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 19ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 68dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 84aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 85aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 86aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 94aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 103aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1069361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 129a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 130a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 131a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 132a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 133a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 134a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 1351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 143b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 17437a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 176c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 177c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 178c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 179c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 180c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 181c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 182c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 183c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 184c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 185c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 186c757249aSShailabh Nagar 187c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 188c757249aSShailabh Nagar 189ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 190ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1916f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 192ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 193ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 194ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 195ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 196ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 197ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 198ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 199ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 20018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 20118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 20218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 20318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 20418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 20518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 20618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 20718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 20818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 20918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 21018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 21118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 21218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 21318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 21418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 21518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 21618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 21718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 2181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 220804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2291322b9deSYuichi Nakamura depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 234f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 235f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 23874c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 23974c3cbe3SAl Viro depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY 24074c3cbe3SAl Viro 2411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 242f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 260794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 261794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 262794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 263f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 264794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 265794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 266f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 267f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 268f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 269f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 270f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 271794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 272794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 273794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 2745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 2755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 2765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 2775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 2785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 2795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig GROUP_SCHED 2815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group CPU scheduler" 2825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 2835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 2845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 2855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 2865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bandwidth allocation to such task groups. 2875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use 2885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) 2895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 2915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 2925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 2935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default GROUP_SCHED 2945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 2965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 2975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 2985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 2995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 3005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 3015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 3025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" 3035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 3045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 3055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki realtime bandwidth for them. 3065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 3075cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 3085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukichoice 3095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 3105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" 3115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default USER_SCHED 3125cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 3135cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig USER_SCHED 3145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "user id" 3155cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 3165cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping 3175cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. 3185cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 3195cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_SCHED 3205cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Control groups" 3215cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUPS 3225cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 3235cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups 3245cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control 3255cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. 32645ce80fbSLi Zefan Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more 32745ce80fbSLi Zefan information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. 3285cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 3295cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiendchoice 3305cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 33123964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 33223964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 333ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 33423964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 3355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 3365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 3375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 3385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 33945ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 34045ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 341ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 342ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 343ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 34423964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 34523964d2dSLi Zefan 346006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 347006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 348006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 349418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 350006cb992SPaul Menage help 351006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 352006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 35323964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 354006cb992SPaul Menage 35523964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 356006cb992SPaul Menage 357858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 358858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 359858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 360858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 361858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 362858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 363858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 364858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 365858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 366dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 36723964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 368dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 369dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 370dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 371dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 372dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 37308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 37408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 37508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 37608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 37708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 37808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 37908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 3801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 3828793d854SPaul Menage depends on SMP && CGROUPS 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 384d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 39123964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 39223964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 39323964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 39423964d2dSLi Zefan default y 39523964d2dSLi Zefan 396d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 397d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 398d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 399d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 400d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 40123964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 402d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 403e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 404e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 405e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 406e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 40723964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 408e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 409e552b661SPavel Emelianov 41000f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 41100f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 41200f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 413cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 41400f0b825SBalbir Singh help 41584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 41684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) 41700f0b825SBalbir Singh 41800f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 41984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 42084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 42184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 42284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 42300f0b825SBalbir Singh 42400f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 42584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 42684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 42784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 428c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 42900f0b825SBalbir Singh 430cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 431cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 432cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 433c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 434c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" 435c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL 436c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 437c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 438c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 439c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 440c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 441c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 442c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 443c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 444c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 445c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 446c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 447c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 448c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 44923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 450c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 45123964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 45223964d2dSLi Zefan bool 4535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 45488a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 455d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 456d47846c5SIngo Molnar 457d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 458fce3e804SKay Sievers bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools" 4599148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 46088a22c98SKay Sievers default y 461d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 46288a22c98SKay Sievers help 463fce3e804SKay Sievers This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated 464fce3e804SKay Sievers version. 46588a22c98SKay Sievers 466fce3e804SKay Sievers The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at 467fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between 468fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the 469fce3e804SKay Sievers unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at 470fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at 471fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by 472fce3e804SKay Sievers "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" 473fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some 474fce3e804SKay Sievers subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which 475fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the unified device tree. 47688a22c98SKay Sievers 477fce3e804SKay Sievers This option is not a pure compatibility option that can 478fce3e804SKay Sievers be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the 479fce3e804SKay Sievers layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, 480fce3e804SKay Sievers and disable some features, which can not be exported without 481fce3e804SKay Sievers confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major 482fce3e804SKay Sievers distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which 483fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the deprecated layout or this option. 484fce3e804SKay Sievers 485fce3e804SKay Sievers If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use 486fce3e804SKay Sievers older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, 487fce3e804SKay Sievers if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has 488fce3e804SKay Sievers this option set to N. 48988a22c98SKay Sievers 490b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 491b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 492b86ff981SJens Axboe help 493b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 494b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 495b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 496b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 497b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 498b86ff981SJens Axboe 499b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 500b86ff981SJens Axboe 501c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 502c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 503c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 504c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 505c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 506c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 507c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 508c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 509c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 51058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 51158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 51258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 51358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 51458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 51558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 51658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 517ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 518ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 519ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC 520ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 521ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 522ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov different IPC objects in different namespaces 523ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 524aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 525aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 526aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 527aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 528aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 529aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 530aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 531aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 53274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 53374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 53474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 53574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 53674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 53712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 53874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov process with the same pid as long as they are in different 53974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 54074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 54174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 54274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 54374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 544*d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 545*d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 546*d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 547*d6eb633fSMatt Helsley depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET 548*d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 549*d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 550*d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 551*d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 552f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 553f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 554f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 555f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 556f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 557f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 558f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 559f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 560f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 561f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 562f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 563f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 564f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 565f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 566f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 567f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 568c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 569c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 570dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 571dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 572c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 573c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 574c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 57596fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 576c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 577c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 578c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 579c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 580c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 581775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 582c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 5830847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 5840847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 5850847062aSRandy Dunlap 5861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 594ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 595ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 59609337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 597ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 598ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 599ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 600ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 601b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 6020847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 60313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 604b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 605b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 60613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 60713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 60813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 60913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 610b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 61113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 61213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 61313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 614b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 61513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 616ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 6171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 618979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 6231da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 6271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 6281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 6301da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 631f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 632f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6369bb48247SJan Beulichconfig KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED 6379bb48247SJan Beulich bool "Strip machine generated symbols from kallsyms" 6389bb48247SJan Beulich depends on KALLSYMS_ALL 6399bb48247SJan Beulich default y 6409bb48247SJan Beulich help 6419bb48247SJan Beulich Say N if you want kallsyms to retain even machine generated symbols. 6429bb48247SJan Beulich 6431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 6481da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 654d59745ceSMatt Mackall 655712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 656712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 657712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 658712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 659712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 660712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 661712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 662712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 663712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 664d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 665d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 666d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 667d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 668d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 669d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 670d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 671d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 672d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 673d59745ceSMatt Mackall 674c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 675c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 676c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 677c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 678c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 679c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 680c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 681c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 682c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 683c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 684708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 685708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 686708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 687708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 688708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 689708e9a79SMatt Mackall 690e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 691e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 692e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 693e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 694e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 695e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 696e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 697e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 69832a93233SIngo Molnarconfig COMPAT_BRK 69932a93233SIngo Molnar bool "Disable heap randomization" 70032a93233SIngo Molnar default y 70132a93233SIngo Molnar help 70232a93233SIngo Molnar Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 70332a93233SIngo Molnar also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 70432a93233SIngo Molnar This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 70532a93233SIngo Molnar disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting 70632a93233SIngo Molnar /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 70732a93233SIngo Molnar 708166124fdSIngo Molnar On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 70932a93233SIngo Molnar 7101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 72123f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7275dc8bf81SDavide Libenziconfig ANON_INODES 728448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk bool 7295dc8bf81SDavide Libenzi 7301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 733448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 738fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 739fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 740448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 741fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 742fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 743fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 744fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 745fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 746fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 747fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 748b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 749b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 750448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 751b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 752b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 753b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 754b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 755b215e283SDavide Libenzi 756b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 757b215e283SDavide Libenzi 758e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 759e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 760448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 761e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 762e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 763e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 764e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 765e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 766e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 767e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 7681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 779ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 780ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 781ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 782ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 783ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 784ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 785ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 786ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 787f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 788f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 789f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 790f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 7912aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 7922aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 7932aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 7942aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 795f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 7963d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 7973d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 79861cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 79961cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 8003d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 8013d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 8023d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 8033d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 8043d137310SThomas Petazzoni 80541ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 80641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 80741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 808f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 80941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 81041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 81141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 81241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 81341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 81441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 81581819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 81681819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 817a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 81881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 81981819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 82081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 82181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 82281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 82381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 82481819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 82534013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 82602f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 82781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 82881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 82981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 83081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 83181819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 83281819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 83381819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 83481819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 83502f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 83602f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 83781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 83881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 83984a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 84081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 84181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 84237291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 84337291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 84437291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 84581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 84681819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 84781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 848125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 849125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 850125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 851125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 852125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 853125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 8545f87f112SIngo Molnar# 8555f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 8565f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 8575f87f112SIngo Molnar# 85897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 8595f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 86097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 861125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS 862125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Activate markers" 863c1df1bd2SMathieu Desnoyers depends on TRACEPOINTS 864125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 865125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be 866125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers dynamically changed for a probe function. 867125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 868fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 869fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 8701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 872ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 873ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 874ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 875ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 876158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 877158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 878158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 8790f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 880158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 881158a9624SLinus Torvalds 882ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 883ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 884ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert select PLIST 885ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 8861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 8901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 89166da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 8931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 8951da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 8961da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 9001da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9110b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 9120b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 913826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 914826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 915826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 916826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 91791e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 91891e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 91991e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 920826e4506SLinus Torvalds 9211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 926f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 927f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 9281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 9341da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 9351da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 9361da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 9371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 9381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 9400d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9600b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 9610b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 96298a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 96398a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 96498a79d6aSRusty Russell help 96598a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 96698a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 96798a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 96898a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 96998a79d6aSRusty Russell and have several arch maintainers persuing me down dark alleys. 97098a79d6aSRusty Russell 9711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 9773a65dfe8SJens Axboe 9783a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 979e98c3202SAvi Kivity 980e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 981e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 982e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 98312d79bafSIngo Molnarchoice 98412d79bafSIngo Molnar prompt "RCU Implementation" 98512d79bafSIngo Molnar default CLASSIC_RCU 98612d79bafSIngo Molnar 987e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyconfig CLASSIC_RCU 98812d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Classic RCU" 989e260be67SPaul E. McKenney help 990e260be67SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is 991e260be67SPaul E. McKenney designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime 99212d79bafSIngo Molnar systems. 99312d79bafSIngo Molnar 99412d79bafSIngo Molnar Select this option if you are unsure. 99512d79bafSIngo Molnar 99612d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig TREE_RCU 99712d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 99812d79bafSIngo Molnar help 99912d79bafSIngo Molnar This option selects the RCU implementation that is 100012d79bafSIngo Molnar designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 100112d79bafSIngo Molnar thousands of CPUs. 100212d79bafSIngo Molnar 100312d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig PREEMPT_RCU 100412d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Preemptible RCU" 100512d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on PREEMPT 100612d79bafSIngo Molnar help 100712d79bafSIngo Molnar This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain 100812d79bafSIngo Molnar RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if 100912d79bafSIngo Molnar this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become 101012d79bafSIngo Molnar preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to 101112d79bafSIngo Molnar now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section 101212d79bafSIngo Molnar remaining on a given CPU through its execution. 101312d79bafSIngo Molnar 101412d79bafSIngo Molnarendchoice 101512d79bafSIngo Molnar 101612d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig RCU_TRACE 101712d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 101812d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 101912d79bafSIngo Molnar help 102012d79bafSIngo Molnar This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 102112d79bafSIngo Molnar in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 102212d79bafSIngo Molnar 102312d79bafSIngo Molnar Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 102412d79bafSIngo Molnar Say N if you are unsure. 102512d79bafSIngo Molnar 102612d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig RCU_FANOUT 102712d79bafSIngo Molnar int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 102812d79bafSIngo Molnar range 2 64 if 64BIT 102912d79bafSIngo Molnar range 2 32 if !64BIT 103012d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on TREE_RCU 103112d79bafSIngo Molnar default 64 if 64BIT 103212d79bafSIngo Molnar default 32 if !64BIT 103312d79bafSIngo Molnar help 103412d79bafSIngo Molnar This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 103512d79bafSIngo Molnar of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 103612d79bafSIngo Molnar large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube 103712d79bafSIngo Molnar root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit 103812d79bafSIngo Molnar systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. 103912d79bafSIngo Molnar 104012d79bafSIngo Molnar Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 104112d79bafSIngo Molnar Take the default if unsure. 104212d79bafSIngo Molnar 104312d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 104412d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 104512d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on TREE_RCU 104612d79bafSIngo Molnar default n 104712d79bafSIngo Molnar help 104812d79bafSIngo Molnar This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 104912d79bafSIngo Molnar regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 105012d79bafSIngo Molnar testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 105112d79bafSIngo Molnar strong NUMA behavior. 105212d79bafSIngo Molnar 105312d79bafSIngo Molnar Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 105412d79bafSIngo Molnar 105512d79bafSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 105612d79bafSIngo Molnar 105764db4cffSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 105864db4cffSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU 105964db4cffSPaul E. McKenney select DEBUG_FS 1060e260be67SPaul E. McKenney help 106164db4cffSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation, 106264db4cffSPaul E. McKenney permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 106364db4cffSPaul E. McKenney 106464db4cffSPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE 106564db4cffSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU 106664db4cffSPaul E. McKenney select DEBUG_FS 106764db4cffSPaul E. McKenney help 106864db4cffSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation, 106964db4cffSPaul E. McKenney permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c. 1070