IB/mlx4: Fix ib device initialization error flow
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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
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29config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
30 bool
31 help
32 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
33 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
34 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
35
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36 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
37 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
38
ff0cfc66 39menu "General setup"
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41config BROKEN
42 bool
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43
44config BROKEN_ON_SMP
45 bool
46 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
47 default y
48
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49config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
50 int
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51 default 32 if !UML
52 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 53 help
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54 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
55 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 56
1da177e4 57
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58config CROSS_COMPILE
59 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
60 help
61 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
62 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
63 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
64 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
65
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66config COMPILE_TEST
67 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 68 depends on !UML
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69 default n
70 help
71 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
72 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
73 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
74 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
75 drivers to compile-test them.
76
77 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
78 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
79 drivers to be distributed.
80
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81config LOCALVERSION
82 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
83 help
84 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
85 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
86 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
87 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
88 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
89 be a maximum of 64 characters.
90
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91config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
92 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
93 default y
ac3339ba 94 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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95 help
96 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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97 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
98 top of tree revision.
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99
100 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 101 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 102 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 103 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 104
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105 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
106 by running the command:
107
108 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
109
110 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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112config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
113 bool
114
115config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
116 bool
117
118config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
119 bool
120
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121config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
122 bool
123
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124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
125 bool
126
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127config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
128 bool
129
30d65dbf 130choice
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131 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
132 default KERNEL_GZIP
2d3c6275 133 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
2e9f3bdd 134 help
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135 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
136 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
137 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
138 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
139 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
140
141 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
142 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
143 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
144 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
145
146 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
147 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
148 size matters less.
149
150 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
151
152config KERNEL_GZIP
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153 bool "Gzip"
154 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
155 help
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156 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
157 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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158
159config KERNEL_BZIP2
160 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 161 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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162 help
163 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 164 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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165 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
166 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
167 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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168
169config KERNEL_LZMA
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170 bool "LZMA"
171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
172 help
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173 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
174 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
175 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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177config KERNEL_XZ
178 bool "XZ"
179 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
180 help
181 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
182 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
183 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
184 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
185 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
186 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
187
188 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
189 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
190 and LZO. Compression is slow.
191
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192config KERNEL_LZO
193 bool "LZO"
194 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
195 help
0a4dd35c 196 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 197 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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198 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
199
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200config KERNEL_LZ4
201 bool "LZ4"
202 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
203 help
204 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
205 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
206 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
207
208 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
209 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
210 faster than LZO.
211
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212endchoice
213
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214config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
215 string "Default hostname"
216 default "(none)"
217 help
218 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
219 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
220 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
221 system more usable with less configuration.
222
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223config SWAP
224 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 225 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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226 default y
227 help
228 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 229 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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230 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
231 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
232
233config SYSVIPC
234 bool "System V IPC"
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235 ---help---
236 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
237 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
238 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
239 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
240 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
241 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
242 you'll need to say Y here.
243
244 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
245 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
246 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
247
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248config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
249 bool
250 depends on SYSVIPC
251 depends on SYSCTL
252 default y
253
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254config POSIX_MQUEUE
255 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 256 depends on NET
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257 ---help---
258 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
259 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
260 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
261 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 262 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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263
264 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
265 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
266 operations on message queues.
267
268 If unsure, say Y.
269
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270config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
271 bool
272 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
273 depends on SYSCTL
274 default y
275
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276config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
277 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
278 depends on MMU
279 default y
280 help
281 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
282 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 283 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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284 See the man page for more details.
285
391dc69c 286config FHANDLE
f76be617 287 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
391dc69c 288 select EXPORTFS
f76be617 289 default y
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290 help
291 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
292 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
293 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
294 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
295 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
296 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
297 syscalls.
298
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299config USELIB
300 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 301 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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302 help
303 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
304 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
305 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
306 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
307 running glibc can safely disable this.
308
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309config AUDIT
310 bool "Auditing support"
311 depends on NET
312 help
313 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
314 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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315 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
316 on architectures which support it.
391dc69c 317
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318config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
319 bool
320
391dc69c 321config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 322 def_bool y
7a017721 323 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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324
325config AUDIT_WATCH
326 def_bool y
327 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
328 select FSNOTIFY
329
330config AUDIT_TREE
331 def_bool y
332 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
333 select FSNOTIFY
334
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335source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
336source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
337
338menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
339
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340config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
341 bool
342
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343choice
344 prompt "Cputime accounting"
345 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 346 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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347
348# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
349config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
350 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 351 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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352 help
353 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
354 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
355 granularity.
356
357 If unsure, say Y.
358
abf917cd 359config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 360 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 361 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 362 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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363 help
364 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
365 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
366 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
367 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
368 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
369 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
370 systems.
371
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372config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
373 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 374 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 375 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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376 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
377 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
378 help
379 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
380 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
381 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
382 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
383 overhead.
384
385 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
386 dynticks subsystem development.
387
388 If unsure, say N.
389
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391
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392config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
393 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 394 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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395 help
396 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
397 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
398 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
399 small performance impact.
400
401 If in doubt, say N here.
402
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403config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
404 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 405 depends on MULTIUSER
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406 help
407 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
408 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
409 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
410 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
411 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
412 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
413 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
414 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
415 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
416
417config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
418 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
419 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
420 default n
421 help
422 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
423 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
424 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
425 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
426 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 427 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 428
c757249a 429config TASKSTATS
19c92399 430 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 431 depends on NET
2813893f 432 depends on MULTIUSER
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433 default n
434 help
435 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
436 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
437 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
438 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
439 space on task exit.
440
441 Say N if unsure.
442
ca74e92b 443config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 444 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 445 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 446 select SCHED_INFO
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447 help
448 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
449 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
450 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
451 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
452
453 Say N if unsure.
454
18f705f4 455config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 456 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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457 depends on TASKSTATS
458 help
459 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
460 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
461
462 Say N if unsure.
463
464config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 465 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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466 depends on TASK_XACCT
467 help
468 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
469 task has caused.
470
471 Say N if unsure.
472
391dc69c 473endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
d9817ebe 474
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476
c903ff83 477config TREE_RCU
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478 bool
479 default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
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480 help
481 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
482 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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483 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
484 smaller systems.
c903ff83 485
28f6569a 486config PREEMPT_RCU
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487 bool
488 default y if PREEMPT
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489 help
490 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
491 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
492 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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493 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
494 smaller systems.
f41d911f 495
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496 Select this option if you are unsure.
497
9b1d82fa 498config TINY_RCU
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499 bool
500 default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
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501 help
502 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
503 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
504 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
505 memory footprint of RCU.
506
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507config RCU_EXPERT
508 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
509 default n
510 help
511 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
512 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
513 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
514 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
515 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
516 obscure RCU options to be set up.
517
518 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
519
520 Say N if you are unsure.
521
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522config SRCU
523 bool
524 help
525 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
526 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
527 sections.
528
8315f422 529config TASKS_RCU
82d0f4c0 530 bool
8315f422 531 default n
83fe27ea 532 select SRCU
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533 help
534 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
535 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
536 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
537
6bfc09e2 538config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 539 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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540 help
541 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
542 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
543 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
544 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
545
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546config CONTEXT_TRACKING
547 bool
548
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549config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
550 bool "Force context tracking"
551 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 552 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 553 help
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554 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
555 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
556 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
557 dynticks working.
558
559 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
560 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
561 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
562 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
563 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
564 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
565 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
566 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
567 CPUs in the system.
568
99c8b1ea 569 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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570 architecture backend for the context tracking.
571
572 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
573 don't want in production.
574
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576config RCU_FANOUT
577 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
578 range 2 64 if 64BIT
579 range 2 32 if !64BIT
05c5df31 580 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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581 default 64 if 64BIT
582 default 32 if !64BIT
583 help
584 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
585 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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586 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
587 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
588 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
589 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
590 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
591 code paths on small(er) systems.
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593 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
594 Take the default if unsure.
595
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596config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
597 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
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598 range 2 64 if 64BIT
599 range 2 32 if !64BIT
47d631af 600 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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601 default 16
602 help
603 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
604 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
605 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
606 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
607 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
608 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
609 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
610 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
611 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
612 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
613 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
614 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
615 leaf-level fanouts work well.
616
617 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
618
619 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
620
621 Take the default if unsure.
622
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623config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
624 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
78cae10b 625 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
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626 default n
627 help
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628 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
629 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
630 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
631 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
632 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
633 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
634 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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636 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
637 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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639 Say N if you are unsure.
640
c903ff83 641config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 642 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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644 help
f41d911f 645 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 646 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 647 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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650 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
78cae10b 651 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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652 default n
653 help
654 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
655 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
656 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
657 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
658
659 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
660 Say N here if you are unsure.
661
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663 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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665 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
666 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
667 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
26730f55 668 depends on RCU_EXPERT
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670 This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
671 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
672 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
673 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
674 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
675 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
676 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
677 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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679
680 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
681 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
682 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 683 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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684 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
685 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
686 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
687 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 688 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 689 set to priority 6 or higher.
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691 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
692
693config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
694 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
695 range 0 3000
696 depends on RCU_BOOST
697 default 500
698 help
699 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
700 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
701 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
702 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
703
704 Accept the default if unsure.
705
3fbfbf7a 706config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 707 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 708 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
be55fa2a 709 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
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710 default n
711 help
712 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
713 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
714 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
715 asymmetric multiprocessors.
716
717 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
718 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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719 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
720 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
721 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
722 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
723 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
724 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
725 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
3fbfbf7a 726
34ed6246 727 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
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729
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731 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
732 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 733 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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736 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
737 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
738 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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740config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
741 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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743 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
744 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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745 no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
746 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
747 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
748
749 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
750 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
751 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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753config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
754 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
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757 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
758 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
759 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
760 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
761 context.
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763 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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765 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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767config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
768 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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770 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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772 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
773 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
774 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
775 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
776 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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778 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
779 or energy-efficiency reasons.
780
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784
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785config BUILD_BIN2C
786 bool
787 default n
788
1da177e4 789config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 790 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 791 select BUILD_BIN2C
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792 ---help---
793 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
794 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
795 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
796 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
797 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
798 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
799 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
800 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
801
802config IKCONFIG_PROC
803 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
804 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
805 ---help---
806 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
807 through /proc/config.gz.
808
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810 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 811 range 12 25
f17a32e9 812 default 17
361e9dfb 813 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 814 help
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816 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
817 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
818 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
819
f17a32e9 820 Examples:
23b2899f 821 17 => 128 KB
f17a32e9 822 16 => 64 KB
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824 14 => 16 KB
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826 12 => 4 KB
827
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829 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 830 depends on SMP
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831 range 0 21
832 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
833 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 834 depends on PRINTK
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836 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
837 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
838 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
839 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
840 e.g. backtraces.
841
842 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
843 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
844 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
845 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
846 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
847 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
848
849 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
850 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
851
852 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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854 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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856 Examples shift values and their meaning:
857 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
858 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
859 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
860 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
861 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
862 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
863
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865 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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867 default 13
f92bac3b 868 depends on PRINTK
427934b8 869 help
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870 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
871 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
872 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
873 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
874 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
427934b8 875
f92bac3b 876 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
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878 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
879
880 Examples:
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 prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
906# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
907# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
908# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
909# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
910# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
911config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
912 bool
913
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915# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
916#
917config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
918 bool
919
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921# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
922#
923config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
924 bool
925
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927 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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929 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
930 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
931 help
932 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
933 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 934 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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936 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
937
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939 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
940 default y
941 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
942 help
943 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
944 machine.
945
23964d2d 946menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 947 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 948 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 949 help
23964d2d 950 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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951 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
952 controls or device isolation.
953 See
5cdc38f9 954 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
9991a9c8 955 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 956 and resource control)
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958 Say N if unsure.
959
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960if CGROUPS
961
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963 bool
964
c255a458 965config MEMCG
a0166ec4 966 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 967 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 968 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 969 help
a0166ec4 970 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 971
c255a458 972config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 973 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 974 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
c077719b 975 help
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976 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
977
c255a458 978config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 979 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 980 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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981 default y
982 help
983 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
984 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 985 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 986 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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987 parameter should have this option unselected.
988 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
989 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 990 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c077719b 991
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993 bool "IO controller"
994 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 995 default n
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997 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
998 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
999 policies.
2bc64a20 1000
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1002 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1003 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1004 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
e5d1367f 1005
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1007 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
1008 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
1009 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1010 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1011
9991a9c8 1012 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
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1014config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1015 bool "IO controller debugging"
1016 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1017 default n
1018 ---help---
1019 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1020 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1021
1022config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
1023 bool
1024 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
1025 default y
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7c941438 1027menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 1028 bool "CPU controller"
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1030 help
1031 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1032 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1033 tasks.
1034
1035if CGROUP_SCHED
1036config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1037 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1038 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1039 default CGROUP_SCHED
1040
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1042 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1044 default n
1045 help
1046 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1047 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1048 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1049 restriction.
1050 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1051
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1053 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1054 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1055 default n
1056 help
1057 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1058 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1060 realtime bandwidth for them.
1061 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1062
1063endif #CGROUP_SCHED
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1066 bool "PIDs controller"
1067 help
1068 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
1069 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
1070 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
1071 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
1072 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
1073 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 1074 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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1076 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
6cc578df 1077 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
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1079 attach to a cgroup.
1080
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1082 bool "RDMA controller"
1083 help
1084 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
1085 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
1086 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
1087 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
1088 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
1089 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
1090
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1092 bool "Freezer controller"
1093 help
1094 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
1095 cgroup.
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1098 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
1099
1100 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
1101
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1103 bool "HugeTLB controller"
1104 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1105 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 1106 default n
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1108 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
1109 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1110 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1111 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1112 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1113 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1114 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1115 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1116 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
afc24d49 1117
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1119 bool "Cpuset controller"
1120 help
1121 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
1122 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
1123 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
1124 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 1125
6bf024e6 1126 Say N if unsure.
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1129 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
1130 depends on CPUSETS
1131 default y
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1134 bool "Device controller"
1135 help
1136 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
1137 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
1138
1139config CGROUP_CPUACCT
1140 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
1141 help
1142 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
1143 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1144
1145config CGROUP_PERF
1146 bool "Perf controller"
1147 depends on PERF_EVENTS
1148 help
1149 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
1150 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1151 designated cpu.
1152
1153 Say N if unsure.
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1156 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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1158 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
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1160 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
1161 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
1162
1163 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
1164 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
1165 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
1166 inet sockets.
1167
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1169 bool "Example controller"
afc24d49 1170 default n
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1172 This option enables a simple controller that exports
1173 debugging information about the cgroups framework.
afc24d49 1174
6bf024e6 1175 Say N.
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1178 bool
1179 default n
1180
23964d2d 1181endif # CGROUPS
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1184 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
2e13ba54 1185 select PROC_CHILDREN
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1187 help
1188 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1189 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1190 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1191 entries.
1192
1193 If unsure, say N here.
1194
8dd2a82c 1195menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1196 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1197 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1198 default !EXPERT
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1200 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1201 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1202 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1203 different namespaces.
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1208 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1209 default y
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1211 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1212 uname() system call
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1215 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1216 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
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1219 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1220 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1221
aee16ce7 1222config USER_NS
19c92399 1223 bool "User namespace"
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1225 help
1226 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1227 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1228
1229 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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1230 recommended that the MEMCG option also be enabled and that
1231 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
1232 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
e11f0ae3 1233
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1234 If unsure, say N.
1235
74bd59bb 1236config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1237 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1238 default y
74bd59bb 1239 help
12d2b8f9 1240 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1241 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1242 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1243
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1244config NET_NS
1245 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1246 depends on NET
17a6d441 1247 default y
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1248 help
1249 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1250 of the network stack.
1251
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1252endif # NAMESPACES
1253
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1254config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1255 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1256 select CGROUPS
1257 select CGROUP_SCHED
1258 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1259 help
1260 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1261 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1262 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1263 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1264 upon task session.
1265
7af37bec 1266config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1267 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1268 depends on SYSFS
1269 default n
1270 help
1271 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1272 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1273 /sys/block/.
1274
1275 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1276 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1277
1278 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1279 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1280 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1281
1282 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1283 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1284 option enabled.
1285
1286 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1287 need to say Y here.
1288
1289config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1290 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1291 default n
1292 depends on SYSFS
1293 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1294 help
1295 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1296
1297 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1298 option.
1299
1300 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1301 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1302 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1303
1304config RELAY
1305 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 1306 select IRQ_WORK
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1307 help
1308 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1309 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1310 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1311 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1312 user space.
1313
1314 If unsure, say N.
1315
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1316config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1317 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1318 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1319 help
1320 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1321 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1322 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1323 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1324 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1325
1326 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1327 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1328 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1329
1330 If unsure say Y.
1331
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1332if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1333
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1334source "usr/Kconfig"
1335
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1336endif
1337
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1338choice
1339 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
1340 default CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1341
1342config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1343 bool "Optimize for performance"
1344 help
1345 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1346 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1347 helpful compile-time warnings.
1348
c45b4f1f 1349config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1350 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1351 help
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1352 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1353 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1354
3a55fb0d 1355 If unsure, say N.
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1357endchoice
1358
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1359config SYSCTL
1360 bool
1361
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1362config ANON_INODES
1363 bool
1364
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1365config HAVE_UID16
1366 bool
1367
1368config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1369 bool
1370 help
1371 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1372
1373config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1374 bool
1375 help
1376 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1377 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1378 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1379
1380config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1381 bool
1382 help
1383 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1384 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1385 the unaligned access emulation.
1386 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1387
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1388config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1389 bool
1390
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1391# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1392config BPF
1393 bool
1394
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1395menuconfig EXPERT
1396 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1397 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1398 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1399 help
1400 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1401 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1402 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1403 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1404
ae81f9e3 1405config UID16
6a108a14 1406 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1407 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1408 default y
1409 help
1410 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1411
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1412config MULTIUSER
1413 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1414 default y
1415 help
1416 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1417 capabilities.
1418
1419 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1420 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1421 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1422 setgid, and capset.
1423
1424 If unsure, say Y here.
1425
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1426config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1427 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1428 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1429 ---help---
1430 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1431 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1432 architectures.
1433
1434 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1435
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1436config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1437 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1438 default y
1439 ---help---
1440 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1441 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1442 compatibility with some systems.
1443
1444 If unsure say Y here.
1445
b89a8171 1446config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1447 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1448 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1449 default n
b89a8171 1450 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1451 ---help---
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1452 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1453 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1454 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1455 information.
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1457 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1458 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1459 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1460
c736de60 1461 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1462
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1463config POSIX_TIMERS
1464 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1465 default y
1466 help
1467 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1468 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1469 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1470
1471 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1472 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1473 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1474 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1475 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1476 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1477
1478 If unsure say y.
1479
1da177e4 1480config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1481 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1482 default y
1483 help
1484 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1485 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1486 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1487
1488config KALLSYMS_ALL
1489 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1490 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1491 help
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1492 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1493 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1494 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1495 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1496 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1497
1498 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1499 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1500 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1501 something like this).
1502
1503 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1505config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1506 bool
076501ff 1507 depends on KALLSYMS
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1508 default X86_64 && SMP
1509
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1510config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1511 bool
1512 depends on KALLSYMS
1513 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
1514 help
1515 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1516 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1517 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1518 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1519 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1520 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1521 address encountered in the image.
1522
1523 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1524 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1525 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1526 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1527
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1528config PRINTK
1529 default y
6a108a14 1530 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1531 select IRQ_WORK
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1532 help
1533 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1534 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1535 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1536 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1537 strongly discouraged.
1538
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1539config PRINTK_NMI
1540 def_bool y
1541 depends on PRINTK
1542 depends on HAVE_NMI
1543
c8538a7a 1544config BUG
6a108a14 1545 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1546 default y
1547 help
1548 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1549 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1550 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1551 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1552 Just say Y.
1553
708e9a79 1554config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1555 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1556 default y
6a108a14 1557 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1558 help
1559 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1560
8761f1ab 1561
e5e1d3cb 1562config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1563 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1564 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1565 select I8253_LOCK
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1566 default y
1567 help
1568 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1569 support, saving some memory.
1570
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1571config BASE_FULL
1572 default y
6a108a14 1573 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1574 help
1575 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1576 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1577 but may reduce performance.
1578
1579config FUTEX
6a108a14 1580 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1581 default y
23f78d4a 1582 select RT_MUTEXES
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1583 help
1584 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1585 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1586 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1587
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1588config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1589 bool
62b4d204 1590 depends on FUTEX
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1591 help
1592 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1593 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1594 checks.
1595
1da177e4 1596config EPOLL
6a108a14 1597 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1598 default y
448e3cee 1599 select ANON_INODES
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1600 help
1601 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1602 support for epoll family of system calls.
1603
fba2afaa 1604config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1605 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1606 select ANON_INODES
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1607 default y
1608 help
1609 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1610 on a file descriptor.
1611
1612 If unsure, say Y.
1613
b215e283 1614config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1615 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1616 select ANON_INODES
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1617 default y
1618 help
1619 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1620 events on a file descriptor.
1621
1622 If unsure, say Y.
1623
e1ad7468 1624config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1625 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1626 select ANON_INODES
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1627 default y
1628 help
1629 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1630 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1631
1632 If unsure, say Y.
1633
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1635config BPF_SYSCALL
e1abf2cc 1636 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
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1637 select ANON_INODES
1638 select BPF
1639 default n
1640 help
1641 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1642 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1643
1da177e4 1644config SHMEM
6a108a14 1645 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1646 default y
1647 depends on MMU
1648 help
1649 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1650 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1651 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1652 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1653 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1654
ebf3f09c 1655config AIO
6a108a14 1656 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1657 default y
1658 help
1659 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1660 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1661 this option saves about 7k.
1662
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1663config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1664 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1665 default y
1666 help
1667 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1668 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1669 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1670 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1671 space.
1672
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1673config USERFAULTFD
1674 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1675 select ANON_INODES
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1676 depends on MMU
1677 help
1678 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1679 handle page faults in userland.
1680
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1681config PCI_QUIRKS
1682 default y
1683 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1684 depends on PCI
1685 help
1686 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1687 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1688 unaffected by PCI quirks.
ebf3f09c 1689
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1690config MEMBARRIER
1691 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1692 default y
1693 help
1694 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1695 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1696 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1697 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1698 compiler barrier.
1699
1700 If unsure, say Y.
1701
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1703 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1704 option allnoconfig_y
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1705 select EXPERT
1706 help
1707 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1708 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1709 for configuration.
1710
cdd6c482 1711config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1712 bool
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1713 help
1714 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1715
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1716config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1717 bool
1718 help
1719 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1720
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1721config PC104
1722 bool "PC/104 support"
1723 help
1724 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1725 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1726 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1727
57c0c15b 1728menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1729
cdd6c482 1730config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1731 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1732 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1733 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1734 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1735 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1736 select SRCU
0793a61d 1737 help
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1738 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1739 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1740
dd77038d 1741 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1742 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1743
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1744 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1745 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1746 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1747 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1748 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1749 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1750 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1751
57c0c15b 1752 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1753 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1754 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1755 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1756 capabilities on top of those.
1757
1758 Say Y if unsure.
1759
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1760config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1761 default n
1762 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1763 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1764 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1765 help
1766 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1767
1768 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1769 that don't require it.
1770
1771 Say N if unsure.
1772
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1773endmenu
1774
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1775config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1776 default y
6a108a14 1777 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1778 help
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1779 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1780 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1781 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1782 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1783
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1784config SLUB_DEBUG
1785 default y
6a108a14 1786 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1787 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1788 help
1789 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1790 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1791 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1792 no support for cache validation etc.
1793
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1794config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1795 default n
1796 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1797 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1798 help
1799 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1800 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1801 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1802 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1803 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1804 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1805 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1806 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1807
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1808config COMPAT_BRK
1809 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1810 default y
1811 help
1812 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1813 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1814 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1815 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1816 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1817
1818 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1819
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1820choice
1821 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1822 default SLUB
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1823 help
1824 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1825
1826config SLAB
1827 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1828 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1829 help
1830 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1831 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1832 per cpu and per node queues.
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1834config SLUB
81819f0f 1835 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1836 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1838 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1839 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1840 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1841 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1842 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1843 a slab allocator.
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1845config SLOB
6a108a14 1846 depends on EXPERT
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1847 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1848 help
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1849 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1850 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1851 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1854
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1855config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1856 default n
210e7a43 1857 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1858 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1859 help
210e7a43 1860 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1861 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1862 allocator against heap overflows.
1863
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1864config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1865 default y
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1867 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1868 help
1869 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1870 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1871 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1872 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1873 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1874
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1875config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1876 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1877 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1878 default n
1879 help
1880 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1881 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1882 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1883 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1884 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1885 then the flag will be ignored.
1886
1887 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1888 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1889
1890 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1891 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1892 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1893 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1894
1895 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1896
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1898 def_bool n
1899 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1900 select KEYS
1901 select CRYPTO
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1903 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1904 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1905 select ASN1
1906 select OID_REGISTRY
1907 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1908 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1909 help
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1910 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1911 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1912 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1913 verification.
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125e5645 1915config PROFILING
b309a294 1916 bool "Profiling support"
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1917 help
1918 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1919 by profilers such as OProfile.
1920
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1922# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1923# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1924#
97e1c18e 1925config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1926 bool
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1929
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1930endmenu # General setup
1931
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1932config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1933 bool
1934 default n
1935
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1936config SLABINFO
1937 bool
1938 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1939 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1940 default y
1941
ae81f9e3 1942config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1943 bool
ae81f9e3 1944
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1945config BASE_SMALL
1946 int
1947 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1948 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1949
66da5733 1950menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1951 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1952 option modules
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1953 help
1954 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1955 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1956 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1957 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1958 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1959 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1960 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1961 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1962 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1963
1964 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1965 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1966 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1967 this).
1968
1969 If unsure, say Y.
1970
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1972
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1973config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1974 bool "Forced module loading"
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1975 default n
1976 help
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1977 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1978 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1979 is usually a really bad idea.
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1981config MODULE_UNLOAD
1982 bool "Module unloading"
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1983 help
1984 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1985 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1986 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1987 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1989config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1990 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1991 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1992 help
1993 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1994 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1995 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1996 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1997 If unsure, say N.
1998
1da177e4 1999config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 2000 bool "Module versioning support"
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2001 help
2002 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
2003 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
2004 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
2005 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
2006 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
2007 unsure, say N.
2008
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2010 bool
2011 depends on MODVERSIONS
2012
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2013config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
2014 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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2015 help
2016 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
2017 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
2018 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
2019 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
2020 others sometimes change the module source without updating
2021 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
2022 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
2023
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2025 bool "Module signature verification"
2026 depends on MODULES
091f6e26 2027 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
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2028 help
2029 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
2030 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
2031 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
2032
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2033 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
2034 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
2035 library.
2036
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2037 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
2038 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
2039 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
2040 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
2041
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2043 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
2044 depends on MODULE_SIG
2045 help
2046 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
2047 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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2049config MODULE_SIG_ALL
2050 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
2051 default y
2052 depends on MODULE_SIG
2053 help
2054 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
2055 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
2056
2057comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
2058 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
2059
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2061 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
2062 depends on MODULE_SIG
2063 help
2064 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
2065 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
2066 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
2067 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
2068 the signature on that module.
2069
2070config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2071 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
2072 select CRYPTO_SHA1
2073
2074config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2075 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
2076 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2077
2078config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2079 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
2080 select CRYPTO_SHA256
2081
2082config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2083 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
2084 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2085
2086config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2087 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
2088 select CRYPTO_SHA512
2089
2090endchoice
2091
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2092config MODULE_SIG_HASH
2093 string
2094 depends on MODULE_SIG
2095 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
2096 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
2097 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
2098 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
2099 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
2100
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2101config MODULE_COMPRESS
2102 bool "Compress modules on installation"
2103 depends on MODULES
2104 help
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2106 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
2107 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 2109 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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2111 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
2112 compressed upon installation.
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2114 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
2115 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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2117 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2118
2119 If in doubt, say N.
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2120
2121choice
2122 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2123 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2124 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2125 help
2126 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2127 'make modules_install'.
2128
2129 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2130
2131config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2132 bool "GZIP"
2133
2134config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2135 bool "XZ"
2136
2137endchoice
2138
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2139config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
2140 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
2141 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
2142 help
2143 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
2144 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
2145 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
2146 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
2147
2148 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
2149 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
2150 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
2151 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
2152
f1cb637e 2153 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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2156
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2157config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2158 def_bool y
2159 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2160
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2161config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2162 bool
2163 help
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2164 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2165 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2166 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2167 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2168 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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2172config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2173 bool
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2175config PADATA
2176 depends on SMP
2177 bool
2178
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2179config ASN1
2180 tristate
2181 help
2182 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2183 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2184 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2185 functions to call on what tags.
2186
6beb0009 2187source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"