180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 23e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 30ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 74dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8084336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 8184336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 8284336466SRoland McGrath help 8384336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 8484336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 8584336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 8684336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 8784336466SRoland McGrath 881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 98aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 101aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson 106aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 110aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1116e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1166e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 117aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1182e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1273ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1283ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1293ebe1243SLasse Collin 1307dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1363ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1597dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1742e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1782e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1813ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1823ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1833ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1843ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin 1923ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1933ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1943ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1953ebe1243SLasse Collin 1967dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 201681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2027dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 20430d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 206bd5dc17bSJosh Triplettconfig DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 207bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett string "Default hostname" 208bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett default "(none)" 209bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett help 210bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 211bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 212bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 213bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett system more usable with less configuration. 214bd5dc17bSJosh Triplett 2151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2179361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 240a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 241a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 242a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 243a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 244a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 245a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 254b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 262bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 263bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 264bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 265bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 266bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 267bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 29137a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 293990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 294990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 295990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 296990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 297990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 298990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 299990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 300990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 301990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 302990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 303990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 304990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 305c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 306c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 307c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 308c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 309c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 310c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 311c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 312c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 313c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 314c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 315c757249aSShailabh Nagar 316c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 317c757249aSShailabh Nagar 318ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 319ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3206f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 321ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 322ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 323ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 324ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 325ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 326ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 327ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 328ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 32918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 33018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 33118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 33218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 33318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 33418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 33518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 33618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 33718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 33818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 33918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 34018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 34118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 34218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 34318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 34418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 34518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 34618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 349804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 35829ef73b7SNathaniel Husted depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || ARM) 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 36367640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 365939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 366939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 367939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 368939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 37074c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 37174c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 37263c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 37328a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 37474c3cbe3SAl Viro 375633b4545SEric Parisconfig AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 376633b4545SEric Paris bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 377633b4545SEric Paris depends on AUDIT 378633b4545SEric Paris help 379f429ee3bSLinus Torvalds The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 380633b4545SEric Paris CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 381633b4545SEric Paris but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 382633b4545SEric Paris previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 383633b4545SEric Paris process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 384633b4545SEric Paris systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 385633b4545SEric Paris start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 386633b4545SEric Paris one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 387633b4545SEric Paris but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 388633b4545SEric Paris 389d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 390d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 391c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 392c903ff83SMike Travis 393c903ff83SMike Travischoice 394c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 39531c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 396c903ff83SMike Travis 397c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 398c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 399687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 400c903ff83SMike Travis help 401c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 402c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 403c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 404c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 405c903ff83SMike Travis 406f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 407a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 4088008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && SMP 409f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 410f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 411f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 412f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 413bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 414bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 415f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 4169b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 4179b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4188008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 4199b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 4209b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 4219b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4229b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4239b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4249b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 425a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 426a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 4278008e129SPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT && !SMP 428a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 429a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 430a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 431a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 432a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 433c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 434c903ff83SMike Travis 435a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 436a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 437a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 438a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 439a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 440a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 441c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 442c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 443c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 444c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 445f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 446c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 447c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 448c903ff83SMike Travis help 449c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 450c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 4514d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 4524d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 4534d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 4544d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 4554d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 4564d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 457c903ff83SMike Travis 458c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 459c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 460c903ff83SMike Travis 461c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 462c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 463f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 464c903ff83SMike Travis default n 465c903ff83SMike Travis help 466c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 467c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 468c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 469c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 470c903ff83SMike Travis 471c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 472c903ff83SMike Travis 473c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 474c903ff83SMike Travis 4758bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4768bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 477b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney depends on NO_HZ && SMP 4788bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4798bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4808bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 481b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more 482b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead 483b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with 484b807fbffSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. 4858bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4868bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4878bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4888bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4898bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4908bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 491c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 492f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 493c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 494c903ff83SMike Travis help 495f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 496f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 497f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 498c903ff83SMike Travis 49924278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 50024278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 50127f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 50224278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 50324278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 50424278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 50524278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 50624278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 50724278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 50824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 50924278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 51024278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 51124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 51224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 51324278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 51424278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 51524278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 51624278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 51724278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 518*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term 519*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working 520*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound 521*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set 522*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority 523*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value 524*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time 525*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. 526*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney 527*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time 528*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have 529*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize 530*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to 531*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is 532*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time 533*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another 534*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming 535*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be 536*c9336643SPaul E. McKenney set to priority 6 or higher. 53724278d14SPaul E. McKenney 53824278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 53924278d14SPaul E. McKenney 54024278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 54124278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 54224278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 54324278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 54424278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 54524278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 54624278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 54724278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 54824278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 54924278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 55024278d14SPaul E. McKenney 55124278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 55224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 553c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 554c903ff83SMike Travis 5551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 556f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 574794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 575794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 576794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 577f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 578794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 579794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 580f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 581f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 582f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 583f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 584f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 585794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 586794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 587794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 5885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 59423964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 59523964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 5960dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 597ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 59823964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 5995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 6005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 6015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 6025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 60345ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 60445ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 605ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 606ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 607ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 60823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 60923964d2dSLi Zefan 610006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 611006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 612418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 613006cb992SPaul Menage help 614006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 615006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 61623964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 617006cb992SPaul Menage 61823964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 619006cb992SPaul Menage 620dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 62123964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 622dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 623dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 624dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 625dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 62608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 62708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 62808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 62908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 63008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 63108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 6321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 635d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 6371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 64223964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 64323964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 64423964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 64523964d2dSLi Zefan default y 64623964d2dSLi Zefan 647d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 648d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 649d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 650d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 65123964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 652d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 653e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 654e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 655e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 656e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 65723964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 658e552b661SPavel Emelianov 65900f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 66000f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 66179ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 662cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 66300f0b825SBalbir Singh help 66484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 66521acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 66600f0b825SBalbir Singh 66700f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 66884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 66984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 67084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 67184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 67200f0b825SBalbir Singh 67300f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 67484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 67584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 67684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 677c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 67800f0b825SBalbir Singh 679cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 680cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 681cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 682c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 68365e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 68465e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 685c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 686c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 687c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 688c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 689c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 690c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 691c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 692c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 693c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 694c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 695c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 69600a66d29SWANG Cong if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 697627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 698627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 699a42c390cSMichal Hockoconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED 700a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 701a42c390cSMichal Hocko depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 702a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 703a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 704a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 705a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 70643d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 707a42c390cSMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 708a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 709a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 710a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 71100a66d29SWANG Cong then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 712e5671dfaSGlauber Costaconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM 713e5671dfaSGlauber Costa bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 714e5671dfaSGlauber Costa depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && EXPERIMENTAL 715e5671dfaSGlauber Costa default n 716e5671dfaSGlauber Costa help 717e5671dfaSGlauber Costa The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 718e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 719e5671dfaSGlauber Costa fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 720e5671dfaSGlauber Costa Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 721e5671dfaSGlauber Costa the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 722e5671dfaSGlauber Costa will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 723c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 724e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 725e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 726e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 727e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 728e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 7292d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 730e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 731e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 732e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 733e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 7347c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 7357c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 7367c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7377c941438SDhaval Giani help 7387c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7397c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7407c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7417c941438SDhaval Giani 7427c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7437c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7447c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7457c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7467c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7477c941438SDhaval Giani 748ab84d31eSPaul Turnerconfig CFS_BANDWIDTH 749ab84d31eSPaul Turner bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 750ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on EXPERIMENTAL 751ab84d31eSPaul Turner depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 752ab84d31eSPaul Turner default n 753ab84d31eSPaul Turner help 754ab84d31eSPaul Turner This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 755ab84d31eSPaul Turner tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 756ab84d31eSPaul Turner set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 757ab84d31eSPaul Turner restriction. 758ab84d31eSPaul Turner See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 759ab84d31eSPaul Turner 7607c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7617c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7627c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 7637c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7647c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7657c941438SDhaval Giani help 7667c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 76732bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7687c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7697c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7707c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7717c941438SDhaval Giani 7727c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7737c941438SDhaval Giani 774afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 775afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 77679ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 777afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 778afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 779afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 780afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 781afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 782afc24d49SVivek Goyal 783afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 784afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 785e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 786e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 787afc24d49SVivek Goyal 788afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 789e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 79079e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 79179e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 792c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 793afc24d49SVivek Goyal 794afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 795afc24d49SVivek Goyal 796afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 797afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 798afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 799afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 800afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 801afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 802afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 803afc24d49SVivek Goyal 80423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 805c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 806067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunovconfig CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 807067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 808067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov default n 809067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov help 810067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 811067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 812067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 813067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov entries. 814067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 815067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov If unsure, say N here. 816067bce1aSCyrill Gorcunov 8178dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 8186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 8196a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 820c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 821c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 822c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 823c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 824c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 825c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 8268dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 8278dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 82858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 82958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 83017a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 83158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 83258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 83358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 83458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 835ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 836ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 8378dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 83817a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 839ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 840ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 841614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 842ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 843aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 844aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 8458dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 84617a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 847aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 848aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 849aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 850aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 851aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 85274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 8539bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 85417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 85574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 85612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 857692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 85874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 85974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 860d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 861d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 8628dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 86317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 864d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 865d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 866d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 867d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 8688dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 8698dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 8705091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 8715091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 8725091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 8735091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 8745091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 8755091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8765091faa4SMike Galbraith help 8775091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 8785091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 8795091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 8805091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 8815091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 8825091faa4SMike Galbraith 8837af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 8847af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 8857af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8867af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 8875d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 8887af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 8897af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 8907af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8917af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 8927af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 8937af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 8947af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8957af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 8967af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 8977af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8987af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 8997af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 9007af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 9017af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9027af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 9037af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 9047af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 9057af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9067af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9077af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 9087af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9097af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 9105d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 9117af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 9127af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 9137af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 9147af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9157af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 9167af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9177af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 9187af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 9197af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9207af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 9217af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 9227af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 9237af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9247af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 9257af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 9267af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 9277af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 9287af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 9297af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 9307af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 9317af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 9327af37becSDaniel Lezcano 9337af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 9347af37becSDaniel Lezcano 935f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 936f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 937f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 938f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 939f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 940f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 941f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 942f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 943f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 944f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 945f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 946f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 947f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 948f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 949f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 950f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 951c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 952c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 953dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 954dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 955c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 956c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 957c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 95896fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 959c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 960c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 961c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 962c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 963775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 964c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 9650847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 9660847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 9670847062aSRandy Dunlap 968b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 969b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 970b943c460SRandy Dunlap 9716a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 9726a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 973f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 974f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 981ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 9826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 98309337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 984ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 985ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 986ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 987ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 988b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 9896a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 99026a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 991c736de60SWANG Cong default n 992b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 993b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 99413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 99513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 99613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 99713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 998b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 99913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 100013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 100113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 1002b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 1003c736de60SWANG Cong If unsure say N here. 1004ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 10051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 10066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 10111da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 10121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 10141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 101771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 101871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 101971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 102071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 102171a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 102371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 102471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 102571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 102671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 102871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1029d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1030712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 10316a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT 1032712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 1033712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 1034712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 1035712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 1036712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 1037712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 1038712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 1039d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 1040d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 10416a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1042d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 1043d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1044d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1045d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1046d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1047d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 1048d59745ceSMatt Mackall 1049c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 10506a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1051c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 1052c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 1053c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1054c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1055c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1056c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1057c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 1058c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 1059708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 1060708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 10616a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1062708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1063708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1064708e9a79SMatt Mackall 10658761f1abSRalf Baechle 1066e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 10676a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 10688761f1abSRalf Baechle depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 106915f304b6SRalf Baechle select I8253_LOCK 1070e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1071e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1072e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1073e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1074e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 10758761f1abSRalf Baechleconfig HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 10768761f1abSRalf Baechle bool 10778761f1abSRalf Baechle 10781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 10876a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 108923f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 10966a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1098448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1103fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 11046a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1105448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1106fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1107fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1108fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1109fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1110fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1111fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1112fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1113b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 11146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1115448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1116b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1117b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1118b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1119b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1120b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1121b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1122b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1123e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 11246a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1125448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1126e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1127e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1128e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1129e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1130e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1131e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1132e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 11331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 11346a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 11371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1144ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 11456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1146ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1147ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1148ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1149ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1150ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1151ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 11526befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 11536befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 11546befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 11556befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 11566befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 11576befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 11586befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 11596befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1160cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 11610793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1162018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1163018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 11640793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1165906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1166906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1167906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1168906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1169906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 117057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 11710793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1172cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 117357c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 117457c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1175cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 11764c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1177e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11780793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 117957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 118057c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 11810793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1182dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 118357c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 118457c0c15bSIngo Molnar 118557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 118657c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 11870793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 11880793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 11890793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 11900793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 11910793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 11920793a61dSThomas Gleixner 119357c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1194dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 119557c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 11960793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 11970793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 11980793a61dSThomas Gleixner 11990793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 12000793a61dSThomas Gleixner 120157c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 120257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 120357c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 120457c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 120557c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 120657c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 120757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 120857c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 120957c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 121057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 121157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 121257c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1213906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1214906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1215906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1216906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1217906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1218906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1219906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1220906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1221906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1222906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1223906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1224906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1225906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 12260793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 12270793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1228f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1229f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 12306a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1231f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 12322aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 12332aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 12346a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 12352aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1236f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 12373d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 12383d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 12396a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 124061cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 12413d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 12423d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 12433d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 12443d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 12453d137310SThomas Petazzoni 124641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 124741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 12486a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1249f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 125041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 125141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 125241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 125341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 125441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 125541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1256b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1257b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1258b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1259b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1260b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1261b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1262b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1263692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1264b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1265b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1266b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1267b943c460SRandy Dunlap 126881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 126981819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1270a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 127181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 127281819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 127381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 127481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 127581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 127681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 127781819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 127834013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 127902f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 128081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 128181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 128281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 128381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 128481819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 128581819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 128681819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 128781819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 128802f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 128902f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 129081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 129181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 12926a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 129381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 129481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 129537291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 129637291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 129737291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 129881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 129981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 130081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1301ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1302ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 13036a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1304ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1305ea637639SJie Zhang help 1306ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1307ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1308ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1309ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1310ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1311ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1312ea637639SJie Zhang 1313ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1314ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1315ea637639SJie Zhang 1316ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1317ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1318ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1319ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1320ea637639SJie Zhang 1321ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1322ea637639SJie Zhang 1323125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1324b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1325125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1326125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1327125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1328125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 13295f87f112SIngo Molnar# 13305f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 13315f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 13325f87f112SIngo Molnar# 133397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 13345f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 133597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1336fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1337fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 13381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1340ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1341ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1342ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1343ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1344158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1345158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1346158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 13470f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1348158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1349158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1350ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1351ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1352ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 13531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 135866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13780b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 13790b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1380826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1381826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1382826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1383826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 138491e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 138591e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 138691e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1387826e4506SLinus Torvalds 13881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1393f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1394f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 14070d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14270b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 14280b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 142998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 143098a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 143198a79d6aSRusty Russell help 14325f054e31SRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and 14335f054e31SRusty Russell cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask 143498a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 143598a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1436692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 143798a79d6aSRusty Russell 14381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 14443a65dfe8SJens Axboe 14453a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1446e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1447e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1448e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1449e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 145016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 145116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 145216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 145316295becSSteffen Klassert 14546beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1455