rcu: fix race condition in synchronize_sched_expedited()
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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47 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are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.
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".)
aaebf433 116
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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_LZO
127 bool
128
30d65dbf 129choice
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130 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
131 default KERNEL_GZIP
7dd65feb 132 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2e9f3bdd 133 help
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134 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
135 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
136 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
137 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
138 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
139
140 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
141 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
142 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
143 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
144
145 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
146 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
147 size matters less.
148
149 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
150
151config KERNEL_GZIP
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152 bool "Gzip"
153 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
154 help
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155 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
156 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
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157
158config KERNEL_BZIP2
159 bool "Bzip2"
2e9f3bdd 160 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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161 help
162 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
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163 Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel
164 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
165 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
166 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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167
168config KERNEL_LZMA
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169 bool "LZMA"
170 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
171 help
172 The most recent compression algorithm.
173 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
174 two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
175 smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
30d65dbf 176
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177config KERNEL_LZO
178 bool "LZO"
179 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
180 help
181 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
182 size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
183 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
184
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185endchoice
186
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187config SWAP
188 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 189 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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190 default y
191 help
192 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 193 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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194 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
195 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
196
197config SYSVIPC
198 bool "System V IPC"
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199 ---help---
200 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
201 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
202 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
203 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
204 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
205 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
206 you'll need to say Y here.
207
208 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
209 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
210 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
211
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212config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
213 bool
214 depends on SYSVIPC
215 depends on SYSCTL
216 default y
217
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218config POSIX_MQUEUE
219 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
220 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
221 ---help---
222 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
223 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
224 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
225 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 226 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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227
228 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
229 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
230 operations on message queues.
231
232 If unsure, say Y.
233
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234config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
235 bool
236 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
237 depends on SYSCTL
238 default y
239
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240config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
241 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
242 help
243 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
244 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
245 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
246 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
247 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
248 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
249 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
250 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
251 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
252
253config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
254 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
255 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
256 default n
257 help
258 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
259 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
260 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
261 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
262 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 263 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 264
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265config TASKSTATS
266 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
267 depends on NET
268 default n
269 help
270 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
271 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
272 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
273 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
274 space on task exit.
275
276 Say N if unsure.
277
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278config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
279 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 280 depends on TASKSTATS
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281 help
282 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
283 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
284 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
285 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
286
287 Say N if unsure.
288
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289config TASK_XACCT
290 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
291 depends on TASKSTATS
292 help
293 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
294 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
295
296 Say N if unsure.
297
298config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
299 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
300 depends on TASK_XACCT
301 help
302 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
303 task has caused.
304
305 Say N if unsure.
306
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307config AUDIT
308 bool "Auditing support"
804a6a49 309 depends on NET
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310 help
311 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
312 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
313 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
314 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
315
316config AUDITSYSCALL
317 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
022382a5 318 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
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319 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
320 help
321 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
322 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
67640b60 323 such as SELinux.
1da177e4 324
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325config AUDIT_WATCH
326 def_bool y
327 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
328 select FSNOTIFY
1da177e4 329
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330config AUDIT_TREE
331 def_bool y
63c882a0 332 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
28a3a7eb 333 select FSNOTIFY
74c3cbe3 334
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335menu "RCU Subsystem"
336
337choice
338 prompt "RCU Implementation"
31c9a24e 339 default TREE_RCU
c903ff83 340
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341config TREE_RCU
342 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
687d7a96 343 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
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344 help
345 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
346 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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347 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
348 smaller systems.
c903ff83 349
f41d911f 350config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
a57eb940 351 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
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352 depends on PREEMPT
353 help
354 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
355 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
356 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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357 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
358 smaller systems.
f41d911f 359
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360config TINY_RCU
361 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
362 depends on !SMP
363 help
364 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
365 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
366 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
367 memory footprint of RCU.
368
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369config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
370 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
371 depends on !SMP && PREEMPT
372 help
373 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
374 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
375 memory footprint of RCU.
376
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378
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379config PREEMPT_RCU
380 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
381 help
382 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
383 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
384
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385config RCU_TRACE
386 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
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387 help
388 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
389 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
390
391 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
392 Say N if you are unsure.
393
394config RCU_FANOUT
395 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
396 range 2 64 if 64BIT
397 range 2 32 if !64BIT
f41d911f 398 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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399 default 64 if 64BIT
400 default 32 if !64BIT
401 help
402 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
403 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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404 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
405 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
406 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
407 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
408 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
409 code paths on small(er) systems.
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410
411 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
412 Take the default if unsure.
413
414config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
415 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
f41d911f 416 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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417 default n
418 help
419 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
420 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
421 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
422 strong NUMA behavior.
423
424 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
425
426 Say N if unsure.
427
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428config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
429 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
430 depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
431 default n
432 help
433 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
434 in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
435 more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the
436 overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
437 with large numbers of CPUs.
438
439 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
440 if you have relatively few CPUs.
441
442 Say N if you are unsure.
443
c903ff83 444config TREE_RCU_TRACE
f41d911f 445 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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447 help
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448 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
449 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
450 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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452config RCU_BOOST
453 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
454 depends on RT_MUTEXES && TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
455 default n
456 help
457 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
458 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
459 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
460 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
461
462 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
463 Say N here if you are unsure.
464
465config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
466 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
467 range 1 99
468 depends on RCU_BOOST
469 default 1
470 help
471 This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted
472 RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound
473 real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then
474 the highest-priority CPU-bound application.
475
476 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
477
478config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
479 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
480 range 0 3000
481 depends on RCU_BOOST
482 default 500
483 help
484 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
485 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
486 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
487 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
488
489 Accept the default if unsure.
490
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492
1da177e4 493config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 494 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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495 ---help---
496 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
497 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
498 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
499 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
500 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
501 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
502 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
503 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
504
505config IKCONFIG_PROC
506 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
507 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
508 ---help---
509 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
510 through /proc/config.gz.
511
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512config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
513 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
514 range 12 21
f17a32e9 515 default 17
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516 help
517 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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518 Examples:
519 17 => 128 KB
520 16 => 64 KB
521 15 => 32 KB
522 14 => 16 KB
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523 13 => 8 KB
524 12 => 4 KB
525
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527# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
528#
529config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
530 bool
531
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532menuconfig CGROUPS
533 boolean "Control Group support"
0dea1168 534 depends on EVENTFD
5cdc38f9 535 help
23964d2d 536 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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537 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
538 controls or device isolation.
539 See
5cdc38f9 540 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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541 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
542 and resource control)
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543
544 Say N if unsure.
545
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546if CGROUPS
547
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548config CGROUP_DEBUG
549 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
550 depends on CGROUPS
551 default n
552 help
553 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
554 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
23964d2d 555 framework.
5cdc38f9 556
23964d2d 557 Say N if unsure.
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558
559config CGROUP_NS
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560 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
561 depends on CGROUPS
562 help
563 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
564 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
565 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
566 jobs.
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568config CGROUP_FREEZER
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569 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
570 depends on CGROUPS
571 help
572 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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573 cgroup.
574
575config CGROUP_DEVICE
576 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
577 depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
578 help
579 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
580 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
581
582config CPUSETS
583 bool "Cpuset support"
db7f47cf 584 depends on CGROUPS
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585 help
586 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
587 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
588 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
589 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
590
591 Say N if unsure.
592
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593config PROC_PID_CPUSET
594 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
595 depends on CPUSETS
596 default y
597
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598config CGROUP_CPUACCT
599 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
600 depends on CGROUPS
601 help
602 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
23964d2d 603 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
d842de87 604
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605config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
606 bool "Resource counters"
607 help
608 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
23964d2d 609 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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610 depends on CGROUPS
611
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612config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
613 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
614 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 615 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 616 help
84ad6d70 617 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
21acb9ca 618 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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619
620 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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621 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
622 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
623 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
624 at boot.
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625
626 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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627 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
628 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
629 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 630 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
00f0b825 631
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632 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
633 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
634
c077719b 635config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
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636 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
637 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP
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638 help
639 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
640 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
641 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
642 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
643 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
644 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
645 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
646 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
647 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
648 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
649 if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
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650 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
651 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
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653menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
654 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
655 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS
656 default n
657 help
658 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
659 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
660 tasks.
661
662if CGROUP_SCHED
663config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
664 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
665 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
666 default CGROUP_SCHED
667
668config RT_GROUP_SCHED
669 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
670 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
671 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
672 default n
673 help
674 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
32bd7eb5 675 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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676 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
677 realtime bandwidth for them.
678 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
679
680endif #CGROUP_SCHED
681
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683 tristate "Block IO controller"
684 depends on CGROUPS && BLOCK
685 default n
686 ---help---
687 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
688 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
689 policies.
690
691 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
692 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
693 to such task groups.
694
695 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
696 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it
697 to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y).
698
699 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
700
701config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
702 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
703 depends on BLK_CGROUP
704 default n
705 ---help---
706 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
707 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
708
23964d2d 709endif # CGROUPS
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711config MM_OWNER
712 bool
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88a22c98 714config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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715 bool
716
717config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
9e9868a7 718 bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
9148fe87 719 depends on SYSFS
f6ee649f 720 default n
d47846c5 721 select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
88a22c98 722 help
fce3e804 723 This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
f6ee649f 724 version. Do not use it on recent distributions.
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725
726 The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
727 /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
728 class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
729 unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
730 /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
731 /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
732 "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
733 class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
734 subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
735 depend on the unified device tree.
736
737 This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
738 be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
739 layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
740 and disable some features, which can not be exported without
741 confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
742 distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
743 depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
744
745 If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
746 older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
747 if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
748 this option set to N.
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750config RELAY
751 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
752 help
753 This option enables support for relay interface support in
754 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
755 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
756 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
757 user space.
758
759 If unsure, say N.
760
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762 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
763 default !EMBEDDED
764 help
765 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
766 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
767 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
768 different namespaces.
769
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770config UTS_NS
771 bool "UTS namespace"
772 depends on NAMESPACES
773 help
774 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
775 uname() system call
776
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777config IPC_NS
778 bool "IPC namespace"
614b84cf 779 depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
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780 help
781 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
614b84cf 782 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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785 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
786 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
787 help
788 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
789 to provide different user info for different servers.
790 If unsure, say N.
791
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792config PID_NS
793 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
794 default n
795 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
796 help
12d2b8f9 797 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
692105b8 798 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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800
801 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
802 say N here.
803
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804config NET_NS
805 bool "Network namespace"
806 default n
807 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
808 help
809 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
810 of the network stack.
811
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812config BLK_DEV_INITRD
813 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
814 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
815 help
816 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
817 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
818 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
819 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
820 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
821
822 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
823 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
824 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
825
826 If unsure say Y.
827
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829
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831
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833
c45b4f1f 834config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 835 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 836 default y
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837 help
838 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
839 resulting in a smaller kernel.
840
775a7229 841 If unsure, say Y.
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844 bool
845
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847 bool
848
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850 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
851 help
852 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
853 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
854 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
855 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
856
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857config UID16
858 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
09337f50 859 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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860 default y
861 help
862 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
863
b89a8171 864config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
0847062a 865 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
26a7034b 866 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
13bb7e37 867 default y
b89a8171 868 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 869 ---help---
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870 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
871 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
872 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
873 information.
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875 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
876 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
877 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 878
13bb7e37 879 If unsure say Y here.
ae81f9e3 880
1da177e4 881config KALLSYMS
979c6a1e 882 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
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883 default y
884 help
885 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
886 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
887 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
888
889config KALLSYMS_ALL
890 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
891 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
892 help
893 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
894 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
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895 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
896 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
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898 Say N.
899
900config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
901 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
902 depends on KALLSYMS
903 help
904 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
905 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
906 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
907 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
908 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
909 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
910
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913 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
914 default y
915 help
916 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
917 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
918 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
919 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
920
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922 default y
923 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
924 help
925 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
926 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
927 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
928 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
929 strongly discouraged.
930
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932 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
933 default y
934 help
935 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
936 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
937 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
938 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
939 Just say Y.
940
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942 default y
943 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
944 help
945 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
946
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948 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
949 depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
950 default y
951 help
952 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
953 support, saving some memory.
954
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956 default y
957 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
958 help
959 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
960 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
961 but may reduce performance.
962
963config FUTEX
964 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
965 default y
23f78d4a 966 select RT_MUTEXES
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968 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
969 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
970 run glibc-based applications correctly.
971
972config EPOLL
973 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
974 default y
448e3cee 975 select ANON_INODES
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977 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
978 support for epoll family of system calls.
979
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981 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 982 select ANON_INODES
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984 help
985 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
986 on a file descriptor.
987
988 If unsure, say Y.
989
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990config TIMERFD
991 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 992 select ANON_INODES
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993 default y
994 help
995 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
996 events on a file descriptor.
997
998 If unsure, say Y.
999
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1001 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 1002 select ANON_INODES
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1004 help
1005 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1006 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1007
1008 If unsure, say Y.
1009
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1011 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
1012 default y
1013 depends on MMU
1014 help
1015 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1016 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1017 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1018 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1019 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1020
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1022 bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
1023 default y
1024 help
1025 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1026 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1027 this option saves about 7k.
1028
cdd6c482 1029config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
0793a61d 1030 bool
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1031 help
1032 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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1035 bool
1036 help
1037 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1038
57c0c15b 1039menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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cdd6c482 1041config PERF_EVENTS
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1043 default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
cdd6c482 1044 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
4c59e467 1045 select ANON_INODES
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1047 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1048 by software and hardware.
0793a61d 1049
dd77038d 1050 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
57c0c15b 1051 use of generic tracepoints.
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1054 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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1055 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1056 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1057 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1058 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1059 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1060
57c0c15b 1061 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
dd77038d 1062 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
57c0c15b 1063 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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1065 capabilities on top of those.
1066
1067 Say Y if unsure.
1068
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1070 bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
1071 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1072 help
1073 This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
1074 config option - please see that one for details.
1075
1076 It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
1077 it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
1078
1079 Say N if unsure.
1080
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1082 default n
1083 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1084 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1085 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1086 help
1087 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1088
1089 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1090 that don't require it.
1091
1092 Say N if unsure.
1093
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1097 default y
1098 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
1099 help
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1100 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1101 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1102 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1103 if VM event counters are disabled.
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1106 default y
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1108 depends on PCI
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1110 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1111 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1112 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1113
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1115 default y
1116 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
f6acb635 1117 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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1119 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1120 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1121 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1122 no support for cache validation etc.
1123
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1125 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1126 default y
1127 help
1128 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1129 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1130 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
692105b8 1131 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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1133
1134 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1135
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1137 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 1138 default SLUB
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1140 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1141
1142config SLAB
1143 bool "SLAB"
1144 help
1145 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 1146 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 1147 per cpu and per node queues.
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1150 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1151 help
1152 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1153 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1154 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1155 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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1157 a slab allocator.
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1159config SLOB
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1161 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1162 help
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1163 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1164 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1165 does not perform as well on large systems.
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1169config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1170 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1171 depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1172 default n
1173 help
1174 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1175 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1176 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1177 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1178 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1179 then the flag will be ignored.
1180
1181 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1182 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1183
1184 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1185 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1186 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1187 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1188
1189 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1190
125e5645 1191config PROFILING
b309a294 1192 bool "Profiling support"
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1193 help
1194 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1195 by profilers such as OProfile.
1196
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1198# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1199# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1200#
97e1c18e 1201config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 1202 bool
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1205
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1209 bool
1210 default n
1211
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1212config SLABINFO
1213 bool
1214 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 1215 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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1216 default y
1217
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1219 boolean
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1222 int
1223 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1224 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1225
66da5733 1226menuconfig MODULES
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1227 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1228 help
1229 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1230 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1231 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1232 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1233 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1234 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1235 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1236 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1237 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1238
1239 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1240 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1241 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1242 this).
1243
1244 If unsure, say Y.
1245
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1247
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1249 bool "Forced module loading"
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1250 default n
1251 help
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1253 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1254 is usually a really bad idea.
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1256config MODULE_UNLOAD
1257 bool "Module unloading"
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1258 help
1259 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1260 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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1262 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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1264config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1265 bool "Forced module unloading"
1266 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1267 help
1268 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1269 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1270 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1271 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1272 If unsure, say N.
1273
1da177e4 1274config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 1275 bool "Module versioning support"
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1276 help
1277 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1278 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1279 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1280 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1281 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1282 unsure, say N.
1283
1284config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1285 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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1286 help
1287 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1288 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1289 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1290 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1291 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1292 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1293 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1294
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1295endif # MODULES
1296
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1297config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1298 bool
1299 help
1300 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
1301 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
1302 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1303 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
692105b8 1304 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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1306config STOP_MACHINE
1307 bool
1308 default y
1309 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1310 help
1311 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 1313source "block/Kconfig"
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1315config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1316 bool
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1318config PADATA
1319 depends on SMP
1320 bool
1321
6beb0009 1322source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"