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180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH
280daa560SRoman Zippel	string
380daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="ARCH"
480daa560SRoman Zippel
580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION
680daa560SRoman Zippel	string
780daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="KERNELVERSION"
880daa560SRoman Zippel
9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
10face4374SRoman Zippel	string
11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
12face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
13face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
15face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
16face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
17face4374SRoman Zippel
18ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL
211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL
601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SMP || PREEMPT
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
66dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
83aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
84aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
85aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
86aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
87aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
886e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson
91aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
926e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
93aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
95aaebf433SRyan Anderson
966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
102aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1059361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
128a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
129a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
130a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
131a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
132a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
133a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
1341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
142b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
175c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS
176c757249aSShailabh Nagar	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
177c757249aSShailabh Nagar	depends on NET
178c757249aSShailabh Nagar	default n
179c757249aSShailabh Nagar	help
180c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
181c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
182c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
183c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
184c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  space on task exit.
185c757249aSShailabh Nagar
186c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
187c757249aSShailabh Nagar
188ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
189ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1906f44993fSShailabh Nagar	depends on TASKSTATS
191ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	help
192ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
193ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
194ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
195ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
196ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
197ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
198ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
19918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT
20018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
20118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASKSTATS
20218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
20318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
20418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
20518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
20618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
20718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
20818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
20918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
21018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASK_XACCT
21118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
21218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
21318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  task has caused.
21418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
21518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
21618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
217acce292cSCedric Le Goaterconfig USER_NS
218acce292cSCedric Le Goater	bool "User Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
219acce292cSCedric Le Goater	default n
220acce292cSCedric Le Goater	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
221acce292cSCedric Le Goater	help
222acce292cSCedric Le Goater	  Support user namespaces.  This allows containers, i.e.
223acce292cSCedric Le Goater	  vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
224acce292cSCedric Le Goater	  user info for different servers.  If unsure, say N.
225acce292cSCedric Le Goater
22657d5f66bSEric W. Biedermanconfig PID_NS
22757d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
22857d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	default n
22957d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
23057d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	help
23157d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	  Suport process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
23257d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	  process with the same pid as long as they are in different
23357d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
23457d5f66bSEric W. Biederman
23557d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	  Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
23657d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	  say N here.
23757d5f66bSEric W. Biederman
2381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
240804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
2491322b9deSYuichi Nakamura	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
254f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  such as SELinux.  To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
255f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
25774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
25874c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
25974c3cbe3SAl Viro	depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
26074c3cbe3SAl Viro
2611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
262f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
280794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
281794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
282794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
283794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
284794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
285794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	default 15 if SMP
286794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	default 14
287794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
288794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
289794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Defaults and Examples:
290794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  	     17 => 128 KB for S/390
291794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
292794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	             15 => 32 KB for SMP
293794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	             14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
294794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
295794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
296794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
297ddbcc7e8SPaul Menageconfig CGROUPS
298ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	bool "Control Group support"
299ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
300ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
301ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  such as Cpusets
302ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
303ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
304ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
305006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
306006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
307006cb992SPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
308006cb992SPaul Menage	help
309006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
310006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
311006cb992SPaul Menage	  framework
312006cb992SPaul Menage
313006cb992SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure
314006cb992SPaul Menage
315858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS
316858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn        bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
317858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn        depends on CGROUPS
318858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn        help
319858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn          Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
320858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn          provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
321858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn          for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
322858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn          jobs.
323858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn
3241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
3268793d854SPaul Menage	depends on SMP && CGROUPS
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
328d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
33529f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
336fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Fair group CPU scheduler"
337de8d585aSIngo Molnar	default y
33829f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
339fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
3409b5b7751SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
34129f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
34224e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagirichoice
34324e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
34424e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
34524e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	default FAIR_USER_SCHED
34624e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
34724e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig FAIR_USER_SCHED
34824e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "user id"
34924e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
35024e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
351fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
35224e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
35368318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED
35468318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Control groups"
35568318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri 	depends on CGROUPS
35668318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri 	help
35768318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
35868318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
35968318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
36068318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
36168318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
36268318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri
36324e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiriendchoice
36424e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
365d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
366d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
367d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	depends on CGROUPS
368d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
369d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
370d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
371d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
372e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
373e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
374e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
375e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
376e552b661SPavel Emelianov          infrastructure that works with cgroups
377e552b661SPavel Emelianov	depends on CGROUPS
378e552b661SPavel Emelianov
37988a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
38088a22c98SKay Sievers	bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
3819148fe87SRandy Dunlap	depends on SYSFS
38288a22c98SKay Sievers	default y
38388a22c98SKay Sievers	help
38488a22c98SKay Sievers	  This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
38588a22c98SKay Sievers	  "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
38688a22c98SKay Sievers	  "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
38788a22c98SKay Sievers	  uevent environment.
38888a22c98SKay Sievers	  None of these features or values should be used today, as
38988a22c98SKay Sievers	  they export driver core implementation details to userspace
39088a22c98SKay Sievers	  or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
39188a22c98SKay Sievers	  releases.
39288a22c98SKay Sievers
39388a22c98SKay Sievers	  If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
3943dde6ad8SDavid Sterba	  that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
39588a22c98SKay Sievers	  order to support older versions of udev.
39688a22c98SKay Sievers
39788a22c98SKay Sievers	  If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
39888a22c98SKay Sievers	  it should be safe to say N here.
39988a22c98SKay Sievers
4008cdea7c0SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_CONT
4018cdea7c0SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory controller for cgroups"
4028cdea7c0SBalbir Singh	depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
4038cdea7c0SBalbir Singh	help
4048cdea7c0SBalbir Singh	  Provides a memory controller that manages both page cache and
4058cdea7c0SBalbir Singh	  RSS memory.
4068cdea7c0SBalbir Singh
4078793d854SPaul Menageconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
4088793d854SPaul Menage	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
4098793d854SPaul Menage	depends on CPUSETS
4108793d854SPaul Menage	default y
4118793d854SPaul Menage
412b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY
413b86ff981SJens Axboe	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
414b86ff981SJens Axboe	help
415b86ff981SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
416b86ff981SJens Axboe	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
417b86ff981SJens Axboe	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
418b86ff981SJens Axboe	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
419b86ff981SJens Axboe	  user space.
420b86ff981SJens Axboe
421b86ff981SJens Axboe	  If unsure, say N.
422b86ff981SJens Axboe
423*c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES
424*c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
425*c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	default !EMBEDDED
426*c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
427*c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
428*c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
429*c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
430*c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
431*c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
432f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
433f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
434f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
435f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
436f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
437f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
438f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
439f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
440f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
441f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
442f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
443f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
444f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
445f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
446f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
447f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
448c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
449c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
450dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
451dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
452c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
453c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
454c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
455c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
456c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	default y
45732582fa4SPaul Mundt	depends on ARM || H8300 || SUPERH || EXPERIMENTAL
458c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
459c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
460c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
461c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
462c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
463c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  option.  If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
464c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
465c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
466c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
4670847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
4680847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
4690847062aSRandy Dunlap
4701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED
4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
478ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
479ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
480529a73fbSMike Frysinger	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
481ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
482ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
483ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
484ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
485b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
4860847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
48713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	default y
488b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
489b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
49013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
49113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
49213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
49313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
494b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
49513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
49613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
49713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
498b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
49913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  If unsure say Y here.
500ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
5011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
502979c6a1eSJesper Juhl	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
515f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
516f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say N.
5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on KALLSYMS
5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and
5261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
5271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
5281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
5291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
5301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
531d59745ceSMatt Mackall
532712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
533712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
534712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	default y
535712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	help
536712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
537712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
538712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
539712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
540712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
541d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
542d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
543d59745ceSMatt Mackall	bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
544d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
545d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
546d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
547d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
548d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
549d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
550d59745ceSMatt Mackall
551c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
552c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
553c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
554c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
555c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
556c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
557c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
558c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
559c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
560c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
561708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
562708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
563708e9a79SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
564708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
565708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
566708e9a79SMatt Mackall
56732a93233SIngo Molnarconfig COMPAT_BRK
56832a93233SIngo Molnar	bool "Disable heap randomization"
56932a93233SIngo Molnar	default y
57032a93233SIngo Molnar	help
57132a93233SIngo Molnar	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
57232a93233SIngo Molnar	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
57332a93233SIngo Molnar	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
57432a93233SIngo Molnar	  disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
57532a93233SIngo Molnar	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
57632a93233SIngo Molnar
57732a93233SIngo Molnar	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) Y is usually a safe choice.
57832a93233SIngo Molnar
5791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
59023f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5965dc8bf81SDavide Libenziconfig ANON_INODES
597448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	bool
5985dc8bf81SDavide Libenzi
5991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
602448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
607fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
608fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
609448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
610fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
611fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
612fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
613fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
614fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
615fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
616fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
617b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
618b215e283SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
619448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
620b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
621b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
622b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
623b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
624b215e283SDavide Libenzi
625b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
626b215e283SDavide Libenzi
627e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
628e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
629448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
630e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
631e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
632e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
633e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
634e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
635e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
636e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
6371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
6401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
648f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
649f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
650f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
651f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
6522aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
6532aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6542aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
6552aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
656f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
65741ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
65841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
65941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
660d4751a27SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB
66141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
66241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
66341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
66441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
66541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
66641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
66781819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
66881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
669a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
67081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
67181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
67281819f0fSChristoph Lameter
67381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
67481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
67581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
67681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
67734013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
67881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
67934013886SChristoph Lameter	  a slab allocator.
68081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
68181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
68281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
68381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
68481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
68581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
68681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
68781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
68834013886SChristoph Lameter	   and has enhanced diagnostics.
68981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
69081819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
69184a01c2fSPaul Mundt	depends on EMBEDDED
69281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
69381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
69437291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
69537291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
69637291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
69781819f0fSChristoph Lameter
69881819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
69981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
700125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
701125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
702125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
703125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
704125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
705125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
706125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS
707125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Activate markers"
708125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
709125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
710125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  dynamically changed for a probe function.
711125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
712fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
713fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
7141e883281SMatt Mackallconfig PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
7151e883281SMatt Mackall 	default y
7161e883281SMatt Mackall	depends on PROC_FS && MMU
7171e883281SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED
7181e883281SMatt Mackall 	help
7191e883281SMatt Mackall	  Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory utilization:
7201e883281SMatt Mackall	  /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap,
7211e883281SMatt Mackall	  /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these
7221e883281SMatt Mackall          interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb.
7231e883281SMatt Mackall
7241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
726158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
727158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
728158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
729158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on SLAB || SLUB
730158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
731158a9624SLinus Torvalds
732ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
733ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
734ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	select PLIST
735ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
7361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TINY_SHMEM
7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default !SHMEM
7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
74566da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULES
7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
7850d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
7860d541643SSam Ravnborg	depends on MODULES
7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULES
7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KMOD
8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULES
8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  loading the module if it is available.  If unsure, say Y.
8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
8253a65dfe8SJens Axboe
8263a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
827e98c3202SAvi Kivity
828e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
829e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
830e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
831e260be67SPaul E. McKenneychoice
832e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "RCU implementation type:"
833e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	default CLASSIC_RCU
83409503105SPaul E. McKenney	help
83509503105SPaul E. McKenney	  This allows you to choose either the classic RCU implementation
83609503105SPaul E. McKenney	  that is designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
83709503105SPaul E. McKenney	  systems, or the preemptible RCU implementation for best latency
83809503105SPaul E. McKenney	  on realtime systems.  Note that some kernel preemption modes
83909503105SPaul E. McKenney	  will restrict your choice.
84009503105SPaul E. McKenney
84109503105SPaul E. McKenney	  Select the default if you are unsure.
842e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
843e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyconfig CLASSIC_RCU
844e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Classic RCU"
845e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	help
846e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
847e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
848e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  systems.
849e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
850e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if you are unsure.
851e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
852e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU
853e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible RCU"
854e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
855e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	help
856e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
857e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
858e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
859e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
860e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
861e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
862e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
863e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
864e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
865e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
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