180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter default y 23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 24ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 72dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 89aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson 97aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 101aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff compression and decompression) is the fastest. 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1719361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 194a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 195a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 196a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 197a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 198a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 199a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 208b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 216bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 217bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 218bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 219bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 220bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 221bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 24537a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 247c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 248c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 249c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 250c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 251c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 252c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 253c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 254c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 255c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 256c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 257c757249aSShailabh Nagar 258c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 259c757249aSShailabh Nagar 260ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 261ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2626f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 263ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 264ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 265ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 266ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 267ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 268ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 269ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 270ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 27118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 27218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 27318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 27418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 27518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 27618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 27718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 27818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 27918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 28018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 28118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 28218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 28318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 28418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 28518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 28618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 28718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 28818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 2891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 291804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 3001322b9deSYuichi Nakamura depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 305f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 306f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30874c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 30974c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 31063c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 31163c882a0SEric Paris select INOTIFY 31274c3cbe3SAl Viro 313c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 314c903ff83SMike Travis 315c903ff83SMike Travischoice 316c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 31731c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 318c903ff83SMike Travis 319c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 320c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 321c903ff83SMike Travis help 322c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 323c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 324*c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 325*c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 326c903ff83SMike Travis 327c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU 328c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Preemptible RCU" 329c903ff83SMike Travis depends on PREEMPT 330c903ff83SMike Travis help 331c903ff83SMike Travis This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain 332c903ff83SMike Travis RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if 333c903ff83SMike Travis this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become 334c903ff83SMike Travis preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to 335c903ff83SMike Travis now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section 336c903ff83SMike Travis remaining on a given CPU through its execution. 337c903ff83SMike Travis 338c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 339c903ff83SMike Travis 340c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 341c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 342c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 343c903ff83SMike Travis help 344c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 345c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 346c903ff83SMike Travis 347c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 348c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 349c903ff83SMike Travis 350c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 351c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 352c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 353c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 354c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU 355c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 356c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 357c903ff83SMike Travis help 358c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 359c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 360c903ff83SMike Travis large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube 361c903ff83SMike Travis root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit 362c903ff83SMike Travis systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. 363c903ff83SMike Travis 364c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 365c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 366c903ff83SMike Travis 367c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 368c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 369c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU 370c903ff83SMike Travis default n 371c903ff83SMike Travis help 372c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 373c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 374c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 375c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 376c903ff83SMike Travis 377c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 378c903ff83SMike Travis 379c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 380c903ff83SMike Travis 381c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 382c903ff83SMike Travis def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU 383c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 384c903ff83SMike Travis help 385c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation, 386c903ff83SMike Travis permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 387c903ff83SMike Travis 388c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE 389c903ff83SMike Travis def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU 390c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 391c903ff83SMike Travis help 392c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation, 393c903ff83SMike Travis permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c. 394c903ff83SMike Travis 395c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 396c903ff83SMike Travis 3971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 398f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 416794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 417794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 418794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 419f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 420794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 421794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 422f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 423f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 424f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 425f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 426f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 427794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 428794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 429794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 4305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 4325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 4345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 4355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig GROUP_SCHED 4375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group CPU scheduler" 4385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 4395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 4405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4415cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 4425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bandwidth allocation to such task groups. 4435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use 4445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) 4455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 4475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 4485cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4495cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default GROUP_SCHED 4505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 4525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 4535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 4545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 4565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 4585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" 4595cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 4605cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 4615cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki realtime bandwidth for them. 4625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 4635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukichoice 4655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" 4675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default USER_SCHED 4685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig USER_SCHED 4705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "user id" 4715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping 4735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. 4745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_SCHED 4765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Control groups" 4775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUPS 4785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups 4805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control 4815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. 48245ce80fbSLi Zefan Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more 48345ce80fbSLi Zefan information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. 4845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiendchoice 4865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 48723964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 48823964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 489ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 49023964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 4915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 4925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 4935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 4945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 49545ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 49645ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 497ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 498ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 499ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 50023964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 50123964d2dSLi Zefan 502006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 503006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 504006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 505418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 506006cb992SPaul Menage help 507006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 508006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 50923964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 510006cb992SPaul Menage 51123964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 512006cb992SPaul Menage 513858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 514858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 515858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 516858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 517858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 518858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 519858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 520858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 521858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 522dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 52323964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 524dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 525dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 526dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 527dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 528dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 52908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 53008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 53108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 53208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 53308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 53408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 53508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 5361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 538db7f47cfSPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 540d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 54723964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 54823964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 54923964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 55023964d2dSLi Zefan default y 55123964d2dSLi Zefan 552d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 553d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 554d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 555d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 556d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 55723964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 558d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 559e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 560e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 561e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 562e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 56323964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 564e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 565e552b661SPavel Emelianov 56600f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 56700f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 56800f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 569cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 57000f0b825SBalbir Singh help 57184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 57221acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 57300f0b825SBalbir Singh 57400f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 57584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 57684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 57784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 57884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 57900f0b825SBalbir Singh 58000f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 58184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 58284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 58384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 584c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 58500f0b825SBalbir Singh 586cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 587cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 588cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 589c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 590c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" 591c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL 592c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 593c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 594c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 595c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 596c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 597c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 598c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 599c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 600c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 601c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 602c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 603c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 604627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 605627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 606c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 60723964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 608c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 60923964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 61023964d2dSLi Zefan bool 6115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 61288a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 613d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 614d47846c5SIngo Molnar 615d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 616f6ee649fSKay Sievers bool "remove sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools" 6179148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 618f6ee649fSKay Sievers default n 619d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 62088a22c98SKay Sievers help 621fce3e804SKay Sievers This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated 622f6ee649fSKay Sievers version. Do not use it on recent distributions. 62388a22c98SKay Sievers 624fce3e804SKay Sievers The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at 625fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between 626fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the 627fce3e804SKay Sievers unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at 628fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at 629fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by 630fce3e804SKay Sievers "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" 631fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some 632fce3e804SKay Sievers subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which 633fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the unified device tree. 63488a22c98SKay Sievers 635fce3e804SKay Sievers This option is not a pure compatibility option that can 636fce3e804SKay Sievers be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the 637fce3e804SKay Sievers layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, 638fce3e804SKay Sievers and disable some features, which can not be exported without 639fce3e804SKay Sievers confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major 640fce3e804SKay Sievers distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which 641fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the deprecated layout or this option. 642fce3e804SKay Sievers 643fce3e804SKay Sievers If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use 644fce3e804SKay Sievers older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, 645fce3e804SKay Sievers if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has 646fce3e804SKay Sievers this option set to N. 64788a22c98SKay Sievers 648b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 649b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 650b86ff981SJens Axboe help 651b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 652b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 653b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 654b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 655b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 656b86ff981SJens Axboe 657b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 658b86ff981SJens Axboe 659c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 660c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 661c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 662c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 663c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 664c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 665c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 666c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 667c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 66858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 66958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 67058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 67158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 67258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 67358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 67458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 675ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 676ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 677614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 678ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 679ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 680614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 681ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 682aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 683aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 684aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 685aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 686aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 687aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 688aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 689aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 69074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 69174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 69274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 69374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 69474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 69512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 696692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 69774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 69874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 69974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 70074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 70174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 702d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 703d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 704d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 705d6eb633fSMatt Helsley depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET 706d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 707d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 708d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 709d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 710f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 711f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 712f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 713f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 714f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 715f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 716f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 717f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 718f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 719f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 720f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 721f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 722f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 723f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 724f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 725f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 726c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 727c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 728dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 729dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 730c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 731c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 732c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 73396fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 734c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 735c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 736c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 737c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 738c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 739775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 740c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 7410847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 7420847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 7430847062aSRandy Dunlap 744b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 745b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 746b943c460SRandy Dunlap 7471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 755ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 756ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 75709337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 758ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 759ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 760ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 761ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 762b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 7630847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 76413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 765b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 766b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 76713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 76813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 76913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 77013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 771b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 77213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 77313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 77413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 775b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 77613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 777ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 7781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 779979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 792f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 793f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 808d59745ceSMatt Mackall 809712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 810712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 811712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 812712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 813712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 814712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 815712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 816712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 817712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 818d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 819d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 820d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 821d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 822d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 823d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 824d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 825d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 826d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 827d59745ceSMatt Mackall 828c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 829c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 830c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 831c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 832c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 833c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 834c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 835c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 836c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 837c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 838708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 839708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 840708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 841708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 842708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 843708e9a79SMatt Mackall 844e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 845e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 846e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 847e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 848e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 849e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 850e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 851e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 8521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 86323f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 872448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 877fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 878fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 879448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 880fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 881fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 882fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 883fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 884fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 885fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 886fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 887b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 888b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 889448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 890b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 891b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 892b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 893b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 894b215e283SDavide Libenzi 895b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 896b215e283SDavide Libenzi 897e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 898e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 899448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 900e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 901e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 902e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 903e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 904e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 905e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 906e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 9071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 918ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 919ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 920ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 921ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 922ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 923ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 924ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 925ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 9260793a61dSThomas Gleixnerconfig HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS 9270793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 928018df72dSMike Frysinger help 929018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 9300793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9310793a61dSThomas Gleixnermenu "Performance Counters" 9320793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9330793a61dSThomas Gleixnerconfig PERF_COUNTERS 9340793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool "Kernel Performance Counters" 9350793a61dSThomas Gleixner depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS 9364c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 9370793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 9380793a61dSThomas Gleixner Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware. 9390793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9400793a61dSThomas Gleixner Performance counters are special hardware registers available 9410793a61dSThomas Gleixner on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain 9420793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 9430793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 9440793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 9450793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 9460793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 9470793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9480793a61dSThomas Gleixner The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of 9490793a61dSThomas Gleixner these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It 9500793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 9510793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 9520793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9530793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 9540793a61dSThomas Gleixner 955e077df4fSPeter Zijlstraconfig EVENT_PROFILE 956e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra bool "Tracepoint profile sources" 957e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACER 958e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra default y 959e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra 9600793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 9610793a61dSThomas Gleixner 962f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 963f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 964f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 965f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 9662aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 9672aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 9682aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 9692aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 970f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 9713d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 9723d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 97361cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 97461cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 9753d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 9763d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 9773d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 9783d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 9793d137310SThomas Petazzoni 98041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 98141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 98241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 983f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 98441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 98541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 98641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 98741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 98841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 98941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 990a9eb5223SRandy Dunlapconfig STRIP_ASM_SYMS 991a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 992a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap default n 993a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap help 994a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 995a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 996a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap get_wchan() and suchlike. 997a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap 998b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 999b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1000b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1001b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1002b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1003b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1004b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1005692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1006b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1007b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1008b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1009b943c460SRandy Dunlap 101081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 101181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1012a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 101381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 101481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 101581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 101681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 101781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 101881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 101981819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 102034013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 102102f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 102281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 102381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 102481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 102581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 102681819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 102781819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 102881819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 102981819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 103002f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 103102f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 103281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 103381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 103484a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 103581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 103681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 103737291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 103837291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 103937291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 104081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 104181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 104281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1043125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1044125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1045125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1046125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1047125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1048125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 10495f87f112SIngo Molnar# 10505f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 10515f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 10525f87f112SIngo Molnar# 105397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 10545f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 105597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1056125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS 1057125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Activate markers" 105891f73f90SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 1059125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1060125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be 1061125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers dynamically changed for a probe function. 1062125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 1063fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1064fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 106507fe7cb7SDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK 106607fe7cb7SDavid Howells default n 10671c2d008cSDavid Howells bool 106807fe7cb7SDavid Howells help 106907fe7cb7SDavid Howells The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated 107007fe7cb7SDavid Howells threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that 107107fe7cb7SDavid Howells take a relatively long time. 107207fe7cb7SDavid Howells 107307fe7cb7SDavid Howells An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed 107407fe7cb7SDavid Howells by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch 107507fe7cb7SDavid Howells disk. 107607fe7cb7SDavid Howells 10771c2d008cSDavid Howells See Documentation/slow-work.txt. 10781c2d008cSDavid Howells 10791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1081ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1082ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1083ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1084ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1085158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1086158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1087158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 10880f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1089158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1090158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1091ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1092ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1093ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 10941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 109966da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11190b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 11200b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1121826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1122826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1123826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1124826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 112591e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 112691e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 112791e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1128826e4506SLinus Torvalds 11291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 11311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1134f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1135f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 11441da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 11461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 11480d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 11511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 11581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11680b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 11690b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 117098a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 117198a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 117298a79d6aSRusty Russell help 117398a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 117498a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 117598a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 117698a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1177692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 117898a79d6aSRusty Russell 11791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 11853a65dfe8SJens Axboe 11863a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1187e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1188e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1189e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1190e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 1191