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
265 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
268 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
269 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
270 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
271 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
272 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
273 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
277 bool "Auditing support"
280 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
281 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
282 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
283 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
286 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
287 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PARISC || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT))
288 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
290 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
291 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
296 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
301 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
304 source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
305 source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
307 menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
309 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
313 prompt "Cputime accounting"
314 default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
315 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64
317 # Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
318 config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
319 bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
320 depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL
322 This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
323 statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
328 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
329 bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
330 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
331 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
333 Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
334 accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
335 kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
336 between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
337 small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5,
338 this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
341 config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
342 bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting"
343 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
344 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
345 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
346 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
348 Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full
349 dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every
350 kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem.
351 The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant
354 For now this is only useful if you are working on the full
355 dynticks subsystem development.
359 config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
360 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
361 depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL
363 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
364 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
365 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
366 small performance impact.
368 If in doubt, say N here.
372 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
373 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
375 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
376 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
377 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
378 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
379 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
380 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
381 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
382 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
383 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
385 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
386 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
387 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
390 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
391 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
392 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
393 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
394 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
395 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
398 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink"
402 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
403 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
404 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
405 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
410 config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
411 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting"
414 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
415 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
416 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
417 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
422 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats"
425 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
426 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
430 config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
431 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting"
432 depends on TASK_XACCT
434 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
439 endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
444 prompt "RCU Implementation"
448 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
449 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
452 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
453 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
454 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
457 config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
458 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
462 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
463 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
464 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
465 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
468 Select this option if you are unsure.
471 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
472 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
474 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
475 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
476 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
477 memory footprint of RCU.
482 def_bool TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
484 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
485 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
487 config RCU_STALL_COMMON
488 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
490 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
491 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
492 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
493 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
495 config CONTEXT_TRACKING
499 bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
500 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
501 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
503 This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
504 puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
505 userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
506 excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
507 try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
509 Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
510 dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also
511 adds unnecessary overhead.
515 config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
516 bool "Force context tracking"
517 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
518 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
520 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
521 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
522 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
525 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
526 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
527 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
528 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
529 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
530 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
531 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
532 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
535 Say Y only if you're working on the developpement of an
536 architecture backend for the context tracking.
538 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
539 don't want in production.
543 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
546 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
550 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
551 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
552 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
553 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
554 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
555 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
556 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
557 code paths on small(er) systems.
559 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
560 Take the default if unsure.
562 config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
563 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
564 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
565 range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
566 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
569 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
570 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
571 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
572 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
573 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
574 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
575 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
576 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
577 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
578 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
579 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
580 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
581 leaf-level fanouts work well.
583 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
585 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
587 Take the default if unsure.
589 config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
590 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
591 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
594 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
595 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
596 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
597 strong NUMA behavior.
599 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
603 config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
604 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
605 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP
608 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
609 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
610 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
611 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
612 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
613 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
614 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
616 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
617 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
619 Say N if you are unsure.
621 config TREE_RCU_TRACE
622 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
625 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
626 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
627 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
630 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
631 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
634 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
635 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
636 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
637 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
639 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
640 Say N here if you are unsure.
642 config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
643 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
648 This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
649 preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
650 with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
651 threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
652 RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
653 real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
654 of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
655 applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
657 Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
658 thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
659 multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
660 that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
661 a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
662 conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
663 tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
664 thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
665 the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
666 set to priority 6 or higher.
668 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
670 config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
671 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
676 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
677 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
678 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
679 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
681 Accept the default if unsure.
684 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
685 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
688 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
689 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
690 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
691 asymmetric multiprocessors.
693 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
694 CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
695 For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
696 invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
697 and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
698 "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
699 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
700 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
701 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
703 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
704 Say N here if you are unsure.
707 prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
708 default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
710 This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
711 from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
712 at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by
713 the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
715 config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
716 bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
717 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
719 This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
720 Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
721 no-CBs CPUs, whose RCU callbacks will be invoked by per-CPU
722 kthreads whose names begin with "rcuo". All other CPUs will
723 invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq context.
725 Select this option if you want to choose no-CBs CPUs at
726 boot time, for example, to allow testing of different no-CBs
727 configurations without having to rebuild the kernel each time.
729 config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
730 bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
731 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL
733 This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
734 callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
735 with "rcuo". Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs
736 CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs.
737 All other CPUs will invoke their own RCU callbacks in softirq
740 Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time
741 or energy-efficiency reasons, but the real reason it exists
742 is to ensure that randconfig testing covers mixed systems.
744 config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
745 bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
746 depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
748 This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
749 boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
750 be executed in the context of per-CPU rcuo kthreads created for
751 this purpose. Assuming that the kthreads whose names start with
752 "rcuo" are bound to "housekeeping" CPUs, this reduces OS jitter
753 on the remaining CPUs, but might decrease memory locality during
754 RCU-callback invocation, thus potentially degrading throughput.
756 Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time
757 or energy-efficiency reasons.
761 endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
764 tristate "Kernel .config support"
766 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
767 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
768 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
769 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
770 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
771 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
772 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
773 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
776 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
777 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
779 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
780 through /proc/config.gz.
783 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
787 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
797 # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
799 config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
802 config GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
806 # For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler
809 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
812 # For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
813 # all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
815 config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
819 # For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
820 config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
823 config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
826 depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
827 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
829 config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
830 bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
832 depends on NUMA_BALANCING
834 If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
837 config NUMA_BALANCING
838 bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
839 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
840 depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
841 depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
843 This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
844 The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when
845 it has references to the node the task is running on.
847 This system will be inactive on UMA systems.
850 boolean "Control Group support"
852 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
853 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
854 controls or device isolation.
856 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
857 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
858 and resource control)
865 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
868 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
869 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
874 config CGROUP_FREEZER
875 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
877 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
881 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
883 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
884 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
887 bool "Cpuset support"
889 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
890 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
891 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
892 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
896 config PROC_PID_CPUSET
897 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
901 config CGROUP_CPUACCT
902 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
904 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
905 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
907 config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
908 bool "Resource counters"
910 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
911 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
914 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
915 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
919 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
920 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
922 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
923 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
924 8(16)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
925 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
928 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
929 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
930 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
931 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
932 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
934 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
935 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
938 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
939 depends on MEMCG && SWAP
941 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
942 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
943 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
944 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
945 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
946 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
947 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
948 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
949 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
950 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
951 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
952 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
953 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
954 config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
955 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
956 depends on MEMCG_SWAP
959 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
960 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
961 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
962 and let the user enable it by swapaccount=1 boot command line
963 parameter should have this option unselected.
964 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
965 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
966 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
968 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
970 depends on SLUB || SLAB
972 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
973 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
974 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
975 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
976 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
977 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
979 config CGROUP_HUGETLB
980 bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
981 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE
984 Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
985 When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
986 The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
987 support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
988 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
989 HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
990 beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
991 control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
992 that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
995 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
996 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
998 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
999 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
1004 menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
1005 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
1008 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
1009 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
1013 config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1014 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
1015 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1016 default CGROUP_SCHED
1018 config CFS_BANDWIDTH
1019 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
1020 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1023 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
1024 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
1025 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
1027 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
1029 config RT_GROUP_SCHED
1030 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
1031 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
1034 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
1035 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
1036 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
1037 realtime bandwidth for them.
1038 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
1043 bool "Block IO controller"
1047 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
1048 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
1051 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
1052 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
1053 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
1054 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
1056 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
1057 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
1058 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
1059 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
1060 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
1062 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
1064 config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
1065 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
1066 depends on BLK_CGROUP
1069 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
1070 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
1074 config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
1075 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
1078 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
1079 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
1080 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
1083 If unsure, say N here.
1085 menuconfig NAMESPACES
1086 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
1089 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
1090 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
1091 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
1092 different namespaces.
1097 bool "UTS namespace"
1100 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
1104 bool "IPC namespace"
1105 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
1108 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
1109 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
1112 bool "User namespace"
1113 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
1117 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
1118 to provide different user info for different servers.
1120 When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
1121 recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
1122 enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
1123 limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
1129 bool "PID Namespaces"
1132 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
1133 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
1134 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
1137 bool "Network namespace"
1141 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
1142 of the network stack.
1146 config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
1147 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
1150 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
1151 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
1153 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
1155 config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
1156 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
1159 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
1161 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
1162 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
1163 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
1164 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
1170 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1171 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
1175 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
1176 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
1179 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
1180 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
1182 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
1183 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
1184 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
1186 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
1187 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
1190 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1193 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
1194 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
1197 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
1199 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
1201 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
1204 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
1205 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
1206 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
1209 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
1211 This option enables support for relay interface support in
1212 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
1213 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
1214 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
1219 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
1220 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
1221 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
1223 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
1224 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
1225 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
1226 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
1227 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
1229 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
1230 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
1231 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
1237 source "usr/Kconfig"
1241 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
1242 bool "Optimize for size"
1244 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
1245 resulting in a smaller kernel.
1258 config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
1261 Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
1263 config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
1266 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
1267 Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn
1268 about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
1270 config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
1273 Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
1274 Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
1275 the unaligned access emulation.
1276 see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
1278 config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1282 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
1283 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
1286 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
1287 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
1288 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
1289 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
1292 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
1293 depends on HAVE_UID16
1296 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
1298 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
1299 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
1300 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1304 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1305 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
1306 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
1309 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
1310 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
1311 making your kernel marginally smaller.
1313 If unsure say N here.
1316 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
1319 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1320 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1321 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1324 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1325 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1327 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1328 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1329 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1330 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1331 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
1333 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1334 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1335 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1336 something like this).
1338 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
1342 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
1345 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1346 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1347 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1348 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1349 strongly discouraged.
1352 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
1355 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1356 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1357 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1358 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1364 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1366 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1369 config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1370 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
1371 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1375 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1376 support, saving some memory.
1380 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
1382 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1383 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1384 but may reduce performance.
1387 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
1391 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1392 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1393 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1396 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
1400 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1401 support for epoll family of system calls.
1404 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1408 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1409 on a file descriptor.
1414 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1418 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1419 events on a file descriptor.
1424 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1428 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1429 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1434 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
1438 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1439 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1440 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1441 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1442 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1445 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1448 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1449 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1450 this option saves about 7k.
1454 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
1457 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1458 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1459 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1462 bool "Embedded system"
1465 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1466 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1469 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1472 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
1474 config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1477 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1479 menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
1482 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1483 default y if PROFILING
1484 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1488 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1489 by software and hardware.
1491 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
1492 use of generic tracepoints.
1494 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1495 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
1496 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1497 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1498 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1499 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1500 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1502 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1503 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
1504 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
1505 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1506 capabilities on top of those.
1510 config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1512 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1513 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1514 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1516 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1518 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1519 that don't require it.
1525 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1527 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1529 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1530 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1531 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1532 if VM event counters are disabled.
1536 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1537 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
1539 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1540 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1541 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1542 no support for cache validation etc.
1545 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1548 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1549 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1550 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1551 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1552 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1554 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1557 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1560 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1565 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
1566 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
1567 per cpu and per node queues.
1570 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1572 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1573 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1574 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1575 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
1576 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1581 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1583 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1584 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1585 does not perform as well on large systems.
1589 config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
1591 depends on SLUB && SMP
1592 bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
1594 Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
1595 that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
1596 in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
1597 which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
1598 Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
1600 config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1601 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1602 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1605 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1606 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1607 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1608 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1609 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1610 then the flag will be ignored.
1612 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1613 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1615 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1616 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1617 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1618 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1620 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1623 bool "Profiling support"
1625 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1626 by profilers such as OProfile.
1629 # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1630 # dynamically changed for a probe function.
1635 source "arch/Kconfig"
1637 endmenu # General setup
1639 config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1646 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1654 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1655 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1657 config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1658 bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys"
1661 Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in
1662 the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will
1663 by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but
1664 userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by
1665 keys already in the keyring.
1667 Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking.
1670 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1673 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1674 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1675 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1676 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1677 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1678 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1679 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1680 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1681 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1683 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1684 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1685 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1692 config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1693 bool "Forced module loading"
1696 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1697 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1698 is usually a really bad idea.
1700 config MODULE_UNLOAD
1701 bool "Module unloading"
1703 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1704 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1705 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1706 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
1708 config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1709 bool "Forced module unloading"
1710 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD
1712 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1713 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1714 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1715 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1719 bool "Module versioning support"
1721 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1722 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1723 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1724 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1725 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1728 config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1729 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
1731 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1732 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1733 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1734 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1735 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1736 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1737 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1740 bool "Module signature verification"
1742 select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
1745 select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE
1746 select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE
1747 select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA
1750 select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER
1752 Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature
1753 is simply appended to the module. For more information see
1754 Documentation/module-signing.txt.
1756 !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
1757 module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
1758 debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and
1759 inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced.
1761 config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
1762 bool "Require modules to be validly signed"
1763 depends on MODULE_SIG
1765 Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
1766 key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel.
1768 config MODULE_SIG_ALL
1769 bool "Automatically sign all modules"
1771 depends on MODULE_SIG
1773 Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option,
1774 modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool.
1776 comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file"
1777 depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL
1780 prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
1781 depends on MODULE_SIG
1783 This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during
1784 signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel
1785 directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not
1786 possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
1787 the signature on that module.
1789 config MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1790 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1"
1793 config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1794 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
1795 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1797 config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1798 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
1799 select CRYPTO_SHA256
1801 config MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1802 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384"
1803 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1805 config MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1806 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512"
1807 select CRYPTO_SHA512
1811 config MODULE_SIG_HASH
1813 depends on MODULE_SIG
1814 default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1
1815 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
1816 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
1817 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
1818 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
1822 config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1825 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
1826 cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
1827 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1828 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1829 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
1834 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1836 Need stop_machine() primitive.
1838 source "block/Kconfig"
1840 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1847 # Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains
1848 # that get confused by correct const<->read_only section
1850 config BROKEN_RODATA
1856 Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output
1857 that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to
1858 inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what
1859 functions to call on what tags.
1861 source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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