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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
24ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL
271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL
661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SMP || PREEMPT
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
691da177e4SLinus Torvalds
701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
72dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
89aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
91aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
92aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
93aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
96aaebf433SRyan Anderson
97aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
99aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
101aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
108aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
1132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
1152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	bool
1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin
11830d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
11930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
12030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
1212e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
12430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1422e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is
14530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  compression and decompression) is the fastest.
14730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
15230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel
1542e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
15730d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15830d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1602e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
16230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The most recent compression algorithm.
16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
1642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33%
1652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
16630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16730d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1719361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds
194a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
195a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
196a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
197a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
198a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
199a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
208b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
216bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
217bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
218bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
219bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
220bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
221bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
2221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
24537a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
247c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS
248c757249aSShailabh Nagar	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
249c757249aSShailabh Nagar	depends on NET
250c757249aSShailabh Nagar	default n
251c757249aSShailabh Nagar	help
252c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
253c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
254c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
255c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
256c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  space on task exit.
257c757249aSShailabh Nagar
258c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
259c757249aSShailabh Nagar
260ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
261ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2626f44993fSShailabh Nagar	depends on TASKSTATS
263ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	help
264ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
265ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
266ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
267ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
268ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
269ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
270ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
27118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT
27218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
27318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASKSTATS
27418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
27518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
27618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
27718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
27818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
27918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
28018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
28118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
28218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASK_XACCT
28318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
28418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
28518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  task has caused.
28618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
28718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
28818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
2891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
291804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
300022382a5SKumar Gala	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
305f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  such as SELinux.  To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
306f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
30874c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
30974c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
31063c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
31163c882a0SEric Paris	select INOTIFY
31274c3cbe3SAl Viro
313c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
314c903ff83SMike Travis
315c903ff83SMike Travischoice
316c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
31731c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
318c903ff83SMike Travis
319c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
320c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
321c903ff83SMike Travis	help
322c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
323c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
324c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
325c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
326c903ff83SMike Travis
327f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
328f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU"
329f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
330f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
331f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
332f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
333f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
334bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
335bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
336f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
3379b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
3389b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
3399b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	depends on !SMP
3409b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
3419b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
3429b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
3439b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
3449b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
3459b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
346c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
347c903ff83SMike Travis
348c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE
349c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
3506b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
351c903ff83SMike Travis	help
352c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
353c903ff83SMike Travis	  in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
354c903ff83SMike Travis
355c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
356c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if you are unsure.
357c903ff83SMike Travis
358c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
359c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
360c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
361c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
362f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
363c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
364c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
365c903ff83SMike Travis	help
366c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
367c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
368c903ff83SMike Travis	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the cube
369c903ff83SMike Travis	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
370c903ff83SMike Travis	  systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
371c903ff83SMike Travis
372c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
373c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
374c903ff83SMike Travis
375c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
376c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
377f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
378c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
379c903ff83SMike Travis	help
380c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
381c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
382c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
383c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
384c903ff83SMike Travis
385c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
386c903ff83SMike Travis
387c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
388c903ff83SMike Travis
389c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
390f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
391c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
392c903ff83SMike Travis	help
393f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
394f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
395f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
396c903ff83SMike Travis
397c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
398c903ff83SMike Travis
3991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
400f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
418794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
419794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
420794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
421f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
422794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
423794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
424f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
425f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
426f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
427f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
428f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
429794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
430794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
431794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
4325cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
4335cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
4345cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
4355cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
4365cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
4375cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
43823964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
43923964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
440ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
44123964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
4425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
4435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
4445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
4455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
44645ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
44745ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
448ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
449ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
450ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
45123964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
45223964d2dSLi Zefan
453006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
454006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
455006cb992SPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
456418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
457006cb992SPaul Menage	help
458006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
459006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
46023964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
461006cb992SPaul Menage
46223964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
463006cb992SPaul Menage
464858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS
465858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
466858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS
467858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	help
468858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
469858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
470858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
471858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  jobs.
472858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn
473dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
47423964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
475dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	depends on CGROUPS
476dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
477dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
478dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
479dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
48008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
48108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
48208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
48308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
48408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
48508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
48608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
4871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
489db7f47cfSPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
491d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
49823964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
49923964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
50023964d2dSLi Zefan	depends on CPUSETS
50123964d2dSLi Zefan	default y
50223964d2dSLi Zefan
503d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
504d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
505d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	depends on CGROUPS
506d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
507d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
50823964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
509d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
510e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
511e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
512e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
513e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
51423964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
515e552b661SPavel Emelianov	depends on CGROUPS
516e552b661SPavel Emelianov
51700f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
51800f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
51900f0b825SBalbir Singh	depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
520cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
52100f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
52284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
52321acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
52400f0b825SBalbir Singh
52500f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
52684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
52784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
52884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
52984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
53000f0b825SBalbir Singh
53100f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
53284ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
53384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
53484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
535c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
53600f0b825SBalbir Singh
537cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
538cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
539cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
540c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
541c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
542c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
543c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
544c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
545c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
546c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
547c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
548c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
549c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
550c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
551c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
552c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
553c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
554c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
555627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
556627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
557c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
558*7c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
559*7c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
560*7c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS
561*7c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
562*7c941438SDhaval Giani	help
563*7c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
564*7c941438SDhaval Giani	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
565*7c941438SDhaval Giani	  tasks.
566*7c941438SDhaval Giani
567*7c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED
568*7c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
569*7c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
570*7c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
571*7c941438SDhaval Giani	default CGROUP_SCHED
572*7c941438SDhaval Giani
573*7c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
574*7c941438SDhaval Giani	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
575*7c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
576*7c941438SDhaval Giani	depends on CGROUP_SCHED
577*7c941438SDhaval Giani	default n
578*7c941438SDhaval Giani	help
579*7c941438SDhaval Giani	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
580*7c941438SDhaval Giani	  to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
581*7c941438SDhaval Giani	  setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
582*7c941438SDhaval Giani	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
583*7c941438SDhaval Giani	  realtime bandwidth for them.
584*7c941438SDhaval Giani	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
585*7c941438SDhaval Giani
586*7c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED
587*7c941438SDhaval Giani
58823964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
589c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
59023964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER
59123964d2dSLi Zefan	bool
5925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
59388a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
594d47846c5SIngo Molnar	bool
595d47846c5SIngo Molnar
596d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
5979e9868a7SUwe Kleine-König	bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
5989148fe87SRandy Dunlap	depends on SYSFS
599f6ee649fSKay Sievers	default n
600d47846c5SIngo Molnar	select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
60188a22c98SKay Sievers	help
602fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
603f6ee649fSKay Sievers	  version. Do not use it on recent distributions.
60488a22c98SKay Sievers
605fce3e804SKay Sievers	  The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
606fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
607fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
608fce3e804SKay Sievers	  unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
609fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
610fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
611fce3e804SKay Sievers	  "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
612fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
613fce3e804SKay Sievers	  subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
614fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the unified device tree.
61588a22c98SKay Sievers
616fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
617fce3e804SKay Sievers	  be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
618fce3e804SKay Sievers	  layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
619fce3e804SKay Sievers	  and disable some features, which can not be exported without
620fce3e804SKay Sievers	  confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
621fce3e804SKay Sievers	  distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
622fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
623fce3e804SKay Sievers
624fce3e804SKay Sievers	  If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
625fce3e804SKay Sievers	  older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
626fce3e804SKay Sievers	  if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
627fce3e804SKay Sievers	  this option set to N.
62888a22c98SKay Sievers
629b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY
630b86ff981SJens Axboe	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
631b86ff981SJens Axboe	help
632b86ff981SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
633b86ff981SJens Axboe	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
634b86ff981SJens Axboe	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
635b86ff981SJens Axboe	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
636b86ff981SJens Axboe	  user space.
637b86ff981SJens Axboe
638b86ff981SJens Axboe	  If unsure, say N.
639b86ff981SJens Axboe
640c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES
641c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
642c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	default !EMBEDDED
643c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
644c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
645c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
646c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
647c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
648c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
64958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
65058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
65158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES
65258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
65358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
65458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
65558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
656ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
657ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
658614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
659ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
660ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
661614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
662ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
663aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
664aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
665aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
666aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
667aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
668aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
669aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
670aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
67174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
67274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
67374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	default n
67474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
67574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
67612d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
677692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
67874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
67974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
68074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
68174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  say N here.
68274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
683d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
684d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
685d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	default n
686d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
687d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
688d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
689d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
690d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
691f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
692f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
693f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
694f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
695f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
696f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
697f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
698f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
699f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
700f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
701f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
702f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
703f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
704f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
705f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
706f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
707c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
708c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
709dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
710dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
711c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
712c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
713c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
71496fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
715c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	default y
716c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
717c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
718c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
719c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
720775a7229Sjkacur	  If unsure, say Y.
721c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
7220847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
7230847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
7240847062aSRandy Dunlap
725b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
726b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
727b943c460SRandy Dunlap
7281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED
7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
736ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
737ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
73809337f50SDavid S. Miller	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
739ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
740ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
741ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
742ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
743b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
7440847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
74526a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
74613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	default y
747b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
748b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
74913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
75013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
75113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
75213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
753b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
75413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
75513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
75613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
757b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
75813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  If unsure say Y here.
759ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
7601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
761979c6a1eSJesper Juhl	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
774f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
775f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say N.
7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on KALLSYMS
7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and
7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
790d59745ceSMatt Mackall
791712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
792712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
793712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	default y
794712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	help
795712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
796712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
797712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
798712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
799712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
800d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
801d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
802d59745ceSMatt Mackall	bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
803d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
804d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
805d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
806d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
807d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
808d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
809d59745ceSMatt Mackall
810c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
811c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
812c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
813c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
814c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
815c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
816c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
817c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
818c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
819c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
820708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
821708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
822708e9a79SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
823708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
824708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
825708e9a79SMatt Mackall
826e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
827e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
828e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
829e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
830e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
831e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
832e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
833e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
8341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
8351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
8391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
8401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
8411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
8441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
84523f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
854448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
859fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
860fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
861448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
862fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
863fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
864fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
865fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
866fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
867fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
868fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
869b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
870b215e283SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
871448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
872b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
873b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
874b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
875b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
876b215e283SDavide Libenzi
877b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
878b215e283SDavide Libenzi
879e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
880e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
881448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
882e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
883e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
884e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
885e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
886e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
887e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
888e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
8891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
8901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
8911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
8931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
8951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
8961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds
900ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
901ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
902ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
903ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
904ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
905ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
906ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          this option saves about 7k.
907ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
908cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
9090793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
910018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
911018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
9120793a61dSThomas Gleixner
913906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
914906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
915906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
916906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
917906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
91857c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
9190793a61dSThomas Gleixner
920cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
92157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
92257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
923cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
9244c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
9250793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
92657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
92757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
9280793a61dSThomas Gleixner
929dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
93057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
93157c0c15bSIngo Molnar
93257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
93357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
9340793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
9350793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
9360793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
9370793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
9380793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
9390793a61dSThomas Gleixner
94057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
941dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
94257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
9430793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
9440793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
9450793a61dSThomas Gleixner
9460793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
9470793a61dSThomas Gleixner
948e077df4fSPeter Zijlstraconfig EVENT_PROFILE
949470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Tracepoint profiling sources"
950cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING
951e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra	default y
952470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	help
95357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	 Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance events.
954470a1396SPeter Zijlstra
95557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	 When this is enabled, you can create perf events based on
956470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	 tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID
957470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	 found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events
958470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	 option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic
959470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	 tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.)
960e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra
96157c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS
96257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
96357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
96457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	help
96557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
96657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  config option - please see that one for details.
96757c0c15bSIngo Molnar
96857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
96957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
97057c0c15bSIngo Molnar
97157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Say N if unsure.
97257c0c15bSIngo Molnar
973906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
974906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
975906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
976906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
977906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
978906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
979906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
980906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
981906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
982906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
983906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
984906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
985906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
9860793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
9870793a61dSThomas Gleixner
988f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
989f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
990f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
991f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
9922aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
9932aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
9942aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
9952aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
996f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
9973d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS
9983d137310SThomas Petazzoni	default y
99961cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
100061cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on PCI
10013d137310SThomas Petazzoni	help
10023d137310SThomas Petazzoni	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
10033d137310SThomas Petazzoni          bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
10043d137310SThomas Petazzoni          unaffected by PCI quirks.
10053d137310SThomas Petazzoni
100641ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
100741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
100841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
1009f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
101041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
101141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
101241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
101341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
101441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
101541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1016b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1017b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1018b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1019b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1020b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1021b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1022b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1023692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1024b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1025b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1026b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1027b943c460SRandy Dunlap
102881819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
102981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1030a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
103181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
103281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
103381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
103481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
103581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
103681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
103781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
103834013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
103902f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
104081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
104181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
104281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
104381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
104481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
104581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
104681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
104781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
104802f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
104902f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
105081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
105181819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
105284a01c2fSPaul Mundt	depends on EMBEDDED
105381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
105481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
105537291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
105637291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
105737291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
105881819f0fSChristoph Lameter
105981819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
106081819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1061ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1062ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1063ea637639SJie Zhang	depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1064ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1065ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1066ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1067ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1068ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1069ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1070ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1071ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1072ea637639SJie Zhang
1073ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1074ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1075ea637639SJie Zhang
1076ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1077ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1078ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1079ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1080ea637639SJie Zhang
1081ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1082ea637639SJie Zhang
1083125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1084125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1085125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1086125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1087125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1088125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
10895f87f112SIngo Molnar#
10905f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
10915f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
10925f87f112SIngo Molnar#
109397e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
10945f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
109597e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1096fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1097fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
109807fe7cb7SDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK
109907fe7cb7SDavid Howells	default n
11001c2d008cSDavid Howells	bool
110107fe7cb7SDavid Howells	help
110207fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
110307fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
110407fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  take a relatively long time.
110507fe7cb7SDavid Howells
110607fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
110707fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
110807fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  disk.
110907fe7cb7SDavid Howells
11101c2d008cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
11111c2d008cSDavid Howells
1112f13a48bdSDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK_DEBUG
1113f13a48bdSDavid Howells	bool "Slow work debugging through debugfs"
11148fba10a4SDavid Howells	default n
1115f13a48bdSDavid Howells	depends on SLOW_WORK && DEBUG_FS
11168fba10a4SDavid Howells	help
1117f13a48bdSDavid Howells	  Display the contents of the slow work run queue through debugfs,
11188fba10a4SDavid Howells	  including items currently executing.
11198fba10a4SDavid Howells
11208fba10a4SDavid Howells	  See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
11218fba10a4SDavid Howells
11221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1124ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1125ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1126ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1127ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1128158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1129158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1130158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
11310f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1132158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1133158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1134ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1135ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1136ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
11371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
114266da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
11441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
11461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
11481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
11511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
11581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11620b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
11630b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1164826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1165826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1166826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1167826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
116891e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
116991e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
117091e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1171826e4506SLinus Torvalds
11721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
11731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1177f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1178f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
11910d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12110b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
12120b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
121398a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
121498a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
121598a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
121698a79d6aSRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
121798a79d6aSRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
121898a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
121998a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1220692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
122198a79d6aSRusty Russell
12221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
12283a65dfe8SJens Axboe
12293a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1230e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1231e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1232e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1233e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
12346beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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