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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"
521418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
522006cb992SPaul Menage	help
523006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
524006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
52523964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
526006cb992SPaul Menage
52723964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
528006cb992SPaul Menage
529858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS
530858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
531858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	help
532858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
533858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
534858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
535858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  jobs.
536858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn
537dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
53823964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
539dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
540dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
541dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
542dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
54308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
54408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
54508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
54608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
54708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
54808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
5491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
552d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
55923964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
56023964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
56123964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
56223964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
56323964d2dSLi Zefan
564d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
565d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
566d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
567d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
56823964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
569d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
570e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
571e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
572e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
573e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
57423964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
575e552b661SPavel Emelianov
57600f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
57700f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
57879ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
579cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
58000f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
58184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
58221acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
58300f0b825SBalbir Singh
58400f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
58584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
58684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
58784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
58884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
58900f0b825SBalbir Singh
59000f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
59184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
59284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
59384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
594c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
59500f0b825SBalbir Singh
596cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
597cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
598cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
599c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
60065e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
60165e0e811SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP
602c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
603c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
604c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
605c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
606c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
607c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
608c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
609c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
610c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
611c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
612c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
613c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
614627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
615627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
616c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
6177c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
6187c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
61979ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
6207c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
6217c941438SDhaval Giani	help
6227c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
6237c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
6247c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
6257c941438SDhaval Giani
6267c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
6277c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
6287c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
6297c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
6307c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
6317c941438SDhaval Giani
6327c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
6337c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
6347c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
6357c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
6367c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
6377c941438SDhaval Giani	help
6387c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
63932bd7eb5SLi Zefan	  to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
6407c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
6417c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
6427c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
6437c941438SDhaval Giani
6447c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
6457c941438SDhaval Giani
646afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig BLK_CGROUP
647afc24d49SVivek Goyal	tristate "Block IO controller"
64879ae9c29SDaniel Lezcano	depends on BLOCK
649afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
650afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
651afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
652afc24d49SVivek Goyal	cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
653afc24d49SVivek Goyal	policies.
654afc24d49SVivek Goyal
655afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
656afc24d49SVivek Goyal	control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
657e43473b7SVivek Goyal	to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
658e43473b7SVivek Goyal	block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
659afc24d49SVivek Goyal
660afc24d49SVivek Goyal	This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
661e43473b7SVivek Goyal	One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
662e43473b7SVivek Goyal	enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ seti
663e43473b7SVivek Goyal	CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set
664e43473b7SVivek Goyal	CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y.
665afc24d49SVivek Goyal
666afc24d49SVivek Goyal	See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
667afc24d49SVivek Goyal
668afc24d49SVivek Goyalconfig DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
669afc24d49SVivek Goyal	bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
670afc24d49SVivek Goyal	depends on BLK_CGROUP
671afc24d49SVivek Goyal	default n
672afc24d49SVivek Goyal	---help---
673afc24d49SVivek Goyal	Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
674afc24d49SVivek Goyal	files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
675afc24d49SVivek Goyal
67623964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
677c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
6788dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanomenuconfig NAMESPACES
679c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
680c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	default !EMBEDDED
681c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
682c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
683c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
684c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
685c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
686c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
6878dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoif NAMESPACES
6888dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
68958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
69058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
69117a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
69258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
69358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
69458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
69558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
696ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
697ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
6988dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
69917a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
700ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
701ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
702614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
703ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
704aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
705aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
7068dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
70717a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
708aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
709aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
710aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
711aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
712aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
71374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
7149bd38c2cSDaniel Lezcano	bool "PID Namespaces"
71517a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
71674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
71712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
718692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
71974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
72074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
721d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
722d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
7238dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano	depends on NET
72417a6d441SDaniel Lezcano	default y
725d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
726d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
727d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
728d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
7298dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcanoendif # NAMESPACES
7308dd2a82cSDaniel Lezcano
731*7af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig MM_OWNER
732*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool
733*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano
734*7af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
735*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
736*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
737*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
738*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
739*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
740*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
741*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  /sys/block/.
742*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano
743*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
744*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
745*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano
746*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
747*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
748*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
749*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano
750*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
751*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
752*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option enabled.
753*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano
754*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
755*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here.
756*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano
757*7af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
758*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "enabled deprecated sysfs features by default"
759*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	default n
760*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS
761*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
762*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
763*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
764*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano
765*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
766*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  option.
767*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano
768*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
769*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
770*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
771*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano
772*7af37becSDaniel Lezcanoconfig RELAY
773*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
774*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	help
775*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
776*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
777*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
778*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
779*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  user space.
780*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano
781*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano	  If unsure, say N.
782*7af37becSDaniel Lezcano
783f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
784f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
785f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
786f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
787f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
788f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
789f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
790f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
791f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
792f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
793f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
794f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
795f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
796f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
797f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
798f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
799c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
800c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
801dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
802dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
803c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
804c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
805c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
80696fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
807c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	default y
808c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
809c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
810c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
811c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
812775a7229Sjkacur	  If unsure, say Y.
813c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
8140847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
8150847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
8160847062aSRandy Dunlap
817b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
818b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
819b943c460SRandy Dunlap
8201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED
8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
828ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
829ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
83009337f50SDavid S. Miller	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
831ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
832ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
833ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
834ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
835b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
8360847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
83726a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
83813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	default y
839b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
840b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
84113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
84213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
84313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
84413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
845b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
84613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
84713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
84813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
849b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
85013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  If unsure say Y here.
851ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
8521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
853979c6a1eSJesper Juhl	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
866f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
867f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say N.
8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on KALLSYMS
8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and
8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
882d59745ceSMatt Mackall
883712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
884712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
885712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	default y
886712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	help
887712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
888712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
889712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
890712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
891712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
892d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
893d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
894d59745ceSMatt Mackall	bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
895d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
896d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
897d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
898d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
899d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
900d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
901d59745ceSMatt Mackall
902c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
903c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
904c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
905c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
906c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
907c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
908c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
909c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
910c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
911c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
912708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
913708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
914708e9a79SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
915708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
916708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
917708e9a79SMatt Mackall
918e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
919e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
920e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
921e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
922e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
923e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
924e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
925e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
9261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
9271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
9281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
9351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
9361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
93723f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
9381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
9401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
9421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
946448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
951fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
952fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
953448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
954fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
955fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
956fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
957fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
958fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
959fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
960fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
961b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
962b215e283SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
963448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
964b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
965b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
966b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
967b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
968b215e283SDavide Libenzi
969b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
970b215e283SDavide Libenzi
971e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
972e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
973448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
974e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
975e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
976e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
977e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
978e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
979e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
980e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
9811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds
992ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
993ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
994ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
995ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
996ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
997ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
998ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          this option saves about 7k.
999ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
1000cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
10010793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
1002018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
1003018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
10040793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1005906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1006906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
1007906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1008906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1009906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
101057c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
10110793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1012cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
101357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
101457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
1015cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
10164c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
1017e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra	select IRQ_WORK
10180793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
101957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
102057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
10210793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1022dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
102357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
102457c0c15bSIngo Molnar
102557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
102657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
10270793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
10280793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
10290793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
10300793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
10310793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
10320793a61dSThomas Gleixner
103357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1034dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
103557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
10360793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
10370793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
10380793a61dSThomas Gleixner
10390793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
10400793a61dSThomas Gleixner
104157c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS
104257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
104357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
104457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	help
104557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
104657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  config option - please see that one for details.
104757c0c15bSIngo Molnar
104857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
104957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
105057c0c15bSIngo Molnar
105157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Say N if unsure.
105257c0c15bSIngo Molnar
1053906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1054906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1055906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1056906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1057906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1058906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1059906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1060906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1061906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1062906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1063906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1064906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1065906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
10660793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
10670793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1068f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1069f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
1070f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
1071f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
10722aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
10732aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
10742aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
10752aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1076f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
10773d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS
10783d137310SThomas Petazzoni	default y
107961cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
108061cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on PCI
10813d137310SThomas Petazzoni	help
10823d137310SThomas Petazzoni	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
10833d137310SThomas Petazzoni          bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
10843d137310SThomas Petazzoni          unaffected by PCI quirks.
10853d137310SThomas Petazzoni
108641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
108741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
108841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
1089f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
109041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
109141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
109241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
109341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
109441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
109541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1096b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1097b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1098b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1099b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1100b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1101b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1102b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1103692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1104b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1105b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1106b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1107b943c460SRandy Dunlap
110881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
110981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1110a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
111181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
111281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
111381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
111481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
111581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
111681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
111781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
111834013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
111902f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
112081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
112181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
112281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
112381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
112481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
112581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
112681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
112781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
112802f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
112902f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
113081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
113181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
113284a01c2fSPaul Mundt	depends on EMBEDDED
113381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
113481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
113537291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
113637291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
113737291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
113881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
113981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
114081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1141ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1142ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1143ea637639SJie Zhang	depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1144ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1145ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1146ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1147ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1148ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1149ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1150ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1151ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1152ea637639SJie Zhang
1153ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1154ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1155ea637639SJie Zhang
1156ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1157ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1158ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1159ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1160ea637639SJie Zhang
1161ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1162ea637639SJie Zhang
1163125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1164b309a294SRobert Richter	bool "Profiling support"
1165125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1166125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1167125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1168125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
11695f87f112SIngo Molnar#
11705f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
11715f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
11725f87f112SIngo Molnar#
117397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
11745f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
117597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1176fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1177fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
11781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1180ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1181ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1182ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1183ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1184158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1185158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1186158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
11870f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1188158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1189158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1190ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1191ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1192ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
11931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
119866da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12180b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
12190b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1220826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1221826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1222826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1223826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
122491e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
122591e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
122691e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1227826e4506SLinus Torvalds
12281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1233f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1234f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
12470d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12670b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
12680b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
126998a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
127098a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
127198a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
127298a79d6aSRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
127398a79d6aSRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
127498a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
127598a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1276692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
127798a79d6aSRusty Russell
12781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
12843a65dfe8SJens Axboe
12853a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1286e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1287e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1288e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1289e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
129016295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA
129116295becSSteffen Klassert	depends on SMP
129216295becSSteffen Klassert	bool
129316295becSSteffen Klassert
12946beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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