+config SUSE_KERNEL
+ def_bool y
+
+config ENTERPRISE_SUPPORT
+ bool "Enable enterprise support facility"
+ depends on SUSE_KERNEL
+ help
+ This feature enables the handling of the "supported" module flag.
+ This flag can be used to report unsupported module loads or even
+ refuse them entirely. It is useful when ensuring that the kernel
+ remains in a state that Novell Technical Services, or its
+ technical partners, is prepared to support.
+
+ Modules in the list of supported modules will be marked supported
+ on build. The default enforcement mode is to report, but not
+ deny, loading of unsupported modules.
+
+ If you aren't building a kernel for an enterprise distribution,
+ say n.
+
+config SPLIT_PACKAGE
+ bool "Split the kernel package into multiple RPMs"
+ depends on SUSE_KERNEL && MODULES
+ help
+ This is an option used by the kernel packaging infrastructure
+ to split kernel modules into different packages. It isn't used
+ by the kernel itself, but allows the the packager to make
+ decisions on a per-config basis.
+
+ If you aren't packaging a kernel for distribution, it's safe to
+ say n.
+
+config KERNEL_DESKTOP
+ bool "Kernel to suit desktop workloads"
+ help
+ This is an option used to tune kernel parameters to better suit
+ desktop workloads.
+
config ARCH
string
option env="ARCH"
config CONSTRUCTORS
bool
depends on !UML
- default y
config HAVE_IRQ_WORK
bool
depends on BROKEN || !SMP
default y
-config LOCK_KERNEL
- bool
- depends on (SMP || PREEMPT) && BKL
- default y
-
config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
int
default 32 if !UML
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_LZO
+ 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
two. 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
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
for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
+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 TASKSTATS
bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on NET
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
Accept the default if unsure.
-config SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY
- int "Microseconds to delay before waiting for readers"
- range 0 20
- default 10
- help
- This option controls how long SRCU delays before entering its
- loop waiting on SRCU readers. The purpose of this loop is
- to avoid the unconditional context-switch penalty that would
- otherwise be incurred if there was an active SRCU reader,
- in a manner similar to adaptive locking schemes. This should
- be set to be a bit longer than the common-case SRCU read-side
- critical-section overhead.
-
- Accept the default if unsure.
-
endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
config IKCONFIG
menuconfig CGROUPS
boolean "Control Group support"
depends on EVENTFD
+ default !KERNEL_DESKTOP
help
This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
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
help
Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
- which want to enable the feautre but keep it disabled by default
+ 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 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"
+ 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"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
- default n
+ default !KERNEL_DESKTOP
help
This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
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
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 seti
- CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set
- CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y.
+ 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.
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 EMBEDDED
- default !EMBEDDED
+ 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
bool
config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
- bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
+ bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
depends on SYSFS
default n
help
need to say Y here.
config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
- bool "enabled deprecated sysfs features by default"
+ bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
default n
depends on SYSFS
depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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.
config ANON_INODES
bool
-menuconfig EMBEDDED
- bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
+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
Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
config UID16
- bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
+ bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
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
+ 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 EMBEDDED
+ 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
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 EMBEDDED
+ bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT
default y
help
This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
config PRINTK
default y
- bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
+ bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
help
This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
strongly discouraged.
config BUG
- bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
+ bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
default y
help
Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
config ELF_CORE
default y
- bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
+ 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 EMBEDDED
- depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
+ 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 HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
+ bool
+
config BASE_FULL
default y
- bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
+ 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 EMBEDDED
+ bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
default y
select RT_MUTEXES
help
run glibc-based applications correctly.
config EPOLL
- bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
+ bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
default y
select ANON_INODES
help
support for epoll family of system calls.
config SIGNALFD
- bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
+ bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
select ANON_INODES
default y
help
If unsure, say Y.
config TIMERFD
- bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
+ bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
select ANON_INODES
default y
help
If unsure, say Y.
config EVENTFD
- bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
+ bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
select ANON_INODES
default y
help
If unsure, say Y.
config SHMEM
- bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
+ bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
default y
depends on MMU
help
which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
config AIO
- bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
+ 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 EMBEDDED
+ bool "Embedded system"
+ 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
config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
default y
- bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
+ 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 EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
+ on EXPERT 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
+ bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
depends on PCI
help
This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
config SLUB_DEBUG
default y
- bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
+ bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
depends on SLUB && SYSFS
help
SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
a slab allocator.
config SLOB
- depends on EMBEDDED
+ depends on EXPERT
bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
help
SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
- depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
+ depends on EXPERT && !MMU
default n
help
Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
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