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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"
16face4374SRoman Zippel	default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
17face4374SRoman Zippel
18ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup"
191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL
211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP
551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BROKEN || !SMP
571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL
601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SMP || PREEMPT
621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
66dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 32 if !UML
67dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk	default 128 if UML
681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6934ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
7034ad92c2SRandy Dunlap	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Local version - append to kernel release"
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This will show up when you type uname, for example.
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
83aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO
84aaebf433SRyan Anderson	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
85aaebf433SRyan Anderson	default y
86aaebf433SRyan Anderson	help
87aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
886e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
896e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  top of tree revision.
90aaebf433SRyan Anderson
91aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
926e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
93aaebf433SRyan Anderson	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
95aaebf433SRyan Anderson
966e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
976e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  by running the command:
986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
996e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day
1016e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
102aaebf433SRyan Anderson
1031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP
1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
1059361401eSDavid Howells	depends on MMU && BLOCK
1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in your computer.  If unsure say Y.
1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC
1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "System V IPC"
1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you'll need to say Y here.
1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
128a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
129a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	bool
130a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSVIPC
131a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	depends on SYSCTL
132a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman	default y
133a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman
1341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE
1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "POSIX Message Queues"
1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
142b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day	  queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operations on message queues.
1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The
1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is
1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  up to the user level program to do useful things with this
1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
175c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS
176c757249aSShailabh Nagar	bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
177c757249aSShailabh Nagar	depends on NET
178c757249aSShailabh Nagar	default n
179c757249aSShailabh Nagar	help
180c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
181c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
182c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
183c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
184c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  space on task exit.
185c757249aSShailabh Nagar
186c757249aSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
187c757249aSShailabh Nagar
188ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT
189ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1906f44993fSShailabh Nagar	depends on TASKSTATS
191ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	help
192ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
193ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
194ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
195ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
196ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
197ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar	  Say N if unsure.
198ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar
19918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT
20018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
20118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASKSTATS
20218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
20318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
20418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
20518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
20618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
20718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
20818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
20918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
21018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	depends on TASK_XACCT
21118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	help
21218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
21318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  task has caused.
21418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
21518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan	  Say N if unsure.
21618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan
217acce292cSCedric Le Goaterconfig USER_NS
218acce292cSCedric Le Goater	bool "User Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
219acce292cSCedric Le Goater	default n
220acce292cSCedric Le Goater	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
221acce292cSCedric Le Goater	help
222acce292cSCedric Le Goater	  Support user namespaces.  This allows containers, i.e.
223acce292cSCedric Le Goater	  vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
224acce292cSCedric Le Goater	  user info for different servers.  If unsure, say N.
225acce292cSCedric Le Goater
22657d5f66bSEric W. Biedermanconfig PID_NS
22757d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
22857d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	default n
22957d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
23057d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	help
23157d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	  Suport process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple
23257d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	  process with the same pid as long as they are in different
23357d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	  pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers.
23457d5f66bSEric W. Biederman
23557d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	  Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
23657d5f66bSEric W. Biederman	  say N here.
23757d5f66bSEric W. Biederman
2381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT
2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Auditing support"
240804a6a49SChris Wright	depends on NET
2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
2491322b9deSYuichi Nakamura	depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
254f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  such as SELinux.  To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
255f368c07dSAmy Griffis	  ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
25774c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE
25874c3cbe3SAl Viro	def_bool y
25974c3cbe3SAl Viro	depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
26074c3cbe3SAl Viro
2611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG
262f2443ab6SRoss Biro	tristate "Kernel .config support"
2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel
2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  through /proc/config.gz.
2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
280794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT
281794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
282794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	range 12 21
283794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
284794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
285794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	default 15 if SMP
286794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	default 14
287794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	help
288794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
289794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  Defaults and Examples:
290794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	  	     17 => 128 KB for S/390
291794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
292794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	             15 => 32 KB for SMP
293794543a2SAlistair John Strachan	             14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
294794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     13 =>  8 KB
295794543a2SAlistair John Strachan		     12 =>  4 KB
296794543a2SAlistair John Strachan
297ddbcc7e8SPaul Menageconfig CGROUPS
298ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	bool "Control Group support"
299ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	help
300ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
301ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  such as Cpusets
302ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
303ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure.
304ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage
305006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG
306006cb992SPaul Menage	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
307006cb992SPaul Menage	depends on CGROUPS
308006cb992SPaul Menage	help
309006cb992SPaul Menage	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
310006cb992SPaul Menage	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
311006cb992SPaul Menage	  framework
312006cb992SPaul Menage
313006cb992SPaul Menage	  Say N if unsure
314006cb992SPaul Menage
315858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS
316858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn        bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
317858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn        depends on CGROUPS
318858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn        help
319858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn          Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
320858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn          provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
321858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn          for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
322858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn          jobs.
323858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn
3241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS
3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Cpuset support"
3268793d854SPaul Menage	depends on SMP && CGROUPS
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
328d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap	  This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say N if unsure.
3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
33529f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
336fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Fair group CPU scheduler"
337de8d585aSIngo Molnar	default y
33829f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
339fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
3409b5b7751SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
34129f59db3SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
34224e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagirichoice
34324e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
34424e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
34524e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	default FAIR_USER_SCHED
34624e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
34724e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig FAIR_USER_SCHED
34824e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "user id"
34924e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
35024e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
351fb615581SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
35224e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
35368318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED
35468318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Control groups"
35568318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri 	depends on CGROUPS
35668318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri 	help
35768318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
35868318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
35968318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
36068318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
36168318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
36268318b8eSSrivatsa Vaddagiri
36324e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiriendchoice
36424e377a8SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
365d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT
366d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
367d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	depends on CGROUPS
368d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	help
369d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
370d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
371d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri
372*e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS
373*e552b661SPavel Emelianov	bool "Resource counters"
374*e552b661SPavel Emelianov	help
375*e552b661SPavel Emelianov	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
376*e552b661SPavel Emelianov          infrastructure that works with cgroups
377*e552b661SPavel Emelianov	depends on CGROUPS
378*e552b661SPavel Emelianov
37988a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED
38088a22c98SKay Sievers	bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
3819148fe87SRandy Dunlap	depends on SYSFS
38288a22c98SKay Sievers	default y
38388a22c98SKay Sievers	help
38488a22c98SKay Sievers	  This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
38588a22c98SKay Sievers	  "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
38688a22c98SKay Sievers	  "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
38788a22c98SKay Sievers	  uevent environment.
38888a22c98SKay Sievers	  None of these features or values should be used today, as
38988a22c98SKay Sievers	  they export driver core implementation details to userspace
39088a22c98SKay Sievers	  or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
39188a22c98SKay Sievers	  releases.
39288a22c98SKay Sievers
39388a22c98SKay Sievers	  If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
3943dde6ad8SDavid Sterba	  that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
39588a22c98SKay Sievers	  order to support older versions of udev.
39688a22c98SKay Sievers
39788a22c98SKay Sievers	  If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
39888a22c98SKay Sievers	  it should be safe to say N here.
39988a22c98SKay Sievers
4008793d854SPaul Menageconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET
4018793d854SPaul Menage	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
4028793d854SPaul Menage	depends on CPUSETS
4038793d854SPaul Menage	default y
4048793d854SPaul Menage
405b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY
406b86ff981SJens Axboe	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
407b86ff981SJens Axboe	help
408b86ff981SJens Axboe	  This option enables support for relay interface support in
409b86ff981SJens Axboe	  certain file systems (such as debugfs).
410b86ff981SJens Axboe	  It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
411b86ff981SJens Axboe	  facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
412b86ff981SJens Axboe	  user space.
413b86ff981SJens Axboe
414b86ff981SJens Axboe	  If unsure, say N.
415b86ff981SJens Axboe
416f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD
417f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
418f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
419f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	help
420f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
421f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
422f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
423f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
424f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
425f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
426f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
427f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
428f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
429f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
430f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik	  If unsure say Y.
431f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik
432c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD
433c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
434dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig"
435dbec4866SSam Ravnborg
436c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif
437c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman
438c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
439c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
440c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	default y
44132582fa4SPaul Mundt	depends on ARM || H8300 || SUPERH || EXPERIMENTAL
442c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	help
443c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
444c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
445c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
446c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
447c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  option.  If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
448c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
449c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
450c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds
4510847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL
4520847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool
4530847062aSRandy Dunlap
4541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED
4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds          environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
462ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16
463ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
464529a73fbSMike Frysinger	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
465ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	default y
466ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	help
467ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
468ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
469b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL
4700847062aSRandy Dunlap	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
47113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	default y
472b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	select SYSCTL
473b89a8171SEric W. Biederman	---help---
47413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
47513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
47613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
47713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  information.
478b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
47913bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
48013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
48113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
482b89a8171SEric W. Biederman
48313bb7e37SEric W. Biederman	  If unsure say Y here.
484ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
4851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS
486979c6a1eSJesper Juhl	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 default y
4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	 help
4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL
4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
499f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
500f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl	   and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Say N.
5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on KALLSYMS
5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and
5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	   you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
515d59745ceSMatt Mackall
516712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG
517712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
518712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	default y
519712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	help
520712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
521712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
522712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
523712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman	  dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
524712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman
525d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK
526d59745ceSMatt Mackall	default y
527d59745ceSMatt Mackall	bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
528d59745ceSMatt Mackall	help
529d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
530d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
531d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
532d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
533d59745ceSMatt Mackall	  strongly discouraged.
534d59745ceSMatt Mackall
535c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG
536c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
537c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	default y
538c8538a7aSMatt Mackall	help
539c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
540c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
541c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
542c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
543c8538a7aSMatt Mackall          Just say Y.
544c8538a7aSMatt Mackall
545708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE
546708e9a79SMatt Mackall	default y
547708e9a79SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
548708e9a79SMatt Mackall	help
549708e9a79SMatt Mackall	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
550708e9a79SMatt Mackall
55132a93233SIngo Molnarconfig COMPAT_BRK
55232a93233SIngo Molnar	bool "Disable heap randomization"
55332a93233SIngo Molnar	default y
55432a93233SIngo Molnar	help
55532a93233SIngo Molnar	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
55632a93233SIngo Molnar	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
55732a93233SIngo Molnar	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
55832a93233SIngo Molnar	  disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
55932a93233SIngo Molnar	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
56032a93233SIngo Molnar
56132a93233SIngo Molnar	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) Y is usually a safe choice.
56232a93233SIngo Molnar
5631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL
5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but may reduce performance.
5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX
5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
57423f78d4aSIngo Molnar	select RT_MUTEXES
5751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5805dc8bf81SDavide Libenziconfig ANON_INODES
581448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	bool
5825dc8bf81SDavide Libenzi
5831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL
5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
586448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for epoll family of system calls.
5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
591fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD
592fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
593448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
594fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	default y
595fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	help
596fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
597fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  on a file descriptor.
598fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
599fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
600fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi
601b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD
602b215e283SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
603448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
604b215e283SDavide Libenzi	default y
605b215e283SDavide Libenzi	help
606b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
607b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  events on a file descriptor.
608b215e283SDavide Libenzi
609b215e283SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
610b215e283SDavide Libenzi
611e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD
612e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
613448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk	select ANON_INODES
614e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	default y
615e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	help
616e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
617e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
618e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
619e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi	  If unsure, say Y.
620e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi
6211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM
6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
6231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MMU
6251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
6271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
6281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
6301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
6311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
632f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
633f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	default y
634f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
635f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter	help
6362aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
6372aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
6382aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
6392aea4fb6SPaul Jackson	  if VM event counters are disabled.
640f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter
64141ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG
64241ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	default y
64341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
644d4751a27SChristoph Lameter	depends on SLUB
64541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	help
64641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
64741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
64841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
64941ecc55bSChristoph Lameter	  no support for cache validation etc.
65041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter
65181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice
65281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
653a0acd820SChristoph Lameter	default SLUB
65481819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
65581819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
65681819f0fSChristoph Lameter
65781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB
65881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLAB"
65981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
66081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
66134013886SChristoph Lameter	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
66281819f0fSChristoph Lameter	  per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
66334013886SChristoph Lameter	  a slab allocator.
66481819f0fSChristoph Lameter
66581819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB
66681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
66781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
66881819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
66981819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
67081819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
67181819f0fSChristoph Lameter	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
67234013886SChristoph Lameter	   and has enhanced diagnostics.
67381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
67481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB
67584a01c2fSPaul Mundt	depends on EMBEDDED
67681819f0fSChristoph Lameter	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
67781819f0fSChristoph Lameter	help
67837291458SMatt Mackall	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
67937291458SMatt Mackall	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
68037291458SMatt Mackall	   does not perform as well on large systems.
68181819f0fSChristoph Lameter
68281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice
68381819f0fSChristoph Lameter
684125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING
685125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
686125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
687125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
688125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  by profilers such as OProfile.
689125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
690125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig MARKERS
691125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	bool "Activate markers"
692125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	help
693125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
694125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers	  dynamically changed for a probe function.
695125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers
696fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig"
697fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers
6981e883281SMatt Mackallconfig PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
6991e883281SMatt Mackall 	default y
7001e883281SMatt Mackall	depends on PROC_FS && MMU
7011e883281SMatt Mackall	bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED
7021e883281SMatt Mackall 	help
7031e883281SMatt Mackall	  Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory utilization:
7041e883281SMatt Mackall	  /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap,
7051e883281SMatt Mackall	  /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these
7061e883281SMatt Mackall          interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb.
7071e883281SMatt Mackall
7081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu		# General setup
7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
710158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO
711158a9624SLinus Torvalds	bool
712158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS
713158a9624SLinus Torvalds	depends on SLAB || SLUB
714158a9624SLinus Torvalds	default y
715158a9624SLinus Torvalds
716ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES
717ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	boolean
718ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert	select PLIST
719ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert
7201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TINY_SHMEM
7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default !SHMEM
7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL
7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int
7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 0 if BASE_FULL
7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
72966da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES
7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable loadable module support"
7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe"
7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here,
7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  useful for infrequently used options which are not required
7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for
7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this).
7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD
7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Module unloading"
7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULES
7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Without this option you will not be able to unload any
7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  simpler.  If unsure, say Y.
7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Forced module unloading"
7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS
7690d541643SSam Ravnborg	bool "Module versioning support"
7700d541643SSam Ravnborg	depends on MODULES
7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If
7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say N.
7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Source checksum for all modules"
7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULES
7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds    	  sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers
7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  others sometimes change the module source without updating
7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field
7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N.
7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KMOD
7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MODULES
7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  loading the module if it is available.  If unsure, say Y.
8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE
8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Need stop_machine() primitive.
8093a65dfe8SJens Axboe
8103a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig"
811e98c3202SAvi Kivity
812e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
813e98c3202SAvi Kivity	bool
814e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
815e260be67SPaul E. McKenneychoice
816e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	prompt "RCU implementation type:"
817e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	default CLASSIC_RCU
81809503105SPaul E. McKenney	help
81909503105SPaul E. McKenney	  This allows you to choose either the classic RCU implementation
82009503105SPaul E. McKenney	  that is designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
82109503105SPaul E. McKenney	  systems, or the preemptible RCU implementation for best latency
82209503105SPaul E. McKenney	  on realtime systems.  Note that some kernel preemption modes
82309503105SPaul E. McKenney	  will restrict your choice.
82409503105SPaul E. McKenney
82509503105SPaul E. McKenney	  Select the default if you are unsure.
826e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
827e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyconfig CLASSIC_RCU
828e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Classic RCU"
829e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	help
830e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
831e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
832e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  systems.
833e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
834e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  Say Y if you are unsure.
835e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
836e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyconfig PREEMPT_RCU
837e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	bool "Preemptible RCU"
838e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	depends on PREEMPT
839e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	help
840e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
841e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
842e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
843e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
844e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
845e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
846e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
847e260be67SPaul E. McKenney	  Say N if you are unsure.
848e260be67SPaul E. McKenney
849e260be67SPaul E. McKenneyendchoice
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