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 24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK 25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra 27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK 28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra bool 29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 30e360adbeSPeter 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 INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 74dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 75dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7734ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7834ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8184336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE 8284336466SRoland McGrath string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 8384336466SRoland McGrath help 8484336466SRoland McGrath Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 8584336466SRoland McGrath default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 8684336466SRoland McGrath need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 8784336466SRoland McGrath directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 8884336466SRoland McGrath 891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 99aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 100aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 101aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 102aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 103aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 106aaebf433SRyan Anderson 107aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 1086e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 109aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 111aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1126e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1146e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1166e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 118aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1192e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1202e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1222e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1232e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1283ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1293ebe1243SLasse Collin bool 1303ebe1243SLasse Collin 1317dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1327dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1373ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1582e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1607dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1617dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 17230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 17330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1752e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1792e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1802e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 18130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1823ebe1243SLasse Collinconfig KERNEL_XZ 1833ebe1243SLasse Collin bool "XZ" 1843ebe1243SLasse Collin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1853ebe1243SLasse Collin help 1863ebe1243SLasse Collin XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 1873ebe1243SLasse Collin BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 1883ebe1243SLasse Collin code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 1893ebe1243SLasse Collin comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 1903ebe1243SLasse Collin filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 1913ebe1243SLasse Collin will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 1923ebe1243SLasse Collin 1933ebe1243SLasse Collin The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 1943ebe1243SLasse Collin speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 1953ebe1243SLasse Collin and LZO. Compression is slow. 1963ebe1243SLasse Collin 1977dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1987dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1997dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2007dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 2017dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 202681b3049SStephan Sperber size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 2037dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 2047dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 20530d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 20630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 2071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 2099361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 232a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 233a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 234a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 235a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 236a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 237a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 246b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 254bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 255bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 256bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 257bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 258bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 259bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 28337a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 285990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.Vconfig FHANDLE 286990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 287990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V select EXPORTFS 288990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V help 289990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 290990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V file names to handle and then later use the handle for 291990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 292990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 293990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 294990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 295990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V syscalls. 296990d6c2dSAneesh Kumar K.V 297c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 298c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 299c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 300c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 301c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 302c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 303c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 304c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 305c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 306c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 307c757249aSShailabh Nagar 308c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 309c757249aSShailabh Nagar 310ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 311ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3126f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 313ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 314ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 315ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 316ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 317ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 318ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 319ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 320ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 32118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 32218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 32318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 32418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 32518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 32618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 32718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 32818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 32918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 33018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 33118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 33218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 33318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 33418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 33518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 33618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 33718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 33818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 3391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 341804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 350022382a5SKumar Gala depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 35567640b60SEric Paris such as SELinux. 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 357939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH 358939a67fcSEric Paris def_bool y 359939a67fcSEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 360939a67fcSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 36274c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 36374c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 36463c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 36528a3a7ebSEric Paris select FSNOTIFY 36674c3cbe3SAl Viro 367d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 368d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner 369c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 370c903ff83SMike Travis 371c903ff83SMike Travischoice 372c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 37331c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 374c903ff83SMike Travis 375c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 376c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 377687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 378c903ff83SMike Travis help 379c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 380c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 381c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 382c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 383c903ff83SMike Travis 384f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 385a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 386f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 387f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 388f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 389f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 390f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 391bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 392bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 393f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 3949b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 3959b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 3969b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP 3979b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 3989b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 3999b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 4009b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 4019b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 4029b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 403a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 404a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 405a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP && PREEMPT 406a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 407a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 408a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 409a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 410a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 411c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 412c903ff83SMike Travis 413a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU 414a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 415a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney help 416a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 417a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 418a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney 419c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 420c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 421c903ff83SMike Travis help 422c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 423c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 424c903ff83SMike Travis 425c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 426c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 427c903ff83SMike Travis 428c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 429c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 430c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 431c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 432f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 433c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 434c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 435c903ff83SMike Travis help 436c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 437c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 4384d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 4394d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 4404d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 4414d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 4424d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 4434d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney code paths on small(er) systems. 444c903ff83SMike Travis 445c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 446c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 447c903ff83SMike Travis 448c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 449c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 450f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 451c903ff83SMike Travis default n 452c903ff83SMike Travis help 453c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 454c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 455c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 456c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 457c903ff83SMike Travis 458c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 459c903ff83SMike Travis 460c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 461c903ff83SMike Travis 4628bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4638bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 4648bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP 4658bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4668bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4678bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 4688bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state 4698bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the 4708bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems 4718bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney with large numbers of CPUs. 4728bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4738bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4748bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4758bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4768bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4778bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 478c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 479f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 480c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 481c903ff83SMike Travis help 482f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 483f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 484f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 485c903ff83SMike Travis 48624278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST 48724278d14SPaul E. McKenney bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 48827f4d280SPaul E. McKenney depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 48924278d14SPaul E. McKenney default n 49024278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 49124278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 49224278d14SPaul E. McKenney block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 49324278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 49424278d14SPaul E. McKenney callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 49524278d14SPaul E. McKenney 49624278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 49724278d14SPaul E. McKenney Say N here if you are unsure. 49824278d14SPaul E. McKenney 49924278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_PRIO 50024278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 50124278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 1 99 50224278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 50324278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 1 50424278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 50524278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted 50624278d14SPaul E. McKenney RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound 50724278d14SPaul E. McKenney real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then 50824278d14SPaul E. McKenney the highest-priority CPU-bound application. 50924278d14SPaul E. McKenney 51024278d14SPaul E. McKenney Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 51124278d14SPaul E. McKenney 51224278d14SPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_BOOST_DELAY 51324278d14SPaul E. McKenney int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 51424278d14SPaul E. McKenney range 0 3000 51524278d14SPaul E. McKenney depends on RCU_BOOST 51624278d14SPaul E. McKenney default 500 51724278d14SPaul E. McKenney help 51824278d14SPaul E. McKenney This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 51924278d14SPaul E. McKenney a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 52024278d14SPaul E. McKenney readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 52124278d14SPaul E. McKenney blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 52224278d14SPaul E. McKenney 52324278d14SPaul E. McKenney Accept the default if unsure. 52424278d14SPaul E. McKenney 525c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 526c903ff83SMike Travis 5271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 528f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 5291da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5301da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 5321da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 546794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 547794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 548794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 549f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 550794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 551794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 552f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 553f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 554f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 555f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 556f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 557794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 558794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 559794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 5605cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5615cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 5625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 5635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 5645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 5655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 56623964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 56723964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 5680dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 569ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 57023964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 5715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 5725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 5735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 5745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 57545ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 57645ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 577ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 578ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 579ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 58023964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 58123964d2dSLi Zefan 582006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 583006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 584418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 585006cb992SPaul Menage help 586006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 587006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 58823964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 589006cb992SPaul Menage 59023964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 591006cb992SPaul Menage 592dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 59323964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 594dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 595dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 596dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 597dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 59808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 59908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 60008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 60108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 60208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 60308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 6041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 607d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 61423964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 61523964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 61623964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 61723964d2dSLi Zefan default y 61823964d2dSLi Zefan 619d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 620d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 621d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 622d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 62323964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 624d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 625e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 626e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 627e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 628e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 62923964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 630e552b661SPavel Emelianov 63100f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 63200f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 63379ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 634cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 63500f0b825SBalbir Singh help 63684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 63721acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 63800f0b825SBalbir Singh 63900f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 64084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 64184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 64284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 64384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 64400f0b825SBalbir Singh 64500f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 64684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 64784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 64884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 649c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 65000f0b825SBalbir Singh 651cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 652cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 653cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 654c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 65565e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 65665e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 657c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 658c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 659c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 660c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 661c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 662c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 663c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 664c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 665c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 666c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 667c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 668c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 669627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 670627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 671a42c390cSMichal Hockoconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED 672a42c390cSMichal Hocko bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 673a42c390cSMichal Hocko depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 674a42c390cSMichal Hocko default y 675a42c390cSMichal Hocko help 676a42c390cSMichal Hocko Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 677a42c390cSMichal Hocko a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 67843d547f9SJim Cromie which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 679a42c390cSMichal Hocko and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 680a42c390cSMichal Hocko parameter should have this option unselected. 681a42c390cSMichal Hocko For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 682a42c390cSMichal Hocko select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 683a42c390cSMichal Hocko then noswapaccount does the trick). 684c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 685e5d1367fSStephane Eranianconfig CGROUP_PERF 686e5d1367fSStephane Eranian bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 687e5d1367fSStephane Eranian depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 688e5d1367fSStephane Eranian help 689e5d1367fSStephane Eranian This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 6902d0f2520SLi Zefan threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 691e5d1367fSStephane Eranian designated cpu. 692e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 693e5d1367fSStephane Eranian Say N if unsure. 694e5d1367fSStephane Eranian 6957c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 6967c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 69779ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 6987c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6997c941438SDhaval Giani help 7007c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 7017c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 7027c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 7037c941438SDhaval Giani 7047c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 7057c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 7067c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 7077c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7087c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 7097c941438SDhaval Giani 7107c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 7117c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 7127c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 7137c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 7147c941438SDhaval Giani default n 7157c941438SDhaval Giani help 7167c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 71732bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 7187c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 7197c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 7207c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 7217c941438SDhaval Giani 7227c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 7237c941438SDhaval Giani 724afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP 725afc24d49SVivek Goyal tristate "Block IO controller" 72679ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano depends on BLOCK 727afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 728afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 729afc24d49SVivek Goyal Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 730afc24d49SVivek Goyal cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 731afc24d49SVivek Goyal policies. 732afc24d49SVivek Goyal 733afc24d49SVivek Goyal Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 734afc24d49SVivek Goyal control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 735e43473b7SVivek Goyal to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 736e43473b7SVivek Goyal block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 737afc24d49SVivek Goyal 738afc24d49SVivek Goyal This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 739e43473b7SVivek Goyal One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 74079e2e759SMichael Witten enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 74179e2e759SMichael Witten CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 742c5e0591aSMichael Witten CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 743afc24d49SVivek Goyal 744afc24d49SVivek Goyal See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 745afc24d49SVivek Goyal 746afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 747afc24d49SVivek Goyal bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 748afc24d49SVivek Goyal depends on BLK_CGROUP 749afc24d49SVivek Goyal default n 750afc24d49SVivek Goyal ---help--- 751afc24d49SVivek Goyal Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 752afc24d49SVivek Goyal files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 753afc24d49SVivek Goyal 75423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 755c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 7568dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES 7576a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 7586a108a14SDavid Rientjes default !EXPERT 759c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 760c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 761c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 762c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 763c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 764c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 7658dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES 7668dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 76758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 76858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 76917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 77058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 77158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 77258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 77358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 774ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 775ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 7768dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 77717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 778ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 779ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 780614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 781ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 782aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 783aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 7848dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on EXPERIMENTAL 78517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 786aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 787aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 788aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 789aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 790aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 79174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 7929bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano bool "PID Namespaces" 79317a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 79474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 79512d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 796692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 79774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 79874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 799d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 800d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 8018dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano depends on NET 80217a6d441SDaniel Lezcano default y 803d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 804d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 805d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 806d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 8078dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES 8088dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano 8095091faa4SMike Galbraithconfig SCHED_AUTOGROUP 8105091faa4SMike Galbraith bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 8115091faa4SMike Galbraith select EVENTFD 8125091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUPS 8135091faa4SMike Galbraith select CGROUP_SCHED 8145091faa4SMike Galbraith select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 8155091faa4SMike Galbraith help 8165091faa4SMike Galbraith This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 8175091faa4SMike Galbraith automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 8185091faa4SMike Galbraith of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 8195091faa4SMike Galbraith desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 8205091faa4SMike Galbraith upon task session. 8215091faa4SMike Galbraith 8227af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER 8237af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool 8247af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8257af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 8265d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 8277af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 8287af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 8297af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8307af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 8317af37becSDaniel Lezcano devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 8327af37becSDaniel Lezcano /sys/block/. 8337af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8347af37becSDaniel Lezcano This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 8357af37becSDaniel Lezcano passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 8367af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8377af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 8387af37becSDaniel Lezcano which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 8397af37becSDaniel Lezcano major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 8407af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8417af37becSDaniel Lezcano Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 8427af37becSDaniel Lezcano the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 8437af37becSDaniel Lezcano option enabled. 8447af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8457af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 8467af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. 8477af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8487af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 8495d6a4ea5SFerenc Wagner bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 8507af37becSDaniel Lezcano default n 8517af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS 8527af37becSDaniel Lezcano depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 8537af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8547af37becSDaniel Lezcano Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 8557af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8567af37becSDaniel Lezcano See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 8577af37becSDaniel Lezcano option. 8587af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8597af37becSDaniel Lezcano Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 8607af37becSDaniel Lezcano need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 8617af37becSDaniel Lezcano enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 8627af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8637af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY 8647af37becSDaniel Lezcano bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 8657af37becSDaniel Lezcano help 8667af37becSDaniel Lezcano This option enables support for relay interface support in 8677af37becSDaniel Lezcano certain file systems (such as debugfs). 8687af37becSDaniel Lezcano It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 8697af37becSDaniel Lezcano facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 8707af37becSDaniel Lezcano user space. 8717af37becSDaniel Lezcano 8727af37becSDaniel Lezcano If unsure, say N. 8737af37becSDaniel Lezcano 874f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 875f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 876f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 877f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 878f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 879f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 880f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 881f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 882f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 883f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 884f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 885f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 886f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 887f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 888f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 889f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 890c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 891c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 892dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 893dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 894c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 895c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 896c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 89796fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 898c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 899c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 900c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 901c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 902775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 903c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 9040847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 9050847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 9060847062aSRandy Dunlap 907b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 908b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 909b943c460SRandy Dunlap 9106a108a14SDavid Rientjesmenuconfig EXPERT 9116a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 912*f505c553SJosh Triplett # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 913*f505c553SJosh Triplett select DEBUG_KERNEL 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 920ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 9216a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 92209337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 923ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 924ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 925ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 926ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 927b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 9286a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 92926a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 93013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 931b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 932b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 93313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 93413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 93513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 93613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 937b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 93813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 93913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 94013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 941b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 94213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 943ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 9441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 9456a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 95671a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 95771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 95871a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 95971a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 96071a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy names of variables from the data sections, etc). 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 96271a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 96371a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 96471a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 96571a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy something like this). 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 96771a83ec7SArtem Bityutskiy Say N unless you really need all symbols. 968d59745ceSMatt Mackall 969712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 9706a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT 971712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 972712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 973712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 974712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 975712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 976712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 977712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 978d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 979d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 9806a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 981d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 982d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 983d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 984d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 985d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 986d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 987d59745ceSMatt Mackall 988c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 9896a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 990c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 991c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 992c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 993c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 994c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 995c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 996c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 997c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 998708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 999708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 10006a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1001708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 1002708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1003708e9a79SMatt Mackall 1004e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 10056a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1006e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 1007e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 1008e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 1009e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1010e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 1011e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 10121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 10131da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 10216a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 102323f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 10306a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1032448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 10361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1037fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 10386a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1039448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1040fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 1041fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 1042fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1043fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 1044fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1045fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1046fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 1047b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 10486a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1049448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1050b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 1051b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 1052b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1053b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 1054b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1055b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1056b215e283SDavide Libenzi 1057e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 10586a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1059448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 1060e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 1061e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 1062e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1063e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1064e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 1065e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 1066e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 10671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 10686a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1078ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 10796a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1080ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 1081ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 1082ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1083ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1084ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 1085ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 10866befe5f6SRandy Dunlapconfig EMBEDDED 10876befe5f6SRandy Dunlap bool "Embedded system" 10886befe5f6SRandy Dunlap select EXPERT 10896befe5f6SRandy Dunlap help 10906befe5f6SRandy Dunlap This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 10916befe5f6SRandy Dunlap an embedded system so certain expert options are available 10926befe5f6SRandy Dunlap for configuration. 10936befe5f6SRandy Dunlap 1094cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 10950793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 1096018df72dSMike Frysinger help 1097018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 10980793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1099906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1100906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 1101906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1102906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1103906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 110457c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 11050793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1106cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 110757c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 110857c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1109cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 11104c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 1111e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select IRQ_WORK 11120793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 111357c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 111457c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 11150793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1116dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 111757c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 111857c0c15bSIngo Molnar 111957c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 112057c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 11210793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 11220793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 11230793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 11240793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 11250793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 11260793a61dSThomas Gleixner 112757c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1128dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 112957c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 11300793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 11310793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 11320793a61dSThomas Gleixner 11330793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 11340793a61dSThomas Gleixner 113557c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 113657c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 113757c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 113857c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 113957c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 114057c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 114157c0c15bSIngo Molnar 114257c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 114357c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 114457c0c15bSIngo Molnar 114557c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 114657c0c15bSIngo Molnar 1147906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1148906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 1149906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1150906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1151906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1152906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 1153906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1154906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1155906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1156906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 1157906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 1158906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 1159906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 11600793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 11610793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1162f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1163f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 11646a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1165f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 11662aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 11672aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 11686a108a14SDavid Rientjes on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 11692aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1170f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 11713d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 11723d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 11736a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 117461cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 11753d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 11763d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 11773d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 11783d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 11793d137310SThomas Petazzoni 118041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 118141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 11826a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1183f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 118441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 118541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 118641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 118741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 118841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 118941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1190b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1191b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1192b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1193b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1194b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1195b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1196b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1197692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1198b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1199b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1200b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1201b943c460SRandy Dunlap 120281819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 120381819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1204a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 120581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 120681819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 120781819f0fSChristoph Lameter 120881819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 120981819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 121081819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 121181819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 121234013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 121302f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 121481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 121581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 121681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 121781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 121881819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 121981819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 122081819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 122181819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 122202f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 122302f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 122481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 122581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 12266a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT 122781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 122881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 122937291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 123037291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 123137291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 123281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 123381819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 123481819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1235ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1236ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 12376a108a14SDavid Rientjes depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1238ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1239ea637639SJie Zhang help 1240ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1241ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1242ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1243ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1244ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1245ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1246ea637639SJie Zhang 1247ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1248ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1249ea637639SJie Zhang 1250ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1251ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1252ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1253ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1254ea637639SJie Zhang 1255ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1256ea637639SJie Zhang 1257125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1258b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1259125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1260125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1261125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1262125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 12635f87f112SIngo Molnar# 12645f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 12655f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 12665f87f112SIngo Molnar# 126797e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 12685f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 126997e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1270fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1271fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 12721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1274ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1275ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1276ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1277ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1278158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1279158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1280158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 12810f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1282158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1283158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1284ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1285ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1286ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 12871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 129266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13120b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 13130b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1314826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1315826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1316826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1317826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 131891e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 131991e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 132091e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1321826e4506SLinus Torvalds 13221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1327f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1328f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 13410d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13610b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 13620b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 136398a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 136498a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 136598a79d6aSRusty Russell help 136698a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 136798a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 136898a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 136998a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1370692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 137198a79d6aSRusty Russell 13721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 13783a65dfe8SJens Axboe 13793a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1380e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1381e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1382e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1383e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 138416295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 138516295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 138616295becSSteffen Klassert bool 138716295becSSteffen Klassert 13886beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1389