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" 16face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 17face4374SRoman Zippel 18ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 66dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 83aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 84aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 85aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 86aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 886e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 926e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 95aaebf433SRyan Anderson 966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1059361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 128a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 129a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 130a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 131a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 132a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 133a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 1341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 142b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>. 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 175c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 176c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 177c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 178c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 179c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 180c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 181c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 182c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 183c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 184c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 185c757249aSShailabh Nagar 186c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 187c757249aSShailabh Nagar 188ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 189ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1906f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 191ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 192ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 193ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 194ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 195ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 196ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 197ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 198ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 19918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 20018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 20118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 20218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 20318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 20418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 20518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 20618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 20718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 20818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 20918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 21018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 21118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 21218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 21318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 21418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 21518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 21618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 2171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 219804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2281322b9deSYuichi Nakamura depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 233f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 234f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23674c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 23774c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 23874c3cbe3SAl Viro depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY 23974c3cbe3SAl Viro 2401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 241f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 259794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 260794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 261794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 262794543a2SAlistair John Strachan default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP 263794543a2SAlistair John Strachan default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64 264794543a2SAlistair John Strachan default 15 if SMP 265794543a2SAlistair John Strachan default 14 266794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 267794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 268794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Defaults and Examples: 269794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 17 => 128 KB for S/390 270794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64 271794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 15 => 32 KB for SMP 272794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor 273794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 274794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 275794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 276ddbcc7e8SPaul Menageconfig CGROUPS 277ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage bool "Control Group support" 278ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 279ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems 280ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage such as Cpusets 281ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 282ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 283ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 284006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 285006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 286006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 287006cb992SPaul Menage help 288006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 289006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 290006cb992SPaul Menage framework 291006cb992SPaul Menage 292006cb992SPaul Menage Say N if unsure 293006cb992SPaul Menage 294858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 295858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 296858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 297858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 298858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 299858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 300858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 301858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 302858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 3031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 3058793d854SPaul Menage depends on SMP && CGROUPS 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 307d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 31429f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 315fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Fair group CPU scheduler" 316de8d585aSIngo Molnar default y 31729f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 318fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 3199b5b7751SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bandwidth allocation to such task groups. 32029f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 32124e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagirichoice 32224e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 32324e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" 32424e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri default FAIR_USER_SCHED 32524e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 32624e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig FAIR_USER_SCHED 32724e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "user id" 32824e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 32924e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping 330fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. 33124e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 33268318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED 33368318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Control groups" 33468318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 33568318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 33668318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups 33768318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control 33868318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. 33968318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information 34068318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. 34168318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri 34224e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiriendchoice 34324e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 344d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 345d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 346d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 347d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 348d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 349d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup 350d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 351e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 352e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 353e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 354e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 355e552b661SPavel Emelianov infrastructure that works with cgroups 356e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 357e552b661SPavel Emelianov 35888a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 35988a22c98SKay Sievers bool "Create deprecated sysfs files" 3609148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 36188a22c98SKay Sievers default y 36288a22c98SKay Sievers help 36388a22c98SKay Sievers This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the 36488a22c98SKay Sievers "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the 36588a22c98SKay Sievers "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the 36688a22c98SKay Sievers uevent environment. 36788a22c98SKay Sievers None of these features or values should be used today, as 36888a22c98SKay Sievers they export driver core implementation details to userspace 36988a22c98SKay Sievers or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel 37088a22c98SKay Sievers releases. 37188a22c98SKay Sievers 37288a22c98SKay Sievers If enabled, this option will also move any device structures 3733dde6ad8SDavid Sterba that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in 37488a22c98SKay Sievers order to support older versions of udev. 37588a22c98SKay Sievers 37688a22c98SKay Sievers If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later, 37788a22c98SKay Sievers it should be safe to say N here. 37888a22c98SKay Sievers 3798cdea7c0SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_CONT 3808cdea7c0SBalbir Singh bool "Memory controller for cgroups" 3818cdea7c0SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 3828cdea7c0SBalbir Singh help 3838cdea7c0SBalbir Singh Provides a memory controller that manages both page cache and 3848cdea7c0SBalbir Singh RSS memory. 3858cdea7c0SBalbir Singh 3868793d854SPaul Menageconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 3878793d854SPaul Menage bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 3888793d854SPaul Menage depends on CPUSETS 3898793d854SPaul Menage default y 3908793d854SPaul Menage 391b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 392b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 393b86ff981SJens Axboe help 394b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 395b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 396b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 397b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 398b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 399b86ff981SJens Axboe 400b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 401b86ff981SJens Axboe 402c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 403c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 404c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 405c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 406c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 407c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 408c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 409c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 410c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 41158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 41258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 41358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 41458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 41558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 41658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 41758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 418ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 419ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 420ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC 421ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 422ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 423ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov different IPC objects in different namespaces 424ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 425aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 426aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 427aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 428aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 429aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 430aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 431aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 432aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 433*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 434*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 435*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 436*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 437*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 438*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 439*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov process with the same pid as long as they are in different 440*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 441*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 442*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 443*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 444*74bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 445f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 446f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 447f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 448f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 449f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 450f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 451f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 452f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 453f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 454f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 455f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 456f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 457f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 458f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 459f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 460f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 461c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 462c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 463dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 464dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 465c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 466c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 467c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 468c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)" 469c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 47032582fa4SPaul Mundt depends on ARM || H8300 || SUPERH || EXPERIMENTAL 471c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 472c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 473c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 474c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 475c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this 476c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed. 477c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 478c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 479c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 4800847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 4810847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 4820847062aSRandy Dunlap 4831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 491ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 492ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 493529a73fbSMike Frysinger depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 494ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 495ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 496ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 497ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 498b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 4990847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 50013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 501b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 502b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 50313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 50413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 50513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 50613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 507b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 50813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 50913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 51013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 511b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 51213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 513ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 5141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 515979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 5271da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 528f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 529f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 5301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 5321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 544d59745ceSMatt Mackall 545712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 546712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 547712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 548712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 549712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 550712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 551712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 552712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 553712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 554d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 555d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 556d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 557d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 558d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 559d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 560d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 561d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 562d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 563d59745ceSMatt Mackall 564c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 565c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 566c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 567c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 568c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 569c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 570c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 571c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 572c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 573c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 574708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 575708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 576708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 577708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 578708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 579708e9a79SMatt Mackall 58032a93233SIngo Molnarconfig COMPAT_BRK 58132a93233SIngo Molnar bool "Disable heap randomization" 58232a93233SIngo Molnar default y 58332a93233SIngo Molnar help 58432a93233SIngo Molnar Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 58532a93233SIngo Molnar also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 58632a93233SIngo Molnar This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 58732a93233SIngo Molnar disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting 58832a93233SIngo Molnar /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 58932a93233SIngo Molnar 59032a93233SIngo Molnar On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) Y is usually a safe choice. 59132a93233SIngo Molnar 5921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 60323f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6095dc8bf81SDavide Libenziconfig ANON_INODES 610448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk bool 6115dc8bf81SDavide Libenzi 6121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 615448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 620fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 621fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 622448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 623fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 624fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 625fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 626fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 627fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 628fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 629fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 630b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 631b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 632448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 633b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 634b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 635b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 636b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 637b215e283SDavide Libenzi 638b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 639b215e283SDavide Libenzi 640e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 641e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 642448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 643e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 644e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 645e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 646e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 647e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 648e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 649e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 6501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 6601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 661f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 662f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 663f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 664f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 6652aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 6662aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 6672aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 6682aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 669f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 67041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 67141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 67241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 673d4751a27SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB 67441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 67541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 67641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 67741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 67841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 67941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 68081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 68181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 682a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 68381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 68481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 68581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 68681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 68781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 68881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 68981819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 69034013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 69181819f0fSChristoph Lameter per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for 69234013886SChristoph Lameter a slab allocator. 69381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 69481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 69581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 69681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 69781819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 69881819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 69981819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 70081819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 70134013886SChristoph Lameter and has enhanced diagnostics. 70281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 70381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 70484a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 70581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 70681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 70737291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 70837291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 70937291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 71081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 71181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 71281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 713125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 714125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 715125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 716125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 717125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 718125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 719125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS 720125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Activate markers" 721125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 722125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be 723125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers dynamically changed for a probe function. 724125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 725fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 726fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 7271e883281SMatt Mackallconfig PROC_PAGE_MONITOR 7281e883281SMatt Mackall default y 7291e883281SMatt Mackall depends on PROC_FS && MMU 7301e883281SMatt Mackall bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED 7311e883281SMatt Mackall help 7321e883281SMatt Mackall Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory utilization: 7331e883281SMatt Mackall /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap, 7341e883281SMatt Mackall /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these 7351e883281SMatt Mackall interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb. 7361e883281SMatt Mackall 7371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 739158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 740158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 741158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 742158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on SLAB || SLUB 743158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 744158a9624SLinus Torvalds 745ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 746ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 747ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert select PLIST 748ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 7491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TINY_SHMEM 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds default !SHMEM 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 75866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULES 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds simpler. If unsure, say Y. 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 7980d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 7990d541643SSam Ravnborg depends on MODULES 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULES 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KMOD 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Automatic kernel module loading" 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULES 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby 8301da177e4SLinus Torvalds loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y. 8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 8331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 8383a65dfe8SJens Axboe 8393a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 840e98c3202SAvi Kivity 841e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 842e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 843e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 844e260be67SPaul E. McKenneychoice 845e260be67SPaul E. McKenney prompt "RCU implementation type:" 846e260be67SPaul E. McKenney default CLASSIC_RCU 84709503105SPaul E. McKenney help 84809503105SPaul E. McKenney This allows you to choose either the classic RCU implementation 84909503105SPaul E. McKenney that is designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime 85009503105SPaul E. McKenney systems, or the preemptible RCU implementation for best latency 85109503105SPaul E. McKenney on realtime systems. Note that some kernel preemption modes 85209503105SPaul E. McKenney will restrict your choice. 85309503105SPaul E. McKenney 85409503105SPaul E. McKenney Select the default if you are unsure. 855e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 856e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyconfig CLASSIC_RCU 857e260be67SPaul E. McKenney bool "Classic RCU" 858e260be67SPaul E. McKenney help 859e260be67SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is 860e260be67SPaul E. McKenney designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime 861e260be67SPaul E. McKenney systems. 862e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 863e260be67SPaul E. McKenney Say Y if you are unsure. 864e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 865e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 866e260be67SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible RCU" 867e260be67SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 868e260be67SPaul E. McKenney help 869e260be67SPaul E. McKenney This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain 870e260be67SPaul E. McKenney RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if 871e260be67SPaul E. McKenney this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become 872e260be67SPaul E. McKenney preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to 873e260be67SPaul E. McKenney now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section 874e260be67SPaul E. McKenney remaining on a given CPU through its execution. 875e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 876e260be67SPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 877e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 878e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice 879