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config ARCH string option env="ARCH" config KERNELVERSION string option env="KERNELVERSION" config DEFCONFIG_LIST string depends on !UML option defconfig_list default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" default "/etc/kernel-config" default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" config CONSTRUCTORS bool depends on !UML config IRQ_WORK bool config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT bool menu "General setup" config BROKEN bool config BROKEN_ON_SMP bool depends on BROKEN || !SMP default y config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT int default 32 if !UML default 128 if UML help Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment variables passed to init from the kernel command line. config CROSS_COMPILE string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" help Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. config LOCALVERSION string "Local version - append to kernel release" help Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. This will show up when you type uname, for example. The string you set here will be appended after the contents of any files with a filename matching localversion* in your object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can be a maximum of 64 characters. config LOCALVERSION_AUTO bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" default y help This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current top of tree revision. A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced by running the command: $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP bool config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 bool config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA bool config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ bool config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO bool choice prompt "Kernel compression mode" default KERNEL_GZIP depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO help The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. Several compression algorithms are available, which differ in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was supplied by Christian Ludwig) High compression options are mostly useful for users, who are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram size matters less. If in doubt, select 'gzip' config KERNEL_GZIP bool "Gzip" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP help The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance between compression ratio and decompression speed. config KERNEL_BZIP2 bool "Bzip2" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 help Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. Decompression speed is slowest among the choices. The kernel size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. config KERNEL_LZMA bool "LZMA" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA help This compression algorithm's ratio is best. Decompression speed is between gzip and bzip2. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. config KERNEL_XZ bool "XZ" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ help XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip and LZO. Compression is slow. config KERNEL_LZO bool "LZO" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO help Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. endchoice config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME string "Default hostname" default "(none)" help This option determines the default system hostname before userspace calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal system more usable with less configuration. config SWAP bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" depends on MMU && BLOCK default y help This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present in your computer. If unsure say Y. config SYSVIPC bool "System V IPC" ---help--- Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), you'll need to say Y here. You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL bool depends on SYSVIPC depends on SYSCTL default y config POSIX_MQUEUE bool "POSIX Message Queues" depends on NET ---help--- POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message queues every message has a priority which decides about succession of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem operations on message queues. If unsure, say Y. config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL bool depends on POSIX_MQUEUE depends on SYSCTL default y config FHANDLE bool "open by fhandle syscalls" select EXPORTFS help If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map file names to handle and then later use the handle for different file system operations. This is useful in implementing userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) syscalls. config AUDIT bool "Auditing support" depends on NET help Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. config AUDITSYSCALL bool "Enable system-call auditing support" depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) default y if SECURITY_SELINUX help Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, such as SELinux. config AUDIT_WATCH def_bool y depends on AUDITSYSCALL select FSNOTIFY config AUDIT_TREE def_bool y depends on AUDITSYSCALL select FSNOTIFY source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" source "kernel/time/Kconfig" menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING bool choice prompt "Cputime accounting" default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64 default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE if PPC64 # Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting" depends on !S390 && !NO_HZ_FULL help This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies granularity. If unsure, say Y. config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting" depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING help Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a small performance impact. In the case of s390 or IBM POWER > 5, this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned systems. config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING select CONTEXT_TRACKING help Select this option to enable task and CPU time accounting on full dynticks systems. This accounting is implemented by watching every kernel-user boundaries using the context tracking subsystem. The accounting is thus performed at the expense of some significant overhead. For now this is only useful if you are working on the full dynticks subsystem development. If unsure, say N. config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting" depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !NO_HZ_FULL help Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a small performance impact. If in doubt, say N here. endchoice config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT bool "BSD Process Accounting" help If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The information includes things such as creation time, owning user, command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is up to the user level program to do useful things with this information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT default n help If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. config TASKSTATS bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink" depends on NET default n help Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user space on task exit. Say N if unsure. config TASK_DELAY_ACCT bool "Enable per-task delay accounting" depends on TASKSTATS select SCHED_INFO help Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. Say N if unsure. config TASK_XACCT bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats" depends on TASKSTATS help Collect extended task accounting data and send the data to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. Say N if unsure. config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting" depends on TASK_XACCT help Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this task has caused. Say N if unsure. endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" menu "RCU Subsystem" choice prompt "RCU Implementation" default TREE_RCU config TREE_RCU bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" depends on !PREEMPT && SMP select IRQ_WORK help This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to smaller systems. config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" depends on PREEMPT help This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response is also required. It also scales down nicely to smaller systems. Select this option if you are unsure. config TINY_RCU bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP help This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed for UP systems from which real-time response is not required. This option greatly reduces the memory footprint of RCU. config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" depends on PREEMPT && !SMP help This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the memory footprint of RCU. endchoice config PREEMPT_RCU def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) help This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. config RCU_STALL_COMMON def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) help This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. config CONTEXT_TRACKING bool config RCU_USER_QS bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state" depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP select CONTEXT_TRACKING help This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't try to keep the timer tick on for RCU. Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option. It also adds unnecessary overhead. If unsure say N config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE bool "Force context tracking" depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING default y if !NO_HZ_FULL help The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also other dependencies to provide in order to make the full dynticks working. This option stands for testing when an arch implements the context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all CPUs in the system. Say Y only if you're working on the developpement of an architecture backend for the context tracking. Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you don't want in production. config RCU_FANOUT int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" range 2 64 if 64BIT range 2 32 if !64BIT depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU default 64 if 64BIT default 32 if !64BIT help This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system code paths on small(er) systems. Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. Take the default if unsure. config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU default 16 help This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large leaf-level fanouts work well. Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. Take the default if unsure. config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU default n help This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with strong NUMA behavior. Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. Say N if unsure. config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP default n help This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you don't care about increased grace-period durations. Say N if you are unsure. config TREE_RCU_TRACE def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) select DEBUG_FS help This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. config RCU_BOOST bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU default n help This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads Say N here if you are unsure. config RCU_BOOST_PRIO int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" range 1 99 depends on RCU_BOOST default 1 help This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be set to priority 6 or higher. Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. config RCU_BOOST_DELAY int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" range 0 3000 depends on RCU_BOOST default 500 help This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. Accept the default if unsure. config RCU_NOCB_CPU bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU default n help Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered asymmetric multiprocessors. This option offloads callback invocation from the set of CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. Say N here if you are unsure. choice prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE help This option allows no-CBs CPUs to be specified at build time. Additional no-CBs CPUs may be specified by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs" depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU help This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU" depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU help This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU. Additional CPUs may be designated as no-CBs CPUs using the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be no-CBs CPUs. Select this if CPU 0 needs to be a no-CBs CPU for real-time or energy-efficiency reasons. config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs" depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU help This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be ignored. Select this if all CPUs need to be no-CBs CPUs for real-time or energy-efficiency reasons. endchoice endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" config BUILD_BIN2C bool default n config IKCONFIG tristate "Kernel .config support" select BUILD_BIN2C ---help--- This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). config IKCONFIG_PROC bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS ---help--- This option enables access to the kernel configuration file through /proc/config.gz. config LOG_BUF_SHIFT int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" range 12 21 default 17 help Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. Examples: 17 => 128 KB 16 => 64 KB 15 => 32 KB 14 => 16 KB 13 => 8 KB 12 => 4 KB # # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: # config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK bool # # For architectures that want to enable the support for NUMA-affine scheduler # balancing logic: # config ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING bool # # For architectures that prefer to flush all TLBs after a number of pages # are unmapped instead of sending one IPI per page to flush. The architecture # must provide guarantees on what happens if a clean TLB cache entry is # written after the unmap. Details are in mm/rmap.c near the check for # should_defer_flush. The architecture should also consider if the full flush # and the refill costs are offset by the savings of sending fewer IPIs. config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH bool # # For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound # config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 bool # For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions # all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH. # config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY bool # # For architectures that are willing to define _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE config ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE bool config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE bool default y depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE depends on NUMA_BALANCING config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement" default y depends on NUMA_BALANCING help If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA machine. config NUMA_BALANCING bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler" depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION help This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement. The mechanism is quite primitive and is based on migrating memory when it is references to the node the task is running on. This system will be inactive on UMA systems. menuconfig CGROUPS boolean "Control Group support" depends on EVENTFD help This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory controls or device isolation. See - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation and resource control) Say N if unsure. if CGROUPS config CGROUP_DEBUG bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" default n help This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that exports useful debugging information about the cgroups framework. Say N if unsure. config CGROUP_FREEZER bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" help Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a cgroup. config CGROUP_PIDS bool "PIDs cgroup subsystem" help Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The PIDs cgroup subsystem is designed to stop this from happening. It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs subsystem), since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to attach to a cgroup. config CGROUP_DEVICE bool "Device controller for cgroups" help Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. config CPUSETS bool "Cpuset support" help This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. Say N if unsure. config PROC_PID_CPUSET bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" depends on CPUSETS default y config CGROUP_CPUACCT bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" help Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. config PAGE_COUNTER bool config MEMCG bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" select PAGE_COUNTER 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 MEMCG_SWAP bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" depends on MEMCG && SWAP help Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" depends on MEMCG_SWAP default y help Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line parameter should have this option unselected. For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it then swapaccount=0 does the trick). config MEMCG_KMEM bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting" depends on MEMCG depends on SLUB || SLAB help The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. config CGROUP_HUGETLB bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups" depends on HUGETLB_PAGE select PAGE_COUNTER default n help Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages. When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage. The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages. config CGROUP_PERF bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS help This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the designated cpu. Say N if unsure. menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED bool "Group CPU scheduler" default n help This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group tasks. if CGROUP_SCHED config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" depends on CGROUP_SCHED default CGROUP_SCHED config CFS_BANDWIDTH bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED default n help This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no restriction. See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. config RT_GROUP_SCHED bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" depends on CGROUP_SCHED default n help This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate realtime bandwidth for them. See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. endif #CGROUP_SCHED config BLK_CGROUP bool "Block IO controller" depends on BLOCK default n ---help--- Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling policies. Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" depends on BLK_CGROUP default n ---help--- Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. endif # CGROUPS config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE bool "Checkpoint/restore support" default n help Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem entries. If unsure, say N here. menuconfig NAMESPACES bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT default !EXPERT help Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in different namespaces. if NAMESPACES config UTS_NS bool "UTS namespace" default y help In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the uname() system call config IPC_NS bool "IPC namespace" depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) default y help In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to different IPC objects in different namespaces. config USER_NS bool "User namespace" select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS default n help This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different user info for different servers. When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can use. If unsure, say N. config PID_NS bool "PID Namespaces" default y help Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple processes with the same pid as long as they are in different pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. config NET_NS bool "Network namespace" depends on NET default y help Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances of the network stack. endif # NAMESPACES config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" default n help While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems. Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled config SCHED_AUTOGROUP bool "Automatic process group scheduling" select EVENTFD select CGROUPS select CGROUP_SCHED select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED help This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based upon task session. config MM_OWNER bool config SYSFS_DEPRECATED bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" depends on SYSFS default n help This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in /sys/block/. This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all major distributions and tools handle this just fine. Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this option enabled. Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might need to say Y here. config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" default n depends on SYSFS depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED help Enable deprecated sysfs by default. See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this option. Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. config RELAY bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" help This option enables support for relay interface support in certain file systems (such as debugfs). It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to user space. If unsure, say N. config BLK_DEV_INITRD bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" depends on BROKEN || !FRV help The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. If unsure say Y. if BLK_DEV_INITRD source "usr/Kconfig" endif config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE bool "Optimize for size" help Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc resulting in a smaller kernel. If unsure, say N. config SYSCTL bool config ANON_INODES bool config HAVE_UID16 bool config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE bool help Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace. config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN bool help Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possibly warn about unaligned access emulation going on under the hood. config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW bool help Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle the unaligned access emulation. see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM bool # interpreter that classic socket filters depend on config BPF bool menuconfig EXPERT bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible select DEBUG_KERNEL help This option allows certain base kernel options and settings to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. Only use this if you really know what you are doing. config UID16 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT depends on HAVE_UID16 default y help This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. config SYSCTL_SYSCALL bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT depends on PROC_SYSCTL default n select SYSCTL ---help--- sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this information. Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, making your kernel marginally smaller. If unsure say N here. config KALLSYMS bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT default y help Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. config KALLSYMS_ALL bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS help Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., names of variables from the data sections, etc). This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or something like this). Say N unless you really need all symbols. config PRINTK default y bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT select IRQ_WORK help This option enables normal printk support. Removing it eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is strongly discouraged. config BUG bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT default y help Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. Just say Y. config ELF_CORE depends on COREDUMP default y bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT help Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. config PCSPKR_PLATFORM bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM select I8253_LOCK default y help This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker support, saving some memory. config BASE_FULL default y bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT help Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, but may reduce performance. config FUTEX bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT default y select RT_MUTEXES help Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not run glibc-based applications correctly. config EPOLL bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT default y select ANON_INODES help Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without support for epoll family of system calls. config SIGNALFD bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT select ANON_INODES default y help Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals on a file descriptor. If unsure, say Y. config TIMERFD bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT select ANON_INODES default y help Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer events on a file descriptor. If unsure, say Y. config EVENTFD bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT select ANON_INODES default y help Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. If unsure, say Y. # syscall, maps, verifier config BPF_SYSCALL bool "Enable bpf() system call" select ANON_INODES select BPF select IRQ_WORK default n help Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate eBPF programs and maps via file descriptors. config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter" depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT help Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid speculative execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter config SHMEM bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT default y depends on MMU help The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. config AIO bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT default y help This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling this option saves about 7k. config USERFAULTFD bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call" select ANON_INODES default y depends on MMU help Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and handle page faults in userland. If unsure, say Y. config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS bool config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE bool config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE bool config PCI_QUIRKS default y bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT depends on PCI help This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is unaffected by PCI quirks. config MEMBARRIER bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT default y help Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a compiler barrier. If unsure, say Y. config EMBEDDED bool "Embedded system" option allnoconfig_y select EXPERT help This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for an embedded system so certain expert options are available for configuration. config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS bool help See tools/perf/design.txt for details. config PERF_USE_VMALLOC bool help See tools/perf/design.txt for details menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" config PERF_EVENTS bool "Kernel performance events and counters" default y if PROFILING depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS select ANON_INODES select IRQ_WORK help Enable kernel support for various performance events provided by software and hardware. Software events are supported either built-in or via the use of generic tracepoints. Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance counter registers. These registers count the number of certain types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event capabilities on top of those. Say Y if unsure. config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC default n bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL select PERF_USE_VMALLOC help Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms that don't require it. Say N if unsure. endmenu config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS default y bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT help VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts if VM event counters are disabled. config SLUB_DEBUG default y bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT depends on SLUB && SYSFS help SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can result in significant savings in code size. This also disables SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be no support for cache validation etc. config COMPAT_BRK bool "Disable heap randomization" default y help Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. choice prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" default SLUB help This option allows to select a slab allocator. config SLAB bool "SLAB" select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 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)" select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR help SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for a slab allocator. config SLOB depends on EXPERT bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" help SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but does not perform as well on large systems. endchoice config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" depends on EXPERT && !MMU default n help Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, then the flag will be ignored. This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, it is normally safe to say Y here. See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. config PROFILING bool "Profiling support" help Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used by profilers such as OProfile. # # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be # dynamically changed for a probe function. # config TRACEPOINTS bool source "arch/Kconfig" endmenu # General setup config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT bool default n config SLABINFO bool depends on PROC_FS depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG default y config RT_MUTEXES boolean config BASE_SMALL int default 0 if BASE_FULL default 1 if !BASE_FULL config SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING bool "Provide system-wide ring of trusted keys" depends on KEYS help Provide a system keyring to which trusted keys can be added. Keys in the keyring are considered to be trusted. Keys may be added at will by the kernel from compiled-in data and from hardware key stores, but userspace may only add extra keys if those keys can be verified by keys already in the keyring. Keys in this keyring are used by module signature checking. config SYSTEM_BLACKLIST_KEYRING bool "Provide system-wide ring of blacklisted keys" depends on KEYS help Provide a system keyring to which blacklisted keys can be added. Keys in the keyring are considered entirely untrusted. Keys in this keyring are used by the module signature checking to reject loading of modules signed with a blacklisted key. menuconfig MODULES bool "Enable loadable module support" option modules help Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most useful for infrequently used options which are not required for booting. For more information, see the man pages for modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. If you say Y here, you will need to run "make modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do this). If unsure, say Y. if MODULES config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD bool "Forced module loading" default n help Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and is usually a really bad idea. config MODULE_UNLOAD bool "Module unloading" help Without this option you will not be able to unload any modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster and simpler. If unsure, say Y. config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD bool "Forced module unloading" depends on MODULE_UNLOAD help This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. If unsure, say N. config MODVERSIONS bool "Module versioning support" help Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If unsure, say N. config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL bool "Source checksum for all modules" help Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers see exactly which source was used to build a module (since others sometimes change the module source without updating the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. config MODULE_SIG bool "Module signature verification" depends on MODULES select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING select KEYS select CRYPTO select ASYMMETRIC_KEY_TYPE select ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE select PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA select ASN1 select OID_REGISTRY select X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER help Check modules for valid signatures upon load: the signature is simply appended to the module. For more information see Documentation/module-signing.txt. !!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and inclusion into an initramfs that wants the module size reduced. config MODULE_SIG_FORCE bool "Require modules to be validly signed" depends on MODULE_SIG help Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a key. Without this, such modules will simply taint the kernel. config MODULE_SIG_ALL bool "Automatically sign all modules" default y depends on MODULE_SIG help Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" depends on MODULE_SIG_FORCE && !MODULE_SIG_ALL config MODULE_SIG_UEFI bool "Allow modules signed with certs stored in UEFI" depends on MODULE_SIG && SYSTEM_BLACKLIST_KEYRING && EFI select EFI_SIGNATURE_LIST_PARSER help This will import certificates stored in UEFI and allow modules signed with those to be loaded. It will also disallow loading of modules stored in the UEFI dbx variable. choice prompt "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?" depends on MODULE_SIG help This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel directly so that signature verification can take place. It is not possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check the signature on that module. config MODULE_SIG_SHA1 bool "Sign modules with SHA-1" select CRYPTO_SHA1 config MODULE_SIG_SHA224 bool "Sign modules with SHA-224" select CRYPTO_SHA256 config MODULE_SIG_SHA256 bool "Sign modules with SHA-256" select CRYPTO_SHA256 config MODULE_SIG_SHA384 bool "Sign modules with SHA-384" select CRYPTO_SHA512 config MODULE_SIG_SHA512 bool "Sign modules with SHA-512" select CRYPTO_SHA512 endchoice config MODULE_SIG_HASH string depends on MODULE_SIG default "sha1" if MODULE_SIG_SHA1 default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224 default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256 default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384 default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512 endif # MODULES config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE bool help Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. config STOP_MACHINE bool default y depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU help Need stop_machine() primitive. source "block/Kconfig" config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS bool config PADATA depends on SMP bool # Can be selected by architectures with broken toolchains # that get confused by correct const<->read_only section # mappings config BROKEN_RODATA bool config ASN1 tristate help Build a simple ASN.1 grammar compiler that produces a bytecode output that can be interpreted by the ASN.1 stream decoder and used to inform it as to what tags are to be expected in a stream and what functions to call on what tags. source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"