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