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 19ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 68dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 84aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 85aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 86aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 94aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 103aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1069361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 129a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 130a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 131a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 132a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 133a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 134a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 1351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 143b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 17437a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 176c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 177c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 178c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 179c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 180c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 181c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 182c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 183c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 184c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 185c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 186c757249aSShailabh Nagar 187c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 188c757249aSShailabh Nagar 189ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 190ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1916f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 192ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 193ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 194ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 195ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 196ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 197ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 198ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 199ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 20018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 20118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 20218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 20318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 20418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 20518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 20618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 20718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 20818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 20918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 21018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 21118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 21218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 21318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 21418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 21518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 21618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 21718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 2181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 220804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2291322b9deSYuichi Nakamura depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 234f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 235f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 23874c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 23974c3cbe3SAl Viro depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY 24074c3cbe3SAl Viro 241c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 242c903ff83SMike Travis 243c903ff83SMike Travischoice 244c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 245c903ff83SMike Travis default CLASSIC_RCU 246c903ff83SMike Travis 247c903ff83SMike Travisconfig CLASSIC_RCU 248c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Classic RCU" 249c903ff83SMike Travis help 250c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is 251c903ff83SMike Travis designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime 252c903ff83SMike Travis systems. 253c903ff83SMike Travis 254c903ff83SMike Travis Select this option if you are unsure. 255c903ff83SMike Travis 256c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 257c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 258c903ff83SMike Travis help 259c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 260c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 261c903ff83SMike Travis thousands of CPUs. 262c903ff83SMike Travis 263c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU 264c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Preemptible RCU" 265c903ff83SMike Travis depends on PREEMPT 266c903ff83SMike Travis help 267c903ff83SMike Travis This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain 268c903ff83SMike Travis RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if 269c903ff83SMike Travis this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become 270c903ff83SMike Travis preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to 271c903ff83SMike Travis now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section 272c903ff83SMike Travis remaining on a given CPU through its execution. 273c903ff83SMike Travis 274c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 275c903ff83SMike Travis 276c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 277c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 278c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 279c903ff83SMike Travis help 280c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 281c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 282c903ff83SMike Travis 283c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 284c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 285c903ff83SMike Travis 286c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 287c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 288c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 289c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 290c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU 291c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 292c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 293c903ff83SMike Travis help 294c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 295c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 296c903ff83SMike Travis large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube 297c903ff83SMike Travis root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit 298c903ff83SMike Travis systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. 299c903ff83SMike Travis 300c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 301c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 302c903ff83SMike Travis 303c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 304c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 305c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU 306c903ff83SMike Travis default n 307c903ff83SMike Travis help 308c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 309c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 310c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 311c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 312c903ff83SMike Travis 313c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 314c903ff83SMike Travis 315c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 316c903ff83SMike Travis 317c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 318c903ff83SMike Travis def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU 319c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 320c903ff83SMike Travis help 321c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation, 322c903ff83SMike Travis permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 323c903ff83SMike Travis 324c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE 325c903ff83SMike Travis def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU 326c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 327c903ff83SMike Travis help 328c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation, 329c903ff83SMike Travis permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c. 330c903ff83SMike Travis 331c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 332c903ff83SMike Travis 3331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 334f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 352794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 353794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 354794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 355f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 356794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 357794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 358f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 359f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 360f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 361f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 362f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 363794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 364794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 365794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 3665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 3675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 3685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 3695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 3705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 3715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 3725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig GROUP_SCHED 3735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group CPU scheduler" 3745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 3755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 3765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 3775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 3785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bandwidth allocation to such task groups. 3795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use 3805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) 3815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 3825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 3835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 3845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 3855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default GROUP_SCHED 3865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 3875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 3885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 3895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 3905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 3915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 3925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 3935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 3945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" 3955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 3965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 3975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki realtime bandwidth for them. 3985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 3995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukichoice 4015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" 4035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default USER_SCHED 4045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig USER_SCHED 4065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "user id" 4075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping 4095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. 4105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_SCHED 4125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Control groups" 4135cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUPS 4145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4155cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups 4165cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control 4175cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. 41845ce80fbSLi Zefan Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more 41945ce80fbSLi Zefan information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. 4205cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4215cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiendchoice 4225cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 42323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 42423964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 425ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 42623964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 4275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 4285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 4295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 4305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 43145ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 43245ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 433ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 434ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 435ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 43623964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 43723964d2dSLi Zefan 438006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 439006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 440006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 441418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 442006cb992SPaul Menage help 443006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 444006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 44523964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 446006cb992SPaul Menage 44723964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 448006cb992SPaul Menage 449858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 450858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 451858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 452858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 453858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 454858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 455858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 456858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 457858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 458dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 45923964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 460dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 461dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 462dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 463dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 464dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 46508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 46608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 46708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 46808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 46908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 47008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 47108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 4721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 4748793d854SPaul Menage depends on SMP && CGROUPS 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 476d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 48323964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 48423964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 48523964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 48623964d2dSLi Zefan default y 48723964d2dSLi Zefan 488d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 489d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 490d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 491d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 492d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 49323964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 494d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 495e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 496e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 497e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 498e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 49923964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 500e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 501e552b661SPavel Emelianov 50200f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 50300f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 50400f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 505cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 50600f0b825SBalbir Singh help 50784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 50884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) 50900f0b825SBalbir Singh 51000f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 51184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 51284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 51384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 51484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 51500f0b825SBalbir Singh 51600f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 51784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 51884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 51984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 520c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 52100f0b825SBalbir Singh 522cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 523cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 524cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 525c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 526c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" 527c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL 528c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 529c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 530c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 531c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 532c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 533c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 534c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 535c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 536c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 537c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 538c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 539c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 540c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 54123964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 542c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 54323964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 54423964d2dSLi Zefan bool 5455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 54688a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 547d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 548d47846c5SIngo Molnar 549d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 550fce3e804SKay Sievers bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools" 5519148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 55288a22c98SKay Sievers default y 553d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 55488a22c98SKay Sievers help 555fce3e804SKay Sievers This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated 556fce3e804SKay Sievers version. 55788a22c98SKay Sievers 558fce3e804SKay Sievers The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at 559fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between 560fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the 561fce3e804SKay Sievers unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at 562fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at 563fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by 564fce3e804SKay Sievers "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" 565fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some 566fce3e804SKay Sievers subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which 567fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the unified device tree. 56888a22c98SKay Sievers 569fce3e804SKay Sievers This option is not a pure compatibility option that can 570fce3e804SKay Sievers be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the 571fce3e804SKay Sievers layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, 572fce3e804SKay Sievers and disable some features, which can not be exported without 573fce3e804SKay Sievers confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major 574fce3e804SKay Sievers distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which 575fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the deprecated layout or this option. 576fce3e804SKay Sievers 577fce3e804SKay Sievers If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use 578fce3e804SKay Sievers older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, 579fce3e804SKay Sievers if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has 580fce3e804SKay Sievers this option set to N. 58188a22c98SKay Sievers 582b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 583b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 584b86ff981SJens Axboe help 585b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 586b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 587b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 588b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 589b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 590b86ff981SJens Axboe 591b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 592b86ff981SJens Axboe 593c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 594c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 595c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 596c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 597c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 598c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 599c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 600c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 601c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 60258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 60358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 60458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 60558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 60658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 60758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 60858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 609ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 610ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 611ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC 612ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 613ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 614ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov different IPC objects in different namespaces 615ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 616aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 617aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 618aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 619aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 620aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 621aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 622aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 623aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 62474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 62574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 62674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 62774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 62874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 62912d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 63074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov process with the same pid as long as they are in different 63174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 63274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 63374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 63474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 63574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 636d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 637d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 638d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 639d6eb633fSMatt Helsley depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET 640d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 641d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 642d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 643d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 644f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 645f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 646f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 647f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 648f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 649f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 650f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 651f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 652f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 653f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 654f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 655f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 656f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 657f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 658f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 659f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 660c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 661c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 662dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 663dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 664c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 665c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 666c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 66796fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 668c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 669c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 670c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 671c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 672c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 673775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 674c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 6750847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 6760847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 6770847062aSRandy Dunlap 678*b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 679*b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 680*b943c460SRandy Dunlap 6811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 689ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 690ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 69109337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 692ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 693ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 694ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 695ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 696b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 6970847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 69813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 699b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 700b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 70113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 70213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 70313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 70413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 705b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 70613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 70713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 70813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 709b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 71013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 711ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 7121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 713979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 726f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 727f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 742d59745ceSMatt Mackall 743712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 744712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 745712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 746712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 747712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 748712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 749712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 750712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 751712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 752d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 753d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 754d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 755d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 756d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 757d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 758d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 759d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 760d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 761d59745ceSMatt Mackall 762c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 763c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 764c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 765c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 766c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 767c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 768c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 769c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 770c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 771c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 772708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 773708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 774708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 775708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 776708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 777708e9a79SMatt Mackall 778e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 779e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 780e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 781e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 782e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 783e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 784e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 785e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 7861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 79723f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 806448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 811fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 812fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 813448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 814fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 815fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 816fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 817fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 818fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 819fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 820fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 821b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 822b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 823448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 824b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 825b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 826b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 827b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 828b215e283SDavide Libenzi 829b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 830b215e283SDavide Libenzi 831e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 832e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 833448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 834e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 835e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 836e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 837e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 838e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 839e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 840e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 8411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 8421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 8451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 852ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 853ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 854ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 855ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 856ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 857ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 858ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 859ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 860f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 861f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 862f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 863f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 8642aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 8652aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 8662aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 8672aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 868f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 8693d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 8703d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 87161cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 87261cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 8733d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 8743d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 8753d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 8763d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 8773d137310SThomas Petazzoni 87841ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 87941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 88041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 881f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 88241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 88341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 88441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 88541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 88641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 88741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 888*b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 889*b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 890*b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 891*b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 892*b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 893*b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 894*b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 895*b943c460SRandy Dunlap disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting 896*b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 897*b943c460SRandy Dunlap 898*b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 899*b943c460SRandy Dunlap 90081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 90181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 902a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 90381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 90481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 90581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 90681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 90781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 90881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 90981819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 91034013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 91102f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 91281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 91381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 91481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 91581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 91681819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 91781819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 91881819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 91981819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 92002f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 92102f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 92281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 92381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 92484a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 92581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 92681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 92737291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 92837291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 92937291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 93081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 93181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 93281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 933125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 934125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 935125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 936125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 937125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 938125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 9395f87f112SIngo Molnar# 9405f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 9415f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 9425f87f112SIngo Molnar# 94397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 9445f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 94597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 946125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS 947125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Activate markers" 948c1df1bd2SMathieu Desnoyers depends on TRACEPOINTS 949125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 950125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be 951125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers dynamically changed for a probe function. 952125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 953fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 954fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 9551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 957ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 958ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 959ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 960ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 961158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 962158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 963158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 9640f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 965158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 966158a9624SLinus Torvalds 967ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 968ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 969ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert select PLIST 970ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 9711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 97666da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 9921da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9941da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 9951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9960b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 9970b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 998826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 999826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1000826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1001826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 100291e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 100391e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 100491e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1005826e4506SLinus Torvalds 10061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 10081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1011f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1012f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 10131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 10211da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 10250d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 10361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 10431da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10450b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 10460b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 104798a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 104898a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 104998a79d6aSRusty Russell help 105098a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 105198a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 105298a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 105398a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 105498a79d6aSRusty Russell and have several arch maintainers persuing me down dark alleys. 105598a79d6aSRusty Russell 10561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 10623a65dfe8SJens Axboe 10633a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1064e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1065e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1066e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1067e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 1068