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config ARCH
	string
	option env="ARCH"

config KERNELVERSION
	string
	option env="KERNELVERSION"

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config DEFCONFIG_LIST
	string
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	depends on !UML
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	option defconfig_list
	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
	default "/etc/kernel-config"
	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
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	default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
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	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"

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config CONSTRUCTORS
	bool
	depends on !UML
	default y

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menu "General setup"
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config EXPERIMENTAL
	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
	---help---
	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
	  may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
	  in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
	  with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
	  (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
	  <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
	  <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
	  <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).

	  This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
	  drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
	  scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.

	  Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
	  falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
	  using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
	  cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.

config BROKEN
	bool

config BROKEN_ON_SMP
	bool
	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
	default y

config LOCK_KERNEL
	bool
	depends on SMP || PREEMPT
	default y

config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
	int
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	default 32 if !UML
	default 128 if UML
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	help
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	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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config LOCALVERSION
	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
	help
	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
	  be a maximum of 64 characters.

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config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
	default y
	help
	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
	  top of tree revision.
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	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
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	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
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	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
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	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
	  by running the command:

	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD

	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
	bool

config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
	bool

config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
	bool

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	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
	default KERNEL_GZIP
	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
	help
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	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.

	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)

	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
	  size matters less.

	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'

config KERNEL_GZIP
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	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.
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config KERNEL_BZIP2
	bool "Bzip2"
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	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
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	help
	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
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	  Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel
	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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config KERNEL_LZMA
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	bool "LZMA"
	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
	help
	  The most recent compression algorithm.
	  Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
	  two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33%
	  smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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endchoice

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config SWAP
	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
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	depends on MMU && BLOCK
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	default y
	help
	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
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	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.

config SYSVIPC
	bool "System V IPC"
	---help---
	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
	  you'll need to say Y here.

	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.

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config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
	bool
	depends on SYSVIPC
	depends on SYSCTL
	default y

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config POSIX_MQUEUE
	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
	---help---
	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
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	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
	  operations on message queues.

	  If unsure, say Y.

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config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
	bool
	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
	depends on SYSCTL
	default y

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config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
	help
	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.

config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
	default n
	help
	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
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	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
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config TASKSTATS
	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
	depends on NET
	default n
	help
	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
	  space on task exit.

	  Say N if unsure.

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config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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	depends on TASKSTATS
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	help
	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.

	  Say N if unsure.

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config TASK_XACCT
	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
	depends on TASKSTATS
	help
	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.

	  Say N if unsure.

config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
	depends on TASK_XACCT
	help
	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
	  task has caused.

	  Say N if unsure.

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config AUDIT
	bool "Auditing support"
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	depends on NET
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	help
	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.

config AUDITSYSCALL
	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
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	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
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	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
	help
	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
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	  such as SELinux.  To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
	  ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
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config AUDIT_TREE
	def_bool y
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	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
	select INOTIFY
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menu "RCU Subsystem"

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	prompt "RCU Implementation"
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	default TREE_RCU
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config TREE_RCU
	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
	help
	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
	  smaller systems.
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config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
	bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU"
	depends on PREEMPT
	help
	  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
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	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
	  smaller systems.
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endchoice

config RCU_TRACE
	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
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	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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	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
	range 2 32 if !64BIT
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	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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	default 64 if 64BIT
	default 32 if !64BIT
	help
	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the cube
	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
	  systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.

	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
	  Take the default if unsure.

config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
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	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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	default n
	help
	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
	  strong NUMA behavior.

	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.

	  Say N if unsure.

config TREE_RCU_TRACE
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	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
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	select DEBUG_FS
	help
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	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
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endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"

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config IKCONFIG
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	tristate "Kernel .config support"
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	---help---
	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).

config IKCONFIG_PROC
	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
	---help---
	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
	  through /proc/config.gz.

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config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
	range 12 21
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	default 17
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	help
	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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	  Examples:
	  	     17 => 128 KB
		     16 => 64 KB
	             15 => 32 KB
	             14 => 16 KB
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		     13 =>  8 KB
		     12 =>  4 KB

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#
# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
#
config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
	bool

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config GROUP_SCHED
	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
	default n
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	help
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	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
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	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
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	  In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use
	  CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.)
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config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
	depends on GROUP_SCHED
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	default GROUP_SCHED
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config RT_GROUP_SCHED
	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
	depends on GROUP_SCHED
	default n
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	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.
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	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
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	depends on GROUP_SCHED
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	prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
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	default USER_SCHED
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config USER_SCHED
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	bool "user id"
	help
	  This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
	  tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
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config CGROUP_SCHED
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	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.
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	  Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more
	  information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
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menuconfig CGROUPS
	boolean "Control Group support"
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	help
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	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
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	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
	  controls or device isolation.
	  See
		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
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		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
					  and resource control)
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	  Say N if unsure.

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config CGROUP_DEBUG
	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
	depends on CGROUPS
	default n
	help
	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
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	  framework.
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	  Say N if unsure.
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config CGROUP_NS
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	bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
	depends on CGROUPS
	help
	  Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
	  provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
	  for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
	  jobs.
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config CGROUP_FREEZER
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	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
	depends on CGROUPS
	help
	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
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	  cgroup.

config CGROUP_DEVICE
	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
	depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
	help
	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.

config CPUSETS
	bool "Cpuset support"
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	depends on CGROUPS
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	help
	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.

	  Say N if unsure.

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config PROC_PID_CPUSET
	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
	depends on CPUSETS
	default y

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config CGROUP_CPUACCT
	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
	depends on CGROUPS
	help
	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
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	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
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config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
	bool "Resource counters"
	help
	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
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	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
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	depends on CGROUPS

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config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
	depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
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	help
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	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
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	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
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	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
	  at boot.
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	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
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	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
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	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.

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config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
	help
	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
	  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.
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	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
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endif # CGROUPS
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config MM_OWNER
	bool
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config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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	bool

config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
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	bool "remove sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools"
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	depends on SYSFS
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	default n
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	select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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	help
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	  This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
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	  version. Do not use it on recent distributions.
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	  The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
	  /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
	  class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
	  unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
	  /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
	  /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
	  "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
	  class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
	  subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
	  depend on the unified device tree.

	  This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
	  be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
	  layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
	  and disable some features, which can not be exported without
	  confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
	  distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
	  depend on the deprecated layout or this option.

	  If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
	  older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
	  if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
	  this option set to N.
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config RELAY
	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
	help
	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
	  user space.

	  If unsure, say N.

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config NAMESPACES
	bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
	default !EMBEDDED
	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
	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
	  different namespaces.

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config UTS_NS
	bool "UTS namespace"
	depends on NAMESPACES
	help
	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
	  uname() system call

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config IPC_NS
	bool "IPC namespace"
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	depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
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	help
	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
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	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
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config USER_NS
	bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
	help
	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
	  to provide different user info for different servers.
	  If unsure, say N.

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config PID_NS
	bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
	default n
	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
	help
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	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
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	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
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	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.

	  Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
	  say N here.

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config NET_NS
	bool "Network namespace"
	default n
	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
	help
	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
	  of the network stack.

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config BLK_DEV_INITRD
	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
	help
	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.

	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.

	  If unsure say Y.

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config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
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	bool "Optimize for size"
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	default y
	help
	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
	  resulting in a smaller kernel.

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	  If unsure, say Y.
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config SYSCTL
	bool

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config ANON_INODES
	bool

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menuconfig EMBEDDED
	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
	help
	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.

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config UID16
	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
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	default y
	help
	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.

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config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
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	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
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	default y
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	select SYSCTL
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	---help---
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	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
	  information.
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	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
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config KALLSYMS
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	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
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	 default y
	 help
	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.

config KALLSYMS_ALL
	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
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	   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.
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	   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.

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config HOTPLUG
	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
	default y
	help
	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.

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config PRINTK
	default y
	bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
	help
	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
	  strongly discouraged.

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config BUG
	bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
	default y
	help
          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
          Just say Y.

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config ELF_CORE
	default y
	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
	help
	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.

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config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
	depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
	default y
	help
          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
          support, saving some memory.

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config BASE_FULL
	default y
	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
	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
	default y
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	select RT_MUTEXES
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	help
	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
	  run glibc-based applications correctly.

config EPOLL
	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
	default y
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	help
	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
	  support for epoll family of system calls.

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config SIGNALFD
	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
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	select ANON_INODES
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	default y
	help
	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
	  on a file descriptor.

	  If unsure, say Y.

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config TIMERFD
	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
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	select ANON_INODES
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	default y
	help
	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
	  events on a file descriptor.

	  If unsure, say Y.

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config EVENTFD
	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
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	select ANON_INODES
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	default y
	help
	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.

	  If unsure, say Y.

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config SHMEM
	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
	default y
	depends on MMU
	help
	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.

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config AIO
	bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
	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.

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config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
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	bool
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	help
	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
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config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
	bool
	help
	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details

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menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
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config PERF_EVENTS
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	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
	default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
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	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
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	select ANON_INODES
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	help
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	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
	  by software and hardware.
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	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
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	  use of generic tracepoints.
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	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
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	  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.

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	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
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	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
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	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
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	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
	  capabilities on top of those.

	  Say Y if unsure.

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config EVENT_PROFILE
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	bool "Tracepoint profiling sources"
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	depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING
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	default y
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	help
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	 Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance events.
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	 When this is enabled, you can create perf events based on
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	 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.)
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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.

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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
	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.

	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
	 that don't require it.

	 Say N if unsure.

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config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
	default y
	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
	help
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	  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
	  if VM event counters are disabled.
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config PCI_QUIRKS
	default y
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	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
	depends on PCI
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	help
	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
          bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
          unaffected by PCI quirks.

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config SLUB_DEBUG
	default y
	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
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	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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	help
	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
	  no support for cache validation etc.

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config COMPAT_BRK
	bool "Disable heap randomization"
	default y
	help
	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
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	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
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	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.

	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.

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choice
	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
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	default SLUB
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	help
	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.

config SLAB
	bool "SLAB"
	help
	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
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config SLUB
	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
	help
	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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	   a slab allocator.
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config SLOB
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	depends on EMBEDDED
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	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
	help
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	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
	   does not perform as well on large systems.
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config PROFILING
	bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
	help
	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
	  by profilers such as OProfile.

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#
# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
# dynamically changed for a probe function.
#
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	bool
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config SLOW_WORK
	default n
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	bool
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	help
	  The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
	  threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
	  take a relatively long time.

	  An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
	  by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
	  disk.

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config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
	bool
	default n

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config SLABINFO
	bool
	depends on PROC_FS
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	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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	default y

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config RT_MUTEXES
	boolean

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config BASE_SMALL
	int
	default 0 if BASE_FULL
	default 1 if !BASE_FULL

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menuconfig MODULES
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	bool "Enable loadable module support"
	help
	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.

	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
	  this).

	  If unsure, say Y.

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config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
	bool "Forced module loading"
	default n
	help
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	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
	  is usually a really bad idea.
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config MODULE_UNLOAD
	bool "Module unloading"
	help
	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
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config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
	bool "Forced module unloading"
	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
	help
	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
	  If unsure, say N.

config MODVERSIONS
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	help
	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
	  unsure, say N.

config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
	help
	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.

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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
	  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
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config STOP_MACHINE
	bool
	default y
	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
	help
	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
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config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
	bool
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