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1config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
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9config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
b2670eac 11 depends on !UML
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12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
73531905 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
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17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
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19config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
22 default y
23
ff0cfc66 24menu "General setup"
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25
26config EXPERIMENTAL
27 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
28 ---help---
29 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
30 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
31 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
32 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
33 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
34 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
35 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
36 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
37 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
38 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
39 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
40 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
41 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
42 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
43 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
44 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
45
46 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
47 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
48 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
49
50 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
51 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
52 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
53 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
54 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
55 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
56
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57config BROKEN
58 bool
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59
60config BROKEN_ON_SMP
61 bool
62 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
63 default y
64
65config LOCK_KERNEL
66 bool
67 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
68 default y
69
70config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
71 int
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72 default 32 if !UML
73 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 74 help
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75 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
76 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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78
79config LOCALVERSION
80 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
81 help
82 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
83 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
84 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
85 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
86 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
87 be a maximum of 64 characters.
88
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89config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
90 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
91 default y
92 help
93 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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94 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
95 top of tree revision.
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96
97 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 98 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 99 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 100 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 101
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102 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
103 by running the command:
104
105 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
106
107 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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109config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
110 bool
111
112config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
113 bool
114
115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
116 bool
117
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118config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
119 bool
120
30d65dbf 121choice
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122 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
123 default KERNEL_GZIP
7dd65feb 124 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2e9f3bdd 125 help
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126 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
127 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
128 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
129 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
130 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
131
132 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
133 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
134 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
135 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
136
137 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
138 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
139 size matters less.
140
141 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
142
143config KERNEL_GZIP
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144 bool "Gzip"
145 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
146 help
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147 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
148 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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149
150config KERNEL_BZIP2
151 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 152 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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153 help
154 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
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155 Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel
156 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
157 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
158 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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159
160config KERNEL_LZMA
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161 bool "LZMA"
162 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
163 help
164 The most recent compression algorithm.
165 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
166 two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
167 smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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169config KERNEL_LZO
170 bool "LZO"
171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
172 help
173 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
174 size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
175 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
176
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177endchoice
178
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179config SWAP
180 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 181 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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182 default y
183 help
184 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 185 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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186 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
187 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
188
189config SYSVIPC
190 bool "System V IPC"
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191 ---help---
192 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
193 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
194 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
195 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
196 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
197 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
198 you'll need to say Y here.
199
200 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
201 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
202 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
203
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204config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
205 bool
206 depends on SYSVIPC
207 depends on SYSCTL
208 default y
209
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210config POSIX_MQUEUE
211 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
212 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
213 ---help---
214 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
215 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
216 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
217 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 218 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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219
220 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
221 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
222 operations on message queues.
223
224 If unsure, say Y.
225
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226config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
227 bool
228 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
229 depends on SYSCTL
230 default y
231
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232config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
233 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
234 help
235 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
236 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
237 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
238 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
239 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
240 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
241 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
242 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
243 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
244
245config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
246 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
247 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
248 default n
249 help
250 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
251 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
252 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
253 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
254 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 255 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 256
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257config TASKSTATS
258 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
259 depends on NET
260 default n
261 help
262 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
263 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
264 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
265 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
266 space on task exit.
267
268 Say N if unsure.
269
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270config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
271 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 272 depends on TASKSTATS
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273 help
274 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
275 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
276 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
277 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
278
279 Say N if unsure.
280
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281config TASK_XACCT
282 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
283 depends on TASKSTATS
284 help
285 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
286 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
287
288 Say N if unsure.
289
290config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
291 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
292 depends on TASK_XACCT
293 help
294 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
295 task has caused.
296
297 Say N if unsure.
298
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299config AUDIT
300 bool "Auditing support"
804a6a49 301 depends on NET
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302 help
303 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
304 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
305 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
306 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
307
308config AUDITSYSCALL
309 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
022382a5 310 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
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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,
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315 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
316 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
1da177e4 317
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318config AUDIT_TREE
319 def_bool y
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320 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
321 select INOTIFY
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323menu "RCU Subsystem"
324
325choice
326 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 327 default TREE_RCU
c903ff83 328
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329config TREE_RCU
330 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
331 help
332 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
333 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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334 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
335 smaller systems.
c903ff83 336
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337config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
338 bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU"
339 depends on PREEMPT
340 help
341 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
342 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
343 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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344 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
345 smaller systems.
f41d911f 346
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347config TINY_RCU
348 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
349 depends on !SMP
350 help
351 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
352 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
353 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
354 memory footprint of RCU.
355
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357
358config RCU_TRACE
359 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
6b3ef48a 360 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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361 help
362 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
363 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
364
365 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
366 Say N if you are unsure.
367
368config RCU_FANOUT
369 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
370 range 2 64 if 64BIT
371 range 2 32 if !64BIT
f41d911f 372 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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373 default 64 if 64BIT
374 default 32 if !64BIT
375 help
376 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
377 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
378 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube
379 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
380 systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
381
382 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
383 Take the default if unsure.
384
385config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
386 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
f41d911f 387 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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388 default n
389 help
390 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
391 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
392 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
393 strong NUMA behavior.
394
395 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
396
397 Say N if unsure.
398
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399config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
400 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
401 depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
402 default n
403 help
404 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
405 in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
406 more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the
407 overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
408 with large numbers of CPUs.
409
410 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
411 if you have relatively few CPUs.
412
413 Say N if you are unsure.
414
c903ff83 415config TREE_RCU_TRACE
f41d911f 416 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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417 select DEBUG_FS
418 help
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419 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
420 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
421 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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424
1da177e4 425config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 426 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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427 ---help---
428 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
429 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
430 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
431 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
432 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
433 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
434 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
435 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
436
437config IKCONFIG_PROC
438 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
439 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
440 ---help---
441 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
442 through /proc/config.gz.
443
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444config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
445 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
446 range 12 21
f17a32e9 447 default 17
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448 help
449 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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450 Examples:
451 17 => 128 KB
452 16 => 64 KB
453 15 => 32 KB
454 14 => 16 KB
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455 13 => 8 KB
456 12 => 4 KB
457
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459# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
460#
461config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
462 bool
463
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464menuconfig CGROUPS
465 boolean "Control Group support"
0dea1168 466 depends on EVENTFD
5cdc38f9 467 help
23964d2d 468 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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469 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
470 controls or device isolation.
471 See
5cdc38f9 472 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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473 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
474 and resource control)
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476 Say N if unsure.
477
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478if CGROUPS
479
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480config CGROUP_DEBUG
481 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
482 depends on CGROUPS
483 default n
484 help
485 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
486 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 487 framework.
5cdc38f9 488
23964d2d 489 Say N if unsure.
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491config CGROUP_NS
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492 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
493 depends on CGROUPS
494 help
495 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
496 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
497 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
498 jobs.
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500config CGROUP_FREEZER
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501 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
502 depends on CGROUPS
503 help
504 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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506
507config CGROUP_DEVICE
508 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
509 depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
510 help
511 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
512 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
513
514config CPUSETS
515 bool "Cpuset support"
db7f47cf 516 depends on CGROUPS
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518 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
519 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
520 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
521 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
522
523 Say N if unsure.
524
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525config PROC_PID_CPUSET
526 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
527 depends on CPUSETS
528 default y
529
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530config CGROUP_CPUACCT
531 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
532 depends on CGROUPS
533 help
534 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 535 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
d842de87 536
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537config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
538 bool "Resource counters"
539 help
540 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 541 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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542 depends on CGROUPS
543
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544config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
545 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
546 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 547 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 548 help
84ad6d70 549 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 550 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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552 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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553 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
554 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
555 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
556 at boot.
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558 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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559 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
560 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
561 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 562 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
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564 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
565 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
566
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567config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
568 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
569 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
570 help
571 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
572 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
573 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
574 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
575 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
576 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
577 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
578 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
579 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
580 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
581 if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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582 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
583 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
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585menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
586 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
587 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS
588 default n
589 help
590 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
591 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
592 tasks.
593
594if CGROUP_SCHED
595config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
596 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
597 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
598 default CGROUP_SCHED
599
600config RT_GROUP_SCHED
601 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
602 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
603 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
604 default n
605 help
606 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
607 to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
608 setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
609 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
610 realtime bandwidth for them.
611 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
612
613endif #CGROUP_SCHED
614
23964d2d 615endif # CGROUPS
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617config MM_OWNER
618 bool
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88a22c98 620config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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621 bool
622
623config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
9e9868a7 624 bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
9148fe87 625 depends on SYSFS
f6ee649f 626 default n
d47846c5 627 select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
88a22c98 628 help
fce3e804 629 This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
f6ee649f 630 version. Do not use it on recent distributions.
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631
632 The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
633 /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
634 class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
635 unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
636 /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
637 /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
638 "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
639 class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
640 subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
641 depend on the unified device tree.
642
643 This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
644 be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
645 layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
646 and disable some features, which can not be exported without
647 confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
648 distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
649 depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
650
651 If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
652 older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
653 if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
654 this option set to N.
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656config RELAY
657 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
658 help
659 This option enables support for relay interface support in
660 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
661 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
662 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
663 user space.
664
665 If unsure, say N.
666
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667config NAMESPACES
668 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
669 default !EMBEDDED
670 help
671 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
672 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
673 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
674 different namespaces.
675
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676config UTS_NS
677 bool "UTS namespace"
678 depends on NAMESPACES
679 help
680 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
681 uname() system call
682
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683config IPC_NS
684 bool "IPC namespace"
614b84cf 685 depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
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686 help
687 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 688 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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690config USER_NS
691 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
692 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
693 help
694 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
695 to provide different user info for different servers.
696 If unsure, say N.
697
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698config PID_NS
699 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
700 default n
701 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
702 help
12d2b8f9 703 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 704 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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705 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
706
707 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
708 say N here.
709
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710config NET_NS
711 bool "Network namespace"
712 default n
713 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
714 help
715 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
716 of the network stack.
717
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718config BLK_DEV_INITRD
719 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
720 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
721 help
722 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
723 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
724 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
725 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
726 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
727
728 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
729 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
730 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
731
732 If unsure say Y.
733
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734if BLK_DEV_INITRD
735
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737
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739
c45b4f1f 740config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 741 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 742 default y
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743 help
744 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
745 resulting in a smaller kernel.
746
775a7229 747 If unsure, say Y.
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750 bool
751
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753 bool
754
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755menuconfig EMBEDDED
756 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
757 help
758 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
759 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
760 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
761 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
762
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763config UID16
764 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
09337f50 765 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
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766 default y
767 help
768 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
769
b89a8171 770config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
0847062a 771 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
26a7034b 772 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
13bb7e37 773 default y
b89a8171 774 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 775 ---help---
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776 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
777 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
778 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
779 information.
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781 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
782 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
783 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 784
13bb7e37 785 If unsure say Y here.
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1da177e4 787config KALLSYMS
979c6a1e 788 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
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789 default y
790 help
791 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
792 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
793 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
794
795config KALLSYMS_ALL
796 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
797 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
798 help
799 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
800 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
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801 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
802 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
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804 Say N.
805
806config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
807 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
808 depends on KALLSYMS
809 help
810 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
811 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
812 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
813 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
814 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
815 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
816
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818config HOTPLUG
819 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
820 default y
821 help
822 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
823 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
824 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
825 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
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828 default y
829 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
830 help
831 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
832 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
833 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
834 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
835 strongly discouraged.
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838 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
839 default y
840 help
841 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
842 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
843 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
844 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
845 Just say Y.
846
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848 default y
849 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
850 help
851 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
852
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853config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
854 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
855 depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
856 default y
857 help
858 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
859 support, saving some memory.
860
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861config BASE_FULL
862 default y
863 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
864 help
865 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
866 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
867 but may reduce performance.
868
869config FUTEX
870 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
871 default y
23f78d4a 872 select RT_MUTEXES
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873 help
874 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
875 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
876 run glibc-based applications correctly.
877
878config EPOLL
879 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
880 default y
448e3cee 881 select ANON_INODES
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882 help
883 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
884 support for epoll family of system calls.
885
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887 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 888 select ANON_INODES
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889 default y
890 help
891 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
892 on a file descriptor.
893
894 If unsure, say Y.
895
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896config TIMERFD
897 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 898 select ANON_INODES
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899 default y
900 help
901 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
902 events on a file descriptor.
903
904 If unsure, say Y.
905
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907 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 908 select ANON_INODES
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909 default y
910 help
911 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
912 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
913
914 If unsure, say Y.
915
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916config SHMEM
917 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
918 default y
919 depends on MMU
920 help
921 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
922 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
923 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
924 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
925 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
926
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927config AIO
928 bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
929 default y
930 help
931 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
932 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
933 this option saves about 7k.
934
cdd6c482 935config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 936 bool
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937 help
938 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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940config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
941 bool
942 help
943 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
944
57c0c15b 945menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 947config PERF_EVENTS
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948 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
949 default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
cdd6c482 950 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 951 select ANON_INODES
0793a61d 952 help
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953 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
954 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 955
dd77038d 956 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 957 use of generic tracepoints.
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960 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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961 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
962 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
963 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
964 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
965 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
966
57c0c15b 967 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 968 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 969 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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970 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
971 capabilities on top of those.
972
973 Say Y if unsure.
974
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976 bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
977 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
978 help
979 This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
980 config option - please see that one for details.
981
982 It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
983 it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
984
985 Say N if unsure.
986
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987config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
988 default n
989 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
990 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
991 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
992 help
993 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
994
995 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
996 that don't require it.
997
998 Say N if unsure.
999
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1002config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1003 default y
1004 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
1005 help
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1006 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1007 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1008 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1009 if VM event counters are disabled.
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1012 default y
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1014 depends on PCI
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1016 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1017 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1018 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1019
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1020config SLUB_DEBUG
1021 default y
1022 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
f6acb635 1023 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1025 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1026 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1027 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1028 no support for cache validation etc.
1029
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1031 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1032 default y
1033 help
1034 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1035 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1036 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1037 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1039
1040 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1041
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1043 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1044 default SLUB
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1046 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1047
1048config SLAB
1049 bool "SLAB"
1050 help
1051 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1052 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1053 per cpu and per node queues.
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1055config SLUB
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1057 help
1058 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1059 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1060 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1061 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1063 a slab allocator.
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1065config SLOB
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1067 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1068 help
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1069 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1070 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1071 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1075config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1076 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1077 depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1078 default n
1079 help
1080 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1081 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1082 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1083 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1084 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1085 then the flag will be ignored.
1086
1087 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1088 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1089
1090 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1091 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1092 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1093 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1094
1095 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1096
125e5645 1097config PROFILING
b309a294 1098 bool "Profiling support"
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1100 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1101 by profilers such as OProfile.
1102
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1104# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1105# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1106#
97e1c18e 1107config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1108 bool
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1111
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1113 default n
1c2d008c 1114 bool
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1115 help
1116 The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
1117 threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
1118 take a relatively long time.
1119
1120 An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
1121 by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
1122 disk.
1123
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1124 See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
1125
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1126config SLOW_WORK_DEBUG
1127 bool "Slow work debugging through debugfs"
8fba10a4 1128 default n
f13a48bd 1129 depends on SLOW_WORK && DEBUG_FS
8fba10a4 1130 help
f13a48bd 1131 Display the contents of the slow work run queue through debugfs,
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1132 including items currently executing.
1133
1134 See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
1135
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1138config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1139 bool
1140 default n
1141
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1143 bool
1144 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1145 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1146 default y
1147
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1149 boolean
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1152 int
1153 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1154 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1155
66da5733 1156menuconfig MODULES
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1157 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1158 help
1159 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1160 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1161 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1162 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1163 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1164 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1165 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1166 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1167 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1168
1169 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1170 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1171 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1172 this).
1173
1174 If unsure, say Y.
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1177
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1179 bool "Forced module loading"
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1180 default n
1181 help
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1183 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1184 is usually a really bad idea.
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1187 bool "Module unloading"
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1188 help
1189 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1190 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1192 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1194config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1195 bool "Forced module unloading"
1196 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1197 help
1198 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1199 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1200 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1201 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1202 If unsure, say N.
1203
1da177e4 1204config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1205 bool "Module versioning support"
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1206 help
1207 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1208 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1209 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1210 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1211 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1212 unsure, say N.
1213
1214config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1215 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1216 help
1217 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1218 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1219 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1220 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1221 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1222 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1223 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
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1228 bool
1229 help
1230 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
1231 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
1232 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1233 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1234 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
98a79d6a 1235
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1236config STOP_MACHINE
1237 bool
1238 default y
1239 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1240 help
1241 Need stop_machine() primitive.
3a65dfe8 1242
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1245config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1246 bool
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1249 depends on SMP
1250 bool
1251
6beb0009 1252source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"