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1config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
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9config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
b2670eac 11 depends on !UML
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12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
73531905 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
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17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
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19config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
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23config IRQ_WORK
24 bool
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26config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
27 bool
28
ff0cfc66 29menu "General setup"
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31config BROKEN
32 bool
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33
34config BROKEN_ON_SMP
35 bool
36 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
37 default y
38
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39config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
40 int
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41 default 32 if !UML
42 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 43 help
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44 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
45 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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48config CROSS_COMPILE
49 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
50 help
51 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
52 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
53 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
54 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
55
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56config COMPILE_TEST
57 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
58 default n
59 help
60 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
61 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
62 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
63 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
64 drivers to compile-test them.
65
66 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
67 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
68 drivers to be distributed.
69
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70config LOCALVERSION
71 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
72 help
73 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
74 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
75 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
76 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
77 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
78 be a maximum of 64 characters.
79
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80config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
81 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
82 default y
83 help
84 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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85 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
86 top of tree revision.
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88 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 89 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 90 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 91 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 92
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93 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
94 by running the command:
95
96 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
97
98 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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100config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
101 bool
102
103config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
104 bool
105
106config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
107 bool
108
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109config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
110 bool
111
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112config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
113 bool
114
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115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
116 bool
117
30d65dbf 118choice
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119 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
120 default KERNEL_GZIP
2d3c6275 121 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
2e9f3bdd 122 help
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123 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
124 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
125 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
126 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
127 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
128
129 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
130 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
131 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
132 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
133
134 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
135 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
136 size matters less.
137
138 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
139
140config KERNEL_GZIP
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141 bool "Gzip"
142 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
143 help
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144 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
145 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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146
147config KERNEL_BZIP2
148 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 149 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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150 help
151 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 152 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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153 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
154 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
155 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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156
157config KERNEL_LZMA
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158 bool "LZMA"
159 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
160 help
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161 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
162 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
163 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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165config KERNEL_XZ
166 bool "XZ"
167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
168 help
169 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
170 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
171 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
172 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
173 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
174 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
175
176 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
177 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
178 and LZO. Compression is slow.
179
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180config KERNEL_LZO
181 bool "LZO"
182 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
183 help
0a4dd35c 184 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 185 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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186 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
187
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188config KERNEL_LZ4
189 bool "LZ4"
190 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
191 help
192 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
193 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
194 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
195
196 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
197 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
198 faster than LZO.
199
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200endchoice
201
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202config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
203 string "Default hostname"
204 default "(none)"
205 help
206 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
207 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
208 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
209 system more usable with less configuration.
210
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211config SWAP
212 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 213 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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214 default y
215 help
216 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 217 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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218 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
219 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
220
221config SYSVIPC
222 bool "System V IPC"
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223 ---help---
224 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
225 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
226 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
227 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
228 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
229 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
230 you'll need to say Y here.
231
232 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
233 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
234 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
235
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236config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
237 bool
238 depends on SYSVIPC
239 depends on SYSCTL
240 default y
241
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242config POSIX_MQUEUE
243 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
19c92399 244 depends on NET
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245 ---help---
246 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
247 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
248 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
249 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 250 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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251
252 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
253 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
254 operations on message queues.
255
256 If unsure, say Y.
257
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258config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
259 bool
260 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
261 depends on SYSCTL
262 default y
263
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264config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
265 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
266 depends on MMU
267 default y
268 help
269 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
270 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
a2a368d9 271 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
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272 See the man page for more details.
273
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274config FHANDLE
275 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
276 select EXPORTFS
277 help
278 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
279 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
280 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
281 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
282 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
283 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
284 syscalls.
285
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286config USELIB
287 bool "uselib syscall"
288 default y
289 help
290 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
291 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
292 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
293 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
294 running glibc can safely disable this.
295
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296config AUDIT
297 bool "Auditing support"
298 depends on NET
299 help
300 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
301 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
302 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
303 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
304
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305config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
306 bool
307
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308config AUDITSYSCALL
309 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
7a017721 310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
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311 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
312 help
313 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
314 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
315 such as SELinux.
316
317config AUDIT_WATCH
318 def_bool y
319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
320 select FSNOTIFY
321
322config AUDIT_TREE
323 def_bool y
324 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
325 select FSNOTIFY
326
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327source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
328source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
329
330menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
331
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332config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
333 bool
334
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335choice
336 prompt "Cputime accounting"
337 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
02fc8d37 338 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
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339
340# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
341config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
342 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
c58b0df1 343 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
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344 help
345 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
346 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
347 granularity.
348
349 If unsure, say Y.
350
abf917cd 351config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
b952741c 352 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
c58b0df1 353 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
abf917cd 354 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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355 help
356 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
357 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
358 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
359 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
360 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
361 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
362 systems.
363
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364config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
365 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
ff3fb254 366 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
554b0004 367 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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368 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
369 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
370 help
371 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
372 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
373 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
374 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
375 overhead.
376
377 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
378 dynticks subsystem development.
379
380 If unsure, say N.
381
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382config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
383 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
c58b0df1 384 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
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385 help
386 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
387 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
388 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
389 small performance impact.
390
391 If in doubt, say N here.
392
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394
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395config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
396 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2813893f 397 depends on MULTIUSER
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398 help
399 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
400 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
401 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
402 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
403 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
404 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
405 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
406 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
407 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
408
409config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
410 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
411 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
412 default n
413 help
414 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
415 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
416 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
417 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
418 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 419 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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c757249a 421config TASKSTATS
19c92399 422 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
c757249a 423 depends on NET
2813893f 424 depends on MULTIUSER
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425 default n
426 help
427 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
428 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
429 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
430 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
431 space on task exit.
432
433 Say N if unsure.
434
ca74e92b 435config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
19c92399 436 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
6f44993f 437 depends on TASKSTATS
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438 help
439 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
440 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
441 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
442 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
443
444 Say N if unsure.
445
18f705f4 446config TASK_XACCT
19c92399 447 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
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448 depends on TASKSTATS
449 help
450 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
451 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
452
453 Say N if unsure.
454
455config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
19c92399 456 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
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457 depends on TASK_XACCT
458 help
459 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
460 task has caused.
461
462 Say N if unsure.
463
391dc69c 464endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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467
468choice
469 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 470 default TREE_RCU
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472config TREE_RCU
473 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 474 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
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475 help
476 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
477 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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478 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
479 smaller systems.
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28f6569a 481config PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 482 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
9fc52d83 483 depends on PREEMPT
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484 help
485 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
486 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
487 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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488 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
489 smaller systems.
f41d911f 490
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491 Select this option if you are unsure.
492
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493config TINY_RCU
494 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 495 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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496 help
497 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
498 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
499 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
500 memory footprint of RCU.
501
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503
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504config SRCU
505 bool
506 help
507 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
508 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
509 sections.
510
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511config TASKS_RCU
512 bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch"
513 default n
83fe27ea 514 select SRCU
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515 help
516 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
517 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
518 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
519
520 If unsure, say N.
521
6bfc09e2 522config RCU_STALL_COMMON
28f6569a 523 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
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524 help
525 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
526 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
527 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
528 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
529
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530config CONTEXT_TRACKING
531 bool
532
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533config RCU_USER_QS
534 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
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535 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
536 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
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537 help
538 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
539 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
540 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
541 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
af71befa 542 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
2b1d5024 543
d677124b 544 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
91d1aa43 545 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
af71befa 546 adds unnecessary overhead.
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548 If unsure say N
549
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550config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
551 bool "Force context tracking"
552 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
d84d27a4 553 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
1fd2b442 554 help
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555 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
556 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
557 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
558 dynticks working.
559
560 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
561 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
562 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
563 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
564 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
565 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
566 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
567 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
568 CPUs in the system.
569
99c8b1ea 570 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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571 architecture backend for the context tracking.
572
573 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
574 don't want in production.
575
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578 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
579 range 2 64 if 64BIT
580 range 2 32 if !64BIT
28f6569a 581 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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583 default 32 if !64BIT
584 help
585 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
586 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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587 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
588 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
589 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
590 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
591 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
592 code paths on small(er) systems.
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594 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
595 Take the default if unsure.
596
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597config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
598 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
599 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
600 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
28f6569a 601 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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602 default 16
603 help
604 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
605 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
606 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
607 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
608 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
609 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
610 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
611 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
612 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
613 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
614 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
615 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
616 leaf-level fanouts work well.
617
618 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
619
620 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
621
622 Take the default if unsure.
623
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624config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
625 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
28f6569a 626 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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628 help
629 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
630 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
631 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
632 strong NUMA behavior.
633
634 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
635
636 Say N if unsure.
637
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638config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
639 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
3451d024 640 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
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641 default n
642 help
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643 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
644 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
645 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
646 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
647 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
648 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
649 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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652 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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654 Say N if you are unsure.
655
c903ff83 656config TREE_RCU_TRACE
28f6569a 657 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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659 help
f41d911f 660 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
28f6569a 661 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
f41d911f 662 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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665 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 666 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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668 help
669 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
670 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
671 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
672 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
673
674 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
675 Say N here if you are unsure.
676
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678 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
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680 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
681 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
682 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
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685 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
686 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
687 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
688 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
689 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
690 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
691 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
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693
694 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
695 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
696 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
21871d7e 697 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
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699 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
700 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
701 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
21871d7e 702 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
c9336643 703 set to priority 6 or higher.
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705 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
706
707config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
708 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
709 range 0 3000
710 depends on RCU_BOOST
711 default 500
712 help
713 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
714 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
715 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
716 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
717
718 Accept the default if unsure.
719
3fbfbf7a 720config RCU_NOCB_CPU
9a5739d7 721 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
28f6569a 722 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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724 help
725 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
726 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
727 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
728 asymmetric multiprocessors.
729
730 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
731 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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733 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
734 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
735 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
736 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
737 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
738 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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742
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744 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
745 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
4568779f 746 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
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749 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
750 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
751 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
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753config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
754 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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756 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
757 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
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759 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
760 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
761
762 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
763 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
764 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
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766config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
767 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
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770 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
771 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
772 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
773 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
774 context.
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776 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
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778 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
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780config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
781 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
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783 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
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785 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
786 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
787 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
788 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
789 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
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791 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
792 or energy-efficiency reasons.
793
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797 bool
798 default n
799 help
800 This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
801 as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
802 The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
803 rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
804 at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
805 init is exec'ed.
806
807 Accept the default if unsure.
808
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810
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812 bool
813 default n
814
1da177e4 815config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 816 tristate "Kernel .config support"
de5b56ba 817 select BUILD_BIN2C
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819 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
820 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
821 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
822 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
823 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
824 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
825 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
826 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
827
828config IKCONFIG_PROC
829 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
830 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
831 ---help---
832 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
833 through /proc/config.gz.
834
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836 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
837 range 12 21
f17a32e9 838 default 17
361e9dfb 839 depends on PRINTK
794543a2 840 help
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842 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
843 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
844 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
845
f17a32e9 846 Examples:
23b2899f 847 17 => 128 KB
f17a32e9 848 16 => 64 KB
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850 14 => 16 KB
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852 12 => 4 KB
853
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855 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
2240a31d 856 depends on SMP
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858 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
859 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
361e9dfb 860 depends on PRINTK
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862 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
863 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
864 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
865 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
866 e.g. backtraces.
867
868 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
869 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
870 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
871 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
872 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
873 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
874
875 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
876 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
877
878 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
879 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
880 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
881
882 Examples shift values and their meaning:
883 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
884 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
885 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
886 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
887 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
888 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
889
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891# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
892#
893config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
894 bool
895
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897 bool
898
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900# For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
901# balancing logic:
902#
903config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
904 bool
905
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907# For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
908#
909config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
910 bool
911
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913# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
914#
915config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
916 bool
917
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919 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
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921 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
922 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
923 help
924 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
925 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
6d56a410 926 it has references to the node the task is running on.
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928 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
929
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931 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
932 default y
933 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
934 help
935 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
936 machine.
937
23964d2d 938menuconfig CGROUPS
6341e62b 939 bool "Control Group support"
2bd59d48 940 select KERNFS
5cdc38f9 941 help
23964d2d 942 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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944 controls or device isolation.
945 See
5cdc38f9 946 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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948 and resource control)
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950 Say N if unsure.
951
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953
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955 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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957 help
958 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
959 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 960 framework.
5cdc38f9 961
23964d2d 962 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 963
5cdc38f9 964config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 965 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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967 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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969
970config CGROUP_DEVICE
971 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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973 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
974 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
975
976config CPUSETS
977 bool "Cpuset support"
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979 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
980 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
981 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
982 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
983
984 Say N if unsure.
985
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987 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
988 depends on CPUSETS
989 default y
990
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992 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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994 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 995 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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998 bool
999
c255a458 1000config MEMCG
00f0b825 1001 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
3e32cb2e 1002 select PAGE_COUNTER
79bd9814 1003 select EVENTFD
00f0b825 1004 help
84ad6d70 1005 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 1006 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
00f0b825 1007
c255a458 1008config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 1009 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 1010 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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1012 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
1013 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
1014 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
1015 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
1016 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
1017 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
1018 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
1019 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
1020 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1021 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 1022 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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1024 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 1025config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 1026 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 1027 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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1029 help
1030 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1031 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 1032 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
07555ac1 1033 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
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1035 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1036 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 1037 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 1038config MEMCG_KMEM
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1039 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
1040 depends on MEMCG
510fc4e1 1041 depends on SLUB || SLAB
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1043 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1044 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1045 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1046 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1047 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1048 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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1051 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
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1053 select PAGE_COUNTER
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1055 help
1056 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
1057 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1058 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1059 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1060 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1061 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1062 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1063 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1064 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
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1067 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1068 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1069 help
1070 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 1071 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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1073
1074 Say N if unsure.
1075
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1077 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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1079 help
1080 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1081 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1082 tasks.
1083
1084if CGROUP_SCHED
1085config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1086 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1087 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1088 default CGROUP_SCHED
1089
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1091 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
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1093 default n
1094 help
1095 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1096 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1097 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1098 restriction.
1099 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1100
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1102 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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1104 default n
1105 help
1106 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 1107 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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1109 realtime bandwidth for them.
1110 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1111
1112endif #CGROUP_SCHED
1113
afc24d49 1114config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 1115 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 1116 depends on BLOCK
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1118 ---help---
1119 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1120 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1121 policies.
1122
1123 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1124 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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1126 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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1128 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
e43473b7 1129 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
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1131 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 1132 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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1134 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1135
1136config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1137 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1138 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1139 default n
1140 ---help---
1141 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1142 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1143
23964d2d 1144endif # CGROUPS
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1147 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1148 default n
1149 help
1150 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1151 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1152 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1153 entries.
1154
1155 If unsure, say N here.
1156
8dd2a82c 1157menuconfig NAMESPACES
6a108a14 1158 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
2813893f 1159 depends on MULTIUSER
6a108a14 1160 default !EXPERT
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1162 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1163 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1164 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1165 different namespaces.
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1170 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 1171 default y
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1173 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1174 uname() system call
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1177 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 1178 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 1179 default y
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1181 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 1182 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 1183
aee16ce7 1184config USER_NS
19c92399 1185 bool "User namespace"
5673a94c 1186 default n
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1188 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1189 to provide different user info for different servers.
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1191 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1192 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1193 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1194 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1195 use.
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1198
74bd59bb 1199config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 1200 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 1201 default y
74bd59bb 1202 help
12d2b8f9 1203 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 1204 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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1206
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1208 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 1209 depends on NET
17a6d441 1210 default y
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1212 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1213 of the network stack.
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1218 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
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1220 select CGROUP_SCHED
1221 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1222 help
1223 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1224 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1225 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1226 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1227 upon task session.
1228
7af37bec 1229config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1230 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1231 depends on SYSFS
1232 default n
1233 help
1234 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1235 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1236 /sys/block/.
1237
1238 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1239 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1240
1241 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1242 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1243 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1244
1245 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1246 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1247 option enabled.
1248
1249 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1250 need to say Y here.
1251
1252config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1253 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1254 default n
1255 depends on SYSFS
1256 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1257 help
1258 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1259
1260 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1261 option.
1262
1263 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1264 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1265 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1266
1267config RELAY
1268 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1269 help
1270 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1271 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1272 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1273 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1274 user space.
1275
1276 If unsure, say N.
1277
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1278config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1279 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1280 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1281 help
1282 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1283 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1284 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1285 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1286 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1287
1288 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1289 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1290 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1291
1292 If unsure say Y.
1293
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1295
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1297
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1298endif
1299
c45b4f1f 1300config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1301 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 1302 help
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1303 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1304 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
c45b4f1f 1305
3a55fb0d 1306 If unsure, say N.
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1308config SYSCTL
1309 bool
1310
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1311config ANON_INODES
1312 bool
1313
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1314config HAVE_UID16
1315 bool
1316
1317config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1318 bool
1319 help
1320 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1321
1322config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1323 bool
1324 help
1325 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1326 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1327 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1328
1329config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1330 bool
1331 help
1332 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1333 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1334 the unaligned access emulation.
1335 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1336
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1337config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1338 bool
1339
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1340# interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1341config BPF
1342 bool
1343
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1344menuconfig EXPERT
1345 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1346 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1347 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1348 help
1349 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1350 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1351 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1352 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1353
ae81f9e3 1354config UID16
6a108a14 1355 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
2813893f 1356 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
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1357 default y
1358 help
1359 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1360
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1362 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1363 default y
1364 help
1365 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1366 capabilities.
1367
1368 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1369 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1370 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1371 setgid, and capset.
1372
1373 If unsure, say Y here.
1374
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1375config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1376 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1377 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1378 ---help---
1379 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1380 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1381 architectures.
1382
1383 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1384
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1385config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1386 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1387 default y
1388 ---help---
1389 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1390 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1391 compatibility with some systems.
1392
1393 If unsure say Y here.
1394
b89a8171 1395config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1396 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1397 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1398 default n
b89a8171 1399 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1400 ---help---
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1401 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1402 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1403 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1404 information.
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1406 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1407 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1408 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1409
c736de60 1410 If unsure say N here.
ae81f9e3 1411
1da177e4 1412config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1413 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1414 default y
1415 help
1416 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1417 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1418 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1419
1420config KALLSYMS_ALL
1421 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1422 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1423 help
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1425 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1426 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1427 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1428 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1429
1430 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1431 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1432 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1433 something like this).
1434
1435 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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1437config PRINTK
1438 default y
6a108a14 1439 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
74876a98 1440 select IRQ_WORK
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1441 help
1442 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1443 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1444 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1445 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1446 strongly discouraged.
1447
c8538a7a 1448config BUG
6a108a14 1449 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1450 default y
1451 help
1452 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1453 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1454 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1455 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1456 Just say Y.
1457
708e9a79 1458config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1459 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1460 default y
6a108a14 1461 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1462 help
1463 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1464
8761f1ab 1465
e5e1d3cb 1466config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1467 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1468 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1469 select I8253_LOCK
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1470 default y
1471 help
1472 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1473 support, saving some memory.
1474
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1475config BASE_FULL
1476 default y
6a108a14 1477 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1478 help
1479 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1480 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1481 but may reduce performance.
1482
1483config FUTEX
6a108a14 1484 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1485 default y
23f78d4a 1486 select RT_MUTEXES
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1487 help
1488 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1489 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1490 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1491
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1492config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1493 bool
62b4d204 1494 depends on FUTEX
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1495 help
1496 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1497 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1498 checks.
1499
1da177e4 1500config EPOLL
6a108a14 1501 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1502 default y
448e3cee 1503 select ANON_INODES
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1504 help
1505 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1506 support for epoll family of system calls.
1507
fba2afaa 1508config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1509 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1510 select ANON_INODES
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1511 default y
1512 help
1513 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1514 on a file descriptor.
1515
1516 If unsure, say Y.
1517
b215e283 1518config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1519 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1520 select ANON_INODES
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1521 default y
1522 help
1523 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1524 events on a file descriptor.
1525
1526 If unsure, say Y.
1527
e1ad7468 1528config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1529 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1530 select ANON_INODES
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1531 default y
1532 help
1533 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1534 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1535
1536 If unsure, say Y.
1537
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1539config BPF_SYSCALL
e1abf2cc 1540 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
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1541 select ANON_INODES
1542 select BPF
1543 default n
1544 help
1545 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1546 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1547
1da177e4 1548config SHMEM
6a108a14 1549 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1550 default y
1551 depends on MMU
1552 help
1553 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1554 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1555 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1556 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1557 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1558
ebf3f09c 1559config AIO
6a108a14 1560 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1561 default y
1562 help
1563 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
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1564 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1565 this option saves about 7k.
1566
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1567config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1568 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1569 default y
1570 help
1571 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1572 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1573 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1574 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1575 space.
1576
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1577config PCI_QUIRKS
1578 default y
1579 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1580 depends on PCI
1581 help
1582 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1583 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1584 unaffected by PCI quirks.
ebf3f09c 1585
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1587 bool "Embedded system"
5d2acfc7 1588 option allnoconfig_y
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1589 select EXPERT
1590 help
1591 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1592 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1593 for configuration.
1594
cdd6c482 1595config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1596 bool
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1597 help
1598 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
0793a61d 1599
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1600config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1601 bool
1602 help
1603 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1604
57c0c15b 1605menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 1607config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1608 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1609 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1610 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1611 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1612 select IRQ_WORK
83fe27ea 1613 select SRCU
0793a61d 1614 help
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1615 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1616 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1617
dd77038d 1618 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1619 use of generic tracepoints.
0793a61d 1620
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1621 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1622 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1623 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1624 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1625 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1626 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1627 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1628
57c0c15b 1629 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1630 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1631 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1632 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1633 capabilities on top of those.
1634
1635 Say Y if unsure.
1636
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1637config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1638 default n
1639 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1640 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1641 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1642 help
1643 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1644
1645 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1646 that don't require it.
1647
1648 Say N if unsure.
1649
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1651
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1652config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1653 default y
6a108a14 1654 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1655 help
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1656 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1657 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1658 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1659 if VM event counters are disabled.
f8891e5e 1660
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1661config SLUB_DEBUG
1662 default y
6a108a14 1663 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1664 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1665 help
1666 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1667 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1668 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1669 no support for cache validation etc.
1670
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1671config COMPAT_BRK
1672 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1673 default y
1674 help
1675 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1676 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1677 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1678 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1679 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1680
1681 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1682
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1683choice
1684 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1685 default SLUB
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1686 help
1687 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1688
1689config SLAB
1690 bool "SLAB"
1691 help
1692 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1693 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1694 per cpu and per node queues.
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1696config SLUB
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1697 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1698 help
1699 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1700 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1701 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1702 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1703 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1704 a slab allocator.
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1706config SLOB
6a108a14 1707 depends on EXPERT
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1708 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1709 help
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1710 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1711 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1712 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1714endchoice
1715
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1716config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1717 default y
b39ffbf8 1718 depends on SLUB && SMP
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1719 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1720 help
1721 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1722 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1723 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1724 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1725 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1726
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1727config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1728 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1729 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1730 default n
1731 help
1732 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1733 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1734 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1735 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1736 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1737 then the flag will be ignored.
1738
1739 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1740 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1741
1742 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1743 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1744 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1745 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1746
1747 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1748
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1750 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
1751 depends on KEYS
1752 help
1753 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in
1754 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will
1755 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
1756 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
1757 keys already in the keyring.
1758
1759 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
1760
125e5645 1761config PROFILING
b309a294 1762 bool "Profiling support"
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1763 help
1764 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1765 by profilers such as OProfile.
1766
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1768# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1769# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1770#
97e1c18e 1771config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1772 bool
97e1c18e 1773
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1775
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1777
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1778config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1779 bool
1780 default n
1781
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1782config SLABINFO
1783 bool
1784 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1785 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1786 default y
1787
ae81f9e3 1788config RT_MUTEXES
6341e62b 1789 bool
ae81f9e3 1790
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1791config BASE_SMALL
1792 int
1793 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1794 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1795
66da5733 1796menuconfig MODULES
1da177e4 1797 bool "Enable loadable module support"
11097a03 1798 option modules
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1799 help
1800 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1801 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1802 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1803 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1804 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1805 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1806 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1807 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1808 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1809
1810 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1811 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1812 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1813 this).
1814
1815 If unsure, say Y.
1816
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1818
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1819config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1820 bool "Forced module loading"
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1821 default n
1822 help
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1823 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1824 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1825 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1826
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1827config MODULE_UNLOAD
1828 bool "Module unloading"
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1829 help
1830 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1831 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1833 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1834
1835config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1836 bool "Forced module unloading"
19c92399 1837 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
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1838 help
1839 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1840 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1841 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1842 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1843 If unsure, say N.
1844
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0d541643 1846 bool "Module versioning support"
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1848 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1849 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1850 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1851 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1852 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1853 unsure, say N.
1854
1855config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1856 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1858 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1859 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1860 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1861 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1862 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1863 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1864 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1865
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1866config MODULE_SIG
1867 bool "Module signature verification"
1868 depends on MODULES
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1870 select KEYS
1871 select CRYPTO
1872 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1873 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1874 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1875 select ASN1
1876 select OID_REGISTRY
1877 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1879 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1880 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1881 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1882
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1883 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1884 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1885 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1886 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1887
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1889 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1890 depends on MODULE_SIG
1891 help
1892 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1893 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1896 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1897 default y
1898 depends on MODULE_SIG
1899 help
1900 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1901 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1902
1903comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1904 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1905
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1907 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1908 depends on MODULE_SIG
1909 help
1910 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1911 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1912 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1913 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1914 the signature on that module.
1915
1916config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1917 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1918 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1919
1920config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1921 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1922 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1923
1924config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1925 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1926 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1927
1928config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1929 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1930 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1931
1932config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1933 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1934 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1935
1936endchoice
1937
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1938config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1939 string
1940 depends on MODULE_SIG
1941 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1942 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1943 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1944 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1945 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1946
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1948 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1949 depends on MODULES
1950 help
1951 This option compresses the kernel modules when 'make
1952 modules_install' is run.
1953
1954 The modules will be compressed either using gzip or xz depend on the
1955 choice made in "Compression algorithm".
1956
1957 module-init-tools has support for gzip format while kmod handle gzip
1958 and xz compressed modules.
1959
1960 When a kernel module is installed from outside of the main kernel
1961 source and uses the Kbuild system for installing modules then that
1962 kernel module will also be compressed when it is installed.
1963
1964 This option provides little benefit when the modules are to be used inside
1965 an initrd or initramfs, it generally is more efficient to compress the whole
1966 initrd or initramfs instead.
1967
1968 This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
1969 compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression and provide to
1970 other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
1971
1972choice
1973 prompt "Compression algorithm"
1974 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
1975 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1976 help
1977 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
1978 'make modules_install'.
1979
1980 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
1981
1982config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
1983 bool "GZIP"
1984
1985config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
1986 bool "XZ"
1987
1988endchoice
1989
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1991
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1992config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1993 bool
1994 help
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1995 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1996 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1998 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1999 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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2001config STOP_MACHINE
2002 bool
2003 default y
2004 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
2005 help
2006 Need stop_machine() primitive.
3a65dfe8 2007
3a65dfe8 2008source "block/Kconfig"
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2010config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2011 bool
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2013config PADATA
2014 depends on SMP
2015 bool
2016
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2017# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2018# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2019# mappings
2020config BROKEN_RODATA
2021 bool
2022
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2023config ASN1
2024 tristate
2025 help
2026 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2027 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2028 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2029 functions to call on what tags.
2030
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