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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	default y
23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
24ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL
271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SMP || PREEMPT
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
72dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7984336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
8084336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
8184336466SRoland McGrath	help
8284336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
8384336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
8484336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
8584336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
8684336466SRoland McGrath
871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
97aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
98aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
99aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
100aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
101aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
104aaebf433SRyan Anderson
105aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
107aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
109aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
116aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel
1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The most recent compression algorithm.
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33%
1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1797dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
18530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1899361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
212a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
213a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
214a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
215a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
216a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
217a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
226b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
234bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
235bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
236bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
237bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
238bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
239bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
2401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
26337a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
265c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS
266c757249aSShailabh Nagar	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
267c757249aSShailabh Nagar	depends on NET
268c757249aSShailabh Nagar	default n
269c757249aSShailabh Nagar	help
270c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
271c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
272c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
273c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
274c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  space on task exit.
275c757249aSShailabh Nagar
276c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
277c757249aSShailabh Nagar
278ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
279ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2806f44993fSShailabh Nagar	depends on TASKSTATS
281ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	help
282ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
283ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
284ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
285ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
286ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
287ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
288ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
28918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT
29018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
29118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASKSTATS
29218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
29318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
29418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
29518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
29618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
29718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
29818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
29918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
30018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASK_XACCT
30118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
30218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
30318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  task has caused.
30418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
30518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
30618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
309804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
318022382a5SKumar Gala	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
32367640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds
325939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
326939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
327939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
328939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
33074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
33174c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
33263c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
33328a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
33474c3cbe3SAl Viro
335c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
336c903ff83SMike Travis
337c903ff83SMike Travischoice
338c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
33931c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
340c903ff83SMike Travis
341c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
342c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
343687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
344c903ff83SMike Travis	help
345c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
346c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
347c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
348c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
349c903ff83SMike Travis
350f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
351a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
352f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
353f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
354f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
355f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
356f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
357bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
358bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
359f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
3609b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
3619b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
3629b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	depends on !SMP
3639b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
3649b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
3659b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
3669b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
3679b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
3689b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
369a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
370a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
371a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !SMP && PREEMPT
372a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
373a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
374a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  for real-time UP systems.  This option greatly reduces the
375a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
376a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
377c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
378c903ff83SMike Travis
379a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU
380a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
381a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
382a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
383a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
384a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
385c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE
386c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
3876b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
388c903ff83SMike Travis	help
389c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
390c903ff83SMike Travis	  in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
391c903ff83SMike Travis
392c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
393c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if you are unsure.
394c903ff83SMike Travis
395c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
396c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
397c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
398c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
399f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
400c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
401c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
402c903ff83SMike Travis	help
403c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
404c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
4054d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
4064d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
4074d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
4084d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
4094d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
4104d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
411c903ff83SMike Travis
412c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
413c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
414c903ff83SMike Travis
415c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
416c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
417f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
418c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
419c903ff83SMike Travis	help
420c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
421c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
422c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
423c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
424c903ff83SMike Travis
425c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
426c903ff83SMike Travis
427c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
428c903ff83SMike Travis
4298bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
4308bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
4318bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
4328bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
4338bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
4348bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
4358bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
4368bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  more quickly.  On the other hand, this option increases the
4378bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
4388bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  with large numbers of CPUs.
4398bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
4408bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
4418bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  	if you have relatively few CPUs.
4428bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
4438bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
4448bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
445c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
446f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
447c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
448c903ff83SMike Travis	help
449f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
450f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
451f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
452c903ff83SMike Travis
453*24278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
454*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
455*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
456*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
457*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
458*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
459*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
460*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
461*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
462*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney
463*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
464*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
465*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney
466*24278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO
467*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
468*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99
469*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
470*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 1
471*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
472*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted
473*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU readers are to be boosted.  If you are working with CPU-bound
474*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then
475*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  the highest-priority CPU-bound application.
476*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney
477*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
478*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney
479*24278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
480*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
481*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
482*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
483*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
484*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
485*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
486*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
487*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
488*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
489*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney
490*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
491*24278d14SPaul E. McKenney
492c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
493c903ff83SMike Travis
4941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
495f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
513794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
514794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
515794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
516f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
517794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
518794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
519f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
520f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
521f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
522f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
523f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
524794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
525794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
526794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
5275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
5285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
5295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
5305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
5315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
5325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
53323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
53423964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
5350dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov	depends on EVENTFD
536ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
53723964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
5385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
5395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
5405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
5415cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
54245ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
54345ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
544ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
545ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
546ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
54723964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
54823964d2dSLi Zefan
549006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
550006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
551006cb992SPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
552418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
553006cb992SPaul Menage	help
554006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
555006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
55623964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
557006cb992SPaul Menage
55823964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
559006cb992SPaul Menage
560858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS
561858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
562858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS
563858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	help
564858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
565858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
566858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
567858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  jobs.
568858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn
569dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
57023964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
571dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	depends on CGROUPS
572dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
573dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
574dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
575dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
57608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
57708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
57808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
57908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
58008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
58108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
58208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
5831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
585db7f47cfSPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
587d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds
59423964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
59523964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
59623964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
59723964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
59823964d2dSLi Zefan
599d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
600d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
601d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	depends on CGROUPS
602d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
603d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
60423964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
605d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
606e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
607e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
608e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
609e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
61023964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
611e552b661SPavel Emelianov	depends on CGROUPS
612e552b661SPavel Emelianov
61300f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
61400f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
61500f0b825SBalbir Singh	depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
616cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
61700f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
61884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
61921acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
62000f0b825SBalbir Singh
62100f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
62284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
62384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
62484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
62584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
62600f0b825SBalbir Singh
62700f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
62884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
62984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
63084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
631c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
63200f0b825SBalbir Singh
633cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
634cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
635cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
636c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
63765e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
63865e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP
639c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
640c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
641c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
642c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
643c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
644c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
645c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
646c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
647c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
648c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
649c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
650c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
651627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
652627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
653c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
6547c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
6557c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
6567c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS
6577c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
6587c941438SDhaval Giani	help
6597c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
6607c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
6617c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
6627c941438SDhaval Giani
6637c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
6647c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
6657c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
6667c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
6677c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
6687c941438SDhaval Giani
6697c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
6707c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
6717c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
6727c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
6737c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
6747c941438SDhaval Giani	help
6757c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
67632bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
6777c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
6787c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
6797c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
6807c941438SDhaval Giani
6817c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
6827c941438SDhaval Giani
683afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
684afc24d49SVivek Goyal	tristate "Block IO controller"
685afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on CGROUPS && BLOCK
686afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
687afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
688afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
689afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
690afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
691afc24d49SVivek Goyal
692afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
693afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
694afc24d49SVivek Goyal	to such task groups.
695afc24d49SVivek Goyal
696afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
697afc24d49SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it
698afc24d49SVivek Goyal	to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y).
699afc24d49SVivek Goyal
700afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
701afc24d49SVivek Goyal
702afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
703afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
704afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
705afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
706afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
707afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
708afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
709afc24d49SVivek Goyal
71023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
711c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
71223964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER
71323964d2dSLi Zefan	bool
7145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
71588a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
716d47846c5SIngo Molnar	bool
717d47846c5SIngo Molnar
718d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
7199e9868a7SUwe Kleine-König	bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
7209148fe87SRandy Dunlap	depends on SYSFS
721f6ee649fSKay Sievers	default n
722d47846c5SIngo Molnar	select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
72388a22c98SKay Sievers	help
724fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
725f6ee649fSKay Sievers	  version. Do not use it on recent distributions.
72688a22c98SKay Sievers
727fce3e804SKay Sievers	  The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
728fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
729fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
730fce3e804SKay Sievers	  unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
731fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
732fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
733fce3e804SKay Sievers	  "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
734fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
735fce3e804SKay Sievers	  subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
736fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the unified device tree.
73788a22c98SKay Sievers
738fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
739fce3e804SKay Sievers	  be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
740fce3e804SKay Sievers	  layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
741fce3e804SKay Sievers	  and disable some features, which can not be exported without
742fce3e804SKay Sievers	  confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
743fce3e804SKay Sievers	  distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
744fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
745fce3e804SKay Sievers
746fce3e804SKay Sievers	  If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
747fce3e804SKay Sievers	  older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
748fce3e804SKay Sievers	  if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
749fce3e804SKay Sievers	  this option set to N.
75088a22c98SKay Sievers
751b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY
752b86ff981SJens Axboe	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
753b86ff981SJens Axboe	help
754b86ff981SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
755b86ff981SJens Axboe	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
756b86ff981SJens Axboe	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
757b86ff981SJens Axboe	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
758b86ff981SJens Axboe	  user space.
759b86ff981SJens Axboe
760b86ff981SJens Axboe	  If unsure, say N.
761b86ff981SJens Axboe
762c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES
763c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
764c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	default !EMBEDDED
765c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
766c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
767c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
768c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
769c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
770c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
77158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
77258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
77358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES
77458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
77558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
77658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
77758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
778ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
779ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
780614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
781ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
782ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
783614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
784ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
785aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
786aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
787aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
788aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
789aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
790aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
791aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
792aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
79374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
79474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
79574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	default n
79674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
79774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
79812d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
799692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
80074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
80174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
80274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
80374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  say N here.
80474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
805d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
806d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
807d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	default n
808d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
809d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
810d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
811d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
812d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
813f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
814f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
815f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
816f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
817f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
818f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
819f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
820f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
821f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
822f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
823f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
824f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
825f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
826f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
827f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
828f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
829c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
830c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
831dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
832dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
833c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
834c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
835c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
83696fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
837c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	default y
838c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
839c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
840c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
841c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
842775a7229Sjkacur	  If unsure, say Y.
843c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
8440847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
8450847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
8460847062aSRandy Dunlap
847b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
848b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
849b943c460SRandy Dunlap
8501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED
8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
858ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
859ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
86009337f50SDavid S. Miller	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
861ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
862ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
863ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
864ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
865b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
8660847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
86726a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
86813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	default y
869b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
870b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
87113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
87213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
87313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
87413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
875b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
87613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
87713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
87813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
879b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
88013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  If unsure say Y here.
881ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
8821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
883979c6a1eSJesper Juhl	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
8841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
8851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
8911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
8931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
8951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
896f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
897f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say N.
9001da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on KALLSYMS
9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and
9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
912d59745ceSMatt Mackall
913712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
914712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
915712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	default y
916712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	help
917712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
918712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
919712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
920712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
921712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
922d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
923d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
924d59745ceSMatt Mackall	bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
925d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
926d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
927d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
928d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
929d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
930d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
931d59745ceSMatt Mackall
932c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
933c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
934c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
935c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
936c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
937c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
938c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
939c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
940c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
941c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
942708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
943708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
944708e9a79SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
945708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
946708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
947708e9a79SMatt Mackall
948e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
949e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
950e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
951e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
952e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
953e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
954e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
955e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
9561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
96723f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
976448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds
981fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
982fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
983448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
984fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
985fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
986fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
987fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
988fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
989fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
990fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
991b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
992b215e283SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
993448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
994b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
995b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
996b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
997b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
998b215e283SDavide Libenzi
999b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1000b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1001e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
1002e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
1003448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1004e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1005e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1006e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1007e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1008e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1009e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1010e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
10111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
10121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
10131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
10141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
10211da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1022ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
1023ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
1024ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1025ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1026ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1027ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1028ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          this option saves about 7k.
1029ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1030cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
10310793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1032018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1033018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
10340793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1035906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1036906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1037906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1038906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1039906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
104057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
10410793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1042cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
104357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
104457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
1045cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
10464c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
10470793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
104857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
104957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
10500793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1051dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
105257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
105357c0c15bSIngo Molnar
105457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
105557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
10560793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
10570793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
10580793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
10590793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
10600793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
10610793a61dSThomas Gleixner
106257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1063dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
106457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
10650793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
10660793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
10670793a61dSThomas Gleixner
10680793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
10690793a61dSThomas Gleixner
107057c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS
107157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
107257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
107357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	help
107457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
107557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  config option - please see that one for details.
107657c0c15bSIngo Molnar
107757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
107857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
107957c0c15bSIngo Molnar
108057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Say N if unsure.
108157c0c15bSIngo Molnar
1082906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1083906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1084906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1085906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1086906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1087906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1088906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1089906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1090906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1091906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1092906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1093906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1094906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
10950793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
10960793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1097f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1098f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
1099f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
1100f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
11012aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
11022aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
11032aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
11042aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1105f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
11063d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS
11073d137310SThomas Petazzoni	default y
110861cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
110961cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on PCI
11103d137310SThomas Petazzoni	help
11113d137310SThomas Petazzoni	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
11123d137310SThomas Petazzoni          bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
11133d137310SThomas Petazzoni          unaffected by PCI quirks.
11143d137310SThomas Petazzoni
111541ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
111641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
111741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
1118f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
111941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
112041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
112141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
112241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
112341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
112441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1125b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1126b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1127b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1128b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1129b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1130b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1131b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1132692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1133b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1134b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1135b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1136b943c460SRandy Dunlap
113781819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
113881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1139a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
114081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
114181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
114281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
114381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
114481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
114581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
114681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
114734013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
114802f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
114981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
115081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
115181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
115281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
115381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
115481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
115581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
115681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
115702f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
115802f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
115981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
116081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
116184a01c2fSPaul Mundt	depends on EMBEDDED
116281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
116381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
116437291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
116537291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
116637291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
116781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
116881819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
116981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1170ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1171ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1172ea637639SJie Zhang	depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1173ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1174ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1175ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1176ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1177ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1178ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1179ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1180ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1181ea637639SJie Zhang
1182ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1183ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1184ea637639SJie Zhang
1185ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1186ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1187ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1188ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1189ea637639SJie Zhang
1190ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1191ea637639SJie Zhang
1192125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1193b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1194125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1195125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1196125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1197125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
11985f87f112SIngo Molnar#
11995f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
12005f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
12015f87f112SIngo Molnar#
120297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
12035f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
120497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1205fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1206fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
12071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1209ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1210ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1211ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1212ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1213158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1214158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1215158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
12160f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1217158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1218158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1219ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1220ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1221ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
12221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
122766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12470b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
12480b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1249826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1250826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1251826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1252826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
125391e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
125491e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
125591e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1256826e4506SLinus Torvalds
12571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1262f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1263f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
12760d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12960b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
12970b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
129898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
129998a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
130098a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
130198a79d6aSRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
130298a79d6aSRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
130398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
130498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1305692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
130698a79d6aSRusty Russell
13071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
13133a65dfe8SJens Axboe
13143a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1315e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1316e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1317e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1318e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
131916295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
132016295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
132116295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
132216295becSSteffen Klassert
13236beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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