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 1333ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1343ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1353ebe1243SLasse Collin 1367dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1377dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1387dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1423ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1657dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1852e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1873ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1923ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1933ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1943ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1953ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1963ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1973ebe1243SLasse Collin 1983ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1993ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2003ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2013ebe1243SLasse Collin 2027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2067dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 207681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2149361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 237a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 242a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 251b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 264bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 28837a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 290c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 291c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 292c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 293c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 294c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 295c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 296c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 297c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 298c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 299c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 300c757249aSShailabh Nagar 301c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 302c757249aSShailabh Nagar 303ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 304ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3056f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 306ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 307ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 308ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 309ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 310ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 311ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 312ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 313ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 31418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 31518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 31618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 31718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 31818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 31918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 32018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 32118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 32218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 32318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 32418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 32518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 32618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 32718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 32818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 32918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 33018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 33118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 334804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 343022382a5SKumar Gala depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 34867640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 350939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 351939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 352939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 353939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 35574c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 35674c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 35763c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 35828a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 35974c3cbe3SAl Viro 360d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 361d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 362c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 363c903ff83SMike Travis 364c903ff83SMike Travischoice 365c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 36631c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 367c903ff83SMike Travis 368c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 369c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 370687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 371c903ff83SMike Travis help 372c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 373c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 374c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 375c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 376c903ff83SMike Travis 377f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 378a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 379f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 380f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 381f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 382f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 383f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 384bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 385bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 386f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 3879b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 3889b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 3899b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP 3909b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 3919b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 3929b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 3939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 3949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 3959b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 396a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 397a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 398a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP && PREEMPT 399a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 400a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 401a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 402a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 403a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 404c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 405c903ff83SMike Travis 406a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 407a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 408a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 409a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 410a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 411a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 412c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 413c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 414c903ff83SMike Travis help 415c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 416c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 417c903ff83SMike Travis 418c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 419c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 420c903ff83SMike Travis 421c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 422c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 423c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 424c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 425f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 426c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 427c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 428c903ff83SMike Travis help 429c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 430c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 4314d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 4324d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 4334d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 4344d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 4354d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 4364d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 437c903ff83SMike Travis 438c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 439c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 440c903ff83SMike Travis 441c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 442c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 443f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 444c903ff83SMike Travis default n 445c903ff83SMike Travis help 446c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 447c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 448c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 449c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 450c903ff83SMike Travis 451c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 452c903ff83SMike Travis 453c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 454c903ff83SMike Travis 4558bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4568bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 4578bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP 4588bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4598bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4608bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 4618bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state 4628bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the 4638bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems 4648bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney with large numbers of CPUs. 4658bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4668bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4678bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4688bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4698bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4708bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 471c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 472f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 473c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 474c903ff83SMike Travis help 475f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 476f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 477f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 478c903ff83SMike Travis 47924278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 48024278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 48124278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 48224278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 48324278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 48424278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 48524278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 48624278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 48724278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 48824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 48924278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 49024278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 49124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 49224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 49324278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 49424278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 49524278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 49624278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 49724278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 49824278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted 49924278d14SPaul E. McKenney RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound 50024278d14SPaul E. McKenney real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then 50124278d14SPaul E. McKenney the highest-priority CPU-bound application. 50224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 50324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 50424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 50524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 50624278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 50724278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 50824278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 50924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 51024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 51124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 51224278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 51324278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 51424278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 51524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 51624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 51724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 518c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 519c903ff83SMike Travis 5201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 521f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5261da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5271da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5281da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5291da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5301da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 539794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 540794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 541794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 542f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 543794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 544794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 545f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 546f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 547f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 548f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 549f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 550794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 551794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 552794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 5535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 55923964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 56023964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 5610dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 562ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 56323964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 5645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 5655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 5665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 5675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 56845ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 56945ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 570ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 571ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 572ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 57323964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 57423964d2dSLi Zefan 575006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 576006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 577418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 578006cb992SPaul Menage help 579006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 580006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 58123964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 582006cb992SPaul Menage 58323964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 584006cb992SPaul Menage 585858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 586858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 587858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 588858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 589858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 590858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 591858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 592858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 593dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 59423964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 595dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 596dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 597dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 598dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 59908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 60008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 60108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 60208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 60308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 60408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 6051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 608d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 61523964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 61623964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 61723964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 61823964d2dSLi Zefan default y 61923964d2dSLi Zefan 620d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 621d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 622d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 623d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 62423964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 625d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 626e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 627e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 628e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 629e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 63023964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 631e552b661SPavel Emelianov 63200f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 63300f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 63479ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 635cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 63600f0b825SBalbir Singh help 63784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 63821acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 63900f0b825SBalbir Singh 64000f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 64184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 64284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 64384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 64484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 64500f0b825SBalbir Singh 64600f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 64784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 64884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 64984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 650c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 65100f0b825SBalbir Singh 652cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 653cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 654cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 655c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 65665e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 65765e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 658c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 659c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 660c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 661c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 662c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 663c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 664c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 665c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 666c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 667c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 668c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 669c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 670627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 671627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 672a42c390cSMichal Hockoconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED 673a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 674a42c390cSMichal Hocko depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 675a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 676a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 677a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 678a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 67943d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 680a42c390cSMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 681a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 682a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 683a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 684a42c390cSMichal Hocko then noswapaccount does the trick). 685c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6867c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 6877c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 68879ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 6897c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6907c941438SDhaval Giani help 6917c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 6927c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 6937c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 6947c941438SDhaval Giani 6957c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 6967c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 6977c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 6987c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6997c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7007c941438SDhaval Giani 7017c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7027c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7037c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 7047c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7057c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7067c941438SDhaval Giani help 7077c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 70832bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7097c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7107c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7117c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7127c941438SDhaval Giani 7137c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7147c941438SDhaval Giani 715afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 716afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 71779ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 718afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 719afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 720afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 721afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 722afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 723afc24d49SVivek Goyal 724afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 725afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 726e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 727e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 728afc24d49SVivek Goyal 729afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 730e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 731e43473b7SVivek Goyal enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ seti 732e43473b7SVivek Goyal CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set 733e43473b7SVivek Goyal CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y. 734afc24d49SVivek Goyal 735afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 736afc24d49SVivek Goyal 737afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 738afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 739afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 740afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 741afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 742afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 743afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 744afc24d49SVivek Goyal 74523964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 746c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 7478dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 7486a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 7496a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 750c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 751c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 752c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 753c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 754c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 755c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 7568dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 7578dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 75858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 75958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 76017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 76158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 76258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 76358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 76458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 765ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 766ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 7678dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 76817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 769ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 770ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 771614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 772ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 773aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 774aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 7758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 77617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 777aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 778aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 779aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 780aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 781aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 78274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 7839bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 78417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 78574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 78612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 787692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 78874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 78974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 790d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 791d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 7928dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 79317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 794d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 795d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 796d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 797d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 7988dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 7998dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 8005091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 8015091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 8025091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 8035091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 8045091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 8055091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8065091faa4SMike Galbraith help 8075091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 8085091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 8095091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 8105091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 8115091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 8125091faa4SMike Galbraith 8137af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 8147af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 8157af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8167af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 817*5d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 8187af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 8197af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 8207af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8217af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 8227af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 8237af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 8247af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8257af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 8267af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 8277af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8287af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 8297af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 8307af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 8317af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8327af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 8337af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 8347af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 8357af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8367af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 8377af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 8387af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8397af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 840*5d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 8417af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 8427af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 8437af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 8447af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8457af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 8467af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8477af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 8487af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 8497af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8507af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 8517af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 8527af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 8537af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8547af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 8557af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 8567af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8577af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 8587af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 8597af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 8607af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 8617af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 8627af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8637af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 8647af37becSDaniel Lezcano 865f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 866f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 867f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 868f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 869f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 870f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 871f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 872f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 873f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 874f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 875f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 876f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 877f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 878f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 879f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 880f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 881c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 882c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 883dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 884dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 885c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 886c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 887c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 88896fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 889c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 890c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 891c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 892c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 893c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 894775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 895c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 8960847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 8970847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 8980847062aSRandy Dunlap 899b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 900b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 901b943c460SRandy Dunlap 9026a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 9036a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9106a108a14SDavid Rientjesconfig EMBEDDED 9116a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Embedded system" 9126a108a14SDavid Rientjes select EXPERT 9136a108a14SDavid Rientjes help 9146a108a14SDavid Rientjes This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 9156a108a14SDavid Rientjes an embedded system so certain expert options are available 9166a108a14SDavid Rientjes for configuration. 9176a108a14SDavid Rientjes 918ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 9196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 92009337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 921ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 922ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 923ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 924ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 925b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 9266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 92726a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 92813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 929b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 930b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 93113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 93213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 93313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 93413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 935b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 93613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 93713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 93813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 939b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 94013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 941ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 9421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 9436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 956f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 957f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 972d59745ceSMatt Mackall 973712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 9746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT 975712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 976712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 977712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 978712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 979712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 980712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 981712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 982d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 983d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 9846a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 985d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 986d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 987d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 988d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 989d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 990d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 991d59745ceSMatt Mackall 992c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 9936a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 994c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 995c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 996c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 997c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 998c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 999c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1000c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1001c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1002708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1003708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 10046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1005708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1006708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1007708e9a79SMatt Mackall 1008e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 10096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1010e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 1011e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1012e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1013e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1014e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1015e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 10161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 10211da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 10256a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 102723f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 10346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1036448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1041fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 10426a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1043448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1044fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1045fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1046fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1047fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1048fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1049fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1050fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1051b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 10526a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1053448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1054b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1055b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1056b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1057b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1058b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1059b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1060b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1061e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 10626a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1063448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1064e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1065e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1066e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1067e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1068e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1069e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1070e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 10711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 10726a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 10781da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1082ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 10836a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1084ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1085ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1086ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1087ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1088ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1089ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1090cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 10910793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1092018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1093018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 10940793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1095906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1096906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1097906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1098906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1099906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 110057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 11010793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1102cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 110357c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 110457c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1105cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 11064c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1107e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11080793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 110957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 111057c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 11110793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1112dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 111357c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 111457c0c15bSIngo Molnar 111557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 111657c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 11170793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 11180793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 11190793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 11200793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 11210793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 11220793a61dSThomas Gleixner 112357c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1124dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 112557c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 11260793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 11270793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 11280793a61dSThomas Gleixner 11290793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 11300793a61dSThomas Gleixner 113157c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 113257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 113357c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 113457c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 113557c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 113657c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 113757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 113857c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 113957c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 114057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 114157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 114257c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1143906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1144906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1145906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1146906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1147906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1148906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1149906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1150906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1151906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1152906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1153906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1154906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1155906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 11560793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 11570793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1158f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1159f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 11606a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1161f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 11622aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 11632aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 11646a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 11652aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1166f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 11673d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 11683d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 11696a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 117061cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 11713d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 11723d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 11733d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 11743d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 11753d137310SThomas Petazzoni 117641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 117741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 11786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1179f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 118041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 118141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 118241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 118341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 118441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 118541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1186b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1187b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1188b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1189b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1190b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1191b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1192b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1193692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1194b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1195b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1196b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1197b943c460SRandy Dunlap 119881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 119981819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1200a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 120181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 120281819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 120381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 120481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 120581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 120681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 120781819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 120834013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 120902f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 121081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 121181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 121281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 121381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 121481819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 121581819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 121681819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 121781819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 121802f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 121902f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 122081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 122181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 12226a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 122381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 122481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 122537291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 122637291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 122737291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 122881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 122981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 123081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1231ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1232ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 12336a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1234ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1235ea637639SJie Zhang help 1236ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1237ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1238ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1239ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1240ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1241ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1242ea637639SJie Zhang 1243ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1244ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1245ea637639SJie Zhang 1246ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1247ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1248ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1249ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1250ea637639SJie Zhang 1251ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1252ea637639SJie Zhang 1253125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1254b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1255125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1256125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1257125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1258125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 12595f87f112SIngo Molnar# 12605f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 12615f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 12625f87f112SIngo Molnar# 126397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 12645f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 126597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1266fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1267fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 12681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1270ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1271ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1272ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1273ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1274158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1275158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1276158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 12770f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1278158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1279158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1280ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1281ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1282ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 12831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 128866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13080b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 13090b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1310826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1311826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1312826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1313826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 131491e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 131591e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 131691e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1317826e4506SLinus Torvalds 13181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1323f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1324f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 13370d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13570b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 13580b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 135998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 136098a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 136198a79d6aSRusty Russell help 136298a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 136398a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 136498a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 136598a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1366692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 136798a79d6aSRusty Russell 13681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 13743a65dfe8SJens Axboe 13753a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1376e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1377e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1378e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1379e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 138016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 138116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 138216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 138316295becSSteffen Klassert 13846beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1385