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" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 68dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 84aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 85aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 86aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 94aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 103aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 11330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11430d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 11530d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1372e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff compression and decompression) is the fastest. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1669361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 189a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 190a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 191a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 192a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 193a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 194a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 1951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 203b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 23437a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 236c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 237c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 238c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 239c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 240c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 241c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 242c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 243c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 244c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 245c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 246c757249aSShailabh Nagar 247c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 248c757249aSShailabh Nagar 249ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 250ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2516f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 252ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 253ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 254ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 255ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 256ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 257ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 258ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 259ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 26018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 26118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 26218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 26318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 26418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 26518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 26618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 26718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 26818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 26918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 27018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 27118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 27218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 27318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 27418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 27518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 27618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 27718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 2781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 280804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2891322b9deSYuichi Nakamura depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 294f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 295f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 29874c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 29974c3cbe3SAl Viro depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY 30074c3cbe3SAl Viro 301c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 302c903ff83SMike Travis 303c903ff83SMike Travischoice 304c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 305c903ff83SMike Travis default CLASSIC_RCU 306c903ff83SMike Travis 307c903ff83SMike Travisconfig CLASSIC_RCU 308c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Classic RCU" 309c903ff83SMike Travis help 310c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is 311c903ff83SMike Travis designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime 312c903ff83SMike Travis systems. 313c903ff83SMike Travis 314c903ff83SMike Travis Select this option if you are unsure. 315c903ff83SMike Travis 316c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 317c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 318c903ff83SMike Travis help 319c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 320c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 321c903ff83SMike Travis thousands of CPUs. 322c903ff83SMike Travis 323c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU 324c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Preemptible RCU" 325c903ff83SMike Travis depends on PREEMPT 326c903ff83SMike Travis help 327c903ff83SMike Travis This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain 328c903ff83SMike Travis RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if 329c903ff83SMike Travis this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become 330c903ff83SMike Travis preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to 331c903ff83SMike Travis now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section 332c903ff83SMike Travis remaining on a given CPU through its execution. 333c903ff83SMike Travis 334c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 335c903ff83SMike Travis 336c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 337c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 338c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 339c903ff83SMike Travis help 340c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 341c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 342c903ff83SMike Travis 343c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 344c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 345c903ff83SMike Travis 346c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 347c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 348c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 349c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 350c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU 351c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 352c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 353c903ff83SMike Travis help 354c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 355c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 356c903ff83SMike Travis large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube 357c903ff83SMike Travis root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit 358c903ff83SMike Travis systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. 359c903ff83SMike Travis 360c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 361c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 362c903ff83SMike Travis 363c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 364c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 365c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU 366c903ff83SMike Travis default n 367c903ff83SMike Travis help 368c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 369c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 370c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 371c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 372c903ff83SMike Travis 373c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 374c903ff83SMike Travis 375c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 376c903ff83SMike Travis 377c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 378c903ff83SMike Travis def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU 379c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 380c903ff83SMike Travis help 381c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation, 382c903ff83SMike Travis permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 383c903ff83SMike Travis 384c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE 385c903ff83SMike Travis def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU 386c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 387c903ff83SMike Travis help 388c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation, 389c903ff83SMike Travis permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c. 390c903ff83SMike Travis 391c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 392c903ff83SMike Travis 3931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 394f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 412794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 413794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 414794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 415f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 416794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 417794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 418f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 419f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 420f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 421f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 422f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 423794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 424794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 425794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 4265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 4285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 4305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 4315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig GROUP_SCHED 4335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group CPU scheduler" 4345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 4355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 4365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 4385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bandwidth allocation to such task groups. 4395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use 4405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) 4415cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 4435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 4445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default GROUP_SCHED 4465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 4485cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 4495cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 4505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 4525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 4545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" 4555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 4565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 4575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki realtime bandwidth for them. 4585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 4595cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4605cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukichoice 4615cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" 4635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default USER_SCHED 4645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig USER_SCHED 4665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "user id" 4675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping 4695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. 4705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_SCHED 4725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Control groups" 4735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUPS 4745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups 4765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control 4775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. 47845ce80fbSLi Zefan Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more 47945ce80fbSLi Zefan information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. 4805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiendchoice 4825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 48323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 48423964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 485ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 48623964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 4875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 4885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 4895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 4905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 49145ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 49245ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 493ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 494ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 495ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 49623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 49723964d2dSLi Zefan 498006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 499006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 500006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 501418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 502006cb992SPaul Menage help 503006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 504006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 50523964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 506006cb992SPaul Menage 50723964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 508006cb992SPaul Menage 509858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 510858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 511858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 512858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 513858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 514858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 515858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 516858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 517858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 518dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 51923964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 520dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 521dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 522dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 523dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 524dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 52508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 52608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 52708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 52808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 52908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 53008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 53108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 5321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 534db7f47cfSPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 536d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 54323964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 54423964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 54523964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 54623964d2dSLi Zefan default y 54723964d2dSLi Zefan 548d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 549d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 550d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 551d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 552d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 55323964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 554d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 555e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 556e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 557e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 558e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 55923964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 560e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 561e552b661SPavel Emelianov 56200f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 56300f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 56400f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 565cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 56600f0b825SBalbir Singh help 56784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 56821acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 56900f0b825SBalbir Singh 57000f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 57184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 57284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 57384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 57484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 57500f0b825SBalbir Singh 57600f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 57784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 57884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 57984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 580c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 58100f0b825SBalbir Singh 582cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 583cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 584cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 585c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 586c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" 587c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL 588c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 589c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 590c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 591c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 592c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 593c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 594c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 595c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 596c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 597c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 598c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 599c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 600627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 601627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 602c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 60323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 604c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 60523964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 60623964d2dSLi Zefan bool 6075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 60888a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 609d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 610d47846c5SIngo Molnar 611d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 612fce3e804SKay Sievers bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools" 6139148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 61488a22c98SKay Sievers default y 615d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 61688a22c98SKay Sievers help 617fce3e804SKay Sievers This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated 618fce3e804SKay Sievers version. 61988a22c98SKay Sievers 620fce3e804SKay Sievers The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at 621fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between 622fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the 623fce3e804SKay Sievers unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at 624fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at 625fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by 626fce3e804SKay Sievers "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" 627fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some 628fce3e804SKay Sievers subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which 629fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the unified device tree. 63088a22c98SKay Sievers 631fce3e804SKay Sievers This option is not a pure compatibility option that can 632fce3e804SKay Sievers be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the 633fce3e804SKay Sievers layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, 634fce3e804SKay Sievers and disable some features, which can not be exported without 635fce3e804SKay Sievers confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major 636fce3e804SKay Sievers distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which 637fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the deprecated layout or this option. 638fce3e804SKay Sievers 639fce3e804SKay Sievers If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use 640fce3e804SKay Sievers older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, 641fce3e804SKay Sievers if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has 642fce3e804SKay Sievers this option set to N. 64388a22c98SKay Sievers 644b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 645b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 646b86ff981SJens Axboe help 647b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 648b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 649b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 650b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 651b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 652b86ff981SJens Axboe 653b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 654b86ff981SJens Axboe 655c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 656c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 657c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 658c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 659c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 660c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 661c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 662c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 663c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 66458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 66558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 66658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 66758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 66858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 66958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 67058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 671ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 672ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 673ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC 674ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 675ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 676ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov different IPC objects in different namespaces 677ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 678aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 679aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 680aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 681aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 682aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 683aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 684aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 685aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 68674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 68774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 68874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 68974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 69074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 69112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 692692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 69374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 69474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 69574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 69674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 69774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 698d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 699d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 700d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 701d6eb633fSMatt Helsley depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET 702d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 703d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 704d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 705d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 706f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 707f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 708f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 709f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 710f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 711f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 712f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 713f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 714f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 715f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 716f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 717f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 718f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 719f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 720f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 721f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 722c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 723c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 724dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 725dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 726c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 727c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 728c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 72996fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 730c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 731c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 732c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 733c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 734c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 735775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 736c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 7370847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 7380847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 7390847062aSRandy Dunlap 740b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 741b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 742b943c460SRandy Dunlap 7431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 751ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 752ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 75309337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 754ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 755ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 756ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 757ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 758b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 7590847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 76013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 761b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 762b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 76313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 76413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 76513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 76613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 767b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 76813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 76913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 77013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 771b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 77213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 773ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 7741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 775979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 788f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 789f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 804d59745ceSMatt Mackall 805712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 806712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 807712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 808712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 809712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 810712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 811712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 812712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 813712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 814d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 815d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 816d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 817d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 818d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 819d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 820d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 821d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 822d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 823d59745ceSMatt Mackall 824c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 825c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 826c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 827c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 828c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 829c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 830c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 831c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 832c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 833c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 834708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 835708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 836708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 837708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 838708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 839708e9a79SMatt Mackall 840e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 841e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 842e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 843e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 844e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 845e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 846e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 847e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 8481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 85923f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 868448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 873fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 874fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 875448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 876fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 877fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 878fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 879fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 880fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 881fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 882fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 883b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 884b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 885448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 886b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 887b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 888b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 889b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 890b215e283SDavide Libenzi 891b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 892b215e283SDavide Libenzi 893e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 894e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 895448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 896e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 897e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 898e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 899e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 900e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 901e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 902e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 9031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 914ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 915ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 916ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 917ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 918ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 919ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 920ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 921ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 922f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 923f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 924f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 925f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 9262aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 9272aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 9282aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 9292aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 930f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 9313d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 9323d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 93361cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 93461cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 9353d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 9363d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 9373d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 9383d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 9393d137310SThomas Petazzoni 94041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 94141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 94241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 943f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 94441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 94541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 94641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 94741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 94841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 94941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 950b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 951b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 952b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 953b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 954b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 955b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 956b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 957692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 958b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 959b943c460SRandy Dunlap 960b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 961b943c460SRandy Dunlap 96281819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 96381819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 964a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 96581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 96681819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 96781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 96881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 96981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 97081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 97181819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 97234013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 97302f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 97481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 97581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 97681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 97781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 97881819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 97981819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 98081819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 98181819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 98202f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 98302f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 98481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 98581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 98684a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 98781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 98881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 98937291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 99037291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 99137291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 99281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 99381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 99481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 995125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 996125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 997125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 998125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 999125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1000125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 10015f87f112SIngo Molnar# 10025f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 10035f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 10045f87f112SIngo Molnar# 100597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 10065f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 100797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1008125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS 1009125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Activate markers" 101091f73f90SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 1011125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1012125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be 1013125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers dynamically changed for a probe function. 1014125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 1015fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1016fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 101707fe7cb7SDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK 101807fe7cb7SDavid Howells default n 1019*1c2d008cSDavid Howells bool 102007fe7cb7SDavid Howells help 102107fe7cb7SDavid Howells The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated 102207fe7cb7SDavid Howells threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that 102307fe7cb7SDavid Howells take a relatively long time. 102407fe7cb7SDavid Howells 102507fe7cb7SDavid Howells An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed 102607fe7cb7SDavid Howells by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch 102707fe7cb7SDavid Howells disk. 102807fe7cb7SDavid Howells 1029*1c2d008cSDavid Howells See Documentation/slow-work.txt. 1030*1c2d008cSDavid Howells 10311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1033ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1034ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1035ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1036ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1037158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1038158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1039158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 10400f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1041158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1042158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1043ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1044ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1045ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 10461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 10501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 105166da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 10521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 10531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 10551da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 10561da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 10611da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 10631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 10651da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10710b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 10720b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1073826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1074826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1075826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1076826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 107791e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 107891e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 107991e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1080826e4506SLinus Torvalds 10811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1086f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1087f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 10911da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 11000d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11200b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 11210b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 112298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 112398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 112498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 112598a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 112698a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 112798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 112898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1129692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 113098a79d6aSRusty Russell 11311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 11373a65dfe8SJens Axboe 11383a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1139e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1140e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1141e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1142e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 1143