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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
19ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL
221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SMP || PREEMPT
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
68dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
7134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
84aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
85aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
86aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
87aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
88aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
91aaebf433SRyan Anderson
92aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
94aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
96aaebf433SRyan Anderson
976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
103aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
11330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
11430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
11530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
11830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1372e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  compression and decompression) is the fastest.
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel
1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The most recent compression algorithm.
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33%
1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1669361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
189a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
190a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
191a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
192a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
193a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
194a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
1951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
203b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
211*bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
212*bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
213*bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
214*bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
215*bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
216*bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
2171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
24037a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
242c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS
243c757249aSShailabh Nagar	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
244c757249aSShailabh Nagar	depends on NET
245c757249aSShailabh Nagar	default n
246c757249aSShailabh Nagar	help
247c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
248c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
249c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
250c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
251c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  space on task exit.
252c757249aSShailabh Nagar
253c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
254c757249aSShailabh Nagar
255ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
256ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2576f44993fSShailabh Nagar	depends on TASKSTATS
258ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	help
259ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
260ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
261ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
262ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
263ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
264ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
265ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
26618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT
26718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
26818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASKSTATS
26918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
27018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
27118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
27218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
27318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
27418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
27518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
27618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
27718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASK_XACCT
27818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
27918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
28018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  task has caused.
28118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
28218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
28318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
2841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
286804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
2951322b9deSYuichi Nakamura	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
300f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  such as SELinux.  To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
301f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
30374c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
30474c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
30574c3cbe3SAl Viro	depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
30674c3cbe3SAl Viro
307c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
308c903ff83SMike Travis
309c903ff83SMike Travischoice
310c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
311c903ff83SMike Travis	default CLASSIC_RCU
312c903ff83SMike Travis
313c903ff83SMike Travisconfig CLASSIC_RCU
314c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Classic RCU"
315c903ff83SMike Travis	help
316c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
317c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
318c903ff83SMike Travis	  systems.
319c903ff83SMike Travis
320c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select this option if you are unsure.
321c903ff83SMike Travis
322c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
323c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
324c903ff83SMike Travis	help
325c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
326c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
327c903ff83SMike Travis	  thousands of CPUs.
328c903ff83SMike Travis
329c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU
330c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Preemptible RCU"
331c903ff83SMike Travis	depends on PREEMPT
332c903ff83SMike Travis	help
333c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
334c903ff83SMike Travis	  RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
335c903ff83SMike Travis	  this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
336c903ff83SMike Travis	  preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
337c903ff83SMike Travis	  now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
338c903ff83SMike Travis	  remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
339c903ff83SMike Travis
340c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
341c903ff83SMike Travis
342c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE
343c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
344c903ff83SMike Travis	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
345c903ff83SMike Travis	help
346c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
347c903ff83SMike Travis	  in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
348c903ff83SMike Travis
349c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
350c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if you are unsure.
351c903ff83SMike Travis
352c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
353c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
354c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
355c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
356c903ff83SMike Travis	depends on TREE_RCU
357c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
358c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
359c903ff83SMike Travis	help
360c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
361c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
362c903ff83SMike Travis	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the cube
363c903ff83SMike Travis	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
364c903ff83SMike Travis	  systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
365c903ff83SMike Travis
366c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
367c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
368c903ff83SMike Travis
369c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
370c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
371c903ff83SMike Travis	depends on TREE_RCU
372c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
373c903ff83SMike Travis	help
374c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
375c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
376c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
377c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
378c903ff83SMike Travis
379c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
380c903ff83SMike Travis
381c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
382c903ff83SMike Travis
383c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
384c903ff83SMike Travis	def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU
385c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
386c903ff83SMike Travis	help
387c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation,
388c903ff83SMike Travis	  permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
389c903ff83SMike Travis
390c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE
391c903ff83SMike Travis	def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU
392c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
393c903ff83SMike Travis	help
394c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation,
395c903ff83SMike Travis	  permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c.
396c903ff83SMike Travis
397c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
398c903ff83SMike Travis
3991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
400f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
418794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
419794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
420794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
421f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
422794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
423794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
424f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
425f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
426f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
427f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
428f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
429794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
430794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
431794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
4325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
4335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
4345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
4355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
4365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
4375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig GROUP_SCHED
4395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
4405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
4415cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default n
4425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
4435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
4445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
4455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use
4465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.)
4475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4485cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
4495cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
4505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on GROUP_SCHED
4515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default GROUP_SCHED
4525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
4545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
4555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
4565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on GROUP_SCHED
4575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default n
4585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
4595cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
4605cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
4615cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
4625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
4635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  realtime bandwidth for them.
4645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
4655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukichoice
4675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on GROUP_SCHED
4685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
4695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default USER_SCHED
4705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig USER_SCHED
4725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "user id"
4735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
4745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
4755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
4765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_SCHED
4785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Control groups"
4795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 	depends on CGROUPS
4805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 	help
4815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
4825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
4835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
48445ce80fbSLi Zefan	  Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more
48545ce80fbSLi Zefan	  information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
4865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiendchoice
4885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
48923964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
49023964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
491ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
49223964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
4935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
4945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
4955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
4965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
49745ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
49845ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
499ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
500ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
501ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
50223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
50323964d2dSLi Zefan
504006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
505006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
506006cb992SPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
507418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
508006cb992SPaul Menage	help
509006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
510006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
51123964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
512006cb992SPaul Menage
51323964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
514006cb992SPaul Menage
515858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS
516858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
517858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS
518858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	help
519858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
520858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
521858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
522858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  jobs.
523858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn
524dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
52523964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
526dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	depends on CGROUPS
527dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
528dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
529dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
530dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
53108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
53208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
53308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
53408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
53508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
53608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
53708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
5381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
540db7f47cfSPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
542d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
54923964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
55023964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
55123964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
55223964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
55323964d2dSLi Zefan
554d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
555d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
556d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	depends on CGROUPS
557d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
558d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
55923964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
560d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
561e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
562e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
563e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
564e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
56523964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
566e552b661SPavel Emelianov	depends on CGROUPS
567e552b661SPavel Emelianov
56800f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
56900f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
57000f0b825SBalbir Singh	depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
571cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
57200f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
57384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
57421acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
57500f0b825SBalbir Singh
57600f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
57784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
57884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
57984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
58084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
58100f0b825SBalbir Singh
58200f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
58384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
58484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
58584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
586c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
58700f0b825SBalbir Singh
588cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
589cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
590cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
591c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
592c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
593c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
594c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
595c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
596c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
597c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
598c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
599c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
600c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
601c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
602c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
603c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
604c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
605c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
606627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
607627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
608c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
60923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
610c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
61123964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER
61223964d2dSLi Zefan	bool
6135cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
61488a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
615d47846c5SIngo Molnar	bool
616d47846c5SIngo Molnar
617d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
618fce3e804SKay Sievers	bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools"
6199148fe87SRandy Dunlap	depends on SYSFS
62088a22c98SKay Sievers	default y
621d47846c5SIngo Molnar	select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
62288a22c98SKay Sievers	help
623fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
624fce3e804SKay Sievers	  version.
62588a22c98SKay Sievers
626fce3e804SKay Sievers	  The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
627fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
628fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
629fce3e804SKay Sievers	  unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
630fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
631fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
632fce3e804SKay Sievers	  "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
633fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
634fce3e804SKay Sievers	  subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
635fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the unified device tree.
63688a22c98SKay Sievers
637fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
638fce3e804SKay Sievers	  be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
639fce3e804SKay Sievers	  layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
640fce3e804SKay Sievers	  and disable some features, which can not be exported without
641fce3e804SKay Sievers	  confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
642fce3e804SKay Sievers	  distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
643fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
644fce3e804SKay Sievers
645fce3e804SKay Sievers	  If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
646fce3e804SKay Sievers	  older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
647fce3e804SKay Sievers	  if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
648fce3e804SKay Sievers	  this option set to N.
64988a22c98SKay Sievers
650b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY
651b86ff981SJens Axboe	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
652b86ff981SJens Axboe	help
653b86ff981SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
654b86ff981SJens Axboe	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
655b86ff981SJens Axboe	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
656b86ff981SJens Axboe	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
657b86ff981SJens Axboe	  user space.
658b86ff981SJens Axboe
659b86ff981SJens Axboe	  If unsure, say N.
660b86ff981SJens Axboe
661c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES
662c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
663c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	default !EMBEDDED
664c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
665c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
666c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
667c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
668c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
669c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
67058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
67158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
67258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES
67358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
67458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
67558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
67658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
677ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
678ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
679614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
680ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
681ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
682614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
683ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
684aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
685aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
686aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
687aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
688aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
689aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
690aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
691aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
69274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
69374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
69474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	default n
69574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
69674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
69712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
698692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
69974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
70074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
70174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
70274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  say N here.
70374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
704d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
705d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
706d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	default n
707d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
708d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
709d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
710d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
711d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
712f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
713f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
714f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
715f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
716f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
717f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
718f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
719f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
720f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
721f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
722f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
723f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
724f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
725f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
726f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
727f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
728c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
729c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
730dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
731dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
732c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
733c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
734c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
73596fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
736c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	default y
737c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
738c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
739c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
740c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
741775a7229Sjkacur	  If unsure, say Y.
742c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
7430847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
7440847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
7450847062aSRandy Dunlap
746b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
747b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
748b943c460SRandy Dunlap
7491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED
7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
757ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
758ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
75909337f50SDavid S. Miller	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
760ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
761ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
762ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
763ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
764b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
7650847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
76613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	default y
767b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
768b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
76913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
77013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
77113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
77213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
773b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
77413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
77513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
77613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
777b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
77813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  If unsure say Y here.
779ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
7801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
781979c6a1eSJesper Juhl	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
794f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
795f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say N.
7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on KALLSYMS
8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and
8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
810d59745ceSMatt Mackall
811712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
812712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
813712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	default y
814712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	help
815712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
816712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
817712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
818712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
819712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
820d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
821d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
822d59745ceSMatt Mackall	bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
823d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
824d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
825d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
826d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
827d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
828d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
829d59745ceSMatt Mackall
830c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
831c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
832c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
833c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
834c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
835c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
836c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
837c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
838c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
839c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
840708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
841708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
842708e9a79SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
843708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
844708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
845708e9a79SMatt Mackall
846e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
847e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
848e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
849e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
850e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
851e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
852e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
853e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
8541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
86523f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
874448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
879fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
880fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
881448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
882fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
883fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
884fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
885fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
886fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
887fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
888fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
889b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
890b215e283SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
891448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
892b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
893b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
894b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
895b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
896b215e283SDavide Libenzi
897b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
898b215e283SDavide Libenzi
899e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
900e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
901448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
902e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
903e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
904e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
905e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
906e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
907e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
908e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
9091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
920ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
921ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
922ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
923ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
924ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
925ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
926ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          this option saves about 7k.
927ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
928f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
929f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
930f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
931f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
9322aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
9332aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
9342aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
9352aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
936f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
9373d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS
9383d137310SThomas Petazzoni	default y
93961cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
94061cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on PCI
9413d137310SThomas Petazzoni	help
9423d137310SThomas Petazzoni	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
9433d137310SThomas Petazzoni          bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
9443d137310SThomas Petazzoni          unaffected by PCI quirks.
9453d137310SThomas Petazzoni
94641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
94741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
94841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
949f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
95041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
95141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
95241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
95341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
95441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
95541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
956b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
957b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
958b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
959b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
960b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
961b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
962b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
963692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
964b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
965b943c460SRandy Dunlap
966b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
967b943c460SRandy Dunlap
96881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
96981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
970a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
97181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
97281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
97381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
97481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
97581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
97681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
97781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
97834013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
97902f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
98081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
98181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
98281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
98381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
98481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
98581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
98681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
98781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
98802f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
98902f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
99081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
99181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
99284a01c2fSPaul Mundt	depends on EMBEDDED
99381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
99481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
99537291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
99637291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
99737291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
99881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
99981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
100081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1001125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1002125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1003125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1004125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1005125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1006125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
10075f87f112SIngo Molnar#
10085f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
10095f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
10105f87f112SIngo Molnar#
101197e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
10125f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
101397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1014125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS
1015125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Activate markers"
101691f73f90SFrederic Weisbecker	select TRACEPOINTS
1017125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1018125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
1019125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  dynamically changed for a probe function.
1020125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
1021fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1022fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
102307fe7cb7SDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK
102407fe7cb7SDavid Howells	default n
10251c2d008cSDavid Howells	bool
102607fe7cb7SDavid Howells	help
102707fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
102807fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
102907fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  take a relatively long time.
103007fe7cb7SDavid Howells
103107fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
103207fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
103307fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  disk.
103407fe7cb7SDavid Howells
10351c2d008cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
10361c2d008cSDavid Howells
10371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1039ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1040ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1041ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1042ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1043158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1044158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1045158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
10460f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1047158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1048158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1049ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1050ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1051ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
10521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
10531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
10551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
10561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
105766da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
10611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
10631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
10651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10770b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
10780b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1079826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1080826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1081826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1082826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
108391e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
108491e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
108591e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1086826e4506SLinus Torvalds
10871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
10891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
10911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1092f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1093f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
11060d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
11251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11260b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
11270b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
112898a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
112998a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
113098a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
113198a79d6aSRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
113298a79d6aSRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
113398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
113498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1135692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
113698a79d6aSRusty Russell
11371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
11433a65dfe8SJens Axboe
11443a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1145e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1146e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1147e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1148e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
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