This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
+config CONTEXT_TRACKING
+ bool
+
config RCU_USER_QS
bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
- depends on HAVE_RCU_USER_QS && SMP
+ 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
- to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
+ 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.
-config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
- bool "Force userspace extended QS by default"
- depends on RCU_USER_QS
+ If unsure say N
+
+config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
+ bool "Force context tracking"
+ depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
help
- Set the hooks in user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
- test this feature that treats userspace as an extended quiescent
- state until we have a real user like a full adaptive nohz option.
+ Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
+ test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
+ quiescent states.
+ This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
+ full dynticks mode.
config RCU_FANOUT
int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
depends on NO_HZ && SMP
default n
help
- This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
- 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.
+ This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 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, thus degrading scheduling latency.
- Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
- if you have relatively few CPUs.
+ Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you don't
+ care about real-time response.
Say N if you are unsure.
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 ("rcuoN") will be created to
+ invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded.
+ 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 reduced OS jitter on selected CPUs.
+ Say N here if you are unsure.
+
endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
config IKCONFIG
environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
+config HAVE_UID16
+ bool
+
config UID16
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) \
- || AARCH32_EMULATION
+ depends on HAVE_UID16
default y
help
This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
If unsure say N here.
+config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
+ bool
+ help
+ Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
+
config KALLSYMS
bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
default y
Just say Y.
config ELF_CORE
+ depends on COREDUMP
default y
bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
help
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 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.
+
+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
+
endif # MODULES
config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
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"