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 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 30ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 74dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8084336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 8184336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 8284336466SRoland McGrath help 8384336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 8484336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 8584336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 8684336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 8784336466SRoland McGrath 881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 98aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 101aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson 106aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 110aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1166e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 117aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1273ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1283ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1293ebe1243SLasse Collin 1307dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1363ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1813ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1823ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1833ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1843ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin 1923ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1933ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1943ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1953ebe1243SLasse Collin 1967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 201681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 211bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 212bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 213bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 214bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2179361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 242a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 243a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 244a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 245a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 254b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 264bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 265bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 266bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 267bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 29137a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 293990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 294990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 295990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 296990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 297990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 298990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 299990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 300990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 301990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 302990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 303990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 304990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 305c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 306c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 307c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 308c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 309c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 310c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 311c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 312c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 313c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 314c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 315c757249aSShailabh Nagar 316c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 317c757249aSShailabh Nagar 318ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 319ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3206f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 321ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 322ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 323ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 324ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 325ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 326ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 327ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 328ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 32918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 33018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 33118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 33218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 33318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 33418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 33518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 33618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 33718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 33818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 33918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 34018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 34118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 34218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 34318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 34418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 34518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 34618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 349804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 358022382a5SKumar Gala depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 36367640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 365939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 366939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 367939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 368939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 37074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 37174c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 37263c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 37328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 37474c3cbe3SAl Viro 375d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 376d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 377c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 378c903ff83SMike Travis 379c903ff83SMike Travischoice 380c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 38131c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 382c903ff83SMike Travis 383c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 384c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 385687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 386c903ff83SMike Travis help 387c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 388c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 389c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 390c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 391c903ff83SMike Travis 392f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 393a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 394*8008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && SMP 395f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 396f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 397f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 398f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 399bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 400bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 401f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4029b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4039b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 404*8008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4059b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4069b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4079b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4089b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4099b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4109b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 411a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 412a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 413*8008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && !SMP 414a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 415a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 416a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 417a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 418a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 419c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 420c903ff83SMike Travis 421a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 422a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 423a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 424a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 425a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 426a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 427c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 428c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 429c903ff83SMike Travis help 430c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 431c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 432c903ff83SMike Travis 433c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 434c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 435c903ff83SMike Travis 436c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 437c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 438c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 439c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 440f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 441c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 442c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 443c903ff83SMike Travis help 444c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 445c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 4464d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 4474d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 4484d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 4494d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 4504d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 4514d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 452c903ff83SMike Travis 453c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 454c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 455c903ff83SMike Travis 456c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 457c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 458f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 459c903ff83SMike Travis default n 460c903ff83SMike Travis help 461c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 462c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 463c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 464c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 465c903ff83SMike Travis 466c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 467c903ff83SMike Travis 468c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 469c903ff83SMike Travis 4708bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4718bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 4728bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP 4738bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4748bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4758bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 4768bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state 4778bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the 4788bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems 4798bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney with large numbers of CPUs. 4808bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4818bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4828bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4838bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4848bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4858bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 486c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 487f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 488c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 489c903ff83SMike Travis help 490f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 491f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 492f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 493c903ff83SMike Travis 49424278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 49524278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 49627f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 49724278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 49824278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 49924278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 50024278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 50124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 50224278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 50324278d14SPaul E. McKenney 50424278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 50524278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 50624278d14SPaul E. McKenney 50724278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 50824278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 50924278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 51024278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 51124278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 51224278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 51324278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted 51424278d14SPaul E. McKenney RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound 51524278d14SPaul E. McKenney real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then 51624278d14SPaul E. McKenney the highest-priority CPU-bound application. 51724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 51824278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 51924278d14SPaul E. McKenney 52024278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 52124278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 52224278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 52324278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 52424278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 52524278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 52624278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 52724278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 52824278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 52924278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 53024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 53124278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 53224278d14SPaul 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 600dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 60123964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 602dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 603dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 604dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 605dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 60608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 60708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 60808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 60908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 61008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 61108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 6121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 615d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 62223964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 62323964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 62423964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 62523964d2dSLi Zefan default y 62623964d2dSLi Zefan 627d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 628d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 629d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 630d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 63123964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 632d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 633e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 634e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 635e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 636e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 63723964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 638e552b661SPavel Emelianov 63900f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 64000f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 64179ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 642cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 64300f0b825SBalbir Singh help 64484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 64521acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 64600f0b825SBalbir Singh 64700f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 64884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 64984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 65084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 65184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 65200f0b825SBalbir Singh 65300f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 65484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 65584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 65684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 657c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 65800f0b825SBalbir Singh 659cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 660cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 661cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 662c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 66365e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 66465e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 665c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 666c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 667c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 668c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 669c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 670c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 671c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 672c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 673c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 674c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 675c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 67600a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 677627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 678627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 679a42c390cSMichal Hockoconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED 680a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 681a42c390cSMichal Hocko depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 682a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 683a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 684a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 685a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 68643d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 687a42c390cSMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 688a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 689a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 690a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 69100a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 692c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 693e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 694e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 695e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 696e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 697e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 6982d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 699e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 700e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 701e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 702e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7037c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 7047c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 70579ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 7067c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7077c941438SDhaval Giani help 7087c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7097c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7107c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7117c941438SDhaval Giani 7127c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7137c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7147c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7157c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7167c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7177c941438SDhaval Giani 7187c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7197c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7207c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 7217c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7227c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7237c941438SDhaval Giani help 7247c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 72532bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7267c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7277c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7287c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7297c941438SDhaval Giani 7307c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7317c941438SDhaval Giani 732afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 733afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 73479ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 735afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 736afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 737afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 738afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 739afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 740afc24d49SVivek Goyal 741afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 742afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 743e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 744e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 745afc24d49SVivek Goyal 746afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 747e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 74879e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 74979e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 750c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 751afc24d49SVivek Goyal 752afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 753afc24d49SVivek Goyal 754afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 755afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 756afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 757afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 758afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 759afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 760afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 761afc24d49SVivek Goyal 76223964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 763c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 7648dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 7656a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 7666a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 767c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 768c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 769c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 770c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 771c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 772c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 7738dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 7748dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 77558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 77658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 77717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 77858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 77958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 78058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 78158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 782ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 783ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 7848dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 78517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 786ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 787ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 788614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 789ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 790aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 791aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 7928dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 79317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 794aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 795aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 796aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 797aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 798aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 79974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 8009bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 80117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 80274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 80312d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 804692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 80574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 80674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 807d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 808d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 8098dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 81017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 811d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 812d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 813d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 814d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 8158dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 8168dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 8175091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 8185091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 8195091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 8205091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 8215091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 8225091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8235091faa4SMike Galbraith help 8245091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 8255091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 8265091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 8275091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 8285091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 8295091faa4SMike Galbraith 8307af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 8317af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 8327af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8337af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 8345d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 8357af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 8367af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 8377af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8387af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 8397af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 8407af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 8417af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8427af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 8437af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 8447af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8457af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 8467af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 8477af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 8487af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8497af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 8507af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 8517af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 8527af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8537af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 8547af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 8557af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8567af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 8575d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 8587af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 8597af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 8607af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 8617af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8627af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 8637af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8647af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 8657af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 8667af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8677af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 8687af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 8697af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 8707af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8717af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 8727af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 8737af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8747af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 8757af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 8767af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 8777af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 8787af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 8797af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8807af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 8817af37becSDaniel Lezcano 882f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 883f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 884f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 885f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 886f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 887f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 888f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 889f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 890f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 891f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 892f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 893f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 894f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 895f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 896f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 897f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 898c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 899c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 900dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 901dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 902c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 903c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 904c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 90596fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 906c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 907c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 908c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 909c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 910775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 911c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 9120847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 9130847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 9140847062aSRandy Dunlap 915b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 916b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 917b943c460SRandy Dunlap 9186a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 9196a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 920f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 921f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 9261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 9271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 928ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 9296a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 93009337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 931ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 932ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 933ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 934ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 935b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 9366a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 93726a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 93813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 939b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 940b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 94113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 94213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 94313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 94413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 945b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 94613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 94713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 94813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 949b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 95013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 951ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 9521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 9536a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 96471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 96571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 96671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 96771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 96871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 97071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 97171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 97271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 97371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 97571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 976d59745ceSMatt Mackall 977712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 9786a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT 979712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 980712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 981712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 982712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 983712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 984712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 985712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 986d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 987d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 9886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 989d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 990d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 991d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 992d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 993d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 994d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 995d59745ceSMatt Mackall 996c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 9976a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 998c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 999c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1000c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1001c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1002c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1003c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1004c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1005c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1006708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1007708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 10086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1009708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1010708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1011708e9a79SMatt Mackall 10128761f1abSRalf Baechle 1013e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 10146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 10158761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 101615f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1017e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1018e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1019e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1020e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1021e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 10228761f1abSRalf Baechleconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 10238761f1abSRalf Baechle bool 10248761f1abSRalf Baechle 10251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 10346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 103623f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 10436a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1045448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 10461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1050fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 10516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1052448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1053fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1054fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1055fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1056fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1057fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1058fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1059fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1060b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 10616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1062448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1063b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1064b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1065b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1066b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1067b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1068b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1069b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1070e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 10716a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1072448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1073e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1074e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1075e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1076e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1077e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1078e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1079e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 10801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 10816a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 10861da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 10891da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1091ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 10926a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1093ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1094ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1095ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1096ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1097ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1098ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 10996befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 11006befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 11016befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 11026befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 11036befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 11046befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 11056befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 11066befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1107cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 11080793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1109018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1110018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 11110793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1112906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1113906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1114906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1115906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1116906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 111757c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 11180793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1119cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 112057c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 112157c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1122cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 11234c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1124e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11250793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 112657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 112757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 11280793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1129dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 113057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 113157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 113257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 113357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 11340793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 11350793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 11360793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 11370793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 11380793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 11390793a61dSThomas Gleixner 114057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1141dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 114257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 11430793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 11440793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 11450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 11460793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 11470793a61dSThomas Gleixner 114857c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 114957c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 115057c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 115157c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 115257c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 115357c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 115457c0c15bSIngo Molnar 115557c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 115657c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 115757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 115857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 115957c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1160906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1161906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1162906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1163906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1164906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1165906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1166906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1167906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1168906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1169906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1170906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1171906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1172906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 11730793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 11740793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1175f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1176f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 11776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1178f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 11792aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 11802aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 11816a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 11822aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1183f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 11843d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 11853d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 11866a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 118761cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 11883d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 11893d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 11903d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 11913d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 11923d137310SThomas Petazzoni 119341ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 119441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 11956a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1196f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 119741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 119841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 119941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 120041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 120141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 120241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1203b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1204b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1205b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1206b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1207b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1208b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1209b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1210692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1211b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1212b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1213b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1214b943c460SRandy Dunlap 121581819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 121681819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1217a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 121881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 121981819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 122081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 122181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 122281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 122381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 122481819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 122534013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 122602f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 122781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 122881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 122981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 123081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 123181819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 123281819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 123381819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 123481819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 123502f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 123602f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 123781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 123881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 12396a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 124081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 124181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 124237291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 124337291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 124437291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 124581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 124681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 124781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1248ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1249ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 12506a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1251ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1252ea637639SJie Zhang help 1253ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1254ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1255ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1256ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1257ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1258ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1259ea637639SJie Zhang 1260ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1261ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1262ea637639SJie Zhang 1263ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1264ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1265ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1266ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1267ea637639SJie Zhang 1268ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1269ea637639SJie Zhang 1270125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1271b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1272125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1273125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1274125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1275125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 12765f87f112SIngo Molnar# 12775f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 12785f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 12795f87f112SIngo Molnar# 128097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 12815f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 128297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1283fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1284fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 12851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1287ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1288ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1289ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1290ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1291158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1292158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1293158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 12940f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1295158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1296158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1297ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1298ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1299ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 130566da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13250b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 13260b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1327826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1328826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1329826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1330826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 133191e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 133291e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 133391e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1334826e4506SLinus Torvalds 13351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1340f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1341f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 13540d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13740b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 13750b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 137698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 137798a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 137898a79d6aSRusty Russell help 137998a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 138098a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 138198a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 138298a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1383692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 138498a79d6aSRusty Russell 13851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 13913a65dfe8SJens Axboe 13923a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1393e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1394e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1395e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1396e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 139716295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 139816295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 139916295becSSteffen Klassert bool 140016295becSSteffen Klassert 14016beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1402