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1config DEFCONFIG_LIST
2 string
b2670eac 3 depends on !UML
face4374 4 option defconfig_list
47f38ae0 5 default "/lib/modules/$(shell,uname -r)/.config"
face4374 6 default "/etc/kernel-config"
47f38ae0 7 default "/boot/config-$(shell,uname -r)"
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8 default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
9 default "arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig"
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11config CC_IS_GCC
12 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q gcc)
13
14config GCC_VERSION
15 int
16 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $(CC) | sed 's/^0*//') if CC_IS_GCC
17 default 0
18
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19config CC_IS_CLANG
20 def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
21
22config CLANG_VERSION
23 int
24 default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
25
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26config CONSTRUCTORS
27 bool
28 depends on !UML
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30config IRQ_WORK
31 bool
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33config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
34 bool
35
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36config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
37 bool
38 help
39 Select this to move thread_info off the stack into task_struct. To
40 make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
41 except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
42
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43 One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
44 and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
45
ff0cfc66 46menu "General setup"
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48config BROKEN
49 bool
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50
51config BROKEN_ON_SMP
52 bool
53 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
54 default y
55
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56config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
57 int
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58 default 32 if !UML
59 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 60 help
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61 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
62 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 63
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64config COMPILE_TEST
65 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
bc083a64 66 depends on !UML
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67 default n
68 help
69 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
70 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
71 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
72 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
73 drivers to compile-test them.
74
75 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
76 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
77 drivers to be distributed.
78
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79config LOCALVERSION
80 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
81 help
82 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
83 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
84 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
85 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
86 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
87 be a maximum of 64 characters.
88
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89config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
90 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
91 default y
ac3339ba 92 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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93 help
94 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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95 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
96 top of tree revision.
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97
98 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 99 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 100 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 101 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 102
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103 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
104 by running the command:
105
106 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
107
108 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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110config BUILD_SALT
111 string "Build ID Salt"
112 default ""
113 help
114 The build ID is used to link binaries and their debug info. Setting
115 this option will use the value in the calculation of the build id.
116 This is mostly useful for distributions which want to ensure the
117 build is unique between builds. It's safe to leave the default.
118
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119config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
120 bool
121
122config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
123 bool
124
125config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
126 bool
127
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128config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
129 bool
130
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131config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
132 bool
133
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134config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
135 bool
136
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137config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
138 bool
139
30d65dbf 140choice
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141 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
142 default KERNEL_GZIP
f16466af 143 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
2e9f3bdd 144 help
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145 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
146 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
147 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
148 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
149 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
150
151 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
152 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
153 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
154 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
155
156 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
157 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
158 size matters less.
159
160 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
161
162config KERNEL_GZIP
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163 bool "Gzip"
164 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
165 help
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166 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
167 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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168
169config KERNEL_BZIP2
170 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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172 help
173 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 174 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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175 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
176 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
177 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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179config KERNEL_LZMA
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180 bool "LZMA"
181 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
182 help
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183 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
184 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
185 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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187config KERNEL_XZ
188 bool "XZ"
189 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
190 help
191 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
192 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
193 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
194 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
195 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
196 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
197
198 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
199 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
200 and LZO. Compression is slow.
201
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202config KERNEL_LZO
203 bool "LZO"
204 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
205 help
0a4dd35c 206 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 207 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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208 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
209
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210config KERNEL_LZ4
211 bool "LZ4"
212 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
213 help
214 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
215 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
216 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
217
218 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
219 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
220 faster than LZO.
221
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222config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
223 bool "None"
224 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
225 help
226 Produce uncompressed kernel image. This option is usually not what
227 you want. It is useful for debugging the kernel in slow simulation
228 environments, where decompressing and moving the kernel is awfully
229 slow. This option allows early boot code to skip the decompressor
230 and jump right at uncompressed kernel image.
231
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232endchoice
233
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234config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
235 string "Default hostname"
236 default "(none)"
237 help
238 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
239 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
240 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
241 system more usable with less configuration.
242
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243#
244# For some reason microblaze and nios2 hard code SWAP=n. Hopefully we can
245# add proper SWAP support to them, in which case this can be remove.
246#
247config ARCH_NO_SWAP
248 bool
249
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250config SWAP
251 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
17c46a6a 252 depends on MMU && BLOCK && !ARCH_NO_SWAP
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253 default y
254 help
255 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 256 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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257 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
258 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
259
260config SYSVIPC
261 bool "System V IPC"
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262 ---help---
263 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
264 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
265 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
266 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
267 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
268 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
269 you'll need to say Y here.
270
271 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
272 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
273 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
274
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275config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
276 bool
277 depends on SYSVIPC
278 depends on SYSCTL
279 default y
280
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281config POSIX_MQUEUE
282 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 283 depends on NET
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284 ---help---
285 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
286 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
287 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
288 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 289 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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290
291 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
292 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
293 operations on message queues.
294
295 If unsure, say Y.
296
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297config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
298 bool
299 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
300 depends on SYSCTL
301 default y
302
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303config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
304 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
305 depends on MMU
306 default y
307 help
308 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
309 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 310 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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311 See the man page for more details.
312
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313config USELIB
314 bool "uselib syscall"
b2113a41 315 def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
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316 help
317 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
318 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
319 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
320 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
321 running glibc can safely disable this.
322
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323config AUDIT
324 bool "Auditing support"
325 depends on NET
326 help
327 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
328 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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329 logging of avc messages output). System call auditing is included
330 on architectures which support it.
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332config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
333 bool
334
391dc69c 335config AUDITSYSCALL
cb74ed27 336 def_bool y
7a017721 337 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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338
339config AUDIT_WATCH
340 def_bool y
341 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
342 select FSNOTIFY
343
344config AUDIT_TREE
345 def_bool y
346 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
347 select FSNOTIFY
348
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349source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
350source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
87a4c375 351source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
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352
353menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
354
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355config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
356 bool
357
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358choice
359 prompt "Cputime accounting"
360 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 361 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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362
363# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
364config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
365 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 366 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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367 help
368 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
369 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
370 granularity.
371
372 If unsure, say Y.
373
abf917cd 374config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 375 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 376 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 377 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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378 help
379 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
380 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
381 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
382 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
383 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
384 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
385 systems.
386
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387config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
388 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 389 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 390 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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391 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
392 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
393 help
394 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
395 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
396 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
397 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
398 overhead.
399
400 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
401 dynticks subsystem development.
402
403 If unsure, say N.
404
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406
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407config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
408 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
b58c3584 409 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
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410 help
411 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
412 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
413 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
414 small performance impact.
415
416 If in doubt, say N here.
417
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418config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
419 def_bool y
420 depends on IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING || PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
421 depends on SMP
422
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423config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
424 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 425 depends on MULTIUSER
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426 help
427 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
428 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
429 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
430 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
431 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
432 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
433 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
434 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
435 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
436
437config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
438 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
439 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
440 default n
441 help
442 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
443 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
3903bf94 444 process and its parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
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445 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
446 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 447 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 448
c757249a 449config TASKSTATS
19c92399 450 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 451 depends on NET
2813893f 452 depends on MULTIUSER
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453 default n
454 help
455 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
456 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
457 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
458 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
459 space on task exit.
460
461 Say N if unsure.
462
ca74e92b 463config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 464 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 465 depends on TASKSTATS
f6db8347 466 select SCHED_INFO
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467 help
468 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
469 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
470 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
471 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
472
473 Say N if unsure.
474
18f705f4 475config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 476 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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477 depends on TASKSTATS
478 help
479 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
480 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
481
482 Say N if unsure.
483
484config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 485 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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486 depends on TASK_XACCT
487 help
488 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
489 task has caused.
490
491 Say N if unsure.
492
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493config PSI
494 bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
495 help
496 Collect metrics that indicate how overcommitted the CPU, memory,
497 and IO capacity are in the system.
498
499 If you say Y here, the kernel will create /proc/pressure/ with the
500 pressure statistics files cpu, memory, and io. These will indicate
501 the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
502 delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
503
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504 In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
505 have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
506 which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
507
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508 For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt.
509
510 Say N if unsure.
511
391dc69c 512endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
d9817ebe 513
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514config CPU_ISOLATION
515 bool "CPU isolation"
414a2dc1 516 depends on SMP || COMPILE_TEST
2c43838c 517 default y
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518 help
519 Make sure that CPUs running critical tasks are not disturbed by
520 any source of "noise" such as unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads...
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521 Unbound jobs get offloaded to housekeeping CPUs. This is driven by
522 the "isolcpus=" boot parameter.
523
524 Say Y if unsure.
5c4991e2 525
0af92d46 526source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"
c903ff83 527
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528config BUILD_BIN2C
529 bool
530 default n
531
1da177e4 532config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 533 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 534 select BUILD_BIN2C
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535 ---help---
536 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
537 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
538 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
539 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
540 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
541 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
542 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
543 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
544
545config IKCONFIG_PROC
546 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
547 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
548 ---help---
549 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
550 through /proc/config.gz.
551
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552config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
553 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
fb39f98d 554 range 12 25
f17a32e9 555 default 17
361e9dfb 556 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 557 help
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558 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
559 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
560 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
561 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
562
f17a32e9 563 Examples:
23b2899f 564 17 => 128 KB
f17a32e9 565 16 => 64 KB
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567 14 => 16 KB
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568 13 => 8 KB
569 12 => 4 KB
570
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571config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
572 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 573 depends on SMP
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574 range 0 21
575 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
576 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 577 depends on PRINTK
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578 help
579 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
580 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
581 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
582 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
583 e.g. backtraces.
584
585 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
586 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
587 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
588 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
589 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
590 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
591
592 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
593 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
594
595 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
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596 hotplugging making the computation optimal for the worst case
597 scenario while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
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599 Examples shift values and their meaning:
600 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
601 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
602 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
603 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
604 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
605 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
606
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607config PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
608 int "Temporary per-CPU printk log buffer size (12 => 4KB, 13 => 8KB)"
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609 range 10 21
610 default 13
f92bac3b 611 depends on PRINTK
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613 Select the size of an alternate printk per-CPU buffer where messages
614 printed from usafe contexts are temporary stored. One example would
615 be NMI messages, another one - printk recursion. The messages are
616 copied to the main log buffer in a safe context to avoid a deadlock.
617 The value defines the size as a power of 2.
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620 a backtrace is printed. It usually fits into 4KB. Select
621 8KB if you want to be on the safe side.
622
623 Examples:
624 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
625 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
626 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
627 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
628 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
629 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
630
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632# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
633#
634config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
635 bool
636
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637config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
638 bool
639
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641# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
642# balancing logic:
643#
644config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
645 bool
646
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647#
648# For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
649# are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
650# must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
651# written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
652# should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
653# and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
654config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
655 bool
656
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657#
658# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
659#
660config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
661 bool
662
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663# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
664# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
665#
666config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
667 bool
668
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670 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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671 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
672 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
673 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
674 help
675 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
676 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 677 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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679 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
680
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681config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
682 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
683 default y
684 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
685 help
686 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
687 machine.
688
23964d2d 689menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 690 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 691 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 692 help
23964d2d 693 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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694 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
695 controls or device isolation.
696 See
5cdc38f9 697 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
9991a9c8 698 - Documentation/cgroup-v1/ (features for grouping, isolation
45ce80fb 699 and resource control)
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701 Say N if unsure.
702
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703if CGROUPS
704
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705config PAGE_COUNTER
706 bool
707
c255a458 708config MEMCG
a0166ec4 709 bool "Memory controller"
3e32cb2e 710 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 711 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 712 help
a0166ec4 713 Provides control over the memory footprint of tasks in a cgroup.
00f0b825 714
c255a458 715config MEMCG_SWAP
a0166ec4 716 bool "Swap controller"
c255a458 717 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
c077719b 718 help
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719 Provides control over the swap space consumed by tasks in a cgroup.
720
c255a458 721config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a0166ec4 722 bool "Swap controller enabled by default"
c255a458 723 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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724 default y
725 help
726 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
727 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 728 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 729 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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730 parameter should have this option unselected.
731 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
732 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 733 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
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735config MEMCG_KMEM
736 bool
737 depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
738 default y
739
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740config BLK_CGROUP
741 bool "IO controller"
742 depends on BLOCK
2bc64a20 743 default n
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744 ---help---
745 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
746 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
747 policies.
2bc64a20 748
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749 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
750 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
751 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
752 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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754 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
755 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
756 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
757 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
758 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
759
9991a9c8 760 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
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762config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
763 bool "IO controller debugging"
764 depends on BLK_CGROUP
765 default n
766 ---help---
767 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
768 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
769
770config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
771 bool
772 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
773 default y
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7c941438 775menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
a0166ec4 776 bool "CPU controller"
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777 default n
778 help
779 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
780 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
781 tasks.
782
783if CGROUP_SCHED
784config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
785 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
786 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
787 default CGROUP_SCHED
788
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790 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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791 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
792 default n
793 help
794 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
795 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
796 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
797 restriction.
cd33d880 798 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
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800config RT_GROUP_SCHED
801 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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802 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
803 default n
804 help
805 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 806 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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807 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
808 realtime bandwidth for them.
809 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
810
811endif #CGROUP_SCHED
812
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814 bool "PIDs controller"
815 help
816 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
817 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
818 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
819 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
820 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
821 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
6cc578df 822 PIDs controller is designed to stop this from happening.
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824 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
6cc578df 825 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs controller),
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826 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
827 attach to a cgroup.
828
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829config CGROUP_RDMA
830 bool "RDMA controller"
831 help
832 Provides enforcement of RDMA resources defined by IB stack.
833 It is fairly easy for consumers to exhaust RDMA resources, which
834 can result into resource unavailability to other consumers.
835 RDMA controller is designed to stop this from happening.
836 Attaching processes with active RDMA resources to the cgroup
837 hierarchy is allowed even if can cross the hierarchy's limit.
838
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839config CGROUP_FREEZER
840 bool "Freezer controller"
841 help
842 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
843 cgroup.
844
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845 This option affects the ORIGINAL cgroup interface. The cgroup2 memory
846 controller includes important in-kernel memory consumers per default.
847
848 If you're using cgroup2, say N.
849
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850config CGROUP_HUGETLB
851 bool "HugeTLB controller"
852 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
853 select PAGE_COUNTER
afc24d49 854 default n
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855 help
856 Provides a cgroup controller for HugeTLB pages.
857 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
858 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
859 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
860 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
861 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
862 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
863 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
864 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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866config CPUSETS
867 bool "Cpuset controller"
e1d4eeec 868 depends on SMP
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869 help
870 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
871 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
872 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
873 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
afc24d49 874
6bf024e6 875 Say N if unsure.
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877config PROC_PID_CPUSET
878 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
879 depends on CPUSETS
880 default y
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882config CGROUP_DEVICE
883 bool "Device controller"
884 help
885 Provides a cgroup controller implementing whitelists for
886 devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
887
888config CGROUP_CPUACCT
889 bool "Simple CPU accounting controller"
890 help
891 Provides a simple controller for monitoring the
892 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
893
894config CGROUP_PERF
895 bool "Perf controller"
896 depends on PERF_EVENTS
897 help
898 This option extends the perf per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring
899 to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
900 designated cpu.
901
902 Say N if unsure.
903
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905 bool "Support for eBPF programs attached to cgroups"
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907 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
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908 help
909 Allow attaching eBPF programs to a cgroup using the bpf(2)
910 syscall command BPF_PROG_ATTACH.
911
912 In which context these programs are accessed depends on the type
913 of attachment. For instance, programs that are attached using
914 BPF_CGROUP_INET_INGRESS will be executed on the ingress path of
915 inet sockets.
916
6bf024e6 917config CGROUP_DEBUG
23b0be48 918 bool "Debug controller"
afc24d49 919 default n
23b0be48 920 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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921 help
922 This option enables a simple controller that exports
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924 controller is for control cgroup debugging only. Its
925 interfaces are not stable.
afc24d49 926
6bf024e6 927 Say N.
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930 bool
931 default n
932
23964d2d 933endif # CGROUPS
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8dd2a82c 935menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 936 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 937 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 938 default !EXPERT
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940 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
941 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
942 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
943 different namespaces.
944
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945if NAMESPACES
946
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947config UTS_NS
948 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 949 default y
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950 help
951 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
952 uname() system call
953
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954config IPC_NS
955 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 956 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 957 default y
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958 help
959 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 960 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 961
aee16ce7 962config USER_NS
19c92399 963 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 964 default n
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965 help
966 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
967 to provide different user info for different servers.
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969 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
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971 user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount
972 of memory a memory unprivileged users can use.
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975
74bd59bb 976config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 977 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 978 default y
74bd59bb 979 help
12d2b8f9 980 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 981 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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982 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
983
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984config NET_NS
985 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 986 depends on NET
17a6d441 987 default y
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988 help
989 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
990 of the network stack.
991
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993
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994config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
995 bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
996 select PROC_CHILDREN
997 default n
998 help
999 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1000 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1001 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1002 entries.
1003
1004 If unsure, say N here.
1005
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1007 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1009 select CGROUP_SCHED
1010 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1011 help
1012 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1013 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1014 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1015 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1016 upon task session.
1017
7af37bec 1018config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1019 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1020 depends on SYSFS
1021 default n
1022 help
1023 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1024 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1025 /sys/block/.
1026
1027 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1028 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1029
1030 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1031 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1032 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1033
1034 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1035 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1036 option enabled.
1037
1038 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1039 need to say Y here.
1040
1041config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1042 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1044 depends on SYSFS
1045 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1046 help
1047 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1048
1049 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1050 option.
1051
1052 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1053 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1054 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1055
1056config RELAY
1057 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
26b5679e 1058 select IRQ_WORK
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1060 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1061 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1062 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1063 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1064 user space.
1065
1066 If unsure, say N.
1067
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1069 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
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1070 help
1071 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1072 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1073 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1074 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
8c27ceff 1075 etc. See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst> for details.
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1076
1077 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1078 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1079 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1080
1081 If unsure say Y.
1082
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1083if BLK_DEV_INITRD
1084
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1086
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1087endif
1088
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1090 prompt "Compiler optimization level"
2cc3ce24 1091 default CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
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1093config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
1094 bool "Optimize for performance"
1095 help
1096 This is the default optimization level for the kernel, building
1097 with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
1098 helpful compile-time warnings.
1099
c45b4f1f 1100config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1101 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1102 help
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1103 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1104 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1105
3a55fb0d 1106 If unsure, say N.
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1109
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1110config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1111 bool
1112 help
1113 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
1114 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
1115 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
1116 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
1117 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
1118 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
1119
1120config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1121 bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1122 depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
1123 depends on EXPERT
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1124 depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
1125 depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
5d20ee31 1126 help
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1127 Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
1128 the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
1129 and linking with --gc-sections.
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1130
1131 This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
1132 code and static data, particularly for small configs and
1133 on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
1134 silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
1135 present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
1136 own risk.
1137
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1139 bool
1140
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1141config ANON_INODES
1142 bool
1143
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1145 bool
1146
1147config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1148 bool
1149 help
1150 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1151
1152config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1153 bool
1154 help
1155 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1156 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1157 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1158
1159config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1160 bool
1161 help
1162 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1163 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1164 the unaligned access emulation.
1165 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1166
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1167config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1168 bool
1169
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1170# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1171config BPF
1172 bool
1173
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1175 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1177 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1178 help
1179 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1180 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1181 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1182 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1183
ae81f9e3 1184config UID16
6a108a14 1185 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1186 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1187 default y
1188 help
1189 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1190
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1192 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1193 default y
1194 help
1195 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1196 capabilities.
1197
1198 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1199 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1200 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1201 setgid, and capset.
1202
1203 If unsure, say Y here.
1204
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1205config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1206 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
a687a533 1207 def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
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1208 ---help---
1209 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1210 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1211 architectures.
1212
1213 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1214
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1215config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1216 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1217 default y
1218 ---help---
1219 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1220 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1221 compatibility with some systems.
1222
1223 If unsure say Y here.
1224
b89a8171 1225config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1226 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1227 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1228 default n
b89a8171 1229 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1230 ---help---
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1231 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1232 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1233 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1234 information.
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1236 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1237 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1238 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1239
c736de60 1240 If unsure say N here.
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1243 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" if EXPERT
1244 select EXPORTFS
1245 default y
1246 help
1247 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
1248 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
1249 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
1250 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
1251 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
1252 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
1253 syscalls.
1254
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1255config POSIX_TIMERS
1256 bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EXPERT
1257 default y
1258 help
1259 This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
1260 Some embedded systems have no use for them and therefore they
1261 can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
1262
1263 When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
1264 available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
1265 timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, getitimer,
1266 setitimer, alarm. Furthermore, the clock_settime, clock_gettime,
1267 clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls will be limited to
1268 CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only.
1269
1270 If unsure say y.
1271
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1272config PRINTK
1273 default y
6a108a14 1274 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1275 select IRQ_WORK
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1276 help
1277 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1278 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1279 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1280 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1281 strongly discouraged.
1282
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1283config PRINTK_NMI
1284 def_bool y
1285 depends on PRINTK
1286 depends on HAVE_NMI
1287
c8538a7a 1288config BUG
6a108a14 1289 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1290 default y
1291 help
1292 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1293 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1294 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1295 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1296 Just say Y.
1297
708e9a79 1298config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1299 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1300 default y
6a108a14 1301 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1302 help
1303 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1304
8761f1ab 1305
e5e1d3cb 1306config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1307 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1308 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1309 select I8253_LOCK
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1310 default y
1311 help
1312 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1313 support, saving some memory.
1314
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1315config BASE_FULL
1316 default y
6a108a14 1317 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1318 help
1319 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1320 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1321 but may reduce performance.
1322
1323config FUTEX
6a108a14 1324 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1325 default y
bc2eecd7 1326 imply RT_MUTEXES
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1327 help
1328 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1329 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1330 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1331
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1332config FUTEX_PI
1333 bool
1334 depends on FUTEX && RT_MUTEXES
1335 default y
1336
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1337config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1338 bool
62b4d204 1339 depends on FUTEX
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1340 help
1341 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1342 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1343 checks.
1344
1da177e4 1345config EPOLL
6a108a14 1346 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1347 default y
448e3cee 1348 select ANON_INODES
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1349 help
1350 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1351 support for epoll family of system calls.
1352
fba2afaa 1353config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1354 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1355 select ANON_INODES
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1356 default y
1357 help
1358 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1359 on a file descriptor.
1360
1361 If unsure, say Y.
1362
b215e283 1363config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1364 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1365 select ANON_INODES
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1366 default y
1367 help
1368 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1369 events on a file descriptor.
1370
1371 If unsure, say Y.
1372
e1ad7468 1373config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1374 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1375 select ANON_INODES
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1376 default y
1377 help
1378 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1379 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1380
1381 If unsure, say Y.
1382
1da177e4 1383config SHMEM
6a108a14 1384 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1385 default y
1386 depends on MMU
1387 help
1388 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1389 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1390 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1391 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1392 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1393
ebf3f09c 1394config AIO
6a108a14 1395 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1396 default y
1397 help
1398 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1399 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1400 this option saves about 7k.
1401
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1402config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1403 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1404 default y
1405 help
1406 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1407 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1408 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1409 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1410 space.
1411
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1412config MEMBARRIER
1413 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1414 default y
1415 help
1416 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1417 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1418 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1419 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1420 compiler barrier.
1421
1422 If unsure, say Y.
1423
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1424config KALLSYMS
1425 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1426 default y
1427 help
1428 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1429 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1430 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1431
1432config KALLSYMS_ALL
1433 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1434 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1435 help
1436 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1437 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1438 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1439 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1440 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1441
1442 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1443 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1444 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1445 something like this).
1446
1447 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1448
1449config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
1450 bool
1451 depends on KALLSYMS
1452 default X86_64 && SMP
1453
1454config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
1455 bool
1456 depends on KALLSYMS
a687a533 1457 default !IA64
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1458 help
1459 Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
1460 emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
1461 each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
1462 or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
1463 an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
1464 range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
1465 address encountered in the image.
1466
1467 On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
1468 but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
1469 time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
1470 up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
1471
1472# end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
1473
1474# syscall, maps, verifier
1475config BPF_SYSCALL
1476 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1477 select ANON_INODES
1478 select BPF
bae77c5e 1479 select IRQ_WORK
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1480 default n
1481 help
1482 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1483 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1484
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1485config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
1486 bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
1487 depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
1488 help
1489 Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid
1490 speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter
1491
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1492config USERFAULTFD
1493 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1494 select ANON_INODES
1495 depends on MMU
1496 help
1497 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1498 handle page faults in userland.
1499
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1500config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
1501 bool
1502
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1503config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
1504 bool
1505
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1506config RSEQ
1507 bool "Enable rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1508 default y
1509 depends on HAVE_RSEQ
1510 select MEMBARRIER
1511 help
1512 Enable the restartable sequences system call. It provides a
1513 user-space cache for the current CPU number value, which
1514 speeds up getting the current CPU number from user-space,
1515 as well as an ABI to speed up user-space operations on
1516 per-CPU data.
1517
1518 If unsure, say Y.
1519
1520config DEBUG_RSEQ
1521 default n
1522 bool "Enabled debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
1523 depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_KERNEL
1524 help
1525 Enable extra debugging checks for the rseq system call.
1526
1527 If unsure, say N.
1528
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1529config EMBEDDED
1530 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1531 option allnoconfig_y
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1532 select EXPERT
1533 help
1534 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1535 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1536 for configuration.
1537
cdd6c482 1538config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1539 bool
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1540 help
1541 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1543config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1544 bool
1545 help
1546 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1547
ad90a3de 1548config PC104
424529fb 1549 bool "PC/104 support" if EXPERT
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1550 help
1551 Expose PC/104 form factor device drivers and options available for
1552 selection and configuration. Enable this option if your target
1553 machine has a PC/104 bus.
1554
57c0c15b 1555menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
0793a61d 1556
cdd6c482 1557config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1558 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1559 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1560 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1561 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1562 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1563 select SRCU
0793a61d 1564 help
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1565 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1566 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1567
dd77038d 1568 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1569 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1570
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1571 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1572 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1573 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1574 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1575 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1576 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1577 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1578
57c0c15b 1579 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1580 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1581 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1582 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1583 capabilities on top of those.
1584
1585 Say Y if unsure.
1586
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1587config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1588 default n
1589 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
cb307113 1590 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
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1591 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1592 help
1593 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1594
1595 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1596 that don't require it.
1597
1598 Say N if unsure.
1599
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1600endmenu
1601
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1602config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1603 default y
6a108a14 1604 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1605 help
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1606 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1607 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1608 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1609 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1610
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1611config SLUB_DEBUG
1612 default y
6a108a14 1613 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1614 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1615 help
1616 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1617 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1618 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1619 no support for cache validation etc.
1620
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1621config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON
1622 default n
1623 bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT
1624 depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG
1625 help
1626 SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each
1627 allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory
1628 cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup
1629 caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these
1630 caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead
1631 to a very high number of debug files being created. This is
1632 controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this
1633 config option determines the parameter's default value.
1634
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1635config COMPAT_BRK
1636 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1637 default y
1638 help
1639 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1640 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1641 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1642 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1643 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1644
1645 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1646
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1647choice
1648 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1649 default SLUB
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1650 help
1651 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1652
1653config SLAB
1654 bool "SLAB"
04385fc5 1655 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1656 help
1657 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1658 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1659 per cpu and per node queues.
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1660
1661config SLUB
81819f0f 1662 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
ed18adc1 1663 select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
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1664 help
1665 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1666 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1667 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1668 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1669 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1670 a slab allocator.
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1671
1672config SLOB
6a108a14 1673 depends on EXPERT
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1674 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1675 help
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1676 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1677 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1678 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1681
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1682config SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
1683 bool "Allow slab caches to be merged"
1684 default y
1685 help
1686 For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
1687 merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
1688 This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
1689 overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
1690 cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
1691 by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
1692 can usually only damage objects in the same cache. To disable
1693 merging at runtime, "slab_nomerge" can be passed on the kernel
1694 command line.
1695
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1696config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
1697 default n
210e7a43 1698 depends on SLAB || SLUB
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1699 bool "SLAB freelist randomization"
1700 help
210e7a43 1701 Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This
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1702 security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
1703 allocator against heap overflows.
1704
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1705config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
1706 bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
1707 depends on SLUB
1708 help
1709 Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
1710 other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
1711 sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
1712 freelist exploit methods.
1713
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1714config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1715 default y
b39ffbf8 1716 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1717 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1718 help
1719 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1720 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1721 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1722 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1723 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1724
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1725config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1726 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1727 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1728 default n
1729 help
1730 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
3903bf94 1731 from mmap() has its contents cleared before it is passed to
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1732 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1733 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1734 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1735 then the flag will be ignored.
1736
1737 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1738 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1739
1740 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1741 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1742 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1743 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1744
1745 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1746
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1747config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1748 def_bool n
1749 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1750 select KEYS
1751 select CRYPTO
d43de6c7 1752 select CRYPTO_RSA
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1753 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1754 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
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1755 select ASN1
1756 select OID_REGISTRY
1757 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1758 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
82c04ff8 1759 help
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1760 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1761 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1762 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1763 verification.
82c04ff8 1764
125e5645 1765config PROFILING
b309a294 1766 bool "Profiling support"
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1767 help
1768 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1769 by profilers such as OProfile.
1770
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1771#
1772# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1773# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1774#
97e1c18e 1775config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1776 bool
97e1c18e 1777
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1778endmenu # General setup
1779
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1780source "arch/Kconfig"
1781
ae81f9e3 1782config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1783 bool
ae81f9e3 1784
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1785config BASE_SMALL
1786 int
1787 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1788 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1789
66da5733 1790menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1791 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1792 option modules
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1793 help
1794 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1795 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1796 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1797 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1798 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1799 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1800 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1801 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1802 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1803
1804 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1805 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1806 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1807 this).
1808
1809 If unsure, say Y.
1810
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1811if MODULES
1812
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1813config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1814 bool "Forced module loading"
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1815 default n
1816 help
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1817 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1818 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1819 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1820
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1821config MODULE_UNLOAD
1822 bool "Module unloading"
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1823 help
1824 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1825 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1826 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1827 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1828
1829config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1830 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1831 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1832 help
1833 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1834 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1835 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1836 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1837 If unsure, say N.
1838
1da177e4 1839config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1840 bool "Module versioning support"
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1841 help
1842 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1843 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1844 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1845 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1846 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1847 unsure, say N.
1848
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1849config MODULE_REL_CRCS
1850 bool
1851 depends on MODVERSIONS
1852
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1853config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1854 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1855 help
1856 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1857 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1858 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1859 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1860 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1861 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1862 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1863
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1864config MODULE_SIG
1865 bool "Module signature verification"
1866 depends on MODULES
091f6e26 1867 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
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1869 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1870 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
cbdc8217 1871 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst>.
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1873 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1874 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1875 library.
1876
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1877 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1878 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1879 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1880 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1881
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1883 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1884 depends on MODULE_SIG
1885 help
1886 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1887 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1889config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1890 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1891 default y
1892 depends on MODULE_SIG
1893 help
1894 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1895 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1896
1897comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1898 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1899
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1901 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1902 depends on MODULE_SIG
1903 help
1904 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1905 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1906 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1907 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1908 the signature on that module.
1909
1910config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1911 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1912 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1913
1914config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1915 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1916 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1917
1918config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1919 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1920 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1921
1922config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1923 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1924 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1925
1926config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1927 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1928 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1929
1930endchoice
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1932config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1933 string
1934 depends on MODULE_SIG
1935 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1936 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1937 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1938 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1939 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1940
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1942 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1943 depends on MODULES
1944 help
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1946 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1947 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
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b6c09b51 1949 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
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1951 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1952 compressed upon installation.
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1954 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1955 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
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1957 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
1958
1959 If in doubt, say N.
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1961choice
1962 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1963 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1964 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1965 help
1966 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1967 'make modules_install'.
1968
1969 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1970
1971config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1972 bool "GZIP"
1973
1974config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1975 bool "XZ"
1976
1977endchoice
1978
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1979config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
1980 bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols"
1981 depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS
1982 help
1983 The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for
1984 other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending
1985 on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration,
1986 many of those exported symbols might never be used.
1987
1988 This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from
1989 the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities
1990 (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing
1991 binary size. This might have some security advantages as well.
1992
f1cb637e 1993 If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
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1996
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1997config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
1998 def_bool y
1999 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2000
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2001config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2002 bool
2003 help
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2004 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2005 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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2006 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2007 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 2008 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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3a65dfe8 2010source "block/Kconfig"
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2012config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2013 bool
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2015config PADATA
2016 depends on SMP
2017 bool
2018
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2019config ASN1
2020 tristate
2021 help
2022 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2023 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2024 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2025 functions to call on what tags.
2026
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2029config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
2030 bool
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2032# It may be useful for an architecture to override the definitions of the
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2034# and the COMPAT_ variants in <linux/compat.h>, in particular to use a
2035# different calling convention for syscalls. They can also override the
2036# macros for not-implemented syscalls in kernel/sys_ni.c and
2037# kernel/time/posix-stubs.c. All these overrides need to be available in
2038# <asm/syscall_wrapper.h>.
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2040 def_bool n