irq_work: Make self-IPIs optable
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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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30
31config EXPERIMENTAL
32 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
33 ---help---
34 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
35 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
36 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
37 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
38 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
39 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
40 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
41 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
42 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
43 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
44 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
45 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
46 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
47 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
48 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
49 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
50
51 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
52 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
53 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
54
55 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
56 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
57 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
58 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
59 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
60 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
61
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62config BROKEN
63 bool
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64
65config BROKEN_ON_SMP
66 bool
67 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
68 default y
69
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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.
1da177e4 77
1da177e4 78
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79config CROSS_COMPILE
80 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
81 help
82 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
83 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
84 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
85 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
86
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87config LOCALVERSION
88 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
89 help
90 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
91 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
92 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
93 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
94 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
95 be a maximum of 64 characters.
96
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97config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
98 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
99 default y
100 help
101 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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102 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
103 top of tree revision.
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104
105 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 106 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 107 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 108 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 109
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110 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
111 by running the command:
112
113 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
114
115 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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117config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
118 bool
119
120config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
121 bool
122
123config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
124 bool
125
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126config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
127 bool
128
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129config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
130 bool
131
30d65dbf 132choice
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133 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
134 default KERNEL_GZIP
3ebe1243 135 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2e9f3bdd 136 help
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137 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
138 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
139 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
140 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
141 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
142
143 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
144 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
145 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
146 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
147
148 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
149 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
150 size matters less.
151
152 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
153
154config KERNEL_GZIP
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155 bool "Gzip"
156 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
157 help
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158 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
159 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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160
161config KERNEL_BZIP2
162 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 163 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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164 help
165 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
0a4dd35c 166 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
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167 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
168 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
169 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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171config KERNEL_LZMA
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172 bool "LZMA"
173 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
174 help
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175 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
176 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
177 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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179config KERNEL_XZ
180 bool "XZ"
181 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
182 help
183 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
184 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
185 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
186 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
187 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
188 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
189
190 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
191 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
192 and LZO. Compression is slow.
193
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194config KERNEL_LZO
195 bool "LZO"
196 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
197 help
0a4dd35c 198 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
681b3049 199 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
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200 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
201
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202endchoice
203
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204config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
205 string "Default hostname"
206 default "(none)"
207 help
208 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
209 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
210 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
211 system more usable with less configuration.
212
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213config SWAP
214 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 215 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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216 default y
217 help
218 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 219 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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220 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
221 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
222
223config SYSVIPC
224 bool "System V IPC"
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225 ---help---
226 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
227 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
228 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
229 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
230 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
231 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
232 you'll need to say Y here.
233
234 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
235 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
236 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
237
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238config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
239 bool
240 depends on SYSVIPC
241 depends on SYSCTL
242 default y
243
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244config POSIX_MQUEUE
245 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
246 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
247 ---help---
248 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
249 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
250 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
251 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 252 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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253
254 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
255 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
256 operations on message queues.
257
258 If unsure, say Y.
259
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260config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
261 bool
262 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
263 depends on SYSCTL
264 default y
265
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266config FHANDLE
267 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
268 select EXPORTFS
269 help
270 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
271 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
272 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
273 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
274 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
275 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
276 syscalls.
277
278config AUDIT
279 bool "Auditing support"
280 depends on NET
281 help
282 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
283 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
284 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
285 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
286
287config AUDITSYSCALL
288 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
289 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
290 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
291 help
292 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
293 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
294 such as SELinux.
295
296config AUDIT_WATCH
297 def_bool y
298 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
299 select FSNOTIFY
300
301config AUDIT_TREE
302 def_bool y
303 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
304 select FSNOTIFY
305
306config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
307 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
308 depends on AUDIT
309 help
310 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
311 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
312 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
313 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central
314 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older
315 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
316 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows
317 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
318 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
319
320source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
321source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
322
323menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
324
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325choice
326 prompt "Cputime accounting"
327 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
328 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING if PPC64
329
330# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
331config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
332 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
333 depends on !S390
334 help
335 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
336 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
337 granularity.
338
339 If unsure, say Y.
340
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341config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
342 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
343 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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344 help
345 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
346 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
347 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
348 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
349 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
350 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
351 systems.
352
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353config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
354 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
355 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
356 help
357 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
358 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
359 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
360 small performance impact.
361
362 If in doubt, say N here.
363
364endchoice
365
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366config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
367 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
368 help
369 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
370 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
371 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
372 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
373 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
374 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
375 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
376 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
377 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
378
379config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
380 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
381 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
382 default n
383 help
384 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
385 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
386 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
387 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
388 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 389 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 390
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391config TASKSTATS
392 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
393 depends on NET
394 default n
395 help
396 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
397 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
398 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
399 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
400 space on task exit.
401
402 Say N if unsure.
403
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404config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
405 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 406 depends on TASKSTATS
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407 help
408 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
409 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
410 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
411 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
412
413 Say N if unsure.
414
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415config TASK_XACCT
416 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
417 depends on TASKSTATS
418 help
419 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
420 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
421
422 Say N if unsure.
423
424config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
425 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
426 depends on TASK_XACCT
427 help
428 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
429 task has caused.
430
431 Say N if unsure.
432
391dc69c 433endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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436
437choice
438 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 439 default TREE_RCU
c903ff83 440
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441config TREE_RCU
442 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 443 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
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444 help
445 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
446 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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447 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
448 smaller systems.
c903ff83 449
f41d911f 450config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 451 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
8008e129 452 depends on PREEMPT && SMP
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453 help
454 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
455 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
456 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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457 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
458 smaller systems.
f41d911f 459
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460config TINY_RCU
461 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 462 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
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463 help
464 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
465 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
466 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
467 memory footprint of RCU.
468
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469config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
470 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
8008e129 471 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
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472 help
473 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
474 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
475 memory footprint of RCU.
476
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478
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479config PREEMPT_RCU
480 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
481 help
482 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
483 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
484
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485config RCU_USER_QS
486 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
487 depends on HAVE_RCU_USER_QS && SMP
488 help
489 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
490 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
491 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
492 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
493 to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
494
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495 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
496 tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
497 unnecessary overhead.
498
499 If unsure say N
500
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501config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
502 bool "Force userspace extended QS by default"
503 depends on RCU_USER_QS
504 help
505 Set the hooks in user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
506 test this feature that treats userspace as an extended quiescent
507 state until we have a real user like a full adaptive nohz option.
508
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509 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
510 tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
511 unnecessary overhead.
512
513 If unsure say N
514
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515config RCU_FANOUT
516 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
517 range 2 64 if 64BIT
518 range 2 32 if !64BIT
f41d911f 519 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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520 default 64 if 64BIT
521 default 32 if !64BIT
522 help
523 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
524 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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525 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
526 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
527 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
528 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
529 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
530 code paths on small(er) systems.
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532 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
533 Take the default if unsure.
534
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535config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
536 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
537 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
538 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
539 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
540 default 16
541 help
542 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
543 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
544 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
545 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
546 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
547 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
548 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
549 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
550 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
551 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
552 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
553 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
554 leaf-level fanouts work well.
555
556 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
557
558 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
559
560 Take the default if unsure.
561
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562config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
563 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
f41d911f 564 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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566 help
567 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
568 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
569 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
570 strong NUMA behavior.
571
572 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
573
574 Say N if unsure.
575
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576config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
577 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
b807fbff 578 depends on NO_HZ && SMP
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579 default n
580 help
581 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
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582 in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more
583 quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead
584 of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with
585 large numbers of CPUs.
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587 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
588 if you have relatively few CPUs.
589
590 Say N if you are unsure.
591
c903ff83 592config TREE_RCU_TRACE
f41d911f 593 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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594 select DEBUG_FS
595 help
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596 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
597 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
598 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
c903ff83 599
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600config RCU_BOOST
601 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
27f4d280 602 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
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603 default n
604 help
605 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
606 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
607 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
608 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
609
610 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
611 Say N here if you are unsure.
612
613config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
614 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
615 range 1 99
616 depends on RCU_BOOST
617 default 1
618 help
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619 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
620 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
621 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
622 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
623 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
624 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
625 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
626 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
627
628 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
629 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
630 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
631 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
632 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
633 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
634 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
635 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
636 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
637 set to priority 6 or higher.
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639 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
640
641config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
642 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
643 range 0 3000
644 depends on RCU_BOOST
645 default 500
646 help
647 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
648 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
649 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
650 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
651
652 Accept the default if unsure.
653
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655
1da177e4 656config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 657 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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658 ---help---
659 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
660 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
661 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
662 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
663 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
664 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
665 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
666 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
667
668config IKCONFIG_PROC
669 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
670 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
671 ---help---
672 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
673 through /proc/config.gz.
674
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675config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
676 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
677 range 12 21
f17a32e9 678 default 17
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679 help
680 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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682 17 => 128 KB
683 16 => 64 KB
684 15 => 32 KB
685 14 => 16 KB
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686 13 => 8 KB
687 12 => 4 KB
688
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690# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
691#
692config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
693 bool
694
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696 boolean "Control Group support"
0dea1168 697 depends on EVENTFD
5cdc38f9 698 help
23964d2d 699 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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700 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
701 controls or device isolation.
702 See
5cdc38f9 703 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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704 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
705 and resource control)
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707 Say N if unsure.
708
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710
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712 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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714 help
715 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
716 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 717 framework.
5cdc38f9 718
23964d2d 719 Say N if unsure.
5cdc38f9 720
5cdc38f9 721config CGROUP_FREEZER
23964d2d 722 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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723 help
724 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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726
727config CGROUP_DEVICE
728 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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730 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
731 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
732
733config CPUSETS
734 bool "Cpuset support"
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735 help
736 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
737 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
738 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
739 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
740
741 Say N if unsure.
742
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744 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
745 depends on CPUSETS
746 default y
747
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749 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
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750 help
751 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 752 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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754config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
755 bool "Resource counters"
756 help
757 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 758 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
e552b661 759
c255a458 760config MEMCG
00f0b825 761 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
79ae9c29 762 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 763 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 764 help
84ad6d70 765 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 766 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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768 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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769 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
770 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
771 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
772 at boot.
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774 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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775 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
776 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
777 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 778 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
00f0b825 779
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781 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
782
c255a458 783config MEMCG_SWAP
65e0e811 784 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
c255a458 785 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
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787 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
788 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
789 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
790 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
791 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
792 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
793 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
794 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
795 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
796 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
00a66d29 797 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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799 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
c255a458 800config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
a42c390c 801 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
c255a458 802 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
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803 default y
804 help
805 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
806 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
43d547f9 807 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
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808 and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
809 parameter should have this option unselected.
810 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
811 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
00a66d29 812 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
c255a458 813config MEMCG_KMEM
e5671dfa 814 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
c255a458 815 depends on MEMCG && EXPERIMENTAL
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816 default n
817 help
818 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
819 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
820 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
821 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
822 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
823 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
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826 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
827 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE && EXPERIMENTAL
828 default n
829 help
830 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
831 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
832 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
833 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
834 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
835 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
836 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
837 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
838 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
839
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841 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
842 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
843 help
844 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
2d0f2520 845 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
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846 designated cpu.
847
848 Say N if unsure.
849
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850menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
851 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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852 default n
853 help
854 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
855 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
856 tasks.
857
858if CGROUP_SCHED
859config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
860 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
861 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
862 default CGROUP_SCHED
863
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865 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
866 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
867 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
868 default n
869 help
870 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
871 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
872 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
873 restriction.
874 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
875
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877 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
878 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
879 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
880 default n
881 help
882 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 883 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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884 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
885 realtime bandwidth for them.
886 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
887
888endif #CGROUP_SCHED
889
afc24d49 890config BLK_CGROUP
32e380ae 891 bool "Block IO controller"
79ae9c29 892 depends on BLOCK
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894 ---help---
895 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
896 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
897 policies.
898
899 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
900 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
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901 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
902 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
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904 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
e43473b7 905 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
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907 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
c5e0591a 908 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
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910 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
911
912config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
913 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
914 depends on BLK_CGROUP
915 default n
916 ---help---
917 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
918 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
919
23964d2d 920endif # CGROUPS
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922config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
923 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
924 default n
925 help
926 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
927 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
928 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
929 entries.
930
931 If unsure, say N here.
932
8dd2a82c 933menuconfig NAMESPACES
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935 default !EXPERT
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937 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
938 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
939 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
940 different namespaces.
941
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943
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945 bool "UTS namespace"
17a6d441 946 default y
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947 help
948 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
949 uname() system call
950
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951config IPC_NS
952 bool "IPC namespace"
8dd2a82c 953 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
17a6d441 954 default y
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955 help
956 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 957 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
ae5e1b22 958
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960 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
8dd2a82c 961 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
e1c972b6 962 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
5673a94c 963 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
e1c972b6 964
5673a94c 965 default n
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967 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
968 to provide different user info for different servers.
969 If unsure, say N.
970
74bd59bb 971config PID_NS
9bd38c2c 972 bool "PID Namespaces"
17a6d441 973 default y
74bd59bb 974 help
12d2b8f9 975 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 976 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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977 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
978
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979config NET_NS
980 bool "Network namespace"
8dd2a82c 981 depends on NET
17a6d441 982 default y
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983 help
984 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
985 of the network stack.
986
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988
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989config UIDGID_CONVERTED
990 # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known
991 # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t
992 # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with
993 # the user namespace.
994 bool
995 default y
996
e1c972b6 997 # Networking
e1c972b6 998 depends on NET_9P = n
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1000 # Filesystems
e1c972b6 1001 depends on 9P_FS = n
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1002 depends on AFS_FS = n
1003 depends on AUTOFS4_FS = n
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1004 depends on CEPH_FS = n
1005 depends on CIFS = n
1006 depends on CODA_FS = n
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1007 depends on FUSE_FS = n
1008 depends on GFS2_FS = n
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1009 depends on NCP_FS = n
1010 depends on NFSD = n
1011 depends on NFS_FS = n
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1013 depends on XFS_FS = n
1014
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1016 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
e1c972b6 1017 depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED
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1019 help
1020 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
1021 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
1022
1023 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
1024
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1026 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
1027 select EVENTFD
1028 select CGROUPS
1029 select CGROUP_SCHED
1030 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1031 help
1032 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1033 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1034 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1035 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1036 upon task session.
1037
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1039 bool
1040
1041config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
5d6a4ea5 1042 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
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1043 depends on SYSFS
1044 default n
1045 help
1046 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1047 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1048 /sys/block/.
1049
1050 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1051 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1052
1053 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1054 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1055 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1056
1057 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1058 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1059 option enabled.
1060
1061 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1062 need to say Y here.
1063
1064config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5d6a4ea5 1065 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
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1067 depends on SYSFS
1068 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1069 help
1070 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1071
1072 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1073 option.
1074
1075 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1076 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1077 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1078
1079config RELAY
1080 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1081 help
1082 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1083 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1084 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1085 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1086 user space.
1087
1088 If unsure, say N.
1089
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1091 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1092 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1093 help
1094 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1095 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1096 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1097 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1098 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1099
1100 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1101 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1102 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1103
1104 If unsure say Y.
1105
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1109
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1111
c45b4f1f 1112config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 1113 bool "Optimize for size"
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1114 help
1115 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1116 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1117
775a7229 1118 If unsure, say Y.
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1121 bool
1122
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1124 bool
1125
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1127 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
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1128 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1129 select DEBUG_KERNEL
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1130 help
1131 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1132 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1133 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1134 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1135
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1137 bool
1138
ae81f9e3 1139config UID16
6a108a14 1140 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
af1839eb 1141 depends on HAVE_UID16
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1142 default y
1143 help
1144 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1145
b89a8171 1146config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
6a108a14 1147 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
26a7034b 1148 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
c736de60 1149 default n
b89a8171 1150 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 1151 ---help---
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1152 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1153 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1154 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1155 information.
b89a8171 1156
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1158 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1159 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 1160
c736de60 1161 If unsure say N here.
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1164 bool
1165 help
1166 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1167
1da177e4 1168config KALLSYMS
6a108a14 1169 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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1170 default y
1171 help
1172 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1173 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1174 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1175
1176config KALLSYMS_ALL
1177 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1178 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1179 help
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1181 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1182 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1183 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1184 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1185
1186 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1187 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1188 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1189 something like this).
1190
1191 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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712f47ce 1193config HOTPLUG
45f035ab 1194 def_bool y
712f47ce 1195
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1197 default y
6a108a14 1198 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
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1200 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1201 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1202 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1203 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1204 strongly discouraged.
1205
c8538a7a 1206config BUG
6a108a14 1207 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
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1208 default y
1209 help
1210 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1211 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1212 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1213 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1214 Just say Y.
1215
708e9a79 1216config ELF_CORE
046d662f 1217 depends on COREDUMP
708e9a79 1218 default y
6a108a14 1219 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
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1220 help
1221 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1222
8761f1ab 1223
e5e1d3cb 1224config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
6a108a14 1225 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
8761f1ab 1226 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
15f304b6 1227 select I8253_LOCK
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1228 default y
1229 help
1230 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1231 support, saving some memory.
1232
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1233config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1234 bool
1235
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1236config BASE_FULL
1237 default y
6a108a14 1238 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
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1239 help
1240 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1241 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1242 but may reduce performance.
1243
1244config FUTEX
6a108a14 1245 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1246 default y
23f78d4a 1247 select RT_MUTEXES
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1248 help
1249 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1250 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1251 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1252
1253config EPOLL
6a108a14 1254 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1da177e4 1255 default y
448e3cee 1256 select ANON_INODES
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1257 help
1258 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1259 support for epoll family of system calls.
1260
fba2afaa 1261config SIGNALFD
6a108a14 1262 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1263 select ANON_INODES
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1264 default y
1265 help
1266 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1267 on a file descriptor.
1268
1269 If unsure, say Y.
1270
b215e283 1271config TIMERFD
6a108a14 1272 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1273 select ANON_INODES
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1274 default y
1275 help
1276 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1277 events on a file descriptor.
1278
1279 If unsure, say Y.
1280
e1ad7468 1281config EVENTFD
6a108a14 1282 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
448e3cee 1283 select ANON_INODES
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1284 default y
1285 help
1286 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1287 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1288
1289 If unsure, say Y.
1290
1da177e4 1291config SHMEM
6a108a14 1292 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
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1293 default y
1294 depends on MMU
1295 help
1296 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1297 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1298 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1299 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1300 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1301
ebf3f09c 1302config AIO
6a108a14 1303 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
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1304 default y
1305 help
1306 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1307 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1308 this option saves about 7k.
1309
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1310config EMBEDDED
1311 bool "Embedded system"
1312 select EXPERT
1313 help
1314 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1315 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1316 for configuration.
1317
cdd6c482 1318config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1319 bool
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1320 help
1321 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1323config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1324 bool
1325 help
1326 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1327
57c0c15b 1328menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 1330config PERF_EVENTS
57c0c15b 1331 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
392d65a9 1332 default y if PROFILING
cdd6c482 1333 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1334 select ANON_INODES
e360adbe 1335 select IRQ_WORK
0793a61d 1336 help
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1337 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1338 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1339
dd77038d 1340 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1341 use of generic tracepoints.
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1343 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1344 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1345 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1346 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1347 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1348 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1349 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1350
57c0c15b 1351 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1352 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1353 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1354 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1355 capabilities on top of those.
1356
1357 Say Y if unsure.
1358
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1359config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1360 default n
1361 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1362 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1363 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1364 help
1365 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1366
1367 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1368 that don't require it.
1369
1370 Say N if unsure.
1371
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1373
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1374config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1375 default y
6a108a14 1376 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
f8891e5e 1377 help
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1378 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1379 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6a108a14 1380 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
2aea4fb6 1381 if VM event counters are disabled.
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1383config PCI_QUIRKS
1384 default y
6a108a14 1385 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
61cfc7e4 1386 depends on PCI
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1387 help
1388 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1389 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1390 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1391
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1392config SLUB_DEBUG
1393 default y
6a108a14 1394 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
f6acb635 1395 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1396 help
1397 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1398 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1399 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1400 no support for cache validation etc.
1401
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1403 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1404 default y
1405 help
1406 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1407 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1408 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1409 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1411
1412 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1413
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1415 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1416 default SLUB
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1417 help
1418 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1419
1420config SLAB
1421 bool "SLAB"
1422 help
1423 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1424 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1425 per cpu and per node queues.
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1427config SLUB
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1428 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1429 help
1430 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1431 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1432 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1433 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1434 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1435 a slab allocator.
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1437config SLOB
6a108a14 1438 depends on EXPERT
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1439 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1440 help
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1441 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1442 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1443 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1445endchoice
1446
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1447config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1448 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
6a108a14 1449 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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1450 default n
1451 help
1452 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1453 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1454 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1455 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1456 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1457 then the flag will be ignored.
1458
1459 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1460 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1461
1462 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1463 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1464 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1465 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1466
1467 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1468
125e5645 1469config PROFILING
b309a294 1470 bool "Profiling support"
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1471 help
1472 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1473 by profilers such as OProfile.
1474
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1476# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1477# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1478#
97e1c18e 1479config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1480 bool
97e1c18e 1481
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1482source "arch/Kconfig"
1483
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1484endmenu # General setup
1485
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1486config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1487 bool
1488 default n
1489
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1490config SLABINFO
1491 bool
1492 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1493 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1494 default y
1495
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1496config RT_MUTEXES
1497 boolean
ae81f9e3 1498
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1499config BASE_SMALL
1500 int
1501 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1502 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1503
66da5733 1504menuconfig MODULES
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1505 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1506 help
1507 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1508 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1509 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1510 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1511 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1512 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1513 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1514 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1515 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1516
1517 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1518 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1519 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1520 this).
1521
1522 If unsure, say Y.
1523
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1525
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1526config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1527 bool "Forced module loading"
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1528 default n
1529 help
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1530 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1531 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1532 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 1533
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1534config MODULE_UNLOAD
1535 bool "Module unloading"
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1536 help
1537 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1538 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1539 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1540 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1541
1542config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1543 bool "Forced module unloading"
1544 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1545 help
1546 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1547 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1548 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1549 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1550 If unsure, say N.
1551
1da177e4 1552config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1553 bool "Module versioning support"
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1554 help
1555 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1556 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1557 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1558 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1559 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1560 unsure, say N.
1561
1562config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1563 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1564 help
1565 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1566 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1567 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1568 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1569 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1570 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1571 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1572
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1574 bool "Module signature verification"
1575 depends on MODULES
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1576 select KEYS
1577 select CRYPTO
1578 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1579 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1580 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1581 select ASN1
1582 select OID_REGISTRY
1583 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
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1584 help
1585 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1586 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1587 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1588
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1589 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1590 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1591 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1592 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1593
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1595 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1596 depends on MODULE_SIG
1597 help
1598 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1599 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
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1600
1601choice
1602 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1603 depends on MODULE_SIG
1604 help
1605 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1606 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1607 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1608 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1609 the signature on that module.
1610
1611config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1612 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1613 select CRYPTO_SHA1
1614
1615config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1616 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1617 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1618
1619config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1620 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1621 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1622
1623config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1624 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1625 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1626
1627config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1628 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1629 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1630
1631endchoice
1632
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1634
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1635config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1636 bool
1637 help
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1638 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1639 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
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1640 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1641 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1642 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
98a79d6a 1643
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1644config STOP_MACHINE
1645 bool
1646 default y
1647 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1648 help
1649 Need stop_machine() primitive.
3a65dfe8 1650
3a65dfe8 1651source "block/Kconfig"
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1653config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1654 bool
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1656config PADATA
1657 depends on SMP
1658 bool
1659
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1660# Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1661# that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1662# mappings
1663config BROKEN_RODATA
1664 bool
1665
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1666config ASN1
1667 tristate
1668 help
1669 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
1670 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
1671 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
1672 functions to call on what tags.
1673
6beb0009 1674source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"