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" 387c903ff83SMike Travis help 388c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 389c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 390c903ff83SMike Travis 391c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 392c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 393c903ff83SMike Travis 394c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 395c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 396c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 397c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 398f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 399c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 400c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 401c903ff83SMike Travis help 402c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 403c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 4044d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 4054d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 4064d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 4074d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 4084d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 4094d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 410c903ff83SMike Travis 411c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 412c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 413c903ff83SMike Travis 414c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 415c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 416f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 417c903ff83SMike Travis default n 418c903ff83SMike Travis help 419c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 420c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 421c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 422c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 423c903ff83SMike Travis 424c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 425c903ff83SMike Travis 426c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 427c903ff83SMike Travis 4288bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4298bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 4308bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP 4318bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4328bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4338bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 4348bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state 4358bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the 4368bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems 4378bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney with large numbers of CPUs. 4388bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4398bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4408bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4418bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4428bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4438bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 444c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 445f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 446c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 447c903ff83SMike Travis help 448f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 449f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 450f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 451c903ff83SMike Travis 45224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 45324278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 45424278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 45524278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 45624278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 45724278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 45824278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 45924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 46024278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 46124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 46224278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 46324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 46424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 46524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 46624278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 46724278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 46824278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 46924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 47024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 47124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted 47224278d14SPaul E. McKenney RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound 47324278d14SPaul E. McKenney real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then 47424278d14SPaul E. McKenney the highest-priority CPU-bound application. 47524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 47624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 47724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 47824278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 47924278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 48024278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 48124278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 48224278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 48324278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 48424278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 48524278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 48624278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 48724278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 48824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 48924278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 49024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 491*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenneyconfig SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY 492*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney int "Microseconds to delay before waiting for readers" 493*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney range 0 20 494*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney default 10 495*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney help 496*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney This option controls how long SRCU delays before entering its 497*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney loop waiting on SRCU readers. The purpose of this loop is 498*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney to avoid the unconditional context-switch penalty that would 499*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney otherwise be incurred if there was an active SRCU reader, 500*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney in a manner similar to adaptive locking schemes. This should 501*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney be set to be a bit longer than the common-case SRCU read-side 502*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney critical-section overhead. 503*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney 504*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 505*46fdb093SPaul E. McKenney 506c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 507c903ff83SMike Travis 5081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 509f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 527794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 528794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 529794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 530f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 531794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 532794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 533f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 534f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 535f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 536f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 537f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 538794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 539794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 540794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 5415cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 54723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 54823964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 5490dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 550ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 55123964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 5525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 5535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 5545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 5555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 55645ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 55745ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 558ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 559ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 560ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 56123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 56223964d2dSLi Zefan 563006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 564006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 565006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 566418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 567006cb992SPaul Menage help 568006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 569006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 57023964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 571006cb992SPaul Menage 57223964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 573006cb992SPaul Menage 574858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 575858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 576858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 577858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 578858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 579858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 580858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 581858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 582858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 583dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 58423964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 585dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 586dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 587dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 588dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 589dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 59008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 59108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 59208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 59308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 59408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 59508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 59608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 5971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 599db7f47cfSPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 601d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 60823964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 60923964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 61023964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 61123964d2dSLi Zefan default y 61223964d2dSLi Zefan 613d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 614d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 615d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 616d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 617d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 61823964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 619d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 620e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 621e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 622e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 623e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 62423964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 625e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 626e552b661SPavel Emelianov 62700f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 62800f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 62900f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 630cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 63100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 63284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 63321acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 63400f0b825SBalbir Singh 63500f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 63684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 63784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 63884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 63984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 64000f0b825SBalbir Singh 64100f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 64284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 64384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 64484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 645c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 64600f0b825SBalbir Singh 647cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 648cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 649cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 650c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 65165e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 65265e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 653c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 654c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 655c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 656c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 657c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 658c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 659c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 660c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 661c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 662c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 663c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 664c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 665627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 666627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 667c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6687c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 6697c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 6707c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS 6717c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6727c941438SDhaval Giani help 6737c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 6747c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 6757c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 6767c941438SDhaval Giani 6777c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 6787c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 6797c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 6807c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6817c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 6827c941438SDhaval Giani 6837c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 6847c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 6857c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 6867c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6877c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6887c941438SDhaval Giani help 6897c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 69032bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 6917c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 6927c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 6937c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 6947c941438SDhaval Giani 6957c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 6967c941438SDhaval Giani 697afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 698afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 699afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on CGROUPS && BLOCK 700afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 701afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 702afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 703afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 704afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 705afc24d49SVivek Goyal 706afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 707afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 708afc24d49SVivek Goyal to such task groups. 709afc24d49SVivek Goyal 710afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 711afc24d49SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it 712afc24d49SVivek Goyal to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y). 713afc24d49SVivek Goyal 714afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 715afc24d49SVivek Goyal 716afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 717afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 718afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 719afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 720afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 721afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 722afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 723afc24d49SVivek Goyal 72423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 725c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 72623964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 72723964d2dSLi Zefan bool 7285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 72988a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 730d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 731d47846c5SIngo Molnar 732d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 7339e9868a7SUwe Kleine-König bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 7349148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 735f6ee649fSKay Sievers default n 736d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 73788a22c98SKay Sievers help 738fce3e804SKay Sievers This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated 739f6ee649fSKay Sievers version. Do not use it on recent distributions. 74088a22c98SKay Sievers 741fce3e804SKay Sievers The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at 742fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between 743fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the 744fce3e804SKay Sievers unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at 745fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at 746fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by 747fce3e804SKay Sievers "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" 748fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some 749fce3e804SKay Sievers subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which 750fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the unified device tree. 75188a22c98SKay Sievers 752fce3e804SKay Sievers This option is not a pure compatibility option that can 753fce3e804SKay Sievers be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the 754fce3e804SKay Sievers layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, 755fce3e804SKay Sievers and disable some features, which can not be exported without 756fce3e804SKay Sievers confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major 757fce3e804SKay Sievers distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which 758fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the deprecated layout or this option. 759fce3e804SKay Sievers 760fce3e804SKay Sievers If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use 761fce3e804SKay Sievers older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, 762fce3e804SKay Sievers if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has 763fce3e804SKay Sievers this option set to N. 76488a22c98SKay Sievers 765b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 766b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 767b86ff981SJens Axboe help 768b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 769b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 770b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 771b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 772b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 773b86ff981SJens Axboe 774b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 775b86ff981SJens Axboe 776c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 777c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 778c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 779c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 780c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 781c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 782c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 783c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 784c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 78558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 78658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 78758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 78858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 78958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 79058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 79158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 792ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 793ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 794614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 795ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 796ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 797614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 798ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 799aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 800aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 801aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 802aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 803aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 804aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 805aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 806aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 80774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 80874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 80974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 81074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 81174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 81212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 813692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 81474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 81574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 81674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 81774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 81874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 819d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 820d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 821d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 822d6eb633fSMatt Helsley depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET 823d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 824d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 825d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 826d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 827f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 828f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 829f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 830f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 831f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 832f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 833f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 834f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 835f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 836f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 837f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 838f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 839f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 840f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 841f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 842f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 843c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 844c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 845dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 846dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 847c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 848c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 849c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 85096fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 851c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 852c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 853c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 854c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 855c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 856775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 857c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 8580847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 8590847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 8600847062aSRandy Dunlap 861b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 862b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 863b943c460SRandy Dunlap 8641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 872ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 873ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 87409337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 875ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 876ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 877ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 878ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 879b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 8800847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 88126a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 88213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 883b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 884b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 88513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 88613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 88713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 88813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 889b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 89013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 89113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 89213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 893b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 89413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 895ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 8961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 897979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 910f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 911f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 926d59745ceSMatt Mackall 927712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 928712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 929712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 930712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 931712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 932712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 933712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 934712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 935712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 936d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 937d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 938d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 939d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 940d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 941d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 942d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 943d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 944d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 945d59745ceSMatt Mackall 946c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 947c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 948c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 949c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 950c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 951c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 952c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 953c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 954c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 955c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 956708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 957708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 958708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 959708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 960708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 961708e9a79SMatt Mackall 962e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 963e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 964e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 965e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 966e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 967e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 968e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 969e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 9701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 98123f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 990448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 9941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 995fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 996fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 997448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 998fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 999fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1000fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1001fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1002fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1003fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1004fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1005b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 1006b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 1007448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1008b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1009b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1010b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1011b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1012b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1013b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1014b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1015e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 1016e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 1017448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1018e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1019e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1020e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1021e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1022e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1023e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1024e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 10251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1036ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 1037ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 1038ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1039ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1040ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1041ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1042ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1043ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1044cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 10450793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1046018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1047018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 10480793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1049906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1050906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1051906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1052906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1053906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 105457c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 10550793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1056cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 105757c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 105857c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1059cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 10604c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 10610793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 106257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 106357c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 10640793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1065dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 106657c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 106757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 106857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 106957c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 10700793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 10710793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 10720793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 10730793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 10740793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 10750793a61dSThomas Gleixner 107657c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1077dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 107857c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 10790793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 10800793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 10810793a61dSThomas Gleixner 10820793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 10830793a61dSThomas Gleixner 108457c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 108557c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 108657c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 108757c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 108857c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 108957c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 109057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 109157c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 109257c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 109357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 109457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 109557c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1096906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1097906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1098906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1099906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1100906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1101906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1102906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1103906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1104906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1105906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1106906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1107906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1108906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 11090793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 11100793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1111f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1112f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 1113f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 1114f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 11152aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 11162aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 11172aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 11182aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1119f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 11203d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 11213d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 112261cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 112361cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 11243d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 11253d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 11263d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 11273d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 11283d137310SThomas Petazzoni 112941ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 113041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 113141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 1132f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 113341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 113441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 113541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 113641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 113741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 113841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1139b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1140b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1141b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1142b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1143b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1144b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1145b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1146692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1147b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1148b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1149b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1150b943c460SRandy Dunlap 115181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 115281819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1153a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 115481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 115581819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 115681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 115781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 115881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 115981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 116081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 116134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 116202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 116381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 116481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 116581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 116681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 116781819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 116881819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 116981819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 117081819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 117102f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 117202f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 117381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 117481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 117584a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 117681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 117781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 117837291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 117937291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 118037291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 118181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 118281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 118381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1184ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1185ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1186ea637639SJie Zhang depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU 1187ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1188ea637639SJie Zhang help 1189ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1190ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1191ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1192ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1193ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1194ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1195ea637639SJie Zhang 1196ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1197ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1198ea637639SJie Zhang 1199ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1200ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1201ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1202ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1203ea637639SJie Zhang 1204ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1205ea637639SJie Zhang 1206125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1207b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1208125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1209125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1210125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1211125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 12125f87f112SIngo Molnar# 12135f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 12145f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 12155f87f112SIngo Molnar# 121697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 12175f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 121897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1219fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1220fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 12211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1223ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1224ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1225ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1226ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1227158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1228158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1229158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 12300f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1231158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1232158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1233ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1234ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1235ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 12361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 124166da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12610b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 12620b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1263826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1264826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1265826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1266826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 126791e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 126891e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 126991e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1270826e4506SLinus Torvalds 12711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1276f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1277f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 12900d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13100b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 13110b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 131298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 131398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 131498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 131598a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 131698a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 131798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 131898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1319692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 132098a79d6aSRusty Russell 13211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 13273a65dfe8SJens Axboe 13283a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1329e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1330e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1331e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1332e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 133316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 133416295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 133516295becSSteffen Klassert bool 133616295becSSteffen Klassert 13376beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1338