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180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH
280daa560SRoman Zippel	string
380daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="ARCH"
480daa560SRoman Zippel
580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION
680daa560SRoman Zippel	string
780daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="KERNELVERSION"
880daa560SRoman Zippel
9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
10face4374SRoman Zippel	string
11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
12face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
13face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
15face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
1673531905SSam Ravnborg	default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18face4374SRoman Zippel
19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	default y
23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
24ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL
271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SMP || PREEMPT
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
72dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7984336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
8084336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
8184336466SRoland McGrath	help
8284336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
8384336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
8484336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
8584336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
8684336466SRoland McGrath
871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
97aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
98aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
99aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
100aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
101aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
104aaebf433SRyan Anderson
105aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
107aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
109aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
116aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel
1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The most recent compression algorithm.
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33%
1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1797dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
18530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1899361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
212a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
213a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
214a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
215a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
216a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
217a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
226b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
234bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
235bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
236bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
237bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
238bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
239bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
2401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
26337a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
265c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS
266c757249aSShailabh Nagar	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
267c757249aSShailabh Nagar	depends on NET
268c757249aSShailabh Nagar	default n
269c757249aSShailabh Nagar	help
270c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
271c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
272c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
273c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
274c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  space on task exit.
275c757249aSShailabh Nagar
276c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
277c757249aSShailabh Nagar
278ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
279ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2806f44993fSShailabh Nagar	depends on TASKSTATS
281ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	help
282ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
283ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
284ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
285ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
286ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
287ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
288ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
28918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT
29018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
29118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASKSTATS
29218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
29318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
29418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
29518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
29618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
29718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
29818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
29918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
30018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASK_XACCT
30118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
30218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
30318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  task has caused.
30418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
30518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
30618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
309804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
310*67640b60SEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
319022382a5SKumar Gala	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
324*67640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
32674c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
32774c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
32863c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
32928a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
33074c3cbe3SAl Viro
331c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
332c903ff83SMike Travis
333c903ff83SMike Travischoice
334c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
33531c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
336c903ff83SMike Travis
337c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
338c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
339c903ff83SMike Travis	help
340c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
341c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
342c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
343c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
344c903ff83SMike Travis
345f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
346f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU"
347f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
348f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
349f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
350f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
351f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
352bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
353bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
354f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
3559b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
3569b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
3579b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	depends on !SMP
3589b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
3599b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
3609b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
3619b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
3629b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
3639b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
364c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
365c903ff83SMike Travis
366c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE
367c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
3686b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
369c903ff83SMike Travis	help
370c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
371c903ff83SMike Travis	  in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
372c903ff83SMike Travis
373c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
374c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if you are unsure.
375c903ff83SMike Travis
376c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
377c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
378c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
379c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
380f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
381c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
382c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
383c903ff83SMike Travis	help
384c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
385c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
386c903ff83SMike Travis	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the cube
387c903ff83SMike Travis	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
388c903ff83SMike Travis	  systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
389c903ff83SMike Travis
390c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
391c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
392c903ff83SMike Travis
393c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
394c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
395f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
396c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
397c903ff83SMike Travis	help
398c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
399c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
400c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
401c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
402c903ff83SMike Travis
403c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
404c903ff83SMike Travis
405c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
406c903ff83SMike Travis
4078bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
4088bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
4098bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
4108bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
4118bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
4128bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
4138bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
4148bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  more quickly.  On the other hand, this option increases the
4158bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
4168bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  with large numbers of CPUs.
4178bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
4188bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
4198bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  	if you have relatively few CPUs.
4208bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
4218bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
4228bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
423c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
424f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
425c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
426c903ff83SMike Travis	help
427f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
428f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
429f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
430c903ff83SMike Travis
431c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
432c903ff83SMike Travis
4331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
434f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
4371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
452794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
453794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
454794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
455f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
456794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
457794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
458f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
459f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
460f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
461f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
462f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
463794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
464794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
465794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
4665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
4675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
4685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
4695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
4705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
4715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
47223964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
47323964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
4740dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov	depends on EVENTFD
475ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
47623964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
4775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
4785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
4795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
4805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
48145ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
48245ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
483ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
484ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
485ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
48623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
48723964d2dSLi Zefan
488006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
489006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
490006cb992SPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
491418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
492006cb992SPaul Menage	help
493006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
494006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
49523964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
496006cb992SPaul Menage
49723964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
498006cb992SPaul Menage
499858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS
500858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
501858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS
502858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	help
503858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
504858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
505858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
506858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  jobs.
507858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn
508dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
50923964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
510dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	depends on CGROUPS
511dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
512dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
513dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
514dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
51508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
51608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
51708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
51808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
51908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
52008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
52108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
5221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
524db7f47cfSPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
526d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
5271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
5281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
5291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
5301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
5321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
53323964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
53423964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
53523964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
53623964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
53723964d2dSLi Zefan
538d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
539d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
540d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	depends on CGROUPS
541d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
542d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
54323964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
544d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
545e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
546e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
547e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
548e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
54923964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
550e552b661SPavel Emelianov	depends on CGROUPS
551e552b661SPavel Emelianov
55200f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
55300f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
55400f0b825SBalbir Singh	depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
555cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
55600f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
55784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
55821acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
55900f0b825SBalbir Singh
56000f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
56184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
56284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
56384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
56484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
56500f0b825SBalbir Singh
56600f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
56784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
56884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
56984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
570c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
57100f0b825SBalbir Singh
572cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
573cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
574cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
575c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
576c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
577c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
578c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
579c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
580c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
581c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
582c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
583c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
584c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
585c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
586c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
587c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
588c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
589c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
590627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
591627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
592c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
5937c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
5947c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
5957c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS
5967c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
5977c941438SDhaval Giani	help
5987c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
5997c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
6007c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
6017c941438SDhaval Giani
6027c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
6037c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
6047c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
6057c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
6067c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
6077c941438SDhaval Giani
6087c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
6097c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
6107c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
6117c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
6127c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
6137c941438SDhaval Giani	help
6147c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
61532bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
6167c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
6177c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
6187c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
6197c941438SDhaval Giani
6207c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
6217c941438SDhaval Giani
622afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
623afc24d49SVivek Goyal	tristate "Block IO controller"
624afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on CGROUPS && BLOCK
625afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
626afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
627afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
628afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
629afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
630afc24d49SVivek Goyal
631afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
632afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
633afc24d49SVivek Goyal	to such task groups.
634afc24d49SVivek Goyal
635afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
636afc24d49SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it
637afc24d49SVivek Goyal	to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y).
638afc24d49SVivek Goyal
639afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
640afc24d49SVivek Goyal
641afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
642afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
643afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
644afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
645afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
646afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
647afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
648afc24d49SVivek Goyal
64923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
650c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
65123964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER
65223964d2dSLi Zefan	bool
6535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
65488a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
655d47846c5SIngo Molnar	bool
656d47846c5SIngo Molnar
657d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
6589e9868a7SUwe Kleine-König	bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
6599148fe87SRandy Dunlap	depends on SYSFS
660f6ee649fSKay Sievers	default n
661d47846c5SIngo Molnar	select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
66288a22c98SKay Sievers	help
663fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
664f6ee649fSKay Sievers	  version. Do not use it on recent distributions.
66588a22c98SKay Sievers
666fce3e804SKay Sievers	  The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
667fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
668fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
669fce3e804SKay Sievers	  unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
670fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
671fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
672fce3e804SKay Sievers	  "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
673fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
674fce3e804SKay Sievers	  subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
675fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the unified device tree.
67688a22c98SKay Sievers
677fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
678fce3e804SKay Sievers	  be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
679fce3e804SKay Sievers	  layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
680fce3e804SKay Sievers	  and disable some features, which can not be exported without
681fce3e804SKay Sievers	  confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
682fce3e804SKay Sievers	  distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
683fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
684fce3e804SKay Sievers
685fce3e804SKay Sievers	  If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
686fce3e804SKay Sievers	  older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
687fce3e804SKay Sievers	  if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
688fce3e804SKay Sievers	  this option set to N.
68988a22c98SKay Sievers
690b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY
691b86ff981SJens Axboe	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
692b86ff981SJens Axboe	help
693b86ff981SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
694b86ff981SJens Axboe	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
695b86ff981SJens Axboe	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
696b86ff981SJens Axboe	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
697b86ff981SJens Axboe	  user space.
698b86ff981SJens Axboe
699b86ff981SJens Axboe	  If unsure, say N.
700b86ff981SJens Axboe
701c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES
702c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
703c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	default !EMBEDDED
704c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
705c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
706c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
707c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
708c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
709c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
71058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
71158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
71258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES
71358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
71458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
71558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
71658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
717ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
718ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
719614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
720ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
721ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
722614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
723ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
724aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
725aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
726aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
727aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
728aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
729aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
730aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
731aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
73274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
73374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
73474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	default n
73574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
73674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
73712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
738692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
73974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
74074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
74174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
74274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  say N here.
74374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
744d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
745d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
746d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	default n
747d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
748d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
749d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
750d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
751d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
752f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
753f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
754f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
755f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
756f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
757f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
758f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
759f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
760f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
761f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
762f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
763f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
764f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
765f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
766f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
767f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
768c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
769c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
770dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
771dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
772c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
773c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
774c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
77596fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
776c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	default y
777c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
778c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
779c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
780c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
781775a7229Sjkacur	  If unsure, say Y.
782c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
7830847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
7840847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
7850847062aSRandy Dunlap
786b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
787b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
788b943c460SRandy Dunlap
7891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED
7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
797ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
798ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
79909337f50SDavid S. Miller	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
800ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
801ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
802ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
803ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
804b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
8050847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
80626a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
80713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	default y
808b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
809b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
81013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
81113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
81213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
81313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
814b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
81513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
81613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
81713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
818b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
81913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  If unsure say Y here.
820ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
8211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
822979c6a1eSJesper Juhl	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
8301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
835f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
836f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say N.
8391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
8411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
8421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on KALLSYMS
8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
8451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and
8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
851d59745ceSMatt Mackall
852712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
853712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
854712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	default y
855712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	help
856712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
857712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
858712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
859712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
860712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
861d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
862d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
863d59745ceSMatt Mackall	bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
864d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
865d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
866d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
867d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
868d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
869d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
870d59745ceSMatt Mackall
871c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
872c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
873c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
874c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
875c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
876c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
877c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
878c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
879c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
880c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
881708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
882708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
883708e9a79SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
884708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
885708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
886708e9a79SMatt Mackall
887e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
888e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
889e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
890e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
891e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
892e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
893e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
894e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
8951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
8961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
9001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
90623f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
915448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
920fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
921fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
922448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
923fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
924fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
925fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
926fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
927fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
928fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
929fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
930b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
931b215e283SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
932448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
933b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
934b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
935b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
936b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
937b215e283SDavide Libenzi
938b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
939b215e283SDavide Libenzi
940e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
941e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
942448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
943e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
944e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
945e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
946e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
947e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
948e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
949e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
9501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
961ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
962ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
963ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
964ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
965ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
966ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
967ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          this option saves about 7k.
968ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
969cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
9700793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
971018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
972018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
9730793a61dSThomas Gleixner
974906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
975906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
976906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
977906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
978906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
97957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
9800793a61dSThomas Gleixner
981cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
98257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
98357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
984cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
9854c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
9860793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
98757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
98857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
9890793a61dSThomas Gleixner
990dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
99157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
99257c0c15bSIngo Molnar
99357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
99457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
9950793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
9960793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
9970793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
9980793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
9990793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
10000793a61dSThomas Gleixner
100157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1002dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
100357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
10040793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
10050793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
10060793a61dSThomas Gleixner
10070793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
10080793a61dSThomas Gleixner
100957c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS
101057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
101157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
101257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	help
101357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
101457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  config option - please see that one for details.
101557c0c15bSIngo Molnar
101657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
101757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
101857c0c15bSIngo Molnar
101957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Say N if unsure.
102057c0c15bSIngo Molnar
1021906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1022906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1023906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1024906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1025906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1026906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1027906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1028906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1029906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1030906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1031906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1032906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1033906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
10340793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
10350793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1036f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1037f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
1038f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
1039f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
10402aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
10412aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
10422aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
10432aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1044f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
10453d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS
10463d137310SThomas Petazzoni	default y
104761cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
104861cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on PCI
10493d137310SThomas Petazzoni	help
10503d137310SThomas Petazzoni	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
10513d137310SThomas Petazzoni          bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
10523d137310SThomas Petazzoni          unaffected by PCI quirks.
10533d137310SThomas Petazzoni
105441ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
105541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
105641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
1057f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
105841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
105941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
106041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
106141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
106241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
106341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1064b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1065b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1066b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1067b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1068b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1069b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1070b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1071692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1072b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1073b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1074b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1075b943c460SRandy Dunlap
107681819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
107781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1078a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
107981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
108081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
108181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
108281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
108381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
108481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
108581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
108634013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
108702f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
108881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
108981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
109081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
109181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
109281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
109381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
109481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
109581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
109602f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
109702f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
109881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
109981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
110084a01c2fSPaul Mundt	depends on EMBEDDED
110181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
110281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
110337291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
110437291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
110537291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
110681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
110781819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
110881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1109ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1110ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1111ea637639SJie Zhang	depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1112ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1113ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1114ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1115ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1116ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1117ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1118ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1119ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1120ea637639SJie Zhang
1121ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1122ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1123ea637639SJie Zhang
1124ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1125ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1126ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1127ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1128ea637639SJie Zhang
1129ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1130ea637639SJie Zhang
1131125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1132b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1133125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1134125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1135125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1136125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
11375f87f112SIngo Molnar#
11385f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
11395f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
11405f87f112SIngo Molnar#
114197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
11425f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
114397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1144fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1145fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
114607fe7cb7SDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK
114707fe7cb7SDavid Howells	default n
11481c2d008cSDavid Howells	bool
114907fe7cb7SDavid Howells	help
115007fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
115107fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
115207fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  take a relatively long time.
115307fe7cb7SDavid Howells
115407fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
115507fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
115607fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  disk.
115707fe7cb7SDavid Howells
11581c2d008cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
11591c2d008cSDavid Howells
1160f13a48bdSDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK_DEBUG
1161f13a48bdSDavid Howells	bool "Slow work debugging through debugfs"
11628fba10a4SDavid Howells	default n
1163f13a48bdSDavid Howells	depends on SLOW_WORK && DEBUG_FS
11648fba10a4SDavid Howells	help
1165f13a48bdSDavid Howells	  Display the contents of the slow work run queue through debugfs,
11668fba10a4SDavid Howells	  including items currently executing.
11678fba10a4SDavid Howells
11688fba10a4SDavid Howells	  See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
11698fba10a4SDavid Howells
11701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1172ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1173ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1174ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1175ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1176158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1177158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1178158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
11790f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1180158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1181158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1182ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1183ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1184ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
11851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
119066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12100b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
12110b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1212826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1213826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1214826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1215826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
121691e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
121791e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
121891e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1219826e4506SLinus Torvalds
12201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1225f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1226f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
12390d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12590b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
12600b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
126198a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
126298a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
126398a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
126498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
126598a79d6aSRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
126698a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
126798a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1268692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
126998a79d6aSRusty Russell
12701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
12763a65dfe8SJens Axboe
12773a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1278e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1279e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1280e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1281e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
128216295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
128316295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
128416295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
128516295becSSteffen Klassert
12866beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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