180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 30ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 74dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8084336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 8184336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 8284336466SRoland McGrath help 8384336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 8484336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 8584336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 8684336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 8784336466SRoland McGrath 881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 98aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 101aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson 106aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 110aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1166e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 117aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1273ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1283ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1293ebe1243SLasse Collin 1307dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1363ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1813ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1823ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1833ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1843ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin 1923ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1933ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1943ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1953ebe1243SLasse Collin 1967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 201681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 211bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 212bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 213bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 214bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2179361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 242a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 243a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 244a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 245a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 254b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 264bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 265bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 266bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 267bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 29137a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 293990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 294990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 295990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 296990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 297990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 298990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 299990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 300990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 301990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 302990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 303990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 304990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 305c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 306c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 307c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 308c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 309c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 310c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 311c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 312c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 313c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 314c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 315c757249aSShailabh Nagar 316c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 317c757249aSShailabh Nagar 318ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 319ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3206f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 321ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 322ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 323ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 324ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 325ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 326ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 327ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 328ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 32918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 33018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 33118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 33218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 33318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 33418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 33518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 33618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 33718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 33818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 33918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 34018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 34118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 34218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 34318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 34418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 34518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 34618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 349804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 35829ef73b7SNathaniel Husted depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || ARM) 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 36367640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 365939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 366939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 367939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 368939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 37074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 37174c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 37263c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 37328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 37474c3cbe3SAl Viro 375633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 376633b4545SEric Paris bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 377633b4545SEric Paris depends on AUDIT 378633b4545SEric Paris help 379f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 380633b4545SEric Paris CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 381633b4545SEric Paris but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 382633b4545SEric Paris previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 383633b4545SEric Paris process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 384633b4545SEric Paris systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 385633b4545SEric Paris start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 386633b4545SEric Paris one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 387633b4545SEric Paris but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 388633b4545SEric Paris 389d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 390d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 391c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 392c903ff83SMike Travis 393c903ff83SMike Travischoice 394c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 39531c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 396c903ff83SMike Travis 397c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 398c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 399687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 400c903ff83SMike Travis help 401c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 402c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 403c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 404c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 405c903ff83SMike Travis 406f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 407a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4088008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && SMP 409f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 410f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 411f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 412f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 413bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 414bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 415f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4169b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4179b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4188008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4199b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4209b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4219b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4229b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4239b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4249b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 425a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 426a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4278008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && !SMP 428a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 429a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 430a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 431a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 432a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 433c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 434c903ff83SMike Travis 435a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 436a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 437a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 438a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 439a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 440a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 441c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 442c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 443c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 444c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 445f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 446c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 447c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 448c903ff83SMike Travis help 449c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 450c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 4514d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 4524d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 4534d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 4544d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 4554d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 4564d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 457c903ff83SMike Travis 458c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 459c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 460c903ff83SMike Travis 461*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 462*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" 463*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT 464*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT 465*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 466*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney default 16 467*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney help 468*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical 469*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses 470*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their 471*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will 472*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps 473*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems 474*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this 475*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the 476*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period 477*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus 478*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to 479*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large 480*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney leaf-level fanouts work well. 481*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 482*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 483*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 484*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. 485*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 486*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney Take the default if unsure. 487*8932a63dSPaul E. McKenney 488c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 489c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 490f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 491c903ff83SMike Travis default n 492c903ff83SMike Travis help 493c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 494c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 495c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 496c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 497c903ff83SMike Travis 498c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 499c903ff83SMike Travis 500c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 501c903ff83SMike Travis 5028bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 5038bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 504b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney depends on NO_HZ && SMP 5058bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 5068bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 5078bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 508b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more 509b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead 510b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with 511b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. 5128bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 5138bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 5148bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 5158bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 5168bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 5178bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 518c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 519f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 520c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 521c903ff83SMike Travis help 522f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 523f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 524f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 525c903ff83SMike Travis 52624278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 52724278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 52827f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 52924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 53024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 53124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 53224278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 53324278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 53424278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 53524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 53624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 53724278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 53824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 53924278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 54024278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 54124278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 54224278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 54324278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 54424278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 545c9336643SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 546c9336643SPaul E. McKenney preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 547c9336643SPaul E. McKenney with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 548c9336643SPaul E. McKenney threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 549c9336643SPaul E. McKenney RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 550c9336643SPaul E. McKenney real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 551c9336643SPaul E. McKenney of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 552c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 553c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 554c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 555c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 556c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 557c9336643SPaul E. McKenney that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 558c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 559c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 560c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 561c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 562c9336643SPaul E. McKenney the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 563c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 56424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 56524278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 56624278d14SPaul E. McKenney 56724278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 56824278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 56924278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 57024278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 57124278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 57224278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 57324278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 57424278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 57524278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 57624278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 57724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 57824278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 57924278d14SPaul E. McKenney 580c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 581c903ff83SMike Travis 5821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 583f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 602794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 603794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 604f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 605794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 606794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 607f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 608f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 609f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 610f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 611f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 612794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 613794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 614794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 6155cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6165cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 6175cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 6185cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 6195cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 6205cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 62123964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 62223964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 6230dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 624ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 62523964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 6265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 6275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 6285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 6295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 63045ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 63145ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 632ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 633ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 634ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 63523964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 63623964d2dSLi Zefan 637006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 638006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 639418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 640006cb992SPaul Menage help 641006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 642006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 64323964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 644006cb992SPaul Menage 64523964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 646006cb992SPaul Menage 647dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 64823964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 649dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 650dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 651dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 652dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 65308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 65408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 65508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 65608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 65708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 65808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 6591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 6601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 662d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 66923964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 67023964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 67123964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 67223964d2dSLi Zefan default y 67323964d2dSLi Zefan 674d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 675d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 676d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 677d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 67823964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 679d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 680e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 681e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 682e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 683e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 68423964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 685e552b661SPavel Emelianov 68600f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 68700f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 68879ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 689cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 69000f0b825SBalbir Singh help 69184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 69221acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 69300f0b825SBalbir Singh 69400f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 69584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 69684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 69784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 69884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 69900f0b825SBalbir Singh 70000f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 70184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 70284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 70384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 704c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 70500f0b825SBalbir Singh 706cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 707cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 708cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 709c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 71065e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 71165e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 712c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 713c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 714c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 715c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 716c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 717c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 718c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 719c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 720c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 721c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 722c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 72300a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 724627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 725627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 726a42c390cSMichal Hockoconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED 727a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 728a42c390cSMichal Hocko depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 729a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 730a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 731a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 732a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 73343d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 734a42c390cSMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 735a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 736a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 737a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 73800a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 739e5671dfaSGlauber Costaconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM 740e5671dfaSGlauber Costa bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 741e5671dfaSGlauber Costa depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && EXPERIMENTAL 742e5671dfaSGlauber Costa default n 743e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 744e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 745e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 746e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 747e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 748e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 749e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 750c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 751e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 752e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 753e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 754e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 755e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 7562d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 757e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 758e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 759e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 760e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7617c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 7627c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 7637c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7647c941438SDhaval Giani help 7657c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7667c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7677c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7687c941438SDhaval Giani 7697c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7707c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7717c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7727c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7737c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7747c941438SDhaval Giani 775ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 776ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 777ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on EXPERIMENTAL 778ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 779ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 780ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 781ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 782ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 783ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 784ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 785ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 786ab84d31eSPaul Turner 7877c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7887c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7897c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 7907c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7917c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7927c941438SDhaval Giani help 7937c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 79432bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7957c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7967c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7977c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7987c941438SDhaval Giani 7997c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 8007c941438SDhaval Giani 801afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 802afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 80379ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 804afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 805afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 806afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 807afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 808afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 809afc24d49SVivek Goyal 810afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 811afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 812e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 813e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 814afc24d49SVivek Goyal 815afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 816e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 81779e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 81879e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 819c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 820afc24d49SVivek Goyal 821afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 822afc24d49SVivek Goyal 823afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 824afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 825afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 826afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 827afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 828afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 829afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 830afc24d49SVivek Goyal 83123964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 832c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 833067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 834067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 835067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 836067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 837067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 838067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 839067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 840067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 841067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 842067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 843067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 8448dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 8456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 8466a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 847c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 848c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 849c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 850c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 851c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 852c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 8538dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 8548dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 85558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 85658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 85717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 85858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 85958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 86058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 86158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 862ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 863ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 8648dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 86517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 866ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 867ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 868614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 869ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 870aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 871aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 8728dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 87317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 874aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 875aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 876aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 877aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 878aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 87974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 8809bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 88117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 88274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 88312d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 884692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 88574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 88674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 887d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 888d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 8898dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 89017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 891d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 892d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 893d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 894d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 8958dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 8968dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 8975091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 8985091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 8995091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 9005091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 9015091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 9025091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 9035091faa4SMike Galbraith help 9045091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 9055091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 9065091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 9075091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 9085091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 9095091faa4SMike Galbraith 9107af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 9117af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 9127af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9137af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9145d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 9157af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9167af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9177af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9187af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 9197af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 9207af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 9217af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9227af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 9237af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 9247af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9257af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 9267af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 9277af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 9287af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9297af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 9307af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 9317af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 9327af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9337af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9347af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 9357af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9367af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 9375d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 9387af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9397af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9407af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9417af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9427af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 9437af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9447af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 9457af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 9467af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9477af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9487af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 9497af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 9507af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9517af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 9527af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 9537af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9547af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 9557af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 9567af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 9577af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 9587af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 9597af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9607af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 9617af37becSDaniel Lezcano 962f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 963f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 964f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 965f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 966f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 967f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 968f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 969f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 970f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 971f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 972f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 973f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 974f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 975f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 976f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 977f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 978c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 979c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 980dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 981dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 982c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 983c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 984c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 98596fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 986c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 987c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 988c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 989c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 990775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 991c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 9920847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 9930847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 9940847062aSRandy Dunlap 995b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 996b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 997b943c460SRandy Dunlap 9986a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 9996a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 1000f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 1001f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 10021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10031da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 10051da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 10061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1008ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 10096a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 101009337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 1011ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 1012ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 1013ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 1014ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 1015b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 10166a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 101726a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1018c736de60SWANG Cong default n 1019b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 1020b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 102113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 102213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 102313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 102413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 1025b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 102613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 102713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 102813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1029b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1030c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1031ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 10321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 10336a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 10431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 104471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 104571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 104671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 104771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 104871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 105071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 105171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 105271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 105371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 105571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1056d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1057712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 10586a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT 1059712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 1060712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 1061712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 1062712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 1063712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 1064712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 1065712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 1066d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1067d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 10686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1069d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1070d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1071d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1072d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1073d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1074d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1075d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1076c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 10776a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1078c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1079c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1080c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1081c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1082c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1083c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1084c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1085c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1086708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1087708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 10886a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1089708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1090708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1091708e9a79SMatt Mackall 10928761f1abSRalf Baechle 1093e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 10946a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 10958761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 109615f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1097e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1098e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1099e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1100e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1101e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 11028761f1abSRalf Baechleconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 11038761f1abSRalf Baechle bool 11048761f1abSRalf Baechle 11051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11076a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 11146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 111623f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 11236a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1125448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 11261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 11291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1130fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 11316a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1132448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1133fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1134fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1135fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1136fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1137fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1138fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1139fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1140b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 11416a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1142448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1143b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1144b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1145b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1146b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1147b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1148b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1149b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1150e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 11516a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1152448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1153e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1154e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1155e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1156e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1157e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1158e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1159e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 11601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 11616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 11681da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 11701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1171ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 11726a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1173ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1174ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1175ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1176ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1177ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1178ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 11796befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 11806befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 11816befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 11826befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 11836befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 11846befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 11856befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 11866befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1187cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 11880793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1189018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1190018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 11910793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1192906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1193906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1194906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1195906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1196906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 119757c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 11980793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1199cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 120057c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 120157c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1202cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 12034c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1204e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 12050793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 120657c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 120757c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 12080793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1209dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 121057c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 121157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 121257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 121357c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 12140793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 12150793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 12160793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 12170793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 12180793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 12190793a61dSThomas Gleixner 122057c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1221dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 122257c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 12230793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 12240793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 12250793a61dSThomas Gleixner 12260793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 12270793a61dSThomas Gleixner 122857c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 122957c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 123057c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 123157c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 123257c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 123357c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 123457c0c15bSIngo Molnar 123557c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 123657c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 123757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 123857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 123957c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1240906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1241906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1242906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1243906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1244906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1245906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1246906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1247906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1248906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1249906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1250906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1251906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1252906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 12530793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 12540793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1255f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1256f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 12576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1258f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 12592aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 12602aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 12616a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 12622aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1263f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 12643d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 12653d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 12666a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 126761cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 12683d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 12693d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 12703d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 12713d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 12723d137310SThomas Petazzoni 127341ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 127441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 12756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1276f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 127741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 127841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 127941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 128041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 128141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 128241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1283b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1284b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1285b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1286b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1287b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1288b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1289b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1290692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1291b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1292b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1293b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1294b943c460SRandy Dunlap 129581819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 129681819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1297a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 129881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 129981819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 130081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 130181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 130281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 130381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 130481819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 130534013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 130602f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 130781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 130881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 130981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 131081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 131181819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 131281819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 131381819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 131481819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 131502f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 131602f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 131781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 131881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 13196a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 132081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 132181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 132237291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 132337291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 132437291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 132581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 132681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 132781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1328ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1329ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 13306a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1331ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1332ea637639SJie Zhang help 1333ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1334ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1335ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1336ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1337ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1338ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1339ea637639SJie Zhang 1340ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1341ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1342ea637639SJie Zhang 1343ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1344ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1345ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1346ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1347ea637639SJie Zhang 1348ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1349ea637639SJie Zhang 1350125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1351b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1352125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1353125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1354125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1355125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 13565f87f112SIngo Molnar# 13575f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 13585f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 13595f87f112SIngo Molnar# 136097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 13615f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 136297e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1363fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1364fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 13651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1367ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1368ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1369ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1370ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1371158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1372158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1373158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 13740f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1375158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1376158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1377ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1378ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1379ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 138566da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 13961da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14050b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 14060b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1407826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1408826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1409826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1410826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 141191e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 141291e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 141391e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1414826e4506SLinus Torvalds 14151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1420f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1421f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 14340d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14540b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 14550b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 145698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 145798a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 145898a79d6aSRusty Russell help 14595f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 14605f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 146198a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 146298a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1463692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 146498a79d6aSRusty Russell 14651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 14713a65dfe8SJens Axboe 14723a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1473e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1474e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1475e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1476e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 147716295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 147816295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 147916295becSSteffen Klassert bool 148016295becSSteffen Klassert 14816beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1482