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" 1287