180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 68dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 84aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 85aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 86aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 94aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 103aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1042e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1052e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1062e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1072e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1082e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 11330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11430d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 11530d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1372e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff compression and decompression) is the fastest. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1592e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1669361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 189a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 190a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 191a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 192a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 193a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 194a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 1951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 203b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 211bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 212bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 213bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 214bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 215bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 216bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 24037a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 242c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 243c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 244c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 245c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 246c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 247c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 248c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 249c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 250c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 251c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 252c757249aSShailabh Nagar 253c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 254c757249aSShailabh Nagar 255ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 256ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2576f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 258ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 259ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 260ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 261ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 262ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 263ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 264ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 265ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 26618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 26718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 26818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 26918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 27018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 27118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 27218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 27318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 27418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 27518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 27618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 27718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 27818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 27918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 28018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 28118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 28218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 28318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 2841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 286804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2951322b9deSYuichi Nakamura depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 300f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 301f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30374c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 30474c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 30563c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 30663c882a0SEric Paris select INOTIFY 30774c3cbe3SAl Viro 308c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 309c903ff83SMike Travis 310c903ff83SMike Travischoice 311c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 31231c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 313c903ff83SMike Travis 314c903ff83SMike Travisconfig CLASSIC_RCU 315c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Classic RCU" 316c903ff83SMike Travis help 317c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is 318c903ff83SMike Travis designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime 319c903ff83SMike Travis systems. 320c903ff83SMike Travis 321c903ff83SMike Travis Select this option if you are unsure. 322c903ff83SMike Travis 323c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 324c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 325c903ff83SMike Travis help 326c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 327c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 328c903ff83SMike Travis thousands of CPUs. 329c903ff83SMike Travis 330c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU 331c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Preemptible RCU" 332c903ff83SMike Travis depends on PREEMPT 333c903ff83SMike Travis help 334c903ff83SMike Travis This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain 335c903ff83SMike Travis RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if 336c903ff83SMike Travis this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become 337c903ff83SMike Travis preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to 338c903ff83SMike Travis now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section 339c903ff83SMike Travis remaining on a given CPU through its execution. 340c903ff83SMike Travis 341c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 342c903ff83SMike Travis 343c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 344c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 345c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 346c903ff83SMike Travis help 347c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 348c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 349c903ff83SMike Travis 350c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 351c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 352c903ff83SMike Travis 353c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 354c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 355c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 356c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 357c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU 358c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 359c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 360c903ff83SMike Travis help 361c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 362c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 363c903ff83SMike Travis large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube 364c903ff83SMike Travis root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit 365c903ff83SMike Travis systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. 366c903ff83SMike Travis 367c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 368c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 369c903ff83SMike Travis 370c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 371c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 372c903ff83SMike Travis depends on TREE_RCU 373c903ff83SMike Travis default n 374c903ff83SMike Travis help 375c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 376c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 377c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 378c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 379c903ff83SMike Travis 380c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 381c903ff83SMike Travis 382c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 383c903ff83SMike Travis 384c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 385c903ff83SMike Travis def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU 386c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 387c903ff83SMike Travis help 388c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation, 389c903ff83SMike Travis permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 390c903ff83SMike Travis 391c903ff83SMike Travisconfig PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE 392c903ff83SMike Travis def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU 393c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 394c903ff83SMike Travis help 395c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation, 396c903ff83SMike Travis permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c. 397c903ff83SMike Travis 398c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 399c903ff83SMike Travis 4001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 401f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 419794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 420794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 421794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 422f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 423794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 424794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 425f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 426f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 427f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 428f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 429f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 430794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 431794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 432794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 4335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 4355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 4375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 4385cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4395cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig GROUP_SCHED 4405cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group CPU scheduler" 4415cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 4425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 4435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 4455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bandwidth allocation to such task groups. 4465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use 4475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) 4485cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4495cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 4505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 4515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default GROUP_SCHED 4535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 4555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 4565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on EXPERIMENTAL 4575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default n 4595cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4605cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 4615cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" 4625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 4635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 4645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki realtime bandwidth for them. 4655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 4665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukichoice 4685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on GROUP_SCHED 4695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" 4705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki default USER_SCHED 4715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig USER_SCHED 4735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "user id" 4745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping 4765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. 4775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_SCHED 4795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Control groups" 4805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUPS 4815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 4825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups 4835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control 4845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. 48545ce80fbSLi Zefan Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more 48645ce80fbSLi Zefan information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. 4875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiendchoice 4895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 49023964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 49123964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 492ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 49323964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 4945cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 4955cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 4965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 4975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 49845ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 49945ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 500ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 501ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 502ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 50323964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 50423964d2dSLi Zefan 505006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 506006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 507006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 508418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 509006cb992SPaul Menage help 510006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 511006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 51223964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 513006cb992SPaul Menage 51423964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 515006cb992SPaul Menage 516858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 517858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 518858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 519858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 520858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 521858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 522858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 523858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 524858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 525dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 52623964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 527dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 528dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 529dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 530dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 531dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 53208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 53308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 53408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 53508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 53608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 53708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 53808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 5391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 541db7f47cfSPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 543d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 55023964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 55123964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 55223964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 55323964d2dSLi Zefan default y 55423964d2dSLi Zefan 555d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 556d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 557d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 558d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 559d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 56023964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 561d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 562e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 563e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 564e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 565e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 56623964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 567e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 568e552b661SPavel Emelianov 56900f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 57000f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 57100f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 572cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 57300f0b825SBalbir Singh help 57484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 57521acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 57600f0b825SBalbir Singh 57700f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 57884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 57984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 58084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 58184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 58200f0b825SBalbir Singh 58300f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 58484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 58584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 58684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 587c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 58800f0b825SBalbir Singh 589cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 590cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 591cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 592c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 593c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" 594c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL 595c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 596c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 597c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 598c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 599c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 600c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 601c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 602c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 603c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 604c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 605c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 606c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 607627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 608627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 609c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 61023964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 611c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 61223964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 61323964d2dSLi Zefan bool 6145cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 61588a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 616d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 617d47846c5SIngo Molnar 618d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 619*f6ee649fSKay Sievers bool "remove sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools" 6209148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 621*f6ee649fSKay Sievers default n 622d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 62388a22c98SKay Sievers help 624fce3e804SKay Sievers This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated 625*f6ee649fSKay Sievers version. Do not use it on recent distributions. 62688a22c98SKay Sievers 627fce3e804SKay Sievers The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at 628fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between 629fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the 630fce3e804SKay Sievers unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at 631fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at 632fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by 633fce3e804SKay Sievers "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" 634fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some 635fce3e804SKay Sievers subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which 636fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the unified device tree. 63788a22c98SKay Sievers 638fce3e804SKay Sievers This option is not a pure compatibility option that can 639fce3e804SKay Sievers be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the 640fce3e804SKay Sievers layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, 641fce3e804SKay Sievers and disable some features, which can not be exported without 642fce3e804SKay Sievers confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major 643fce3e804SKay Sievers distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which 644fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the deprecated layout or this option. 645fce3e804SKay Sievers 646fce3e804SKay Sievers If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use 647fce3e804SKay Sievers older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, 648fce3e804SKay Sievers if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has 649fce3e804SKay Sievers this option set to N. 65088a22c98SKay Sievers 651b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 652b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 653b86ff981SJens Axboe help 654b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 655b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 656b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 657b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 658b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 659b86ff981SJens Axboe 660b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 661b86ff981SJens Axboe 662c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 663c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 664c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 665c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 666c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 667c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 668c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 669c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 670c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 67158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 67258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 67358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 67458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 67558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 67658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 67758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 678ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 679ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 680614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 681ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 682ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 683614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 684ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 685aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 686aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 687aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 688aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 689aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 690aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 691aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 692aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 69374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 69474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 69574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 69674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 69774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 69812d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 699692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 70074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 70174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 70274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 70374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 70474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 705d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 706d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 707d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 708d6eb633fSMatt Helsley depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET 709d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 710d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 711d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 712d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 713f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 714f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 715f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 716f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 717f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 718f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 719f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 720f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 721f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 722f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 723f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 724f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 725f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 726f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 727f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 728f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 729c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 730c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 731dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 732dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 733c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 734c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 735c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 73696fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 737c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 738c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 739c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 740c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 741c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 742775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 743c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 7440847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 7450847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 7460847062aSRandy Dunlap 747b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 748b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 749b943c460SRandy Dunlap 7501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 758ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 759ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 76009337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 761ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 762ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 763ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 764ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 765b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 7660847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 76713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 768b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 769b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 77013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 77113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 77213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 77313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 774b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 77513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 77613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 77713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 778b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 77913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 780ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 7811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 782979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 795f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 796f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 811d59745ceSMatt Mackall 812712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 813712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 814712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 815712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 816712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 817712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 818712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 819712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 820712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 821d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 822d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 823d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 824d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 825d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 826d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 827d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 828d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 829d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 830d59745ceSMatt Mackall 831c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 832c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 833c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 834c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 835c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 836c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 837c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 838c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 839c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 840c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 841708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 842708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 843708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 844708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 845708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 846708e9a79SMatt Mackall 847e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 848e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 849e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 850e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 851e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 852e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 853e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 854e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 8551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 86623f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 875448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 880fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 881fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 882448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 883fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 884fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 885fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 886fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 887fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 888fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 889fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 890b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 891b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 892448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 893b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 894b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 895b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 896b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 897b215e283SDavide Libenzi 898b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 899b215e283SDavide Libenzi 900e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 901e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 902448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 903e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 904e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 905e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 906e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 907e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 908e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 909e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 9101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 921ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 922ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 923ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 924ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 925ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 926ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 927ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 928ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 9290793a61dSThomas Gleixnerconfig HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS 9300793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 931018df72dSMike Frysinger help 932018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 9330793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9340793a61dSThomas Gleixnermenu "Performance Counters" 9350793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9360793a61dSThomas Gleixnerconfig PERF_COUNTERS 9370793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool "Kernel Performance Counters" 9380793a61dSThomas Gleixner depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS 9394c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 9400793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 9410793a61dSThomas Gleixner Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware. 9420793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9430793a61dSThomas Gleixner Performance counters are special hardware registers available 9440793a61dSThomas Gleixner on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain 9450793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 9460793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 9470793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 9480793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 9490793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 9500793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9510793a61dSThomas Gleixner The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of 9520793a61dSThomas Gleixner these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It 9530793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 9540793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 9550793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9560793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 9570793a61dSThomas Gleixner 958e077df4fSPeter Zijlstraconfig EVENT_PROFILE 959e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra bool "Tracepoint profile sources" 960e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACER 961e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra default y 962e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra 9630793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 9640793a61dSThomas Gleixner 965f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 966f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 967f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 968f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 9692aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 9702aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 9712aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 9722aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 973f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 9743d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 9753d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 97661cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 97761cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 9783d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 9793d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 9803d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 9813d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 9823d137310SThomas Petazzoni 98341ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 98441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 98541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 986f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 98741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 98841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 98941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 99041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 99141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 99241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 993a9eb5223SRandy Dunlapconfig STRIP_ASM_SYMS 994a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 995a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap default n 996a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap help 997a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 998a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 999a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap get_wchan() and suchlike. 1000a9eb5223SRandy Dunlap 1001b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1002b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1003b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1004b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1005b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1006b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1007b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1008692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1009b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1010b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1011b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1012b943c460SRandy Dunlap 101381819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 101481819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1015a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 101681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 101781819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 101881819f0fSChristoph Lameter 101981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 102081819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 102181819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 102281819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 102334013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 102402f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 102581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 102681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 102781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 102881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 102981819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 103081819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 103181819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 103281819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 103302f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 103402f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 103581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 103681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 103784a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 103881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 103981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 104037291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 104137291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 104237291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 104381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 104481819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 104581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1046125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1047125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1048125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1049125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1050125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1051125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 10525f87f112SIngo Molnar# 10535f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 10545f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 10555f87f112SIngo Molnar# 105697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 10575f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 105897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1059125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS 1060125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Activate markers" 106191f73f90SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 1062125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1063125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be 1064125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers dynamically changed for a probe function. 1065125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 1066fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1067fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 106807fe7cb7SDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK 106907fe7cb7SDavid Howells default n 10701c2d008cSDavid Howells bool 107107fe7cb7SDavid Howells help 107207fe7cb7SDavid Howells The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated 107307fe7cb7SDavid Howells threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that 107407fe7cb7SDavid Howells take a relatively long time. 107507fe7cb7SDavid Howells 107607fe7cb7SDavid Howells An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed 107707fe7cb7SDavid Howells by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch 107807fe7cb7SDavid Howells disk. 107907fe7cb7SDavid Howells 10801c2d008cSDavid Howells See Documentation/slow-work.txt. 10811c2d008cSDavid Howells 10821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1084ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1085ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1086ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1087ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1088158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1089158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1090158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 10910f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1092158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1093158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1094ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1095ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1096ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 10971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 110266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11220b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 11230b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1124826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1125826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1126826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1127826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 112891e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 112991e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 113091e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1131826e4506SLinus Torvalds 11321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1137f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1138f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11441da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 11461da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 11481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 11510d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 11581da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 11681da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 11701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11710b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 11720b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 117398a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 117498a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 117598a79d6aSRusty Russell help 117698a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 117798a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 117898a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 117998a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1180692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 118198a79d6aSRusty Russell 11821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 11883a65dfe8SJens Axboe 11893a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1190e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1191e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1192e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1193e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 1194