180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 16face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 17face4374SRoman Zippel 18ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 66dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 83aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 84aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 85aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 86aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 886e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 926e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 95aaebf433SRyan Anderson 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1059361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 128a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 129a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 130a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 131a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 132a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 133a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 1341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 142b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>. 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 175c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 176c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 177c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 178c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 179c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 180c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 181c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 182c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 183c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 184c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 185c757249aSShailabh Nagar 186c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 187c757249aSShailabh Nagar 188ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 189ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1906f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 191ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 192ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 193ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 194ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 195ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 196ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 197ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 198ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 19918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 20018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 20118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 20218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 20318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 20418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 20518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 20618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 20718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 20818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 20918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 21018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 21118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 21218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 21318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 21418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 21518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 21618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 2171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 219804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2281322b9deSYuichi Nakamura depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 233f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 234f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23674c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 23774c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 23874c3cbe3SAl Viro depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY 23974c3cbe3SAl Viro 2401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 241f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 259794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 260794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 261794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 262794543a2SAlistair John Strachan default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP 263794543a2SAlistair John Strachan default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64 264794543a2SAlistair John Strachan default 15 if SMP 265794543a2SAlistair John Strachan default 14 266794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 267794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 268794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Defaults and Examples: 269794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 17 => 128 KB for S/390 270794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64 271794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 15 => 32 KB for SMP 272794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor 273794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 274794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 275794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 276ddbcc7e8SPaul Menageconfig CGROUPS 277ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage bool "Control Group support" 278ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 279ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems 280ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage such as Cpusets 281ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 282ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 283ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 284006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 285006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 286006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 287006cb992SPaul Menage help 288006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 289006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 290006cb992SPaul Menage framework 291006cb992SPaul Menage 292006cb992SPaul Menage Say N if unsure 293006cb992SPaul Menage 294858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 295858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 296858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 297858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 298858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 299858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 300858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 301858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 302858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 3031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 3058793d854SPaul Menage depends on SMP && CGROUPS 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 307d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 314052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig GROUP_SCHED 315052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra bool "Group CPU scheduler" 316de8d585aSIngo Molnar default y 31729f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 318fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 3199b5b7751SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bandwidth allocation to such task groups. 32029f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 321052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 322052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 323052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on GROUP_SCHED 324052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra default y 32524e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 326052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 327052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 328052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on EXPERIMENTAL 329052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on GROUP_SCHED 330052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra default n 331052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra 332052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstrachoice 333052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on GROUP_SCHED 334052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" 335052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra default USER_SCHED 336052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra 337052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig USER_SCHED 33824e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "user id" 33924e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 34024e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping 341fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. 34224e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 343052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig CGROUP_SCHED 34468318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Control groups" 34568318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 34668318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 34768318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups 34868318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control 34968318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. 35068318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information 35168318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. 35268318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri 35324e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiriendchoice 35424e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 355d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 356d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 357d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 358d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 359d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 360d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup 361d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 362e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 363e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 364e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 365e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 366e552b661SPavel Emelianov infrastructure that works with cgroups 367e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 368e552b661SPavel Emelianov 369*00f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 370*00f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 371*00f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 372*00f0b825SBalbir Singh help 373*00f0b825SBalbir Singh Provides a memory resource controller that manages both page cache and 374*00f0b825SBalbir Singh RSS memory. 375*00f0b825SBalbir Singh 376*00f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 377*00f0b825SBalbir Singh associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes 378*00f0b825SBalbir Singh and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit 379*00f0b825SBalbir Singh systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore. 380*00f0b825SBalbir Singh 381*00f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 382*00f0b825SBalbir Singh sure you need the memory resource controller. 383*00f0b825SBalbir Singh 38488a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 38588a22c98SKay Sievers bool "Create deprecated sysfs files" 3869148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 38788a22c98SKay Sievers default y 38888a22c98SKay Sievers help 38988a22c98SKay Sievers This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the 39088a22c98SKay Sievers "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the 39188a22c98SKay Sievers "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the 39288a22c98SKay Sievers uevent environment. 39388a22c98SKay Sievers None of these features or values should be used today, as 39488a22c98SKay Sievers they export driver core implementation details to userspace 39588a22c98SKay Sievers or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel 39688a22c98SKay Sievers releases. 39788a22c98SKay Sievers 39888a22c98SKay Sievers If enabled, this option will also move any device structures 3993dde6ad8SDavid Sterba that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in 40088a22c98SKay Sievers order to support older versions of udev. 40188a22c98SKay Sievers 40288a22c98SKay Sievers If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later, 40388a22c98SKay Sievers it should be safe to say N here. 40488a22c98SKay Sievers 4058793d854SPaul Menageconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 4068793d854SPaul Menage bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 4078793d854SPaul Menage depends on CPUSETS 4088793d854SPaul Menage default y 4098793d854SPaul Menage 410b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 411b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 412b86ff981SJens Axboe help 413b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 414b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 415b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 416b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 417b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 418b86ff981SJens Axboe 419b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 420b86ff981SJens Axboe 421c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 422c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 423c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 424c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 425c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 426c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 427c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 428c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 429c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 43058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 43158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 43258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 43358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 43458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 43558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 43658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 437ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 438ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 439ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC 440ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 441ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 442ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov different IPC objects in different namespaces 443ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 444aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 445aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 446aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 447aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 448aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 449aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 450aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 451aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 45274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 45374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 45474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 45574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 45674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 45774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 45874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov process with the same pid as long as they are in different 45974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 46074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 46174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 46274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 46374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 464f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 465f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 466f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 467f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 468f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 469f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 470f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 471f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 472f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 473f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 474f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 475f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 476f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 477f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 478f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 479f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 480c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 481c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 482dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 483dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 484c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 485c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 486c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 487c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)" 488c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 48932582fa4SPaul Mundt depends on ARM || H8300 || SUPERH || EXPERIMENTAL 490c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 491c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 492c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 493c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 494c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this 495c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed. 496c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 497c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 498c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 4990847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 5000847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 5010847062aSRandy Dunlap 5021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 510ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 511ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 512529a73fbSMike Frysinger depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 513ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 514ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 515ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 516ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 517b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 5180847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 51913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 520b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 521b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 52213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 52313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 52413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 52513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 526b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 52713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 52813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 52913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 530b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 53113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 532ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 5331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 534979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 547f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 548f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 563d59745ceSMatt Mackall 564712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 565712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 566712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 567712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 568712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 569712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 570712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 571712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 572712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 573d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 574d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 575d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 576d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 577d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 578d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 579d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 580d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 581d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 582d59745ceSMatt Mackall 583c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 584c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 585c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 586c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 587c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 588c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 589c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 590c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 591c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 592c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 593708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 594708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 595708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 596708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 597708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 598708e9a79SMatt Mackall 59932a93233SIngo Molnarconfig COMPAT_BRK 60032a93233SIngo Molnar bool "Disable heap randomization" 60132a93233SIngo Molnar default y 60232a93233SIngo Molnar help 60332a93233SIngo Molnar Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 60432a93233SIngo Molnar also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 60532a93233SIngo Molnar This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 60632a93233SIngo Molnar disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting 60732a93233SIngo Molnar /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 60832a93233SIngo Molnar 609166124fdSIngo Molnar On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 61032a93233SIngo Molnar 6111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 62223f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 6231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 6251da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 6271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6285dc8bf81SDavide Libenziconfig ANON_INODES 629448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk bool 6305dc8bf81SDavide Libenzi 6311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 6321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 634448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 6371da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 639fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 640fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 641448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 642fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 643fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 644fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 645fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 646fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 647fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 648fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 649b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 650b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 651448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 652b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 653b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 654b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 655b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 656b215e283SDavide Libenzi 657b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 658b215e283SDavide Libenzi 659e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 660e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 661448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 662e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 663e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 664e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 665e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 666e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 667e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 668e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 6691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 680f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 681f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 682f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 683f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 6842aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 6852aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 6862aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 6872aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 688f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 68941ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 69041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 69141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 692d4751a27SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB 69341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 69441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 69541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 69641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 69741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 69841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 69981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 70081819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 701a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 70281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 70381819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 70481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 70581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 70681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 70781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 70881819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 70934013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 71081819f0fSChristoph Lameter per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for 71134013886SChristoph Lameter a slab allocator. 71281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 71381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 71481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 71581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 71681819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 71781819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 71881819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 71981819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 72034013886SChristoph Lameter and has enhanced diagnostics. 72181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 72281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 72384a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 72481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 72581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 72637291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 72737291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 72837291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 72981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 73081819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 73181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 732125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 733125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 734125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 735125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 736125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 737125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 738125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS 739125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Activate markers" 740125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 741125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be 742125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers dynamically changed for a probe function. 743125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 744fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 745fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 7461e883281SMatt Mackallconfig PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 7471e883281SMatt Mackall default y 7481e883281SMatt Mackall depends on PROC_FS && MMU 7491e883281SMatt Mackall bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED 7501e883281SMatt Mackall help 7511e883281SMatt Mackall Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory utilization: 7521e883281SMatt Mackall /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap, 7531e883281SMatt Mackall /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these 7541e883281SMatt Mackall interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb. 7551e883281SMatt Mackall 7561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 758158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 759158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 760158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 761158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on SLAB || SLUB 762158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 763158a9624SLinus Torvalds 764ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 765ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 766ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert select PLIST 767ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 7681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TINY_SHMEM 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default !SHMEM 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 77766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULES 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds simpler. If unsure, say Y. 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 8170d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 8180d541643SSam Ravnborg depends on MODULES 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULES 8301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 8331da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 8351da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 8381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KMOD 8401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Automatic kernel module loading" 8411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULES 8421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to 8441da177e4SLinus Torvalds be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the 8451da177e4SLinus Torvalds "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y 8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules 8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it 8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby 8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y. 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 8573a65dfe8SJens Axboe 8583a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 859e98c3202SAvi Kivity 860e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 861e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 862e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 863e260be67SPaul E. McKenneychoice 864e260be67SPaul E. McKenney prompt "RCU implementation type:" 865e260be67SPaul E. McKenney default CLASSIC_RCU 86609503105SPaul E. McKenney help 86709503105SPaul E. McKenney This allows you to choose either the classic RCU implementation 86809503105SPaul E. McKenney that is designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime 86909503105SPaul E. McKenney systems, or the preemptible RCU implementation for best latency 87009503105SPaul E. McKenney on realtime systems. Note that some kernel preemption modes 87109503105SPaul E. McKenney will restrict your choice. 87209503105SPaul E. McKenney 87309503105SPaul E. McKenney Select the default if you are unsure. 874e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 875e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyconfig CLASSIC_RCU 876e260be67SPaul E. McKenney bool "Classic RCU" 877e260be67SPaul E. McKenney help 878e260be67SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is 879e260be67SPaul E. McKenney designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime 880e260be67SPaul E. McKenney systems. 881e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 882e260be67SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if you are unsure. 883e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 884e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 885e260be67SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible RCU" 886e260be67SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 887e260be67SPaul E. McKenney help 888e260be67SPaul E. McKenney This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain 889e260be67SPaul E. McKenney RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if 890e260be67SPaul E. McKenney this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become 891e260be67SPaul E. McKenney preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to 892e260be67SPaul E. McKenney now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section 893e260be67SPaul E. McKenney remaining on a given CPU through its execution. 894e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 895e260be67SPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 896e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 897e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 898