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 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 30*1dbdc6f1SDavid Daneyconfig BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 31*1dbdc6f1SDavid Daney bool 32*1dbdc6f1SDavid Daney 33ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 76dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 77dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8384336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 8484336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 8584336466SRoland McGrath help 8684336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 8784336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 8884336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 8984336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 9084336466SRoland McGrath 911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 101aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 103aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 104aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson 109aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 111aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 113aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1166e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1196e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 120aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1303ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1313ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1323ebe1243SLasse Collin 1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1393ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1843ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1923ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1933ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1943ebe1243SLasse Collin 1953ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1963ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1973ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1983ebe1243SLasse Collin 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2017dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 204681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2067dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 20730d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 211bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 212bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 213bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 214bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 215bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 216bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 217bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2209361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 243a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 244a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 245a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 246a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 247a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 248a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 257b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 265bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 266bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 267bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 268bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 269bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 270bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 29437a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 296990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 297990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 298990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 299990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 300990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 301990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 302990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 303990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 304990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 305990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 306990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 307990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 308c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 309c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 310c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 311c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 312c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 313c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 314c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 315c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 316c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 317c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 318c757249aSShailabh Nagar 319c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 320c757249aSShailabh Nagar 321ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 322ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3236f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 324ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 325ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 326ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 327ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 328ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 329ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 330ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 331ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 33218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 33318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 33418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 33518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 33618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 33718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 33818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 33918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 34018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 34118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 34218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 34318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 34418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 34518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 34618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 34718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 34818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 34918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 352804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 36129ef73b7SNathaniel Husted depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || ARM) 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 36667640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 368939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 369939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 370939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 371939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 37374c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 37474c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 37563c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 37628a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 37774c3cbe3SAl Viro 378633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 379633b4545SEric Paris bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 380633b4545SEric Paris depends on AUDIT 381633b4545SEric Paris help 382f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 383633b4545SEric Paris CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 384633b4545SEric Paris but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 385633b4545SEric Paris previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 386633b4545SEric Paris process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 387633b4545SEric Paris systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 388633b4545SEric Paris start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 389633b4545SEric Paris one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 390633b4545SEric Paris but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 391633b4545SEric Paris 392d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 393d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 394c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 395c903ff83SMike Travis 396c903ff83SMike Travischoice 397c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 39831c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 399c903ff83SMike Travis 400c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 401c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 402687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 403c903ff83SMike Travis help 404c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 405c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 406c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 407c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 408c903ff83SMike Travis 409f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 410a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4118008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && SMP 412f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 413f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 414f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 415f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 416bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 417bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 418f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4199b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4209b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4218008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4229b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4239b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4249b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4259b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4269b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4279b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 428a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 429a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4308008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && !SMP 431a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 432a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 433a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 434a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 435a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 436c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 437c903ff83SMike Travis 438a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 439a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 440a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 441a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 442a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 443a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 444c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 445c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 446c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 447c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 448f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 449c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 450c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 451c903ff83SMike Travis help 452c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 453c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 4544d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 4554d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 4564d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 4574d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 4584d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 4594d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 460c903ff83SMike Travis 461c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 462c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 463c903ff83SMike Travis 464c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 465c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 466f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 467c903ff83SMike Travis default n 468c903ff83SMike Travis help 469c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 470c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 471c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 472c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 473c903ff83SMike Travis 474c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 475c903ff83SMike Travis 476c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 477c903ff83SMike Travis 4788bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4798bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 480b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney depends on NO_HZ && SMP 4818bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4828bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4838bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 484b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more 485b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead 486b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with 487b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. 4888bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4898bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4908bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4918bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4928bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4938bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 494c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 495f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 496c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 497c903ff83SMike Travis help 498f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 499f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 500f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 501c903ff83SMike Travis 50224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 50324278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 50427f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 50524278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 50624278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 50724278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 50824278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 50924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 51024278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 51124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 51224278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 51324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 51424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 51524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 51624278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 51724278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 51824278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 51924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 52024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 52124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted 52224278d14SPaul E. McKenney RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound 52324278d14SPaul E. McKenney real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then 52424278d14SPaul E. McKenney the highest-priority CPU-bound application. 52524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 52624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 52724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 52824278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 52924278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 53024278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 53124278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 53224278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 53324278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 53424278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 53524278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 53624278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 53724278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 53824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 53924278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 54024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 541c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 542c903ff83SMike Travis 5431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 544f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 562794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 563794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 564794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 565f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 566794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 567794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 568f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 569f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 570f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 571f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 572f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 573794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 574794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 575794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 5765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 58223964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 58323964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 5840dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 585ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 58623964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 5875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 5885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 5895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 5905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 59145ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 59245ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 593ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 594ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 595ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 59623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 59723964d2dSLi Zefan 598006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 599006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 600418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 601006cb992SPaul Menage help 602006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 603006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 60423964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 605006cb992SPaul Menage 60623964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 607006cb992SPaul Menage 608dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 60923964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 610dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 611dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 612dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 613dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 61408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 61508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 61608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 61708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 61808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 61908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 6201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 623d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 6251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 6271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 63023964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 63123964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 63223964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 63323964d2dSLi Zefan default y 63423964d2dSLi Zefan 635d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 636d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 637d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 638d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 63923964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 640d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 641e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 642e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 643e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 644e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 64523964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 646e552b661SPavel Emelianov 64700f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 64800f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 64979ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 650cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 65100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 65284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 65321acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 65400f0b825SBalbir Singh 65500f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 65684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 65784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 65884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 65984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 66000f0b825SBalbir Singh 66100f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 66284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 66384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 66484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 665c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 66600f0b825SBalbir Singh 667cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 668cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 669cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 670c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 67165e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 67265e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 673c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 674c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 675c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 676c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 677c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 678c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 679c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 680c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 681c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 682c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 683c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 68400a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 685627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 686627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 687a42c390cSMichal Hockoconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED 688a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 689a42c390cSMichal Hocko depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 690a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 691a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 692a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 693a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 69443d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 695a42c390cSMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 696a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 697a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 698a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 69900a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 700e5671dfaSGlauber Costaconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM 701e5671dfaSGlauber Costa bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 702e5671dfaSGlauber Costa depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && EXPERIMENTAL 703e5671dfaSGlauber Costa default n 704e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 705e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 706e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 707e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 708e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 709e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 710e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 711c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 712e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 713e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 714e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 715e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 716e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 7172d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 718e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 719e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 720e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 721e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7227c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 7237c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 7247c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7257c941438SDhaval Giani help 7267c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7277c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7287c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7297c941438SDhaval Giani 7307c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7317c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7327c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7337c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7347c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7357c941438SDhaval Giani 736ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 737ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 738ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on EXPERIMENTAL 739ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 740ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 741ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 742ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 743ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 744ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 745ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 746ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 747ab84d31eSPaul Turner 7487c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7497c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7507c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 7517c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7527c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7537c941438SDhaval Giani help 7547c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 75532bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7567c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7577c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7587c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7597c941438SDhaval Giani 7607c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7617c941438SDhaval Giani 762afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 763afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 76479ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 765afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 766afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 767afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 768afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 769afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 770afc24d49SVivek Goyal 771afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 772afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 773e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 774e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 775afc24d49SVivek Goyal 776afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 777e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 77879e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 77979e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 780c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 781afc24d49SVivek Goyal 782afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 783afc24d49SVivek Goyal 784afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 785afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 786afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 787afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 788afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 789afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 790afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 791afc24d49SVivek Goyal 79223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 793c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 794067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 795067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 796067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 797067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 798067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 799067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 800067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 801067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 802067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 803067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 804067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 8058dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 8066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 8076a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 808c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 809c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 810c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 811c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 812c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 813c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 8148dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 8158dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 81658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 81758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 81817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 81958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 82058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 82158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 82258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 823ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 824ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 8258dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 82617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 827ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 828ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 829614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 830ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 831aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 832aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 8338dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 83417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 835aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 836aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 837aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 838aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 839aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 84074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 8419bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 84217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 84374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 84412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 845692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 84674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 84774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 848d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 849d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 8508dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 85117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 852d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 853d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 854d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 855d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 8568dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 8578dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 8585091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 8595091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 8605091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 8615091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 8625091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 8635091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8645091faa4SMike Galbraith help 8655091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 8665091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 8675091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 8685091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 8695091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 8705091faa4SMike Galbraith 8717af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 8727af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 8737af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8747af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 8755d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 8767af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 8777af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 8787af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8797af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 8807af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 8817af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 8827af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8837af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 8847af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 8857af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8867af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 8877af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 8887af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 8897af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8907af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 8917af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 8927af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 8937af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8947af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 8957af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 8967af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8977af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 8985d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 8997af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9007af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9017af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9027af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9037af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 9047af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9057af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 9067af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 9077af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9087af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9097af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 9107af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 9117af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9127af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 9137af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 9147af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9157af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 9167af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 9177af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 9187af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 9197af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 9207af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9217af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 9227af37becSDaniel Lezcano 923f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 924f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 925f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 926f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 927f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 928f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 929f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 930f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 931f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 932f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 933f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 934f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 935f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 936f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 937f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 938f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 939c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 940c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 941dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 942dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 943c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 944c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 945c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 94696fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 947c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 948c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 949c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 950c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 951775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 952c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 9530847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 9540847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 9550847062aSRandy Dunlap 956b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 957b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 958b943c460SRandy Dunlap 9596a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 9606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 961f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 962f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 969ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 9706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 97109337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 972ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 973ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 974ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 975ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 976b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 9776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 97826a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 979c736de60SWANG Cong default n 980b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 981b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 98213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 98313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 98413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 98513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 986b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 98713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 98813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 98913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 990b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 991c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 992ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 9931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 9946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 9951da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 9981da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 9991da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 10001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 10021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 10031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 100571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 100671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 100771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 100871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 100971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 101171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 101271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 101371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 101471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 101671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1017d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1018712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 10196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT 1020712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 1021712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 1022712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 1023712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 1024712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 1025712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 1026712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 1027d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1028d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 10296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1030d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1031d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1032d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1033d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1034d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1035d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1036d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1037c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 10386a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1039c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1040c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1041c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1042c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1043c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1044c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1045c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1046c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1047708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1048708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 10496a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1050708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1051708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1052708e9a79SMatt Mackall 10538761f1abSRalf Baechle 1054e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 10556a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 10568761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 105715f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1058e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1059e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1060e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1061e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1062e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 10638761f1abSRalf Baechleconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 10648761f1abSRalf Baechle bool 10658761f1abSRalf Baechle 10661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 10756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 107723f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 10781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 10846a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1086448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 10891da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1091fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 10926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1093448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1094fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1095fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1096fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1097fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1098fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1099fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1100fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1101b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 11026a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1103448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1104b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1105b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1106b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1107b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1108b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1109b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1110b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1111e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 11126a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1113448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1114e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1115e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1116e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1117e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1118e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1119e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1120e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 11211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 11226a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 11251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11261da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 11291da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 11311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1132ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 11336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1134ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1135ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1136ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1137ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1138ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1139ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 11406befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 11416befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 11426befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 11436befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 11446befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 11456befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 11466befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 11476befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1148cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 11490793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1150018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1151018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 11520793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1153906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1154906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1155906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1156906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1157906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 115857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 11590793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1160cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 116157c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 116257c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1163cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 11644c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1165e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11660793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 116757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 116857c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 11690793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1170dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 117157c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 117257c0c15bSIngo Molnar 117357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 117457c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 11750793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 11760793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 11770793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 11780793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 11790793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 11800793a61dSThomas Gleixner 118157c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1182dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 118357c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 11840793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 11850793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 11860793a61dSThomas Gleixner 11870793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 11880793a61dSThomas Gleixner 118957c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 119057c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 119157c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 119257c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 119357c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 119457c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 119557c0c15bSIngo Molnar 119657c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 119757c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 119857c0c15bSIngo Molnar 119957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 120057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1201906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1202906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1203906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1204906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1205906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1206906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1207906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1208906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1209906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1210906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1211906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1212906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1213906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 12140793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 12150793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1216f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1217f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 12186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1219f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 12202aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 12212aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 12226a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 12232aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1224f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 12253d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 12263d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 12276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 122861cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 12293d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 12303d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 12313d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 12323d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 12333d137310SThomas Petazzoni 123441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 123541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 12366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1237f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 123841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 123941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 124041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 124141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 124241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 124341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1244b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1245b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1246b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1247b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1248b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1249b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1250b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1251692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1252b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1253b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1254b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1255b943c460SRandy Dunlap 125681819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 125781819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1258a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 125981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 126081819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 126181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 126281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 126381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 126481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 126581819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 126634013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 126702f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 126881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 126981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 127081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 127181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 127281819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 127381819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 127481819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 127581819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 127602f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 127702f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 127881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 127981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 12806a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 128181819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 128281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 128337291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 128437291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 128537291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 128681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 128781819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 128881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1289ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1290ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 12916a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1292ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1293ea637639SJie Zhang help 1294ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1295ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1296ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1297ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1298ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1299ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1300ea637639SJie Zhang 1301ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1302ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1303ea637639SJie Zhang 1304ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1305ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1306ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1307ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1308ea637639SJie Zhang 1309ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1310ea637639SJie Zhang 1311125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1312b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1313125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1314125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1315125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1316125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 13175f87f112SIngo Molnar# 13185f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 13195f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 13205f87f112SIngo Molnar# 132197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 13225f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 132397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1324fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1325fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 13261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1328ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1329ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1330ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1331ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1332158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1333158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1334158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 13350f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1336158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1337158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1338ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1339ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1340ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 134666da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13660b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 13670b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1368826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1369826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1370826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1371826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 137291e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 137391e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 137491e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1375826e4506SLinus Torvalds 13761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1381f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1382f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 13950d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 13961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14150b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 14160b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 141798a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 141898a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 141998a79d6aSRusty Russell help 14205f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 14215f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 142298a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 142398a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1424692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 142598a79d6aSRusty Russell 14261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 14323a65dfe8SJens Axboe 14333a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1434e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1435e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1436e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1437e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 143816295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 143916295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 144016295becSSteffen Klassert bool 144116295becSSteffen Klassert 14426beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1443