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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.
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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.
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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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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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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
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286config USELIB
287 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 288 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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289 help
290 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
291 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
292 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
293 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
294 running glibc can safely disable this.
295
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296config AUDIT
297 bool "Auditing support"
298 depends on NET
299 help
300 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
301 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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302 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
303 on architectures which support it.
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305config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
306 bool
307
391dc69c 308config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 309 def_bool y
7a017721 310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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312config AUDIT_WATCH
313 def_bool y
314 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
315 select FSNOTIFY
316
317config AUDIT_TREE
318 def_bool y
319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
320 select FSNOTIFY
321
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322source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
323source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
324
325menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
326
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327config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
328 bool
329
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330choice
331 prompt "Cputime accounting"
332 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 333 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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335# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
336config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
337 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 338 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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339 help
340 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
341 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
342 granularity.
343
344 If unsure, say Y.
345
abf917cd 346config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 347 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 348 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 349 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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350 help
351 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
352 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
353 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
354 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
355 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
356 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
357 systems.
358
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359config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
360 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 361 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 362 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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363 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
364 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
365 help
366 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
367 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
368 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
369 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
370 overhead.
371
372 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
373 dynticks subsystem development.
374
375 If unsure, say N.
376
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378
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379config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
380 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 381 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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382 help
383 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
384 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
385 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
386 small performance impact.
387
388 If in doubt, say N here.
389
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390config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
391 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 392 depends on MULTIUSER
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393 help
394 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
395 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
396 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
397 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
398 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
399 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
400 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
401 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
402 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
403
404config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
405 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
406 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
407 default n
408 help
409 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
410 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
411 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
412 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
413 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 414 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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c757249a 416config TASKSTATS
19c92399 417 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 418 depends on NET
2813893f 419 depends on MULTIUSER
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420 default n
421 help
422 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
423 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
424 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
425 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
426 space on task exit.
427
428 Say N if unsure.
429
ca74e92b 430config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 431 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 432 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 433 select SCHED_INFO
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434 help
435 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
436 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
437 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
438 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
439
440 Say N if unsure.
441
18f705f4 442config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 443 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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444 depends on TASKSTATS
445 help
446 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
447 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
448
449 Say N if unsure.
450
451config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 452 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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453 depends on TASK_XACCT
454 help
455 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
456 task has caused.
457
458 Say N if unsure.
459
391dc69c 460endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
d9817ebe 461
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462config CPU_ISOLATION
463 bool "CPU isolation"
414a2dc1 464 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
2c43838c 465 default y
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466 help
467 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
468 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
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469 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
470 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
471
472 Say Y if unsure.
5c4991e2 473
0af92d46 474source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
c903ff83 475
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476config BUILD_BIN2C
477 bool
478 default n
479
1da177e4 480config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 481 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 482 select BUILD_BIN2C
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483 ---help---
484 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
485 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
486 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
487 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
488 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
489 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
490 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
491 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
492
493config IKCONFIG_PROC
494 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
495 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
496 ---help---
497 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
498 through /proc/config.gz.
499
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500config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
501 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 502 range 12 25
f17a32e9 503 default 17
361e9dfb 504 depends on PRINTK
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506 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
507 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
508 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
509 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
510
f17a32e9 511 Examples:
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f17a32e9 513 16 => 64 KB
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515 14 => 16 KB
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516 13 => 8 KB
517 12 => 4 KB
518
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519config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
520 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 521 depends on SMP
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522 range 0 21
523 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
524 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 525 depends on PRINTK
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526 help
527 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
528 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
529 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
530 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
531 e.g. backtraces.
532
533 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
534 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
535 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
536 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
537 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
538 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
539
540 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
541 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
542
543 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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544 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
545 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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547 Examples shift values and their meaning:
548 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
549 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
550 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
551 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
552 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
553 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
554
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555config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
556 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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557 range 10 21
558 default 13
f92bac3b 559 depends on PRINTK
427934b8 560 help
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561 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
562 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
563 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
564 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
565 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
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f92bac3b 567 Those messages are rare and limited. The largest one is when
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568 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
569 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
570
571 Examples:
572 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
573 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
574 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
575 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
576 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
577 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
578
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580# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
581#
582config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
583 bool
584
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585config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
586 bool
587
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589# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
590# balancing logic:
591#
592config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
593 bool
594
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596# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
597# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
598# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
599# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
600# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
601# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
602config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
603 bool
604
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605#
606# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
607#
608config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
609 bool
610
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611# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
612# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
613#
614config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
615 bool
616
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617config NUMA_BALANCING
618 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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619 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
620 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
621 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
622 help
623 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
624 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 625 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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627 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
628
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630 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
631 default y
632 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
633 help
634 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
635 machine.
636
23964d2d 637menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 638 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 639 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 640 help
23964d2d 641 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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642 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
643 controls or device isolation.
644 See
5cdc38f9 645 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
9991a9c8 646 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 647 and resource control)
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648
649 Say N if unsure.
650
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651if CGROUPS
652
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653config PAGE_COUNTER
654 bool
655
c255a458 656config MEMCG
a0166ec4 657 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 658 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 659 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 660 help
a0166ec4 661 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 662
c255a458 663config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 664 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 665 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
c077719b 666 help
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667 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
668
c255a458 669config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 670 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 671 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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672 default y
673 help
674 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
675 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 676 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 677 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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678 parameter should have this option unselected.
679 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
680 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 681 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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683config BLK_CGROUP
684 bool "IO controller"
685 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 686 default n
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687 ---help---
688 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
689 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
690 policies.
2bc64a20 691
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692 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
693 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
694 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
695 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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697 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
698 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
699 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
700 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
701 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
702
9991a9c8 703 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
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705config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
706 bool "IO controller debugging"
707 depends on BLK_CGROUP
708 default n
709 ---help---
710 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
711 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
712
713config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
714 bool
715 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
716 default y
e5d1367f 717
7c941438 718menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 719 bool "CPU controller"
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720 default n
721 help
722 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
723 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
724 tasks.
725
726if CGROUP_SCHED
727config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
728 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
729 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
730 default CGROUP_SCHED
731
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733 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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734 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
735 default n
736 help
737 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
738 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
739 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
740 restriction.
741 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
742
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743config RT_GROUP_SCHED
744 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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745 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
746 default n
747 help
748 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 749 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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750 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
751 realtime bandwidth for them.
752 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
753
754endif #CGROUP_SCHED
755
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756config CGROUP_PIDS
757 bool "PIDs controller"
758 help
759 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
760 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
761 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
762 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
763 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
764 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 765 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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767 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
6cc578df 768 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
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769 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
770 attach to a cgroup.
771
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772config CGROUP_RDMA
773 bool "RDMA controller"
774 help
775 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
776 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
777 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
778 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
779 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
780 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
781
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782config CGROUP_FREEZER
783 bool "Freezer controller"
784 help
785 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
786 cgroup.
787
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789 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
790
791 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
792
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793config CGROUP_HUGETLB
794 bool "HugeTLB controller"
795 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
796 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 797 default n
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798 help
799 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
800 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
801 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
802 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
803 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
804 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
805 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
806 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
807 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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809config CPUSETS
810 bool "Cpuset controller"
e1d4eeec 811 depends on SMP
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812 help
813 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
814 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
815 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
816 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 817
6bf024e6 818 Say N if unsure.
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820config PROC_PID_CPUSET
821 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
822 depends on CPUSETS
823 default y
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825config CGROUP_DEVICE
826 bool "Device controller"
827 help
828 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
829 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
830
831config CGROUP_CPUACCT
832 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
833 help
834 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
835 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
836
837config CGROUP_PERF
838 bool "Perf controller"
839 depends on PERF_EVENTS
840 help
841 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
842 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
843 designated cpu.
844
845 Say N if unsure.
846
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848 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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850 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
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851 help
852 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
853 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
854
855 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
856 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
857 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
858 inet sockets.
859
6bf024e6 860config CGROUP_DEBUG
23b0be48 861 bool "Debug controller"
afc24d49 862 default n
23b0be48 863 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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864 help
865 This option enables a simple controller that exports
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866 debugging information about the cgroups framework. This
867 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
868 interfaces are not stable.
afc24d49 869
6bf024e6 870 Say N.
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872config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
873 bool
874 default n
875
23964d2d 876endif # CGROUPS
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8dd2a82c 878menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 879 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 880 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 881 default !EXPERT
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882 help
883 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
884 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
885 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
886 different namespaces.
887
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888if NAMESPACES
889
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890config UTS_NS
891 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 892 default y
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893 help
894 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
895 uname() system call
896
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897config IPC_NS
898 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 899 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 900 default y
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901 help
902 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 903 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 904
aee16ce7 905config USER_NS
19c92399 906 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 907 default n
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908 help
909 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
910 to provide different user info for different servers.
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912 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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914 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
915 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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917 If unsure, say N.
918
74bd59bb 919config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 920 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 921 default y
74bd59bb 922 help
12d2b8f9 923 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 924 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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925 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
926
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927config NET_NS
928 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 929 depends on NET
17a6d441 930 default y
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931 help
932 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
933 of the network stack.
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936
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937config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
938 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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939 select CGROUPS
940 select CGROUP_SCHED
941 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
942 help
943 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
944 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
945 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
946 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
947 upon task session.
948
7af37bec 949config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 950 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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951 depends on SYSFS
952 default n
953 help
954 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
955 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
956 /sys/block/.
957
958 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
959 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
960
961 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
962 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
963 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
964
965 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
966 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
967 option enabled.
968
969 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
970 need to say Y here.
971
972config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 973 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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974 default n
975 depends on SYSFS
976 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
977 help
978 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
979
980 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
981 option.
982
983 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
984 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
985 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
986
987config RELAY
988 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 989 select IRQ_WORK
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990 help
991 This option enables support for relay interface support in
992 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
993 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
994 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
995 user space.
996
997 If unsure, say N.
998
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1000 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1001 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1002 help
1003 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1004 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1005 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1006 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1007 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1009 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1010 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1011 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1012
1013 If unsure say Y.
1014
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1015if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1016
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1018
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1019endif
1020
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1022 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
2cc3ce24 1023 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
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1025config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1026 bool "Optimize for performance"
1027 help
1028 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1029 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1030 helpful compile-time warnings.
1031
c45b4f1f 1032config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1033 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1034 help
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1035 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1036 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1037
3a55fb0d 1038 If unsure, say N.
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1041
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1042config SYSCTL
1043 bool
1044
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1045config ANON_INODES
1046 bool
1047
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1048config HAVE_UID16
1049 bool
1050
1051config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1052 bool
1053 help
1054 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1055
1056config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1057 bool
1058 help
1059 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1060 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1061 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1062
1063config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1064 bool
1065 help
1066 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1067 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1068 the unaligned access emulation.
1069 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1070
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1071config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1072 bool
1073
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1075config BPF
1076 bool
1077
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1078menuconfig EXPERT
1079 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1080 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1081 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1082 help
1083 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1084 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1085 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1086 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1087
ae81f9e3 1088config UID16
6a108a14 1089 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1090 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1091 default y
1092 help
1093 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1094
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1095config MULTIUSER
1096 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1097 default y
1098 help
1099 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1100 capabilities.
1101
1102 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1103 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1104 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1105 setgid, and capset.
1106
1107 If unsure, say Y here.
1108
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1110 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1111 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1112 ---help---
1113 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1114 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1115 architectures.
1116
1117 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1118
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1119config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1120 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1121 default y
1122 ---help---
1123 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1124 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1125 compatibility with some systems.
1126
1127 If unsure say Y here.
1128
b89a8171 1129config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1130 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1131 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1132 default n
b89a8171 1133 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1134 ---help---
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1135 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1136 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1137 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1138 information.
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1140 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1141 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1142 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1143
c736de60 1144 If unsure say N here.
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1147 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1148 select EXPORTFS
1149 default y
1150 help
1151 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1152 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1153 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1154 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1155 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1156 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1157 syscalls.
1158
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1159config POSIX_TIMERS
1160 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1161 default y
1162 help
1163 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1164 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1165 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1166
1167 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1168 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1169 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1170 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1171 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1172 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1173
1174 If unsure say y.
1175
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1177 default y
6a108a14 1178 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1179 select IRQ_WORK
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1180 help
1181 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1182 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1183 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1184 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1185 strongly discouraged.
1186
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1188 def_bool y
1189 depends on PRINTK
1190 depends on HAVE_NMI
1191
c8538a7a 1192config BUG
6a108a14 1193 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1194 default y
1195 help
1196 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1197 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1198 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1199 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1200 Just say Y.
1201
708e9a79 1202config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1203 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1204 default y
6a108a14 1205 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1206 help
1207 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1208
8761f1ab 1209
e5e1d3cb 1210config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1211 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1212 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1213 select I8253_LOCK
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1214 default y
1215 help
1216 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1217 support, saving some memory.
1218
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1219config BASE_FULL
1220 default y
6a108a14 1221 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1222 help
1223 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1224 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1225 but may reduce performance.
1226
1227config FUTEX
6a108a14 1228 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1229 default y
bc2eecd7 1230 imply RT_MUTEXES
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1231 help
1232 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1233 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1234 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1235
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1236config FUTEX_PI
1237 bool
1238 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1239 default y
1240
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1241config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1242 bool
62b4d204 1243 depends on FUTEX
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1244 help
1245 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1246 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1247 checks.
1248
1da177e4 1249config EPOLL
6a108a14 1250 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1251 default y
448e3cee 1252 select ANON_INODES
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1253 help
1254 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1255 support for epoll family of system calls.
1256
fba2afaa 1257config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1258 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1259 select ANON_INODES
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1260 default y
1261 help
1262 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1263 on a file descriptor.
1264
1265 If unsure, say Y.
1266
b215e283 1267config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1268 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1269 select ANON_INODES
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1270 default y
1271 help
1272 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1273 events on a file descriptor.
1274
1275 If unsure, say Y.
1276
e1ad7468 1277config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1278 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1279 select ANON_INODES
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1280 default y
1281 help
1282 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1283 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1284
1285 If unsure, say Y.
1286
1da177e4 1287config SHMEM
6a108a14 1288 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1289 default y
1290 depends on MMU
1291 help
1292 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1293 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1294 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1295 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1296 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1297
ebf3f09c 1298config AIO
6a108a14 1299 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1300 default y
1301 help
1302 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1303 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1304 this option saves about 7k.
1305
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1306config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1307 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1308 default y
1309 help
1310 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1311 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1312 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1313 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1314 space.
1315
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1316config MEMBARRIER
1317 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1318 default y
1319 help
1320 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1321 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1322 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1323 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1324 compiler barrier.
1325
1326 If unsure, say Y.
1327
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1328config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1329 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1330 select PROC_CHILDREN
1331 default n
1332 help
1333 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1334 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1335 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1336 entries.
1337
1338 If unsure, say N here.
1339
1340config KALLSYMS
1341 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1342 default y
1343 help
1344 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1345 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1346 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1347
1348config KALLSYMS_ALL
1349 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1351 help
1352 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1353 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1354 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1355 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1356 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1357
1358 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1359 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1360 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1361 something like this).
1362
1363 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1364
1365config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1366 bool
1367 depends on KALLSYMS
1368 default X86_64 && SMP
1369
1370config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1371 bool
1372 depends on KALLSYMS
1373 default !IA64 && !(TILE && 64BIT)
1374 help
1375 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1376 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1377 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1378 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1379 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1380 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1381 address encountered in the image.
1382
1383 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1384 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1385 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1386 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1387
1388# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1389
1390# syscall, maps, verifier
1391config BPF_SYSCALL
1392 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1393 select ANON_INODES
1394 select BPF
1395 default n
1396 help
1397 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1398 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1399
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1400config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1401 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1402 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1403 help
1404 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1405 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1406
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1407config USERFAULTFD
1408 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1409 select ANON_INODES
1410 depends on MMU
1411 help
1412 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1413 handle page faults in userland.
1414
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1415config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
1416 bool
1417
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1418config EMBEDDED
1419 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1420 option allnoconfig_y
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1421 select EXPERT
1422 help
1423 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1424 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1425 for configuration.
1426
cdd6c482 1427config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1428 bool
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1429 help
1430 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1432config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1433 bool
1434 help
1435 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1436
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1437config PC104
1438 bool "PC/104 support"
1439 help
1440 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1441 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1442 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1443
57c0c15b 1444menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1445
cdd6c482 1446config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1447 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1448 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1449 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1450 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1451 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1452 select SRCU
0793a61d 1453 help
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1454 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1455 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1456
dd77038d 1457 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1458 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1459
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1460 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1461 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1462 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1463 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1464 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1465 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1466 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1467
57c0c15b 1468 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1469 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1470 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1471 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1472 capabilities on top of those.
1473
1474 Say Y if unsure.
1475
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1476config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1477 default n
1478 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1479 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1480 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1481 help
1482 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1483
1484 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1485 that don't require it.
1486
1487 Say N if unsure.
1488
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1489endmenu
1490
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1491config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1492 default y
6a108a14 1493 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1494 help
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1495 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1496 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1497 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1498 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1499
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1500config SLUB_DEBUG
1501 default y
6a108a14 1502 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1503 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1504 help
1505 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1506 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1507 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1508 no support for cache validation etc.
1509
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1510config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1511 default n
1512 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1513 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1514 help
1515 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1516 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1517 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1518 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1519 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1520 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1521 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1522 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1523
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1524config COMPAT_BRK
1525 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1526 default y
1527 help
1528 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1529 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1530 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1531 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1532 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1533
1534 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1535
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1536choice
1537 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1538 default SLUB
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1539 help
1540 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1541
1542config SLAB
1543 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1544 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1545 help
1546 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1547 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1548 per cpu and per node queues.
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1550config SLUB
81819f0f 1551 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1552 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1553 help
1554 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1555 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1556 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1557 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1558 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1559 a slab allocator.
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1561config SLOB
6a108a14 1562 depends on EXPERT
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1563 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1564 help
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1565 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1566 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1567 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1569endchoice
1570
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1571config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
1572 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
1573 default y
1574 help
1575 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
1576 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
1577 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
1578 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
1579 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
1580 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
1581 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
1582 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
1583 command line.
1584
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1585config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1586 default n
210e7a43 1587 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1588 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1589 help
210e7a43 1590 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1591 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1592 allocator against heap overflows.
1593
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1594config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
1595 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
1596 depends on SLUB
1597 help
1598 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
1599 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
1600 sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
1601 freelist exploit methods.
1602
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1603config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1604 default y
b39ffbf8 1605 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1606 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1607 help
1608 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1609 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1610 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1611 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1612 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1613
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1614config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1615 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1616 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1617 default n
1618 help
1619 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1620 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1621 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1622 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1623 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1624 then the flag will be ignored.
1625
1626 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1627 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1628
1629 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1630 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1631 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1632 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1633
1634 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1635
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1636config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1637 def_bool n
1638 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1639 select KEYS
1640 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1641 select CRYPTO_RSA
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1642 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1643 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1644 select ASN1
1645 select OID_REGISTRY
1646 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1647 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1648 help
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1649 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1650 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1651 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1652 verification.
82c04ff8 1653
125e5645 1654config PROFILING
b309a294 1655 bool "Profiling support"
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1656 help
1657 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1658 by profilers such as OProfile.
1659
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1660#
1661# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1662# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1663#
97e1c18e 1664config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1665 bool
97e1c18e 1666
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1667source "arch/Kconfig"
1668
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1669endmenu # General setup
1670
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1671config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1672 bool
1673 default n
1674
ae81f9e3 1675config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1676 bool
ae81f9e3 1677
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1678config BASE_SMALL
1679 int
1680 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1681 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1682
66da5733 1683menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1684 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1685 option modules
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1686 help
1687 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1688 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1689 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1690 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1691 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1692 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1693 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1694 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1695 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1696
1697 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1698 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1699 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1700 this).
1701
1702 If unsure, say Y.
1703
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1704if MODULES
1705
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1706config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1707 bool "Forced module loading"
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1708 default n
1709 help
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1710 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1711 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1712 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1713
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1714config MODULE_UNLOAD
1715 bool "Module unloading"
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1716 help
1717 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1718 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1719 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1720 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1721
1722config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1723 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1724 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1725 help
1726 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1727 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1728 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1729 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1730 If unsure, say N.
1731
1da177e4 1732config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1733 bool "Module versioning support"
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1734 help
1735 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1736 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1737 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1738 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1739 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1740 unsure, say N.
1741
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1743 bool
1744 depends on MODVERSIONS
1745
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1746config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1747 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1748 help
1749 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1750 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1751 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1752 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1753 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1754 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1755 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1756
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1757config MODULE_SIG
1758 bool "Module signature verification"
1759 depends on MODULES
091f6e26 1760 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
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1761 help
1762 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1763 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
cbdc8217 1764 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
106a4ee2 1765
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1766 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1767 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1768 library.
1769
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1770 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1771 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1772 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1773 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1774
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1775config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1776 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1777 depends on MODULE_SIG
1778 help
1779 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1780 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1782config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1783 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1784 default y
1785 depends on MODULE_SIG
1786 help
1787 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1788 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1789
1790comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1791 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1792
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1793choice
1794 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1795 depends on MODULE_SIG
1796 help
1797 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1798 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1799 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1800 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1801 the signature on that module.
1802
1803config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1804 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1805 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1806
1807config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1808 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1809 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1810
1811config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1812 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1813 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1814
1815config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1816 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1817 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1818
1819config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1820 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1821 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1822
1823endchoice
1824
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1825config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1826 string
1827 depends on MODULE_SIG
1828 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1829 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1830 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1831 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1832 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1833
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1834config MODULE_COMPRESS
1835 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1836 depends on MODULES
1837 help
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1839 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1840 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 1842 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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1844 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1845 compressed upon installation.
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1847 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1848 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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1850 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1851
1852 If in doubt, say N.
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1853
1854choice
1855 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1856 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1857 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1858 help
1859 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1860 'make modules_install'.
1861
1862 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1863
1864config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1865 bool "GZIP"
1866
1867config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1868 bool "XZ"
1869
1870endchoice
1871
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1872config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
1873 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
1874 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
1875 help
1876 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
1877 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
1878 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
1879 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
1880
1881 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
1882 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
1883 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
1884 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
1885
f1cb637e 1886 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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1889
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1890config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
1891 def_bool y
1892 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
1893
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1894config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1895 bool
1896 help
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1897 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1898 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1899 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1900 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1901 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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3a65dfe8 1903source "block/Kconfig"
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1905config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1906 bool
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1908config PADATA
1909 depends on SMP
1910 bool
1911
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1912config ASN1
1913 tristate
1914 help
1915 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
1916 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
1917 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
1918 functions to call on what tags.
1919
6beb0009 1920source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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1922config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
1923 bool