180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter default y 23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 30e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 31ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 746de5bd12SArnd Bergmann depends on (SMP || PREEMPT) && BKL 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 79dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 80dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8684336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 8784336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 8884336466SRoland McGrath help 8984336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 9084336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 9184336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 9284336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 9384336466SRoland McGrath 941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 104aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 106aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 107aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 111aaebf433SRyan Anderson 112aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 114aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 116aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1196e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1206e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 123aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1333ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1343ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1353ebe1243SLasse Collin 1367dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1377dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1387dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1423ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1657dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1667dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1762e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 18230d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1842e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1852e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1873ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1923ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1933ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1943ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1953ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1963ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1973ebe1243SLasse Collin 1983ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1993ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 2003ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 2013ebe1243SLasse Collin 2027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 2047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2057dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2067dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 207681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2087dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2097dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 21030d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 21130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2149361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 237a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 238a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 239a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 242a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 251b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 260bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 261bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 264bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 28837a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 290c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 291c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 292c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 293c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 294c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 295c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 296c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 297c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 298c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 299c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 300c757249aSShailabh Nagar 301c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 302c757249aSShailabh Nagar 303ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 304ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3056f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 306ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 307ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 308ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 309ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 310ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 311ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 312ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 313ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 31418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 31518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 31618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 31718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 31818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 31918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 32018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 32118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 32218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 32318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 32418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 32518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 32618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 32718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 32818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 32918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 33018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 33118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 334804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 343022382a5SKumar Gala depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 34867640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 350939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 351939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 352939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 353939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 35574c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 35674c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 35763c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 35828a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 35974c3cbe3SAl Viro 360d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 361d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 362c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 363c903ff83SMike Travis 364c903ff83SMike Travischoice 365c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 36631c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 367c903ff83SMike Travis 368c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 369c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 370687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 371c903ff83SMike Travis help 372c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 373c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 374c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 375c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 376c903ff83SMike Travis 377f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 378a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 379f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 380f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 381f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 382f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 383f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 384bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 385bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 386f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 3879b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 3889b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 3899b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP 3909b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 3919b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 3929b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 3939b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 3949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 3959b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 396a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 397a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 398a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP && PREEMPT 399a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 400a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 401a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 402a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 403a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 404c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 405c903ff83SMike Travis 406a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 407a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 408a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 409a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 410a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 411a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 412c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 413c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 414c903ff83SMike Travis help 415c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 416c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 417c903ff83SMike Travis 418c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 419c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 420c903ff83SMike Travis 421c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 422c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 423c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 424c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 425f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 426c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 427c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 428c903ff83SMike Travis help 429c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 430c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 4314d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 4324d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 4334d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 4344d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 4354d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 4364d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 437c903ff83SMike Travis 438c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 439c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 440c903ff83SMike Travis 441c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 442c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 443f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 444c903ff83SMike Travis default n 445c903ff83SMike Travis help 446c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 447c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 448c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 449c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 450c903ff83SMike Travis 451c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 452c903ff83SMike Travis 453c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 454c903ff83SMike Travis 4558bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4568bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 4578bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP 4588bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4598bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4608bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 4618bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state 4628bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the 4638bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems 4648bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney with large numbers of CPUs. 4658bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4668bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4678bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4688bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4698bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4708bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 471c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 472f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 473c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 474c903ff83SMike Travis help 475f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 476f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 477f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 478c903ff83SMike Travis 47924278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 48024278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 48124278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 48224278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 48324278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 48424278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 48524278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 48624278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 48724278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 48824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 48924278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 49024278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 49124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 49224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 49324278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 49424278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 49524278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 49624278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 49724278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 49824278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted 49924278d14SPaul E. McKenney RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound 50024278d14SPaul E. McKenney real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then 50124278d14SPaul E. McKenney the highest-priority CPU-bound application. 50224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 50324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 50424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 50524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 50624278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 50724278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 50824278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 50924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 51024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 51124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 51224278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 51324278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 51424278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 51524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 51624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 51724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 51846fdb093SPaul E. McKenneyconfig SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY 51946fdb093SPaul E. McKenney int "Microseconds to delay before waiting for readers" 52046fdb093SPaul E. McKenney range 0 20 52146fdb093SPaul E. McKenney default 10 52246fdb093SPaul E. McKenney help 52346fdb093SPaul E. McKenney This option controls how long SRCU delays before entering its 52446fdb093SPaul E. McKenney loop waiting on SRCU readers. The purpose of this loop is 52546fdb093SPaul E. McKenney to avoid the unconditional context-switch penalty that would 52646fdb093SPaul E. McKenney otherwise be incurred if there was an active SRCU reader, 52746fdb093SPaul E. McKenney in a manner similar to adaptive locking schemes. This should 52846fdb093SPaul E. McKenney be set to be a bit longer than the common-case SRCU read-side 52946fdb093SPaul E. McKenney critical-section overhead. 53046fdb093SPaul E. McKenney 53146fdb093SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 53246fdb093SPaul E. McKenney 533c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 534c903ff83SMike Travis 5351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 536f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 554794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 555794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 556794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 557f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 558794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 559794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 560f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 561f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 562f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 563f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 564f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 565794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 566794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 567794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 5685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 57423964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 57523964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 5760dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 577ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 57823964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 5795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 5805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 5815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 5825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 58345ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 58445ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 585ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 586ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 587ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 58823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 58923964d2dSLi Zefan 590006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 591006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 592418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 593006cb992SPaul Menage help 594006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 595006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 59623964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 597006cb992SPaul Menage 59823964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 599006cb992SPaul Menage 600858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 601858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 602858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 603858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 604858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 605858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 606858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 607858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 608dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 60923964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 610dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 611dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 612dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 613dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 61408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 61508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 61608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 61708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 61808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 61908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 6201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 623d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 6251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 6271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 63023964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 63123964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 63223964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 63323964d2dSLi Zefan default y 63423964d2dSLi Zefan 635d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 636d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 637d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 638d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 63923964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 640d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 641e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 642e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 643e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 644e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 64523964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 646e552b661SPavel Emelianov 64700f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 64800f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 64979ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 650cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 65100f0b825SBalbir Singh help 65284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 65321acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 65400f0b825SBalbir Singh 65500f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 65684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 65784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 65884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 65984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 66000f0b825SBalbir Singh 66100f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 66284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 66384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 66484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 665c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 66600f0b825SBalbir Singh 667cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 668cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 669cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 670c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 67165e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 67265e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 673c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 674c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 675c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 676c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 677c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 678c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 679c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 680c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 681c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 682c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 683c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 684c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 685627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 686627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 687a42c390cSMichal Hockoconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED 688a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 689a42c390cSMichal Hocko depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 690a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 691a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 692a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 693a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 69443d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 695a42c390cSMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 696a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 697a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 698a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 699a42c390cSMichal Hocko then noswapaccount does the trick). 700c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 7017c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 7027c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 70379ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 7047c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7057c941438SDhaval Giani help 7067c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7077c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7087c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7097c941438SDhaval Giani 7107c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7117c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7127c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7137c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7147c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7157c941438SDhaval Giani 7167c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7177c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7187c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 7197c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7207c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7217c941438SDhaval Giani help 7227c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 72332bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7247c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7257c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7267c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7277c941438SDhaval Giani 7287c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7297c941438SDhaval Giani 730afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 731afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 73279ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 733afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 734afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 735afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 736afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 737afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 738afc24d49SVivek Goyal 739afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 740afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 741e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 742e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 743afc24d49SVivek Goyal 744afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 745e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 746*79e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 747*79e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 748e43473b7SVivek Goyal CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y. 749afc24d49SVivek Goyal 750afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 751afc24d49SVivek Goyal 752afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 753afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 754afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 755afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 756afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 757afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 758afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 759afc24d49SVivek Goyal 76023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 761c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 7628dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 763c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 764c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 765c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 766c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 767c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 768c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 769c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 770c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 7718dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 7728dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 77358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 77458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 77517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 77658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 77758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 77858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 77958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 780ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 781ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 7828dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 78317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 784ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 785ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 786614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 787ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 788aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 789aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 7908dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 79117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 792aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 793aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 794aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 795aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 796aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 79774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 7989bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 79917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 80074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 80112d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 802692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 80374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 80474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 805d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 806d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 8078dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 80817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 809d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 810d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 811d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 812d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 8138dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 8148dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 8155091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 8165091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 8175091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 8185091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 8195091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 8205091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8215091faa4SMike Galbraith help 8225091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 8235091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 8245091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 8255091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 8265091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 8275091faa4SMike Galbraith 8287af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 8297af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 8307af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8317af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 8327af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 8337af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 8347af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 8357af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8367af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 8377af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 8387af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 8397af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8407af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 8417af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 8427af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8437af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 8447af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 8457af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 8467af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8477af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 8487af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 8497af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 8507af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8517af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 8527af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 8537af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8547af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 8557af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "enabled deprecated sysfs features by default" 8567af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 8577af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 8587af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 8597af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8607af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 8617af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8627af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 8637af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 8647af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8657af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 8667af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 8677af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 8687af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8697af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 8707af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 8717af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8727af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 8737af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 8747af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 8757af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 8767af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 8777af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8787af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 8797af37becSDaniel Lezcano 880f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 881f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 882f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 883f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 884f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 885f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 886f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 887f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 888f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 889f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 890f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 891f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 892f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 893f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 894f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 895f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 896c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 897c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 898dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 899dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 900c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 901c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 902c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 90396fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 904c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 905c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 906c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 907c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 908c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 909775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 910c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 9110847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 9120847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 9130847062aSRandy Dunlap 914b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 915b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 916b943c460SRandy Dunlap 9171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 925ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 926ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 92709337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 928ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 929ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 930ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 931ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 932b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 9330847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 93426a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 93513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 936b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 937b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 93813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 93913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 94013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 94113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 942b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 94313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 94413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 94513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 946b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 94713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 948ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 9491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 950979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 963f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 964f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 979d59745ceSMatt Mackall 980712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 981712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 982712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 983712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 984712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 985712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 986712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 987712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 988712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 989d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 990d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 991d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 992d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 993d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 994d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 995d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 996d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 997d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 998d59745ceSMatt Mackall 999c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 1000c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 1001c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1002c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1003c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1004c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1005c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1006c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1007c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1008c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1009708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1010708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 1011708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 1012708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1013708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1014708e9a79SMatt Mackall 1015e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1016e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 1017e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 1018e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1019e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1020e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1021e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1022e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 10231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 103423f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1043448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 10461da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1048fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 1049fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 1050448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1051fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1052fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1053fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1054fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1055fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1056fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1057fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1058b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 1059b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 1060448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1061b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1062b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1063b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1064b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1065b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1066b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1067b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1068e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 1069e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 1070448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1071e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1072e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1073e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1074e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1075e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1076e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1077e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 10781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 10861da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1089ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 1090ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 1091ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1092ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1093ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1094ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1095ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1096ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1097cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 10980793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1099018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1100018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 11010793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1102906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1103906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1104906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1105906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1106906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 110757c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 11080793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1109cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 111057c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 111157c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1112cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 11134c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1114e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11150793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 111657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 111757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 11180793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1119dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 112057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 112157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 112257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 112357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 11240793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 11250793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 11260793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 11270793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 11280793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 11290793a61dSThomas Gleixner 113057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1131dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 113257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 11330793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 11340793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 11350793a61dSThomas Gleixner 11360793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 11370793a61dSThomas Gleixner 113857c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 113957c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 114057c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 114157c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 114257c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 114357c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 114457c0c15bSIngo Molnar 114557c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 114657c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 114757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 114857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 114957c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1150906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1151906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1152906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1153906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1154906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1155906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1156906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1157906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1158906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1159906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1160906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1161906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1162906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 11630793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 11640793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1165f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1166f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 1167f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 1168f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 11692aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 11702aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 11712aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 11722aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1173f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 11743d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 11753d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 117661cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 117761cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 11783d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 11793d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 11803d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 11813d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 11823d137310SThomas Petazzoni 118341ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 118441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 118541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 1186f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 118741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 118841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 118941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 119041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 119141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 119241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1193b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1194b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1195b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1196b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1197b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1198b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1199b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1200692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1201b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1202b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1203b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1204b943c460SRandy Dunlap 120581819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 120681819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1207a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 120881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 120981819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 121081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 121181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 121281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 121381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 121481819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 121534013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 121602f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 121781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 121881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 121981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 122081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 122181819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 122281819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 122381819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 122481819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 122502f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 122602f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 122781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 122881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 122984a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 123081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 123181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 123237291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 123337291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 123437291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 123581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 123681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 123781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1238ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1239ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1240ea637639SJie Zhang depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU 1241ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1242ea637639SJie Zhang help 1243ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1244ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1245ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1246ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1247ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1248ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1249ea637639SJie Zhang 1250ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1251ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1252ea637639SJie Zhang 1253ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1254ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1255ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1256ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1257ea637639SJie Zhang 1258ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1259ea637639SJie Zhang 1260125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1261b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1262125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1263125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1264125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1265125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 12665f87f112SIngo Molnar# 12675f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 12685f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 12695f87f112SIngo Molnar# 127097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 12715f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 127297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1273fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1274fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 12751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1277ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1278ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1279ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1280ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1281158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1282158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1283158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 12840f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1285158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1286158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1287ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1288ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1289ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 12901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 129566da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13150b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 13160b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1317826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1318826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1319826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1320826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 132191e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 132291e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 132391e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1324826e4506SLinus Torvalds 13251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1330f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1331f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 13440d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13640b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 13650b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 136698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 136798a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 136898a79d6aSRusty Russell help 136998a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 137098a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 137198a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 137298a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1373692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 137498a79d6aSRusty Russell 13751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 13813a65dfe8SJens Axboe 13823a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1383e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1384e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1385e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1386e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 138716295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 138816295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 138916295becSSteffen Klassert bool 139016295becSSteffen Klassert 13916beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1392