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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
118*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
119*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool
120*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
12130d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice
12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	prompt "Kernel compression mode"
12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	default KERNEL_GZIP
124*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff
13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  size matters less.
14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff
14330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP
14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Gzip"
1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
147*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
148*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  between compression ratio and decompression speed.
14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
15030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2
15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "Bzip2"
1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel
1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
1572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
1582e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff
16030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA
16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff	bool "LZMA"
1622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff	help
16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  The most recent compression algorithm.
16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff	  Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33%
1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin	  smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
169*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO
170*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	bool "LZO"
171*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
172*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	help
173*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
174*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
175*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
176*7dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre
17730d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice
17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff
1791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1819361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
204a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
205a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
206a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
207a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
208a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
209a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
2101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
218b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
226bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
227bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	bool
228bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
229bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on SYSCTL
230bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn	default y
231bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn
2321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
25537a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur	  at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
257c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS
258c757249aSShailabh Nagar	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
259c757249aSShailabh Nagar	depends on NET
260c757249aSShailabh Nagar	default n
261c757249aSShailabh Nagar	help
262c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
263c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
264c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
265c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
266c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  space on task exit.
267c757249aSShailabh Nagar
268c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
269c757249aSShailabh Nagar
270ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
271ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2726f44993fSShailabh Nagar	depends on TASKSTATS
273ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	help
274ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
275ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
276ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
277ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
278ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
279ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
280ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
28118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT
28218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
28318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASKSTATS
28418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
28518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
28618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
28718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
28818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
28918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
29018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
29118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
29218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASK_XACCT
29318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
29418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
29518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  task has caused.
29618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
29718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
29818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
2991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
301804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
310022382a5SKumar Gala	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
315f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  such as SELinux.  To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
316f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
31874c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
31974c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
32063c882a0SEric Paris	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
32163c882a0SEric Paris	select INOTIFY
32274c3cbe3SAl Viro
323c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem"
324c903ff83SMike Travis
325c903ff83SMike Travischoice
326c903ff83SMike Travis	prompt "RCU Implementation"
32731c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney	default TREE_RCU
328c903ff83SMike Travis
329c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU
330c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
331c903ff83SMike Travis	help
332c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
333c903ff83SMike Travis	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
334c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
335c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
336c903ff83SMike Travis
337f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
338f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU"
339f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
340f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	help
341f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
342f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
343f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
344bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
345bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney	  smaller systems.
346f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney
3479b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU
3489b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
3499b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	depends on !SMP
3509b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	help
3519b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
3529b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
3539b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
3549b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney	  memory footprint of RCU.
3559b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney
356c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice
357c903ff83SMike Travis
358c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE
359c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
3606b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
361c903ff83SMike Travis	help
362c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
363c903ff83SMike Travis	  in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
364c903ff83SMike Travis
365c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
366c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if you are unsure.
367c903ff83SMike Travis
368c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT
369c903ff83SMike Travis	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
370c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 64 if 64BIT
371c903ff83SMike Travis	range 2 32 if !64BIT
372f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
373c903ff83SMike Travis	default 64 if 64BIT
374c903ff83SMike Travis	default 32 if !64BIT
375c903ff83SMike Travis	help
376c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
377c903ff83SMike Travis	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
378c903ff83SMike Travis	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the cube
379c903ff83SMike Travis	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
380c903ff83SMike Travis	  systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
381c903ff83SMike Travis
382c903ff83SMike Travis	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
383c903ff83SMike Travis	  Take the default if unsure.
384c903ff83SMike Travis
385c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
386c903ff83SMike Travis	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
387f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
388c903ff83SMike Travis	default n
389c903ff83SMike Travis	help
390c903ff83SMike Travis	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
391c903ff83SMike Travis	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
392c903ff83SMike Travis	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
393c903ff83SMike Travis	  strong NUMA behavior.
394c903ff83SMike Travis
395c903ff83SMike Travis	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
396c903ff83SMike Travis
397c903ff83SMike Travis	  Say N if unsure.
398c903ff83SMike Travis
399c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE
400f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
401c903ff83SMike Travis	select DEBUG_FS
402c903ff83SMike Travis	help
403f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
404f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
405f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney	  trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
406c903ff83SMike Travis
407c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
408c903ff83SMike Travis
4091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
410f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
428794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
429794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
430794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
431f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	default 17
432794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
433794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
434f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  Examples:
435f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	  	     17 => 128 KB
436f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk		     16 => 64 KB
437f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             15 => 32 KB
438f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk	             14 => 16 KB
439794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
440794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
441794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
4425cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
4435cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
4445cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki#
4455cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
4465cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool
4475cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4485cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig GROUP_SCHED
4495cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Group CPU scheduler"
4505cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
4515cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default n
4525cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
4535cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
4545cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
4555cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use
4565cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.)
4575cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
4595cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
4605cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on GROUP_SCHED
4615cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default GROUP_SCHED
4625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED
4645cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
4655cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
4665cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on GROUP_SCHED
4675cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default n
4685cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
4695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
4705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
4715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
4725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
4735cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  realtime bandwidth for them.
4745cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
4755cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4765cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukichoice
4775cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on GROUP_SCHED
4785cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
4795cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	default USER_SCHED
4805cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4815cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig USER_SCHED
4825cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "user id"
4835cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
4845cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
4855cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
4865cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4875cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_SCHED
4885cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Control groups"
4895cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 	depends on CGROUPS
4905cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 	help
4915cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
4925cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
4935cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
49445ce80fbSLi Zefan	  Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more
49545ce80fbSLi Zefan	  information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
4965cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4975cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiendchoice
4985cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
49923964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS
50023964d2dSLi Zefan	boolean "Control Group support"
501ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
50223964d2dSLi Zefan	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
5035cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
5045cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  controls or device isolation.
5055cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  See
5065cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
50745ce80fbSLi Zefan		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
50845ce80fbSLi Zefan					  and resource control)
509ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
510ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
511ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
51223964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS
51323964d2dSLi Zefan
514006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
515006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
516006cb992SPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
517418d7d87SPaul Menage	default n
518006cb992SPaul Menage	help
519006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
520006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
52123964d2dSLi Zefan	  framework.
522006cb992SPaul Menage
52323964d2dSLi Zefan	  Say N if unsure.
524006cb992SPaul Menage
525858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS
526858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
527858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS
528858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	help
529858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
530858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
531858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
532858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn	  jobs.
533858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn
534dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER
53523964d2dSLi Zefan	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
536dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	depends on CGROUPS
537dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	help
538dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
539dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley	  cgroup.
540dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley
54108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE
54208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	bool "Device controller for cgroups"
54308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
54408ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	help
54508ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
54608ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn	  a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
54708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn
5481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
550db7f47cfSPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
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	depends on CGROUPS
567d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
568d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
56923964d2dSLi Zefan	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
570d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
571e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
572e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
573e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
574e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
57523964d2dSLi Zefan	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
576e552b661SPavel Emelianov	depends on CGROUPS
577e552b661SPavel Emelianov
57800f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
57900f0b825SBalbir Singh	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
58000f0b825SBalbir Singh	depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
581cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	select MM_OWNER
58200f0b825SBalbir Singh	help
58384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
58421acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
58500f0b825SBalbir Singh
58600f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
58784ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
58884ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
58984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
59084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  at boot.
59100f0b825SBalbir Singh
59200f0b825SBalbir Singh	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
59384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
59484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
59584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
596c9d5409fSLi Zefan	  (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
59700f0b825SBalbir Singh
598cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
599cf475ad2SBalbir Singh	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
600cf475ad2SBalbir Singh
601c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
602c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
603c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
604c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	help
605c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
606c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
607c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
608c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
609c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
610c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
611c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
612c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
613c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
614c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
615c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
616627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
617627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki	  size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
618c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
61923964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS
620c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
62123964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER
62223964d2dSLi Zefan	bool
6235cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
62488a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
625d47846c5SIngo Molnar	bool
626d47846c5SIngo Molnar
627d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
6289e9868a7SUwe Kleine-König	bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
6299148fe87SRandy Dunlap	depends on SYSFS
630f6ee649fSKay Sievers	default n
631d47846c5SIngo Molnar	select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
63288a22c98SKay Sievers	help
633fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
634f6ee649fSKay Sievers	  version. Do not use it on recent distributions.
63588a22c98SKay Sievers
636fce3e804SKay Sievers	  The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
637fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
638fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
639fce3e804SKay Sievers	  unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
640fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
641fce3e804SKay Sievers	  /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
642fce3e804SKay Sievers	  "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
643fce3e804SKay Sievers	  class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
644fce3e804SKay Sievers	  subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
645fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the unified device tree.
64688a22c98SKay Sievers
647fce3e804SKay Sievers	  This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
648fce3e804SKay Sievers	  be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
649fce3e804SKay Sievers	  layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
650fce3e804SKay Sievers	  and disable some features, which can not be exported without
651fce3e804SKay Sievers	  confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
652fce3e804SKay Sievers	  distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
653fce3e804SKay Sievers	  depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
654fce3e804SKay Sievers
655fce3e804SKay Sievers	  If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
656fce3e804SKay Sievers	  older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
657fce3e804SKay Sievers	  if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
658fce3e804SKay Sievers	  this option set to N.
65988a22c98SKay Sievers
660b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY
661b86ff981SJens Axboe	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
662b86ff981SJens Axboe	help
663b86ff981SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
664b86ff981SJens Axboe	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
665b86ff981SJens Axboe	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
666b86ff981SJens Axboe	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
667b86ff981SJens Axboe	  user space.
668b86ff981SJens Axboe
669b86ff981SJens Axboe	  If unsure, say N.
670b86ff981SJens Axboe
671c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES
672c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
673c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	default !EMBEDDED
674c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	help
675c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
676c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
677c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
678c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov	  different namespaces.
679c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov
68058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS
68158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	bool "UTS namespace"
68258bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES
68358bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	help
68458bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
68558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov	  uname() system call
68658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov
687ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS
688ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	bool "IPC namespace"
689614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
690ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	help
691ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
692614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn	  different IPC objects in different namespaces.
693ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov
694aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS
695aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
696aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
697aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	help
698aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
699aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  to provide different user info for different servers.
700aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov	  If unsure, say N.
701aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov
70274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS
70374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
70474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	default n
70574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
70674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	help
70712d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila	  Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
708692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
70974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
71074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
71174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
71274bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov	  say N here.
71374bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov
714d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS
715d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	bool "Network namespace"
716d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	default n
717d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
718d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	help
719d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
720d6eb633fSMatt Helsley	  of the network stack.
721d6eb633fSMatt Helsley
722f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
723f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
724f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
725f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
726f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
727f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
728f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
729f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
730f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
731f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
732f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
733f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
734f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
735f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
736f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
737f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
738c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
739c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
740dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
741dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
742c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
743c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
744c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
74596fffeb4SIngo Molnar	bool "Optimize for size"
746c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	default y
747c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
748c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
749c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
750c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
751775a7229Sjkacur	  If unsure, say Y.
752c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
7530847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
7540847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
7550847062aSRandy Dunlap
756b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES
757b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool
758b943c460SRandy Dunlap
7591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED
7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
767ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
768ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
76909337f50SDavid S. Miller	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
770ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
771ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
772ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
773ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
774b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
7750847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
77626a7034bSEric W. Biederman	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
77713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	default y
778b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
779b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
78013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
78113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
78213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
78313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
784b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
78513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
78613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
78713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
788b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
78913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  If unsure say Y here.
790ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
7911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
792979c6a1eSJesper Juhl	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
805f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
806f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say N.
8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on KALLSYMS
8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and
8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
821d59745ceSMatt Mackall
822712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
823712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
824712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	default y
825712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	help
826712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
827712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
828712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
829712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
830712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
831d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
832d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
833d59745ceSMatt Mackall	bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
834d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
835d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
836d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
837d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
838d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
839d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
840d59745ceSMatt Mackall
841c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
842c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
843c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
844c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
845c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
846c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
847c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
848c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
849c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
850c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
851708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
852708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
853708e9a79SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
854708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
855708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
856708e9a79SMatt Mackall
857e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM
858e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
859e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
860e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	default y
861e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev	help
862e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
863e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev          support, saving some memory.
864e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev
8651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
87623f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
8841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
885448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
890fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
891fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
892448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
893fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
894fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
895fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
896fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
897fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
898fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
899fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
900b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
901b215e283SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
902448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
903b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
904b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
905b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
906b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
907b215e283SDavide Libenzi
908b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
909b215e283SDavide Libenzi
910e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
911e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
912448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
913e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
914e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
915e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
916e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
917e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
918e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
919e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
9201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
9261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
9271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
9281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
931ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO
932ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
933ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	default y
934ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	help
935ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
936ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
937ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni          this option saves about 7k.
938ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni
939cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
9400793a61dSThomas Gleixner	bool
941018df72dSMike Frysinger	help
942018df72dSMike Frysinger	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
9430793a61dSThomas Gleixner
944906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC
945906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool
946906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
947906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	  See tools/perf/design.txt for details
948906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
94957c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
9500793a61dSThomas Gleixner
951cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS
95257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
95357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
954cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
9554c59e467SIngo Molnar	select ANON_INODES
9560793a61dSThomas Gleixner	help
95757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
95857c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  by software and hardware.
9590793a61dSThomas Gleixner
960dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
96157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  use of generic tracepoints.
96257c0c15bSIngo Molnar
96357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
96457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
9650793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
9660793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
9670793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
9680793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
9690793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
9700793a61dSThomas Gleixner
97157c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
972dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
97357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
9740793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
9750793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  capabilities on top of those.
9760793a61dSThomas Gleixner
9770793a61dSThomas Gleixner	  Say Y if unsure.
9780793a61dSThomas Gleixner
979e077df4fSPeter Zijlstraconfig EVENT_PROFILE
980470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Tracepoint profiling sources"
981cdd6c482SIngo Molnar	depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING
982e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra	default y
983470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	help
98457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	 Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance events.
985470a1396SPeter Zijlstra
98657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	 When this is enabled, you can create perf events based on
987470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	 tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID
988470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	 found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events
989470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	 option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic
990470a1396SPeter Zijlstra	 tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.)
991e077df4fSPeter Zijlstra
99257c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS
99357c0c15bSIngo Molnar	bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
99457c0c15bSIngo Molnar	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
99557c0c15bSIngo Molnar	help
99657c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
99757c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  config option - please see that one for details.
99857c0c15bSIngo Molnar
99957c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
100057c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
100157c0c15bSIngo Molnar
100257c0c15bSIngo Molnar	  Say N if unsure.
100357c0c15bSIngo Molnar
1004906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1005906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	default n
1006906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1007906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1008906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1009906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	help
1010906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1011906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1012906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1013906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 that don't require it.
1014906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
1015906010b2SPeter Zijlstra	 Say N if unsure.
1016906010b2SPeter Zijlstra
10170793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu
10180793a61dSThomas Gleixner
1019f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1020f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
1021f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
1022f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
10232aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
10242aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
10252aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
10262aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
1027f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
10283d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS
10293d137310SThomas Petazzoni	default y
103061cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
103161cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven	depends on PCI
10323d137310SThomas Petazzoni	help
10333d137310SThomas Petazzoni	  This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
10343d137310SThomas Petazzoni          bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
10353d137310SThomas Petazzoni          unaffected by PCI quirks.
10363d137310SThomas Petazzoni
103741ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
103841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
103941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
1040f6acb635SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
104141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
104241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
104341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
104441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
104541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
104641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
1047b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK
1048b943c460SRandy Dunlap	bool "Disable heap randomization"
1049b943c460SRandy Dunlap	default y
1050b943c460SRandy Dunlap	help
1051b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1052b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1053b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1054692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1055b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1056b943c460SRandy Dunlap
1057b943c460SRandy Dunlap	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1058b943c460SRandy Dunlap
105981819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
106081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1061a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
106281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
106381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
106481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
106581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
106681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
106781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
106881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
106934013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
107002f56210SSimon Arlott	  per cpu and per node queues.
107181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
107281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
107381819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
107481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
107581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
107681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
107781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
107881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
107902f56210SSimon Arlott	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
108002f56210SSimon Arlott	   a slab allocator.
108181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
108281819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
108384a01c2fSPaul Mundt	depends on EMBEDDED
108481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
108581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
108637291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
108737291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
108837291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
108981819f0fSChristoph Lameter
109081819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
109181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
1092ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1093ea637639SJie Zhang	bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1094ea637639SJie Zhang	depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1095ea637639SJie Zhang	default n
1096ea637639SJie Zhang	help
1097ea637639SJie Zhang	  Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1098ea637639SJie Zhang	  from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1099ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1100ea637639SJie Zhang	  mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1101ea637639SJie Zhang	  providing a huge performance boost.  If this option is not enabled,
1102ea637639SJie Zhang	  then the flag will be ignored.
1103ea637639SJie Zhang
1104ea637639SJie Zhang	  This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1105ea637639SJie Zhang	  ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1106ea637639SJie Zhang
1107ea637639SJie Zhang	  Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1108ea637639SJie Zhang	  enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1109ea637639SJie Zhang	  userspace.  Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1110ea637639SJie Zhang	  it is normally safe to say Y here.
1111ea637639SJie Zhang
1112ea637639SJie Zhang	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1113ea637639SJie Zhang
1114125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
1115125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1116125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
1117125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1118125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
1119125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
11205f87f112SIngo Molnar#
11215f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
11225f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function.
11235f87f112SIngo Molnar#
112497e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS
11255f87f112SIngo Molnar	bool
112697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers
1127fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
1128fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
112907fe7cb7SDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK
113007fe7cb7SDavid Howells	default n
11311c2d008cSDavid Howells	bool
113207fe7cb7SDavid Howells	help
113307fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
113407fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
113507fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  take a relatively long time.
113607fe7cb7SDavid Howells
113707fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
113807fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
113907fe7cb7SDavid Howells	  disk.
114007fe7cb7SDavid Howells
11411c2d008cSDavid Howells	  See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
11421c2d008cSDavid Howells
1143f13a48bdSDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK_DEBUG
1144f13a48bdSDavid Howells	bool "Slow work debugging through debugfs"
11458fba10a4SDavid Howells	default n
1146f13a48bdSDavid Howells	depends on SLOW_WORK && DEBUG_FS
11478fba10a4SDavid Howells	help
1148f13a48bdSDavid Howells	  Display the contents of the slow work run queue through debugfs,
11498fba10a4SDavid Howells	  including items currently executing.
11508fba10a4SDavid Howells
11518fba10a4SDavid Howells	  See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
11528fba10a4SDavid Howells
11531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1155ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1156ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	bool
1157ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov	default n
1158ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov
1159158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
1160158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
1161158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
11620f389ec6SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1163158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
1164158a9624SLinus Torvalds
1165ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
1166ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
1167ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
11681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
11701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
11721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
117366da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
11781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11930b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES
11940b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
1195826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1196826e4506SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module loading"
1197826e4506SLinus Torvalds	default n
1198826e4506SLinus Torvalds	help
119991e37a79SRusty Russell	  Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
120091e37a79SRusty Russell	  --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
120191e37a79SRusty Russell	  is usually a really bad idea.
1202826e4506SLinus Torvalds
12031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1208f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1209f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko	  and simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
12220d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12420b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES
12430b0de144SRobert P. J. Day
124498a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
124598a79d6aSRusty Russell	bool
124698a79d6aSRusty Russell	help
124798a79d6aSRusty Russell	  Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
124898a79d6aSRusty Russell	  cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
124998a79d6aSRusty Russell	  with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
125098a79d6aSRusty Russell	  it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1251692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
125298a79d6aSRusty Russell
12531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
12593a65dfe8SJens Axboe
12603a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
1261e98c3202SAvi Kivity
1262e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1263e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
1264e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
12656beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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