180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 68dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 84aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 85aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 86aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 94aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 103aaebf433SRyan Anderson 104*30d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 105*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 106*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 107*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 108*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 109*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 110*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 111*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 112*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 113*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff 114*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 115*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 116*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 117*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 118*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff 119*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 120*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 121*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 122*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff 123*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 124*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff 125*30d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 126*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 127*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 128*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is 129*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both 130*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff compression and decompression) is the fastest. 131*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff 132*30d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 133*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 134*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 135*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 136*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is slowest among the 3. 137*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff The kernel size is about 10 per cent smaller with bzip2, 138*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff in comparison to gzip. 139*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels 140*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff you will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 141*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff 142*30d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 143*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 144*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 145*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 146*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 147*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2. Compression is slowest. 148*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff The kernel size is about 33 per cent smaller with lzma, 149*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff in comparison to gzip. 150*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff 151*30d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 152*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff 153*30d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1569361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 179a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 180a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 181a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 182a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 183a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 184a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 1851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 193b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 22437a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 226c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 227c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 228c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 229c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 230c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 231c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 232c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 233c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 234c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 235c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 236c757249aSShailabh Nagar 237c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 238c757249aSShailabh Nagar 239ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 240ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2416f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 242ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 243ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 244ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 245ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 246ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 247ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 248ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 249ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 25018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 25118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 25218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 25318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 25418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 25518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 25618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 25718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 25818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 25918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 26018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 26118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 26218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 26318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 26418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 26518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 26618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 26718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 2681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 270804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2791322b9deSYuichi Nakamura depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 284f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 285f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 28874c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 28974c3cbe3SAl Viro depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY 29074c3cbe3SAl Viro 2911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 292f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 310794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 311794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 312794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 313f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 314794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 315794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 316f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 317f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 318f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 319f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 320f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 321794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 322794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 323794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 324ddbcc7e8SPaul Menageconfig CGROUPS 325ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage bool "Control Group support" 326ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 327ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems 328ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage such as Cpusets 329ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 330ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 331ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 332006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 333006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 334006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 335418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 336006cb992SPaul Menage help 337006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 338006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 339006cb992SPaul Menage framework 340006cb992SPaul Menage 341006cb992SPaul Menage Say N if unsure 342006cb992SPaul Menage 343858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 344858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 345858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 346858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 347858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 348858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 349858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 350858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 351858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 352dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 353dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley bool "control group freezer subsystem" 354dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 355dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 356dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 357dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 358dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 35908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 36008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 36108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 36208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 36308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 36408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 36508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 3661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 3688793d854SPaul Menage depends on SMP && CGROUPS 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 370d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 377a5574cf6SIngo Molnar# 378a5574cf6SIngo Molnar# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 379a5574cf6SIngo Molnar# 380a5574cf6SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 381a5574cf6SIngo Molnar bool 382a5574cf6SIngo Molnar 383052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig GROUP_SCHED 384052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra bool "Group CPU scheduler" 385aac6abcaSParag Warudkar depends on EXPERIMENTAL 386aac6abcaSParag Warudkar default n 38729f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 388fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 3899b5b7751SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bandwidth allocation to such task groups. 39029f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 391052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 392052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 393052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on GROUP_SCHED 394aac6abcaSParag Warudkar default GROUP_SCHED 39524e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 396052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 397052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 398052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on EXPERIMENTAL 399052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on GROUP_SCHED 400052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra default n 401b9b158feSViktor Radnai help 402b9b158feSViktor Radnai This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 403b9b158feSViktor Radnai to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" 404b9b158feSViktor Radnai setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 405b9b158feSViktor Radnai schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 406b9b158feSViktor Radnai realtime bandwidth for them. 4072fe401e3SAdrian Knoth See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 408052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra 409052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstrachoice 410052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on GROUP_SCHED 411052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" 412052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra default USER_SCHED 413052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra 414052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig USER_SCHED 41524e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "user id" 41624e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 41724e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping 418fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. 41924e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 420052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig CGROUP_SCHED 42168318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Control groups" 42268318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 42368318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 42468318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups 42568318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control 42668318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. 42768318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information 42868318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. 42968318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri 43024e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiriendchoice 43124e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 432d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 433d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 434d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 435d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 436d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 437d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup 438d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 439e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 440e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 441e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 442e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 443e552b661SPavel Emelianov infrastructure that works with cgroups 444e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 445e552b661SPavel Emelianov 446cf475ad2SBalbir Singhconfig MM_OWNER 447cf475ad2SBalbir Singh bool 448cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 44900f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 45000f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 45100f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 452cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 45300f0b825SBalbir Singh help 45484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 45584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) 45600f0b825SBalbir Singh 45700f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 45884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 45984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 46084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 46184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 46200f0b825SBalbir Singh 46300f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 46484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 46584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 46684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 46784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki (and lose benefits of memory resource contoller) 46800f0b825SBalbir Singh 469cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 470cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 471cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 47288a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 473d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 474d47846c5SIngo Molnar 475d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 47688a22c98SKay Sievers bool "Create deprecated sysfs files" 4779148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 47888a22c98SKay Sievers default y 479d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 48088a22c98SKay Sievers help 48188a22c98SKay Sievers This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the 48288a22c98SKay Sievers "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the 48388a22c98SKay Sievers "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the 48488a22c98SKay Sievers uevent environment. 48588a22c98SKay Sievers None of these features or values should be used today, as 48688a22c98SKay Sievers they export driver core implementation details to userspace 48788a22c98SKay Sievers or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel 48888a22c98SKay Sievers releases. 48988a22c98SKay Sievers 49088a22c98SKay Sievers If enabled, this option will also move any device structures 4913dde6ad8SDavid Sterba that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in 492024440d2SGreg Kroah-Hartman order to support older versions of udev and some userspace 493024440d2SGreg Kroah-Hartman programs. 49488a22c98SKay Sievers 495024440d2SGreg Kroah-Hartman If you are using a distro with the most recent userspace 496024440d2SGreg Kroah-Hartman packages, it should be safe to say N here. 49788a22c98SKay Sievers 4988793d854SPaul Menageconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 4998793d854SPaul Menage bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 5008793d854SPaul Menage depends on CPUSETS 5018793d854SPaul Menage default y 5028793d854SPaul Menage 503b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 504b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 505b86ff981SJens Axboe help 506b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 507b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 508b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 509b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 510b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 511b86ff981SJens Axboe 512b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 513b86ff981SJens Axboe 514c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 515c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 516c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 517c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 518c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 519c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 520c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 521c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 522c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 52358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 52458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 52558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 52658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 52758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 52858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 52958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 530ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 531ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 532ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC 533ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 534ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 535ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov different IPC objects in different namespaces 536ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 537aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 538aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 539aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 540aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 541aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 542aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 543aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 544aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 54574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 54674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 54774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 54874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 54974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 55012d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 55174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov process with the same pid as long as they are in different 55274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 55374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 55474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 55574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 55674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 557f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 558f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 559f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 560f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 561f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 562f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 563f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 564f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 565f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 566f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 567f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 568f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 569f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 570f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 571f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 572f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 573c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 574c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 575dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 576dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 577c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 578c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 579c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 58096fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 581c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 582c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 583c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 584c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 585c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 586775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 587c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 5880847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 5890847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 5900847062aSRandy Dunlap 5911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 599ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 600ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 60109337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 602ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 603ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 604ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 605ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 606b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 6070847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 60813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 609b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 610b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 61113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 61213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 61313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 61413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 615b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 61613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 61713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 61813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 619b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 62013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 621ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 6221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 623979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 6251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 6271da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 6281da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 6311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 6321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 636f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 637f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 6401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6419bb48247SJan Beulichconfig KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED 6429bb48247SJan Beulich bool "Strip machine generated symbols from kallsyms" 6439bb48247SJan Beulich depends on KALLSYMS_ALL 6449bb48247SJan Beulich default y 6459bb48247SJan Beulich help 6469bb48247SJan Beulich Say N if you want kallsyms to retain even machine generated symbols. 6479bb48247SJan Beulich 6481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 659d59745ceSMatt Mackall 660712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 661712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 662712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 663712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 664712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 665712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 666712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 667712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 668712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 669d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 670d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 671d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 672d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 673d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 674d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 675d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 676d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 677d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 678d59745ceSMatt Mackall 679c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 680c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 681c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 682c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 683c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 684c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 685c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 686c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 687c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 688c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 689708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 690708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 691708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 692708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 693708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 694708e9a79SMatt Mackall 695e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 696e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 697e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 698e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 699e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 700e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 701e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 702e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 70332a93233SIngo Molnarconfig COMPAT_BRK 70432a93233SIngo Molnar bool "Disable heap randomization" 70532a93233SIngo Molnar default y 70632a93233SIngo Molnar help 70732a93233SIngo Molnar Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 70832a93233SIngo Molnar also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 70932a93233SIngo Molnar This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 71032a93233SIngo Molnar disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting 71132a93233SIngo Molnar /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 71232a93233SIngo Molnar 713166124fdSIngo Molnar On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 71432a93233SIngo Molnar 7151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 72623f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7325dc8bf81SDavide Libenziconfig ANON_INODES 733448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk bool 7345dc8bf81SDavide Libenzi 7351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 738448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 743fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 744fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 745448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 746fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 747fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 748fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 749fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 750fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 751fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 752fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 753b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 754b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 755448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 756b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 757b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 758b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 759b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 760b215e283SDavide Libenzi 761b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 762b215e283SDavide Libenzi 763e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 764e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 765448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 766e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 767e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 768e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 769e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 770e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 771e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 772e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 7731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 784ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 785ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 786ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 787ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 788ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 789ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 790ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 791ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 792f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 793f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 794f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 795f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 7962aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 7972aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 7982aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 7992aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 800f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 8013d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 8023d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 80361cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 80461cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 8053d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 8063d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 8073d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 8083d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 8093d137310SThomas Petazzoni 81041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 81141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 81241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 813f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 81441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 81541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 81641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 81741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 81841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 81941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 82081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 82181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 822a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 82381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 82481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 82581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 82681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 82781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 82881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 82981819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 83034013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 83102f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 83281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 83381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 83481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 83581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 83681819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 83781819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 83881819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 83981819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 84002f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 84102f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 84281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 84381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 84484a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 84581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 84681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 84737291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 84837291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 84937291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 85081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 85181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 85281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 853125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 854125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 855125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 856125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 857125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 858125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 8595f87f112SIngo Molnar# 8605f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 8615f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 8625f87f112SIngo Molnar# 86397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 8645f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 86597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 866125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS 867125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Activate markers" 868c1df1bd2SMathieu Desnoyers depends on TRACEPOINTS 869125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 870125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be 871125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers dynamically changed for a probe function. 872125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 873fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 874fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 8751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 877ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 878ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 879ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 880ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 881158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 882158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 883158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 8840f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 885158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 886158a9624SLinus Torvalds 887ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 888ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 889ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert select PLIST 890ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 8911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TINY_SHMEM 8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds default !SHMEM 8931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 8941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 8961da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 90066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9200b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 9210b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 922826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 923826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 924826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 925826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 92691e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 92791e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 92891e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 929826e4506SLinus Torvalds 9301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 9341da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 935f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 936f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 9371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 9391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 9401da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9421da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 9490d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KMOD 970baabaae9SJohannes Berg def_bool y 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 972baabaae9SJohannes Berg This is being removed soon. These days, CONFIG_MODULES 973baabaae9SJohannes Berg implies CONFIG_KMOD, so use that instead. 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9750b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 9760b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 97798a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 97898a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 97998a79d6aSRusty Russell help 98098a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 98198a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 98298a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 98398a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 98498a79d6aSRusty Russell and have several arch maintainers persuing me down dark alleys. 98598a79d6aSRusty Russell 9861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 9923a65dfe8SJens Axboe 9933a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 994e98c3202SAvi Kivity 995e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 996e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 997e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 99812d79bafSIngo Molnarchoice 99912d79bafSIngo Molnar prompt "RCU Implementation" 100012d79bafSIngo Molnar default CLASSIC_RCU 100112d79bafSIngo Molnar 1002e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyconfig CLASSIC_RCU 100312d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Classic RCU" 1004e260be67SPaul E. McKenney help 1005e260be67SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is 1006e260be67SPaul E. McKenney designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime 100712d79bafSIngo Molnar systems. 100812d79bafSIngo Molnar 100912d79bafSIngo Molnar Select this option if you are unsure. 101012d79bafSIngo Molnar 101112d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig TREE_RCU 101212d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 101312d79bafSIngo Molnar help 101412d79bafSIngo Molnar This option selects the RCU implementation that is 101512d79bafSIngo Molnar designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 101612d79bafSIngo Molnar thousands of CPUs. 101712d79bafSIngo Molnar 101812d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig PREEMPT_RCU 101912d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Preemptible RCU" 102012d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on PREEMPT 102112d79bafSIngo Molnar help 102212d79bafSIngo Molnar This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain 102312d79bafSIngo Molnar RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if 102412d79bafSIngo Molnar this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become 102512d79bafSIngo Molnar preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to 102612d79bafSIngo Molnar now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section 102712d79bafSIngo Molnar remaining on a given CPU through its execution. 102812d79bafSIngo Molnar 102912d79bafSIngo Molnarendchoice 103012d79bafSIngo Molnar 103112d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig RCU_TRACE 103212d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 103312d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 103412d79bafSIngo Molnar help 103512d79bafSIngo Molnar This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 103612d79bafSIngo Molnar in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 103712d79bafSIngo Molnar 103812d79bafSIngo Molnar Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 103912d79bafSIngo Molnar Say N if you are unsure. 104012d79bafSIngo Molnar 104112d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig RCU_FANOUT 104212d79bafSIngo Molnar int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 104312d79bafSIngo Molnar range 2 64 if 64BIT 104412d79bafSIngo Molnar range 2 32 if !64BIT 104512d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on TREE_RCU 104612d79bafSIngo Molnar default 64 if 64BIT 104712d79bafSIngo Molnar default 32 if !64BIT 104812d79bafSIngo Molnar help 104912d79bafSIngo Molnar This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 105012d79bafSIngo Molnar of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 105112d79bafSIngo Molnar large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube 105212d79bafSIngo Molnar root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit 105312d79bafSIngo Molnar systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. 105412d79bafSIngo Molnar 105512d79bafSIngo Molnar Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 105612d79bafSIngo Molnar Take the default if unsure. 105712d79bafSIngo Molnar 105812d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 105912d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 106012d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on TREE_RCU 106112d79bafSIngo Molnar default n 106212d79bafSIngo Molnar help 106312d79bafSIngo Molnar This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 106412d79bafSIngo Molnar regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 106512d79bafSIngo Molnar testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 106612d79bafSIngo Molnar strong NUMA behavior. 106712d79bafSIngo Molnar 106812d79bafSIngo Molnar Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 106912d79bafSIngo Molnar 107012d79bafSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 107112d79bafSIngo Molnar 107264db4cffSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 107364db4cffSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU 107464db4cffSPaul E. McKenney select DEBUG_FS 1075e260be67SPaul E. McKenney help 107664db4cffSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation, 107764db4cffSPaul E. McKenney permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 107864db4cffSPaul E. McKenney 107964db4cffSPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE 108064db4cffSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU 108164db4cffSPaul E. McKenney select DEBUG_FS 108264db4cffSPaul E. McKenney help 108364db4cffSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation, 108464db4cffSPaul E. McKenney permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c. 1085