1config ARCH 2 string 3 option env="ARCH" 4 5config KERNELVERSION 6 string 7 option env="KERNELVERSION" 8 9config DEFCONFIG_LIST 10 string 11 depends on !UML 12 option defconfig_list 13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14 default "/etc/kernel-config" 15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18 19config CONSTRUCTORS 20 bool 21 depends on !UML 22 23config HAVE_IRQ_WORK 24 bool 25 26config IRQ_WORK 27 bool 28 depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK 29 30menu "General setup" 31 32config EXPERIMENTAL 33 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 34 ---help--- 35 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 36 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 37 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 38 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 39 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 40 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 41 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 42 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 43 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 44 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 45 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 46 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 47 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 48 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 49 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 50 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 51 52 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 53 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 54 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 55 56 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 57 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 58 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 59 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 60 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 61 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 62 63config BROKEN 64 bool 65 66config BROKEN_ON_SMP 67 bool 68 depends on BROKEN || !SMP 69 default y 70 71config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 72 int 73 default 32 if !UML 74 default 128 if UML 75 help 76 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 77 variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 78 79 80config CROSS_COMPILE 81 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" 82 help 83 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for 84 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't 85 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build 86 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. 87 88config LOCALVERSION 89 string "Local version - append to kernel release" 90 help 91 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 92 This will show up when you type uname, for example. 93 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 94 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 95 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 96 be a maximum of 64 characters. 97 98config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 99 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 100 default y 101 help 102 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 103 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 104 top of tree revision. 105 106 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 107 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 108 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 109 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 110 111 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 112 by running the command: 113 114 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 115 116 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 117 118config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 119 bool 120 121config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 122 bool 123 124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 125 bool 126 127config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 128 bool 129 130config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 131 bool 132 133choice 134 prompt "Kernel compression mode" 135 default KERNEL_GZIP 136 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 137 help 138 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 139 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 140 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 141 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 142 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 143 144 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 145 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 146 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 147 supplied by Christian Ludwig) 148 149 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 150 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 151 size matters less. 152 153 If in doubt, select 'gzip' 154 155config KERNEL_GZIP 156 bool "Gzip" 157 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 158 help 159 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 160 between compression ratio and decompression speed. 161 162config KERNEL_BZIP2 163 bool "Bzip2" 164 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 165 help 166 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 167 Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 168 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 169 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 170 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 171 172config KERNEL_LZMA 173 bool "LZMA" 174 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 175 help 176 The most recent compression algorithm. 177 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 178 two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 179 smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 180 181config KERNEL_XZ 182 bool "XZ" 183 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 184 help 185 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific 186 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable 187 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in 188 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ 189 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ 190 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. 191 192 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression 193 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip 194 and LZO. Compression is slow. 195 196config KERNEL_LZO 197 bool "LZO" 198 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 199 help 200 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 201 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 202 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 203 204endchoice 205 206config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME 207 string "Default hostname" 208 default "(none)" 209 help 210 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace 211 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here, 212 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal 213 system more usable with less configuration. 214 215config SWAP 216 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 217 depends on MMU && BLOCK 218 default y 219 help 220 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 221 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 222 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 223 in your computer. If unsure say Y. 224 225config SYSVIPC 226 bool "System V IPC" 227 ---help--- 228 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 229 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 230 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 231 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 232 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 233 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 234 you'll need to say Y here. 235 236 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 237 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 238 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 239 240config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 241 bool 242 depends on SYSVIPC 243 depends on SYSCTL 244 default y 245 246config POSIX_MQUEUE 247 bool "POSIX Message Queues" 248 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 249 ---help--- 250 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 251 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 252 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 253 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 254 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 255 256 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 257 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 258 operations on message queues. 259 260 If unsure, say Y. 261 262config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 263 bool 264 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 265 depends on SYSCTL 266 default y 267 268config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 269 bool "BSD Process Accounting" 270 help 271 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 272 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 273 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 274 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 275 information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 276 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 277 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 278 up to the user level program to do useful things with this 279 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 280 281config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 282 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 283 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 284 default n 285 help 286 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 287 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 288 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 289 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 290 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 291 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 292 293config FHANDLE 294 bool "open by fhandle syscalls" 295 select EXPORTFS 296 help 297 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map 298 file names to handle and then later use the handle for 299 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing 300 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead 301 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names 302 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) 303 syscalls. 304 305config TASKSTATS 306 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 307 depends on NET 308 default n 309 help 310 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 311 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 312 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 313 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 314 space on task exit. 315 316 Say N if unsure. 317 318config TASK_DELAY_ACCT 319 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 320 depends on TASKSTATS 321 help 322 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 323 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 324 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 325 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 326 327 Say N if unsure. 328 329config TASK_XACCT 330 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 331 depends on TASKSTATS 332 help 333 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 334 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 335 336 Say N if unsure. 337 338config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 339 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 340 depends on TASK_XACCT 341 help 342 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 343 task has caused. 344 345 Say N if unsure. 346 347config AUDIT 348 bool "Auditing support" 349 depends on NET 350 help 351 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 352 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 353 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 354 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 355 356config AUDITSYSCALL 357 bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 358 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || ARM) 359 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 360 help 361 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 362 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 363 such as SELinux. 364 365config AUDIT_WATCH 366 def_bool y 367 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 368 select FSNOTIFY 369 370config AUDIT_TREE 371 def_bool y 372 depends on AUDITSYSCALL 373 select FSNOTIFY 374 375config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE 376 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" 377 depends on AUDIT 378 help 379 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires 380 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions 381 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never 382 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central 383 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older 384 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and 385 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows 386 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, 387 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. 388 389source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" 390 391menu "RCU Subsystem" 392 393choice 394 prompt "RCU Implementation" 395 default TREE_RCU 396 397config TREE_RCU 398 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 399 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP 400 help 401 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 402 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 403 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 404 smaller systems. 405 406config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 407 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" 408 depends on PREEMPT && SMP 409 help 410 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 411 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 412 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 413 is also required. It also scales down nicely to 414 smaller systems. 415 416config TINY_RCU 417 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 418 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP 419 help 420 This option selects the RCU implementation that is 421 designed for UP systems from which real-time response 422 is not required. This option greatly reduces the 423 memory footprint of RCU. 424 425config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 426 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 427 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP 428 help 429 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed 430 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the 431 memory footprint of RCU. 432 433endchoice 434 435config PREEMPT_RCU 436 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) 437 help 438 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between 439 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. 440 441config RCU_TRACE 442 bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 443 help 444 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 445 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 446 447 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 448 Say N if you are unsure. 449 450config RCU_FANOUT 451 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 452 range 2 64 if 64BIT 453 range 2 32 if !64BIT 454 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 455 default 64 if 64BIT 456 default 32 if !64BIT 457 help 458 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 459 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 460 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth 461 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. 462 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production 463 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation 464 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system 465 code paths on small(er) systems. 466 467 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 468 Take the default if unsure. 469 470config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 471 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 472 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 473 default n 474 help 475 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 476 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 477 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 478 strong NUMA behavior. 479 480 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 481 482 Say N if unsure. 483 484config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 485 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 486 depends on NO_HZ && SMP 487 default n 488 help 489 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 490 in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more 491 quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead 492 of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with 493 large numbers of CPUs. 494 495 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 496 if you have relatively few CPUs. 497 498 Say N if you are unsure. 499 500config TREE_RCU_TRACE 501 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 502 select DEBUG_FS 503 help 504 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 505 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 506 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 507 508config RCU_BOOST 509 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" 510 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU 511 default n 512 help 513 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that 514 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. 515 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU 516 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. 517 518 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads 519 Say N here if you are unsure. 520 521config RCU_BOOST_PRIO 522 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" 523 range 1 99 524 depends on RCU_BOOST 525 default 1 526 help 527 This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted 528 RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound 529 real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then 530 the highest-priority CPU-bound application. 531 532 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. 533 534config RCU_BOOST_DELAY 535 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" 536 range 0 3000 537 depends on RCU_BOOST 538 default 500 539 help 540 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of 541 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU 542 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader 543 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. 544 545 Accept the default if unsure. 546 547endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 548 549config IKCONFIG 550 tristate "Kernel .config support" 551 ---help--- 552 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 553 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 554 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 555 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 556 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 557 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 558 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 559 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 560 561config IKCONFIG_PROC 562 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 563 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 564 ---help--- 565 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 566 through /proc/config.gz. 567 568config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 569 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 570 range 12 21 571 default 17 572 help 573 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 574 Examples: 575 17 => 128 KB 576 16 => 64 KB 577 15 => 32 KB 578 14 => 16 KB 579 13 => 8 KB 580 12 => 4 KB 581 582# 583# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 584# 585config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 586 bool 587 588menuconfig CGROUPS 589 boolean "Control Group support" 590 depends on EVENTFD 591 help 592 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 593 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 594 controls or device isolation. 595 See 596 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 597 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 598 and resource control) 599 600 Say N if unsure. 601 602if CGROUPS 603 604config CGROUP_DEBUG 605 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 606 default n 607 help 608 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 609 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 610 framework. 611 612 Say N if unsure. 613 614config CGROUP_FREEZER 615 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 616 help 617 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 618 cgroup. 619 620config CGROUP_DEVICE 621 bool "Device controller for cgroups" 622 help 623 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 624 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 625 626config CPUSETS 627 bool "Cpuset support" 628 help 629 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 630 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 631 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 632 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 633 634 Say N if unsure. 635 636config PROC_PID_CPUSET 637 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 638 depends on CPUSETS 639 default y 640 641config CGROUP_CPUACCT 642 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 643 help 644 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 645 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 646 647config RESOURCE_COUNTERS 648 bool "Resource counters" 649 help 650 This option enables controller independent resource accounting 651 infrastructure that works with cgroups. 652 653config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 654 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 655 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS 656 select MM_OWNER 657 help 658 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 659 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 660 661 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 662 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 663 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 664 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 665 at boot. 666 667 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 668 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 669 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 670 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 671 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 672 673 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 674 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 675 676config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 677 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" 678 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP 679 help 680 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 681 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 682 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 683 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 684 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 685 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 686 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 687 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 688 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 689 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 690 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. 691 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 692 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 693config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED 694 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" 695 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 696 default y 697 help 698 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in 699 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels 700 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default 701 and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line 702 parameter should have this option unselected. 703 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 704 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 705 then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 706config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM 707 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 708 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && EXPERIMENTAL 709 default n 710 help 711 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 712 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 713 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 714 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 715 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 716 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 717 718config CGROUP_PERF 719 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 720 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS 721 help 722 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to 723 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the 724 designated cpu. 725 726 Say N if unsure. 727 728menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 729 bool "Group CPU scheduler" 730 default n 731 help 732 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 733 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 734 tasks. 735 736if CGROUP_SCHED 737config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 738 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 739 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 740 default CGROUP_SCHED 741 742config CFS_BANDWIDTH 743 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" 744 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 745 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 746 default n 747 help 748 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for 749 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit 750 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no 751 restriction. 752 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. 753 754config RT_GROUP_SCHED 755 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 756 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 757 depends on CGROUP_SCHED 758 default n 759 help 760 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 761 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 762 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 763 realtime bandwidth for them. 764 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 765 766endif #CGROUP_SCHED 767 768config BLK_CGROUP 769 tristate "Block IO controller" 770 depends on BLOCK 771 default n 772 ---help--- 773 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common 774 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling 775 policies. 776 777 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and 778 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) 779 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in 780 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. 781 782 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. 783 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For 784 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set 785 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set 786 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. 787 788 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. 789 790config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 791 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" 792 depends on BLK_CGROUP 793 default n 794 ---help--- 795 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat 796 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. 797 798endif # CGROUPS 799 800config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 801 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT 802 default n 803 help 804 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore. 805 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text, 806 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem 807 entries. 808 809 If unsure, say N here. 810 811menuconfig NAMESPACES 812 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT 813 default !EXPERT 814 help 815 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 816 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 817 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 818 different namespaces. 819 820if NAMESPACES 821 822config UTS_NS 823 bool "UTS namespace" 824 default y 825 help 826 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 827 uname() system call 828 829config IPC_NS 830 bool "IPC namespace" 831 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 832 default y 833 help 834 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 835 different IPC objects in different namespaces. 836 837config USER_NS 838 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 839 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 840 default y 841 help 842 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 843 to provide different user info for different servers. 844 If unsure, say N. 845 846config PID_NS 847 bool "PID Namespaces" 848 default y 849 help 850 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 851 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 852 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 853 854config NET_NS 855 bool "Network namespace" 856 depends on NET 857 default y 858 help 859 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 860 of the network stack. 861 862endif # NAMESPACES 863 864config SCHED_AUTOGROUP 865 bool "Automatic process group scheduling" 866 select EVENTFD 867 select CGROUPS 868 select CGROUP_SCHED 869 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 870 help 871 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by 872 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation 873 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from 874 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based 875 upon task session. 876 877config MM_OWNER 878 bool 879 880config SYSFS_DEPRECATED 881 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 882 depends on SYSFS 883 default n 884 help 885 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class 886 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in 887 /sys/block/. 888 889 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is 890 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. 891 892 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, 893 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all 894 major distributions and tools handle this just fine. 895 896 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on 897 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this 898 option enabled. 899 900 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 901 need to say Y here. 902 903config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 904 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" 905 default n 906 depends on SYSFS 907 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED 908 help 909 Enable deprecated sysfs by default. 910 911 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this 912 option. 913 914 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might 915 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it 916 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. 917 918config RELAY 919 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 920 help 921 This option enables support for relay interface support in 922 certain file systems (such as debugfs). 923 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 924 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 925 user space. 926 927 If unsure, say N. 928 929config BLK_DEV_INITRD 930 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 931 depends on BROKEN || !FRV 932 help 933 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 934 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 935 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 936 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 937 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 938 939 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 940 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 941 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 942 943 If unsure say Y. 944 945if BLK_DEV_INITRD 946 947source "usr/Kconfig" 948 949endif 950 951config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 952 bool "Optimize for size" 953 help 954 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 955 resulting in a smaller kernel. 956 957 If unsure, say Y. 958 959config SYSCTL 960 bool 961 962config ANON_INODES 963 bool 964 965menuconfig EXPERT 966 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" 967 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible 968 select DEBUG_KERNEL 969 help 970 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 971 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 972 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 973 Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 974 975config UID16 976 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT 977 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 978 default y 979 help 980 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 981 982config SYSCTL_SYSCALL 983 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT 984 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 985 default n 986 select SYSCTL 987 ---help--- 988 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 989 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 990 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 991 information. 992 993 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 994 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 995 making your kernel marginally smaller. 996 997 If unsure say N here. 998 999config KALLSYMS 1000 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT 1001 default y 1002 help 1003 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 1004 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 1005 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 1006 1007config KALLSYMS_ALL 1008 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 1009 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 1010 help 1011 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer 1012 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext 1013 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare 1014 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., 1015 names of variables from the data sections, etc). 1016 1017 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel 1018 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel 1019 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or 1020 something like this). 1021 1022 Say N unless you really need all symbols. 1023 1024config HOTPLUG 1025 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT 1026 default y 1027 help 1028 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 1029 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 1030 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 1031 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 1032 1033config PRINTK 1034 default y 1035 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT 1036 help 1037 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 1038 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 1039 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 1040 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 1041 strongly discouraged. 1042 1043config BUG 1044 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT 1045 default y 1046 help 1047 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 1048 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 1049 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 1050 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 1051 Just say Y. 1052 1053config ELF_CORE 1054 default y 1055 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT 1056 help 1057 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 1058 1059 1060config PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1061 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT 1062 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1063 select I8253_LOCK 1064 default y 1065 help 1066 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 1067 support, saving some memory. 1068 1069config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 1070 bool 1071 1072config BASE_FULL 1073 default y 1074 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT 1075 help 1076 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 1077 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 1078 but may reduce performance. 1079 1080config FUTEX 1081 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT 1082 default y 1083 select RT_MUTEXES 1084 help 1085 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1086 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 1087 run glibc-based applications correctly. 1088 1089config EPOLL 1090 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT 1091 default y 1092 select ANON_INODES 1093 help 1094 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 1095 support for epoll family of system calls. 1096 1097config SIGNALFD 1098 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT 1099 select ANON_INODES 1100 default y 1101 help 1102 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 1103 on a file descriptor. 1104 1105 If unsure, say Y. 1106 1107config TIMERFD 1108 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT 1109 select ANON_INODES 1110 default y 1111 help 1112 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 1113 events on a file descriptor. 1114 1115 If unsure, say Y. 1116 1117config EVENTFD 1118 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT 1119 select ANON_INODES 1120 default y 1121 help 1122 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 1123 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 1124 1125 If unsure, say Y. 1126 1127config SHMEM 1128 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT 1129 default y 1130 depends on MMU 1131 help 1132 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 1133 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 1134 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 1135 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 1136 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 1137 1138config AIO 1139 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT 1140 default y 1141 help 1142 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 1143 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 1144 this option saves about 7k. 1145 1146config EMBEDDED 1147 bool "Embedded system" 1148 select EXPERT 1149 help 1150 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for 1151 an embedded system so certain expert options are available 1152 for configuration. 1153 1154config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1155 bool 1156 help 1157 See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 1158 1159config PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1160 bool 1161 help 1162 See tools/perf/design.txt for details 1163 1164menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 1165 1166config PERF_EVENTS 1167 bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 1168 default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 1169 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1170 select ANON_INODES 1171 select IRQ_WORK 1172 help 1173 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 1174 by software and hardware. 1175 1176 Software events are supported either built-in or via the 1177 use of generic tracepoints. 1178 1179 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 1180 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 1181 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 1182 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 1183 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 1184 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 1185 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 1186 1187 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 1188 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 1189 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 1190 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 1191 capabilities on top of those. 1192 1193 Say Y if unsure. 1194 1195config PERF_COUNTERS 1196 bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 1197 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 1198 help 1199 This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 1200 config option - please see that one for details. 1201 1202 It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 1203 it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 1204 1205 Say N if unsure. 1206 1207config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1208 default n 1209 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 1210 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 1211 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 1212 help 1213 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 1214 1215 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 1216 that don't require it. 1217 1218 Say N if unsure. 1219 1220endmenu 1221 1222config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1223 default y 1224 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT 1225 help 1226 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 1227 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 1228 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 1229 if VM event counters are disabled. 1230 1231config PCI_QUIRKS 1232 default y 1233 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT 1234 depends on PCI 1235 help 1236 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 1237 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 1238 unaffected by PCI quirks. 1239 1240config SLUB_DEBUG 1241 default y 1242 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT 1243 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 1244 help 1245 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 1246 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 1247 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 1248 no support for cache validation etc. 1249 1250config COMPAT_BRK 1251 bool "Disable heap randomization" 1252 default y 1253 help 1254 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1255 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1256 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1257 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1258 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1259 1260 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1261 1262choice 1263 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1264 default SLUB 1265 help 1266 This option allows to select a slab allocator. 1267 1268config SLAB 1269 bool "SLAB" 1270 help 1271 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 1272 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 1273 per cpu and per node queues. 1274 1275config SLUB 1276 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 1277 help 1278 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 1279 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 1280 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 1281 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 1282 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 1283 a slab allocator. 1284 1285config SLOB 1286 depends on EXPERT 1287 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 1288 help 1289 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 1290 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 1291 does not perform as well on large systems. 1292 1293endchoice 1294 1295config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1296 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1297 depends on EXPERT && !MMU 1298 default n 1299 help 1300 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1301 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1302 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1303 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1304 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1305 then the flag will be ignored. 1306 1307 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1308 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1309 1310 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1311 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1312 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1313 it is normally safe to say Y here. 1314 1315 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1316 1317config PROFILING 1318 bool "Profiling support" 1319 help 1320 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1321 by profilers such as OProfile. 1322 1323# 1324# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 1325# dynamically changed for a probe function. 1326# 1327config TRACEPOINTS 1328 bool 1329 1330source "arch/Kconfig" 1331 1332endmenu # General setup 1333 1334config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1335 bool 1336 default n 1337 1338config SLABINFO 1339 bool 1340 depends on PROC_FS 1341 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1342 default y 1343 1344config RT_MUTEXES 1345 boolean 1346 1347config BASE_SMALL 1348 int 1349 default 0 if BASE_FULL 1350 default 1 if !BASE_FULL 1351 1352menuconfig MODULES 1353 bool "Enable loadable module support" 1354 help 1355 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 1356 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 1357 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 1358 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 1359 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 1360 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 1361 useful for infrequently used options which are not required 1362 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 1363 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 1364 1365 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 1366 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 1367 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 1368 this). 1369 1370 If unsure, say Y. 1371 1372if MODULES 1373 1374config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1375 bool "Forced module loading" 1376 default n 1377 help 1378 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 1379 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 1380 is usually a really bad idea. 1381 1382config MODULE_UNLOAD 1383 bool "Module unloading" 1384 help 1385 Without this option you will not be able to unload any 1386 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1387 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1388 and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 1389 1390config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 1391 bool "Forced module unloading" 1392 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 1393 help 1394 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 1395 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 1396 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 1397 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 1398 If unsure, say N. 1399 1400config MODVERSIONS 1401 bool "Module versioning support" 1402 help 1403 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 1404 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 1405 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 1406 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 1407 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 1408 unsure, say N. 1409 1410config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 1411 bool "Source checksum for all modules" 1412 help 1413 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 1414 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 1415 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 1416 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 1417 others sometimes change the module source without updating 1418 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 1419 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 1420 1421endif # MODULES 1422 1423config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 1424 bool 1425 help 1426 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 1427 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 1428 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 1429 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1430 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 1431 1432config STOP_MACHINE 1433 bool 1434 default y 1435 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 1436 help 1437 Need stop_machine() primitive. 1438 1439source "block/Kconfig" 1440 1441config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1442 bool 1443 1444config PADATA 1445 depends on SMP 1446 bool 1447 1448source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1449