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180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH
280daa560SRoman Zippel	string
380daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="ARCH"
480daa560SRoman Zippel
580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION
680daa560SRoman Zippel	string
780daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="KERNELVERSION"
880daa560SRoman Zippel
9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
10face4374SRoman Zippel	string
11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
12face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
13face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
15face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
1673531905SSam Ravnborg	default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18face4374SRoman Zippel
19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	default y
23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
24ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL
271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SMP || PREEMPT
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
72dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7984336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
8084336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
8184336466SRoland McGrath	help
8284336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
8384336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
8484336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
8584336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
8684336466SRoland McGrath
871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
97aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
98aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
99aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
100aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
101aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
104aaebf433SRyan Anderson
105aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
107aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
109aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
116aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel
1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The most recent compression algorithm.
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33%
1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1797dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
18530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1899361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
212a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
213a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
214a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
215a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
216a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
217a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
226b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
234bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
235bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
236bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
237bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
238bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
239bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
2401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
26337a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
265c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS
266c757249aSShailabh Nagar	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
267c757249aSShailabh Nagar	depends on NET
268c757249aSShailabh Nagar	default n
269c757249aSShailabh Nagar	help
270c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
271c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
272c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
273c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
274c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  space on task exit.
275c757249aSShailabh Nagar
276c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
277c757249aSShailabh Nagar
278ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
279ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2806f44993fSShailabh Nagar	depends on TASKSTATS
281ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	help
282ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
283ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
284ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
285ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
286ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
287ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
288ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
28918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT
29018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
29118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASKSTATS
29218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
29318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
29418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
29518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
29618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
29718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
29818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
29918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
30018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASK_XACCT
30118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
30218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
30318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  task has caused.
30418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
30518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
30618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
309804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
318022382a5SKumar Gala	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
32367640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds
325939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
326939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
327939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
328939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
33074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
33174c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
33263c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
33328a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
33474c3cbe3SAl Viro
335c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
336c903ff83SMike Travis
337c903ff83SMike Travischoice
338c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
33931c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
340c903ff83SMike Travis
341c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
342c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
343687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
344c903ff83SMike Travis	help
345c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
346c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
347c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
348c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
349c903ff83SMike Travis
350f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
351a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
352f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
353f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
354f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
355f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
356f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
357bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
358bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
359f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
3609b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
3619b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
3629b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	depends on !SMP
3639b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
3649b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
3659b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
3669b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
3679b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
3689b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
369a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
370a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
371a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !SMP && PREEMPT
372a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
373a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
374a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  for real-time UP systems.  This option greatly reduces the
375a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
376a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
377c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
378c903ff83SMike Travis
379a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU
380a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
381a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
382a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
383a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
384a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
385c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE
386c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
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"
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