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Remove Classic RCU, given that the combination of Tree RCU and the proposed Bloatwatch RCU do everything that Classic RCU can with fewer bugs. Tree RCU has been default in x86 builds for almost six months, and seems to be quite reliable, so there does not seem to be much justification for keeping the Classic RCU code and config complexity around anymore. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org Cc: kernel@wantstofly.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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config ARCH
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string
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option env="ARCH"
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config KERNELVERSION
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string
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option env="KERNELVERSION"
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config DEFCONFIG_LIST
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string
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depends on !UML
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option defconfig_list
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default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
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default "/etc/kernel-config"
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default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
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default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
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default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
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config CONSTRUCTORS
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bool
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depends on !UML
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default y
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menu "General setup"
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config EXPERIMENTAL
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bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
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---help---
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Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
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drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
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of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
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testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
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known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
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currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
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uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
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avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
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testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
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may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
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in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
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with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
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(before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
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<file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
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<file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
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<file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
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This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
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drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
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scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
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Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
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falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
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using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
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cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
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you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
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drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
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config BROKEN
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bool
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config BROKEN_ON_SMP
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bool
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depends on BROKEN || !SMP
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default y
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config LOCK_KERNEL
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bool
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depends on SMP || PREEMPT
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default y
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config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
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int
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default 32 if !UML
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default 128 if UML
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help
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Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
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variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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config LOCALVERSION
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string "Local version - append to kernel release"
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help
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Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
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This will show up when you type uname, for example.
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The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
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any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
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object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
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be a maximum of 64 characters.
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config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
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bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
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default y
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help
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This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
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top of tree revision.
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A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
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if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
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appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
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set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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(The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
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by running the command:
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$ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
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which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
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bool
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config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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bool
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config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
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bool
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choice
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prompt "Kernel compression mode"
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default KERNEL_GZIP
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depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
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help
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The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
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Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
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in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
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Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
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Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
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If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
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kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
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version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
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supplied by Christian Ludwig)
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High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
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are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
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size matters less.
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If in doubt, select 'gzip'
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config KERNEL_GZIP
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bool "Gzip"
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depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
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help
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The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is
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the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both
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compression and decompression) is the fastest.
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config KERNEL_BZIP2
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bool "Bzip2"
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depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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help
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Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
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Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel
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size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
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Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
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will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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config KERNEL_LZMA
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bool "LZMA"
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depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
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help
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The most recent compression algorithm.
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Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
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two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
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smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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endchoice
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config SWAP
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bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
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depends on MMU && BLOCK
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default y
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help
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This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
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for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
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in your computer. If unsure say Y.
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config SYSVIPC
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bool "System V IPC"
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---help---
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Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
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system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
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exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
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and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
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you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
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DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
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you'll need to say Y here.
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You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
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section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
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<http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
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config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
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bool
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depends on SYSVIPC
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depends on SYSCTL
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default y
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config POSIX_MQUEUE
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bool "POSIX Message Queues"
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depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
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---help---
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POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
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queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
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of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
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programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
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queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
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and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
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operations on message queues.
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If unsure, say Y.
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config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
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bool
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depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
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depends on SYSCTL
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default y
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config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
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bool "BSD Process Accounting"
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help
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If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
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kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
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information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
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that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
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information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
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command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
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list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
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up to the user level program to do useful things with this
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information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
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config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
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bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
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depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
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default n
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help
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If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
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in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
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process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
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with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
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for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
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at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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config TASKSTATS
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bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on NET
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default n
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help
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Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
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generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
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statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
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responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
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space on task exit.
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Say N if unsure.
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config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
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bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on TASKSTATS
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help
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Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
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resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
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in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
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relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
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Say N if unsure.
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config TASK_XACCT
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bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on TASKSTATS
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help
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Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
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to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
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Say N if unsure.
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config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
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bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on TASK_XACCT
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help
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Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
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task has caused.
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Say N if unsure.
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config AUDIT
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bool "Auditing support"
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depends on NET
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help
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Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
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kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
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logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
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auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
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config AUDITSYSCALL
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bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
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depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
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default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
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help
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Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
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can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
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such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
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ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
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config AUDIT_TREE
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def_bool y
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depends on AUDITSYSCALL
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select INOTIFY
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menu "RCU Subsystem"
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choice
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prompt "RCU Implementation"
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default TREE_RCU
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config TREE_RCU
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bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
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help
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This option selects the RCU implementation that is
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designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
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smaller systems.
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config PREEMPT_RCU
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bool "Preemptible RCU"
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depends on PREEMPT
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help
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This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
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RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
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this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
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preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
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now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
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remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
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endchoice
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config RCU_TRACE
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bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
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depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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help
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This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
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in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
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Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
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Say N if you are unsure.
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config RCU_FANOUT
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int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
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range 2 64 if 64BIT
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range 2 32 if !64BIT
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depends on TREE_RCU
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default 64 if 64BIT
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default 32 if !64BIT
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help
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This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
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of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube
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root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
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systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
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Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
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Take the default if unsure.
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config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
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bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
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depends on TREE_RCU
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default n
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help
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This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
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regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
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testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
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strong NUMA behavior.
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Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
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Say N if unsure.
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config TREE_RCU_TRACE
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def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU
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select DEBUG_FS
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help
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This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation,
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permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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config PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE
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def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU
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select DEBUG_FS
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help
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This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation,
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permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c.
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endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
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config IKCONFIG
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tristate "Kernel .config support"
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---help---
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This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
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contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
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of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
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on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
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image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
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input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
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It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
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/proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
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config IKCONFIG_PROC
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bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
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depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
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---help---
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This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
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through /proc/config.gz.
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config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
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int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
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range 12 21
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default 17
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help
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Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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Examples:
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17 => 128 KB
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16 => 64 KB
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15 => 32 KB
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14 => 16 KB
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13 => 8 KB
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12 => 4 KB
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#
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# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
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#
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config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
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bool
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config GROUP_SCHED
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bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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depends on EXPERIMENTAL
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default n
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help
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This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
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bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
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In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use
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CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.)
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config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
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bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
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depends on GROUP_SCHED
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default GROUP_SCHED
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config RT_GROUP_SCHED
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bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
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depends on EXPERIMENTAL
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depends on GROUP_SCHED
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default n
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help
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This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
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to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
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setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
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schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
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realtime bandwidth for them.
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See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
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choice
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depends on GROUP_SCHED
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prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
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default USER_SCHED
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config USER_SCHED
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bool "user id"
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help
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This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
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tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
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config CGROUP_SCHED
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bool "Control groups"
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depends on CGROUPS
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help
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This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
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using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
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the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
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Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more
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information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
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endchoice
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menuconfig CGROUPS
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boolean "Control Group support"
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help
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This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
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controls or device isolation.
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See
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- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
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- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
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and resource control)
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Say N if unsure.
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if CGROUPS
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config CGROUP_DEBUG
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bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
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depends on CGROUPS
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default n
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help
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This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
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exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
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framework.
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Say N if unsure.
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config CGROUP_NS
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bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
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depends on CGROUPS
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help
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Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
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provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
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for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
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jobs.
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config CGROUP_FREEZER
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bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
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depends on CGROUPS
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help
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Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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cgroup.
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config CGROUP_DEVICE
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bool "Device controller for cgroups"
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depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
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help
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Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
|
|
a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
|
|
|
|
config CPUSETS
|
|
bool "Cpuset support"
|
|
depends on CGROUPS
|
|
help
|
|
This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
|
|
allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
|
|
Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
|
|
This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
|
|
|
|
Say N if unsure.
|
|
|
|
config PROC_PID_CPUSET
|
|
bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
|
|
depends on CPUSETS
|
|
default y
|
|
|
|
config CGROUP_CPUACCT
|
|
bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
|
|
depends on CGROUPS
|
|
help
|
|
Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
|
|
total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
|
|
|
|
config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
|
|
bool "Resource counters"
|
|
help
|
|
This option enables controller independent resource accounting
|
|
infrastructure that works with cgroups.
|
|
depends on CGROUPS
|
|
|
|
config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
|
|
bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
|
|
depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
|
|
select MM_OWNER
|
|
help
|
|
Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
|
|
memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
|
|
|
|
Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
|
|
associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
|
|
20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
|
|
usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
|
|
at boot.
|
|
|
|
Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
|
|
sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
|
|
this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
|
|
disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
|
|
(and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
|
|
|
|
This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
|
|
could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
|
|
|
|
config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
|
|
bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
|
|
enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
|
|
when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
|
|
usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
|
|
is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
|
|
adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
|
|
Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
|
|
be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
|
|
is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
|
|
there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
|
|
if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
|
|
Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
|
|
size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
|
|
|
|
endif # CGROUPS
|
|
|
|
config MM_OWNER
|
|
bool
|
|
|
|
config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
|
|
bool
|
|
|
|
config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
|
|
bool "remove sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools"
|
|
depends on SYSFS
|
|
default n
|
|
select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
|
|
help
|
|
This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
|
|
version. Do not use it on recent distributions.
|
|
|
|
The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
|
|
/sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
|
|
class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
|
|
unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
|
|
/sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
|
|
/sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
|
|
"<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
|
|
class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
|
|
subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
|
|
depend on the unified device tree.
|
|
|
|
This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
|
|
be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
|
|
layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
|
|
and disable some features, which can not be exported without
|
|
confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
|
|
distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
|
|
depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
|
|
|
|
If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
|
|
older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
|
|
if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
|
|
this option set to N.
|
|
|
|
config RELAY
|
|
bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
|
|
help
|
|
This option enables support for relay interface support in
|
|
certain file systems (such as debugfs).
|
|
It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
|
|
facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
|
|
user space.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config NAMESPACES
|
|
bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default !EMBEDDED
|
|
help
|
|
Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
|
|
the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
|
|
or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
|
|
different namespaces.
|
|
|
|
config UTS_NS
|
|
bool "UTS namespace"
|
|
depends on NAMESPACES
|
|
help
|
|
In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
|
|
uname() system call
|
|
|
|
config IPC_NS
|
|
bool "IPC namespace"
|
|
depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
|
|
help
|
|
In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
|
|
different IPC objects in different namespaces.
|
|
|
|
config USER_NS
|
|
bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
|
|
to provide different user info for different servers.
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config PID_NS
|
|
bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
default n
|
|
depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
|
|
processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
|
|
pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
|
|
|
|
Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
|
|
say N here.
|
|
|
|
config NET_NS
|
|
bool "Network namespace"
|
|
default n
|
|
depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
|
|
help
|
|
Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
|
|
of the network stack.
|
|
|
|
config BLK_DEV_INITRD
|
|
bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
|
|
depends on BROKEN || !FRV
|
|
help
|
|
The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
|
|
boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
|
|
before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
|
|
load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
|
|
etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
|
|
|
|
If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
|
|
also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
|
|
15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
|
|
|
|
If unsure say Y.
|
|
|
|
if BLK_DEV_INITRD
|
|
|
|
source "usr/Kconfig"
|
|
|
|
endif
|
|
|
|
config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
|
|
bool "Optimize for size"
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
|
|
resulting in a smaller kernel.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say Y.
|
|
|
|
config SYSCTL
|
|
bool
|
|
|
|
config ANON_INODES
|
|
bool
|
|
|
|
menuconfig EMBEDDED
|
|
bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
|
|
help
|
|
This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
|
|
to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
|
|
environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
|
|
Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
|
|
|
|
config UID16
|
|
bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
|
|
depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
|
|
|
|
config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
|
|
bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default y
|
|
select SYSCTL
|
|
---help---
|
|
sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
|
|
to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
|
|
using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
|
|
information.
|
|
|
|
Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
|
|
trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
|
|
making your kernel marginally smaller.
|
|
|
|
If unsure say Y here.
|
|
|
|
config KALLSYMS
|
|
bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
|
|
symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
|
|
somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
|
|
|
|
config KALLSYMS_ALL
|
|
bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
|
|
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
|
|
help
|
|
Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
|
|
OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
|
|
symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
|
|
and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
|
|
|
|
Say N.
|
|
|
|
config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
|
|
bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
|
|
depends on KALLSYMS
|
|
help
|
|
If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
|
|
inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
|
|
turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
|
|
Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
|
|
reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
|
|
you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
|
|
|
|
|
|
config HOTPLUG
|
|
bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
|
|
capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
|
|
disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
|
|
dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
|
|
|
|
config PRINTK
|
|
default y
|
|
bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
|
|
help
|
|
This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
|
|
eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
|
|
and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
|
|
very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
|
|
strongly discouraged.
|
|
|
|
config BUG
|
|
bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
|
|
the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
|
|
numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
|
|
option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
|
|
Just say Y.
|
|
|
|
config ELF_CORE
|
|
default y
|
|
bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
|
|
help
|
|
Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
|
|
|
|
config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
|
|
bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
|
|
depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
|
|
support, saving some memory.
|
|
|
|
config BASE_FULL
|
|
default y
|
|
bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
|
|
help
|
|
Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
|
|
kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
|
|
but may reduce performance.
|
|
|
|
config FUTEX
|
|
bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default y
|
|
select RT_MUTEXES
|
|
help
|
|
Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
|
|
support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
|
|
run glibc-based applications correctly.
|
|
|
|
config EPOLL
|
|
bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default y
|
|
select ANON_INODES
|
|
help
|
|
Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
|
|
support for epoll family of system calls.
|
|
|
|
config SIGNALFD
|
|
bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
|
|
select ANON_INODES
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
|
|
on a file descriptor.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say Y.
|
|
|
|
config TIMERFD
|
|
bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
|
|
select ANON_INODES
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
|
|
events on a file descriptor.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say Y.
|
|
|
|
config EVENTFD
|
|
bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
|
|
select ANON_INODES
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
|
|
kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say Y.
|
|
|
|
config SHMEM
|
|
bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default y
|
|
depends on MMU
|
|
help
|
|
The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
|
|
It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
|
|
to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
|
|
option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
|
|
which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
|
|
|
|
config AIO
|
|
bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
|
|
by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
|
|
this option saves about 7k.
|
|
|
|
config HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
|
|
bool
|
|
help
|
|
See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
|
|
|
|
menu "Performance Counters"
|
|
|
|
config PERF_COUNTERS
|
|
bool "Kernel Performance Counters"
|
|
depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
|
|
select ANON_INODES
|
|
help
|
|
Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware.
|
|
|
|
Performance counters are special hardware registers available
|
|
on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain
|
|
types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
|
|
suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
|
|
kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
|
|
when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
|
|
used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
|
|
|
|
The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of
|
|
these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It
|
|
provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
|
|
capabilities on top of those.
|
|
|
|
Say Y if unsure.
|
|
|
|
config EVENT_PROFILE
|
|
bool "Tracepoint profile sources"
|
|
depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACER
|
|
default y
|
|
|
|
endmenu
|
|
|
|
config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
|
|
default y
|
|
bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
|
|
help
|
|
VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
|
|
This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
|
|
on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
|
|
if VM event counters are disabled.
|
|
|
|
config PCI_QUIRKS
|
|
default y
|
|
bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
|
|
depends on PCI
|
|
help
|
|
This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
|
|
bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
|
|
unaffected by PCI quirks.
|
|
|
|
config SLUB_DEBUG
|
|
default y
|
|
bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
|
|
depends on SLUB && SYSFS
|
|
help
|
|
SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
|
|
result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
|
|
SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
|
|
no support for cache validation etc.
|
|
|
|
config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
|
|
bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
|
|
default n
|
|
help
|
|
Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
|
|
that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
|
|
get_wchan() and suchlike.
|
|
|
|
config COMPAT_BRK
|
|
bool "Disable heap randomization"
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
|
|
also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
|
|
This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
|
|
disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
|
|
/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
|
|
|
|
On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
|
|
|
|
choice
|
|
prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
|
|
default SLUB
|
|
help
|
|
This option allows to select a slab allocator.
|
|
|
|
config SLAB
|
|
bool "SLAB"
|
|
help
|
|
The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
|
|
well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
|
|
per cpu and per node queues.
|
|
|
|
config SLUB
|
|
bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
|
|
help
|
|
SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
|
|
instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
|
|
Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
|
|
of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
|
|
and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
|
|
a slab allocator.
|
|
|
|
config SLOB
|
|
depends on EMBEDDED
|
|
bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
|
|
help
|
|
SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
|
|
allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
|
|
does not perform as well on large systems.
|
|
|
|
endchoice
|
|
|
|
config PROFILING
|
|
bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
help
|
|
Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
|
|
by profilers such as OProfile.
|
|
|
|
#
|
|
# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
|
|
# dynamically changed for a probe function.
|
|
#
|
|
config TRACEPOINTS
|
|
bool
|
|
|
|
config MARKERS
|
|
bool "Activate markers"
|
|
select TRACEPOINTS
|
|
help
|
|
Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
|
|
dynamically changed for a probe function.
|
|
|
|
source "arch/Kconfig"
|
|
|
|
config SLOW_WORK
|
|
default n
|
|
bool
|
|
help
|
|
The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
|
|
threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
|
|
take a relatively long time.
|
|
|
|
An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
|
|
by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
|
|
disk.
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See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
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endmenu # General setup
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config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
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bool
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default n
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config SLABINFO
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bool
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depends on PROC_FS
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depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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default y
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config RT_MUTEXES
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boolean
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config BASE_SMALL
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int
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default 0 if BASE_FULL
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default 1 if !BASE_FULL
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menuconfig MODULES
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bool "Enable loadable module support"
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help
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Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
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be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
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permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
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tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
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many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
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answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
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useful for infrequently used options which are not required
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for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
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modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
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If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
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modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
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where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
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this).
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If unsure, say Y.
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if MODULES
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config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
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bool "Forced module loading"
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default n
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help
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Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
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--force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
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is usually a really bad idea.
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config MODULE_UNLOAD
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bool "Module unloading"
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help
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Without this option you will not be able to unload any
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modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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|
anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
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and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
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|
bool "Forced module unloading"
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|
depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
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|
help
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|
This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
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|
kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
|
|
without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
|
|
rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
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If unsure, say N.
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config MODVERSIONS
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|
bool "Module versioning support"
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|
help
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|
Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
|
|
Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
|
|
compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
|
|
to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
|
|
make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
|
|
unsure, say N.
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|
config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
|
|
bool "Source checksum for all modules"
|
|
help
|
|
Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
|
|
field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
|
|
sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
|
|
see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
|
|
others sometimes change the module source without updating
|
|
the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
|
|
will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
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endif # MODULES
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|
config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
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|
bool
|
|
help
|
|
Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
|
|
cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
|
|
with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
|
|
it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
|
|
and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
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|
config STOP_MACHINE
|
|
bool
|
|
default y
|
|
depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
|
|
help
|
|
Need stop_machine() primitive.
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|
|
|
source "block/Kconfig"
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|
|
|
config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
|
|
bool
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