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" 1266