180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter default y 23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 30e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 31ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 746de5bd12SArnd Bergmann depends on (SMP || PREEMPT) && BKL 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 79dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 80dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8684336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 8784336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 8884336466SRoland McGrath help 8984336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 9084336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 9184336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 9284336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 9384336466SRoland McGrath 941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 104aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 106aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 107aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 111aaebf433SRyan Anderson 112aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 114aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 116aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1196e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1206e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 123aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1397dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1887dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 189681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 19230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 19330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1969361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 219a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 220a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 221a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 222a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 223a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 224a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 233b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 241bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 242bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 243bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 244bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 245bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 246bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 27037a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 272c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 273c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 274c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 275c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 276c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 277c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 278c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 279c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 280c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 281c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 282c757249aSShailabh Nagar 283c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 284c757249aSShailabh Nagar 285ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 286ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2876f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 288ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 289ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 290ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 291ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 292ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 293ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 294ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 295ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 29618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 29718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 29818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 29918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 30018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 30118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 30218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 30318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 30418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 30518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 30618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 30718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 30818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 30918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 31018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 31118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 31218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 31318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 316804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 325022382a5SKumar Gala depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 33067640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 332939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 333939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 334939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 335939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 33774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 33874c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 33963c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 34028a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 34174c3cbe3SAl Viro 342d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 343d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 344c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 345c903ff83SMike Travis 346c903ff83SMike Travischoice 347c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 34831c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 349c903ff83SMike Travis 350c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 351c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 352687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 353c903ff83SMike Travis help 354c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 355c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 356c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 357c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 358c903ff83SMike Travis 359f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 360a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 361f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 362f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 363f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 364f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 365f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 366bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 367bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 368f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 3699b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 3709b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 3719b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP 3729b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 3739b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 3749b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 3759b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 3769b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 3779b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 378a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 379a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 380a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP && PREEMPT 381a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 382a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 383a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 384a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 385a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 386c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 387c903ff83SMike Travis 388a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 389a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 390a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 391a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 392a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 393a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 394c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 395c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 3966b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 397c903ff83SMike Travis help 398c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 399c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 400c903ff83SMike Travis 401c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 402c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 403c903ff83SMike Travis 404c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 405c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 406c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 407c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 408f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 409c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 410c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 411c903ff83SMike Travis help 412c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 413c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 4144d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 4154d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 4164d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 4174d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 4184d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 4194d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 420c903ff83SMike Travis 421c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 422c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 423c903ff83SMike Travis 424c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 425c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 426f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 427c903ff83SMike Travis default n 428c903ff83SMike Travis help 429c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 430c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 431c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 432c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 433c903ff83SMike Travis 434c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 435c903ff83SMike Travis 436c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 437c903ff83SMike Travis 4388bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4398bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 4408bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP 4418bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4428bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4438bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 4448bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state 4458bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the 4468bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems 4478bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney with large numbers of CPUs. 4488bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4498bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4508bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4518bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4528bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4538bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 454c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 455f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 456c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 457c903ff83SMike Travis help 458f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 459f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 460f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 461c903ff83SMike Travis 462c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 463c903ff83SMike Travis 4641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 465f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 483794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 484794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 485794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 486f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 487794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 488794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 489f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 490f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 491f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 492f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 493f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 494794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 495794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 496794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 4975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 4995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 50323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 50423964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 5050dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 506ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 50723964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 5085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 5095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 5105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 5115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 51245ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 51345ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 514ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 515ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 516ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 51723964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 51823964d2dSLi Zefan 519006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 520006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 521006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 522418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 523006cb992SPaul Menage help 524006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 525006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 52623964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 527006cb992SPaul Menage 52823964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 529006cb992SPaul Menage 530858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 531858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 532858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 533858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 534858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 535858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 536858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 537858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 538858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 539dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 54023964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 541dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 542dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 543dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 544dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 545dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 54608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 54708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 54808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 54908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 55008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 55108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 55208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 5531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 555db7f47cfSPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 557d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 56423964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 56523964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 56623964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 56723964d2dSLi Zefan default y 56823964d2dSLi Zefan 569d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 570d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 571d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 572d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 573d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 57423964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 575d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 576e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 577e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 578e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 579e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 58023964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 581e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 582e552b661SPavel Emelianov 58300f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 58400f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 58500f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 586cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 58700f0b825SBalbir Singh help 58884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 58921acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 59000f0b825SBalbir Singh 59100f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 59284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 59384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 59484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 59584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 59600f0b825SBalbir Singh 59700f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 59884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 59984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 60084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 601c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 60200f0b825SBalbir Singh 603cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 604cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 605cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 606c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 60765e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 60865e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 609c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 610c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 611c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 612c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 613c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 614c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 615c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 616c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 617c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 618c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 619c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 620c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 621627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 622627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 623c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6247c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 6257c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 6267c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS 6277c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6287c941438SDhaval Giani help 6297c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 6307c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 6317c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 6327c941438SDhaval Giani 6337c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 6347c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 6357c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 6367c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6377c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 6387c941438SDhaval Giani 6397c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 6407c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 6417c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 6427c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6437c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6447c941438SDhaval Giani help 6457c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 64632bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 6477c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 6487c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 6497c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 6507c941438SDhaval Giani 6517c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 6527c941438SDhaval Giani 653afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 654afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 655afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on CGROUPS && BLOCK 656afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 657afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 658afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 659afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 660afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 661afc24d49SVivek Goyal 662afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 663afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 664e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 665e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 666afc24d49SVivek Goyal 667afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 668e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 669e43473b7SVivek Goyal enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ seti 670e43473b7SVivek Goyal CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set 671e43473b7SVivek Goyal CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y. 672afc24d49SVivek Goyal 673afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 674afc24d49SVivek Goyal 675afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 676afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 677afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 678afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 679afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 680afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 681afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 682afc24d49SVivek Goyal 68323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 684c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 68523964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 68623964d2dSLi Zefan bool 6875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 68888a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 6899e9868a7SUwe Kleine-König bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 6909148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 691f6ee649fSKay Sievers default n 69288a22c98SKay Sievers help 693e52eec13SAndi Kleen This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 694e52eec13SAndi Kleen devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 695e52eec13SAndi Kleen /sys/block/. 69688a22c98SKay Sievers 697e52eec13SAndi Kleen This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 698e52eec13SAndi Kleen passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 69988a22c98SKay Sievers 70039aba963SKay Sievers This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 70139aba963SKay Sievers which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 70239aba963SKay Sievers major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 703fce3e804SKay Sievers 70439aba963SKay Sievers Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 70539aba963SKay Sievers the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 70639aba963SKay Sievers option enabled. 707fce3e804SKay Sievers 70839aba963SKay Sievers Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 709e52eec13SAndi Kleen need to say Y here. 710e52eec13SAndi Kleen 711e52eec13SAndi Kleenconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 712e52eec13SAndi Kleen bool "enabled deprecated sysfs features by default" 713e52eec13SAndi Kleen default n 714e52eec13SAndi Kleen depends on SYSFS 715e52eec13SAndi Kleen depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 716e52eec13SAndi Kleen help 717e52eec13SAndi Kleen Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 718e52eec13SAndi Kleen 719e52eec13SAndi Kleen See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 720e52eec13SAndi Kleen option. 721e52eec13SAndi Kleen 722e52eec13SAndi Kleen Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 723e52eec13SAndi Kleen need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 724e52eec13SAndi Kleen enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 72588a22c98SKay Sievers 726b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 727b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 728b86ff981SJens Axboe help 729b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 730b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 731b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 732b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 733b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 734b86ff981SJens Axboe 735b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 736b86ff981SJens Axboe 737c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 738c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 739c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 740c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 741c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 742c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 743c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 744c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 745c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 74658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 74758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 74858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 74958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 75058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 75158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 75258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 753ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 754ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 755614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 756ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 757ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 758614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 759ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 760aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 761aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 762aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 763aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 764aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 765aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 766aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 767aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 76874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 769*9bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 77074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 771*9bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NAMESPACES 77274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 77312d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 774692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 77574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 77674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 777d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 778d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 779d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 780*9bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NAMESPACES && NET 781d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 782d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 783d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 784d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 785f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 786f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 787f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 788f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 789f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 790f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 791f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 792f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 793f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 794f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 795f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 796f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 797f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 798f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 799f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 800f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 801c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 802c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 803dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 804dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 805c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 806c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 807c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 80896fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 809c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 810c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 811c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 812c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 813c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 814775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 815c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 8160847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 8170847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 8180847062aSRandy Dunlap 819b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 820b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 821b943c460SRandy Dunlap 8221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 830ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 831ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 83209337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 833ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 834ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 835ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 836ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 837b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 8380847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 83926a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 84013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 841b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 842b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 84313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 84413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 84513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 84613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 847b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 84813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 84913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 85013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 851b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 85213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 853ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 8541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 855979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 868f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 869f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 884d59745ceSMatt Mackall 885712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 886712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 887712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 888712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 889712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 890712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 891712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 892712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 893712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 894d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 895d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 896d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 897d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 898d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 899d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 900d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 901d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 902d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 903d59745ceSMatt Mackall 904c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 905c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 906c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 907c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 908c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 909c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 910c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 911c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 912c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 913c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 914708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 915708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 916708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 917708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 918708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 919708e9a79SMatt Mackall 920e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 921e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 922e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 923e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 924e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 925e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 926e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 927e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 9281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 9341da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 9351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 9371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 9381da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 93923f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 9401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 9421da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 948448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 953fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 954fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 955448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 956fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 957fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 958fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 959fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 960fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 961fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 962fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 963b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 964b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 965448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 966b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 967b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 968b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 969b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 970b215e283SDavide Libenzi 971b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 972b215e283SDavide Libenzi 973e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 974e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 975448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 976e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 977e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 978e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 979e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 980e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 981e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 982e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 9831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 9921da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 994ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 995ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 996ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 997ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 998ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 999ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1000ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1001ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 1002cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 10030793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1004018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1005018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 10060793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1007906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1008906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1009906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1010906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1011906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 101257c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 10130793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1014cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 101557c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 101657c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1017cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 10184c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1019e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 10200793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 102157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 102257c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 10230793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1024dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 102557c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 102657c0c15bSIngo Molnar 102757c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 102857c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 10290793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 10300793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 10310793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 10320793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 10330793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 10340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 103557c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1036dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 103757c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 10380793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 10390793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 10400793a61dSThomas Gleixner 10410793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 10420793a61dSThomas Gleixner 104357c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 104457c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 104557c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 104657c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 104757c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 104857c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 104957c0c15bSIngo Molnar 105057c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 105157c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 105257c0c15bSIngo Molnar 105357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 105457c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1055906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1056906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1057906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1058906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1059906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1060906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1061906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1062906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1063906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1064906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1065906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1066906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1067906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 10680793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 10690793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1070f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1071f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 1072f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 1073f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 10742aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 10752aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 10762aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 10772aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1078f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 10793d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 10803d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 108161cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 108261cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 10833d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 10843d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 10853d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 10863d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 10873d137310SThomas Petazzoni 108841ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 108941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 109041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 1091f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 109241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 109341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 109441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 109541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 109641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 109741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1098b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1099b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1100b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1101b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1102b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1103b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1104b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1105692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1106b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1107b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1108b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1109b943c460SRandy Dunlap 111081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 111181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1112a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 111381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 111481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 111581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 111681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 111781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 111881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 111981819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 112034013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 112102f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 112281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 112381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 112481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 112581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 112681819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 112781819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 112881819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 112981819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 113002f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 113102f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 113281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 113381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 113484a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 113581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 113681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 113737291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 113837291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 113937291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 114081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 114181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 114281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1143ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1144ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1145ea637639SJie Zhang depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU 1146ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1147ea637639SJie Zhang help 1148ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1149ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1150ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1151ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1152ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1153ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1154ea637639SJie Zhang 1155ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1156ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1157ea637639SJie Zhang 1158ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1159ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1160ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1161ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1162ea637639SJie Zhang 1163ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1164ea637639SJie Zhang 1165125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1166b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1167125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1168125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1169125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1170125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 11715f87f112SIngo Molnar# 11725f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 11735f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 11745f87f112SIngo Molnar# 117597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 11765f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 117797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1178fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1179fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 11801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1182ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1183ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1184ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1185ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1186158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1187158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1188158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 11890f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1190158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1191158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1192ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1193ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1194ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 120066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12200b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 12210b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1222826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1223826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1224826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1225826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 122691e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 122791e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 122891e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1229826e4506SLinus Torvalds 12301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1235f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1236f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 12490d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12690b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 12700b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 127198a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 127298a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 127398a79d6aSRusty Russell help 127498a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 127598a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 127698a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 127798a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1278692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 127998a79d6aSRusty Russell 12801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 12863a65dfe8SJens Axboe 12873a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1288e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1289e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1290e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1291e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 129216295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 129316295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 129416295becSSteffen Klassert bool 129516295becSSteffen Klassert 12966beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1297