7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
26 config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
36 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
39 config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
44 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
45 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
49 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
51 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
52 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
53 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
54 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
57 bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
60 Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
61 intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
62 when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
63 developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
64 drivers to compile-test them.
66 If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
67 here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
68 drivers to be distributed.
71 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
73 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
74 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
75 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
76 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
77 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
78 be a maximum of 64 characters.
80 config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
81 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
84 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
85 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
88 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
89 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
90 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
91 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
93 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
94 by running the command:
96 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
98 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
100 config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
103 config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
106 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
109 config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
112 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
115 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
119 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
121 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
123 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
124 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
125 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
126 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
127 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
129 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
130 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
131 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
132 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
134 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
135 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
138 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
142 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
144 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
145 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
149 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
151 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
152 Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel
153 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
154 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
155 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
159 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
161 This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed
162 is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest.
163 The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
169 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
170 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
171 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
172 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
173 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
174 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
176 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
177 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
178 and LZO. Compression is slow.
182 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
184 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
185 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
186 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
190 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
192 LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
193 A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
194 <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
196 Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
197 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
202 config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
203 string "Default hostname"
206 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
207 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
208 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
209 system more usable with less configuration.
212 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
213 depends on MMU && BLOCK
216 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
217 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
218 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
219 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
224 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
225 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
226 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
227 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
228 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
229 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
230 you'll need to say Y here.
232 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
233 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
234 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
236 config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
243 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
246 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
247 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
248 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
249 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
250 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
252 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
253 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
254 operations on message queues.
258 config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
260 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
264 config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
265 bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls"
269 Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
270 process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
271 to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
272 See the man page for more details.
275 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
278 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
279 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
280 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
281 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
282 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
283 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
287 bool "uselib syscall"
290 This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
291 dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
292 system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
293 earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
294 running glibc can safely disable this.
297 bool "Auditing support"
300 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
301 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
302 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
303 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
305 config HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
309 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
310 depends on AUDIT && HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
311 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
313 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
314 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
319 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
324 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
327 source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
328 source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
330 menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
332 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
336 prompt "Cputime accounting"
337 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
338 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
340 # Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
341 config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
342 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
343 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
345 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
346 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
351 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
352 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
353 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
354 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
356 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
357 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
358 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
359 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
360 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
361 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
364 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
365 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
366 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
367 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
368 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
369 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
371 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
372 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
373 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
374 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
377 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
378 dynticks subsystem development.
382 config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
383 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
384 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
386 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
387 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
388 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
389 small performance impact.
391 If in doubt, say N here.
395 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
396 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
399 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
400 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
401 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
402 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
403 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
404 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
405 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
406 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
407 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
409 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
410 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
411 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
414 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
415 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
416 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
417 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
418 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
419 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
422 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
427 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
428 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
429 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
430 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
435 config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
436 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
440 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
441 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
442 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
443 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
448 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
451 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
452 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
456 config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
457 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
458 depends on TASK_XACCT
460 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
465 endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
471 default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
473 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
474 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
475 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
482 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
483 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
484 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
485 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
488 Select this option if you are unsure.
492 default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
494 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
495 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
496 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
497 memory footprint of RCU.
500 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
503 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
504 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
505 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
506 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
507 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
508 obscure RCU options to be set up.
510 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
512 Say N if you are unsure.
517 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
518 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
526 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
527 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
528 user-mode execution as quiescent states.
530 config RCU_STALL_COMMON
531 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
533 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
534 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
535 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
536 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
538 config CONTEXT_TRACKING
541 config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
542 bool "Force context tracking"
543 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
544 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
546 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
547 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
548 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
551 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
552 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
553 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
554 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
555 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
556 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
557 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
558 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
561 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
562 architecture backend for the context tracking.
564 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
565 don't want in production.
569 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
572 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
576 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
577 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
578 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
579 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
580 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
581 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
582 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
583 code paths on small(er) systems.
585 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
586 Take the default if unsure.
588 config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
589 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
592 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
595 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
596 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
597 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
598 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
599 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
600 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
601 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
602 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
603 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
604 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
605 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
606 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
607 leaf-level fanouts work well.
609 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
611 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
613 Take the default if unsure.
615 config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
616 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
617 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
620 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
621 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
622 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
623 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
624 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
625 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
626 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
628 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
629 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
631 Say N if you are unsure.
633 config TREE_RCU_TRACE
634 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
637 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
638 PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
639 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
642 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
643 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
646 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
647 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
648 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
649 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
651 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
652 Say N here if you are unsure.
654 config RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
655 int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
656 range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST
657 range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
658 default 1 if RCU_BOOST
659 default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
660 depends on RCU_EXPERT
662 This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
663 assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
664 used for RCU_BOOST (if enabled). If you are working with a
665 real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads
666 running at a real-time priority level, you should set
667 RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to a priority higher than the highest-priority
668 real-time CPU-bound application thread. The default RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
669 value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
670 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
672 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
673 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
674 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
675 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO to
676 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
677 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
678 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
679 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
680 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO should be
681 set to priority 6 or higher.
683 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
685 config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
686 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
691 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
692 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
693 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
694 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
696 Accept the default if unsure.
699 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
700 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
701 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
704 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
705 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
706 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
707 asymmetric multiprocessors.
709 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
710 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
711 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
712 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
713 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
714 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
715 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
716 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
717 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
719 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
720 Say N here if you are unsure.
723 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
724 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
725 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
727 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
728 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
729 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
730 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
732 config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
733 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
735 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
736 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
737 no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
738 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
739 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
741 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
742 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
743 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
745 config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
746 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
748 This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
749 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
750 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
751 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
752 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
755 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
756 or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
757 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
759 config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
760 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
762 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
763 boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
764 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
765 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
766 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
767 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
768 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
770 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
771 or energy-efficiency reasons.
775 config RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT
779 This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
780 as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
781 The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
782 rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
783 at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
786 Accept the default if unsure.
788 endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
795 tristate "Kernel .config support"
798 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
799 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
800 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
801 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
802 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
803 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
804 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
805 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
808 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
809 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
811 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
812 through /proc/config.gz.
815 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
820 Select the minimal kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
821 The final size is affected by LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
822 parameter, see below. Any higher size also might be forced
823 by "log_buf_len" boot parameter.
833 config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
834 int "CPU kernel log buffer size contribution (13 => 8 KB, 17 => 128KB)"
837 default 12 if !BASE_SMALL
838 default 0 if BASE_SMALL
841 This option allows to increase the default ring buffer size
842 according to the number of CPUs. The value defines the contribution
843 of each CPU as a power of 2. The used space is typically only few
844 lines however it might be much more when problems are reported,
847 The increased size means that a new buffer has to be allocated and
848 the original static one is unused. It makes sense only on systems
849 with more CPUs. Therefore this value is used only when the sum of
850 contributions is greater than the half of the default kernel ring
851 buffer as defined by LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default values are set
852 so that more than 64 CPUs are needed to trigger the allocation.
854 Also this option is ignored when "log_buf_len" kernel parameter is
855 used as it forces an exact (power of two) size of the ring buffer.
857 The number of possible CPUs is used for this computation ignoring
858 hotplugging making the compuation optimal for the the worst case
859 scenerio while allowing a simple algorithm to be used from bootup.
861 Examples shift values and their meaning:
862 17 => 128 KB for each CPU
863 16 => 64 KB for each CPU
864 15 => 32 KB for each CPU
865 14 => 16 KB for each CPU
866 13 => 8 KB for each CPU
867 12 => 4 KB for each CPU
870 # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
872 config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
875 config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
879 # For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
882 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
886 # For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages
887 # are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture
888 # must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is
889 # written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for
890 # should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush
891 # and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs.
892 config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
896 # For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
898 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
901 # For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
902 # all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
904 config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
907 config NUMA_BALANCING
908 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
909 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
910 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
911 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
913 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
914 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
915 it has references to the node the task is running on.
917 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
919 config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
920 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
922 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
924 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
928 bool "Control Group support"
931 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
932 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
933 controls or device isolation.
935 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
936 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
937 and resource control)
944 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
947 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
948 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
953 config CGROUP_FREEZER
954 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
956 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
960 bool "PIDs cgroup subsystem"
962 Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
963 cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
964 cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
965 is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
966 conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
967 system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
968 PIDs cgroup subsystem is designed to stop this from happening.
970 It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
971 to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs subsystem),
972 since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
976 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
978 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
979 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
982 bool "Cpuset support"
984 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
985 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
986 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
987 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
991 config PROC_PID_CPUSET
992 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
996 config CGROUP_CPUACCT
997 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
999 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
1000 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
1006 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
1010 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
1011 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
1014 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
1015 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
1017 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
1018 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
1019 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
1020 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
1021 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
1022 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
1023 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
1024 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
1025 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
1026 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
1027 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
1028 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
1029 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
1030 config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
1031 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
1032 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
1035 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
1036 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
1037 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
1038 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
1039 parameter should have this option unselected.
1040 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
1041 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
1042 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
1044 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
1046 depends on SLUB || SLAB
1048 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
1049 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
1050 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
1051 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
1052 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
1053 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
1055 config CGROUP_HUGETLB
1056 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
1057 depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
1061 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
1062 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
1063 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
1064 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
1065 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
1066 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
1067 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
1068 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
1069 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
1072 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
1073 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
1075 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
1076 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1081 menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
1082 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
1085 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1086 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1090 config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1091 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1092 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1093 default CGROUP_SCHED
1095 config CFS_BANDWIDTH
1096 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
1097 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1100 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1101 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1102 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1104 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1106 config RT_GROUP_SCHED
1107 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
1108 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1111 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
1112 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
1113 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
1114 realtime bandwidth for them.
1115 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1120 bool "Block IO controller"
1124 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1125 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1128 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1129 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1130 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1131 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1133 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1134 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
1135 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
1136 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1137 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1139 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1141 config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1142 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1143 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1146 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1147 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1149 config CGROUP_WRITEBACK
1151 depends on MEMCG && BLK_CGROUP
1156 config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1157 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1158 select PROC_CHILDREN
1161 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1162 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1163 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1166 If unsure, say N here.
1168 menuconfig NAMESPACES
1169 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
1170 depends on MULTIUSER
1173 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1174 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1175 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1176 different namespaces.
1181 bool "UTS namespace"
1184 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1188 bool "IPC namespace"
1189 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
1192 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1193 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1196 bool "User namespace"
1199 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1200 to provide different user info for different servers.
1202 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1203 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1204 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1205 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1211 bool "PID Namespaces"
1214 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
1215 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
1216 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1219 bool "Network namespace"
1223 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1224 of the network stack.
1228 config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1229 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
1232 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1234 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1235 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1236 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1237 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1240 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1241 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
1245 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1246 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1249 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1250 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1252 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1253 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1254 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1256 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1257 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1260 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1263 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
1264 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
1267 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1269 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1271 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1274 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1275 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1276 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1279 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1281 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1282 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1283 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1284 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1289 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1290 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1291 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1293 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1294 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1295 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1296 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1297 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1299 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1300 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1301 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1307 source "usr/Kconfig"
1311 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
1312 bool "Optimize for size"
1314 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
1315 your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
1328 config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1331 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1333 config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1336 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1337 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1338 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1340 config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1343 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1344 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1345 the unaligned access emulation.
1346 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1348 config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1351 # interpreter that classic socket filters depend on
1356 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1357 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1360 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1361 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1362 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1363 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1366 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
1367 depends on HAVE_UID16 && MULTIUSER
1370 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1373 bool "Multiple users, groups and capabilities support" if EXPERT
1376 This option enables support for non-root users, groups and
1379 If you say N here, all processes will run with UID 0, GID 0, and all
1380 possible capabilities. Saying N here also compiles out support for
1381 system calls related to UIDs, GIDs, and capabilities, such as setuid,
1384 If unsure, say Y here.
1386 config SGETMASK_SYSCALL
1387 bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT
1388 def_bool PARISC || MN10300 || BLACKFIN || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || CRIS || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH
1390 sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls
1391 no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some
1394 If unsure, leave the default option here.
1396 config SYSFS_SYSCALL
1397 bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT
1400 sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc.
1401 Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break
1402 compatibility with some systems.
1404 If unsure say Y here.
1406 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
1407 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
1408 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1412 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1413 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1414 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1417 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1418 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1419 making your kernel marginally smaller.
1421 If unsure say N here.
1424 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1427 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1428 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1429 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1432 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1433 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1435 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1436 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1437 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1438 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1439 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1441 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1442 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1443 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1444 something like this).
1446 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1450 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
1453 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1454 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1455 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1456 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1457 strongly discouraged.
1460 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1463 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1464 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1465 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1466 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1472 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1474 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1477 config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1478 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
1479 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1483 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1484 support, saving some memory.
1488 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
1490 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1491 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1492 but may reduce performance.
1495 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1499 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1500 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1501 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1503 config HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
1507 Architectures should select this if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
1508 is implemented and always working. This removes a couple of runtime
1512 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1516 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1517 support for epoll family of system calls.
1520 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1524 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1525 on a file descriptor.
1530 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1534 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1535 events on a file descriptor.
1540 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1544 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1545 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1549 # syscall, maps, verifier
1551 bool "Enable bpf() system call"
1556 Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF
1557 programs and maps via file descriptors.
1560 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
1564 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1565 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1566 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1567 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1568 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1571 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1574 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1575 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1576 this option saves about 7k.
1578 config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
1579 bool "Enable madvise/fadvise syscalls" if EXPERT
1582 This option enables the madvise and fadvise syscalls, used by
1583 applications to advise the kernel about their future memory or file
1584 usage, improving performance. If building an embedded system where no
1585 applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
1589 bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
1593 Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
1594 handle page faults in userland.
1598 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1601 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1602 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1603 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1606 bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
1609 Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
1610 barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
1611 the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
1612 pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
1618 bool "Embedded system"
1619 option allnoconfig_y
1622 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1623 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1626 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1629 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
1631 config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1634 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1636 menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
1639 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1640 default y if PROFILING
1641 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1646 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1647 by software and hardware.
1649 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
1650 use of generic tracepoints.
1652 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1653 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
1654 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1655 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1656 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1657 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1658 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1660 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1661 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
1662 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
1663 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1664 capabilities on top of those.
1668 config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1670 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1671 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
1672 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1674 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1676 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1677 that don't require it.
1683 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1685 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1687 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1688 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1689 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1690 if VM event counters are disabled.
1694 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1695 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
1697 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1698 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1699 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1700 no support for cache validation etc.
1703 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1706 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1707 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1708 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1709 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1710 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1712 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1715 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1718 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1723 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
1724 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
1725 per cpu and per node queues.
1728 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1730 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1731 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1732 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1733 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
1734 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1739 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1741 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1742 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1743 does not perform as well on large systems.
1747 config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1749 depends on SLUB && SMP
1750 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1752 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1753 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1754 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1755 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1756 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1758 config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1759 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1760 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1763 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1764 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1765 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1766 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1767 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1768 then the flag will be ignored.
1770 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1771 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1773 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1774 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1775 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1776 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1778 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1780 config SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1782 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1785 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1786 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1787 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1790 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1791 select PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER
1793 Provide PKCS#7 message verification using the contents of the system
1794 trusted keyring to provide public keys. This then can be used for
1795 module verification, kexec image verification and firmware blob
1799 bool "Profiling support"
1801 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1802 by profilers such as OProfile.
1805 # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1806 # dynamically changed for a probe function.
1811 source "arch/Kconfig"
1813 endmenu # General setup
1815 config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1822 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1830 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1831 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1834 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1837 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1838 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1839 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1840 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1841 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1842 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1843 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1844 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1845 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1847 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1848 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1849 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1856 config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1857 bool "Forced module loading"
1860 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1861 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1862 is usually a really bad idea.
1864 config MODULE_UNLOAD
1865 bool "Module unloading"
1867 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1868 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1869 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1870 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
1872 config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1873 bool "Forced module unloading"
1874 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
1876 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1877 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1878 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1879 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1883 bool "Module versioning support"
1885 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1886 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1887 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1888 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1889 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1892 config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1893 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
1895 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1896 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1897 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1898 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1899 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1900 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1901 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1904 bool "Module signature verification"
1906 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
1908 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1909 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1910 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1912 Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
1913 kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
1916 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1917 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1918 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1919 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1921 config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1922 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1923 depends on MODULE_SIG
1925 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1926 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1928 config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1929 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1931 depends on MODULE_SIG
1933 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1934 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1936 comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1937 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1940 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1941 depends on MODULE_SIG
1943 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1944 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1945 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1946 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1947 the signature on that module.
1949 config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1950 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1953 config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1954 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1955 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1957 config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1958 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1959 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1961 config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1962 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1963 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1965 config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1966 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1967 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1971 config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1973 depends on MODULE_SIG
1974 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1975 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1976 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1977 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1978 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1980 config MODULE_COMPRESS
1981 bool "Compress modules on installation"
1985 Compresses kernel modules when 'make modules_install' is run; gzip or
1986 xz depending on "Compression algorithm" below.
1988 module-init-tools MAY support gzip, and kmod MAY support gzip and xz.
1990 Out-of-tree kernel modules installed using Kbuild will also be
1991 compressed upon installation.
1993 Note: for modules inside an initrd or initramfs, it's more efficient
1994 to compress the whole initrd or initramfs instead.
1996 Note: This is fully compatible with signed modules.
2001 prompt "Compression algorithm"
2002 depends on MODULE_COMPRESS
2003 default MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2005 This determines which sort of compression will be used during
2006 'make modules_install'.
2008 GZIP (default) and XZ are supported.
2010 config MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
2013 config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
2020 config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
2022 depends on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
2024 config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
2027 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
2028 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
2029 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
2030 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
2031 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
2036 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
2038 Need stop_machine() primitive.
2040 source "block/Kconfig"
2042 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
2049 # Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
2050 # that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
2052 config BROKEN_RODATA
2058 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
2059 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
2060 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
2061 functions to call on what tags.
2063 source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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