 of the network stack.
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1221 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1222 select CGROUPS
1223 select CGROUP_SCHED
1224 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1225 help
1226 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1227 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1228 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1229 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1230 upon task session.
1231
7af37bec 1232config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1233 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1235 default n
1236 help
1237 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1238 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1239 /sys/block/.
1240
1241 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1242 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1243
1244 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1245 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1246 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1247
1248 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1249 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1250 option enabled.
1251
1252 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1253 need to say Y here.
1254
1255config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1256 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1257 default n
1258 depends on SYSFS
1259 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1260 help
1261 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1262
1263 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1264 option.
1265
1266 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1267 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1268 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1269
1270config RELAY
1271 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1272 help
1273 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1274 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1275 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1276 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1277 user space.
1278
1279 If unsure, say N.
1280
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1281config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1282 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1283 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1284 help
1285 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1286 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1287 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1288 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1289 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1290
1291 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1292 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1293 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1294
1295 If unsure say Y.
1296
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1298
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1300
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1301endif
1302
c45b4f1f 1303config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1304 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1305 help
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1306 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1307 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1308
3a55fb0d 1309 If unsure, say N.
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1311config SYSCTL
1312 bool
1313
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1314config ANON_INODES
1315 bool
1316
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1318 bool
1319
1320config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1321 bool
1322 help
1323 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1324
1325config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1326 bool
1327 help
1328 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1329 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1330 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1331
1332config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1333 bool
1334 help
1335 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1336 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1337 the unaligned access emulation.
1338 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1339
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1340config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1341 bool
1342
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1344config BPF
1345 bool
1346
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1347menuconfig EXPERT
1348 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1349 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1350 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1351 help
1352 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1353 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1354 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1355 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1356
ae81f9e3 1357config UID16
6a108a14 1358 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
af1839eb 1359 depends on HAVE_UID16
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1360 default y
1361 help
1362 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1363
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1364config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1365 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1366 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1367 ---help---
1368 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1369 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1370 architectures.
1371
1372 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1373
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1374config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1375 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1376 default y
1377 ---help---
1378 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1379 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1380 compatibility with some systems.
1381
1382 If unsure say Y here.
1383
b89a8171 1384config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1385 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1386 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1387 default n
b89a8171 1388 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1389 ---help---
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1390 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1391 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1392 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1393 information.
b89a8171 1394
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1395 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1396 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1397 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1398
c736de60 1399 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1400
1da177e4 1401config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1402 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1403 default y
1404 help
1405 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1406 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1407 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1408
1409config KALLSYMS_ALL
1410 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1411 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1412 help
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1414 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1415 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1416 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1417 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1418
1419 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1420 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1421 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1422 something like this).
1423
1424 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1426config PRINTK
1427 default y
6a108a14 1428 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1429 select IRQ_WORK
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1430 help
1431 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1432 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1433 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1434 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1435 strongly discouraged.
1436
c8538a7a 1437config BUG
6a108a14 1438 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1439 default y
1440 help
1441 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1442 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1443 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1444 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1445 Just say Y.
1446
708e9a79 1447config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1448 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1449 default y
6a108a14 1450 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1451 help
1452 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1453
8761f1ab 1454
e5e1d3cb 1455config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1456 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1457 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1458 select I8253_LOCK
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1459 default y
1460 help
1461 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1462 support, saving some memory.
1463
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1464config BASE_FULL
1465 default y
6a108a14 1466 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1467 help
1468 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1469 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1470 but may reduce performance.
1471
1472config FUTEX
6a108a14 1473 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1474 default y
23f78d4a 1475 select RT_MUTEXES
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1476 help
1477 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1478 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1479 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1480
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1481config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1482 bool
62b4d204 1483 depends on FUTEX
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1484 help
1485 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1486 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1487 checks.
1488
1da177e4 1489config EPOLL
6a108a14 1490 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1491 default y
448e3cee 1492 select ANON_INODES
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1493 help
1494 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1495 support for epoll family of system calls.
1496
fba2afaa 1497config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1498 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1499 select ANON_INODES
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1500 default y
1501 help
1502 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1503 on a file descriptor.
1504
1505 If unsure, say Y.
1506
b215e283 1507config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1508 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1509 select ANON_INODES
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1510 default y
1511 help
1512 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1513 events on a file descriptor.
1514
1515 If unsure, say Y.
1516
e1ad7468 1517config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1518 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1519 select ANON_INODES
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1520 default y
1521 help
1522 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1523 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1524
1525 If unsure, say Y.
1526
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1528config BPF_SYSCALL
1529 bool "Enable bpf() system call" if EXPERT
1530 select ANON_INODES
1531 select BPF
1532 default n
1533 help
1534 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1535 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1536
1da177e4 1537config SHMEM
6a108a14 1538 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1539 default y
1540 depends on MMU
1541 help
1542 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1543 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1544 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1545 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1546 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1547
ebf3f09c 1548config AIO
6a108a14 1549 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1550 default y
1551 help
1552 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1553 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1554 this option saves about 7k.
1555
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1556config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1557 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1558 default y
1559 help
1560 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1561 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1562 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1563 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1564 space.
1565
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1566config PCI_QUIRKS
1567 default y
1568 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1569 depends on PCI
1570 help
1571 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1572 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1573 unaffected by PCI quirks.
ebf3f09c 1574
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1575config EMBEDDED
1576 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1577 option allnoconfig_y
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1578 select EXPERT
1579 help
1580 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1581 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1582 for configuration.
1583
cdd6c482 1584config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1585 bool
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1586 help
1587 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1588
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1589config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1590 bool
1591 help
1592 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1593
57c0c15b 1594menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1595
cdd6c482 1596config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1597 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1598 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1599 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1600 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1601 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1602 select SRCU
0793a61d 1603 help
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1604 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1605 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1606
dd77038d 1607 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1608 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1609
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1610 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1611 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1612 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1613 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1614 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1615 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1616 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1617
57c0c15b 1618 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1619 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1620 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1621 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1622 capabilities on top of those.
1623
1624 Say Y if unsure.
1625
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1626config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1627 default n
1628 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1629 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1630 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1631 help
1632 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1633
1634 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1635 that don't require it.
1636
1637 Say N if unsure.
1638
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1640
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1641config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1642 default y
6a108a14 1643 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1644 help
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1645 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1646 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1647 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1648 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1649
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1650config SLUB_DEBUG
1651 default y
6a108a14 1652 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1653 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1654 help
1655 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1656 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1657 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1658 no support for cache validation etc.
1659
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1660config COMPAT_BRK
1661 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1662 default y
1663 help
1664 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1665 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1666 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1667 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1668 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1669
1670 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1671
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1672choice
1673 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1674 default SLUB
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1675 help
1676 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1677
1678config SLAB
1679 bool "SLAB"
1680 help
1681 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1682 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1683 per cpu and per node queues.
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1685config SLUB
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1686 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1687 help
1688 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1689 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1690 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1691 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1692 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1693 a slab allocator.
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1695config SLOB
6a108a14 1696 depends on EXPERT
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1697 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1698 help
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1699 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1700 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1701 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1703endchoice
1704
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1705config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1706 default y
b39ffbf8 1707 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1708 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1709 help
1710 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1711 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1712 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1713 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1714 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1715
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1716config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1717 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1718 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1719 default n
1720 help
1721 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1722 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1723 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1724 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1725 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1726 then the flag will be ignored.
1727
1728 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1729 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1730
1731 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1732 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1733 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1734 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1735
1736 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1737
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1738config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1739 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
1740 depends on KEYS
1741 help
1742 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in
1743 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will
1744 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
1745 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
1746 keys already in the keyring.
1747
1748 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
1749
125e5645 1750config PROFILING
b309a294 1751 bool "Profiling support"
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1752 help
1753 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1754 by profilers such as OProfile.
1755
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1757# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1758# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1759#
97e1c18e 1760config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1761 bool
97e1c18e 1762
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1764
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1766
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1767config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1768 bool
1769 default n
1770
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1771config SLABINFO
1772 bool
1773 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1774 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1775 default y
1776
ae81f9e3 1777config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1778 bool
ae81f9e3 1779
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1780config BASE_SMALL
1781 int
1782 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1783 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1784
66da5733 1785menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1786 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1787 option modules
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1788 help
1789 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1790 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1791 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1792 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1793 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1794 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1795 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1796 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1797 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1798
1799 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1800 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1801 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1802 this).
1803
1804 If unsure, say Y.
1805
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1806if MODULES
1807
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1808config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1809 bool "Forced module loading"
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1810 default n
1811 help
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1812 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1813 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1814 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1815
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1816config MODULE_UNLOAD
1817 bool "Module unloading"
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1818 help
1819 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1820 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1822 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1823
1824config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1825 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1826 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1827 help
1828 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1829 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1830 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1831 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1832 If unsure, say N.
1833
1da177e4 1834config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1835 bool "Module versioning support"
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1836 help
1837 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1838 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1839 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1840 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1841 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1842 unsure, say N.
1843
1844config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1845 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1847 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1848 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1849 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1850 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1851 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1852 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1853 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1854
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1855config MODULE_SIG
1856 bool "Module signature verification"
1857 depends on MODULES
b56e5a17 1858 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
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1859 select KEYS
1860 select CRYPTO
1861 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1862 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1863 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1864 select ASN1
1865 select OID_REGISTRY
1866 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1867 help
1868 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1869 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1870 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1871
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1872 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1873 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1874 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1875 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1876
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1877config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1878 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1879 depends on MODULE_SIG
1880 help
1881 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1882 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1884config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1885 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1886 default y
1887 depends on MODULE_SIG
1888 help
1889 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1890 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1891
1892comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1893 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1894
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1896 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1897 depends on MODULE_SIG
1898 help
1899 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1900 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1901 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1902 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1903 the signature on that module.
1904
1905config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1906 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1907 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1908
1909config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1910 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1911 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1912
1913config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1914 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1915 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1916
1917config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1918 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1919 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1920
1921config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1922 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1923 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1924
1925endchoice
1926
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1927config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1928 string
1929 depends on MODULE_SIG
1930 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1931 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1932 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1933 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1934 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1935
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1936config MODULE_COMPRESS
1937 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1938 depends on MODULES
1939 help
1940 This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make
1941 modules_install' is run.
1942
1943 The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the
1944 choice made in "Compression algorithm".
1945
1946 module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip
1947 and xz compressed modules.
1948
1949 When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel
1950 source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that
1951 kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed.
1952
1953 This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside
1954 an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole
1955 initrd or initramfs instead.
1956
1957 This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
1958 compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to
1959 other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
1960
1961choice
1962 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1963 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1964 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1965 help
1966 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1967 'make modules_install'.
1968
1969 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1970
1971config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1972 bool "GZIP"
1973
1974config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1975 bool "XZ"
1976
1977endchoice
1978
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1980
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1981config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1982 bool
1983 help
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1984 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1985 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1987 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1988 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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1990config STOP_MACHINE
1991 bool
1992 default y
1993 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1994 help
1995 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 1997source "block/Kconfig"
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1999config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2000 bool
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2002config PADATA
2003 depends on SMP
2004 bool
2005
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2006# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2007# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2008# mappings
2009config BROKEN_RODATA
2010 bool
2011
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2012config ASN1
2013 tristate
2014 help
2015 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2016 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2017 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2018 functions to call on what tags.
2019
6beb0009 2020source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"