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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"
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