180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter default y 23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 24ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 72dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 89aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson 97aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 101aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff compression and decompression) is the fastest. 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1719361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 194a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 195a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 196a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 197a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 198a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 199a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 208b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 216bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 217bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 218bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 219bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 220bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 221bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 24537a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 247c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 248c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 249c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 250c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 251c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 252c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 253c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 254c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 255c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 256c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 257c757249aSShailabh Nagar 258c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 259c757249aSShailabh Nagar 260ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 261ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2626f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 263ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 264ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 265ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 266ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 267ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 268ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 269ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 270ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 27118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 27218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 27318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 27418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 27518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 27618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 27718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 27818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 27918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 28018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 28118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 28218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 28318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 28418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 28518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 28618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 28718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 28818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 2891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 291804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 3001322b9deSYuichi Nakamura depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 305f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 306f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30874c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 30974c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 31063c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 31163c882a0SEric Paris select INOTIFY 31274c3cbe3SAl Viro 313c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 314c903ff83SMike Travis 315c903ff83SMike Travischoice 316c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 31731c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 318c903ff83SMike Travis 319c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 320c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 321c903ff83SMike Travis help 322c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 323c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 324c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 325c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 326c903ff83SMike Travis 327f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 328f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU" 329f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 330f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 331f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 332f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 333f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 334f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney is also required. 335f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 336c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 337c903ff83SMike Travis 338c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 339c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 3406b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 341c903ff83SMike Travis help 342c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 343c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 344c903ff83SMike Travis 345c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 346c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 347c903ff83SMike Travis 348c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 349c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 350c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 351c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 352f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 353c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 354c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 355c903ff83SMike Travis help 356c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 357c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 358c903ff83SMike Travis large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube 359c903ff83SMike Travis root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit 360c903ff83SMike Travis systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. 361c903ff83SMike Travis 362c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 363c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 364c903ff83SMike Travis 365c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 366c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 367f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 368c903ff83SMike Travis default n 369c903ff83SMike Travis help 370c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 371c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 372c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 373c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 374c903ff83SMike Travis 375c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 376c903ff83SMike Travis 377c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 378c903ff83SMike Travis 379c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 380f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 381c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 382c903ff83SMike Travis help 383f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 384f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 385f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 386c903ff83SMike Travis 387c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 388c903ff83SMike Travis 3891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 390f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 408794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 409794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 410794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 411f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 412794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 413794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 414f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 415f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 416f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 417f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 418f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 419794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 420794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 421794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 4225cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4235cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 4245cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 4265cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 4275cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig GROUP_SCHED 4295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group CPU scheduler" 4305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 4315cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 4325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 4345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bandwidth allocation to such task groups. 4355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use 4365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) 4375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 4395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 4405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4415cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default GROUP_SCHED 4425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 4445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 4455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 4465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 4485cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4495cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 4505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" 4515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 4525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 4535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki realtime bandwidth for them. 4545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 4555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukichoice 4575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" 4595cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default USER_SCHED 4605cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4615cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig USER_SCHED 4625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "user id" 4635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping 4655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. 4665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_SCHED 4685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Control groups" 4695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUPS 4705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups 4725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control 4735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. 47445ce80fbSLi Zefan Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more 47545ce80fbSLi Zefan information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. 4765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiendchoice 4785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 47923964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 48023964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 481ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 48223964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 4835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 4845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 4855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 4865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 48745ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 48845ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 489ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 490ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 491ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 49223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 49323964d2dSLi Zefan 494006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 495006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 496006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 497418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 498006cb992SPaul Menage help 499006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 500006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 50123964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 502006cb992SPaul Menage 50323964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 504006cb992SPaul Menage 505858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 506858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 507858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 508858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 509858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 510858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 511858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 512858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 513858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 514dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 51523964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 516dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 517dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 518dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 519dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 520dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 52108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 52208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 52308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 52408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 52508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 52608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 52708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 5281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 5291da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 530db7f47cfSPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 532d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 53923964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 54023964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 54123964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 54223964d2dSLi Zefan default y 54323964d2dSLi Zefan 544d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 545d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 546d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 547d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 548d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 54923964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 550d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 551e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 552e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 553e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 554e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 55523964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 556e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 557e552b661SPavel Emelianov 55800f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 55900f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 56000f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 561cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 56200f0b825SBalbir Singh help 56384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 56421acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 56500f0b825SBalbir Singh 56600f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 56784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 56884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 56984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 57084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 57100f0b825SBalbir Singh 57200f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 57384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 57484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 57584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 576c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 57700f0b825SBalbir Singh 578cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 579cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 580cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 581c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 582c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" 583c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL 584c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 585c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 586c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 587c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 588c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 589c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 590c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 591c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 592c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 593c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 594c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 595c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 596627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 597627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 598c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 59923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 600c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 60123964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 60223964d2dSLi Zefan bool 6035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 60488a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 605d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 606d47846c5SIngo Molnar 607d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 608f6ee649fSKay Sievers bool "remove sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools" 6099148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 610f6ee649fSKay Sievers default n 611d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 61288a22c98SKay Sievers help 613fce3e804SKay Sievers This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated 614f6ee649fSKay Sievers version. Do not use it on recent distributions. 61588a22c98SKay Sievers 616fce3e804SKay Sievers The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at 617fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between 618fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the 619fce3e804SKay Sievers unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at 620fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at 621fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by 622fce3e804SKay Sievers "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" 623fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some 624fce3e804SKay Sievers subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which 625fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the unified device tree. 62688a22c98SKay Sievers 627fce3e804SKay Sievers This option is not a pure compatibility option that can 628fce3e804SKay Sievers be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the 629fce3e804SKay Sievers layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, 630fce3e804SKay Sievers and disable some features, which can not be exported without 631fce3e804SKay Sievers confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major 632fce3e804SKay Sievers distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which 633fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the deprecated layout or this option. 634fce3e804SKay Sievers 635fce3e804SKay Sievers If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use 636fce3e804SKay Sievers older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, 637fce3e804SKay Sievers if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has 638fce3e804SKay Sievers this option set to N. 63988a22c98SKay Sievers 640b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 641b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 642b86ff981SJens Axboe help 643b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 644b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 645b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 646b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 647b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 648b86ff981SJens Axboe 649b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 650b86ff981SJens Axboe 651c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 652c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 653c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 654c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 655c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 656c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 657c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 658c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 659c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 66058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 66158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 66258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 66358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 66458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 66558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 66658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 667ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 668ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 669614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 670ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 671ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 672614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 673ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 674aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 675aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 676aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 677aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 678aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 679aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 680aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 681aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 68274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 68374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 68474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 68574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 68674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 68712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 688692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 68974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 69074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 69174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 69274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 69374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 694d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 695d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 696d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 697d6eb633fSMatt Helsley depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET 698d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 699d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 700d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 701d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 702f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 703f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 704f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 705f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 706f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 707f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 708f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 709f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 710f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 711f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 712f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 713f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 714f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 715f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 716f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 717f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 718c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 719c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 720dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 721dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 722c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 723c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 724c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 72596fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 726c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 727c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 728c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 729c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 730c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 731775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 732c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 7330847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 7340847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 7350847062aSRandy Dunlap 736b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 737b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 738b943c460SRandy Dunlap 7391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 747ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 748ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 74909337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 750ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 751ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 752ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 753ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 754b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 7550847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 75613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 757b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 758b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 75913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 76013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 76113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 76213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 763b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 76413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 76513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 76613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 767b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 76813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 769ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 7701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 771979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 784f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 785f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 800d59745ceSMatt Mackall 801712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 802712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 803712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 804712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 805712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 806712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 807712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 808712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 809712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 810d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 811d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 812d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 813d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 814d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 815d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 816d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 817d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 818d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 819d59745ceSMatt Mackall 820c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 821c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 822c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 823c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 824c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 825c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 826c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 827c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 828c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 829c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 830708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 831708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 832708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 833708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 834708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 835708e9a79SMatt Mackall 836e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 837e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 838e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 839e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 840e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 841e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 842e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 843e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 8441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 8451da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 85523f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 864448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 869fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 870fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 871448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 872fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 873fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 874fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 875fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 876fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 877fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 878fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 879b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 880b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 881448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 882b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 883b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 884b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 885b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 886b215e283SDavide Libenzi 887b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 888b215e283SDavide Libenzi 889e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 890e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 891448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 892e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 893e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 894e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 895e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 896e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 897e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 898e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 8991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 9001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 910ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 911ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 912ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 913ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 914ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 915ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 916ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 917ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 918*cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 9190793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 920018df72dSMike Frysinger help 921018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 9220793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9230793a61dSThomas Gleixnermenu "Performance Counters" 9240793a61dSThomas Gleixner 925*cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 9260793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool "Kernel Performance Counters" 927f2654260SIngo Molnar default y if PROFILING 928*cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 9294c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 9300793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 9310793a61dSThomas Gleixner Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware. 9320793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9330793a61dSThomas Gleixner Performance counters are special hardware registers available 9340793a61dSThomas Gleixner on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain 9350793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 9360793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 9370793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 9380793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 9390793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 9400793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9410793a61dSThomas Gleixner The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of 9420793a61dSThomas Gleixner these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It 9430793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 9440793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 9450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9460793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 9470793a61dSThomas Gleixner 948e077df4fSPeter Zijlstraconfig EVENT_PROFILE 949470a1396SPeter Zijlstra bool "Tracepoint profiling sources" 950*cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING 951e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra default y 952470a1396SPeter Zijlstra help 953470a1396SPeter Zijlstra Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance counters. 954470a1396SPeter Zijlstra 955470a1396SPeter Zijlstra When this is enabled, you can create perf counters based on 956470a1396SPeter Zijlstra tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID 957470a1396SPeter Zijlstra found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events 958470a1396SPeter Zijlstra option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic 959470a1396SPeter Zijlstra tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.) 960e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra 9610793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 9620793a61dSThomas Gleixner 963f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 964f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 965f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 966f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 9672aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 9682aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 9692aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 9702aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 971f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 9723d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 9733d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 97461cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 97561cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 9763d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 9773d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 9783d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 9793d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 9803d137310SThomas Petazzoni 98141ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 98241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 98341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 984f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 98541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 98641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 98741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 98841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 98941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 99041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 991a9eb5223SRandy Dunlapconfig STRIP_ASM_SYMS 992a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 993a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap default n 994a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap help 995a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 996a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 997a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap get_wchan() and suchlike. 998a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap 999b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1000b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1001b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1002b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1003b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1004b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1005b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1006692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1007b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1008b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1009b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1010b943c460SRandy Dunlap 101181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 101281819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1013a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 101481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 101581819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 101681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 101781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 101881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 101981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 102081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 102134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 102202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 102381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 102481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 102581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 102681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 102781819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 102881819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 102981819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 103081819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 103102f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 103202f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 103381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 103481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 103584a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 103681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 103781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 103837291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 103937291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 104037291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 104181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 104281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 104381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1044125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1045125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1046125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1047125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1048125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1049125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 10505f87f112SIngo Molnar# 10515f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 10525f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 10535f87f112SIngo Molnar# 105497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 10555f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 105697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1057125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS 1058125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Activate markers" 105991f73f90SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 1060125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1061125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be 1062125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers dynamically changed for a probe function. 1063125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 1064fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1065fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 106607fe7cb7SDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK 106707fe7cb7SDavid Howells default n 10681c2d008cSDavid Howells bool 106907fe7cb7SDavid Howells help 107007fe7cb7SDavid Howells The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated 107107fe7cb7SDavid Howells threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that 107207fe7cb7SDavid Howells take a relatively long time. 107307fe7cb7SDavid Howells 107407fe7cb7SDavid Howells An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed 107507fe7cb7SDavid Howells by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch 107607fe7cb7SDavid Howells disk. 107707fe7cb7SDavid Howells 10781c2d008cSDavid Howells See Documentation/slow-work.txt. 10791c2d008cSDavid Howells 10801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1082ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1083ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1084ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1085ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1086158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1087158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1088158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 10890f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1090158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1091158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1092ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1093ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1094ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 10951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 110066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11200b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 11210b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1122826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1123826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1124826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1125826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 112691e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 112791e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 112891e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1129826e4506SLinus Torvalds 11301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 11311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1135f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1136f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 11371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 11441da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 11461da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 11490d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 11681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11690b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 11700b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 117198a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 117298a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 117398a79d6aSRusty Russell help 117498a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 117598a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 117698a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 117798a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1178692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 117998a79d6aSRusty Russell 11801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 11863a65dfe8SJens Axboe 11873a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1188e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1189e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1190e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1191e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 1192