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 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 30e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 31ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 746de5bd12SArnd Bergmann depends on (SMP || PREEMPT) && BKL 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 79dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 80dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8684336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 8784336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 8884336466SRoland McGrath help 8984336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 9084336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 9184336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 9284336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 9384336466SRoland McGrath 941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 104aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 106aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 107aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 111aaebf433SRyan Anderson 112aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 114aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 116aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1196e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1206e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 123aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1397dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1887dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 189681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 19230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 19330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1969361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 219a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 220a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 221a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 222a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 223a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 224a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 233b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 241bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 242bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 243bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 244bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 245bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 246bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 27037a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 272c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 273c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 274c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 275c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 276c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 277c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 278c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 279c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 280c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 281c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 282c757249aSShailabh Nagar 283c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 284c757249aSShailabh Nagar 285ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 286ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2876f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 288ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 289ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 290ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 291ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 292ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 293ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 294ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 295ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 29618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 29718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 29818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 29918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 30018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 30118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 30218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 30318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 30418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 30518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 30618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 30718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 30818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 30918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 31018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 31118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 31218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 31318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 316804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 325022382a5SKumar Gala depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 33067640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 332939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 333939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 334939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 335939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 33774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 33874c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 33963c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 34028a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 34174c3cbe3SAl Viro 342d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 343d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 344c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 345c903ff83SMike Travis 346c903ff83SMike Travischoice 347c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 34831c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 349c903ff83SMike Travis 350c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 351c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 352687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 353c903ff83SMike Travis help 354c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 355c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 356c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 357c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 358c903ff83SMike Travis 359f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 360a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 361f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 362f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 363f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 364f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 365f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 366bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 367bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 368f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 3699b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 3709b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 3719b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP 3729b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 3739b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 3749b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 3759b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 3769b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 3779b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 378a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 379a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 380a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP && PREEMPT 381a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 382a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 383a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 384a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 385a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 386c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 387c903ff83SMike Travis 388a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 389a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 390a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 391a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 392a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 393a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 394c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 395c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 3966b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 397c903ff83SMike Travis help 398c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 399c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 400c903ff83SMike Travis 401c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 402c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 403c903ff83SMike Travis 404c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 405c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 406c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 407c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 408f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 409c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 410c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 411c903ff83SMike Travis help 412c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 413c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 4144d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 4154d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 4164d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 4174d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 4184d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 4194d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 420c903ff83SMike Travis 421c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 422c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 423c903ff83SMike Travis 424c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 425c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 426f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 427c903ff83SMike Travis default n 428c903ff83SMike Travis help 429c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 430c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 431c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 432c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 433c903ff83SMike Travis 434c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 435c903ff83SMike Travis 436c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 437c903ff83SMike Travis 4388bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4398bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 4408bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP 4418bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4428bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4438bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 4448bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state 4458bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the 4468bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems 4478bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney with large numbers of CPUs. 4488bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4498bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4508bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4518bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4528bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4538bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 454c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 455f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 456c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 457c903ff83SMike Travis help 458f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 459f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 460f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 461c903ff83SMike Travis 462c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 463c903ff83SMike Travis 4641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 465f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 483794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 484794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 485794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 486f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 487794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 488794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 489f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 490f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 491f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 492f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 493f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 494794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 495794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 496794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 4975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 4995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 50323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 50423964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 5050dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 506ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 50723964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 5085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 5095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 5105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 5115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 51245ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 51345ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 514ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 515ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 516ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 51723964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 51823964d2dSLi Zefan 519006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 520006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 521418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 522006cb992SPaul Menage help 523006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 524006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 52523964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 526006cb992SPaul Menage 52723964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 528006cb992SPaul Menage 529858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 530858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 531858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 532858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 533858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 534858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 535858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 536858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 537dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 53823964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 539dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 540dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 541dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 542dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 54308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 54408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 54508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 54608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 54708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 54808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 5491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 552d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 55923964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 56023964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 56123964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 56223964d2dSLi Zefan default y 56323964d2dSLi Zefan 564d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 565d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 566d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 567d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 56823964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 569d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 570e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 571e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 572e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 573e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 57423964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 575e552b661SPavel Emelianov 57600f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 57700f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 57879ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 579cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 58000f0b825SBalbir Singh help 58184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 58221acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 58300f0b825SBalbir Singh 58400f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 58584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 58684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 58784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 58884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 58900f0b825SBalbir Singh 59000f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 59184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 59284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 59384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 594c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 59500f0b825SBalbir Singh 596cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 597cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 598cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 599c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 60065e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 60165e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 602c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 603c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 604c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 605c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 606c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 607c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 608c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 609c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 610c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 611c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 612c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 613c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 614627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 615627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 616c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6177c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 6187c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 61979ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 6207c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6217c941438SDhaval Giani help 6227c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 6237c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 6247c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 6257c941438SDhaval Giani 6267c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 6277c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 6287c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 6297c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6307c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 6317c941438SDhaval Giani 6327c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 6337c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 6347c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 6357c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6367c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6377c941438SDhaval Giani help 6387c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 63932bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 6407c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 6417c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 6427c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 6437c941438SDhaval Giani 6447c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 6457c941438SDhaval Giani 646afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 647afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 64879ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 649afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 650afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 651afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 652afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 653afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 654afc24d49SVivek Goyal 655afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 656afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 657e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 658e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 659afc24d49SVivek Goyal 660afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 661e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 662e43473b7SVivek Goyal enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ seti 663e43473b7SVivek Goyal CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set 664e43473b7SVivek Goyal CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y. 665afc24d49SVivek Goyal 666afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 667afc24d49SVivek Goyal 668afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 669afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 670afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 671afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 672afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 673afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 674afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 675afc24d49SVivek Goyal 67623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 677c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6788dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 679c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 680c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 681c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 682c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 683c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 684c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 685c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 686c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 6878dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 6888dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 68958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 69058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 69117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 69258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 69358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 69458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 69558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 696ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 697ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 6988dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 69917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 700ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 701ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 702614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 703ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 704aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 705aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 7068dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 70717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 708aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 709aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 710aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 711aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 712aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 71374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 7149bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 71517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 71674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 71712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 718692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 71974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 72074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 721d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 722d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 7238dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 72417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 725d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 726d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 727d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 728d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 7298dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 7308dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 731*5091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 732*5091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 733*5091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 734*5091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 735*5091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 736*5091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 737*5091faa4SMike Galbraith help 738*5091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 739*5091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 740*5091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 741*5091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 742*5091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 743*5091faa4SMike Galbraith 7447af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 7457af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 7467af37becSDaniel Lezcano 7477af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 7487af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 7497af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 7507af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 7517af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 7527af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 7537af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 7547af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 7557af37becSDaniel Lezcano 7567af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 7577af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 7587af37becSDaniel Lezcano 7597af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 7607af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 7617af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 7627af37becSDaniel Lezcano 7637af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 7647af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 7657af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 7667af37becSDaniel Lezcano 7677af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 7687af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 7697af37becSDaniel Lezcano 7707af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 7717af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "enabled deprecated sysfs features by default" 7727af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 7737af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 7747af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 7757af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 7767af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 7777af37becSDaniel Lezcano 7787af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 7797af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 7807af37becSDaniel Lezcano 7817af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 7827af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 7837af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 7847af37becSDaniel Lezcano 7857af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 7867af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 7877af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 7887af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 7897af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 7907af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 7917af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 7927af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 7937af37becSDaniel Lezcano 7947af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 7957af37becSDaniel Lezcano 796f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 797f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 798f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 799f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 800f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 801f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 802f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 803f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 804f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 805f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 806f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 807f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 808f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 809f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 810f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 811f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 812c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 813c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 814dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 815dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 816c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 817c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 818c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 81996fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 820c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 821c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 822c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 823c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 824c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 825775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 826c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 8270847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 8280847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 8290847062aSRandy Dunlap 830b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 831b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 832b943c460SRandy Dunlap 8331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 8351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 8381da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 8391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 8401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 841ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 842ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 84309337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 844ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 845ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 846ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 847ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 848b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 8490847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 85026a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 85113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 852b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 853b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 85413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 85513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 85613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 85713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 858b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 85913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 86013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 86113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 862b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 86313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 864ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 8651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 866979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 879f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 880f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 8851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 8901da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 8911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 8931da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 8941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 895d59745ceSMatt Mackall 896712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 897712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 898712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 899712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 900712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 901712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 902712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 903712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 904712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 905d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 906d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 907d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 908d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 909d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 910d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 911d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 912d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 913d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 914d59745ceSMatt Mackall 915c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 916c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 917c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 918c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 919c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 920c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 921c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 922c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 923c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 924c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 925708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 926708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 927708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 928708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 929708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 930708e9a79SMatt Mackall 931e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 932e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 933e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 934e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 935e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 936e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 937e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 938e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 9391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 9401da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 9421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 95023f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 959448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 964fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 965fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 966448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 967fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 968fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 969fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 970fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 971fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 972fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 973fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 974b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 975b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 976448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 977b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 978b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 979b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 980b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 981b215e283SDavide Libenzi 982b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 983b215e283SDavide Libenzi 984e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 985e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 986448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 987e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 988e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 989e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 990e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 991e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 992e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 993e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 9941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 9951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 9961da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 9981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9991da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 10001da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 10011da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 10021da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 10031da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1005ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 1006ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 1007ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1008ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1009ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1010ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1011ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1012ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1013cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 10140793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1015018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1016018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 10170793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1018906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1019906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1020906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1021906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1022906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 102357c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 10240793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1025cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 102657c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 102757c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1028cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 10294c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1030e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 10310793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 103257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 103357c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 10340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1035dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 103657c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 103757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 103857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 103957c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 10400793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 10410793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 10420793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 10430793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 10440793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 10450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 104657c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1047dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 104857c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 10490793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 10500793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 10510793a61dSThomas Gleixner 10520793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 10530793a61dSThomas Gleixner 105457c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 105557c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 105657c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 105757c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 105857c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 105957c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 106057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 106157c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 106257c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 106357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 106457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 106557c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1066906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1067906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1068906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1069906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1070906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1071906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1072906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1073906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1074906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1075906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1076906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1077906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1078906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 10790793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 10800793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1081f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1082f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 1083f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 1084f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 10852aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 10862aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 10872aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 10882aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1089f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 10903d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 10913d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 109261cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 109361cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 10943d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 10953d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 10963d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 10973d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 10983d137310SThomas Petazzoni 109941ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 110041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 110141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 1102f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 110341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 110441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 110541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 110641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 110741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 110841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1109b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1110b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1111b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1112b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1113b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1114b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1115b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1116692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1117b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1118b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1119b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1120b943c460SRandy Dunlap 112181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 112281819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1123a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 112481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 112581819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 112681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 112781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 112881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 112981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 113081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 113134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 113202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 113381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 113481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 113581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 113681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 113781819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 113881819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 113981819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 114081819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 114102f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 114202f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 114381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 114481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 114584a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 114681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 114781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 114837291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 114937291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 115037291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 115181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 115281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 115381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1154ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1155ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1156ea637639SJie Zhang depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU 1157ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1158ea637639SJie Zhang help 1159ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1160ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1161ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1162ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1163ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1164ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1165ea637639SJie Zhang 1166ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1167ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1168ea637639SJie Zhang 1169ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1170ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1171ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1172ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1173ea637639SJie Zhang 1174ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1175ea637639SJie Zhang 1176125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1177b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1178125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1179125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1180125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1181125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 11825f87f112SIngo Molnar# 11835f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 11845f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 11855f87f112SIngo Molnar# 118697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 11875f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 118897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1189fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1190fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 11911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1193ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1194ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1195ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1196ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1197158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1198158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1199158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 12000f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1201158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1202158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1203ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1204ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1205ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 12061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 121166da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12310b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 12320b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1233826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1234826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1235826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1236826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 123791e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 123891e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 123991e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1240826e4506SLinus Torvalds 12411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1246f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1247f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 12600d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12800b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 12810b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 128298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 128398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 128498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 128598a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 128698a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 128798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 128898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1289692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 129098a79d6aSRusty Russell 12911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 12973a65dfe8SJens Axboe 12983a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1299e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1300e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1301e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1302e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 130316295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 130416295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 130516295becSSteffen Klassert bool 130616295becSSteffen Klassert 13076beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1308