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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
22 default y
23
ff0cfc66 24menu "General setup"
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25
26config EXPERIMENTAL
27 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
28 ---help---
29 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
30 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
31 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
32 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
33 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
34 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
35 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
36 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
37 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
38 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
39 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
40 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
41 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
42 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
43 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
44 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
45
46 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
47 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
48 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
49
50 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
51 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
52 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
53 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
54 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
55 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
56
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57config BROKEN
58 bool
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59
60config BROKEN_ON_SMP
61 bool
62 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
63 default y
64
65config LOCK_KERNEL
66 bool
67 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
68 default y
69
70config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
71 int
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72 default 32 if !UML
73 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 74 help
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75 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
76 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 77
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78
79config LOCALVERSION
80 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
81 help
82 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
83 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
84 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
85 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
86 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
87 be a maximum of 64 characters.
88
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89config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
90 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
91 default y
92 help
93 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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94 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
95 top of tree revision.
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96
97 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 98 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 99 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 100 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 101
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102 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
103 by running the command:
104
105 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
106
107 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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109config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
110 bool
111
112config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
113 bool
114
115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
116 bool
117
30d65dbf 118choice
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119 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
120 default KERNEL_GZIP
121 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
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
144 The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is
145 the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both
146 compression and decompression) is the fastest.
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147
148config KERNEL_BZIP2
149 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 150 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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151 help
152 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
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153 Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel
154 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
155 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
156 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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158config KERNEL_LZMA
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159 bool "LZMA"
160 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
161 help
162 The most recent compression algorithm.
163 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
164 two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
165 smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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167endchoice
168
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169config SWAP
170 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 171 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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172 default y
173 help
174 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 175 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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176 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
177 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
178
179config SYSVIPC
180 bool "System V IPC"
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181 ---help---
182 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
183 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
184 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
185 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
186 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
187 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
188 you'll need to say Y here.
189
190 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
191 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
192 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
193
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194config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
195 bool
196 depends on SYSVIPC
197 depends on SYSCTL
198 default y
199
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200config POSIX_MQUEUE
201 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
202 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
203 ---help---
204 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
205 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
206 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
207 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 208 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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209
210 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
211 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
212 operations on message queues.
213
214 If unsure, say Y.
215
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216config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
217 bool
218 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
219 depends on SYSCTL
220 default y
221
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222config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
223 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
224 help
225 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
226 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
227 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
228 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
229 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
230 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
231 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
232 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
233 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
234
235config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
236 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
237 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
238 default n
239 help
240 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
241 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
242 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
243 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
244 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 245 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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247config TASKSTATS
248 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
249 depends on NET
250 default n
251 help
252 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
253 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
254 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
255 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
256 space on task exit.
257
258 Say N if unsure.
259
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260config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
261 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 262 depends on TASKSTATS
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263 help
264 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
265 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
266 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
267 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
268
269 Say N if unsure.
270
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271config TASK_XACCT
272 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
273 depends on TASKSTATS
274 help
275 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
276 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
277
278 Say N if unsure.
279
280config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
281 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
282 depends on TASK_XACCT
283 help
284 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
285 task has caused.
286
287 Say N if unsure.
288
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289config AUDIT
290 bool "Auditing support"
804a6a49 291 depends on NET
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292 help
293 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
294 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
295 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
296 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
297
298config AUDITSYSCALL
299 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
022382a5 300 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
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301 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
302 help
303 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
304 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
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305 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
306 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
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308config AUDIT_TREE
309 def_bool y
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310 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
311 select INOTIFY
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313menu "RCU Subsystem"
314
315choice
316 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 317 default TREE_RCU
c903ff83 318
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319config TREE_RCU
320 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
321 help
322 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
323 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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324 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
325 smaller systems.
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327config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
328 bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU"
329 depends on PREEMPT
330 help
331 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
332 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
333 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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334 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
335 smaller systems.
f41d911f 336
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337config TINY_RCU
338 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
339 depends on !SMP
340 help
341 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
342 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
343 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
344 memory footprint of RCU.
345
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347
348config RCU_TRACE
349 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
6b3ef48a 350 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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351 help
352 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
353 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
354
355 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
356 Say N if you are unsure.
357
358config RCU_FANOUT
359 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
360 range 2 64 if 64BIT
361 range 2 32 if !64BIT
f41d911f 362 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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363 default 64 if 64BIT
364 default 32 if !64BIT
365 help
366 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
367 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
368 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube
369 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
370 systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
371
372 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
373 Take the default if unsure.
374
375config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
376 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
f41d911f 377 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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378 default n
379 help
380 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
381 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
382 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
383 strong NUMA behavior.
384
385 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
386
387 Say N if unsure.
388
389config TREE_RCU_TRACE
f41d911f 390 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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391 select DEBUG_FS
392 help
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393 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
394 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
395 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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397endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
398
1da177e4 399config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 400 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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401 ---help---
402 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
403 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
404 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
405 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
406 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
407 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
408 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
409 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
410
411config IKCONFIG_PROC
412 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
413 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
414 ---help---
415 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
416 through /proc/config.gz.
417
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418config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
419 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
420 range 12 21
f17a32e9 421 default 17
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422 help
423 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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424 Examples:
425 17 => 128 KB
426 16 => 64 KB
427 15 => 32 KB
428 14 => 16 KB
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429 13 => 8 KB
430 12 => 4 KB
431
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432#
433# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
434#
435config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
436 bool
437
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438config GROUP_SCHED
439 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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440 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
441 default n
29f59db3 442 help
fb615581 443 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9b5b7751 444 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
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445 In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use
446 CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.)
29f59db3 447
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448config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
449 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
450 depends on GROUP_SCHED
aac6abca 451 default GROUP_SCHED
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452
453config RT_GROUP_SCHED
454 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
455 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
456 depends on GROUP_SCHED
457 default n
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458 help
459 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
460 to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
461 setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
462 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
463 realtime bandwidth for them.
2fe401e3 464 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
052f1dc7 465
24e377a8 466choice
052f1dc7 467 depends on GROUP_SCHED
24e377a8 468 prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
052f1dc7 469 default USER_SCHED
24e377a8 470
052f1dc7 471config USER_SCHED
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472 bool "user id"
473 help
474 This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
475 tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
24e377a8 476
052f1dc7 477config CGROUP_SCHED
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478 bool "Control groups"
479 depends on CGROUPS
480 help
481 This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
482 using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
483 the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
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484 Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more
485 information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
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488
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489menuconfig CGROUPS
490 boolean "Control Group support"
5cdc38f9 491 help
23964d2d 492 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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493 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
494 controls or device isolation.
495 See
5cdc38f9 496 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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497 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
498 and resource control)
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499
500 Say N if unsure.
501
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502if CGROUPS
503
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504config CGROUP_DEBUG
505 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
506 depends on CGROUPS
507 default n
508 help
509 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
510 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 511 framework.
5cdc38f9 512
23964d2d 513 Say N if unsure.
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515config CGROUP_NS
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516 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
517 depends on CGROUPS
518 help
519 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
520 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
521 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
522 jobs.
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524config CGROUP_FREEZER
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525 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
526 depends on CGROUPS
527 help
528 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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529 cgroup.
530
531config CGROUP_DEVICE
532 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
533 depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
534 help
535 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
536 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
537
538config CPUSETS
539 bool "Cpuset support"
db7f47cf 540 depends on CGROUPS
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542 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
543 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
544 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
545 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
546
547 Say N if unsure.
548
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549config PROC_PID_CPUSET
550 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
551 depends on CPUSETS
552 default y
553
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554config CGROUP_CPUACCT
555 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
556 depends on CGROUPS
557 help
558 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 559 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
d842de87 560
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561config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
562 bool "Resource counters"
563 help
564 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 565 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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566 depends on CGROUPS
567
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568config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
569 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
570 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 571 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 572 help
84ad6d70 573 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 574 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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576 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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577 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
578 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
579 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
580 at boot.
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582 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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583 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
584 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
585 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 586 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
00f0b825 587
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588 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
589 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
590
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591config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
592 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
593 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
594 help
595 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
596 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
597 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
598 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
599 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
600 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
601 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
602 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
603 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
604 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
605 if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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606 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
607 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
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23964d2d 609endif # CGROUPS
c077719b 610
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611config MM_OWNER
612 bool
5cdc38f9 613
88a22c98 614config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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615 bool
616
617config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
9e9868a7 618 bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
9148fe87 619 depends on SYSFS
f6ee649f 620 default n
d47846c5 621 select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
88a22c98 622 help
fce3e804 623 This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
f6ee649f 624 version. Do not use it on recent distributions.
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625
626 The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
627 /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
628 class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
629 unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
630 /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
631 /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
632 "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
633 class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
634 subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
635 depend on the unified device tree.
636
637 This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
638 be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
639 layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
640 and disable some features, which can not be exported without
641 confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
642 distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
643 depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
644
645 If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
646 older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
647 if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
648 this option set to N.
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650config RELAY
651 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
652 help
653 This option enables support for relay interface support in
654 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
655 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
656 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
657 user space.
658
659 If unsure, say N.
660
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662 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
663 default !EMBEDDED
664 help
665 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
666 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
667 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
668 different namespaces.
669
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670config UTS_NS
671 bool "UTS namespace"
672 depends on NAMESPACES
673 help
674 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
675 uname() system call
676
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677config IPC_NS
678 bool "IPC namespace"
614b84cf 679 depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
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680 help
681 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 682 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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684config USER_NS
685 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
686 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
687 help
688 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
689 to provide different user info for different servers.
690 If unsure, say N.
691
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692config PID_NS
693 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
694 default n
695 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
696 help
12d2b8f9 697 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 698 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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699 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
700
701 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
702 say N here.
703
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704config NET_NS
705 bool "Network namespace"
706 default n
707 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
708 help
709 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
710 of the network stack.
711
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712config BLK_DEV_INITRD
713 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
714 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
715 help
716 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
717 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
718 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
719 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
720 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
721
722 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
723 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
724 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
725
726 If unsure say Y.
727
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728if BLK_DEV_INITRD
729
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731
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733
c45b4f1f 734config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 735 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 736 default y
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737 help
738 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
739 resulting in a smaller kernel.
740
775a7229 741 If unsure, say Y.
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744 bool
745
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746config ANON_INODES
747 bool
748
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749menuconfig EMBEDDED
750 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
751 help
752 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
753 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
754 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
755 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
756
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757config UID16
758 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
09337f50 759 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
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760 default y
761 help
762 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
763
b89a8171 764config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
0847062a 765 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
26a7034b 766 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
13bb7e37 767 default y
b89a8171 768 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 769 ---help---
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770 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
771 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
772 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
773 information.
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775 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
776 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
777 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 778
13bb7e37 779 If unsure say Y here.
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1da177e4 781config KALLSYMS
979c6a1e 782 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
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783 default y
784 help
785 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
786 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
787 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
788
789config KALLSYMS_ALL
790 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
791 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
792 help
793 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
794 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
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795 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
796 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
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798 Say N.
799
800config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
801 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
802 depends on KALLSYMS
803 help
804 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
805 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
806 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
807 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
808 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
809 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
810
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812config HOTPLUG
813 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
814 default y
815 help
816 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
817 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
818 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
819 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
820
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822 default y
823 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
824 help
825 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
826 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
827 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
828 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
829 strongly discouraged.
830
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832 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
833 default y
834 help
835 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
836 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
837 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
838 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
839 Just say Y.
840
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842 default y
843 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
844 help
845 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
846
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847config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
848 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
849 depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
850 default y
851 help
852 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
853 support, saving some memory.
854
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855config BASE_FULL
856 default y
857 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
858 help
859 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
860 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
861 but may reduce performance.
862
863config FUTEX
864 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
865 default y
23f78d4a 866 select RT_MUTEXES
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867 help
868 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
869 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
870 run glibc-based applications correctly.
871
872config EPOLL
873 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
874 default y
448e3cee 875 select ANON_INODES
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876 help
877 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
878 support for epoll family of system calls.
879
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881 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 882 select ANON_INODES
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883 default y
884 help
885 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
886 on a file descriptor.
887
888 If unsure, say Y.
889
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891 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 892 select ANON_INODES
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893 default y
894 help
895 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
896 events on a file descriptor.
897
898 If unsure, say Y.
899
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900config EVENTFD
901 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 902 select ANON_INODES
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903 default y
904 help
905 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
906 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
907
908 If unsure, say Y.
909
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910config SHMEM
911 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
912 default y
913 depends on MMU
914 help
915 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
916 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
917 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
918 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
919 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
920
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922 bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
923 default y
924 help
925 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
926 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
927 this option saves about 7k.
928
cdd6c482 929config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 930 bool
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931 help
932 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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934config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
935 bool
936 help
937 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
938
57c0c15b 939menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 941config PERF_EVENTS
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942 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
943 default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
cdd6c482 944 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 945 select ANON_INODES
0793a61d 946 help
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947 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
948 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 949
dd77038d 950 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 951 use of generic tracepoints.
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954 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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955 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
956 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
957 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
958 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
959 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
960
57c0c15b 961 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 962 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 963 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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964 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
965 capabilities on top of those.
966
967 Say Y if unsure.
968
e077df4f 969config EVENT_PROFILE
470a1396 970 bool "Tracepoint profiling sources"
cdd6c482 971 depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING
e077df4f 972 default y
470a1396 973 help
57c0c15b 974 Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance events.
470a1396 975
57c0c15b 976 When this is enabled, you can create perf events based on
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977 tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID
978 found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events
979 option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic
980 tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.)
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983 bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
984 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
985 help
986 This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
987 config option - please see that one for details.
988
989 It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
990 it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
991
992 Say N if unsure.
993
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994config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
995 default n
996 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
997 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
998 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
999 help
1000 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1001
1002 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1003 that don't require it.
1004
1005 Say N if unsure.
1006
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1009config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1010 default y
1011 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
1012 help
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1014 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1015 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1016 if VM event counters are disabled.
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1019 default y
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1020 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
1021 depends on PCI
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1023 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1024 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1025 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1026
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1028 default y
1029 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
f6acb635 1030 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1031 help
1032 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1033 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1034 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1035 no support for cache validation etc.
1036
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1038 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1039 default y
1040 help
1041 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1042 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1043 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1044 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1046
1047 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1048
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1050 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1051 default SLUB
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1053 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1054
1055config SLAB
1056 bool "SLAB"
1057 help
1058 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1059 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1060 per cpu and per node queues.
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1062config SLUB
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1063 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1064 help
1065 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1066 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1067 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1068 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1069 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1070 a slab allocator.
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1072config SLOB
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1074 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1075 help
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1076 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1077 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1078 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1082config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1083 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1084 depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1085 default n
1086 help
1087 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1088 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1089 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1090 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1091 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1092 then the flag will be ignored.
1093
1094 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1095 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1096
1097 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1098 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1099 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1100 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1101
1102 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1103
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1105 bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1106 help
1107 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1108 by profilers such as OProfile.
1109
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1111# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1112# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1113#
97e1c18e 1114config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1115 bool
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1118
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1120 default n
1c2d008c 1121 bool
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1122 help
1123 The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
1124 threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
1125 take a relatively long time.
1126
1127 An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
1128 by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
1129 disk.
1130
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1131 See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
1132
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1134 bool "Slow work debugging through debugfs"
8fba10a4 1135 default n
f13a48bd 1136 depends on SLOW_WORK && DEBUG_FS
8fba10a4 1137 help
f13a48bd 1138 Display the contents of the slow work run queue through debugfs,
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1139 including items currently executing.
1140
1141 See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
1142
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1144
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1146 bool
1147 default n
1148
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1150 bool
1151 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1152 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1153 default y
1154
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1156 boolean
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1159 int
1160 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1161 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1162
66da5733 1163menuconfig MODULES
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1164 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1165 help
1166 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1167 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1168 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1169 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1170 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1171 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1172 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1173 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1174 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1175
1176 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1177 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1178 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1179 this).
1180
1181 If unsure, say Y.
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1184
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1186 bool "Forced module loading"
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1187 default n
1188 help
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1190 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1191 is usually a really bad idea.
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1193config MODULE_UNLOAD
1194 bool "Module unloading"
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1195 help
1196 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1197 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1199 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1201config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1202 bool "Forced module unloading"
1203 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1204 help
1205 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1206 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1207 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1208 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1209 If unsure, say N.
1210
1da177e4 1211config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1212 bool "Module versioning support"
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1213 help
1214 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1215 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1216 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1217 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1218 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1219 unsure, say N.
1220
1221config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1222 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1223 help
1224 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1225 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1226 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1227 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1228 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1229 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1230 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
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1235 bool
1236 help
1237 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
1238 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
1239 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1240 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1241 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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1243config STOP_MACHINE
1244 bool
1245 default y
1246 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1247 help
1248 Need stop_machine() primitive.
3a65dfe8 1249
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1252config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1253 bool
e260be67 1254
6beb0009 1255source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"