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180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH
280daa560SRoman Zippel	string
380daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="ARCH"
480daa560SRoman Zippel
580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION
680daa560SRoman Zippel	string
780daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="KERNELVERSION"
880daa560SRoman Zippel
9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
10face4374SRoman Zippel	string
11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
12face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
13face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
15face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
1673531905SSam Ravnborg	default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18face4374SRoman Zippel
19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	default y
23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK
25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
30e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
31ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
74dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
75dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
7834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8184336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
8284336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
8384336466SRoland McGrath	help
8484336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
8584336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
8684336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
8784336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
8884336466SRoland McGrath
891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
99aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
100aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
101aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
102aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
103aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
106aaebf433SRyan Anderson
107aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
109aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
111aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1166e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
118aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1283ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1293ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool
1303ebe1243SLasse Collin
1317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1373ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1582e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel
1692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The most recent compression algorithm.
17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33%
1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1823ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ
1833ebe1243SLasse Collin	bool "XZ"
1843ebe1243SLasse Collin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
1853ebe1243SLasse Collin	help
1863ebe1243SLasse Collin	  XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
1873ebe1243SLasse Collin	  BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
1883ebe1243SLasse Collin	  code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
1893ebe1243SLasse Collin	  comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
1903ebe1243SLasse Collin	  filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
1913ebe1243SLasse Collin	  will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
1923ebe1243SLasse Collin
1933ebe1243SLasse Collin	  The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
1943ebe1243SLasse Collin	  speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
1953ebe1243SLasse Collin	  and LZO. Compression is slow.
1963ebe1243SLasse Collin
1977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
2007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
2017dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
202681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
2047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
20530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
207*bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
208*bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	string "Default hostname"
209*bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	default "(none)"
210*bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	help
211*bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
212*bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
213*bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
214*bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett	  system more usable with less configuration.
215*bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett
2161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
2189361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
241a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
242a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
243a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
244a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
245a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
246a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
255b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
264bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
265bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
266bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
267bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
268bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
2691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
29237a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds
294990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE
295990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
296990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	select EXPORTFS
297990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	help
298990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
299990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  file names to handle and then later use the handle for
300990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
301990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
302990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
303990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
304990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V	  syscalls.
305990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V
306c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS
307c757249aSShailabh Nagar	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
308c757249aSShailabh Nagar	depends on NET
309c757249aSShailabh Nagar	default n
310c757249aSShailabh Nagar	help
311c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
312c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
313c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
314c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
315c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  space on task exit.
316c757249aSShailabh Nagar
317c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
318c757249aSShailabh Nagar
319ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
320ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
3216f44993fSShailabh Nagar	depends on TASKSTATS
322ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	help
323ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
324ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
325ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
326ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
327ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
328ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
329ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
33018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT
33118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
33218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASKSTATS
33318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
33418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
33518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
33618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
33718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
33818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
33918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
34018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
34118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASK_XACCT
34218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
34318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
34418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  task has caused.
34518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
34618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
34718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
3481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
350804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
359022382a5SKumar Gala	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
36467640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
366939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
367939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
368939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
369939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
37174c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
37274c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
37363c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
37428a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
37574c3cbe3SAl Viro
376d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
377d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
378c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
379c903ff83SMike Travis
380c903ff83SMike Travischoice
381c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
38231c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
383c903ff83SMike Travis
384c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
385c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
386687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
387c903ff83SMike Travis	help
388c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
389c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
390c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
391c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
392c903ff83SMike Travis
393f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
394a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
395f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
396f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
397f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
398f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
399f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
400bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
401bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
402f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
4039b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
4049b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
4059b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	depends on !SMP
4069b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
4079b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
4089b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
4099b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
4109b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
4119b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
412a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
413a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
414a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !SMP && PREEMPT
415a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
416a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
417a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  for real-time UP systems.  This option greatly reduces the
418a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
419a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
420c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
421c903ff83SMike Travis
422a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU
423a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
424a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
425a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
426a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
427a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
428c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE
429c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
430c903ff83SMike Travis	help
431c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
432c903ff83SMike Travis	  in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
433c903ff83SMike Travis
434c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
435c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if you are unsure.
436c903ff83SMike Travis
437c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
438c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
439c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
440c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
441f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
442c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
443c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
444c903ff83SMike Travis	help
445c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
446c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
4474d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
4484d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
4494d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
4504d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
4514d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
4524d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
453c903ff83SMike Travis
454c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
455c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
456c903ff83SMike Travis
457c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
458c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
459f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
460c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
461c903ff83SMike Travis	help
462c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
463c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
464c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
465c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
466c903ff83SMike Travis
467c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
468c903ff83SMike Travis
469c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
470c903ff83SMike Travis
4718bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
4728bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
4738bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
4748bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
4758bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
4768bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
4778bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
4788bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  more quickly.  On the other hand, this option increases the
4798bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
4808bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  with large numbers of CPUs.
4818bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
4828bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
4838bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  	if you have relatively few CPUs.
4848bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
4858bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
4868bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
487c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
488f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
489c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
490c903ff83SMike Travis	help
491f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
492f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
493f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
494c903ff83SMike Travis
49524278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST
49624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
49727f4d280SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
49824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default n
49924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
50024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
50124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
50224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
50324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
50424278d14SPaul E. McKenney
50524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
50624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N here if you are unsure.
50724278d14SPaul E. McKenney
50824278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO
50924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
51024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 1 99
51124278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
51224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 1
51324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
51424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted
51524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU readers are to be boosted.  If you are working with CPU-bound
51624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then
51724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  the highest-priority CPU-bound application.
51824278d14SPaul E. McKenney
51924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
52024278d14SPaul E. McKenney
52124278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY
52224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
52324278d14SPaul E. McKenney	range 0 3000
52424278d14SPaul E. McKenney	depends on RCU_BOOST
52524278d14SPaul E. McKenney	default 500
52624278d14SPaul E. McKenney	help
52724278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
52824278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
52924278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
53024278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
53124278d14SPaul E. McKenney
53224278d14SPaul E. McKenney	  Accept the default if unsure.
53324278d14SPaul E. McKenney
534c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
535c903ff83SMike Travis
5361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
537f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
555794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
556794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
557794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
558f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
559794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
560794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
561f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
562f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
563f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
564f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
565f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
566794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
567794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
568794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
5695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
5705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
5715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
5725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
5735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
5745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
57523964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
57623964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
5770dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov	depends on EVENTFD
578ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
57923964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
5805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
5815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
5825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
5835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
58445ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
58545ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
586ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
587ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
588ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
58923964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
59023964d2dSLi Zefan
591006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
592006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
593418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
594006cb992SPaul Menage	help
595006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
596006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
59723964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
598006cb992SPaul Menage
59923964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
600006cb992SPaul Menage
601dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
60223964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
603dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
604dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
605dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
606dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
60708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
60808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
60908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
61008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
61108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
61208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
6131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
616d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
62323964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
62423964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
62523964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
62623964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
62723964d2dSLi Zefan
628d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
629d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
630d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
631d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
63223964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
633d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
634e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
635e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
636e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
637e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
63823964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
639e552b661SPavel Emelianov
64000f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
64100f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
64279ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
643cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
64400f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
64584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
64621acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
64700f0b825SBalbir Singh
64800f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
64984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
65084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
65184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
65284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
65300f0b825SBalbir Singh
65400f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
65584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
65684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
65784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
658c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
65900f0b825SBalbir Singh
660cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
661cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
662cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
663c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
66465e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
66565e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP
666c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
667c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
668c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
669c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
670c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
671c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
672c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
673c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
674c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
675c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
676c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
677c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
678627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
679627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
680a42c390cSMichal Hockoconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED
681a42c390cSMichal Hocko	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
682a42c390cSMichal Hocko	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
683a42c390cSMichal Hocko	default y
684a42c390cSMichal Hocko	help
685a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
686a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
68743d547f9SJim Cromie	  which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
688a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
689a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  parameter should have this option unselected.
690a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
691a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
692a42c390cSMichal Hocko	  then noswapaccount does the trick).
693c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
694e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF
695e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
696e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
697e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	help
698e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
6992d0f2520SLi Zefan	  threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
700e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  designated cpu.
701e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
702e5d1367fSStephane Eranian	  Say N if unsure.
703e5d1367fSStephane Eranian
7047c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
7057c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
70679ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
7077c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
7087c941438SDhaval Giani	help
7097c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
7107c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
7117c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
7127c941438SDhaval Giani
7137c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
7147c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
7157c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
7167c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
7177c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
7187c941438SDhaval Giani
7197c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
7207c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
7217c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
7227c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
7237c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
7247c941438SDhaval Giani	help
7257c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
72632bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
7277c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
7287c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
7297c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
7307c941438SDhaval Giani
7317c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
7327c941438SDhaval Giani
733afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
734afc24d49SVivek Goyal	tristate "Block IO controller"
73579ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on BLOCK
736afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
737afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
738afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
739afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
740afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
741afc24d49SVivek Goyal
742afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
743afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
744e43473b7SVivek Goyal	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
745e43473b7SVivek Goyal	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
746afc24d49SVivek Goyal
747afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
748e43473b7SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
74979e2e759SMichael Witten	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
75079e2e759SMichael Witten	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
751c5e0591aSMichael Witten	CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
752afc24d49SVivek Goyal
753afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
754afc24d49SVivek Goyal
755afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
756afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
757afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
758afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
759afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
760afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
761afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
762afc24d49SVivek Goyal
76323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
764c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
7658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
7666a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
7676a108a14SDavid Rientjes	default !EXPERT
768c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
769c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
770c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
771c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
772c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
773c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
7748dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
7758dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
77658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
77758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
77817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
77958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
78058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
78158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
78258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
783ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
784ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
7858dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
78617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
787ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
788ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
789614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
790ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
791aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
792aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
7938dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
79417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
795aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
796aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
797aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
798aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
799aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
80074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
8019bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
80217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
80374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
80412d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
805692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
80674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
80774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
808d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
809d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
8108dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
81117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
812d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
813d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
814d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
815d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
8168dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
8178dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
8185091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP
8195091faa4SMike Galbraith	bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
8205091faa4SMike Galbraith	select EVENTFD
8215091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUPS
8225091faa4SMike Galbraith	select CGROUP_SCHED
8235091faa4SMike Galbraith	select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
8245091faa4SMike Galbraith	help
8255091faa4SMike Galbraith	  This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
8265091faa4SMike Galbraith	  automatically creating and populating task groups.  This separation
8275091faa4SMike Galbraith	  of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
8285091faa4SMike Galbraith	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
8295091faa4SMike Galbraith	  upon task session.
8305091faa4SMike Galbraith
8317af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER
8327af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool
8337af37becSDaniel Lezcano
8347af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
8355d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
8367af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
8377af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
8387af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
8397af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
8407af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
8417af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
8427af37becSDaniel Lezcano
8437af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
8447af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
8457af37becSDaniel Lezcano
8467af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
8477af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
8487af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
8497af37becSDaniel Lezcano
8507af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
8517af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
8527af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
8537af37becSDaniel Lezcano
8547af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
8557af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
8567af37becSDaniel Lezcano
8577af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
8585d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
8597af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
8607af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
8617af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
8627af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
8637af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
8647af37becSDaniel Lezcano
8657af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
8667af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
8677af37becSDaniel Lezcano
8687af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
8697af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
8707af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
8717af37becSDaniel Lezcano
8727af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
8737af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
8747af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
8757af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
8767af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
8777af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
8787af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
8797af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
8807af37becSDaniel Lezcano
8817af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
8827af37becSDaniel Lezcano
883f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
884f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
885f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
886f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
887f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
888f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
889f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
890f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
891f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
892f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
893f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
894f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
895f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
896f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
897f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
898f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
899c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
900c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
901dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
902dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
903c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
904c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
905c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
90696fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
907c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
908c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
909c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
910c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
911775a7229Sjkacur	  If unsure, say Y.
912c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
9130847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
9140847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
9150847062aSRandy Dunlap
916b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
917b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
918b943c460SRandy Dunlap
9196a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT
9206a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
9261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
927ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
9286a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
92909337f50SDavid S. Miller	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
930ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
931ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
932ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
933ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
934b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
9356a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
93626a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
93713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	default y
938b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
939b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
94013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
94113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
94213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
94313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
944b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
94513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
94613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
94713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
948b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
94913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  If unsure say Y here.
950ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
9511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
9526a108a14SDavid Rientjes	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
96371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
96471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
96571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
96671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
96771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   names of variables from the data sections, etc).
9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
96971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
97071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
97171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
97271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   something like this).
9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
97471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy	   Say N unless you really need all symbols.
975d59745ceSMatt Mackall
976712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
9776a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT
978712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	default y
979712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	help
980712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
981712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
982712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
983712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
984712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
985d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
986d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
9876a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
988d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
989d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
990d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
991d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
992d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
993d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
994d59745ceSMatt Mackall
995c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
9966a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
997c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
998c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
999c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1000c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1001c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1002c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1003c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
1004c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
1005708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
1006708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
10076a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
1008708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
1009708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1010708e9a79SMatt Mackall
1011e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
10126a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
1013e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
1014e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
1015e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
1016e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1017e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
1018e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
10191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
10216a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
10286a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
103023f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
10376a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1039448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
10431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1044fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
10456a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
1046448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1047fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
1048fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
1049fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1050fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
1051fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1052fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1053fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
1054b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
10556a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
1056448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1057b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
1058b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
1059b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1060b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
1061b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1062b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1063b215e283SDavide Libenzi
1064e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
10656a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
1066448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
1067e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
1068e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
1069e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1070e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1071e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
1072e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
1073e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
10741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
10756a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
10781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1085ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
10866a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
1087ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1088ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1089ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1090ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1091ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          this option saves about 7k.
1092ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
10936befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED
10946befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	bool "Embedded system"
10956befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	select EXPERT
10966befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	help
10976befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
10986befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  an embedded system so certain expert options are available
10996befe5f6SRandy Dunlap	  for configuration.
11006befe5f6SRandy Dunlap
1101cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
11020793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1103018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1104018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
11050793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1106906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1107906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1108906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1109906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1110906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
111157c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
11120793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1113cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
111457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
111557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
1116cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
11174c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1118e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
11190793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
112057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
112157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
11220793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1123dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
112457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
112557c0c15bSIngo Molnar
112657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
112757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
11280793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
11290793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
11300793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
11310793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
11320793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
11330793a61dSThomas Gleixner
113457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1135dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
113657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
11370793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
11380793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
11390793a61dSThomas Gleixner
11400793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
11410793a61dSThomas Gleixner
114257c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS
114357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
114457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
114557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	help
114657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
114757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  config option - please see that one for details.
114857c0c15bSIngo Molnar
114957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
115057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
115157c0c15bSIngo Molnar
115257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Say N if unsure.
115357c0c15bSIngo Molnar
1154906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1155906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1156906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1157906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1158906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1159906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1160906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1161906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1162906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1163906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1164906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1165906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1166906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
11670793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
11680793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1169f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1170f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
11716a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
1172f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
11732aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
11742aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
11756a108a14SDavid Rientjes	  on EXPERT systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
11762aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1177f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
11783d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS
11793d137310SThomas Petazzoni	default y
11806a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
118161cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on PCI
11823d137310SThomas Petazzoni	help
11833d137310SThomas Petazzoni	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
11843d137310SThomas Petazzoni          bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
11853d137310SThomas Petazzoni          unaffected by PCI quirks.
11863d137310SThomas Petazzoni
118741ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
118841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
11896a108a14SDavid Rientjes	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
1190f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
119141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
119241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
119341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
119441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
119541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
119641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1197b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1198b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1199b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1200b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1201b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1202b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1203b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1204692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1205b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1206b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1207b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1208b943c460SRandy Dunlap
120981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
121081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1211a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
121281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
121381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
121481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
121581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
121681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
121781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
121881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
121934013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
122002f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
122181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
122281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
122381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
122481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
122581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
122681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
122781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
122881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
122902f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
123002f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
123181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
123281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
12336a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT
123481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
123581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
123637291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
123737291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
123837291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
123981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
124081819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
124181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1242ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1243ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
12446a108a14SDavid Rientjes	depends on EXPERT && !MMU
1245ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1246ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1247ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1248ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1249ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1250ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1251ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1252ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1253ea637639SJie Zhang
1254ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1255ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1256ea637639SJie Zhang
1257ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1258ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1259ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1260ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1261ea637639SJie Zhang
1262ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1263ea637639SJie Zhang
1264125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1265b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1266125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1267125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1268125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1269125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
12705f87f112SIngo Molnar#
12715f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
12725f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
12735f87f112SIngo Molnar#
127497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
12755f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
127697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1277fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1278fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
12791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1281ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1282ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1283ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1284ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1285158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1286158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1287158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
12880f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1289158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1290158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1291ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1292ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1293ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
12941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
129966da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13190b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
13200b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1321826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1322826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1323826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1324826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
132591e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
132691e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
132791e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1328826e4506SLinus Torvalds
13291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1334f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1335f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
13480d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13680b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
13690b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
137098a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
137198a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
137298a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
137398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
137498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
137598a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
137698a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1377692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
137898a79d6aSRusty Russell
13791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
13853a65dfe8SJens Axboe
13863a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1387e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1388e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1389e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1390e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
139116295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
139216295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
139316295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
139416295becSSteffen Klassert
13956beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
1396