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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
Peter Zijlstrae360adb2010-10-14 14:01:34 +080024config HAVE_IRQ_WORK
25 bool
26
27config IRQ_WORK
28 bool
29 depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
30
Al Boldiff0cfc62007-07-31 00:39:23 -070031menu "General setup"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070032
33config EXPERIMENTAL
34 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
35 ---help---
36 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
37 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
38 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
39 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
40 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
41 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
42 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
43 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
44 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
45 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
46 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
47 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
48 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
49 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
50 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
51 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
52
53 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
54 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
55 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
56
57 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
58 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
59 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
60 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
61 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
62 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
63
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070064config BROKEN
65 bool
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070066
67config BROKEN_ON_SMP
68 bool
69 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
70 default y
71
72config LOCK_KERNEL
73 bool
Arnd Bergmann6de5bd12010-09-11 18:00:57 +020074 depends on (SMP || PREEMPT) && BKL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070075 default y
76
77config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
78 int
Adrian Bunkdd673bc2006-06-30 01:55:51 -070079 default 32 if !UML
80 default 128 if UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070081 help
Randy Dunlap34ad92c2005-10-30 15:01:46 -080082 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
83 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070084
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070085
Roland McGrath84336462009-12-21 16:24:06 -080086config CROSS_COMPILE
87 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
88 help
89 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
90 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
91 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
92 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
93
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070094config LOCALVERSION
95 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
96 help
97 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
98 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
99 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
100 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
101 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
102 be a maximum of 64 characters.
103
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400104config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
105 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
106 default y
107 help
108 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200109 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
110 top of tree revision.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400111
112 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200113 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400114 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200115 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400116
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200117 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
118 by running the command:
119
120 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
121
122 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400123
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800124config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
125 bool
126
127config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
128 bool
129
130config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
131 bool
132
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800133config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
134 bool
135
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100136choice
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800137 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
138 default KERNEL_GZIP
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800139 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800140 help
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100141 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
142 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
143 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
144 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
145 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
146
147 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
148 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
149 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
150 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
151
152 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
153 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
154 size matters less.
155
156 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
157
158config KERNEL_GZIP
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800159 bool "Gzip"
160 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
161 help
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800162 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
163 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100164
165config KERNEL_BZIP2
166 bool "Bzip2"
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100168 help
169 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800170 Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel
171 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
172 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
173 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100174
175config KERNEL_LZMA
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800176 bool "LZMA"
177 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
178 help
179 The most recent compression algorithm.
180 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
181 two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
182 smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100183
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800184config KERNEL_LZO
185 bool "LZO"
186 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
187 help
188 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
Stephan Sperber681b3042010-07-14 11:23:08 +0200189 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800190 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
191
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100192endchoice
193
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700194config SWAP
195 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200196 depends on MMU && BLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700197 default y
198 help
199 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
Jesper Juhl92c35042006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100200 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700201 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
202 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
203
204config SYSVIPC
205 bool "System V IPC"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700206 ---help---
207 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
208 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
209 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
210 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
211 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
212 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
213 you'll need to say Y here.
214
215 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
216 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
217 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
218
Eric W. Biedermana5494dc2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800219config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
220 bool
221 depends on SYSVIPC
222 depends on SYSCTL
223 default y
224
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700225config POSIX_MQUEUE
226 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
227 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
228 ---help---
229 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
230 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
231 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
232 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
Robert P. J. Dayb0e37652007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200233 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700234
235 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
236 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
237 operations on message queues.
238
239 If unsure, say Y.
240
Serge E. Hallynbdc8e5f2009-04-06 19:01:11 -0700241config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
242 bool
243 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
244 depends on SYSCTL
245 default y
246
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700247config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
248 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
249 help
250 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
251 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
252 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
253 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
254 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
255 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
256 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
257 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
258 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
259
260config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
261 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
262 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
263 default n
264 help
265 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
266 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
267 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
268 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
269 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
S.Çağlar Onur37a4c942008-06-18 11:45:13 +0300270 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700271
Shailabh Nagarc7572492006-07-14 00:24:40 -0700272config TASKSTATS
273 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
274 depends on NET
275 default n
276 help
277 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
278 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
279 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
280 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
281 space on task exit.
282
283 Say N if unsure.
284
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700285config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
286 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Shailabh Nagar6f449932006-07-14 00:24:41 -0700287 depends on TASKSTATS
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700288 help
289 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
290 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
291 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
292 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
293
294 Say N if unsure.
295
Alexey Dobriyan18f705f2007-02-10 01:46:44 -0800296config TASK_XACCT
297 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
298 depends on TASKSTATS
299 help
300 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
301 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
302
303 Say N if unsure.
304
305config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
306 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
307 depends on TASK_XACCT
308 help
309 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
310 task has caused.
311
312 Say N if unsure.
313
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700314config AUDIT
315 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a492005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100316 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700317 help
318 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
319 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
320 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
321 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
322
323config AUDITSYSCALL
324 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
Kumar Gala022382a2009-10-16 07:21:37 +0000325 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700326 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
327 help
328 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
329 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
Eric Paris67640b62009-12-17 20:12:06 -0500330 such as SELinux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700331
Eric Paris939a67f2009-12-17 20:12:06 -0500332config AUDIT_WATCH
333 def_bool y
334 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
335 select FSNOTIFY
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700336
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400337config AUDIT_TREE
338 def_bool y
Eric Paris63c882a2009-05-21 17:02:01 -0400339 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
Eric Paris28a3a7e2009-12-17 20:12:05 -0500340 select FSNOTIFY
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400341
Thomas Gleixnerd9817eb2010-09-27 12:45:59 +0000342source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
343
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800344menu "RCU Subsystem"
345
346choice
347 prompt "RCU Implementation"
Paul E. McKenney31c9a242009-04-02 21:06:25 -0700348 default TREE_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800349
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800350config TREE_RCU
351 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
Paul E. McKenney687d7a92010-07-21 06:52:40 -0700352 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800353 help
354 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
355 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
Paul E. McKenneyc17ef452009-06-23 17:12:47 -0700356 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
357 smaller systems.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800358
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700359config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700360 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700361 depends on PREEMPT
362 help
363 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
364 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
365 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
Paul E. McKenneybbe3eae2009-09-13 09:15:08 -0700366 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
367 smaller systems.
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700368
Paul E. McKenney9b1d82f2009-10-25 19:03:50 -0700369config TINY_RCU
370 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
371 depends on !SMP
372 help
373 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
374 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
375 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
376 memory footprint of RCU.
377
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700378config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
379 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
380 depends on !SMP && PREEMPT
381 help
382 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
383 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
384 memory footprint of RCU.
385
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800386endchoice
387
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700388config PREEMPT_RCU
389 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
390 help
391 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
392 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
393
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800394config RCU_TRACE
395 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
Paul E. McKenney6b3ef482009-08-22 13:56:53 -0700396 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800397 help
398 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
399 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
400
401 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
402 Say N if you are unsure.
403
404config RCU_FANOUT
405 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
406 range 2 64 if 64BIT
407 range 2 32 if !64BIT
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700408 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800409 default 64 if 64BIT
410 default 32 if !64BIT
411 help
412 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
413 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
Paul E. McKenney4d87ffa2010-08-04 17:31:12 -0700414 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
415 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
416 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
417 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
418 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
419 code paths on small(er) systems.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800420
421 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
422 Take the default if unsure.
423
424config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
425 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700426 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800427 default n
428 help
429 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
430 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
431 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
432 strong NUMA behavior.
433
434 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
435
436 Say N if unsure.
437
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800438config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
439 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
440 depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
441 default n
442 help
443 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
444 in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
445 more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the
446 overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
447 with large numbers of CPUs.
448
449 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
450 if you have relatively few CPUs.
451
452 Say N if you are unsure.
453
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800454config TREE_RCU_TRACE
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700455 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800456 select DEBUG_FS
457 help
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700458 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
459 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
460 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800461
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800462endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
463
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700464config IKCONFIG
Ross Birof2443ab2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700465 tristate "Kernel .config support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700466 ---help---
467 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
468 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
469 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
470 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
471 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
472 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
473 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
474 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
475
476config IKCONFIG_PROC
477 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
478 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
479 ---help---
480 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
481 through /proc/config.gz.
482
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700483config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
484 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
485 range 12 21
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700486 default 17
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700487 help
488 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700489 Examples:
490 17 => 128 KB
491 16 => 64 KB
492 15 => 32 KB
493 14 => 16 KB
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700494 13 => 8 KB
495 12 => 4 KB
496
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800497#
498# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
499#
500config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
501 bool
502
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800503menuconfig CGROUPS
504 boolean "Control Group support"
Kirill A. Shutemov0dea1162010-03-10 15:22:20 -0800505 depends on EVENTFD
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700506 help
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800507 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800508 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
509 controls or device isolation.
510 See
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800511 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
Li Zefan45ce80f2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800512 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
513 and resource control)
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700514
515 Say N if unsure.
516
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800517if CGROUPS
518
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700519config CGROUP_DEBUG
520 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
521 depends on CGROUPS
Paul Menage418d7d82008-04-29 01:00:05 -0700522 default n
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700523 help
524 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
525 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800526 framework.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700527
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800528 Say N if unsure.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700529
Serge E. Hallyn858d72e2007-10-18 23:39:45 -0700530config CGROUP_NS
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800531 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
532 depends on CGROUPS
533 help
534 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
535 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
536 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
537 jobs.
Serge E. Hallyn858d72e2007-10-18 23:39:45 -0700538
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700539config CGROUP_FREEZER
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800540 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
541 depends on CGROUPS
542 help
543 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700544 cgroup.
545
Serge E. Hallyn08ce5f12008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700546config CGROUP_DEVICE
547 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
548 depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
549 help
550 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
551 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
552
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700553config CPUSETS
554 bool "Cpuset support"
Paul Menagedb7f47c2009-04-02 16:57:55 -0700555 depends on CGROUPS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700556 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700557 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700558 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
559 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
560 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
561
562 Say N if unsure.
563
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800564config PROC_PID_CPUSET
565 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
566 depends on CPUSETS
567 default y
568
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100569config CGROUP_CPUACCT
570 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
571 depends on CGROUPS
572 help
573 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800574 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100575
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800576config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
577 bool "Resource counters"
578 help
579 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800580 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800581 depends on CGROUPS
582
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800583config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
584 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
585 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700586 select MM_OWNER
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800587 help
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700588 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo21acb9c2009-02-04 10:12:08 +0100589 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800590
591 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700592 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
593 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
594 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
595 at boot.
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800596
597 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700598 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
599 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
600 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
Li Zefanc9d54092009-01-07 18:07:35 -0800601 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800602
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700603 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
604 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
605
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800606config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki65e0e812010-08-10 18:02:56 -0700607 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
608 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800609 help
610 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
611 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
612 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
613 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
614 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
615 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
616 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
617 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
618 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
619 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
620 if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki627991a2009-04-02 16:57:47 -0700621 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
622 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800623
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100624menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
625 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
626 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS
627 default n
628 help
629 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
630 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
631 tasks.
632
633if CGROUP_SCHED
634config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
635 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
636 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
637 default CGROUP_SCHED
638
639config RT_GROUP_SCHED
640 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
641 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
642 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
643 default n
644 help
645 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
Li Zefan32bd7eb2010-03-24 13:17:19 +0800646 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100647 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
648 realtime bandwidth for them.
649 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
650
651endif #CGROUP_SCHED
652
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200653config BLK_CGROUP
654 tristate "Block IO controller"
655 depends on CGROUPS && BLOCK
656 default n
657 ---help---
658 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
659 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
660 policies.
661
662 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
663 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
Vivek Goyale43473b2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400664 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
665 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200666
667 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
Vivek Goyale43473b2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400668 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
669 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ seti
670 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set
671 CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200672
673 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
674
675config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
676 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
677 depends on BLK_CGROUP
678 default n
679 ---help---
680 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
681 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
682
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800683endif # CGROUPS
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800684
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800685config MM_OWNER
686 bool
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800687
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200688config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Uwe Kleine-König9e9868a2009-12-03 19:58:00 +0100689 bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
Randy Dunlap9148fe82007-12-31 10:05:34 -0800690 depends on SYSFS
Kay Sieversf6ee6492009-04-16 19:56:37 +0200691 default n
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200692 help
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +0200693 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
694 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
695 /sys/block/.
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200696
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +0200697 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
698 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200699
Kay Sievers39aba962010-09-04 22:33:14 -0700700 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
701 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
702 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
Kay Sieversfce3e802008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100703
Kay Sievers39aba962010-09-04 22:33:14 -0700704 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
705 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
706 option enabled.
Kay Sieversfce3e802008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100707
Kay Sievers39aba962010-09-04 22:33:14 -0700708 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +0200709 need to say Y here.
710
711config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
712 bool "enabled deprecated sysfs features by default"
713 default n
714 depends on SYSFS
715 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
716 help
717 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
718
719 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
720 option.
721
722 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
723 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
724 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200725
Jens Axboeb86ff9812006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100726config RELAY
727 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
728 help
729 This option enables support for relay interface support in
730 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
731 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
732 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
733 user space.
734
735 If unsure, say N.
736
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700737menuconfig NAMESPACES
Pavel Emelyanovc5289a62008-02-08 04:18:19 -0800738 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
739 default !EMBEDDED
740 help
741 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
742 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
743 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
744 different namespaces.
745
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700746if NAMESPACES
747
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800748config UTS_NS
749 bool "UTS namespace"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700750 default y
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800751 help
752 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
753 uname() system call
754
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800755config IPC_NS
756 bool "IPC namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700757 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700758 default y
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800759 help
760 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
Serge E. Hallyn614b84c2009-04-06 19:01:08 -0700761 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800762
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800763config USER_NS
764 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700765 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700766 default y
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800767 help
768 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
769 to provide different user info for different servers.
770 If unsure, say N.
771
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800772config PID_NS
Daniel Lezcano9bd38c22010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700773 bool "PID Namespaces"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700774 default y
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800775 help
Heikki Orsila12d2b8f2008-07-06 15:48:02 +0300776 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100777 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800778 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
779
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -0800780config NET_NS
781 bool "Network namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700782 depends on NET
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700783 default y
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -0800784 help
785 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
786 of the network stack.
787
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700788endif # NAMESPACES
789
Dimitri Gorokhovikf9916332007-03-06 01:42:17 -0800790config BLK_DEV_INITRD
791 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
792 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
793 help
794 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
795 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
796 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
797 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
798 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
799
800 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
801 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
802 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
803
804 If unsure say Y.
805
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800806if BLK_DEV_INITRD
807
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200808source "usr/Kconfig"
809
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800810endif
811
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800812config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar96fffeb2008-04-28 01:39:43 +0200813 bool "Optimize for size"
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800814 default y
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800815 help
816 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
817 resulting in a smaller kernel.
818
jkacur775a7222008-07-16 00:31:16 +0200819 If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800820
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700821config SYSCTL
822 bool
823
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -0700824config ANON_INODES
825 bool
826
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700827menuconfig EMBEDDED
828 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
829 help
830 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
831 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
832 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
833 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
834
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700835config UID16
836 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
David S. Miller09337f52008-04-26 03:17:12 -0700837 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 -0700838 default y
839 help
840 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
841
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700842config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700843 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
Eric W. Biederman26a70342009-11-05 05:26:41 -0800844 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800845 default y
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700846 select SYSCTL
847 ---help---
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800848 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
849 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
850 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
851 information.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700852
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800853 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
854 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
855 making your kernel marginally smaller.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700856
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800857 If unsure say Y here.
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700858
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700859config KALLSYMS
Jesper Juhl979c6a12006-12-12 19:25:11 +0100860 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700861 default y
862 help
863 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
864 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
865 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
866
867config KALLSYMS_ALL
868 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
869 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
870 help
871 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
872 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
Jesper Juhlf9f97bc2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200873 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
874 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700875
876 Say N.
877
878config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
879 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
880 depends on KALLSYMS
881 help
882 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
883 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
884 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
885 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
886 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
887 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
888
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700889
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800890config HOTPLUG
891 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
892 default y
893 help
894 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
895 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
896 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
897 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
898
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700899config PRINTK
900 default y
901 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
902 help
903 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
904 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
905 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
906 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
907 strongly discouraged.
908
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700909config BUG
910 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
911 default y
912 help
913 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
914 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
915 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
916 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
917 Just say Y.
918
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800919config ELF_CORE
920 default y
921 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
922 help
923 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
924
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +0200925config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
926 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
927 depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
928 default y
929 help
930 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
931 support, saving some memory.
932
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700933config BASE_FULL
934 default y
935 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
936 help
937 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
938 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
939 but may reduce performance.
940
941config FUTEX
942 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
943 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d4a2006-06-27 02:54:53 -0700944 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700945 help
946 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
947 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
948 run glibc-based applications correctly.
949
950config EPOLL
951 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
952 default y
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700953 select ANON_INODES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700954 help
955 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
956 support for epoll family of system calls.
957
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700958config SIGNALFD
959 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700960 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700961 default y
962 help
963 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
964 on a file descriptor.
965
966 If unsure, say Y.
967
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700968config TIMERFD
969 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700970 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700971 default y
972 help
973 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
974 events on a file descriptor.
975
976 If unsure, say Y.
977
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700978config EVENTFD
979 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700980 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700981 default y
982 help
983 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
984 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
985
986 If unsure, say Y.
987
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700988config SHMEM
989 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
990 default y
991 depends on MMU
992 help
993 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
994 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
995 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
996 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
997 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
998
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -0700999config AIO
1000 bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
1001 default y
1002 help
1003 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1004 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1005 this option saves about 7k.
1006
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001007config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001008 bool
Mike Frysinger018df722009-06-12 13:17:43 -04001009 help
1010 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001011
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001012config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1013 bool
1014 help
1015 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1016
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001017menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001018
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001019config PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001020 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1021 default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001022 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar4c59e462008-12-08 19:38:33 +01001023 select ANON_INODES
Peter Zijlstrae360adb2010-10-14 14:01:34 +08001024 select IRQ_WORK
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001025 help
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001026 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1027 by software and hardware.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001028
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001029 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001030 use of generic tracepoints.
1031
1032 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1033 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001034 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1035 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1036 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1037 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1038 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1039
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001040 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001041 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001042 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001043 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1044 capabilities on top of those.
1045
1046 Say Y if unsure.
1047
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001048config PERF_COUNTERS
1049 bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
1050 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1051 help
1052 This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
1053 config option - please see that one for details.
1054
1055 It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
1056 it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
1057
1058 Say N if unsure.
1059
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001060config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1061 default n
1062 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1063 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1064 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1065 help
1066 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1067
1068 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1069 that don't require it.
1070
1071 Say N if unsure.
1072
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001073endmenu
1074
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001075config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1076 default y
1077 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
1078 help
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001079 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1080 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1081 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1082 if VM event counters are disabled.
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001083
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +02001084config PCI_QUIRKS
1085 default y
Geert Uytterhoeven61cfc7e2008-10-22 08:53:25 +02001086 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
1087 depends on PCI
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +02001088 help
1089 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1090 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1091 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1092
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001093config SLUB_DEBUG
1094 default y
1095 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
Christoph Lameterf6acb632008-04-29 16:16:06 -07001096 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001097 help
1098 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1099 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1100 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1101 no support for cache validation etc.
1102
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001103config COMPAT_BRK
1104 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1105 default y
1106 help
1107 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1108 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1109 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001110 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001111 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1112
1113 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1114
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001115choice
1116 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
Christoph Lametera0acd822007-07-17 04:03:32 -07001117 default SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001118 help
1119 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1120
1121config SLAB
1122 bool "SLAB"
1123 help
1124 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -07001125 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001126 per cpu and per node queues.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001127
1128config SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001129 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1130 help
1131 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1132 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1133 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1134 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001135 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1136 a slab allocator.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001137
1138config SLOB
Paul Mundt84a01c22007-07-15 23:38:24 -07001139 depends on EMBEDDED
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001140 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1141 help
Matt Mackall37291452008-02-04 22:29:38 -08001142 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1143 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1144 does not perform as well on large systems.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001145
1146endchoice
1147
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001148config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1149 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1150 depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1151 default n
1152 help
1153 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1154 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1155 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1156 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1157 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1158 then the flag will be ignored.
1159
1160 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1161 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1162
1163 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1164 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1165 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1166 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1167
1168 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1169
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001170config PROFILING
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +01001171 bool "Profiling support"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001172 help
1173 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1174 by profilers such as OProfile.
1175
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001176#
1177# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1178# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1179#
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001180config TRACEPOINTS
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001181 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001182
Mathieu Desnoyersfb32e032008-02-02 15:10:33 -05001183source "arch/Kconfig"
1184
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001185endmenu # General setup
1186
Dmitry Baryshkovee7e5512008-06-29 14:18:46 +04001187config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1188 bool
1189 default n
1190
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001191config SLABINFO
1192 bool
1193 depends on PROC_FS
Christoph Lameter0f389ec2008-04-14 18:53:02 +03001194 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001195 default y
1196
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001197config RT_MUTEXES
1198 boolean
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001199
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001200config BASE_SMALL
1201 int
1202 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1203 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1204
Jan Engelhardt66da5732007-07-15 23:39:29 -07001205menuconfig MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001206 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1207 help
1208 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1209 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1210 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1211 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1212 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1213 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1214 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1215 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1216 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1217
1218 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1219 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1220 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1221 this).
1222
1223 If unsure, say Y.
1224
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001225if MODULES
1226
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001227config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1228 bool "Forced module loading"
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001229 default n
1230 help
Rusty Russell91e37a72008-05-09 16:25:28 +10001231 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1232 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1233 is usually a really bad idea.
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001234
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001235config MODULE_UNLOAD
1236 bool "Module unloading"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001237 help
1238 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1239 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
Denys Vlasenkof7f5b672008-07-22 19:24:26 -05001240 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1241 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001242
1243config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1244 bool "Forced module unloading"
1245 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1246 help
1247 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1248 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1249 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1250 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1251 If unsure, say N.
1252
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001253config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +01001254 bool "Module versioning support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001255 help
1256 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1257 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1258 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1259 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1260 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1261 unsure, say N.
1262
1263config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1264 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001265 help
1266 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1267 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1268 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1269 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1270 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1271 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1272 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1273
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001274endif # MODULES
1275
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301276config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1277 bool
1278 help
1279 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
1280 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
1281 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1282 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001283 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301284
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001285config STOP_MACHINE
1286 bool
1287 default y
1288 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1289 help
1290 Need stop_machine() primitive.
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01001291
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01001292source "block/Kconfig"
Avi Kivitye98c3202007-10-16 23:27:31 -07001293
1294config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1295 bool
Paul E. McKenneye260be62008-01-25 21:08:24 +01001296
Steffen Klassert16295be2010-01-06 19:47:10 +11001297config PADATA
1298 depends on SMP
1299 bool
1300
Thomas Gleixner6beb0002009-11-09 15:21:34 +00001301source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"