180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter default y 23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 24ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 72dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7984336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 8084336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 8184336466SRoland McGrath help 8284336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 8384336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 8484336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 8584336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 8684336466SRoland McGrath 871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 97aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 98aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 101aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 104aaebf433SRyan Anderson 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 107aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 109aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 116aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1267dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1277dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1287dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1557dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1567dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1777dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1787dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1797dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1807dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1817dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 1827dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1837dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 18530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 18630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1899361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 212a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 213a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 214a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 215a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 216a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 217a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 226b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 234bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 235bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 236bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 237bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 238bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 239bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 26337a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 265c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 266c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 267c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 268c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 269c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 270c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 271c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 272c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 273c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 274c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 275c757249aSShailabh Nagar 276c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 277c757249aSShailabh Nagar 278ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 279ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2806f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 281ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 282ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 283ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 284ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 285ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 286ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 287ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 288ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 28918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 29018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 29118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 29218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 29318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 29418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 29518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 29618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 29718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 29818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 29918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 30018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 30118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 30218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 30318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 30418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 30518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 30618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 309804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 318022382a5SKumar Gala depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 32367640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 325939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 326939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 327939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 328939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 33074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 33174c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 33263c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 33328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 33474c3cbe3SAl Viro 335c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 336c903ff83SMike Travis 337c903ff83SMike Travischoice 338c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 33931c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 340c903ff83SMike Travis 341c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 342c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 343687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 344c903ff83SMike Travis help 345c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 346c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 347c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 348c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 349c903ff83SMike Travis 350f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 351*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 352f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 353f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 354f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 355f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 356f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 357bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 358bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 359f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 3609b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 3619b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 3629b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP 3639b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 3649b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 3659b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 3669b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 3679b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 3689b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 369*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 370*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 371*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP && PREEMPT 372*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 373*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 374*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 375*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 376*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 377c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 378c903ff83SMike Travis 379*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 380*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 381*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 382*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 383*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 384*a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 385c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 386c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 3876b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 388c903ff83SMike Travis help 389c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 390c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 391c903ff83SMike Travis 392c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 393c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 394c903ff83SMike Travis 395c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 396c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 397c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 398c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 399f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 400c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 401c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 402c903ff83SMike Travis help 403c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 404c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 4054d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 4064d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 4074d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 4084d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 4094d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 4104d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 411c903ff83SMike Travis 412c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 413c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 414c903ff83SMike Travis 415c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 416c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 417f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 418c903ff83SMike Travis default n 419c903ff83SMike Travis help 420c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 421c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 422c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 423c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 424c903ff83SMike Travis 425c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 426c903ff83SMike Travis 427c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 428c903ff83SMike Travis 4298bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4308bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 4318bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP 4328bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4338bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4348bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 4358bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state 4368bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the 4378bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems 4388bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney with large numbers of CPUs. 4398bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4408bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4418bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4428bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4438bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4448bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 445c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 446f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 447c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 448c903ff83SMike Travis help 449f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 450f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 451f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 452c903ff83SMike Travis 453c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 454c903ff83SMike Travis 4551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 456f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 474794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 475794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 476794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 477f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 478794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 479794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 480f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 481f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 482f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 483f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 484f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 485794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 486794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 487794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 4885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 4905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 4925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 4935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 49423964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 49523964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 4960dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 497ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 49823964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 4995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 5005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 5015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 5025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 50345ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 50445ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 505ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 506ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 507ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 50823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 50923964d2dSLi Zefan 510006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 511006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 512006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 513418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 514006cb992SPaul Menage help 515006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 516006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 51723964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 518006cb992SPaul Menage 51923964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 520006cb992SPaul Menage 521858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 522858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 523858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 524858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 525858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 526858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 527858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 528858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 529858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 530dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 53123964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 532dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 533dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 534dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 535dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 536dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 53708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 53808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 53908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 54008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 54108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 54208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 54308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 5441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 546db7f47cfSPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 548d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 55523964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 55623964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 55723964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 55823964d2dSLi Zefan default y 55923964d2dSLi Zefan 560d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 561d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 562d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 563d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 564d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 56523964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 566d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 567e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 568e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 569e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 570e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 57123964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 572e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 573e552b661SPavel Emelianov 57400f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 57500f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 57600f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 577cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 57800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 57984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 58021acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 58100f0b825SBalbir Singh 58200f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 58384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 58484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 58584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 58684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 58700f0b825SBalbir Singh 58800f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 58984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 59084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 59184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 592c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 59300f0b825SBalbir Singh 594cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 595cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 596cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 597c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 59865e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 59965e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 600c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 601c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 602c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 603c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 604c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 605c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 606c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 607c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 608c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 609c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 610c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 611c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 612627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 613627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 614c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6157c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 6167c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 6177c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS 6187c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6197c941438SDhaval Giani help 6207c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 6217c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 6227c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 6237c941438SDhaval Giani 6247c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 6257c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 6267c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 6277c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6287c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 6297c941438SDhaval Giani 6307c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 6317c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 6327c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 6337c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6347c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6357c941438SDhaval Giani help 6367c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 63732bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 6387c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 6397c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 6407c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 6417c941438SDhaval Giani 6427c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 6437c941438SDhaval Giani 644afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 645afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 646afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on CGROUPS && BLOCK 647afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 648afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 649afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 650afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 651afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 652afc24d49SVivek Goyal 653afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 654afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 655afc24d49SVivek Goyal to such task groups. 656afc24d49SVivek Goyal 657afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 658afc24d49SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it 659afc24d49SVivek Goyal to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y). 660afc24d49SVivek Goyal 661afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 662afc24d49SVivek Goyal 663afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 664afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 665afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 666afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 667afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 668afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 669afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 670afc24d49SVivek Goyal 67123964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 672c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 67323964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 67423964d2dSLi Zefan bool 6755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 67688a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 677d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 678d47846c5SIngo Molnar 679d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 6809e9868a7SUwe Kleine-König bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 6819148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 682f6ee649fSKay Sievers default n 683d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 68488a22c98SKay Sievers help 685fce3e804SKay Sievers This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated 686f6ee649fSKay Sievers version. Do not use it on recent distributions. 68788a22c98SKay Sievers 688fce3e804SKay Sievers The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at 689fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between 690fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the 691fce3e804SKay Sievers unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at 692fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at 693fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by 694fce3e804SKay Sievers "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" 695fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some 696fce3e804SKay Sievers subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which 697fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the unified device tree. 69888a22c98SKay Sievers 699fce3e804SKay Sievers This option is not a pure compatibility option that can 700fce3e804SKay Sievers be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the 701fce3e804SKay Sievers layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, 702fce3e804SKay Sievers and disable some features, which can not be exported without 703fce3e804SKay Sievers confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major 704fce3e804SKay Sievers distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which 705fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the deprecated layout or this option. 706fce3e804SKay Sievers 707fce3e804SKay Sievers If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use 708fce3e804SKay Sievers older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, 709fce3e804SKay Sievers if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has 710fce3e804SKay Sievers this option set to N. 71188a22c98SKay Sievers 712b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 713b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 714b86ff981SJens Axboe help 715b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 716b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 717b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 718b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 719b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 720b86ff981SJens Axboe 721b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 722b86ff981SJens Axboe 723c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 724c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 725c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 726c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 727c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 728c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 729c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 730c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 731c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 73258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 73358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 73458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 73558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 73658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 73758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 73858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 739ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 740ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 741614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 742ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 743ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 744614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 745ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 746aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 747aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 748aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 749aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 750aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 751aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 752aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 753aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 75474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 75574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 75674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 75774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 75874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 75912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 760692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 76174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 76274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 76374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 76474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 76574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 766d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 767d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 768d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 769d6eb633fSMatt Helsley depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET 770d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 771d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 772d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 773d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 774f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 775f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 776f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 777f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 778f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 779f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 780f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 781f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 782f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 783f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 784f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 785f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 786f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 787f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 788f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 789f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 790c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 791c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 792dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 793dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 794c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 795c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 796c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 79796fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 798c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 799c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 800c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 801c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 802c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 803775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 804c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 8050847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 8060847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 8070847062aSRandy Dunlap 808b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 809b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 810b943c460SRandy Dunlap 8111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 819ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 820ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 82109337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 822ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 823ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 824ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 825ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 826b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 8270847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 82826a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 82913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 830b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 831b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 83213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 83313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 83413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 83513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 836b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 83713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 83813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 83913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 840b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 84113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 842ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 8431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 844979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 8451da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 857f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 858f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 873d59745ceSMatt Mackall 874712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 875712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 876712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 877712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 878712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 879712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 880712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 881712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 882712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 883d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 884d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 885d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 886d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 887d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 888d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 889d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 890d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 891d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 892d59745ceSMatt Mackall 893c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 894c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 895c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 896c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 897c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 898c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 899c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 900c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 901c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 902c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 903708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 904708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 905708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 906708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 907708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 908708e9a79SMatt Mackall 909e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 910e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 911e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 912e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 913e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 914e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 915e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 916e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 9171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 9261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 9271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 92823f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 9351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 9361da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 937448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 9381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 9401da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 942fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 943fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 944448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 945fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 946fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 947fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 948fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 949fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 950fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 951fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 952b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 953b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 954448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 955b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 956b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 957b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 958b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 959b215e283SDavide Libenzi 960b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 961b215e283SDavide Libenzi 962e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 963e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 964448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 965e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 966e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 967e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 968e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 969e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 970e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 971e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 9721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 983ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 984ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 985ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 986ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 987ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 988ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 989ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 990ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 991cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 9920793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 993018df72dSMike Frysinger help 994018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 9950793a61dSThomas Gleixner 996906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 997906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 998906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 999906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1000906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 100157c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 10020793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1003cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 100457c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 100557c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1006cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 10074c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 10080793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 100957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 101057c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 10110793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1012dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 101357c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 101457c0c15bSIngo Molnar 101557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 101657c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 10170793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 10180793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 10190793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 10200793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 10210793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 10220793a61dSThomas Gleixner 102357c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1024dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 102557c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 10260793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 10270793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 10280793a61dSThomas Gleixner 10290793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 10300793a61dSThomas Gleixner 103157c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 103257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 103357c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 103457c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 103557c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 103657c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 103757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 103857c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 103957c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 104057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 104157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 104257c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1043906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1044906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1045906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1046906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1047906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1048906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1049906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1050906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1051906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1052906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1053906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1054906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1055906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 10560793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 10570793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1058f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1059f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 1060f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 1061f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 10622aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 10632aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 10642aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 10652aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1066f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 10673d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 10683d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 106961cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 107061cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 10713d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 10723d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 10733d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 10743d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 10753d137310SThomas Petazzoni 107641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 107741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 107841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 1079f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 108041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 108141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 108241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 108341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 108441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 108541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1086b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1087b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1088b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1089b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1090b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1091b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1092b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1093692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1094b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1095b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1096b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1097b943c460SRandy Dunlap 109881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 109981819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1100a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 110181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 110281819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 110381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 110481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 110581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 110681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 110781819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 110834013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 110902f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 111081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 111181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 111281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 111381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 111481819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 111581819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 111681819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 111781819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 111802f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 111902f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 112081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 112181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 112284a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 112381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 112481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 112537291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 112637291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 112737291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 112881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 112981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 113081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1131ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1132ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1133ea637639SJie Zhang depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU 1134ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1135ea637639SJie Zhang help 1136ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1137ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1138ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1139ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1140ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1141ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1142ea637639SJie Zhang 1143ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1144ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1145ea637639SJie Zhang 1146ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1147ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1148ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1149ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1150ea637639SJie Zhang 1151ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1152ea637639SJie Zhang 1153125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1154b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1155125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1156125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1157125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1158125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 11595f87f112SIngo Molnar# 11605f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 11615f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 11625f87f112SIngo Molnar# 116397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 11645f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 116597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1166fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1167fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 11681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1170ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1171ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1172ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1173ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1174158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1175158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1176158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 11770f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1178158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1179158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1180ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1181ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1182ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 118866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12080b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 12090b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1210826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1211826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1212826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1213826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 121491e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 121591e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 121691e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1217826e4506SLinus Torvalds 12181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1223f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1224f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 12370d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12570b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 12580b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 125998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 126098a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 126198a79d6aSRusty Russell help 126298a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 126398a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 126498a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 126598a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1266692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 126798a79d6aSRusty Russell 12681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 12743a65dfe8SJens Axboe 12753a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1276e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1277e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1278e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1279e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 128016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 128116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 128216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 128316295becSSteffen Klassert 12846beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1285