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180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH
280daa560SRoman Zippel	string
380daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="ARCH"
480daa560SRoman Zippel
580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION
680daa560SRoman Zippel	string
780daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="KERNELVERSION"
880daa560SRoman Zippel
9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
10face4374SRoman Zippel	string
11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
12face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
13face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
15face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
1673531905SSam Ravnborg	default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18face4374SRoman Zippel
19ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL
221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SMP || PREEMPT
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
68dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
7134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
84aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
85aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
86aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
87aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
88aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
91aaebf433SRyan Anderson
92aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
94aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
96aaebf433SRyan Anderson
976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
103aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
11330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
11430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
11530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
11830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1372e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  compression and decompression) is the fastest.
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel
1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The most recent compression algorithm.
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33%
1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1669361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
189a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
190a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
191a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
192a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
193a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
194a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
1951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
203b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
23437a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
236c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS
237c757249aSShailabh Nagar	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
238c757249aSShailabh Nagar	depends on NET
239c757249aSShailabh Nagar	default n
240c757249aSShailabh Nagar	help
241c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
242c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
243c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
244c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
245c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  space on task exit.
246c757249aSShailabh Nagar
247c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
248c757249aSShailabh Nagar
249ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
250ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2516f44993fSShailabh Nagar	depends on TASKSTATS
252ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	help
253ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
254ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
255ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
256ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
257ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
258ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
259ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
26018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT
26118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
26218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASKSTATS
26318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
26418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
26518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
26618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
26718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
26818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
26918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
27018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
27118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASK_XACCT
27218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
27318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
27418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  task has caused.
27518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
27618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
27718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
2781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
280804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
2891322b9deSYuichi Nakamura	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
294f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  such as SELinux.  To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
295f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
29774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
29874c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
29974c3cbe3SAl Viro	depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
30074c3cbe3SAl Viro
301c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
302c903ff83SMike Travis
303c903ff83SMike Travischoice
304c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
305c903ff83SMike Travis	default CLASSIC_RCU
306c903ff83SMike Travis
307c903ff83SMike Travisconfig CLASSIC_RCU
308c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Classic RCU"
309c903ff83SMike Travis	help
310c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
311c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
312c903ff83SMike Travis	  systems.
313c903ff83SMike Travis
314c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select this option if you are unsure.
315c903ff83SMike Travis
316c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
317c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
318c903ff83SMike Travis	help
319c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
320c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
321c903ff83SMike Travis	  thousands of CPUs.
322c903ff83SMike Travis
323c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU
324c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Preemptible RCU"
325c903ff83SMike Travis	depends on PREEMPT
326c903ff83SMike Travis	help
327c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
328c903ff83SMike Travis	  RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
329c903ff83SMike Travis	  this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
330c903ff83SMike Travis	  preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
331c903ff83SMike Travis	  now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
332c903ff83SMike Travis	  remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
333c903ff83SMike Travis
334c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
335c903ff83SMike Travis
336c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE
337c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
338c903ff83SMike Travis	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
339c903ff83SMike Travis	help
340c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
341c903ff83SMike Travis	  in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
342c903ff83SMike Travis
343c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
344c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if you are unsure.
345c903ff83SMike Travis
346c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
347c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
348c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
349c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
350c903ff83SMike Travis	depends on TREE_RCU
351c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
352c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
353c903ff83SMike Travis	help
354c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
355c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
356c903ff83SMike Travis	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the cube
357c903ff83SMike Travis	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
358c903ff83SMike Travis	  systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
359c903ff83SMike Travis
360c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
361c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
362c903ff83SMike Travis
363c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
364c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
365c903ff83SMike Travis	depends on TREE_RCU
366c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
367c903ff83SMike Travis	help
368c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
369c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
370c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
371c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
372c903ff83SMike Travis
373c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
374c903ff83SMike Travis
375c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
376c903ff83SMike Travis
377c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
378c903ff83SMike Travis	def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU
379c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
380c903ff83SMike Travis	help
381c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation,
382c903ff83SMike Travis	  permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
383c903ff83SMike Travis
384c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE
385c903ff83SMike Travis	def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU
386c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
387c903ff83SMike Travis	help
388c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation,
389c903ff83SMike Travis	  permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c.
390c903ff83SMike Travis
391c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
392c903ff83SMike Travis
3931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
394f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
412794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
413794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
414794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
415f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
416794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
417794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
418f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
419f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
420f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
421f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
422f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
423794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
424794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
425794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
4265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
4275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
4285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
4295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
4305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
4315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig GROUP_SCHED
4335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
4345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
4355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default n
4365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
4375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
4385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
4395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use
4405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.)
4415cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
4435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
4445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on GROUP_SCHED
4455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default GROUP_SCHED
4465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
4485cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
4495cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
4505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on GROUP_SCHED
4515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default n
4525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
4535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
4545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
4555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
4565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
4575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  realtime bandwidth for them.
4585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
4595cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4605cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukichoice
4615cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on GROUP_SCHED
4625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
4635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default USER_SCHED
4645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig USER_SCHED
4665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "user id"
4675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
4685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
4695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
4705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_SCHED
4725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Control groups"
4735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 	depends on CGROUPS
4745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 	help
4755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
4765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
4775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
47845ce80fbSLi Zefan	  Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more
47945ce80fbSLi Zefan	  information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
4805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiendchoice
4825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
48323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
48423964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
485ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
48623964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
4875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
4885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
4895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
4905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
49145ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
49245ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
493ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
494ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
495ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
49623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
49723964d2dSLi Zefan
498006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
499006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
500006cb992SPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
501418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
502006cb992SPaul Menage	help
503006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
504006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
50523964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
506006cb992SPaul Menage
50723964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
508006cb992SPaul Menage
509858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS
510858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
511858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS
512858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	help
513858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
514858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
515858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
516858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  jobs.
517858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn
518dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
51923964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
520dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	depends on CGROUPS
521dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
522dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
523dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
524dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
52508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
52608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
52708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
52808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
52908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
53008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
53108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
5321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
534db7f47cfSPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
536d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
54323964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
54423964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
54523964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
54623964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
54723964d2dSLi Zefan
548d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
549d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
550d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	depends on CGROUPS
551d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
552d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
55323964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
554d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
555e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
556e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
557e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
558e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
55923964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
560e552b661SPavel Emelianov	depends on CGROUPS
561e552b661SPavel Emelianov
56200f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
56300f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
56400f0b825SBalbir Singh	depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
565cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
56600f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
56784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
56821acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
56900f0b825SBalbir Singh
57000f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
57184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
57284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
57384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
57484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
57500f0b825SBalbir Singh
57600f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
57784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
57884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
57984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
580c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
58100f0b825SBalbir Singh
582cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
583cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
584cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
585c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
586c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
587c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
588c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
589c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
590c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
591c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
592c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
593c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
594c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
595c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
596c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
597c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
598c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
599c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
600627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
601627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
602c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
60323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
604c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
60523964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER
60623964d2dSLi Zefan	bool
6075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
60888a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
609d47846c5SIngo Molnar	bool
610d47846c5SIngo Molnar
611d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
612fce3e804SKay Sievers	bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools"
6139148fe87SRandy Dunlap	depends on SYSFS
61488a22c98SKay Sievers	default y
615d47846c5SIngo Molnar	select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
61688a22c98SKay Sievers	help
617fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
618fce3e804SKay Sievers	  version.
61988a22c98SKay Sievers
620fce3e804SKay Sievers	  The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
621fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
622fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
623fce3e804SKay Sievers	  unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
624fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
625fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
626fce3e804SKay Sievers	  "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
627fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
628fce3e804SKay Sievers	  subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
629fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the unified device tree.
63088a22c98SKay Sievers
631fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
632fce3e804SKay Sievers	  be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
633fce3e804SKay Sievers	  layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
634fce3e804SKay Sievers	  and disable some features, which can not be exported without
635fce3e804SKay Sievers	  confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
636fce3e804SKay Sievers	  distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
637fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
638fce3e804SKay Sievers
639fce3e804SKay Sievers	  If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
640fce3e804SKay Sievers	  older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
641fce3e804SKay Sievers	  if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
642fce3e804SKay Sievers	  this option set to N.
64388a22c98SKay Sievers
644b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY
645b86ff981SJens Axboe	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
646b86ff981SJens Axboe	help
647b86ff981SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
648b86ff981SJens Axboe	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
649b86ff981SJens Axboe	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
650b86ff981SJens Axboe	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
651b86ff981SJens Axboe	  user space.
652b86ff981SJens Axboe
653b86ff981SJens Axboe	  If unsure, say N.
654b86ff981SJens Axboe
655c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES
656c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
657c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	default !EMBEDDED
658c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
659c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
660c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
661c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
662c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
663c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
66458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
66558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
66658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES
66758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
66858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
66958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
67058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
671ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
672ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
673*614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
674ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
675ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
676*614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
677ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
678aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
679aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
680aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
681aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
682aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
683aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
684aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
685aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
68674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
68774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
68874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	default n
68974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
69074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
69112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
692692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
69374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
69474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
69574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
69674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  say N here.
69774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
698d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
699d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
700d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	default n
701d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
702d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
703d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
704d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
705d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
706f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
707f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
708f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
709f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
710f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
711f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
712f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
713f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
714f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
715f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
716f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
717f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
718f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
719f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
720f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
721f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
722c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
723c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
724dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
725dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
726c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
727c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
728c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
72996fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
730c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	default y
731c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
732c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
733c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
734c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
735775a7229Sjkacur	  If unsure, say Y.
736c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
7370847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
7380847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
7390847062aSRandy Dunlap
740b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
741b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
742b943c460SRandy Dunlap
7431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED
7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
751ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
752ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
75309337f50SDavid S. Miller	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
754ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
755ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
756ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
757ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
758b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
7590847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
76013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	default y
761b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
762b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
76313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
76413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
76513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
76613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
767b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
76813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
76913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
77013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
771b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
77213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  If unsure say Y here.
773ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
7741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
775979c6a1eSJesper Juhl	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
788f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
789f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say N.
7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on KALLSYMS
7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and
7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
804d59745ceSMatt Mackall
805712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
806712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
807712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	default y
808712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	help
809712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
810712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
811712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
812712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
813712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
814d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
815d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
816d59745ceSMatt Mackall	bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
817d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
818d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
819d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
820d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
821d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
822d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
823d59745ceSMatt Mackall
824c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
825c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
826c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
827c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
828c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
829c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
830c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
831c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
832c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
833c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
834708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
835708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
836708e9a79SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
837708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
838708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
839708e9a79SMatt Mackall
840e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
841e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
842e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
843e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
844e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
845e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
846e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
847e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
8481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
85923f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
868448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
873fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
874fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
875448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
876fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
877fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
878fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
879fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
880fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
881fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
882fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
883b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
884b215e283SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
885448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
886b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
887b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
888b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
889b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
890b215e283SDavide Libenzi
891b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
892b215e283SDavide Libenzi
893e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
894e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
895448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
896e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
897e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
898e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
899e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
900e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
901e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
902e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
9031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
914ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
915ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
916ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
917ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
918ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
919ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
920ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          this option saves about 7k.
921ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
922f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
923f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
924f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
925f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
9262aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
9272aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
9282aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
9292aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
930f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
9313d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS
9323d137310SThomas Petazzoni	default y
93361cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
93461cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on PCI
9353d137310SThomas Petazzoni	help
9363d137310SThomas Petazzoni	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
9373d137310SThomas Petazzoni          bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
9383d137310SThomas Petazzoni          unaffected by PCI quirks.
9393d137310SThomas Petazzoni
94041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
94141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
94241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
943f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
94441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
94541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
94641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
94741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
94841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
94941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
950b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
951b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
952b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
953b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
954b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
955b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
956b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
957692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
958b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
959b943c460SRandy Dunlap
960b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
961b943c460SRandy Dunlap
96281819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
96381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
964a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
96581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
96681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
96781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
96881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
96981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
97081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
97181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
97234013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
97302f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
97481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
97581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
97681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
97781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
97881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
97981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
98081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
98181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
98202f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
98302f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
98481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
98581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
98684a01c2fSPaul Mundt	depends on EMBEDDED
98781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
98881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
98937291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
99037291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
99137291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
99281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
99381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
99481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
995125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
996125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
997125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
998125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
999125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1000125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
10015f87f112SIngo Molnar#
10025f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
10035f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
10045f87f112SIngo Molnar#
100597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
10065f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
100797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1008125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS
1009125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Activate markers"
101091f73f90SFrederic Weisbecker	select TRACEPOINTS
1011125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1012125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
1013125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  dynamically changed for a probe function.
1014125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
1015fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1016fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
101707fe7cb7SDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK
101807fe7cb7SDavid Howells	default n
10191c2d008cSDavid Howells	bool
102007fe7cb7SDavid Howells	help
102107fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
102207fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
102307fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  take a relatively long time.
102407fe7cb7SDavid Howells
102507fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
102607fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
102707fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  disk.
102807fe7cb7SDavid Howells
10291c2d008cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
10301c2d008cSDavid Howells
10311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1033ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1034ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1035ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1036ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1037158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1038158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1039158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
10400f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1041158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1042158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1043ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1044ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1045ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
10461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
10501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
105166da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
10521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
10531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
10551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
10561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
10611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
10631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
10651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10710b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
10720b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1073826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1074826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1075826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1076826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
107791e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
107891e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
107991e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1080826e4506SLinus Torvalds
10811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1086f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1087f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
10911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
11000d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11200b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
11210b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
112298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
112398a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
112498a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
112598a79d6aSRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
112698a79d6aSRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
112798a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
112898a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1129692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
113098a79d6aSRusty Russell
11311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
11373a65dfe8SJens Axboe
11383a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1139e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1140e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1141e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1142e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
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