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
config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
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
+ depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
help
The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
bool "Gzip"
depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
help
- The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is
- the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both
- compression and decompression) is the fastest.
+ The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
+ between compression ratio and decompression speed.
config KERNEL_BZIP2
bool "Bzip2"
two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
+config KERNEL_LZO
+ bool "LZO"
+ depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
+ help
+ Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
+ size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
+ (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
+
endchoice
config SWAP
config AUDITSYSCALL
bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
- depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
+ depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
help
Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
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.
+ is also required. It also scales down nicely to
+ smaller systems.
+
+config TINY_RCU
+ bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
+ depends on !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.
endchoice
Say N if unsure.
+config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
+ bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
+ depends on TREE_RCU && 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.
+
+ Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
+ if you have relatively few CPUs.
+
+ Say N if you are unsure.
+
config TREE_RCU_TRACE
def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
select DEBUG_FS
config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
bool
-config GROUP_SCHED
- bool "Group CPU scheduler"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
- default n
- help
- This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
- bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
- In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use
- CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.)
-
-config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
- bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
- depends on GROUP_SCHED
- default GROUP_SCHED
-
-config RT_GROUP_SCHED
- bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
- depends on GROUP_SCHED
- default n
- help
- This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
- to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
- setting below. 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.
-
-choice
- depends on GROUP_SCHED
- prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
- default USER_SCHED
-
-config USER_SCHED
- bool "user id"
- help
- This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
- tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
-
-config CGROUP_SCHED
- bool "Control groups"
- depends on CGROUPS
- help
- This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
- using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
- the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
- Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more
- information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
-
-endchoice
-
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
Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
+menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
+ bool "Group CPU scheduler"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS
+ 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 RT_GROUP_SCHED
+ bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ 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
+ tristate "Block IO controller"
+ depends on CGROUPS && 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.
+
+ This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
+ One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it
+ to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=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 MM_OWNER
bool
config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
- bool "remove sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools"
+ bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
depends on SYSFS
default n
select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
+ depends on PROC_SYSCTL
default y
select SYSCTL
---help---
by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
this option saves about 7k.
-config HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
bool
help
See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
-menu "Performance Counters"
+config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
+ bool
+ help
+ See tools/perf/design.txt for details
+
+menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
-config PERF_COUNTERS
- bool "Kernel Performance Counters"
- default y if PROFILING
- depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+config PERF_EVENTS
+ bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
+ default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
+ depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
select ANON_INODES
help
- Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware.
+ 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.
- Performance counters are special hardware registers available
- on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain
+ 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 Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of
- these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It
+ 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 EVENT_PROFILE
- bool "Tracepoint profiling sources"
- depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACING
- default y
+config PERF_COUNTERS
+ bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
+ depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
+ help
+ This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
+ config option - please see that one for details.
+
+ It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
+ it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
+
+ Say N 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
- Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance counters.
+ Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
+
+ Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
+ that don't require it.
- When this is enabled, you can create perf counters based on
- tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID
- found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events
- option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic
- tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.)
+ Say N if unsure.
endmenu
endchoice
+config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
+ bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
+ depends on EMBEDDED && !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 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ bool "Profiling support"
help
Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
by profilers such as OProfile.
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
See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
+config SLOW_WORK_DEBUG
+ bool "Slow work debugging through debugfs"
+ default n
+ depends on SLOW_WORK && DEBUG_FS
+ help
+ Display the contents of the slow work run queue through debugfs,
+ including items currently executing.
+
+ See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
+
endmenu # General setup
config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
bool
+config PADATA
+ depends on SMP
+ bool
+
+source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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