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Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 30 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 18a98c893d07..296dfcaf613f 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ config AUDIT config AUDITSYSCALL bool "Enable system-call auditing support" - depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) + depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PARISC || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || (ARM && AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)) default y if SECURITY_SELINUX help Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that @@ -340,7 +340,8 @@ config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN bool "Full dynticks CPU time accounting" - depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && 64BIT + depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING + depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING select CONTEXT_TRACKING help @@ -456,6 +457,7 @@ config TREE_RCU config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" depends on PREEMPT + select IRQ_WORK help This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or @@ -513,13 +515,29 @@ config RCU_USER_QS config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE bool "Force context tracking" depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING - default CONTEXT_TRACKING + default y if !NO_HZ_FULL help - 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. + 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" @@ -813,7 +831,7 @@ config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED default y depends on NUMA_BALANCING help - If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA + If set, automatic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA machine. config NUMA_BALANCING @@ -824,7 +842,7 @@ config NUMA_BALANCING 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. + it has references to the node the task is running on. This system will be inactive on UMA systems. @@ -1092,7 +1110,6 @@ config IPC_NS config USER_NS bool "User namespace" - depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS default n @@ -1126,20 +1143,8 @@ config NET_NS endif # NAMESPACES -config UIDGID_CONVERTED - # True if all of the selected software conmponents are known - # to have uid_t and gid_t converted to kuid_t and kgid_t - # where appropriate and are otherwise safe to use with - # the user namespace. - bool - default y - - # Filesystems - depends on XFS_FS = n - config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation" - depends on UIDGID_CONVERTED default n help While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows @@ -1584,7 +1589,7 @@ endchoice config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL default y - depends on SLUB + depends on SLUB && SMP bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache" help Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing @@ -1652,6 +1657,7 @@ config BASE_SMALL 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 |