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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 13627191a60d..a724a149bf3f 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -271,59 +271,6 @@ config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 13 => 8 KB 12 => 4 KB -config CGROUPS - bool "Control Group support" - help - This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems - such as Cpusets - - Say N if unsure. - -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 - framework - - Say N if unsure - -config CGROUP_NS - 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. - -config CGROUP_FREEZER - bool "control group freezer subsystem" - depends on CGROUPS - help - Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a - 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" - depends on SMP && CGROUPS - 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. - # # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: # @@ -337,6 +284,8 @@ config GROUP_SCHED 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" @@ -379,6 +328,66 @@ config CGROUP_SCHED endchoice +menu "Control Group support" +config CGROUPS + bool "Control Group support" + help + This option add support for grouping sets of processes together, for + use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory + controls or device isolation. + See + - Documentation/cpusets.txt (Cpusets) + - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) + - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation) + - Documentation/controllers/ (features for resource control) + + Say N if unsure. + +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 + framework + + Say N if unsure + +config CGROUP_NS + 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. + +config CGROUP_FREEZER + bool "control group freezer subsystem" + depends on CGROUPS + help + Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a + 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" + depends on SMP && CGROUPS + 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. + config CGROUP_CPUACCT bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" depends on CGROUPS @@ -393,9 +402,6 @@ config RESOURCE_COUNTERS infrastructure that works with cgroups depends on CGROUPS -config MM_OWNER - bool - config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS @@ -414,36 +420,68 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 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. - (and lose benefits of memory resource contoller) + (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. +config MM_OWNER + bool + +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. + + +endmenu + config SYSFS_DEPRECATED bool config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 - bool "Create deprecated sysfs files" + bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools" depends on SYSFS default y select SYSFS_DEPRECATED help - This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the - "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the - "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the - uevent environment. - None of these features or values should be used today, as - they export driver core implementation details to userspace - or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel - releases. - - If enabled, this option will also move any device structures - that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in - order to support older versions of udev and some userspace - programs. - - If you are using a distro with the most recent userspace - packages, it should be safe to say N here. + This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated + version. + + 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. config PROC_PID_CPUSET bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" @@ -838,10 +876,6 @@ config RT_MUTEXES boolean select PLIST -config TINY_SHMEM - default !SHMEM - bool - config BASE_SMALL int default 0 if BASE_FULL @@ -916,14 +950,17 @@ config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. -config KMOD - def_bool y - help - This is being removed soon. These days, CONFIG_MODULES - implies CONFIG_KMOD, so use that instead. - endif # MODULES +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 + and have several arch maintainers persuing me down dark alleys. + config STOP_MACHINE bool default y |