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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' Giarrussob2670ea2006-10-19 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
Al Boldiff0cfc62007-07-31 00:39:23 -070019menu "General setup"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070020
21config EXPERIMENTAL
22 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
23 ---help---
24 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
25 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
26 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
27 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
28 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
29 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
30 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
31 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
32 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
33 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
34 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
35 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
36 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
37 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
38 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
39 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
40
41 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
42 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
43 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
44
45 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
46 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
47 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
48 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
49 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
50 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
51
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070052config BROKEN
53 bool
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070054
55config BROKEN_ON_SMP
56 bool
57 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
58 default y
59
60config LOCK_KERNEL
61 bool
62 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
63 default y
64
65config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
66 int
Adrian Bunkdd673bc2006-06-30 01:55:51 -070067 default 32 if !UML
68 default 128 if UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070069 help
Randy Dunlap34ad92c2005-10-30 15:01:46 -080070 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
71 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070072
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070073
74config LOCALVERSION
75 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
76 help
77 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
78 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
79 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
80 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
81 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
82 be a maximum of 64 characters.
83
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040084config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
85 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
86 default y
87 help
88 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020089 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
90 top of tree revision.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040091
92 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020093 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040094 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020095 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040096
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020097 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
98 by running the command:
99
100 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
101
102 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400103
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700104config SWAP
105 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200106 depends on MMU && BLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700107 default y
108 help
109 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
Jesper Juhl92c35042006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100110 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700111 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
112 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
113
114config SYSVIPC
115 bool "System V IPC"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700116 ---help---
117 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
118 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
119 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
120 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
121 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
122 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
123 you'll need to say Y here.
124
125 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
126 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
127 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
128
Eric W. Biedermana5494dc2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800129config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
130 bool
131 depends on SYSVIPC
132 depends on SYSCTL
133 default y
134
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700135config POSIX_MQUEUE
136 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
137 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
138 ---help---
139 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
140 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
141 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
142 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
Robert P. J. Dayb0e37652007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200143 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700144
145 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
146 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
147 operations on message queues.
148
149 If unsure, say Y.
150
151config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
152 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
153 help
154 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
155 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
156 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
157 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
158 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
159 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
160 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
161 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
162 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
163
164config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
165 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
166 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
167 default n
168 help
169 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
170 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
171 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
172 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
173 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
S.Çağlar Onur37a4c942008-06-18 11:45:13 +0300174 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700175
Shailabh Nagarc7572492006-07-14 00:24:40 -0700176config TASKSTATS
177 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
178 depends on NET
179 default n
180 help
181 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
182 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
183 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
184 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
185 space on task exit.
186
187 Say N if unsure.
188
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700189config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
190 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Shailabh Nagar6f449932006-07-14 00:24:41 -0700191 depends on TASKSTATS
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700192 help
193 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
194 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
195 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
196 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
197
198 Say N if unsure.
199
Alexey Dobriyan18f705f2007-02-10 01:46:44 -0800200config TASK_XACCT
201 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
202 depends on TASKSTATS
203 help
204 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
205 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
206
207 Say N if unsure.
208
209config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
210 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
211 depends on TASK_XACCT
212 help
213 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
214 task has caused.
215
216 Say N if unsure.
217
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700218config AUDIT
219 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a42005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100220 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700221 help
222 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
223 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
224 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
225 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
226
227config AUDITSYSCALL
228 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
Yuichi Nakamura1322b9d2007-11-10 19:21:34 +0900229 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700230 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
231 help
232 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
233 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
Amy Griffisf368c07d2006-04-07 16:55:56 -0400234 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
235 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700236
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400237config AUDIT_TREE
238 def_bool y
239 depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
240
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700241config IKCONFIG
Ross Birof2443ab2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700242 tristate "Kernel .config support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700243 ---help---
244 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
245 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
246 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
247 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
248 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
249 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
250 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
251 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
252
253config IKCONFIG_PROC
254 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
255 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
256 ---help---
257 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
258 through /proc/config.gz.
259
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700260config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
261 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
262 range 12 21
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700263 default 17
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700264 help
265 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700266 Examples:
267 17 => 128 KB
268 16 => 64 KB
269 15 => 32 KB
270 14 => 16 KB
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700271 13 => 8 KB
272 12 => 4 KB
273
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800274#
275# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
276#
277config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
278 bool
279
280config GROUP_SCHED
281 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
282 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
283 default n
284 help
285 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
286 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
287 In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use
288 CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.)
289
290config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
291 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
292 depends on GROUP_SCHED
293 default GROUP_SCHED
294
295config RT_GROUP_SCHED
296 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
297 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
298 depends on GROUP_SCHED
299 default n
300 help
301 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
302 to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
303 setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
304 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
305 realtime bandwidth for them.
306 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
307
308choice
309 depends on GROUP_SCHED
310 prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
311 default USER_SCHED
312
313config USER_SCHED
314 bool "user id"
315 help
316 This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
317 tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
318
319config CGROUP_SCHED
320 bool "Control groups"
321 depends on CGROUPS
322 help
323 This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
324 using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
325 the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
Li Zefan45ce80f2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800326 Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more
327 information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800328
329endchoice
330
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800331menuconfig CGROUPS
332 boolean "Control Group support"
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700333 help
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800334 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800335 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
336 controls or device isolation.
337 See
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800338 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
Li Zefan45ce80f2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800339 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
340 and resource control)
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700341
342 Say N if unsure.
343
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800344if CGROUPS
345
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700346config CGROUP_DEBUG
347 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
348 depends on CGROUPS
Paul Menage418d7d82008-04-29 01:00:05 -0700349 default n
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700350 help
351 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
352 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800353 framework.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700354
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800355 Say N if unsure.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700356
Serge E. Hallyn858d72e2007-10-18 23:39:45 -0700357config CGROUP_NS
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800358 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
359 depends on CGROUPS
360 help
361 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
362 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
363 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
364 jobs.
Serge E. Hallyn858d72e2007-10-18 23:39:45 -0700365
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700366config CGROUP_FREEZER
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800367 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
368 depends on CGROUPS
369 help
370 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700371 cgroup.
372
Serge E. Hallyn08ce5f12008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700373config CGROUP_DEVICE
374 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
375 depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
376 help
377 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
378 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
379
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700380config CPUSETS
381 bool "Cpuset support"
Paul Menage8793d852007-10-18 23:39:39 -0700382 depends on SMP && CGROUPS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700383 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700384 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700385 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
386 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
387 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
388
389 Say N if unsure.
390
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800391config PROC_PID_CPUSET
392 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
393 depends on CPUSETS
394 default y
395
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100396config CGROUP_CPUACCT
397 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
398 depends on CGROUPS
399 help
400 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800401 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100402
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800403config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
404 bool "Resource counters"
405 help
406 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800407 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800408 depends on CGROUPS
409
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800410config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
411 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
412 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700413 select MM_OWNER
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800414 help
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700415 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
416 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800417
418 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700419 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
420 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
421 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
422 at boot.
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800423
424 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700425 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
426 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
427 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
Li Zefanc9d54092009-01-07 18:07:35 -0800428 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800429
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700430 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
431 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
432
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800433config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
434 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
435 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
436 help
437 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
438 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
439 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
440 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
441 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
442 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
443 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
444 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
445 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
446 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
447 if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
448
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800449endif # CGROUPS
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800450
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800451config MM_OWNER
452 bool
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800453
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200454config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Ingo Molnard47846c2008-03-04 14:54:47 +0100455 bool
456
457config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
Kay Sieversfce3e802008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100458 bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools"
Randy Dunlap9148fe82007-12-31 10:05:34 -0800459 depends on SYSFS
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200460 default y
Ingo Molnard47846c2008-03-04 14:54:47 +0100461 select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200462 help
Kay Sieversfce3e802008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100463 This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
464 version.
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200465
Kay Sieversfce3e802008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100466 The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
467 /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
468 class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
469 unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
470 /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
471 /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
472 "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
473 class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
474 subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
475 depend on the unified device tree.
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200476
Kay Sieversfce3e802008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100477 This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
478 be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
479 layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
480 and disable some features, which can not be exported without
481 confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
482 distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
483 depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
484
485 If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
486 older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
487 if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
488 this option set to N.
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200489
Jens Axboeb86ff982006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100490config RELAY
491 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
492 help
493 This option enables support for relay interface support in
494 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
495 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
496 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
497 user space.
498
499 If unsure, say N.
500
Pavel Emelyanovc5289a62008-02-08 04:18:19 -0800501config NAMESPACES
502 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
503 default !EMBEDDED
504 help
505 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
506 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
507 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
508 different namespaces.
509
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800510config UTS_NS
511 bool "UTS namespace"
512 depends on NAMESPACES
513 help
514 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
515 uname() system call
516
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800517config IPC_NS
518 bool "IPC namespace"
519 depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC
520 help
521 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
522 different IPC objects in different namespaces
523
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800524config USER_NS
525 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
526 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
527 help
528 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
529 to provide different user info for different servers.
530 If unsure, say N.
531
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800532config PID_NS
533 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
534 default n
535 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
536 help
Heikki Orsila12d2b8f2008-07-06 15:48:02 +0300537 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800538 process with the same pid as long as they are in different
539 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
540
541 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
542 say N here.
543
Dimitri Gorokhovikf9916332007-03-06 01:42:17 -0800544config BLK_DEV_INITRD
545 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
546 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
547 help
548 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
549 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
550 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
551 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
552 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
553
554 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
555 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
556 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
557
558 If unsure say Y.
559
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800560if BLK_DEV_INITRD
561
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200562source "usr/Kconfig"
563
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800564endif
565
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800566config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar96fffeb2008-04-28 01:39:43 +0200567 bool "Optimize for size"
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800568 default y
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800569 help
570 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
571 resulting in a smaller kernel.
572
jkacur775a7222008-07-16 00:31:16 +0200573 If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800574
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700575config SYSCTL
576 bool
577
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700578menuconfig EMBEDDED
579 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
580 help
581 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
582 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
583 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
584 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
585
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700586config UID16
587 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
David S. Miller09337f52008-04-26 03:17:12 -0700588 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 -0700589 default y
590 help
591 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
592
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700593config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700594 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800595 default y
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700596 select SYSCTL
597 ---help---
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800598 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
599 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
600 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
601 information.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700602
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800603 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
604 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
605 making your kernel marginally smaller.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700606
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800607 If unsure say Y here.
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700608
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700609config KALLSYMS
Jesper Juhl979c6a12006-12-12 19:25:11 +0100610 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700611 default y
612 help
613 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
614 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
615 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
616
617config KALLSYMS_ALL
618 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
619 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
620 help
621 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
622 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
Jesper Juhlf9f97bc2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200623 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
624 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700625
626 Say N.
627
Jan Beulich9bb48242008-12-16 11:30:08 +0000628config KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED
629 bool "Strip machine generated symbols from kallsyms"
630 depends on KALLSYMS_ALL
631 default y
632 help
633 Say N if you want kallsyms to retain even machine generated symbols.
634
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700635config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
636 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
637 depends on KALLSYMS
638 help
639 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
640 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
641 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
642 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
643 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
644 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
645
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700646
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800647config HOTPLUG
648 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
649 default y
650 help
651 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
652 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
653 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
654 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
655
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700656config PRINTK
657 default y
658 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
659 help
660 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
661 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
662 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
663 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
664 strongly discouraged.
665
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700666config BUG
667 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
668 default y
669 help
670 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
671 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
672 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
673 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
674 Just say Y.
675
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800676config ELF_CORE
677 default y
678 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
679 help
680 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
681
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +0200682config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
683 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
684 depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
685 default y
686 help
687 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
688 support, saving some memory.
689
Ingo Molnar32a93232008-02-06 22:39:44 +0100690config COMPAT_BRK
691 bool "Disable heap randomization"
692 default y
693 help
694 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
695 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
696 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
697 disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
698 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
699
Ingo Molnar166124f2008-02-09 23:24:09 +0100700 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
Ingo Molnar32a93232008-02-06 22:39:44 +0100701
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700702config BASE_FULL
703 default y
704 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
705 help
706 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
707 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
708 but may reduce performance.
709
710config FUTEX
711 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
712 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d42006-06-27 02:54:53 -0700713 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700714 help
715 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
716 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
717 run glibc-based applications correctly.
718
Davide Libenzi5dc8bf82007-05-10 22:23:11 -0700719config ANON_INODES
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700720 bool
Davide Libenzi5dc8bf82007-05-10 22:23:11 -0700721
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700722config EPOLL
723 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
724 default y
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700725 select ANON_INODES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700726 help
727 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
728 support for epoll family of system calls.
729
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700730config SIGNALFD
731 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700732 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700733 default y
734 help
735 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
736 on a file descriptor.
737
738 If unsure, say Y.
739
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700740config TIMERFD
741 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700742 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700743 default y
744 help
745 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
746 events on a file descriptor.
747
748 If unsure, say Y.
749
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700750config EVENTFD
751 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700752 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700753 default y
754 help
755 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
756 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
757
758 If unsure, say Y.
759
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700760config SHMEM
761 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
762 default y
763 depends on MMU
764 help
765 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
766 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
767 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
768 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
769 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
770
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -0700771config AIO
772 bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
773 default y
774 help
775 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
776 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
777 this option saves about 7k.
778
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700779config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
780 default y
781 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
782 help
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -0800783 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
784 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
785 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
786 if VM event counters are disabled.
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700787
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +0200788config PCI_QUIRKS
789 default y
Geert Uytterhoeven61cfc7e2008-10-22 08:53:25 +0200790 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
791 depends on PCI
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +0200792 help
793 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
794 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
795 unaffected by PCI quirks.
796
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700797config SLUB_DEBUG
798 default y
799 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
Christoph Lameterf6acb632008-04-29 16:16:06 -0700800 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700801 help
802 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
803 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
804 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
805 no support for cache validation etc.
806
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700807choice
808 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
Christoph Lametera0acd822007-07-17 04:03:32 -0700809 default SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700810 help
811 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
812
813config SLAB
814 bool "SLAB"
815 help
816 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700817 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +0000818 per cpu and per node queues.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700819
820config SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700821 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
822 help
823 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
824 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
825 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
826 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +0000827 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
828 a slab allocator.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700829
830config SLOB
Paul Mundt84a01c22007-07-15 23:38:24 -0700831 depends on EMBEDDED
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700832 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
833 help
Matt Mackall37291452008-02-04 22:29:38 -0800834 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
835 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
836 does not perform as well on large systems.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700837
838endchoice
839
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500840config PROFILING
841 bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
842 help
843 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
844 by profilers such as OProfile.
845
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200846#
847# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
848# dynamically changed for a probe function.
849#
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -0400850config TRACEPOINTS
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200851 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -0400852
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500853config MARKERS
854 bool "Activate markers"
Mathieu Desnoyersc1df1bd2008-11-14 17:47:39 -0500855 depends on TRACEPOINTS
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500856 help
857 Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
858 dynamically changed for a probe function.
859
Mathieu Desnoyersfb32e032008-02-02 15:10:33 -0500860source "arch/Kconfig"
861
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700862endmenu # General setup
863
Dmitry Baryshkovee7e5512008-06-29 14:18:46 +0400864config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
865 bool
866 default n
867
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -0800868config SLABINFO
869 bool
870 depends on PROC_FS
Christoph Lameter0f389ec2008-04-14 18:53:02 +0300871 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -0800872 default y
873
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700874config RT_MUTEXES
875 boolean
876 select PLIST
877
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700878config BASE_SMALL
879 int
880 default 0 if BASE_FULL
881 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
882
Jan Engelhardt66da5732007-07-15 23:39:29 -0700883menuconfig MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700884 bool "Enable loadable module support"
885 help
886 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
887 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
888 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
889 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
890 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
891 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
892 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
893 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
894 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
895
896 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
897 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
898 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
899 this).
900
901 If unsure, say Y.
902
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -0400903if MODULES
904
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700905config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
906 bool "Forced module loading"
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700907 default n
908 help
Rusty Russell91e37a72008-05-09 16:25:28 +1000909 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
910 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
911 is usually a really bad idea.
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700912
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700913config MODULE_UNLOAD
914 bool "Module unloading"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700915 help
916 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
917 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
Denys Vlasenkof7f5b672008-07-22 19:24:26 -0500918 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
919 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700920
921config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
922 bool "Forced module unloading"
923 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
924 help
925 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
926 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
927 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
928 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
929 If unsure, say N.
930
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700931config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100932 bool "Module versioning support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700933 help
934 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
935 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
936 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
937 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
938 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
939 unsure, say N.
940
941config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
942 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700943 help
944 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
945 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
946 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
947 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
948 others sometimes change the module source without updating
949 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
950 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
951
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -0400952endif # MODULES
953
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +1030954config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
955 bool
956 help
957 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
958 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
959 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
960 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
961 and have several arch maintainers persuing me down dark alleys.
962
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700963config STOP_MACHINE
964 bool
965 default y
966 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
967 help
968 Need stop_machine() primitive.
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100969
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100970source "block/Kconfig"
Avi Kivitye98c3202007-10-16 23:27:31 -0700971
972config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
973 bool
Paul E. McKenneye260be62008-01-25 21:08:24 +0100974
Ingo Molnar12d79ba2008-12-25 09:31:28 +0100975choice
976 prompt "RCU Implementation"
977 default CLASSIC_RCU
978
Paul E. McKenneye260be62008-01-25 21:08:24 +0100979config CLASSIC_RCU
Ingo Molnar12d79ba2008-12-25 09:31:28 +0100980 bool "Classic RCU"
Paul E. McKenneye260be62008-01-25 21:08:24 +0100981 help
982 This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
983 designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
Ingo Molnar12d79ba2008-12-25 09:31:28 +0100984 systems.
985
986 Select this option if you are unsure.
987
988config TREE_RCU
989 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
990 help
991 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
992 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
993 thousands of CPUs.
994
995config PREEMPT_RCU
996 bool "Preemptible RCU"
997 depends on PREEMPT
998 help
999 This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
1000 RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
1001 this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
1002 preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
1003 now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
1004 remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
1005
1006endchoice
1007
1008config RCU_TRACE
1009 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
1010 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
1011 help
1012 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
1013 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
1014
1015 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
1016 Say N if you are unsure.
1017
1018config RCU_FANOUT
1019 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
1020 range 2 64 if 64BIT
1021 range 2 32 if !64BIT
1022 depends on TREE_RCU
1023 default 64 if 64BIT
1024 default 32 if !64BIT
1025 help
1026 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
1027 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
1028 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube
1029 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
1030 systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
1031
1032 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
1033 Take the default if unsure.
1034
1035config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
1036 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
1037 depends on TREE_RCU
1038 default n
1039 help
1040 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
1041 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
1042 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
1043 strong NUMA behavior.
1044
1045 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
1046
1047 Say N if unsure.
1048
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +01001049config TREE_RCU_TRACE
1050 def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU
1051 select DEBUG_FS
Paul E. McKenneye260be62008-01-25 21:08:24 +01001052 help
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +01001053 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation,
1054 permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
1055
1056config PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE
1057 def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU
1058 select DEBUG_FS
1059 help
1060 This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation,
1061 permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c.