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180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH
280daa560SRoman Zippel	string
380daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="ARCH"
480daa560SRoman Zippel
580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION
680daa560SRoman Zippel	string
780daa560SRoman Zippel	option env="KERNELVERSION"
880daa560SRoman Zippel
9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST
10face4374SRoman Zippel	string
11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso	depends on !UML
12face4374SRoman Zippel	option defconfig_list
13face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/etc/kernel-config"
15face4374SRoman Zippel	default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
1673531905SSam Ravnborg	default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18face4374SRoman Zippel
19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS
20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	bool
21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	depends on !UML
22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter	default y
23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter
24e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_IRQ_WORK
25e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
26e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
27e360adbeSPeter Zijlstraconfig IRQ_WORK
28e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	bool
29e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
30e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra
31ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL
731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
746de5bd12SArnd Bergmann	depends on (SMP || PREEMPT) && BKL
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
79dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
80dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8234ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
8334ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8684336466SRoland McGrathconfig CROSS_COMPILE
8784336466SRoland McGrath	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
8884336466SRoland McGrath	help
8984336466SRoland McGrath	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
9084336466SRoland McGrath	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
9184336466SRoland McGrath	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
9284336466SRoland McGrath	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
9384336466SRoland McGrath
941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
104aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
105aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
106aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
107aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
108aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
1096e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
1106e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
111aaebf433SRyan Anderson
112aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
1136e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
114aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1156e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
116aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1176e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1186e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1196e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1206e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1216e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1226e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
123aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1242e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1252e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1262e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1272e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1282e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1292e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1302e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1312e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1322e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1337dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1347dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
1357dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1397dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
15530d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
1627dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
1637dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
16930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel
1712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1722e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1732e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
17430d65dbfSAlain Knaff
17530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
17630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1772e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
17930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The most recent compression algorithm.
18030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
1812e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33%
1822e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
18330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1847dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
1857dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
1867dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
1877dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
1887dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
189681b3049SStephan Sperber	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
1907dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
1917dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
19230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
19330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1969361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds
219a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
220a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
221a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
222a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
223a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
224a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
233b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
241bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
242bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
243bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
244bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
245bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
246bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
2471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
27037a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
272c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS
273c757249aSShailabh Nagar	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
274c757249aSShailabh Nagar	depends on NET
275c757249aSShailabh Nagar	default n
276c757249aSShailabh Nagar	help
277c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
278c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
279c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
280c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
281c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  space on task exit.
282c757249aSShailabh Nagar
283c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
284c757249aSShailabh Nagar
285ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
286ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2876f44993fSShailabh Nagar	depends on TASKSTATS
288ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	help
289ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
290ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
291ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
292ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
293ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
294ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
295ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
29618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT
29718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
29818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASKSTATS
29918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
30018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
30118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
30218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
30318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
30418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
30518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
30618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
30718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASK_XACCT
30818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
30918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
31018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  task has caused.
31118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
31218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
31318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
3141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
316804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
325022382a5SKumar Gala	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
33067640b60SEric Paris	  such as SELinux.
3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
332939a67fcSEric Parisconfig AUDIT_WATCH
333939a67fcSEric Paris	def_bool y
334939a67fcSEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
335939a67fcSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
33774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
33874c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
33963c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
34028a3a7ebSEric Paris	select FSNOTIFY
34174c3cbe3SAl Viro
342d9817ebeSThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
343d9817ebeSThomas Gleixner
344c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
345c903ff83SMike Travis
346c903ff83SMike Travischoice
347c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
34831c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
349c903ff83SMike Travis
350c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
351c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
352687d7a96SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
353c903ff83SMike Travis	help
354c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
355c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
356c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
357c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
358c903ff83SMike Travis
359f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
360a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
361f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
362f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
363f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
364f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
365f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
366bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
367bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
368f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
3699b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
3709b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
3719b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	depends on !SMP
3729b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
3739b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
3749b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
3759b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
3769b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
3779b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
378a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
379a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
380a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	depends on !SMP && PREEMPT
381a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
382a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
383a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  for real-time UP systems.  This option greatly reduces the
384a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
385a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
386c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
387c903ff83SMike Travis
388a57eb940SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU
389a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
390a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	help
391a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
392a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney	  the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
393a57eb940SPaul E. McKenney
394c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE
395c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
3966b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
397c903ff83SMike Travis	help
398c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
399c903ff83SMike Travis	  in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
400c903ff83SMike Travis
401c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
402c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if you are unsure.
403c903ff83SMike Travis
404c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
405c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
406c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
407c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
408f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
409c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
410c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
411c903ff83SMike Travis	help
412c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
413c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
4144d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
4154d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
4164d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
4174d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
4184d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
4194d87ffadSPaul E. McKenney	  code paths on small(er) systems.
420c903ff83SMike Travis
421c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
422c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
423c903ff83SMike Travis
424c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
425c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
426f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
427c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
428c903ff83SMike Travis	help
429c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
430c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
431c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
432c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
433c903ff83SMike Travis
434c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
435c903ff83SMike Travis
436c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
437c903ff83SMike Travis
4388bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
4398bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
4408bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
4418bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	default n
4428bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	help
4438bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
4448bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
4458bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  more quickly.  On the other hand, this option increases the
4468bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
4478bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  with large numbers of CPUs.
4488bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
4498bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
4508bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  	if you have relatively few CPUs.
4518bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
4528bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
4538bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney
454c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
455f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
456c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
457c903ff83SMike Travis	help
458f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
459f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
460f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
461c903ff83SMike Travis
462c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
463c903ff83SMike Travis
4641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
465f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
483794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
484794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
485794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
486f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
487794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
488794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
489f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
490f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
491f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
492f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
493f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
494794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
495794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
496794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
4975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
4985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
4995cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
5005cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
5015cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
5025cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
50323964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
50423964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
5050dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov	depends on EVENTFD
506ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
50723964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
5085cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
5095cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
5105cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
5115cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
51245ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
51345ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
514ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
515ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
516ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
51723964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
51823964d2dSLi Zefan
519006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
520006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
521006cb992SPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
522418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
523006cb992SPaul Menage	help
524006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
525006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
52623964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
527006cb992SPaul Menage
52823964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
529006cb992SPaul Menage
530858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS
531858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
532858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS
533858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	help
534858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
535858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
536858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
537858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  jobs.
538858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn
539dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
54023964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
541dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	depends on CGROUPS
542dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
543dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
544dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
545dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
54608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
54708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
54808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
54908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
55008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
55108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
55208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
5531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
555db7f47cfSPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
557d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
56423964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
56523964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
56623964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
56723964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
56823964d2dSLi Zefan
569d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
570d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
571d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	depends on CGROUPS
572d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
573d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
57423964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
575d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
576e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
577e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
578e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
579e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
58023964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
581e552b661SPavel Emelianov	depends on CGROUPS
582e552b661SPavel Emelianov
58300f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
58400f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
58500f0b825SBalbir Singh	depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
586cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
58700f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
58884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
58921acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
59000f0b825SBalbir Singh
59100f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
59284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
59384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
59484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
59584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
59600f0b825SBalbir Singh
59700f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
59884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
59984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
60084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
601c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
60200f0b825SBalbir Singh
603cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
604cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
605cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
606c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
60765e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
60865e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP
609c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
610c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
611c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
612c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
613c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
614c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
615c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
616c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
617c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
618c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
619c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
620c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
621627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
622627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
623c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
6247c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
6257c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
6267c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS
6277c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
6287c941438SDhaval Giani	help
6297c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
6307c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
6317c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
6327c941438SDhaval Giani
6337c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
6347c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
6357c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
6367c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
6377c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
6387c941438SDhaval Giani
6397c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
6407c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
6417c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
6427c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
6437c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
6447c941438SDhaval Giani	help
6457c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
64632bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
6477c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
6487c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
6497c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
6507c941438SDhaval Giani
6517c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
6527c941438SDhaval Giani
653afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
654afc24d49SVivek Goyal	tristate "Block IO controller"
655afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on CGROUPS && BLOCK
656afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
657afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
658afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
659afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
660afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
661afc24d49SVivek Goyal
662afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
663afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
664e43473b7SVivek Goyal	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
665e43473b7SVivek Goyal	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
666afc24d49SVivek Goyal
667afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
668e43473b7SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
669e43473b7SVivek Goyal	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ seti
670e43473b7SVivek Goyal	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set
671e43473b7SVivek Goyal	CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y.
672afc24d49SVivek Goyal
673afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
674afc24d49SVivek Goyal
675afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
676afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
677afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
678afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
679afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
680afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
681afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
682afc24d49SVivek Goyal
68323964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
684c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
68523964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER
68623964d2dSLi Zefan	bool
6875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
68888a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
6899e9868a7SUwe Kleine-König	bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
6909148fe87SRandy Dunlap	depends on SYSFS
691f6ee649fSKay Sievers	default n
69288a22c98SKay Sievers	help
693e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
694e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
695e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  /sys/block/.
69688a22c98SKay Sievers
697e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
698e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
69988a22c98SKay Sievers
70039aba963SKay Sievers	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
70139aba963SKay Sievers	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
70239aba963SKay Sievers	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
703fce3e804SKay Sievers
70439aba963SKay Sievers	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
70539aba963SKay Sievers	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
70639aba963SKay Sievers	  option enabled.
707fce3e804SKay Sievers
70839aba963SKay Sievers	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
709e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  need to say Y here.
710e52eec13SAndi Kleen
711e52eec13SAndi Kleenconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
712e52eec13SAndi Kleen	bool "enabled deprecated sysfs features by default"
713e52eec13SAndi Kleen	default n
714e52eec13SAndi Kleen	depends on SYSFS
715e52eec13SAndi Kleen	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
716e52eec13SAndi Kleen	help
717e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
718e52eec13SAndi Kleen
719e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
720e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  option.
721e52eec13SAndi Kleen
722e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
723e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
724e52eec13SAndi Kleen	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
72588a22c98SKay Sievers
726b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY
727b86ff981SJens Axboe	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
728b86ff981SJens Axboe	help
729b86ff981SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
730b86ff981SJens Axboe	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
731b86ff981SJens Axboe	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
732b86ff981SJens Axboe	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
733b86ff981SJens Axboe	  user space.
734b86ff981SJens Axboe
735b86ff981SJens Axboe	  If unsure, say N.
736b86ff981SJens Axboe
737c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES
738c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
739c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	default !EMBEDDED
740c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
741c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
742c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
743c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
744c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
745c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
74658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
74758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
74858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES
749*17a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
75058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
75158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
75258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
75358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
754ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
755ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
756614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
757*17a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
758ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
759ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
760614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
761ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
762aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
763aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
764aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
765*17a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
766aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
767aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
768aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
769aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
770aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
77174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
7729bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
7739bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NAMESPACES
774*17a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
77574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
77612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
777692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
77874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
77974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
780d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
781d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
7829bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NAMESPACES && NET
783*17a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
784d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
785d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
786d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
787d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
788f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
789f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
790f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
791f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
792f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
793f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
794f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
795f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
796f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
797f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
798f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
799f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
800f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
801f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
802f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
803f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
804c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
805c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
806dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
807dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
808c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
809c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
810c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
81196fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
812c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	default y
813c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
814c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
815c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
816c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
817775a7229Sjkacur	  If unsure, say Y.
818c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
8190847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
8200847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
8210847062aSRandy Dunlap
822b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
823b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
824b943c460SRandy Dunlap
8251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED
8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
8301da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
833ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
834ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
83509337f50SDavid S. Miller	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
836ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
837ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
838ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
839ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
840b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
8410847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
84226a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
84313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	default y
844b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
845b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
84613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
84713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
84813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
84913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
850b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
85113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
85213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
85313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
854b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
85513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  If unsure say Y here.
856ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
8571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
858979c6a1eSJesper Juhl	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
871f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
872f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say N.
8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on KALLSYMS
8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and
8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
8841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
8851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds
887d59745ceSMatt Mackall
888712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
889712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
890712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	default y
891712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	help
892712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
893712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
894712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
895712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
896712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
897d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
898d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
899d59745ceSMatt Mackall	bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
900d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
901d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
902d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
903d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
904d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
905d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
906d59745ceSMatt Mackall
907c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
908c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
909c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
910c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
911c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
912c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
913c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
914c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
915c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
916c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
917708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
918708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
919708e9a79SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
920708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
921708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
922708e9a79SMatt Mackall
923e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
924e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
925e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
926e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
927e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
928e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
929e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
930e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
9311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
9341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
9361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
9371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
9381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
9401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
94223f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
951448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
956fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
957fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
958448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
959fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
960fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
961fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
962fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
963fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
964fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
965fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
966b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
967b215e283SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
968448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
969b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
970b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
971b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
972b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
973b215e283SDavide Libenzi
974b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
975b215e283SDavide Libenzi
976e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
977e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
978448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
979e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
980e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
981e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
982e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
983e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
984e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
985e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
9861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
9921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
9941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
9951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
9961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
997ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
998ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
999ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
1000ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
1001ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1002ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1003ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          this option saves about 7k.
1004ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1005cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
10060793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1007018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1008018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
10090793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1010906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1011906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1012906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1013906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1014906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
101557c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
10160793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1017cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
101857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
101957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
1020cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
10214c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1022e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
10230793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
102457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
102557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
10260793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1027dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
102857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
102957c0c15bSIngo Molnar
103057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
103157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
10320793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
10330793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
10340793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
10350793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
10360793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
10370793a61dSThomas Gleixner
103857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1039dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
104057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
10410793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
10420793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
10430793a61dSThomas Gleixner
10440793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
10450793a61dSThomas Gleixner
104657c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS
104757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
104857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
104957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	help
105057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
105157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  config option - please see that one for details.
105257c0c15bSIngo Molnar
105357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
105457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
105557c0c15bSIngo Molnar
105657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Say N if unsure.
105757c0c15bSIngo Molnar
1058906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1059906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1060906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1061906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1062906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1063906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1064906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1065906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1066906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1067906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1068906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1069906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1070906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
10710793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
10720793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1073f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1074f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
1075f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
1076f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
10772aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
10782aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
10792aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
10802aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1081f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
10823d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS
10833d137310SThomas Petazzoni	default y
108461cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
108561cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on PCI
10863d137310SThomas Petazzoni	help
10873d137310SThomas Petazzoni	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
10883d137310SThomas Petazzoni          bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
10893d137310SThomas Petazzoni          unaffected by PCI quirks.
10903d137310SThomas Petazzoni
109141ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
109241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
109341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
1094f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
109541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
109641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
109741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
109841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
109941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
110041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1101b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1102b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1103b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1104b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1105b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1106b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1107b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1108692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1109b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1110b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1111b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1112b943c460SRandy Dunlap
111381819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
111481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1115a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
111681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
111781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
111881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
111981819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
112081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
112181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
112281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
112334013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
112402f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
112581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
112681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
112781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
112881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
112981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
113081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
113181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
113281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
113302f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
113402f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
113581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
113681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
113784a01c2fSPaul Mundt	depends on EMBEDDED
113881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
113981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
114037291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
114137291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
114237291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
114381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
114481819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
114581819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1146ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1147ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1148ea637639SJie Zhang	depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1149ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1150ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1151ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1152ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1153ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1154ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1155ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1156ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1157ea637639SJie Zhang
1158ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1159ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1160ea637639SJie Zhang
1161ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1162ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1163ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1164ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1165ea637639SJie Zhang
1166ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1167ea637639SJie Zhang
1168125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1169b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1170125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1171125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1172125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1173125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
11745f87f112SIngo Molnar#
11755f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
11765f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
11775f87f112SIngo Molnar#
117897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
11795f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
118097e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1181fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1182fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
11831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1185ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1186ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1187ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1188ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1189158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1190158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1191158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
11920f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1193158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1194158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1195ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1196ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1197ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
11981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
120366da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12230b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
12240b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1225826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1226826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1227826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1228826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
122991e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
123091e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
123191e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1232826e4506SLinus Torvalds
12331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1238f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1239f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
12520d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12720b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
12730b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
127498a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
127598a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
127698a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
127798a79d6aSRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
127898a79d6aSRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
127998a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
128098a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1281692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
128298a79d6aSRusty Russell
12831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
12893a65dfe8SJens Axboe
12903a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1291e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1292e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1293e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1294e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
129516295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
129616295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
129716295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
129816295becSSteffen Klassert
12996beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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