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 866