config CONSTRUCTORS
bool
depends on !UML
- default y
config HAVE_IRQ_WORK
bool
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
config AUDITSYSCALL
bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
- depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
+ depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || ARM)
default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
help
Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
depends on AUDITSYSCALL
select FSNOTIFY
+config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
+ bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
+ depends on AUDIT
+ help
+ The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
+ CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
+ but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
+ previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central
+ process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older
+ systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
+ start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows
+ one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
+ but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
+
source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
menu "RCU Subsystem"
config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
- depends on PREEMPT
+ depends on PREEMPT && SMP
help
This option selects the RCU implementation that is
designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
config TINY_RCU
bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
- depends on !SMP
+ depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
help
This option selects the RCU implementation that is
designed for UP systems from which real-time response
config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
- depends on !SMP && PREEMPT
+ depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
help
This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
-config RCU_TRACE
- bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
- help
- This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
- in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
-
- Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
- Say N if you are unsure.
-
config RCU_FANOUT
int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
range 2 64 if 64BIT
config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
- depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
+ depends on NO_HZ && SMP
default n
help
This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
- in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
- more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the
- overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
- with large numbers of CPUs.
+ in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more
+ quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead
+ of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with
+ large numbers of CPUs.
Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
if you have relatively few CPUs.
config RCU_BOOST
bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
- depends on RT_MUTEXES && TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
+ depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
default n
help
This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
Say N if unsure.
-config CGROUP_NS
- bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
- help
- Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
- provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
- for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
- jobs.
-
config CGROUP_FREEZER
bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
help
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.
+ 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 CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED
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 noswapaccount does the trick).
+ then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
+config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
+ bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && EXPERIMENTAL
+ default n
+ 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_PERF
bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
bool "Group CPU scheduler"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
default !KERNEL_DESKTOP
help
This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
depends on CGROUP_SCHED
default CGROUP_SCHED
+config CFS_BANDWIDTH
+ bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ 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 EXPERIMENTAL
endif # CGROUPS
+config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+ bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
+ default n
+ help
+ Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
+ In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
+ data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
+ entries.
+
+ If unsure, say N here.
+
menuconfig NAMESPACES
bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
default !EXPERT
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.
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
config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
depends on PROC_SYSCTL
- default y
+ default n
select SYSCTL
---help---
sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
making your kernel marginally smaller.
- If unsure say Y here.
+ If unsure say N here.
config KALLSYMS
bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
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.
+ 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).
- 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.
+ 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 HOTPLUG
bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" 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 ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
+ 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 HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
+ bool
+
config BASE_FULL
default y
bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
per cpu and per node queues.
config SLUB
- depends on BROKEN || NUMA || !DISCONTIGMEM
bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
help
SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
-config DEFAULT_VM_DIRTY_RATIO
- int "Default VM dirty ratio (in %)"
- default 20 if KERNEL_DESKTOP
- default 40
- help
- Allows to tune VM dirty ratio to suit different workloads. Increased
- VM dirty ratio improves performance of most server workloads that
- dirties a lot of memory (e.g. simple databases not using direct IO,
- workloads doing heavy writes). The latency-sensitive workloads like
- desktop and typical workstations perform better with a decreased
- VM dirty ratio.
-
- Recommended value for desktop workload is 20.
- Recommended value for server workload is 40.
-
- Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
-
config PROFILING
bool "Profiling support"
help
config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
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
+ 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.
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