180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter default y 23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 24ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 72dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 79*84336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 80*84336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 81*84336466SRoland McGrath help 82*84336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 83*84336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 84*84336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 85*84336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 86*84336466SRoland McGrath 871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 97aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 98aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 101aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 104aaebf433SRyan Anderson 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 107aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 109aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 116aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1797dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 18530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1899361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 212a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 213a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 214a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 215a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 216a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 217a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 226b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 234bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 235bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 236bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 237bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 238bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 239bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 26337a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 265c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 266c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 267c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 268c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 269c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 270c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 271c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 272c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 273c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 274c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 275c757249aSShailabh Nagar 276c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 277c757249aSShailabh Nagar 278ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 279ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2806f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 281ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 282ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 283ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 284ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 285ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 286ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 287ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 288ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 28918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 29018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 29118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 29218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 29318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 29418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 29518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 29618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 29718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 29818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 29918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 30018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 30118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 30218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 30318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 30418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 30518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 30618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 309804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 318022382a5SKumar Gala depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 323f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 324f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 32674c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 32774c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 32863c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 32963c882a0SEric Paris select INOTIFY 33074c3cbe3SAl Viro 331c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 332c903ff83SMike Travis 333c903ff83SMike Travischoice 334c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 33531c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 336c903ff83SMike Travis 337c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 338c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 339c903ff83SMike Travis help 340c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 341c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 342c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 343c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 344c903ff83SMike Travis 345f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 346f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU" 347f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 348f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 349f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 350f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 351f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 352bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 353bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 354f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 3559b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 3569b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 3579b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP 3589b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 3599b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 3609b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 3619b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 3629b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 3639b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 364c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 365c903ff83SMike Travis 366c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 367c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 3686b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 369c903ff83SMike Travis help 370c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 371c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 372c903ff83SMike Travis 373c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 374c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 375c903ff83SMike Travis 376c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 377c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 378c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 379c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 380f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 381c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 382c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 383c903ff83SMike Travis help 384c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 385c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 386c903ff83SMike Travis large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube 387c903ff83SMike Travis root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit 388c903ff83SMike Travis systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. 389c903ff83SMike Travis 390c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 391c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 392c903ff83SMike Travis 393c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 394c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 395f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 396c903ff83SMike Travis default n 397c903ff83SMike Travis help 398c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 399c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 400c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 401c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 402c903ff83SMike Travis 403c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 404c903ff83SMike Travis 405c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 406c903ff83SMike Travis 407c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 408f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 409c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 410c903ff83SMike Travis help 411f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 412f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 413f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 414c903ff83SMike Travis 415c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 416c903ff83SMike Travis 4171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 418f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 436794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 437794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 438794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 439f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 440794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 441794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 442f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 443f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 444f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 445f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 446f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 447794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 448794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 449794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 4505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 4525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 4545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 4555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig GROUP_SCHED 4575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group CPU scheduler" 4585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 4595cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 4605cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4615cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 4625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bandwidth allocation to such task groups. 4635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use 4645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) 4655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 4675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 4685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default GROUP_SCHED 4705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 4725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 4735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 4745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 4765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 4785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" 4795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 4805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 4815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki realtime bandwidth for them. 4825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 4835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukichoice 4855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" 4875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default USER_SCHED 4885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig USER_SCHED 4905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "user id" 4915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping 4935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. 4945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_SCHED 4965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Control groups" 4975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUPS 4985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups 5005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control 5015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. 50245ce80fbSLi Zefan Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more 50345ce80fbSLi Zefan information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. 5045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 5055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiendchoice 5065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 50723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 50823964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 509ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 51023964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 5115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 5125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 5135cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 5145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 51545ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 51645ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 517ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 518ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 519ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 52023964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 52123964d2dSLi Zefan 522006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 523006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 524006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 525418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 526006cb992SPaul Menage help 527006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 528006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 52923964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 530006cb992SPaul Menage 53123964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 532006cb992SPaul Menage 533858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 534858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 535858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 536858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 537858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 538858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 539858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 540858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 541858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 542dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 54323964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 544dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 545dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 546dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 547dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 548dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 54908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 55008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 55108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 55208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 55308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 55408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 55508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 5561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 558db7f47cfSPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 560d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 56723964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 56823964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 56923964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 57023964d2dSLi Zefan default y 57123964d2dSLi Zefan 572d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 573d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 574d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 575d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 576d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 57723964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 578d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 579e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 580e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 581e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 582e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 58323964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 584e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 585e552b661SPavel Emelianov 58600f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 58700f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 58800f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 589cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 59000f0b825SBalbir Singh help 59184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 59221acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 59300f0b825SBalbir Singh 59400f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 59584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 59684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 59784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 59884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 59900f0b825SBalbir Singh 60000f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 60184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 60284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 60384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 604c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 60500f0b825SBalbir Singh 606cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 607cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 608cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 609c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 610c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" 611c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL 612c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 613c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 614c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 615c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 616c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 617c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 618c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 619c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 620c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 621c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 622c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 623c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 624627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 625627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 626c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 62723964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 628c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 62923964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 63023964d2dSLi Zefan bool 6315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 63288a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 633d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 634d47846c5SIngo Molnar 635d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 6369e9868a7SUwe Kleine-König bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 6379148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 638f6ee649fSKay Sievers default n 639d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 64088a22c98SKay Sievers help 641fce3e804SKay Sievers This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated 642f6ee649fSKay Sievers version. Do not use it on recent distributions. 64388a22c98SKay Sievers 644fce3e804SKay Sievers The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at 645fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between 646fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the 647fce3e804SKay Sievers unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at 648fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at 649fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by 650fce3e804SKay Sievers "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" 651fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some 652fce3e804SKay Sievers subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which 653fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the unified device tree. 65488a22c98SKay Sievers 655fce3e804SKay Sievers This option is not a pure compatibility option that can 656fce3e804SKay Sievers be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the 657fce3e804SKay Sievers layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, 658fce3e804SKay Sievers and disable some features, which can not be exported without 659fce3e804SKay Sievers confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major 660fce3e804SKay Sievers distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which 661fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the deprecated layout or this option. 662fce3e804SKay Sievers 663fce3e804SKay Sievers If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use 664fce3e804SKay Sievers older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, 665fce3e804SKay Sievers if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has 666fce3e804SKay Sievers this option set to N. 66788a22c98SKay Sievers 668b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 669b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 670b86ff981SJens Axboe help 671b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 672b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 673b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 674b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 675b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 676b86ff981SJens Axboe 677b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 678b86ff981SJens Axboe 679c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 680c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 681c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 682c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 683c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 684c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 685c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 686c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 687c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 68858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 68958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 69058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 69158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 69258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 69358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 69458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 695ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 696ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 697614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 698ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 699ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 700614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 701ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 702aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 703aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 704aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 705aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 706aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 707aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 708aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 709aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 71074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 71174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 71274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 71374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 71474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 71512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 716692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 71774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 71874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 71974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 72074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 72174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 722d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 723d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 724d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 725d6eb633fSMatt Helsley depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET 726d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 727d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 728d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 729d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 730f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 731f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 732f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 733f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 734f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 735f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 736f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 737f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 738f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 739f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 740f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 741f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 742f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 743f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 744f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 745f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 746c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 747c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 748dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 749dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 750c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 751c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 752c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 75396fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 754c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 755c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 756c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 757c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 758c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 759775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 760c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 7610847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 7620847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 7630847062aSRandy Dunlap 764b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 765b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 766b943c460SRandy Dunlap 7671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 775ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 776ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 77709337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 778ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 779ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 780ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 781ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 782b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 7830847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 78426a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 78513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 786b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 787b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 78813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 78913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 79013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 79113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 792b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 79313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 79413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 79513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 796b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 79713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 798ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 7991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 800979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 813f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 814f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 829d59745ceSMatt Mackall 830712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 831712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 832712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 833712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 834712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 835712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 836712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 837712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 838712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 839d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 840d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 841d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 842d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 843d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 844d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 845d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 846d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 847d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 848d59745ceSMatt Mackall 849c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 850c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 851c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 852c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 853c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 854c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 855c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 856c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 857c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 858c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 859708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 860708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 861708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 862708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 863708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 864708e9a79SMatt Mackall 865e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 866e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 867e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 868e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 869e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 870e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 871e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 872e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 8731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 88423f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 8851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 8911da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 893448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 8941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8961da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 898fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 899fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 900448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 901fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 902fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 903fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 904fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 905fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 906fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 907fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 908b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 909b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 910448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 911b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 912b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 913b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 914b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 915b215e283SDavide Libenzi 916b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 917b215e283SDavide Libenzi 918e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 919e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 920448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 921e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 922e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 923e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 924e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 925e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 926e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 927e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 9281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 9341da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 9351da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 9361da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 9371da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 9381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 939ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 940ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 941ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 942ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 943ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 944ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 945ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 946ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 947cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 9480793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 949018df72dSMike Frysinger help 950018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 9510793a61dSThomas Gleixner 952906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 953906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 954906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 955906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 956906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 95757c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 9580793a61dSThomas Gleixner 959cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 96057c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 96157c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 962cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 9634c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 9640793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 96557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 96657c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 9670793a61dSThomas Gleixner 968dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 96957c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 97057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 97157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 97257c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 9730793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 9740793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 9750793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 9760793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 9770793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 9780793a61dSThomas Gleixner 97957c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 980dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 98157c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 9820793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 9830793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 9840793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9850793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 9860793a61dSThomas Gleixner 987e077df4fSPeter Zijlstraconfig EVENT_PROFILE 988470a1396SPeter Zijlstra bool "Tracepoint profiling sources" 989cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING 990e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra default y 991470a1396SPeter Zijlstra help 99257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance events. 993470a1396SPeter Zijlstra 99457c0c15bSIngo Molnar When this is enabled, you can create perf events based on 995470a1396SPeter Zijlstra tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID 996470a1396SPeter Zijlstra found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events 997470a1396SPeter Zijlstra option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic 998470a1396SPeter Zijlstra tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.) 999e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra 100057c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 100157c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 100257c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 100357c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 100457c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 100557c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 100657c0c15bSIngo Molnar 100757c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 100857c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 100957c0c15bSIngo Molnar 101057c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 101157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1012906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1013906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1014906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1015906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1016906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1017906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1018906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1019906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1020906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1021906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1022906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1023906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1024906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 10250793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 10260793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1027f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1028f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 1029f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 1030f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 10312aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 10322aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 10332aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 10342aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1035f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 10363d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 10373d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 103861cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 103961cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 10403d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 10413d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 10423d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 10433d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 10443d137310SThomas Petazzoni 104541ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 104641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 104741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 1048f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 104941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 105041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 105141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 105241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 105341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 105441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1055b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1056b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1057b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1058b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1059b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1060b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1061b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1062692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1063b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1064b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1065b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1066b943c460SRandy Dunlap 106781819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 106881819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1069a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 107081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 107181819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 107281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 107381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 107481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 107581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 107681819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 107734013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 107802f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 107981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 108081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 108181819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 108281819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 108381819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 108481819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 108581819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 108681819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 108702f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 108802f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 108981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 109081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 109184a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 109281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 109381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 109437291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 109537291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 109637291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 109781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 109881819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 109981819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1100ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1101ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1102ea637639SJie Zhang depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU 1103ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1104ea637639SJie Zhang help 1105ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1106ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1107ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1108ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1109ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1110ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1111ea637639SJie Zhang 1112ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1113ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1114ea637639SJie Zhang 1115ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1116ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1117ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1118ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1119ea637639SJie Zhang 1120ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1121ea637639SJie Zhang 1122125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1123125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1124125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1125125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1126125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1127125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 11285f87f112SIngo Molnar# 11295f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 11305f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 11315f87f112SIngo Molnar# 113297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 11335f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 113497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1135fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1136fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 113707fe7cb7SDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK 113807fe7cb7SDavid Howells default n 11391c2d008cSDavid Howells bool 114007fe7cb7SDavid Howells help 114107fe7cb7SDavid Howells The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated 114207fe7cb7SDavid Howells threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that 114307fe7cb7SDavid Howells take a relatively long time. 114407fe7cb7SDavid Howells 114507fe7cb7SDavid Howells An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed 114607fe7cb7SDavid Howells by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch 114707fe7cb7SDavid Howells disk. 114807fe7cb7SDavid Howells 11491c2d008cSDavid Howells See Documentation/slow-work.txt. 11501c2d008cSDavid Howells 1151f13a48bdSDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK_DEBUG 1152f13a48bdSDavid Howells bool "Slow work debugging through debugfs" 11538fba10a4SDavid Howells default n 1154f13a48bdSDavid Howells depends on SLOW_WORK && DEBUG_FS 11558fba10a4SDavid Howells help 1156f13a48bdSDavid Howells Display the contents of the slow work run queue through debugfs, 11578fba10a4SDavid Howells including items currently executing. 11588fba10a4SDavid Howells 11598fba10a4SDavid Howells See Documentation/slow-work.txt. 11608fba10a4SDavid Howells 11611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1163ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1164ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1165ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1166ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1167158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1168158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1169158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 11700f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1171158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1172158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1173ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1174ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1175ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 11781da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 118166da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12010b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 12020b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1203826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1204826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1205826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1206826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 120791e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 120891e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 120991e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1210826e4506SLinus Torvalds 12111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1216f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1217f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 12300d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12500b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 12510b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 125298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 125398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 125498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 125598a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 125698a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 125798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 125898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1259692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 126098a79d6aSRusty Russell 12611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 12673a65dfe8SJens Axboe 12683a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1269e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1270e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1271e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1272e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 12736beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1274