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Roman Zippel80daa562008-01-14 04:51:16 +01001config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -07009config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrussob2670eac2006-10-19 23:28:23 -070011 depends on !UML
Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -070012 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
Sam Ravnborg73531902008-05-25 23:03:18 +020016 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -070017 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
Peter Oberparleiterb99b87f2009-06-17 16:28:03 -070019config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
22 default y
23
Al Boldiff0cfc62007-07-31 00:39:23 -070024menu "General setup"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070025
26config EXPERIMENTAL
27 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
28 ---help---
29 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
30 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
31 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
32 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
33 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
34 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
35 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
36 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
37 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
38 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
39 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
40 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
41 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
42 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
43 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
44 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
45
46 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
47 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
48 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
49
50 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
51 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
52 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
53 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
54 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
55 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
56
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070057config BROKEN
58 bool
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070059
60config BROKEN_ON_SMP
61 bool
62 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
63 default y
64
65config LOCK_KERNEL
66 bool
67 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
68 default y
69
70config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
71 int
Adrian Bunkdd673bc2006-06-30 01:55:51 -070072 default 32 if !UML
73 default 128 if UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070074 help
Randy Dunlap34ad92c2005-10-30 15:01:46 -080075 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
76 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070077
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070078
79config LOCALVERSION
80 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
81 help
82 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
83 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
84 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
85 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
86 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
87 be a maximum of 64 characters.
88
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040089config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
90 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
91 default y
92 help
93 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020094 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
95 top of tree revision.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040096
97 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020098 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040099 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200100 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400101
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200102 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
103 by running the command:
104
105 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
106
107 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400108
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800109config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
110 bool
111
112config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
113 bool
114
115config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
116 bool
117
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800118config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
119 bool
120
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100121choice
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800122 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
123 default KERNEL_GZIP
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800124 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800125 help
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100126 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
127 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
128 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
129 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
130 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
131
132 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
133 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
134 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
135 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
136
137 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
138 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
139 size matters less.
140
141 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
142
143config KERNEL_GZIP
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800144 bool "Gzip"
145 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
146 help
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800147 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
148 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100149
150config KERNEL_BZIP2
151 bool "Bzip2"
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800152 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100153 help
154 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800155 Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel
156 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
157 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
158 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100159
160config KERNEL_LZMA
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800161 bool "LZMA"
162 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
163 help
164 The most recent compression algorithm.
165 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
166 two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
167 smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100168
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800169config KERNEL_LZO
170 bool "LZO"
171 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
172 help
173 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
174 size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
175 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
176
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100177endchoice
178
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700179config SWAP
180 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200181 depends on MMU && BLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700182 default y
183 help
184 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
Jesper Juhl92c35042006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100185 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700186 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
187 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
188
189config SYSVIPC
190 bool "System V IPC"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700191 ---help---
192 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
193 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
194 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
195 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
196 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
197 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
198 you'll need to say Y here.
199
200 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
201 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
202 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
203
Eric W. Biedermana5494dc2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800204config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
205 bool
206 depends on SYSVIPC
207 depends on SYSCTL
208 default y
209
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700210config POSIX_MQUEUE
211 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
212 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
213 ---help---
214 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
215 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
216 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
217 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
Robert P. J. Dayb0e37652007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200218 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700219
220 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
221 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
222 operations on message queues.
223
224 If unsure, say Y.
225
Serge E. Hallynbdc8e5f2009-04-06 19:01:11 -0700226config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
227 bool
228 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
229 depends on SYSCTL
230 default y
231
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700232config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
233 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
234 help
235 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
236 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
237 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
238 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
239 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
240 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
241 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
242 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
243 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
244
245config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
246 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
247 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
248 default n
249 help
250 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
251 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
252 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
253 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
254 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
S.Çağlar Onur37a4c942008-06-18 11:45:13 +0300255 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700256
Shailabh Nagarc7572492006-07-14 00:24:40 -0700257config TASKSTATS
258 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
259 depends on NET
260 default n
261 help
262 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
263 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
264 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
265 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
266 space on task exit.
267
268 Say N if unsure.
269
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700270config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
271 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Shailabh Nagar6f449932006-07-14 00:24:41 -0700272 depends on TASKSTATS
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700273 help
274 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
275 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
276 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
277 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
278
279 Say N if unsure.
280
Alexey Dobriyan18f705f2007-02-10 01:46:44 -0800281config TASK_XACCT
282 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
283 depends on TASKSTATS
284 help
285 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
286 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
287
288 Say N if unsure.
289
290config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
291 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
292 depends on TASK_XACCT
293 help
294 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
295 task has caused.
296
297 Say N if unsure.
298
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700299config AUDIT
300 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a492005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100301 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700302 help
303 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
304 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
305 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
306 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
307
308config AUDITSYSCALL
309 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
Kumar Gala022382a2009-10-16 07:21:37 +0000310 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700311 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
312 help
313 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
314 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
Amy Griffisf368c07d2006-04-07 16:55:56 -0400315 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
316 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700317
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400318config AUDIT_TREE
319 def_bool y
Eric Paris63c882a2009-05-21 17:02:01 -0400320 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
321 select INOTIFY
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400322
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800323menu "RCU Subsystem"
324
325choice
326 prompt "RCU Implementation"
Paul E. McKenney31c9a242009-04-02 21:06:25 -0700327 default TREE_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800328
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800329config TREE_RCU
330 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
331 help
332 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
333 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
Paul E. McKenneyc17ef452009-06-23 17:12:47 -0700334 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
335 smaller systems.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800336
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700337config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
338 bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU"
339 depends on PREEMPT
340 help
341 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
342 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
343 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
Paul E. McKenneybbe3eae2009-09-13 09:15:08 -0700344 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
345 smaller systems.
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700346
Paul E. McKenney9b1d82f2009-10-25 19:03:50 -0700347config TINY_RCU
348 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
349 depends on !SMP
350 help
351 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
352 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
353 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
354 memory footprint of RCU.
355
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800356endchoice
357
358config RCU_TRACE
359 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
Paul E. McKenney6b3ef482009-08-22 13:56:53 -0700360 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800361 help
362 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
363 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
364
365 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
366 Say N if you are unsure.
367
368config RCU_FANOUT
369 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
370 range 2 64 if 64BIT
371 range 2 32 if !64BIT
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700372 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800373 default 64 if 64BIT
374 default 32 if !64BIT
375 help
376 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
377 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
378 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube
379 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
380 systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
381
382 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
383 Take the default if unsure.
384
385config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
386 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700387 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800388 default n
389 help
390 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
391 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
392 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
393 strong NUMA behavior.
394
395 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
396
397 Say N if unsure.
398
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800399config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
400 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
401 depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
402 default n
403 help
404 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
405 in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
406 more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the
407 overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
408 with large numbers of CPUs.
409
410 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
411 if you have relatively few CPUs.
412
413 Say N if you are unsure.
414
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800415config TREE_RCU_TRACE
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700416 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800417 select DEBUG_FS
418 help
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700419 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
420 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
421 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800422
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800423endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
424
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700425config IKCONFIG
Ross Birof2443ab2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700426 tristate "Kernel .config support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700427 ---help---
428 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
429 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
430 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
431 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
432 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
433 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
434 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
435 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
436
437config IKCONFIG_PROC
438 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
439 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
440 ---help---
441 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
442 through /proc/config.gz.
443
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700444config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
445 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
446 range 12 21
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700447 default 17
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700448 help
449 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700450 Examples:
451 17 => 128 KB
452 16 => 64 KB
453 15 => 32 KB
454 14 => 16 KB
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700455 13 => 8 KB
456 12 => 4 KB
457
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800458#
459# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
460#
461config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
462 bool
463
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800464menuconfig CGROUPS
465 boolean "Control Group support"
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700466 help
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800467 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800468 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
469 controls or device isolation.
470 See
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800471 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
Li Zefan45ce80f2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800472 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
473 and resource control)
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700474
475 Say N if unsure.
476
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800477if CGROUPS
478
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700479config CGROUP_DEBUG
480 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
481 depends on CGROUPS
Paul Menage418d7d82008-04-29 01:00:05 -0700482 default n
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700483 help
484 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
485 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800486 framework.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700487
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800488 Say N if unsure.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700489
Serge E. Hallyn858d72e2007-10-18 23:39:45 -0700490config CGROUP_NS
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800491 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
492 depends on CGROUPS
493 help
494 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
495 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
496 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
497 jobs.
Serge E. Hallyn858d72e2007-10-18 23:39:45 -0700498
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700499config CGROUP_FREEZER
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800500 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
501 depends on CGROUPS
502 help
503 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700504 cgroup.
505
Serge E. Hallyn08ce5f12008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700506config CGROUP_DEVICE
507 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
508 depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
509 help
510 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
511 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
512
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700513config CPUSETS
514 bool "Cpuset support"
Paul Menagedb7f47c2009-04-02 16:57:55 -0700515 depends on CGROUPS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700516 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700517 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700518 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
519 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
520 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
521
522 Say N if unsure.
523
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800524config PROC_PID_CPUSET
525 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
526 depends on CPUSETS
527 default y
528
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100529config CGROUP_CPUACCT
530 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
531 depends on CGROUPS
532 help
533 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800534 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100535
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800536config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
537 bool "Resource counters"
538 help
539 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800540 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800541 depends on CGROUPS
542
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800543config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
544 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
545 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700546 select MM_OWNER
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800547 help
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700548 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo21acb9c2009-02-04 10:12:08 +0100549 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800550
551 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700552 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
553 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
554 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
555 at boot.
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800556
557 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700558 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
559 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
560 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
Li Zefanc9d54092009-01-07 18:07:35 -0800561 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800562
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700563 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
564 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
565
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800566config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
567 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
568 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
569 help
570 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
571 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
572 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
573 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
574 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
575 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
576 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
577 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
578 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
579 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
580 if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki627991a2009-04-02 16:57:47 -0700581 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
582 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800583
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100584menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
585 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
586 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS
587 default n
588 help
589 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
590 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
591 tasks.
592
593if CGROUP_SCHED
594config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
595 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
596 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
597 default CGROUP_SCHED
598
599config RT_GROUP_SCHED
600 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
601 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
602 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
603 default n
604 help
605 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
606 to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
607 setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
608 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
609 realtime bandwidth for them.
610 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
611
612endif #CGROUP_SCHED
613
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800614endif # CGROUPS
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800615
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800616config MM_OWNER
617 bool
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800618
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200619config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Ingo Molnard47846c2008-03-04 14:54:47 +0100620 bool
621
622config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
Uwe Kleine-König9e9868a2009-12-03 19:58:00 +0100623 bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
Randy Dunlap9148fe82007-12-31 10:05:34 -0800624 depends on SYSFS
Kay Sieversf6ee6492009-04-16 19:56:37 +0200625 default n
Ingo Molnard47846c2008-03-04 14:54:47 +0100626 select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200627 help
Kay Sieversfce3e802008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100628 This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
Kay Sieversf6ee6492009-04-16 19:56:37 +0200629 version. Do not use it on recent distributions.
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200630
Kay Sieversfce3e802008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100631 The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
632 /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
633 class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
634 unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
635 /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
636 /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
637 "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
638 class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
639 subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
640 depend on the unified device tree.
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200641
Kay Sieversfce3e802008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100642 This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
643 be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
644 layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
645 and disable some features, which can not be exported without
646 confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
647 distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
648 depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
649
650 If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
651 older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
652 if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
653 this option set to N.
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200654
Jens Axboeb86ff9812006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100655config RELAY
656 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
657 help
658 This option enables support for relay interface support in
659 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
660 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
661 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
662 user space.
663
664 If unsure, say N.
665
Pavel Emelyanovc5289a62008-02-08 04:18:19 -0800666config NAMESPACES
667 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
668 default !EMBEDDED
669 help
670 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
671 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
672 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
673 different namespaces.
674
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800675config UTS_NS
676 bool "UTS namespace"
677 depends on NAMESPACES
678 help
679 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
680 uname() system call
681
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800682config IPC_NS
683 bool "IPC namespace"
Serge E. Hallyn614b84c2009-04-06 19:01:08 -0700684 depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800685 help
686 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
Serge E. Hallyn614b84c2009-04-06 19:01:08 -0700687 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800688
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800689config USER_NS
690 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
691 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
692 help
693 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
694 to provide different user info for different servers.
695 If unsure, say N.
696
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800697config PID_NS
698 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
699 default n
700 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
701 help
Heikki Orsila12d2b8f2008-07-06 15:48:02 +0300702 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100703 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800704 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
705
706 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
707 say N here.
708
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -0800709config NET_NS
710 bool "Network namespace"
711 default n
712 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
713 help
714 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
715 of the network stack.
716
Dimitri Gorokhovikf9916332007-03-06 01:42:17 -0800717config BLK_DEV_INITRD
718 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
719 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
720 help
721 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
722 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
723 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
724 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
725 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
726
727 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
728 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
729 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
730
731 If unsure say Y.
732
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800733if BLK_DEV_INITRD
734
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200735source "usr/Kconfig"
736
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800737endif
738
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800739config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar96fffeb2008-04-28 01:39:43 +0200740 bool "Optimize for size"
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800741 default y
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800742 help
743 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
744 resulting in a smaller kernel.
745
jkacur775a7222008-07-16 00:31:16 +0200746 If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800747
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700748config SYSCTL
749 bool
750
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -0700751config ANON_INODES
752 bool
753
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700754menuconfig EMBEDDED
755 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
756 help
757 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
758 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
759 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
760 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
761
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700762config UID16
763 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
David S. Miller09337f52008-04-26 03:17:12 -0700764 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700765 default y
766 help
767 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
768
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700769config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700770 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
Eric W. Biederman26a70342009-11-05 05:26:41 -0800771 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800772 default y
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700773 select SYSCTL
774 ---help---
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800775 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
776 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
777 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
778 information.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700779
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800780 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
781 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
782 making your kernel marginally smaller.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700783
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800784 If unsure say Y here.
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700785
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700786config KALLSYMS
Jesper Juhl979c6a12006-12-12 19:25:11 +0100787 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700788 default y
789 help
790 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
791 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
792 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
793
794config KALLSYMS_ALL
795 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
796 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
797 help
798 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
799 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
Jesper Juhlf9f97bc2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200800 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
801 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700802
803 Say N.
804
805config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
806 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
807 depends on KALLSYMS
808 help
809 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
810 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
811 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
812 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
813 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
814 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
815
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700816
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800817config HOTPLUG
818 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
819 default y
820 help
821 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
822 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
823 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
824 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
825
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700826config PRINTK
827 default y
828 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
829 help
830 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
831 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
832 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
833 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
834 strongly discouraged.
835
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700836config BUG
837 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
838 default y
839 help
840 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
841 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
842 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
843 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
844 Just say Y.
845
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800846config ELF_CORE
847 default y
848 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
849 help
850 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
851
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +0200852config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
853 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
854 depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
855 default y
856 help
857 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
858 support, saving some memory.
859
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700860config BASE_FULL
861 default y
862 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
863 help
864 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
865 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
866 but may reduce performance.
867
868config FUTEX
869 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
870 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d4a2006-06-27 02:54:53 -0700871 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700872 help
873 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
874 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
875 run glibc-based applications correctly.
876
877config EPOLL
878 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
879 default y
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700880 select ANON_INODES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700881 help
882 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
883 support for epoll family of system calls.
884
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700885config SIGNALFD
886 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700887 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700888 default y
889 help
890 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
891 on a file descriptor.
892
893 If unsure, say Y.
894
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700895config TIMERFD
896 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700897 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700898 default y
899 help
900 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
901 events on a file descriptor.
902
903 If unsure, say Y.
904
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700905config EVENTFD
906 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700907 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700908 default y
909 help
910 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
911 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
912
913 If unsure, say Y.
914
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700915config SHMEM
916 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
917 default y
918 depends on MMU
919 help
920 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
921 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
922 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
923 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
924 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
925
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -0700926config AIO
927 bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
928 default y
929 help
930 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
931 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
932 this option saves about 7k.
933
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +0200934config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100935 bool
Mike Frysinger018df722009-06-12 13:17:43 -0400936 help
937 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100938
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +0200939config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
940 bool
941 help
942 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
943
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200944menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100945
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +0200946config PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200947 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
948 default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +0200949 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar4c59e462008-12-08 19:38:33 +0100950 select ANON_INODES
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100951 help
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200952 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
953 by software and hardware.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100954
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -0200955 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200956 use of generic tracepoints.
957
958 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
959 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100960 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
961 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
962 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
963 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
964 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
965
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200966 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -0200967 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200968 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100969 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
970 capabilities on top of those.
971
972 Say Y if unsure.
973
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200974config PERF_COUNTERS
975 bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
976 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
977 help
978 This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
979 config option - please see that one for details.
980
981 It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
982 it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
983
984 Say N if unsure.
985
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +0200986config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
987 default n
988 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
989 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
990 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
991 help
992 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
993
994 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
995 that don't require it.
996
997 Say N if unsure.
998
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100999endmenu
1000
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001001config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1002 default y
1003 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
1004 help
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001005 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1006 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1007 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1008 if VM event counters are disabled.
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001009
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +02001010config PCI_QUIRKS
1011 default y
Geert Uytterhoeven61cfc7e2008-10-22 08:53:25 +02001012 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
1013 depends on PCI
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +02001014 help
1015 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1016 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1017 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1018
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001019config SLUB_DEBUG
1020 default y
1021 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
Christoph Lameterf6acb632008-04-29 16:16:06 -07001022 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001023 help
1024 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1025 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1026 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1027 no support for cache validation etc.
1028
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001029config COMPAT_BRK
1030 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1031 default y
1032 help
1033 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1034 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1035 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001036 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001037 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1038
1039 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1040
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001041choice
1042 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
Christoph Lametera0acd822007-07-17 04:03:32 -07001043 default SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001044 help
1045 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1046
1047config SLAB
1048 bool "SLAB"
1049 help
1050 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -07001051 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001052 per cpu and per node queues.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001053
1054config SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001055 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1056 help
1057 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1058 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1059 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1060 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001061 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1062 a slab allocator.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001063
1064config SLOB
Paul Mundt84a01c22007-07-15 23:38:24 -07001065 depends on EMBEDDED
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001066 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1067 help
Matt Mackall37291452008-02-04 22:29:38 -08001068 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1069 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1070 does not perform as well on large systems.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001071
1072endchoice
1073
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001074config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1075 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1076 depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1077 default n
1078 help
1079 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1080 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1081 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1082 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1083 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1084 then the flag will be ignored.
1085
1086 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1087 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1088
1089 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1090 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1091 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1092 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1093
1094 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1095
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001096config PROFILING
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +01001097 bool "Profiling support"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001098 help
1099 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1100 by profilers such as OProfile.
1101
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001102#
1103# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1104# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1105#
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001106config TRACEPOINTS
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001107 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001108
Mathieu Desnoyersfb32e032008-02-02 15:10:33 -05001109source "arch/Kconfig"
1110
David Howells07fe7cb2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01001111config SLOW_WORK
1112 default n
David Howells1c2d0082009-04-06 15:47:25 +01001113 bool
David Howells07fe7cb2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01001114 help
1115 The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
1116 threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
1117 take a relatively long time.
1118
1119 An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
1120 by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
1121 disk.
1122
David Howells1c2d0082009-04-06 15:47:25 +01001123 See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
1124
David Howellsf13a48b2009-12-01 15:36:11 +00001125config SLOW_WORK_DEBUG
1126 bool "Slow work debugging through debugfs"
David Howells8fba10a2009-11-19 18:10:51 +00001127 default n
David Howellsf13a48b2009-12-01 15:36:11 +00001128 depends on SLOW_WORK && DEBUG_FS
David Howells8fba10a2009-11-19 18:10:51 +00001129 help
David Howellsf13a48b2009-12-01 15:36:11 +00001130 Display the contents of the slow work run queue through debugfs,
David Howells8fba10a2009-11-19 18:10:51 +00001131 including items currently executing.
1132
1133 See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
1134
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001135endmenu # General setup
1136
Dmitry Baryshkovee7e5512008-06-29 14:18:46 +04001137config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1138 bool
1139 default n
1140
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001141config SLABINFO
1142 bool
1143 depends on PROC_FS
Christoph Lameter0f389ec2008-04-14 18:53:02 +03001144 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001145 default y
1146
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001147config RT_MUTEXES
1148 boolean
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001149
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001150config BASE_SMALL
1151 int
1152 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1153 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1154
Jan Engelhardt66da5732007-07-15 23:39:29 -07001155menuconfig MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001156 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1157 help
1158 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1159 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1160 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1161 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1162 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1163 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1164 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1165 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1166 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1167
1168 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1169 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1170 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1171 this).
1172
1173 If unsure, say Y.
1174
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001175if MODULES
1176
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001177config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1178 bool "Forced module loading"
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001179 default n
1180 help
Rusty Russell91e37a72008-05-09 16:25:28 +10001181 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1182 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1183 is usually a really bad idea.
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001184
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001185config MODULE_UNLOAD
1186 bool "Module unloading"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001187 help
1188 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1189 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
Denys Vlasenkof7f5b672008-07-22 19:24:26 -05001190 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1191 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001192
1193config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1194 bool "Forced module unloading"
1195 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1196 help
1197 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1198 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1199 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1200 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1201 If unsure, say N.
1202
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001203config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +01001204 bool "Module versioning support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001205 help
1206 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1207 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1208 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1209 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1210 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1211 unsure, say N.
1212
1213config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1214 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001215 help
1216 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1217 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1218 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1219 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1220 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1221 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1222 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1223
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001224endif # MODULES
1225
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301226config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1227 bool
1228 help
1229 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
1230 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
1231 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1232 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001233 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301234
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001235config STOP_MACHINE
1236 bool
1237 default y
1238 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1239 help
1240 Need stop_machine() primitive.
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01001241
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01001242source "block/Kconfig"
Avi Kivitye98c3202007-10-16 23:27:31 -07001243
1244config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1245 bool
Paul E. McKenneye260be62008-01-25 21:08:24 +01001246
Steffen Klassert16295be2010-01-06 19:47:10 +11001247config PADATA
1248 depends on SMP
1249 bool
1250
Thomas Gleixner6beb0002009-11-09 15:21:34 +00001251source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"