| config ARCH | |
| string | |
| option env="ARCH" | |
| config KERNELVERSION | |
| string | |
| option env="KERNELVERSION" | |
| config DEFCONFIG_LIST | |
| string | |
| depends on !UML | |
| option defconfig_list | |
| default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" | |
| default "/etc/kernel-config" | |
| default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" | |
| default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" | |
| default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" | |
| config CONSTRUCTORS | |
| bool | |
| depends on !UML | |
| config IRQ_WORK | |
| bool | |
| config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT | |
| bool | |
| menu "General setup" | |
| config BROKEN | |
| bool | |
| config BROKEN_ON_SMP | |
| bool | |
| depends on BROKEN || !SMP | |
| default y | |
| config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT | |
| int | |
| default 32 if !UML | |
| default 128 if UML | |
| help | |
| Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment | |
| variables passed to init from the kernel command line. | |
| config CROSS_COMPILE | |
| string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" | |
| help | |
| Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for | |
| default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't | |
| need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build | |
| directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. | |
| config COMPILE_TEST | |
| bool "Compile also drivers which will not load" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are | |
| intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even | |
| when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support), | |
| developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such | |
| drivers to compile-test them. | |
| If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y | |
| here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless | |
| drivers to be distributed. | |
| config LOCALVERSION | |
| string "Local version - append to kernel release" | |
| help | |
| Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. | |
| This will show up when you type uname, for example. | |
| The string you set here will be appended after the contents of | |
| any files with a filename matching localversion* in your | |
| object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can | |
| be a maximum of 64 characters. | |
| config LOCALVERSION_AUTO | |
| bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a | |
| release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current | |
| top of tree revision. | |
| A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion | |
| if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be | |
| appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value | |
| set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. | |
| (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced | |
| by running the command: | |
| $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD | |
| which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) | |
| config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 | |
| bool | |
| choice | |
| prompt "Kernel compression mode" | |
| default KERNEL_GZIP | |
| depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 | |
| help | |
| The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. | |
| Several compression algorithms are available, which differ | |
| in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. | |
| Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. | |
| Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. | |
| If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed | |
| kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older | |
| version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was | |
| supplied by Christian Ludwig) | |
| High compression options are mostly useful for users, who | |
| are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram | |
| size matters less. | |
| If in doubt, select 'gzip' | |
| config KERNEL_GZIP | |
| bool "Gzip" | |
| depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP | |
| help | |
| The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance | |
| between compression ratio and decompression speed. | |
| config KERNEL_BZIP2 | |
| bool "Bzip2" | |
| depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 | |
| help | |
| Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. | |
| Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel | |
| size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. | |
| Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you | |
| will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. | |
| config KERNEL_LZMA | |
| bool "LZMA" | |
| depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA | |
| help | |
| This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed | |
| is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. | |
| The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. | |
| config KERNEL_XZ | |
| bool "XZ" | |
| depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ | |
| help | |
| XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific | |
| BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable | |
| code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in | |
| comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ | |
| filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ | |
| will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. | |
| The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression | |
| speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip | |
| and LZO. Compression is slow. | |
| config KERNEL_LZO | |
| bool "LZO" | |
| depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO | |
| help | |
| Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel | |
| size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed | |
| (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. | |
| config KERNEL_LZ4 | |
| bool "LZ4" | |
| depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 | |
| help | |
| LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. | |
| A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at | |
| <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. | |
| Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel | |
| is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is | |
| faster than LZO. | |
| endchoice | |
| config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME | |
| string "Default hostname" | |
| default "(none)" | |
| help | |
| This option determines the default system hostname before userspace | |
| calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, | |
| but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal | |
| system more usable with less configuration. | |
| config SWAP | |
| bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" | |
| depends on MMU && BLOCK | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support | |
| for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are | |
| used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present | |
| in your computer. If unsure say Y. | |
| config SYSVIPC | |
| bool "System V IPC" | |
| ---help--- | |
| Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and | |
| system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and | |
| exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, | |
| and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if | |
| you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the | |
| DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), | |
| you'll need to say Y here. | |
| You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in | |
| section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from | |
| <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. | |
| config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL | |
| bool | |
| depends on SYSVIPC | |
| depends on SYSCTL | |
| default y | |
| config POSIX_MQUEUE | |
| bool "POSIX Message Queues" | |
| depends on NET | |
| ---help--- | |
| POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message | |
| queues every message has a priority which decides about succession | |
| of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run | |
| programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message | |
| queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. | |
| POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' | |
| and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem | |
| operations on message queues. | |
| If unsure, say Y. | |
| config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL | |
| bool | |
| depends on POSIX_MQUEUE | |
| depends on SYSCTL | |
| default y | |
| config FHANDLE | |
| bool "open by fhandle syscalls" | |
| select EXPORTFS | |
| help | |
| If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map | |
| file names to handle and then later use the handle for | |
| different file system operations. This is useful in implementing | |
| userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead | |
| of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names | |
| get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) | |
| syscalls. | |
| config AUDIT | |
| bool "Auditing support" | |
| depends on NET | |
| help | |
| Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another | |
| kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for | |
| logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call | |
| auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. | |
| config AUDITSYSCALL | |
| bool "Enable system-call auditing support" | |
| depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) | |
| default y if SECURITY_SELINUX | |
| help | |
| Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that | |
| can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, | |
| such as SELinux. | |
| config AUDIT_WATCH | |
| def_bool y | |
| depends on AUDITSYSCALL | |
| select FSNOTIFY | |
| config AUDIT_TREE | |
| def_bool y | |
| depends on AUDITSYSCALL | |
| select FSNOTIFY | |
| config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE | |
| bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" | |
| depends on AUDIT | |
| help | |
| The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires | |
| CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions | |
| but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never | |
| previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central | |
| process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older | |
| systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and | |
| start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows | |
| one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, | |
| but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. | |
| source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" | |
| source "kernel/time/Kconfig" | |
| menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" | |
| config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING | |
| bool | |
| choice | |
| prompt "Cputime accounting" | |
| default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 | |
| default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 | |
| # Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting | |
| config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING | |
| bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" | |
| depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL | |
| help | |
| This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains | |
| statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies | |
| granularity. | |
| If unsure, say Y. | |
| config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE | |
| bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" | |
| depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL | |
| select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING | |
| help | |
| Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time | |
| accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each | |
| kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel | |
| between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a | |
| small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, | |
| this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned | |
| systems. | |
| config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN | |
| bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" | |
| depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT | |
| select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING | |
| select CONTEXT_TRACKING | |
| help | |
| Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full | |
| dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every | |
| kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. | |
| The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant | |
| overhead. | |
| For now this is only useful if you are working on the full | |
| dynticks subsystem development. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING | |
| bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" | |
| depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL | |
| help | |
| Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time | |
| accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each | |
| transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a | |
| small performance impact. | |
| If in doubt, say N here. | |
| endchoice | |
| config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT | |
| bool "BSD Process Accounting" | |
| help | |
| If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the | |
| kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting | |
| information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about | |
| that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The | |
| information includes things such as creation time, owning user, | |
| command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete | |
| list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is | |
| up to the user level program to do useful things with this | |
| information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. | |
| config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 | |
| bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" | |
| depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written | |
| in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each | |
| process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible | |
| with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools | |
| for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available | |
| at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. | |
| config TASKSTATS | |
| bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" | |
| depends on NET | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the | |
| generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the | |
| statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as | |
| responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user | |
| space on task exit. | |
| Say N if unsure. | |
| config TASK_DELAY_ACCT | |
| bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" | |
| depends on TASKSTATS | |
| help | |
| Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system | |
| resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping | |
| in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities | |
| relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. | |
| Say N if unsure. | |
| config TASK_XACCT | |
| bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" | |
| depends on TASKSTATS | |
| help | |
| Collect extended task accounting data and send the data | |
| to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. | |
| Say N if unsure. | |
| config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING | |
| bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" | |
| depends on TASK_XACCT | |
| help | |
| Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this | |
| task has caused. | |
| Say N if unsure. | |
| endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" | |
| menu "RCU Subsystem" | |
| choice | |
| prompt "RCU Implementation" | |
| default TREE_RCU | |
| config TREE_RCU | |
| bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" | |
| depends on !PREEMPT && SMP | |
| select IRQ_WORK | |
| help | |
| This option selects the RCU implementation that is | |
| designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or | |
| thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to | |
| smaller systems. | |
| config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | |
| bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" | |
| depends on PREEMPT | |
| select IRQ_WORK | |
| help | |
| This option selects the RCU implementation that is | |
| designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or | |
| thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response | |
| is also required. It also scales down nicely to | |
| smaller systems. | |
| Select this option if you are unsure. | |
| config TINY_RCU | |
| bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" | |
| depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP | |
| help | |
| This option selects the RCU implementation that is | |
| designed for UP systems from which real-time response | |
| is not required. This option greatly reduces the | |
| memory footprint of RCU. | |
| endchoice | |
| config PREEMPT_RCU | |
| def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | |
| help | |
| This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between | |
| the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. | |
| config RCU_STALL_COMMON | |
| def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) | |
| help | |
| This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between | |
| the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow | |
| the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while | |
| making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. | |
| config CONTEXT_TRACKING | |
| bool | |
| config RCU_USER_QS | |
| bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" | |
| depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP | |
| select CONTEXT_TRACKING | |
| help | |
| This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and | |
| puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in | |
| userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is | |
| excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't | |
| try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. | |
| Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full | |
| dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also | |
| adds unnecessary overhead. | |
| If unsure say N | |
| config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE | |
| bool "Force context tracking" | |
| depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING | |
| default y if !NO_HZ_FULL | |
| help | |
| The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to | |
| support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also | |
| other dependencies to provide in order to make the full | |
| dynticks working. | |
| This option stands for testing when an arch implements the | |
| context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the | |
| requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. | |
| Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support | |
| for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU | |
| userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime | |
| accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full | |
| dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all | |
| CPUs in the system. | |
| Say Y only if you're working on the developpement of an | |
| architecture backend for the context tracking. | |
| Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you | |
| don't want in production. | |
| config RCU_FANOUT | |
| int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" | |
| range 2 64 if 64BIT | |
| range 2 32 if !64BIT | |
| depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | |
| default 64 if 64BIT | |
| default 32 if !64BIT | |
| help | |
| This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations | |
| of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with | |
| large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth | |
| root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. | |
| The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production | |
| systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation | |
| itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system | |
| code paths on small(er) systems. | |
| Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. | |
| Take the default if unsure. | |
| config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF | |
| int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" | |
| range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT | |
| range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT | |
| depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | |
| default 16 | |
| help | |
| This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical | |
| implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses | |
| against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their | |
| scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will | |
| want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps | |
| lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems | |
| (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this | |
| value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the | |
| number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period | |
| initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus | |
| are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to | |
| skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large | |
| leaf-level fanouts work well. | |
| Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. | |
| Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. | |
| Take the default if unsure. | |
| config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT | |
| bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" | |
| depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, | |
| regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for | |
| testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with | |
| strong NUMA behavior. | |
| Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. | |
| Say N if unsure. | |
| config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ | |
| bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" | |
| depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if | |
| they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking | |
| these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by | |
| default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay | |
| parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other | |
| hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, | |
| for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). | |
| Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you | |
| don't care about increased grace-period durations. | |
| Say N if you are unsure. | |
| config TREE_RCU_TRACE | |
| def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) | |
| select DEBUG_FS | |
| help | |
| This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and | |
| TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to | |
| trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. | |
| config RCU_BOOST | |
| bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" | |
| depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that | |
| block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. | |
| This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU | |
| callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. | |
| Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads | |
| Say N here if you are unsure. | |
| config RCU_BOOST_PRIO | |
| int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" | |
| range 1 99 | |
| depends on RCU_BOOST | |
| default 1 | |
| help | |
| This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term | |
| preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working | |
| with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound | |
| threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set | |
| RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority | |
| real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value | |
| of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time | |
| applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. | |
| Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time | |
| thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have | |
| multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize | |
| that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to | |
| a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is | |
| conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time | |
| tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another | |
| thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming | |
| the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be | |
| set to priority 6 or higher. | |
| Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. | |
| config RCU_BOOST_DELAY | |
| int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" | |
| range 0 3000 | |
| depends on RCU_BOOST | |
| default 500 | |
| help | |
| This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of | |
| a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU | |
| readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader | |
| blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. | |
| Accept the default if unsure. | |
| config RCU_NOCB_CPU | |
| bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" | |
| depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or | |
| real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU | |
| callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered | |
| asymmetric multiprocessors. | |
| This option offloads callback invocation from the set of | |
| CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. | |
| For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to | |
| invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, | |
| and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and | |
| "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running | |
| on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted | |
| between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used | |
| to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. | |
| Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. | |
| Say N here if you are unsure. | |
| choice | |
| prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" | |
| default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE | |
| help | |
| This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked | |
| from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified | |
| at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by | |
| the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. | |
| config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE | |
| bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" | |
| depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL | |
| help | |
| This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. | |
| Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be | |
| no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU | |
| kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will | |
| invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context. | |
| Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at | |
| boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs | |
| configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time. | |
| config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO | |
| bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" | |
| depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL | |
| help | |
| This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU | |
| callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins | |
| with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs | |
| CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. | |
| All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq | |
| context. | |
| Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time | |
| or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists | |
| is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems. | |
| config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL | |
| bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" | |
| depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU | |
| help | |
| This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= | |
| boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will | |
| be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for | |
| this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with | |
| "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter | |
| on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during | |
| RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput. | |
| Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time | |
| or energy-efficiency reasons. | |
| endchoice | |
| endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" | |
| config IKCONFIG | |
| tristate "Kernel .config support" | |
| ---help--- | |
| This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file | |
| contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation | |
| of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an | |
| on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel | |
| image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as | |
| input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. | |
| It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading | |
| /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). | |
| config IKCONFIG_PROC | |
| bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" | |
| depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS | |
| ---help--- | |
| This option enables access to the kernel configuration file | |
| through /proc/config.gz. | |
| config LOG_BUF_SHIFT | |
| int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" | |
| range 12 21 | |
| default 17 | |
| help | |
| Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. | |
| Examples: | |
| 17 => 128 KB | |
| 16 => 64 KB | |
| 15 => 32 KB | |
| 14 => 16 KB | |
| 13 => 8 KB | |
| 12 => 4 KB | |
| # | |
| # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: | |
| # | |
| config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK | |
| bool | |
| config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK | |
| bool | |
| # | |
| # For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler | |
| # balancing logic: | |
| # | |
| config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING | |
| bool | |
| # For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions | |
| # all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. | |
| # | |
| config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY | |
| bool | |
| # | |
| # For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE | |
| config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE | |
| bool | |
| config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE | |
| bool | |
| default y | |
| depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE | |
| depends on NUMA_BALANCING | |
| config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED | |
| bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" | |
| default y | |
| depends on NUMA_BALANCING | |
| help | |
| If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA | |
| machine. | |
| config NUMA_BALANCING | |
| bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" | |
| depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING | |
| depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY | |
| depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION | |
| help | |
| This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. | |
| The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when | |
| it is references to the node the task is running on. | |
| This system will be inactive on UMA systems. | |
| menuconfig CGROUPS | |
| boolean "Control Group support" | |
| depends on EVENTFD | |
| help | |
| This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for | |
| use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory | |
| controls or device isolation. | |
| See | |
| - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) | |
| - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation | |
| and resource control) | |
| Say N if unsure. | |
| if CGROUPS | |
| config CGROUP_DEBUG | |
| bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that | |
| exports useful debugging information about the cgroups | |
| framework. | |
| Say N if unsure. | |
| config CGROUP_FREEZER | |
| bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" | |
| help | |
| Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a | |
| cgroup. | |
| config CGROUP_DEVICE | |
| bool "Device controller for cgroups" | |
| help | |
| Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which | |
| a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. | |
| config CPUSETS | |
| bool "Cpuset support" | |
| help | |
| This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which | |
| allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and | |
| Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. | |
| This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. | |
| Say N if unsure. | |
| config PROC_PID_CPUSET | |
| bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" | |
| depends on CPUSETS | |
| default y | |
| config CGROUP_CPUACCT | |
| bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" | |
| help | |
| Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the | |
| total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. | |
| config RESOURCE_COUNTERS | |
| bool "Resource counters" | |
| help | |
| This option enables controller independent resource accounting | |
| infrastructure that works with cgroups. | |
| config MEMCG | |
| bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" | |
| depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS | |
| select MM_OWNER | |
| help | |
| Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous | |
| memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) | |
| Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead | |
| associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, | |
| 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory | |
| usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out | |
| at boot. | |
| Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really | |
| sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable | |
| this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to | |
| disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. | |
| (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) | |
| This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which | |
| could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. | |
| config MEMCG_SWAP | |
| bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" | |
| depends on MEMCG && SWAP | |
| help | |
| Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you | |
| enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, | |
| when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to | |
| usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension | |
| is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself | |
| adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. | |
| Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please | |
| be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller | |
| is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and | |
| there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, | |
| if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. | |
| Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page | |
| size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. | |
| config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED | |
| bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" | |
| depends on MEMCG_SWAP | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in | |
| a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels | |
| which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default | |
| and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line | |
| parameter should have this option unselected. | |
| For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should | |
| select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it | |
| then swapaccount=0 does the trick). | |
| config MEMCG_KMEM | |
| bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" | |
| depends on MEMCG | |
| depends on SLUB || SLAB | |
| help | |
| The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit | |
| the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are | |
| fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard | |
| Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of | |
| the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes | |
| will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. | |
| config CGROUP_HUGETLB | |
| bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" | |
| depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. | |
| When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. | |
| The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't | |
| support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies | |
| that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access | |
| HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know | |
| beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The | |
| control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means | |
| that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. | |
| config CGROUP_PERF | |
| bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" | |
| depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS | |
| help | |
| This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to | |
| threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the | |
| designated cpu. | |
| Say N if unsure. | |
| menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED | |
| bool "Group CPU scheduler" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU | |
| bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group | |
| tasks. | |
| if CGROUP_SCHED | |
| config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED | |
| bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" | |
| depends on CGROUP_SCHED | |
| default CGROUP_SCHED | |
| config CFS_BANDWIDTH | |
| bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" | |
| depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for | |
| tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit | |
| set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no | |
| restriction. | |
| See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. | |
| config RT_GROUP_SCHED | |
| bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" | |
| depends on CGROUP_SCHED | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth | |
| to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to | |
| schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate | |
| realtime bandwidth for them. | |
| See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. | |
| endif #CGROUP_SCHED | |
| config BLK_CGROUP | |
| bool "Block IO controller" | |
| depends on BLOCK | |
| default n | |
| ---help--- | |
| Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common | |
| cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling | |
| policies. | |
| Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and | |
| control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) | |
| to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in | |
| block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. | |
| This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. | |
| One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For | |
| enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set | |
| CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set | |
| CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. | |
| See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. | |
| config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP | |
| bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" | |
| depends on BLK_CGROUP | |
| default n | |
| ---help--- | |
| Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat | |
| files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. | |
| endif # CGROUPS | |
| config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE | |
| bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. | |
| In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, | |
| data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem | |
| entries. | |
| If unsure, say N here. | |
| menuconfig NAMESPACES | |
| bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT | |
| default !EXPERT | |
| help | |
| Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using | |
| the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects | |
| or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in | |
| different namespaces. | |
| if NAMESPACES | |
| config UTS_NS | |
| bool "UTS namespace" | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the | |
| uname() system call | |
| config IPC_NS | |
| bool "IPC namespace" | |
| depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to | |
| different IPC objects in different namespaces. | |
| config USER_NS | |
| bool "User namespace" | |
| select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces | |
| to provide different user info for different servers. | |
| When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is | |
| recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be | |
| enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to | |
| limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can | |
| use. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config PID_NS | |
| bool "PID Namespaces" | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple | |
| processes with the same pid as long as they are in different | |
| pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. | |
| config NET_NS | |
| bool "Network namespace" | |
| depends on NET | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances | |
| of the network stack. | |
| endif # NAMESPACES | |
| config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS | |
| bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows | |
| the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems. | |
| Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled | |
| config SCHED_AUTOGROUP | |
| bool "Automatic process group scheduling" | |
| select EVENTFD | |
| select CGROUPS | |
| select CGROUP_SCHED | |
| select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED | |
| help | |
| This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by | |
| automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation | |
| of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from | |
| desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based | |
| upon task session. | |
| config MM_OWNER | |
| bool | |
| config SYSFS_DEPRECATED | |
| bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" | |
| depends on SYSFS | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class | |
| devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in | |
| /sys/block/. | |
| This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is | |
| passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. | |
| This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, | |
| which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all | |
| major distributions and tools handle this just fine. | |
| Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on | |
| the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this | |
| option enabled. | |
| Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might | |
| need to say Y here. | |
| config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 | |
| bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" | |
| default n | |
| depends on SYSFS | |
| depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED | |
| help | |
| Enable deprecated sysfs by default. | |
| See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this | |
| option. | |
| Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might | |
| need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it | |
| enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. | |
| config RELAY | |
| bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" | |
| help | |
| This option enables support for relay interface support in | |
| certain file systems (such as debugfs). | |
| It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and | |
| facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to | |
| user space. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config BLK_DEV_INITRD | |
| bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" | |
| depends on BROKEN || !FRV | |
| help | |
| The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the | |
| boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root | |
| before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to | |
| load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, | |
| etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. | |
| If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this | |
| also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds | |
| 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. | |
| If unsure say Y. | |
| if BLK_DEV_INITRD | |
| source "usr/Kconfig" | |
| endif | |
| config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE | |
| bool "Optimize for size" | |
| help | |
| Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc | |
| resulting in a smaller kernel. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config SYSCTL | |
| bool | |
| config ANON_INODES | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_UID16 | |
| bool | |
| config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. | |
| config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap | |
| Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn | |
| about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. | |
| config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap | |
| Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle | |
| the unaligned access emulation. | |
| see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference | |
| config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM | |
| bool | |
| menuconfig EXPERT | |
| bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" | |
| # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible | |
| select DEBUG_KERNEL | |
| help | |
| This option allows certain base kernel options and settings | |
| to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized | |
| environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. | |
| Only use this if you really know what you are doing. | |
| config UID16 | |
| bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT | |
| depends on HAVE_UID16 | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. | |
| config SYSCTL_SYSCALL | |
| bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT | |
| depends on PROC_SYSCTL | |
| default n | |
| select SYSCTL | |
| ---help--- | |
| sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging | |
| to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys | |
| using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this | |
| information. | |
| Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are | |
| trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, | |
| making your kernel marginally smaller. | |
| If unsure say N here. | |
| config KALLSYMS | |
| bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and | |
| symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel | |
| somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. | |
| config KALLSYMS_ALL | |
| bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" | |
| depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS | |
| help | |
| Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer | |
| OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext | |
| sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare | |
| cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., | |
| names of variables from the data sections, etc). | |
| This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel | |
| image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel | |
| size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or | |
| something like this). | |
| Say N unless you really need all symbols. | |
| config PRINTK | |
| default y | |
| bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT | |
| select IRQ_WORK | |
| help | |
| This option enables normal printk support. Removing it | |
| eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image | |
| and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it | |
| very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is | |
| strongly discouraged. | |
| config BUG | |
| bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing | |
| the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring | |
| numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this | |
| option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. | |
| Just say Y. | |
| config ELF_CORE | |
| depends on COREDUMP | |
| default y | |
| bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT | |
| help | |
| Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. | |
| config PCSPKR_PLATFORM | |
| bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT | |
| depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM | |
| select I8253_LOCK | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker | |
| support, saving some memory. | |
| config BASE_FULL | |
| default y | |
| bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT | |
| help | |
| Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core | |
| kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, | |
| but may reduce performance. | |
| config FUTEX | |
| bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT | |
| default y | |
| select RT_MUTEXES | |
| help | |
| Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | |
| support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not | |
| run glibc-based applications correctly. | |
| config EPOLL | |
| bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT | |
| default y | |
| select ANON_INODES | |
| help | |
| Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | |
| support for epoll family of system calls. | |
| config SIGNALFD | |
| bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT | |
| select ANON_INODES | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals | |
| on a file descriptor. | |
| If unsure, say Y. | |
| config TIMERFD | |
| bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT | |
| select ANON_INODES | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer | |
| events on a file descriptor. | |
| If unsure, say Y. | |
| config EVENTFD | |
| bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT | |
| select ANON_INODES | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both | |
| kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. | |
| If unsure, say Y. | |
| config SHMEM | |
| bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT | |
| default y | |
| depends on MMU | |
| help | |
| The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. | |
| It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported | |
| to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this | |
| option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, | |
| which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. | |
| config AIO | |
| bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used | |
| by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling | |
| this option saves about 7k. | |
| config PCI_QUIRKS | |
| default y | |
| bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT | |
| depends on PCI | |
| help | |
| This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset | |
| bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is | |
| unaffected by PCI quirks. | |
| config EMBEDDED | |
| bool "Embedded system" | |
| select EXPERT | |
| help | |
| This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for | |
| an embedded system so certain expert options are available | |
| for configuration. | |
| config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| See tools/perf/design.txt for details. | |
| config PERF_USE_VMALLOC | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| See tools/perf/design.txt for details | |
| menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" | |
| config PERF_EVENTS | |
| bool "Kernel performance events and counters" | |
| default y if PROFILING | |
| depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS | |
| select ANON_INODES | |
| select IRQ_WORK | |
| help | |
| Enable kernel support for various performance events provided | |
| by software and hardware. | |
| Software events are supported either built-in or via the | |
| use of generic tracepoints. | |
| Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance | |
| counter registers. These registers count the number of certain | |
| types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses | |
| suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the | |
| kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts | |
| when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be | |
| used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. | |
| The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of | |
| these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a | |
| system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It | |
| provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event | |
| capabilities on top of those. | |
| Say Y if unsure. | |
| config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC | |
| default n | |
| bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" | |
| depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL | |
| select PERF_USE_VMALLOC | |
| help | |
| Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. | |
| Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms | |
| that don't require it. | |
| Say N if unsure. | |
| endmenu | |
| config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS | |
| default y | |
| bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT | |
| help | |
| VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. | |
| This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters | |
| on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts | |
| if VM event counters are disabled. | |
| config SLUB_DEBUG | |
| default y | |
| bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT | |
| depends on SLUB && SYSFS | |
| help | |
| SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can | |
| result in significant savings in code size. This also disables | |
| SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be | |
| no support for cache validation etc. | |
| config COMPAT_BRK | |
| bool "Disable heap randomization" | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it | |
| also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). | |
| This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization | |
| disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting | |
| /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. | |
| On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. | |
| choice | |
| prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" | |
| default SLUB | |
| help | |
| This option allows to select a slab allocator. | |
| config SLAB | |
| bool "SLAB" | |
| help | |
| The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work | |
| well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in | |
| per cpu and per node queues. | |
| config SLUB | |
| bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" | |
| help | |
| SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage | |
| instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). | |
| Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead | |
| of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently | |
| and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for | |
| a slab allocator. | |
| config SLOB | |
| depends on EXPERT | |
| bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" | |
| help | |
| SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler | |
| allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but | |
| does not perform as well on large systems. | |
| endchoice | |
| config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL | |
| default y | |
| depends on SLUB | |
| bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" | |
| help | |
| Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing | |
| that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism | |
| in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared | |
| which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes. | |
| Typically one would choose no for a realtime system. | |
| config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED | |
| bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" | |
| depends on EXPERT && !MMU | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained | |
| from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to | |
| userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that | |
| mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus | |
| providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, | |
| then the flag will be ignored. | |
| This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by | |
| ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. | |
| Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be | |
| enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in | |
| userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, | |
| it is normally safe to say Y here. | |
| See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. | |
| config PROFILING | |
| bool "Profiling support" | |
| help | |
| Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used | |
| by profilers such as OProfile. | |
| # | |
| # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be | |
| # dynamically changed for a probe function. | |
| # | |
| config TRACEPOINTS | |
| bool | |
| source "arch/Kconfig" | |
| endmenu # General setup | |
| config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT | |
| bool | |
| default n | |
| config SLABINFO | |
| bool | |
| depends on PROC_FS | |
| depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG | |
| default y | |
| config RT_MUTEXES | |
| boolean | |
| config BASE_SMALL | |
| int | |
| default 0 if BASE_FULL | |
| default 1 if !BASE_FULL | |
| menuconfig MODULES | |
| bool "Enable loadable module support" | |
| help | |
| Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can | |
| be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being | |
| permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" | |
| tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, | |
| many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by | |
| answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most | |
| useful for infrequently used options which are not required | |
| for booting. For more information, see the man pages for | |
| modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. | |
| If you say Y here, you will need to run "make | |
| modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ | |
| where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do | |
| this). | |
| If unsure, say Y. | |
| if MODULES | |
| config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD | |
| bool "Forced module loading" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe | |
| --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and | |
| is usually a really bad idea. | |
| config MODULE_UNLOAD | |
| bool "Module unloading" | |
| help | |
| Without this option you will not be able to unload any | |
| modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable | |
| anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster | |
| and simpler. If unsure, say Y. | |
| config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD | |
| bool "Forced module unloading" | |
| depends on MODULE_UNLOAD | |
| help | |
| This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the | |
| kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module | |
| without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to | |
| rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config MODVERSIONS | |
| bool "Module versioning support" | |
| help | |
| Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. | |
| Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules | |
| compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information | |
| to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would | |
| make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If | |
| unsure, say N. | |
| config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL | |
| bool "Source checksum for all modules" | |
| help | |
| Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" | |
| field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a | |
| sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers | |
| see exactly which source was used to build a module (since | |
| others sometimes change the module source without updating | |
| the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field | |
| will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. | |
| config MODULE_SIG | |
| bool "Module signature verification" | |
| depends on MODULES | |
| select KEYS | |
| select CRYPTO | |
| select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE | |
| select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE | |
| select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA | |
| select ASN1 | |
| select OID_REGISTRY | |
| select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER | |
| help | |
| Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature | |
| is simply appended to the module. For more information see | |
| Documentation/module-signing.txt. | |
| !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the | |
| module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the | |
| debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and | |
| inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. | |
| config MODULE_SIG_FORCE | |
| bool "Require modules to be validly signed" | |
| depends on MODULE_SIG | |
| help | |
| Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a | |
| key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. | |
| config MODULE_SIG_ALL | |
| bool "Automatically sign all modules" | |
| default y | |
| depends on MODULE_SIG | |
| help | |
| Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, | |
| modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. | |
| comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" | |
| depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL | |
| choice | |
| prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" | |
| depends on MODULE_SIG | |
| help | |
| This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during | |
| signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel | |
| directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not | |
| possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check | |
| the signature on that module. | |
| config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 | |
| bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" | |
| select CRYPTO_SHA1 | |
| config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 | |
| bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" | |
| select CRYPTO_SHA256 | |
| config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 | |
| bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" | |
| select CRYPTO_SHA256 | |
| config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 | |
| bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" | |
| select CRYPTO_SHA512 | |
| config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 | |
| bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" | |
| select CRYPTO_SHA512 | |
| endchoice | |
| config MODULE_SIG_HASH | |
| string | |
| depends on MODULE_SIG | |
| default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 | |
| default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 | |
| default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 | |
| default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 | |
| default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 | |
| endif # MODULES | |
| config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and | |
| cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask | |
| with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, | |
| it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs | |
| and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. | |
| config STOP_MACHINE | |
| bool | |
| default y | |
| depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU | |
| help | |
| Need stop_machine() primitive. | |
| source "block/Kconfig" | |
| config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS | |
| bool | |
| config PADATA | |
| depends on SMP | |
| bool | |
| # Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains | |
| # that get confused by correct const<->read_only section | |
| # mappings | |
| config BROKEN_RODATA | |
| bool | |
| config ASN1 | |
| tristate | |
| help | |
| Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output | |
| that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to | |
| inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what | |
| functions to call on what tags. | |
| source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" |