180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 68dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7134ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 84aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 85aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 86aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 87aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 88aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 906e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 936e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 94aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson 976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 103aaebf433SRyan Anderson 104*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 105*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 106*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 107*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 108*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 109*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 110*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 111*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 112*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 11330d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 11430d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 11530d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 116*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 11730d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 11830d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12130d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 137*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff compression and decompression) is the fastest. 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 145*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 148*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 149*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 150*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 151*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 155*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 15630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 15830d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 159*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 160*2e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16230d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1669361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 189a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 190a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 191a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 192a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 193a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 194a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 1951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 203b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 23437a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 236c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 237c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 238c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 239c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 240c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 241c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 242c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 243c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 244c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 245c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 246c757249aSShailabh Nagar 247c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 248c757249aSShailabh Nagar 249ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 250ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2516f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 252ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 253ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 254ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 255ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 256ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 257ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 258ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 259ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 26018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 26118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 26218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 26318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 26418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 26518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 26618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 26718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 26818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 26918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 27018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 27118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 27218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 27318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 27418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 27518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 27618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 27718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 2781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 280804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 2891322b9deSYuichi Nakamura depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 294f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 295f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 29874c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 29974c3cbe3SAl Viro depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY 30074c3cbe3SAl Viro 3011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 302f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 320794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 321794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 322794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 323f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 324794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 325794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 326f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 327f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 328f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 329f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 330f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 331794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 332794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 333794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 334ddbcc7e8SPaul Menageconfig CGROUPS 335ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage bool "Control Group support" 336ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 337ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems 338ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage such as Cpusets 339ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 340ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 341ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 342006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 343006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 344006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 345418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 346006cb992SPaul Menage help 347006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 348006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 349006cb992SPaul Menage framework 350006cb992SPaul Menage 351006cb992SPaul Menage Say N if unsure 352006cb992SPaul Menage 353858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 354858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 355858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 356858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 357858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 358858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 359858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 360858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 361858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 362dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 363dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley bool "control group freezer subsystem" 364dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 365dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 366dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 367dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 368dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 36908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 37008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 37108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 37208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 37308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 37408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 37508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 3761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 3788793d854SPaul Menage depends on SMP && CGROUPS 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 380d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 387a5574cf6SIngo Molnar# 388a5574cf6SIngo Molnar# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 389a5574cf6SIngo Molnar# 390a5574cf6SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 391a5574cf6SIngo Molnar bool 392a5574cf6SIngo Molnar 393052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig GROUP_SCHED 394052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra bool "Group CPU scheduler" 395aac6abcaSParag Warudkar depends on EXPERIMENTAL 396aac6abcaSParag Warudkar default n 39729f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 398fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 3999b5b7751SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bandwidth allocation to such task groups. 40029f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 401052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 402052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 403052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on GROUP_SCHED 404aac6abcaSParag Warudkar default GROUP_SCHED 40524e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 406052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 407052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 408052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on EXPERIMENTAL 409052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on GROUP_SCHED 410052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra default n 411b9b158feSViktor Radnai help 412b9b158feSViktor Radnai This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 413b9b158feSViktor Radnai to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" 414b9b158feSViktor Radnai setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 415b9b158feSViktor Radnai schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 416b9b158feSViktor Radnai realtime bandwidth for them. 4172fe401e3SAdrian Knoth See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 418052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra 419052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstrachoice 420052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra depends on GROUP_SCHED 421052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" 422052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra default USER_SCHED 423052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstra 424052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig USER_SCHED 42524e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "user id" 42624e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 42724e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping 428fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. 42924e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 430052f1dc7SPeter Zijlstraconfig CGROUP_SCHED 43168318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Control groups" 43268318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 43368318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 43468318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups 43568318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control 43668318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. 43768318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information 43868318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. 43968318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri 44024e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiriendchoice 44124e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 442d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 443d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 444d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 445d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 446d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 447d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup 448d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 449e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 450e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 451e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 452e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 453e552b661SPavel Emelianov infrastructure that works with cgroups 454e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 455e552b661SPavel Emelianov 456cf475ad2SBalbir Singhconfig MM_OWNER 457cf475ad2SBalbir Singh bool 458cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 45900f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 46000f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 46100f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 462cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 46300f0b825SBalbir Singh help 46484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 46584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) 46600f0b825SBalbir Singh 46700f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 46884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 46984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 47084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 47184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 47200f0b825SBalbir Singh 47300f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 47484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 47584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 47684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 47784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki (and lose benefits of memory resource contoller) 47800f0b825SBalbir Singh 479cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 480cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 481cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 48288a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 483d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 484d47846c5SIngo Molnar 485d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 48688a22c98SKay Sievers bool "Create deprecated sysfs files" 4879148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 48888a22c98SKay Sievers default y 489d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 49088a22c98SKay Sievers help 49188a22c98SKay Sievers This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the 49288a22c98SKay Sievers "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the 49388a22c98SKay Sievers "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the 49488a22c98SKay Sievers uevent environment. 49588a22c98SKay Sievers None of these features or values should be used today, as 49688a22c98SKay Sievers they export driver core implementation details to userspace 49788a22c98SKay Sievers or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel 49888a22c98SKay Sievers releases. 49988a22c98SKay Sievers 50088a22c98SKay Sievers If enabled, this option will also move any device structures 5013dde6ad8SDavid Sterba that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in 502024440d2SGreg Kroah-Hartman order to support older versions of udev and some userspace 503024440d2SGreg Kroah-Hartman programs. 50488a22c98SKay Sievers 505024440d2SGreg Kroah-Hartman If you are using a distro with the most recent userspace 506024440d2SGreg Kroah-Hartman packages, it should be safe to say N here. 50788a22c98SKay Sievers 5088793d854SPaul Menageconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 5098793d854SPaul Menage bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 5108793d854SPaul Menage depends on CPUSETS 5118793d854SPaul Menage default y 5128793d854SPaul Menage 513b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 514b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 515b86ff981SJens Axboe help 516b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 517b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 518b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 519b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 520b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 521b86ff981SJens Axboe 522b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 523b86ff981SJens Axboe 524c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 525c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 526c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 527c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 528c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 529c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 530c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 531c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 532c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 53358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 53458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 53558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 53658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 53758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 53858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 53958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 540ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 541ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 542ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC 543ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 544ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 545ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov different IPC objects in different namespaces 546ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 547aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 548aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 549aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 550aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 551aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 552aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 553aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 554aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 55574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 55674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 55774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 55874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 55974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 56012d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 56174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov process with the same pid as long as they are in different 56274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 56374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 56474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 56574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 56674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 567f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 568f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 569f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 570f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 571f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 572f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 573f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 574f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 575f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 576f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 577f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 578f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 579f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 580f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 581f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 582f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 583c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 584c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 585dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 586dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 587c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 588c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 589c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 59096fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 591c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 592c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 593c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 594c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 595c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 596775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 597c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 5980847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 5990847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 6000847062aSRandy Dunlap 6011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 609ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 610ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 61109337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 612ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 613ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 614ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 615ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 616b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 6170847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 61813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 619b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 620b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 62113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 62213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 62313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 62413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 625b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 62613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 62713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 62813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 629b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 63013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 631ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 6321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 633979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 6371da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 6421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 646f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 647f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 6481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6519bb48247SJan Beulichconfig KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED 6529bb48247SJan Beulich bool "Strip machine generated symbols from kallsyms" 6539bb48247SJan Beulich depends on KALLSYMS_ALL 6549bb48247SJan Beulich default y 6559bb48247SJan Beulich help 6569bb48247SJan Beulich Say N if you want kallsyms to retain even machine generated symbols. 6579bb48247SJan Beulich 6581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 6601da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 669d59745ceSMatt Mackall 670712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 671712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 672712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 673712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 674712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 675712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 676712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 677712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 678712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 679d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 680d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 681d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 682d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 683d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 684d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 685d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 686d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 687d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 688d59745ceSMatt Mackall 689c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 690c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 691c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 692c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 693c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 694c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 695c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 696c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 697c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 698c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 699708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 700708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 701708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 702708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 703708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 704708e9a79SMatt Mackall 705e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 706e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 707e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 708e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 709e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 710e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 711e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 712e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 71332a93233SIngo Molnarconfig COMPAT_BRK 71432a93233SIngo Molnar bool "Disable heap randomization" 71532a93233SIngo Molnar default y 71632a93233SIngo Molnar help 71732a93233SIngo Molnar Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 71832a93233SIngo Molnar also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 71932a93233SIngo Molnar This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 72032a93233SIngo Molnar disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting 72132a93233SIngo Molnar /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 72232a93233SIngo Molnar 723166124fdSIngo Molnar On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 72432a93233SIngo Molnar 7251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 73623f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7425dc8bf81SDavide Libenziconfig ANON_INODES 743448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk bool 7445dc8bf81SDavide Libenzi 7451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 748448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 753fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 754fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 755448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 756fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 757fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 758fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 759fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 760fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 761fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 762fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 763b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 764b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 765448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 766b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 767b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 768b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 769b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 770b215e283SDavide Libenzi 771b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 772b215e283SDavide Libenzi 773e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 774e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 775448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 776e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 777e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 778e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 779e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 780e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 781e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 782e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 7831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 794ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 795ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 796ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 797ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 798ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 799ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 800ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 801ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 802f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 803f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 804f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 805f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 8062aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 8072aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 8082aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 8092aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 810f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 8113d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 8123d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 81361cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 81461cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 8153d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 8163d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 8173d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 8183d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 8193d137310SThomas Petazzoni 82041ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 82141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 82241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 823f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 82441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 82541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 82641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 82741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 82841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 82941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 83081819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 83181819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 832a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 83381819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 83481819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 83581819f0fSChristoph Lameter 83681819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 83781819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 83881819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 83981819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 84034013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 84102f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 84281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 84381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 84481819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 84581819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 84681819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 84781819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 84881819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 84981819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 85002f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 85102f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 85281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 85381819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 85484a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 85581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 85681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 85737291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 85837291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 85937291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 86081819f0fSChristoph Lameter 86181819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 86281819f0fSChristoph Lameter 863125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 864125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 865125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 866125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 867125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 868125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 8695f87f112SIngo Molnar# 8705f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 8715f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 8725f87f112SIngo Molnar# 87397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 8745f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 87597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 876125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS 877125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Activate markers" 878c1df1bd2SMathieu Desnoyers depends on TRACEPOINTS 879125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 880125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be 881125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers dynamically changed for a probe function. 882125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 883fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 884fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 8851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 887ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 888ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 889ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 890ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 891158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 892158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 893158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 8940f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 895158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 896158a9624SLinus Torvalds 897ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 898ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 899ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert select PLIST 900ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 9011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TINY_SHMEM 9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds default !SHMEM 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 91066da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 9261da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 9271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9281da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9300b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 9310b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 932826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 933826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 934826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 935826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 93691e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 93791e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 93891e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 939826e4506SLinus Torvalds 9401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 9421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 945f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 946f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 9590d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KMOD 980baabaae9SJohannes Berg def_bool y 9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 982baabaae9SJohannes Berg This is being removed soon. These days, CONFIG_MODULES 983baabaae9SJohannes Berg implies CONFIG_KMOD, so use that instead. 9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9850b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 9860b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 98798a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 98898a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 98998a79d6aSRusty Russell help 99098a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 99198a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 99298a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 99398a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 99498a79d6aSRusty Russell and have several arch maintainers persuing me down dark alleys. 99598a79d6aSRusty Russell 9961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 9971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 9981da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 10001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 10023a65dfe8SJens Axboe 10033a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1004e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1005e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1006e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1007e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 100812d79bafSIngo Molnarchoice 100912d79bafSIngo Molnar prompt "RCU Implementation" 101012d79bafSIngo Molnar default CLASSIC_RCU 101112d79bafSIngo Molnar 1012e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyconfig CLASSIC_RCU 101312d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Classic RCU" 1014e260be67SPaul E. McKenney help 1015e260be67SPaul E. McKenney This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is 1016e260be67SPaul E. McKenney designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime 101712d79bafSIngo Molnar systems. 101812d79bafSIngo Molnar 101912d79bafSIngo Molnar Select this option if you are unsure. 102012d79bafSIngo Molnar 102112d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig TREE_RCU 102212d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 102312d79bafSIngo Molnar help 102412d79bafSIngo Molnar This option selects the RCU implementation that is 102512d79bafSIngo Molnar designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 102612d79bafSIngo Molnar thousands of CPUs. 102712d79bafSIngo Molnar 102812d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig PREEMPT_RCU 102912d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Preemptible RCU" 103012d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on PREEMPT 103112d79bafSIngo Molnar help 103212d79bafSIngo Molnar This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain 103312d79bafSIngo Molnar RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if 103412d79bafSIngo Molnar this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become 103512d79bafSIngo Molnar preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to 103612d79bafSIngo Molnar now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section 103712d79bafSIngo Molnar remaining on a given CPU through its execution. 103812d79bafSIngo Molnar 103912d79bafSIngo Molnarendchoice 104012d79bafSIngo Molnar 104112d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig RCU_TRACE 104212d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 104312d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU 104412d79bafSIngo Molnar help 104512d79bafSIngo Molnar This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 104612d79bafSIngo Molnar in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 104712d79bafSIngo Molnar 104812d79bafSIngo Molnar Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 104912d79bafSIngo Molnar Say N if you are unsure. 105012d79bafSIngo Molnar 105112d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig RCU_FANOUT 105212d79bafSIngo Molnar int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 105312d79bafSIngo Molnar range 2 64 if 64BIT 105412d79bafSIngo Molnar range 2 32 if !64BIT 105512d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on TREE_RCU 105612d79bafSIngo Molnar default 64 if 64BIT 105712d79bafSIngo Molnar default 32 if !64BIT 105812d79bafSIngo Molnar help 105912d79bafSIngo Molnar This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 106012d79bafSIngo Molnar of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 106112d79bafSIngo Molnar large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube 106212d79bafSIngo Molnar root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit 106312d79bafSIngo Molnar systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. 106412d79bafSIngo Molnar 106512d79bafSIngo Molnar Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 106612d79bafSIngo Molnar Take the default if unsure. 106712d79bafSIngo Molnar 106812d79bafSIngo Molnarconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 106912d79bafSIngo Molnar bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 107012d79bafSIngo Molnar depends on TREE_RCU 107112d79bafSIngo Molnar default n 107212d79bafSIngo Molnar help 107312d79bafSIngo Molnar This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 107412d79bafSIngo Molnar regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 107512d79bafSIngo Molnar testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 107612d79bafSIngo Molnar strong NUMA behavior. 107712d79bafSIngo Molnar 107812d79bafSIngo Molnar Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 107912d79bafSIngo Molnar 108012d79bafSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 108112d79bafSIngo Molnar 108264db4cffSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 108364db4cffSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU 108464db4cffSPaul E. McKenney select DEBUG_FS 1085e260be67SPaul E. McKenney help 108664db4cffSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation, 108764db4cffSPaul E. McKenney permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 108864db4cffSPaul E. McKenney 108964db4cffSPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE 109064db4cffSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU 109164db4cffSPaul E. McKenney select DEBUG_FS 109264db4cffSPaul E. McKenney help 109364db4cffSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation, 109464db4cffSPaul E. McKenney permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c. 1095