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 1149