From 30d65dbfe3add7f010a075991dc0bfeaebb7d9e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alain Knaff Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:46:17 +0100 Subject: bzip2/lzma: config and initramfs support for bzip2/lzma decompression Impact: New code for initramfs decompression, new features This is the second part of the bzip2/lzma patch The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both compressors give smaller sizes than gzip. Lzma's decompresses faster than bzip2. It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two compressors. The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by the udpcast project This version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28 This part contains: - support for new compressions (bzip2 and lzma) in initramfs and old-style ramdisk - config dialog for kernel compression (but new kernel compressions not yet supported) Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- init/Kconfig | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f6281711166..df84625b137 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -101,6 +101,56 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) +choice + prompt "Kernel compression mode" + default KERNEL_GZIP + help + 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) . (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 + bool "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. + +config KERNEL_BZIP2 + bool "Bzip2" + help + Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. + Decompression speed is slowest among the 3. + The kernel size is about 10 per cent 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. + +config KERNEL_LZMA + bool "LZMA" + help + The most recent compression algorithm. + Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other + 2. Compression is slowest. + The kernel size is about 33 per cent smaller with lzma, + in comparison to gzip. + +endchoice + + config SWAP bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" depends on MMU && BLOCK -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From 2e9f3bddcbc711bb14d86c6f068a779bf3710247 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:41:25 -0800 Subject: bzip2/lzma: make config machinery an arch configurable Impact: Bug fix (we should not show this menu on irrelevant architectures) Make the config machinery to drive the gzip/bzip2/lzma selection dependent on the architecture advertising HAVE_KERNEL_* so that we don't display this for architectures where it doesn't matter. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- init/Kconfig | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index df84625b137..f9633c03cb1 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -101,10 +101,20 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) +config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + bool + choice - prompt "Kernel compression mode" - default KERNEL_GZIP - help + prompt "Kernel compression mode" + default KERNEL_GZIP + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + help The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. Several compression algorithms are available, which differ in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. @@ -123,34 +133,34 @@ choice If in doubt, select 'gzip' config KERNEL_GZIP - bool "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. + 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. config KERNEL_BZIP2 bool "Bzip2" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 help Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. - Decompression speed is slowest among the 3. - The kernel size is about 10 per cent 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. + 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. config KERNEL_LZMA - bool "LZMA" - help - The most recent compression algorithm. - Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other - 2. Compression is slowest. - The kernel size is about 33 per cent smaller with lzma, - in comparison to gzip. + 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. endchoice - config SWAP bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" depends on MMU && BLOCK -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From ceacc2c1c85ac498ca4cf297bdfe5b4aaa9fd0e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:46:40 +0100 Subject: sched: make plist a library facility Ingo Molnar wrote: > here's a new build failure with tip/sched/rt: > > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > kernel/built-in.o: In function `set_curr_task_rt': > sched.c:(.text+0x3675): undefined reference to `plist_del' > kernel/built-in.o: In function `pick_next_task_rt': > sched.c:(.text+0x37ce): undefined reference to `plist_del' > kernel/built-in.o: In function `enqueue_pushable_task': > sched.c:(.text+0x381c): undefined reference to `plist_del' Eliminate the plist library kconfig and make it available unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- init/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index a724a149bf3..19b78aa010e 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -874,7 +874,6 @@ config SLABINFO config RT_MUTEXES boolean - select PLIST config BASE_SMALL int -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From 91f73f90d97fa67effbb49e0a79c50cf26dfe324 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:34:06 +0100 Subject: tracing/markers: make markers select tracepoints Sometimes it happens that KConfig dependencies are not handled like in the following scenario: - config A bool - config B bool depends on A - config C bool select B If one selects C, then it will select B without checking its dependency to A, if A hasn't been selected elsewhere, it will result in a build failure. This is what happens on the following build error: kernel/built-in.o: In function `marker_update_probe_range': (.text+0x52f64): undefined reference to `tracepoint_probe_register_noupdate' kernel/built-in.o: In function `marker_update_probe_range': (.text+0x52f74): undefined reference to `tracepoint_probe_unregister_noupdate' kernel/built-in.o: In function `marker_update_probe_range': (.text+0x52fb9): undefined reference to `tracepoint_probe_unregister_noupdate' kernel/built-in.o: In function `marker_update_probes': marker.c:(.text+0x530ba): undefined reference to `tracepoint_probe_update_all' CONFIG_KVM_TRACE will select CONFIG_MARKER, but the latter depends on CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS which will not be selected. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- init/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f068071fcc5..26b5bab6f6e 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ config TRACEPOINTS config MARKERS bool "Activate markers" - depends on TRACEPOINTS + select TRACEPOINTS help Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be dynamically changed for a probe function. -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From b943c460ff8556a193b28e2145b513f8b978e869 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:55:46 -0700 Subject: menu: fix embedded menu snafu The COMPAT_BRK kconfig symbol does not depend on EMBEDDED, but it is in the midst of the EMBEDDED menu symbols, so it mucks up the EMBEDDED menu. Fix by moving it to just after all of the EMBEDDED menu symbols. Also, ANON_INODES has a similar problem, so move it to just above the EMBEDDED menu items since it is used in the EMBEDDED menu. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/Kconfig | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f068071fcc5..6a5c5fed66c 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -675,6 +675,9 @@ config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE config SYSCTL bool +config ANON_INODES + bool + menuconfig EMBEDDED bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" help @@ -780,18 +783,6 @@ config PCSPKR_PLATFORM This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker support, saving some memory. -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 - disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting - /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. - - On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. - config BASE_FULL default y bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED @@ -809,9 +800,6 @@ config FUTEX support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not run glibc-based applications correctly. -config ANON_INODES - bool - config EPOLL bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED default y @@ -897,6 +885,18 @@ config SLUB_DEBUG SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be no support for cache validation etc. +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 + disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting + /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. + + On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. + choice prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" default SLUB -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From 692105b8ac5bcd75dc65f6a8f10bdbd0f0f34dcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:12:25 +0100 Subject: trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- init/Kconfig | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 14c483d2b7c..bcffc0e4764 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ config PID_NS depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL help Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple - process with the same pid as long as they are in different + processes with the same pid as long as they are in different pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. Unless you want to work with an experimental feature @@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ config COMPAT_BRK 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 - disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting + disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. @@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 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. + and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. config STOP_MACHINE bool -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From 21acb9caa2e30b100e9a1943d995bb99d40f4035 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:12:08 +0100 Subject: trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to cgroup documentation was moved to Documentation/cgroups/. There are some places that still refer to Documentation/controllers/, Documentation/cgroups.txt and Documentation/cpusets.txt. Fix those. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Reviewed-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- init/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index bcffc0e4764..99eb4196bd0 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR select MM_OWNER help Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous - memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) + memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From 627991a20b3f4d504d20466ab405fe035cb1a20a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:57:47 -0700 Subject: memcg: remove redundant message at swapon It's pointed out that swap_cgroup's message at swapon() is nonsense. Because * It can be calculated very easily if all necessary information is written in Kconfig. * It's not necessary to annoying people at every swapon(). In other view, now, memory usage per swp_entry is reduced to 2bytes from 8bytes(64bit) and I think it's reasonably small. Reported-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/Kconfig | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 14c483d2b7c..92d41060393 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -597,6 +597,8 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 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. + Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page + size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. endif # CGROUPS -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From db7f47cf4805e30decb0841764b21b7c4000f7dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Menage Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:57:55 -0700 Subject: cpusets: allow cpusets to be configured/built on non-SMP systems Allow cpusets to be configured/built on non-SMP systems Currently it's impossible to build cpusets under UML on x86-64, since cpusets depends on SMP and x86-64 UML doesn't support SMP. There's code in cpusets that doesn't depend on SMP. This patch surrounds the minimum amount of cpusets code with #ifdef CONFIG_SMP in order to allow cpusets to build/run on UP systems (for testing purposes under UML). Reviewed-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Paul Menage Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 92d41060393..1398a14b019 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ config CGROUP_DEVICE config CPUSETS bool "Cpuset support" - depends on SMP && CGROUPS + depends on CGROUPS help This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From 07fe7cb7c7c179f473fd9c823348fd3eb5dad369 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:42:35 +0100 Subject: Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items, such as invoking mkdir() or rmdir() - things that may take a long time and may sleep, holding mutexes/semaphores and hogging a thread, and are thus unsuitable for workqueues. The number of threads is always at least a settable minimum, but more are started when there's more work to do, up to a limit. Because of the nature of the load, it's not suitable for a 1-thread-per-CPU type pool. A system with one CPU may well want several threads. This is used by FS-Cache to do slow caching operations in the background, such as looking up, creating or deleting cache objects. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Acked-by: Steve Dickson Acked-by: Trond Myklebust Acked-by: Al Viro Tested-by: Daire Byrne --- init/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 1398a14b019..236a79377b8 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1014,6 +1014,18 @@ config MARKERS source "arch/Kconfig" +config SLOW_WORK + default n + bool "Enable slow work thread pool" + 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. + endmenu # General setup config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258