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 24*e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK 25*e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 26*e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 27*e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 28*e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 29*e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 30*e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 31ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 79dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 80dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 8334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8684336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 8784336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 8884336466SRoland McGrath help 8984336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 9084336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 9184336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 9284336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 9384336466SRoland McGrath 941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 104aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 105aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 106aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 107aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 111aaebf433SRyan Anderson 112aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 114aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 116aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1196e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1206e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 123aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1397dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1887dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 1897dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 19230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 19330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1969361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 219a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 220a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 221a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 222a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 223a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 224a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 233b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 241bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 242bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 243bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 244bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 245bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 246bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 27037a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 272c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 273c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 274c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 275c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 276c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 277c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 278c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 279c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 280c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 281c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 282c757249aSShailabh Nagar 283c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 284c757249aSShailabh Nagar 285ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 286ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2876f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 288ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 289ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 290ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 291ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 292ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 293ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 294ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 295ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 29618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 29718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 29818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 29918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 30018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 30118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 30218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 30318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 30418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 30518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 30618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 30718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 30818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 30918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 31018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 31118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 31218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 31318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 316804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 325022382a5SKumar Gala depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 33067640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 332939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 333939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 334939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 335939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 33774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 33874c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 33963c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 34028a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 34174c3cbe3SAl Viro 342c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 343c903ff83SMike Travis 344c903ff83SMike Travischoice 345c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 34631c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 347c903ff83SMike Travis 348c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 349c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 350c903ff83SMike Travis help 351c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 352c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 353c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 354c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 355c903ff83SMike Travis 356f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 357f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU" 358f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 359f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 360f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 361f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 362f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 363bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 364bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 365f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 3669b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 3679b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 3689b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP 3699b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 3709b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 3719b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 3729b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 3739b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 3749b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 375c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 376c903ff83SMike Travis 377c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 378c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 3796b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 380c903ff83SMike Travis help 381c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 382c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 383c903ff83SMike Travis 384c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 385c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 386c903ff83SMike Travis 387c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 388c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 389c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 390c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 391f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 392c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 393c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 394c903ff83SMike Travis help 395c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 396c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 397c903ff83SMike Travis large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube 398c903ff83SMike Travis root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit 399c903ff83SMike Travis systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. 400c903ff83SMike Travis 401c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 402c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 403c903ff83SMike Travis 404c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 405c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 406f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 407c903ff83SMike Travis default n 408c903ff83SMike Travis help 409c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 410c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 411c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 412c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 413c903ff83SMike Travis 414c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 415c903ff83SMike Travis 416c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 417c903ff83SMike Travis 4188bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4198bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 4208bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP 4218bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4228bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4238bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 4248bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state 4258bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the 4268bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems 4278bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney with large numbers of CPUs. 4288bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4298bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4308bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4318bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4328bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4338bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 434c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 435f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 436c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 437c903ff83SMike Travis help 438f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 439f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 440f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 441c903ff83SMike Travis 442c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 443c903ff83SMike Travis 4441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 445f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 463794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 464794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 465794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 466f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 467794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 468794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 469f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 470f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 471f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 472f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 473f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 474794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 475794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 476794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 4775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 4795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 4815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 4825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 48323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 48423964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 4850dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 486ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 48723964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 4885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 4895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 4905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 4915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 49245ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 49345ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 494ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 495ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 496ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 49723964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 49823964d2dSLi Zefan 499006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 500006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 501006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 502418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 503006cb992SPaul Menage help 504006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 505006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 50623964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 507006cb992SPaul Menage 50823964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 509006cb992SPaul Menage 510858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 511858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 512858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 513858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 514858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 515858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 516858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 517858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 518858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 519dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 52023964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 521dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 522dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 523dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 524dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 525dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 52608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 52708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 52808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 52908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 53008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 53108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 53208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 5331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 535db7f47cfSPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 537d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 54423964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 54523964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 54623964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 54723964d2dSLi Zefan default y 54823964d2dSLi Zefan 549d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 550d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 551d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 552d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 553d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 55423964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 555d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 556e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 557e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 558e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 559e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 56023964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 561e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 562e552b661SPavel Emelianov 56300f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 56400f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 56500f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 566cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 56700f0b825SBalbir Singh help 56884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 56921acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 57000f0b825SBalbir Singh 57100f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 57284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 57384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 57484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 57584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 57600f0b825SBalbir Singh 57700f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 57884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 57984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 58084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 581c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 58200f0b825SBalbir Singh 583cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 584cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 585cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 586c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 58765e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 58865e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 589c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 590c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 591c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 592c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 593c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 594c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 595c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 596c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 597c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 598c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 599c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 600c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 601627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 602627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 603c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6047c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 6057c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 6067c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS 6077c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6087c941438SDhaval Giani help 6097c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 6107c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 6117c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 6127c941438SDhaval Giani 6137c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 6147c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 6157c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 6167c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6177c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 6187c941438SDhaval Giani 6197c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 6207c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 6217c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 6227c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6237c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6247c941438SDhaval Giani help 6257c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 62632bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 6277c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 6287c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 6297c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 6307c941438SDhaval Giani 6317c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 6327c941438SDhaval Giani 633afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 634afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 635afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on CGROUPS && BLOCK 636afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 637afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 638afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 639afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 640afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 641afc24d49SVivek Goyal 642afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 643afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 644afc24d49SVivek Goyal to such task groups. 645afc24d49SVivek Goyal 646afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 647afc24d49SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it 648afc24d49SVivek Goyal to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y). 649afc24d49SVivek Goyal 650afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 651afc24d49SVivek Goyal 652afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 653afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 654afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 655afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 656afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 657afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 658afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 659afc24d49SVivek Goyal 66023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 661c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 66223964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 66323964d2dSLi Zefan bool 6645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 66588a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 666d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 667d47846c5SIngo Molnar 668d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 6699e9868a7SUwe Kleine-König bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 6709148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 671f6ee649fSKay Sievers default n 672d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 67388a22c98SKay Sievers help 674fce3e804SKay Sievers This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated 675f6ee649fSKay Sievers version. Do not use it on recent distributions. 67688a22c98SKay Sievers 677fce3e804SKay Sievers The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at 678fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between 679fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the 680fce3e804SKay Sievers unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at 681fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at 682fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by 683fce3e804SKay Sievers "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" 684fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some 685fce3e804SKay Sievers subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which 686fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the unified device tree. 68788a22c98SKay Sievers 688fce3e804SKay Sievers This option is not a pure compatibility option that can 689fce3e804SKay Sievers be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the 690fce3e804SKay Sievers layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, 691fce3e804SKay Sievers and disable some features, which can not be exported without 692fce3e804SKay Sievers confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major 693fce3e804SKay Sievers distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which 694fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the deprecated layout or this option. 695fce3e804SKay Sievers 696fce3e804SKay Sievers If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use 697fce3e804SKay Sievers older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, 698fce3e804SKay Sievers if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has 699fce3e804SKay Sievers this option set to N. 70088a22c98SKay Sievers 701b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 702b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 703b86ff981SJens Axboe help 704b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 705b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 706b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 707b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 708b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 709b86ff981SJens Axboe 710b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 711b86ff981SJens Axboe 712c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 713c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 714c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 715c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 716c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 717c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 718c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 719c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 720c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 72158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 72258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 72358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 72458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 72558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 72658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 72758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 728ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 729ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 730614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 731ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 732ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 733614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 734ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 735aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 736aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 737aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 738aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 739aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 740aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 741aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 742aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 74374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 74474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 74574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 74674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 74774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 74812d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 749692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 75074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 75174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 75274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 75374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 75474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 755d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 756d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 757d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 758d6eb633fSMatt Helsley depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET 759d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 760d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 761d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 762d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 763f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 764f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 765f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 766f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 767f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 768f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 769f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 770f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 771f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 772f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 773f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 774f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 775f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 776f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 777f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 778f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 779c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 780c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 781dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 782dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 783c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 784c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 785c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 78696fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 787c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 788c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 789c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 790c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 791c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 792775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 793c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 7940847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 7950847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 7960847062aSRandy Dunlap 797b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 798b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 799b943c460SRandy Dunlap 8001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 808ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 809ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 81009337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 811ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 812ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 813ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 814ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 815b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 8160847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 81726a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 81813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 819b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 820b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 82113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 82213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 82313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 82413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 825b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 82613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 82713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 82813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 829b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 83013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 831ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 8321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 833979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 8381da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 8391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 8411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 8421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 8451da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 846f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 847f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 862d59745ceSMatt Mackall 863712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 864712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 865712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 866712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 867712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 868712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 869712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 870712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 871712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 872d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 873d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 874d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 875d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 876d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 877d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 878d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 879d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 880d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 881d59745ceSMatt Mackall 882c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 883c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 884c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 885c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 886c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 887c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 888c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 889c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 890c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 891c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 892708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 893708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 894708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 895708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 896708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 897708e9a79SMatt Mackall 898e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 899e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 900e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 901e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 902e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 903e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 904e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 905e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 9061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 91723f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 926448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 9271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 931fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 932fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 933448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 934fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 935fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 936fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 937fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 938fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 939fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 940fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 941b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 942b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 943448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 944b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 945b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 946b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 947b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 948b215e283SDavide Libenzi 949b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 950b215e283SDavide Libenzi 951e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 952e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 953448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 954e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 955e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 956e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 957e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 958e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 959e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 960e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 9611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 972ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 973ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 974ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 975ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 976ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 977ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 978ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 979ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 980cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 9810793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 982018df72dSMike Frysinger help 983018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 9840793a61dSThomas Gleixner 985906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 986906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 987906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 988906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 989906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 99057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 9910793a61dSThomas Gleixner 992cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 99357c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 99457c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 995cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 9964c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 997*e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 9980793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 99957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 100057c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 10010793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1002dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 100357c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 100457c0c15bSIngo Molnar 100557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 100657c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 10070793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 10080793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 10090793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 10100793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 10110793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 10120793a61dSThomas Gleixner 101357c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1014dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 101557c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 10160793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 10170793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 10180793a61dSThomas Gleixner 10190793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 10200793a61dSThomas Gleixner 102157c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 102257c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 102357c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 102457c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 102557c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 102657c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 102757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 102857c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 102957c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 103057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 103157c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 103257c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1033906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1034906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1035906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1036906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1037906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1038906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1039906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1040906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1041906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1042906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1043906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1044906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1045906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 10460793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 10470793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1048f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1049f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 1050f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 1051f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 10522aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 10532aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 10542aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 10552aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1056f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 10573d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 10583d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 105961cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 106061cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 10613d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 10623d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 10633d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 10643d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 10653d137310SThomas Petazzoni 106641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 106741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 106841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 1069f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 107041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 107141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 107241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 107341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 107441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 107541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1076b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1077b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1078b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1079b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1080b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1081b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1082b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1083692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1084b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1085b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1086b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1087b943c460SRandy Dunlap 108881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 108981819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1090a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 109181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 109281819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 109381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 109481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 109581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 109681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 109781819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 109834013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 109902f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 110081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 110181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 110281819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 110381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 110481819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 110581819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 110681819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 110781819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 110802f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 110902f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 111081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 111181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 111284a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 111381819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 111481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 111537291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 111637291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 111737291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 111881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 111981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 112081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1121ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1122ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1123ea637639SJie Zhang depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU 1124ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1125ea637639SJie Zhang help 1126ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1127ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1128ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1129ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1130ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1131ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1132ea637639SJie Zhang 1133ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1134ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1135ea637639SJie Zhang 1136ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1137ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1138ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1139ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1140ea637639SJie Zhang 1141ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1142ea637639SJie Zhang 1143125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1144b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1145125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1146125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1147125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1148125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 11495f87f112SIngo Molnar# 11505f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 11515f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 11525f87f112SIngo Molnar# 115397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 11545f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 115597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1156fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1157fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 11581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1160ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1161ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1162ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1163ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1164158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1165158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1166158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 11670f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1168158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1169158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1170ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1171ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1172ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 117866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11980b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 11990b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1200826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1201826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1202826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1203826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 120491e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 120591e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 120691e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1207826e4506SLinus Torvalds 12081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1213f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1214f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 12270d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12470b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 12480b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 124998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 125098a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 125198a79d6aSRusty Russell help 125298a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 125398a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 125498a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 125598a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1256692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 125798a79d6aSRusty Russell 12581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 12643a65dfe8SJens Axboe 12653a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1266e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1267e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1268e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1269e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 127016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 127116295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 127216295becSSteffen Klassert bool 127316295becSSteffen Klassert 12746beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1275