Roman Zippel | face437 | 2006-06-08 22:12:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | config DEFCONFIG_LIST |
| 2 | string |
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso | b2670ea | 2006-10-19 23:28:23 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | depends on !UML |
Roman Zippel | face437 | 2006-06-08 22:12:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | option defconfig_list |
| 5 | default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" |
| 6 | default "/etc/kernel-config" |
| 7 | default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" |
| 8 | default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" |
| 9 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | menu "Code maturity level options" |
| 11 | |
| 12 | config EXPERIMENTAL |
| 13 | bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" |
| 14 | ---help--- |
| 15 | Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network |
| 16 | drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state |
| 17 | of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of |
| 18 | testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually |
| 19 | known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is |
| 20 | currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage |
| 21 | uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to |
| 22 | avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active |
| 23 | testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it |
| 24 | may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work |
| 25 | in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar |
| 26 | with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers |
| 27 | (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents |
| 28 | <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, |
| 29 | <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and |
| 30 | <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). |
| 31 | |
| 32 | This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are |
| 33 | drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are |
| 34 | scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that |
| 37 | falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires |
| 38 | using these features, you should probably say N here, which will |
| 39 | cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If |
| 40 | you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or |
| 41 | drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. |
| 42 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | config BROKEN |
| 44 | bool |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | |
| 46 | config BROKEN_ON_SMP |
| 47 | bool |
| 48 | depends on BROKEN || !SMP |
| 49 | default y |
| 50 | |
| 51 | config LOCK_KERNEL |
| 52 | bool |
| 53 | depends on SMP || PREEMPT |
| 54 | default y |
| 55 | |
| 56 | config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT |
| 57 | int |
Adrian Bunk | dd673bc | 2006-06-30 01:55:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | default 32 if !UML |
| 59 | default 128 if UML |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | help |
Randy Dunlap | 34ad92c | 2005-10-30 15:01:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment |
| 62 | variables passed to init from the kernel command line. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | |
| 64 | endmenu |
| 65 | |
| 66 | menu "General setup" |
| 67 | |
| 68 | config LOCALVERSION |
| 69 | string "Local version - append to kernel release" |
| 70 | help |
| 71 | Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. |
| 72 | This will show up when you type uname, for example. |
| 73 | The string you set here will be appended after the contents of |
| 74 | any files with a filename matching localversion* in your |
| 75 | object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can |
| 76 | be a maximum of 64 characters. |
| 77 | |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | config LOCALVERSION_AUTO |
| 79 | bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" |
| 80 | default y |
| 81 | help |
| 82 | This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a |
Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current |
| 84 | top of tree revision. |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | |
| 86 | A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion |
Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 88 | appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value |
Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | |
Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced |
| 92 | by running the command: |
| 93 | |
| 94 | $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD |
| 95 | |
| 96 | which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 97 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | config SWAP |
| 99 | bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" |
David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | depends on MMU && BLOCK |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | default y |
| 102 | help |
| 103 | This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support |
Jesper Juhl | 92c3504 | 2006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present |
| 106 | in your computer. If unsure say Y. |
| 107 | |
| 108 | config SYSVIPC |
| 109 | bool "System V IPC" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | ---help--- |
| 111 | Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and |
| 112 | system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and |
| 113 | exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, |
| 114 | and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if |
| 115 | you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the |
| 116 | DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), |
| 117 | you'll need to say Y here. |
| 118 | |
| 119 | You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in |
| 120 | section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from |
| 121 | <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. |
| 122 | |
Kirill Korotaev | 25b21cb | 2006-10-02 02:18:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 123 | config IPC_NS |
| 124 | bool "IPC Namespaces" |
| 125 | depends on SYSVIPC |
| 126 | default n |
| 127 | help |
| 128 | Support ipc namespaces. This allows containers, i.e. virtual |
| 129 | environments, to use ipc namespaces to provide different ipc |
| 130 | objects for different servers. If unsure, say N. |
| 131 | |
Eric W. Biederman | a5494dc | 2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL |
| 133 | bool |
| 134 | depends on SYSVIPC |
| 135 | depends on SYSCTL |
| 136 | default y |
| 137 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | config POSIX_MQUEUE |
| 139 | bool "POSIX Message Queues" |
| 140 | depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 141 | ---help--- |
| 142 | POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message |
| 143 | queues every message has a priority which decides about succession |
| 144 | of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run |
| 145 | programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message |
Robert P. J. Day | b0e3765 | 2007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | |
| 148 | POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' |
| 149 | and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem |
| 150 | operations on message queues. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 153 | |
| 154 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT |
| 155 | bool "BSD Process Accounting" |
| 156 | help |
| 157 | If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the |
| 158 | kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting |
| 159 | information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about |
| 160 | that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The |
| 161 | information includes things such as creation time, owning user, |
| 162 | command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete |
| 163 | list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is |
| 164 | up to the user level program to do useful things with this |
| 165 | information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. |
| 166 | |
| 167 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 |
| 168 | bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" |
| 169 | depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT |
| 170 | default n |
| 171 | help |
| 172 | If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written |
| 173 | in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each |
| 174 | process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible |
| 175 | with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools |
| 176 | for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available |
| 177 | at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>. |
| 178 | |
Shailabh Nagar | c757249 | 2006-07-14 00:24:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 179 | config TASKSTATS |
| 180 | bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 181 | depends on NET |
| 182 | default n |
| 183 | help |
| 184 | Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the |
| 185 | generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the |
| 186 | statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as |
| 187 | responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user |
| 188 | space on task exit. |
| 189 | |
| 190 | Say N if unsure. |
| 191 | |
Shailabh Nagar | ca74e92 | 2006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | config TASK_DELAY_ACCT |
| 193 | bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
Shailabh Nagar | 6f44993 | 2006-07-14 00:24:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | depends on TASKSTATS |
Shailabh Nagar | ca74e92 | 2006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | help |
| 196 | Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system |
| 197 | resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping |
| 198 | in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities |
| 199 | relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. |
| 200 | |
| 201 | Say N if unsure. |
| 202 | |
Alexey Dobriyan | 18f705f | 2007-02-10 01:46:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 203 | config TASK_XACCT |
| 204 | bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 205 | depends on TASKSTATS |
| 206 | help |
| 207 | Collect extended task accounting data and send the data |
| 208 | to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. |
| 209 | |
| 210 | Say N if unsure. |
| 211 | |
| 212 | config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING |
| 213 | bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 214 | depends on TASK_XACCT |
| 215 | help |
| 216 | Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this |
| 217 | task has caused. |
| 218 | |
| 219 | Say N if unsure. |
| 220 | |
Serge E. Hallyn | 4865ecf | 2006-10-02 02:18:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 221 | config UTS_NS |
| 222 | bool "UTS Namespaces" |
| 223 | default n |
| 224 | help |
| 225 | Support uts namespaces. This allows containers, i.e. |
| 226 | vservers, to use uts namespaces to provide different |
| 227 | uts info for different servers. If unsure, say N. |
| 228 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | config AUDIT |
| 230 | bool "Auditing support" |
Chris Wright | 804a6a4 | 2005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 231 | depends on NET |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 232 | help |
| 233 | Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another |
| 234 | kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for |
| 235 | logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call |
| 236 | auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. |
| 237 | |
| 238 | config AUDITSYSCALL |
| 239 | bool "Enable system-call auditing support" |
Martin Schwidefsky | 347a8dc | 2006-01-06 00:19:28 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 240 | depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64) |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 241 | default y if SECURITY_SELINUX |
| 242 | help |
| 243 | Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that |
| 244 | can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, |
Amy Griffis | f368c07d | 2006-04-07 16:55:56 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please |
| 246 | ensure that INOTIFY is configured. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 247 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 248 | config IKCONFIG |
Ross Biro | f2443ab | 2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | tristate "Kernel .config support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 250 | ---help--- |
| 251 | This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file |
| 252 | contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation |
| 253 | of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an |
| 254 | on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel |
| 255 | image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as |
| 256 | input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. |
| 257 | It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading |
| 258 | /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). |
| 259 | |
| 260 | config IKCONFIG_PROC |
| 261 | bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" |
| 262 | depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS |
| 263 | ---help--- |
| 264 | This option enables access to the kernel configuration file |
| 265 | through /proc/config.gz. |
| 266 | |
Alistair John Strachan | 794543a | 2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 267 | config LOG_BUF_SHIFT |
| 268 | int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" |
| 269 | range 12 21 |
| 270 | default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP |
| 271 | default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64 |
| 272 | default 15 if SMP |
| 273 | default 14 |
| 274 | help |
| 275 | Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. |
| 276 | Defaults and Examples: |
| 277 | 17 => 128 KB for S/390 |
| 278 | 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64 |
| 279 | 15 => 32 KB for SMP |
| 280 | 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor |
| 281 | 13 => 8 KB |
| 282 | 12 => 4 KB |
| 283 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 284 | config CPUSETS |
| 285 | bool "Cpuset support" |
| 286 | depends on SMP |
| 287 | help |
Randy Dunlap | d9fd8a6 | 2005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 288 | This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 289 | allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and |
| 290 | Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. |
| 291 | This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. |
| 292 | |
| 293 | Say N if unsure. |
| 294 | |
Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 295 | config SYSFS_DEPRECATED |
| 296 | bool "Create deprecated sysfs files" |
| 297 | default y |
| 298 | help |
| 299 | This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the |
| 300 | "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the |
| 301 | "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the |
| 302 | uevent environment. |
| 303 | None of these features or values should be used today, as |
| 304 | they export driver core implementation details to userspace |
| 305 | or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel |
| 306 | releases. |
| 307 | |
| 308 | If enabled, this option will also move any device structures |
David Sterba | 3dde6ad | 2007-05-09 07:12:20 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 309 | that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in |
Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | order to support older versions of udev. |
| 311 | |
| 312 | If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later, |
| 313 | it should be safe to say N here. |
| 314 | |
Jens Axboe | b86ff98 | 2006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 315 | config RELAY |
| 316 | bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" |
| 317 | help |
| 318 | This option enables support for relay interface support in |
| 319 | certain file systems (such as debugfs). |
| 320 | It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and |
| 321 | facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to |
| 322 | user space. |
| 323 | |
| 324 | If unsure, say N. |
| 325 | |
Dimitri Gorokhovik | f991633 | 2007-03-06 01:42:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | config BLK_DEV_INITRD |
| 327 | bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" |
| 328 | depends on BROKEN || !FRV |
| 329 | help |
| 330 | The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the |
| 331 | boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root |
| 332 | before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to |
| 333 | load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, |
| 334 | etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. |
| 335 | |
| 336 | If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this |
| 337 | also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds |
| 338 | 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. |
| 339 | |
| 340 | If unsure say Y. |
| 341 | |
Jean-Paul Saman | c33df4e | 2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | if BLK_DEV_INITRD |
| 343 | |
Sam Ravnborg | dbec486 | 2005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 344 | source "usr/Kconfig" |
| 345 | |
Jean-Paul Saman | c33df4e | 2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 346 | endif |
| 347 | |
Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 348 | config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE |
| 349 | bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)" |
| 350 | default y |
| 351 | depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL |
Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 352 | help |
| 353 | Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc |
| 354 | resulting in a smaller kernel. |
| 355 | |
| 356 | WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this |
| 357 | option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed. |
| 358 | |
| 359 | If unsure, say N. |
| 360 | |
Randy Dunlap | 0847062 | 2006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 361 | config SYSCTL |
| 362 | bool |
| 363 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 364 | menuconfig EMBEDDED |
| 365 | bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" |
| 366 | help |
| 367 | This option allows certain base kernel options and settings |
| 368 | to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized |
| 369 | environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. |
| 370 | Only use this if you really know what you are doing. |
| 371 | |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 372 | config UID16 |
| 373 | bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED |
Bryan Wu | 1394f03 | 2007-05-06 14:50:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 374 | depends on ARM || BFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 375 | default y |
| 376 | help |
| 377 | This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. |
| 378 | |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 379 | config SYSCTL_SYSCALL |
Randy Dunlap | 0847062 | 2006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 380 | bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 381 | default y |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | select SYSCTL |
| 383 | ---help--- |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging |
| 385 | to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys |
| 386 | using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this |
| 387 | information. |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 388 | |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 389 | Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are |
| 390 | trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, |
| 391 | making your kernel marginally smaller. |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 393 | If unsure say Y here. |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 394 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 395 | config KALLSYMS |
Jesper Juhl | 979c6a1 | 2006-12-12 19:25:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 396 | bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 397 | default y |
| 398 | help |
| 399 | Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and |
| 400 | symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel |
| 401 | somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. |
| 402 | |
| 403 | config KALLSYMS_ALL |
| 404 | bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" |
| 405 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS |
| 406 | help |
| 407 | Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer |
| 408 | OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other |
Jesper Juhl | f9f97bc | 2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 409 | symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them |
| 410 | and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 411 | |
| 412 | Say N. |
| 413 | |
| 414 | config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS |
| 415 | bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" |
| 416 | depends on KALLSYMS |
| 417 | help |
| 418 | If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with |
| 419 | inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and |
| 420 | turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. |
| 421 | Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be |
| 422 | reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while |
| 423 | you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. |
| 424 | |
Matt Mackall | d59745c | 2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 425 | |
Greg Kroah-Hartman | 712f47c | 2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 426 | config HOTPLUG |
| 427 | bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED |
| 428 | default y |
| 429 | help |
| 430 | This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent |
| 431 | capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider |
| 432 | disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a |
| 433 | dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. |
| 434 | |
Matt Mackall | d59745c | 2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 435 | config PRINTK |
| 436 | default y |
| 437 | bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED |
| 438 | help |
| 439 | This option enables normal printk support. Removing it |
| 440 | eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image |
| 441 | and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it |
| 442 | very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is |
| 443 | strongly discouraged. |
| 444 | |
Matt Mackall | c8538a7 | 2005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 445 | config BUG |
| 446 | bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED |
| 447 | default y |
| 448 | help |
| 449 | Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing |
| 450 | the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring |
| 451 | numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this |
| 452 | option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. |
| 453 | Just say Y. |
| 454 | |
Matt Mackall | 708e9a7 | 2006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 455 | config ELF_CORE |
| 456 | default y |
| 457 | bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED |
| 458 | help |
| 459 | Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. |
| 460 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 461 | config BASE_FULL |
| 462 | default y |
| 463 | bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED |
| 464 | help |
| 465 | Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core |
| 466 | kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, |
| 467 | but may reduce performance. |
| 468 | |
| 469 | config FUTEX |
| 470 | bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED |
| 471 | default y |
Ingo Molnar | 23f78d4 | 2006-06-27 02:54:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 472 | select RT_MUTEXES |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 473 | help |
| 474 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without |
| 475 | support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not |
| 476 | run glibc-based applications correctly. |
| 477 | |
Davide Libenzi | 5dc8bf8 | 2007-05-10 22:23:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 478 | config ANON_INODES |
| 479 | bool "Enable anonymous inode source" if EMBEDDED |
| 480 | default y |
| 481 | help |
| 482 | Anonymous inode source for pseudo-files like epoll, signalfd, |
| 483 | timerfd and eventfd. |
| 484 | |
| 485 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 486 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 487 | config EPOLL |
| 488 | bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED |
| 489 | default y |
Davide Libenzi | 5dc8bf8 | 2007-05-10 22:23:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 490 | depends on ANON_INODES |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 491 | help |
| 492 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without |
| 493 | support for epoll family of system calls. |
| 494 | |
Davide Libenzi | fba2afa | 2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 495 | config SIGNALFD |
| 496 | bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED |
| 497 | depends on ANON_INODES |
| 498 | default y |
| 499 | help |
| 500 | Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals |
| 501 | on a file descriptor. |
| 502 | |
| 503 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 504 | |
Davide Libenzi | b215e28 | 2007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 505 | config TIMERFD |
| 506 | bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED |
| 507 | depends on ANON_INODES |
| 508 | default y |
| 509 | help |
| 510 | Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer |
| 511 | events on a file descriptor. |
| 512 | |
| 513 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 514 | |
Davide Libenzi | e1ad746 | 2007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | config EVENTFD |
| 516 | bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED |
| 517 | depends on ANON_INODES |
| 518 | default y |
| 519 | help |
| 520 | Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both |
| 521 | kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. |
| 522 | |
| 523 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 524 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 525 | config SHMEM |
| 526 | bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED |
| 527 | default y |
| 528 | depends on MMU |
| 529 | help |
| 530 | The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. |
| 531 | It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported |
| 532 | to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this |
| 533 | option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, |
| 534 | which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. |
| 535 | |
Christoph Lameter | f8891e5 | 2006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 536 | config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS |
| 537 | default y |
| 538 | bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED |
| 539 | help |
Paul Jackson | 2aea4fb | 2006-12-22 01:06:10 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 540 | VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. |
| 541 | This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters |
| 542 | on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts |
| 543 | if VM event counters are disabled. |
Christoph Lameter | f8891e5 | 2006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 544 | |
Christoph Lameter | 41ecc55 | 2007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 545 | config SLUB_DEBUG |
| 546 | default y |
| 547 | bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED |
Christoph Lameter | d4751a2 | 2007-05-10 03:15:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 548 | depends on SLUB |
Christoph Lameter | 41ecc55 | 2007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 549 | help |
| 550 | SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can |
| 551 | result in significant savings in code size. This also disables |
| 552 | SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be |
| 553 | no support for cache validation etc. |
| 554 | |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 555 | choice |
| 556 | prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" |
| 557 | default SLAB |
| 558 | help |
| 559 | This option allows to select a slab allocator. |
| 560 | |
| 561 | config SLAB |
| 562 | bool "SLAB" |
| 563 | help |
| 564 | The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work |
Christoph Lameter | 3401388 | 2007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 565 | well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 566 | per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for |
Christoph Lameter | 3401388 | 2007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 567 | a slab allocator. |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 568 | |
| 569 | config SLUB |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 570 | bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" |
| 571 | help |
| 572 | SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage |
| 573 | instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). |
| 574 | Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead |
| 575 | of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently |
Christoph Lameter | 3401388 | 2007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 576 | and has enhanced diagnostics. |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 577 | |
| 578 | config SLOB |
Paul Mundt | 84a01c2 | 2007-07-15 23:38:24 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 579 | depends on EMBEDDED |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 580 | bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" |
| 581 | help |
| 582 | SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler |
Nick Piggin | afc0ced | 2007-05-16 22:10:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 583 | allocator. SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not |
Christoph Lameter | 3401388 | 2007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 584 | scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly |
| 585 | susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object |
| 586 | density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB. |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 587 | |
| 588 | endchoice |
| 589 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 590 | endmenu # General setup |
| 591 | |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 592 | config RT_MUTEXES |
| 593 | boolean |
| 594 | select PLIST |
| 595 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 596 | config TINY_SHMEM |
| 597 | default !SHMEM |
| 598 | bool |
| 599 | |
| 600 | config BASE_SMALL |
| 601 | int |
| 602 | default 0 if BASE_FULL |
| 603 | default 1 if !BASE_FULL |
| 604 | |
Jan Engelhardt | 66da573 | 2007-07-15 23:39:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 605 | menuconfig MODULES |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 606 | bool "Enable loadable module support" |
| 607 | help |
| 608 | Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can |
| 609 | be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being |
| 610 | permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" |
| 611 | tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, |
| 612 | many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by |
| 613 | answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most |
| 614 | useful for infrequently used options which are not required |
| 615 | for booting. For more information, see the man pages for |
| 616 | modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. |
| 617 | |
| 618 | If you say Y here, you will need to run "make |
| 619 | modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ |
| 620 | where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do |
| 621 | this). |
| 622 | |
| 623 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 624 | |
| 625 | config MODULE_UNLOAD |
| 626 | bool "Module unloading" |
| 627 | depends on MODULES |
| 628 | help |
| 629 | Without this option you will not be able to unload any |
| 630 | modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable |
| 631 | anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and |
| 632 | simpler. If unsure, say Y. |
| 633 | |
| 634 | config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD |
| 635 | bool "Forced module unloading" |
| 636 | depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 637 | help |
| 638 | This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the |
| 639 | kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module |
| 640 | without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to |
| 641 | rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. |
| 642 | If unsure, say N. |
| 643 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 644 | config MODVERSIONS |
Sam Ravnborg | 0d54164 | 2005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 645 | bool "Module versioning support" |
| 646 | depends on MODULES |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 647 | help |
| 648 | Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. |
| 649 | Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules |
| 650 | compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information |
| 651 | to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would |
| 652 | make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If |
| 653 | unsure, say N. |
| 654 | |
| 655 | config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL |
| 656 | bool "Source checksum for all modules" |
| 657 | depends on MODULES |
| 658 | help |
| 659 | Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" |
| 660 | field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a |
| 661 | sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers |
| 662 | see exactly which source was used to build a module (since |
| 663 | others sometimes change the module source without updating |
| 664 | the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field |
| 665 | will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. |
| 666 | |
| 667 | config KMOD |
| 668 | bool "Automatic kernel module loading" |
| 669 | depends on MODULES |
| 670 | help |
| 671 | Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to |
| 672 | be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the |
| 673 | "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y |
| 674 | here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules |
| 675 | automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it |
| 676 | runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby |
| 677 | loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y. |
| 678 | |
| 679 | config STOP_MACHINE |
| 680 | bool |
| 681 | default y |
| 682 | depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU |
| 683 | help |
| 684 | Need stop_machine() primitive. |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 685 | |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 686 | source "block/Kconfig" |