Roman Zippel | 80daa56 | 2008-01-14 04:51:16 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | config ARCH |
| 2 | string |
| 3 | option env="ARCH" |
| 4 | |
| 5 | config KERNELVERSION |
| 6 | string |
| 7 | option env="KERNELVERSION" |
| 8 | |
Roman Zippel | face437 | 2006-06-08 22:12:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | config DEFCONFIG_LIST |
| 10 | string |
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso | b2670ea | 2006-10-19 23:28:23 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | depends on !UML |
Roman Zippel | face437 | 2006-06-08 22:12:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | option defconfig_list |
| 13 | default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" |
| 14 | default "/etc/kernel-config" |
| 15 | default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" |
Sam Ravnborg | 7353190 | 2008-05-25 23:03:18 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" |
Roman Zippel | face437 | 2006-06-08 22:12:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" |
| 18 | |
Peter Oberparleiter | b99b87f | 2009-06-17 16:28:03 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | config CONSTRUCTORS |
| 20 | bool |
| 21 | depends on !UML |
| 22 | default y |
| 23 | |
Peter Zijlstra | e360adb | 2010-10-14 14:01:34 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | config HAVE_IRQ_WORK |
| 25 | bool |
| 26 | |
| 27 | config IRQ_WORK |
| 28 | bool |
| 29 | depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK |
| 30 | |
Al Boldi | ff0cfc6 | 2007-07-31 00:39:23 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | menu "General setup" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | |
| 33 | config 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 Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | config BROKEN |
| 65 | bool |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | |
| 67 | config BROKEN_ON_SMP |
| 68 | bool |
| 69 | depends on BROKEN || !SMP |
| 70 | default y |
| 71 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT |
| 73 | int |
Adrian Bunk | dd673bc | 2006-06-30 01:55:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | default 32 if !UML |
| 75 | default 128 if UML |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | help |
Randy Dunlap | 34ad92c | 2005-10-30 15:01:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment |
| 78 | variables passed to init from the kernel command line. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | |
Roland McGrath | 8433646 | 2009-12-21 16:24:06 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | config CROSS_COMPILE |
| 82 | string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" |
| 83 | help |
| 84 | Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for |
| 85 | default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't |
| 86 | need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build |
| 87 | directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. |
| 88 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | config LOCALVERSION |
| 90 | string "Local version - append to kernel release" |
| 91 | help |
| 92 | Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. |
| 93 | This will show up when you type uname, for example. |
| 94 | The string you set here will be appended after the contents of |
| 95 | any files with a filename matching localversion* in your |
| 96 | object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can |
| 97 | be a maximum of 64 characters. |
| 98 | |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | config LOCALVERSION_AUTO |
| 100 | bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" |
| 101 | default y |
| 102 | help |
| 103 | This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a |
Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current |
| 105 | top of tree revision. |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | |
| 107 | A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion |
Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value |
Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | |
Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 112 | (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced |
| 113 | by running the command: |
| 114 | |
| 115 | $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD |
| 116 | |
| 117 | which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | |
H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP |
| 120 | bool |
| 121 | |
| 122 | config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 |
| 123 | bool |
| 124 | |
| 125 | config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA |
| 126 | bool |
| 127 | |
Lasse Collin | 3ebe124 | 2011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ |
| 129 | bool |
| 130 | |
Albin Tonnerre | 7dd65fe | 2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO |
| 132 | bool |
| 133 | |
Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 134 | choice |
H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 135 | prompt "Kernel compression mode" |
| 136 | default KERNEL_GZIP |
Lasse Collin | 3ebe124 | 2011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO |
H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | help |
Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. |
| 140 | Several compression algorithms are available, which differ |
| 141 | in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. |
| 142 | Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. |
| 143 | Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. |
| 144 | |
| 145 | If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed |
| 146 | kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older |
| 147 | version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was |
| 148 | supplied by Christian Ludwig) |
| 149 | |
| 150 | High compression options are mostly useful for users, who |
| 151 | are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram |
| 152 | size matters less. |
| 153 | |
| 154 | If in doubt, select 'gzip' |
| 155 | |
| 156 | config KERNEL_GZIP |
H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 157 | bool "Gzip" |
| 158 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP |
| 159 | help |
Albin Tonnerre | 7dd65fe | 2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 160 | The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance |
| 161 | between compression ratio and decompression speed. |
Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | |
| 163 | config KERNEL_BZIP2 |
| 164 | bool "Bzip2" |
H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 165 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 |
Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | help |
| 167 | Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. |
H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel |
| 169 | size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. |
| 170 | Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you |
| 171 | will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. |
Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | |
| 173 | config KERNEL_LZMA |
H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | bool "LZMA" |
| 175 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA |
| 176 | help |
| 177 | The most recent compression algorithm. |
| 178 | Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other |
| 179 | two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% |
| 180 | smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. |
Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | |
Lasse Collin | 3ebe124 | 2011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 182 | config KERNEL_XZ |
| 183 | bool "XZ" |
| 184 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ |
| 185 | help |
| 186 | XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific |
| 187 | BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable |
| 188 | code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in |
| 189 | comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ |
| 190 | filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ |
| 191 | will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. |
| 192 | |
| 193 | The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression |
| 194 | speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip |
| 195 | and LZO. Compression is slow. |
| 196 | |
Albin Tonnerre | 7dd65fe | 2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | config KERNEL_LZO |
| 198 | bool "LZO" |
| 199 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO |
| 200 | help |
| 201 | Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel |
Stephan Sperber | 681b304 | 2010-07-14 11:23:08 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 202 | size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed |
Albin Tonnerre | 7dd65fe | 2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 203 | (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. |
| 204 | |
Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 205 | endchoice |
| 206 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 207 | config SWAP |
| 208 | bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" |
David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | depends on MMU && BLOCK |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 210 | default y |
| 211 | help |
| 212 | This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support |
Jesper Juhl | 92c3504 | 2006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 214 | used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present |
| 215 | in your computer. If unsure say Y. |
| 216 | |
| 217 | config SYSVIPC |
| 218 | bool "System V IPC" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 219 | ---help--- |
| 220 | Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and |
| 221 | system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and |
| 222 | exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, |
| 223 | and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if |
| 224 | you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the |
| 225 | DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), |
| 226 | you'll need to say Y here. |
| 227 | |
| 228 | You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in |
| 229 | section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from |
| 230 | <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. |
| 231 | |
Eric W. Biederman | a5494dc | 2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 232 | config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL |
| 233 | bool |
| 234 | depends on SYSVIPC |
| 235 | depends on SYSCTL |
| 236 | default y |
| 237 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 238 | config POSIX_MQUEUE |
| 239 | bool "POSIX Message Queues" |
| 240 | depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 241 | ---help--- |
| 242 | POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message |
| 243 | queues every message has a priority which decides about succession |
| 244 | of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run |
| 245 | programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message |
Robert P. J. Day | b0e3765 | 2007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 246 | queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 247 | |
| 248 | POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' |
| 249 | and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem |
| 250 | operations on message queues. |
| 251 | |
| 252 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 253 | |
Serge E. Hallyn | bdc8e5f | 2009-04-06 19:01:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 254 | config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL |
| 255 | bool |
| 256 | depends on POSIX_MQUEUE |
| 257 | depends on SYSCTL |
| 258 | default y |
| 259 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 260 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT |
| 261 | bool "BSD Process Accounting" |
| 262 | help |
| 263 | If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the |
| 264 | kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting |
| 265 | information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about |
| 266 | that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The |
| 267 | information includes things such as creation time, owning user, |
| 268 | command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete |
| 269 | list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is |
| 270 | up to the user level program to do useful things with this |
| 271 | information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. |
| 272 | |
| 273 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 |
| 274 | bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" |
| 275 | depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT |
| 276 | default n |
| 277 | help |
| 278 | If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written |
| 279 | in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each |
| 280 | process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible |
| 281 | with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools |
| 282 | for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available |
S.Çağlar Onur | 37a4c94 | 2008-06-18 11:45:13 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 284 | |
Aneesh Kumar K.V | 990d6c2 | 2011-01-29 18:43:26 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 285 | config FHANDLE |
| 286 | bool "open by fhandle syscalls" |
| 287 | select EXPORTFS |
| 288 | help |
| 289 | If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map |
| 290 | file names to handle and then later use the handle for |
| 291 | different file system operations. This is useful in implementing |
| 292 | userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead |
| 293 | of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names |
| 294 | get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) |
| 295 | syscalls. |
| 296 | |
Shailabh Nagar | c757249 | 2006-07-14 00:24:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 297 | config TASKSTATS |
| 298 | bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 299 | depends on NET |
| 300 | default n |
| 301 | help |
| 302 | Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the |
| 303 | generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the |
| 304 | statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as |
| 305 | responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user |
| 306 | space on task exit. |
| 307 | |
| 308 | Say N if unsure. |
| 309 | |
Shailabh Nagar | ca74e92 | 2006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | config TASK_DELAY_ACCT |
| 311 | bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
Shailabh Nagar | 6f44993 | 2006-07-14 00:24:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 312 | depends on TASKSTATS |
Shailabh Nagar | ca74e92 | 2006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 313 | help |
| 314 | Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system |
| 315 | resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping |
| 316 | in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities |
| 317 | relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. |
| 318 | |
| 319 | Say N if unsure. |
| 320 | |
Alexey Dobriyan | 18f705f | 2007-02-10 01:46:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | config TASK_XACCT |
| 322 | bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 323 | depends on TASKSTATS |
| 324 | help |
| 325 | Collect extended task accounting data and send the data |
| 326 | to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. |
| 327 | |
| 328 | Say N if unsure. |
| 329 | |
| 330 | config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING |
| 331 | bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 332 | depends on TASK_XACCT |
| 333 | help |
| 334 | Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this |
| 335 | task has caused. |
| 336 | |
| 337 | Say N if unsure. |
| 338 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 339 | config AUDIT |
| 340 | bool "Auditing support" |
Chris Wright | 804a6a4 | 2005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | depends on NET |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | help |
| 343 | Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another |
| 344 | kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for |
| 345 | logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call |
| 346 | auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. |
| 347 | |
| 348 | config AUDITSYSCALL |
| 349 | bool "Enable system-call auditing support" |
Kumar Gala | 022382a | 2009-10-16 07:21:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 350 | depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 351 | default y if SECURITY_SELINUX |
| 352 | help |
| 353 | Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that |
| 354 | can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, |
Eric Paris | 67640b6 | 2009-12-17 20:12:06 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 355 | such as SELinux. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 356 | |
Eric Paris | 939a67f | 2009-12-17 20:12:06 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 357 | config AUDIT_WATCH |
| 358 | def_bool y |
| 359 | depends on AUDITSYSCALL |
| 360 | select FSNOTIFY |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 361 | |
Al Viro | 74c3cbe | 2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | config AUDIT_TREE |
| 363 | def_bool y |
Eric Paris | 63c882a | 2009-05-21 17:02:01 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 364 | depends on AUDITSYSCALL |
Eric Paris | 28a3a7e | 2009-12-17 20:12:05 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 365 | select FSNOTIFY |
Al Viro | 74c3cbe | 2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 366 | |
Thomas Gleixner | d9817eb | 2010-09-27 12:45:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 367 | source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" |
| 368 | |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 369 | menu "RCU Subsystem" |
| 370 | |
| 371 | choice |
| 372 | prompt "RCU Implementation" |
Paul E. McKenney | 31c9a24 | 2009-04-02 21:06:25 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 373 | default TREE_RCU |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 374 | |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 375 | config TREE_RCU |
| 376 | bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" |
Paul E. McKenney | 687d7a9 | 2010-07-21 06:52:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 377 | depends on !PREEMPT && SMP |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 378 | help |
| 379 | This option selects the RCU implementation that is |
| 380 | designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or |
Paul E. McKenney | c17ef45 | 2009-06-23 17:12:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 381 | thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to |
| 382 | smaller systems. |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 383 | |
Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU |
Paul E. McKenney | a57eb94 | 2010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 385 | bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" |
Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 386 | depends on PREEMPT |
| 387 | help |
| 388 | This option selects the RCU implementation that is |
| 389 | designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or |
| 390 | thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response |
Paul E. McKenney | bbe3eae | 2009-09-13 09:15:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 391 | is also required. It also scales down nicely to |
| 392 | smaller systems. |
Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 393 | |
Paul E. McKenney | 9b1d82f | 2009-10-25 19:03:50 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 394 | config TINY_RCU |
| 395 | bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" |
| 396 | depends on !SMP |
| 397 | help |
| 398 | This option selects the RCU implementation that is |
| 399 | designed for UP systems from which real-time response |
| 400 | is not required. This option greatly reduces the |
| 401 | memory footprint of RCU. |
| 402 | |
Paul E. McKenney | a57eb94 | 2010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 403 | config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU |
| 404 | bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" |
| 405 | depends on !SMP && PREEMPT |
| 406 | help |
| 407 | This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed |
| 408 | for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the |
| 409 | memory footprint of RCU. |
| 410 | |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 411 | endchoice |
| 412 | |
Paul E. McKenney | a57eb94 | 2010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 413 | config PREEMPT_RCU |
| 414 | def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) |
| 415 | help |
| 416 | This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between |
| 417 | the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. |
| 418 | |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 419 | config RCU_TRACE |
| 420 | bool "Enable tracing for RCU" |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 421 | help |
| 422 | This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats |
| 423 | in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. |
| 424 | |
| 425 | Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing |
| 426 | Say N if you are unsure. |
| 427 | |
| 428 | config RCU_FANOUT |
| 429 | int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" |
| 430 | range 2 64 if 64BIT |
| 431 | range 2 32 if !64BIT |
Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 432 | depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 433 | default 64 if 64BIT |
| 434 | default 32 if !64BIT |
| 435 | help |
| 436 | This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations |
| 437 | of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with |
Paul E. McKenney | 4d87ffa | 2010-08-04 17:31:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 438 | large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth |
| 439 | root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. |
| 440 | The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production |
| 441 | systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation |
| 442 | itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system |
| 443 | code paths on small(er) systems. |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 444 | |
| 445 | Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. |
| 446 | Take the default if unsure. |
| 447 | |
| 448 | config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT |
| 449 | bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" |
Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 451 | default n |
| 452 | help |
| 453 | This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, |
| 454 | regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for |
| 455 | testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with |
| 456 | strong NUMA behavior. |
| 457 | |
| 458 | Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. |
| 459 | |
| 460 | Say N if unsure. |
| 461 | |
Paul E. McKenney | 8bd93a2 | 2010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 462 | config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ |
| 463 | bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" |
| 464 | depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP |
| 465 | default n |
| 466 | help |
| 467 | This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods |
| 468 | in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state |
| 469 | more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the |
| 470 | overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems |
| 471 | with large numbers of CPUs. |
| 472 | |
| 473 | Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly |
| 474 | if you have relatively few CPUs. |
| 475 | |
| 476 | Say N if you are unsure. |
| 477 | |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 478 | config TREE_RCU_TRACE |
Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 479 | def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 480 | select DEBUG_FS |
| 481 | help |
Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 482 | This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and |
| 483 | TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to |
| 484 | trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 485 | |
Paul E. McKenney | 24278d1 | 2010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 486 | config RCU_BOOST |
| 487 | bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" |
| 488 | depends on RT_MUTEXES && TINY_PREEMPT_RCU |
| 489 | default n |
| 490 | help |
| 491 | This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that |
| 492 | block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. |
| 493 | This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU |
| 494 | callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. |
| 495 | |
| 496 | Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads |
| 497 | Say N here if you are unsure. |
| 498 | |
| 499 | config RCU_BOOST_PRIO |
| 500 | int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to" |
| 501 | range 1 99 |
| 502 | depends on RCU_BOOST |
| 503 | default 1 |
| 504 | help |
| 505 | This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted |
| 506 | RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound |
| 507 | real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then |
| 508 | the highest-priority CPU-bound application. |
| 509 | |
| 510 | Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. |
| 511 | |
| 512 | config RCU_BOOST_DELAY |
| 513 | int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" |
| 514 | range 0 3000 |
| 515 | depends on RCU_BOOST |
| 516 | default 500 |
| 517 | help |
| 518 | This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of |
| 519 | a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU |
| 520 | readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader |
| 521 | blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. |
| 522 | |
| 523 | Accept the default if unsure. |
| 524 | |
Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 525 | endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" |
| 526 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 527 | config IKCONFIG |
Ross Biro | f2443ab | 2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 528 | tristate "Kernel .config support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 529 | ---help--- |
| 530 | This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file |
| 531 | contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation |
| 532 | of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an |
| 533 | on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel |
| 534 | image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as |
| 535 | input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. |
| 536 | It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading |
| 537 | /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). |
| 538 | |
| 539 | config IKCONFIG_PROC |
| 540 | bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" |
| 541 | depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS |
| 542 | ---help--- |
| 543 | This option enables access to the kernel configuration file |
| 544 | through /proc/config.gz. |
| 545 | |
Alistair John Strachan | 794543a | 2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 546 | config LOG_BUF_SHIFT |
| 547 | int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" |
| 548 | range 12 21 |
Adrian Bunk | f17a32e | 2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 549 | default 17 |
Alistair John Strachan | 794543a | 2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | help |
| 551 | Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. |
Adrian Bunk | f17a32e | 2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 552 | Examples: |
| 553 | 17 => 128 KB |
| 554 | 16 => 64 KB |
| 555 | 15 => 32 KB |
| 556 | 14 => 16 KB |
Alistair John Strachan | 794543a | 2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 557 | 13 => 8 KB |
| 558 | 12 => 4 KB |
| 559 | |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 5cdc38f | 2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 560 | # |
| 561 | # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: |
| 562 | # |
| 563 | config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK |
| 564 | bool |
| 565 | |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 566 | menuconfig CGROUPS |
| 567 | boolean "Control Group support" |
Kirill A. Shutemov | 0dea116 | 2010-03-10 15:22:20 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 568 | depends on EVENTFD |
Paul Menage | ddbcc7e | 2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 569 | help |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 570 | This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 5cdc38f | 2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 571 | use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory |
| 572 | controls or device isolation. |
| 573 | See |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 5cdc38f | 2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 574 | - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) |
Li Zefan | 45ce80f | 2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 575 | - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation |
| 576 | and resource control) |
Paul Menage | ddbcc7e | 2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 577 | |
| 578 | Say N if unsure. |
| 579 | |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 580 | if CGROUPS |
| 581 | |
Paul Menage | 006cb99 | 2007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 582 | config CGROUP_DEBUG |
| 583 | bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" |
Paul Menage | 418d7d8 | 2008-04-29 01:00:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 584 | default n |
Paul Menage | 006cb99 | 2007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 585 | help |
| 586 | This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that |
| 587 | exports useful debugging information about the cgroups |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 588 | framework. |
Paul Menage | 006cb99 | 2007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 589 | |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 590 | Say N if unsure. |
Paul Menage | 006cb99 | 2007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 591 | |
Serge E. Hallyn | 858d72e | 2007-10-18 23:39:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 592 | config CGROUP_NS |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 593 | bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 594 | help |
| 595 | Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to |
| 596 | provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, |
| 597 | for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart |
| 598 | jobs. |
Serge E. Hallyn | 858d72e | 2007-10-18 23:39:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 599 | |
Matt Helsley | dc52ddc | 2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 600 | config CGROUP_FREEZER |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 601 | bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 602 | help |
| 603 | Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a |
Matt Helsley | dc52ddc | 2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 604 | cgroup. |
| 605 | |
Serge E. Hallyn | 08ce5f1 | 2008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 606 | config CGROUP_DEVICE |
| 607 | bool "Device controller for cgroups" |
Serge E. Hallyn | 08ce5f1 | 2008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 608 | help |
| 609 | Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which |
| 610 | a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. |
| 611 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 612 | config CPUSETS |
| 613 | bool "Cpuset support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 614 | help |
Randy Dunlap | d9fd8a6 | 2005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 615 | This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 616 | allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and |
| 617 | Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. |
| 618 | This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. |
| 619 | |
| 620 | Say N if unsure. |
| 621 | |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 622 | config PROC_PID_CPUSET |
| 623 | bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" |
| 624 | depends on CPUSETS |
| 625 | default y |
| 626 | |
Srivatsa Vaddagiri | d842de8 | 2007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 627 | config CGROUP_CPUACCT |
| 628 | bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" |
Srivatsa Vaddagiri | d842de8 | 2007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 629 | help |
| 630 | Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 631 | total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. |
Srivatsa Vaddagiri | d842de8 | 2007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 632 | |
Pavel Emelianov | e552b66 | 2008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 633 | config RESOURCE_COUNTERS |
| 634 | bool "Resource counters" |
| 635 | help |
| 636 | This option enables controller independent resource accounting |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 637 | infrastructure that works with cgroups. |
Pavel Emelianov | e552b66 | 2008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 638 | |
Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 639 | config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR |
| 640 | bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" |
Daniel Lezcano | 79ae9c2 | 2010-10-27 15:34:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 641 | depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS |
Balbir Singh | cf475ad | 2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 642 | select MM_OWNER |
Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 643 | help |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 84ad6d7 | 2008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 644 | Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous |
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo | 21acb9c | 2009-02-04 10:12:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 645 | memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) |
Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 646 | |
| 647 | Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 84ad6d7 | 2008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 648 | associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, |
| 649 | 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory |
| 650 | usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out |
| 651 | at boot. |
Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 652 | |
| 653 | Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 84ad6d7 | 2008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 654 | sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable |
| 655 | this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to |
| 656 | disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. |
Li Zefan | c9d5409 | 2009-01-07 18:07:35 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 657 | (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) |
Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 658 | |
Balbir Singh | cf475ad | 2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 659 | This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which |
| 660 | could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. |
| 661 | |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | c077719 | 2009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 662 | config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 65e0e81 | 2010-08-10 18:02:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 663 | bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" |
| 664 | depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | c077719 | 2009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 665 | help |
| 666 | Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you |
| 667 | enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, |
| 668 | when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to |
| 669 | usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension |
| 670 | is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself |
| 671 | adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. |
| 672 | Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please |
| 673 | be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller |
| 674 | is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and |
| 675 | there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, |
| 676 | if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 627991a | 2009-04-02 16:57:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 677 | Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page |
| 678 | size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. |
Michal Hocko | a42c390 | 2010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 679 | config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED |
| 680 | bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" |
| 681 | depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP |
| 682 | default y |
| 683 | help |
| 684 | Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in |
| 685 | a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels |
Jim Cromie | 43d547f | 2010-12-17 14:32:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 686 | which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default |
Michal Hocko | a42c390 | 2010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 687 | and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line |
| 688 | parameter should have this option unselected. |
| 689 | For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should |
| 690 | select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it |
| 691 | then noswapaccount does the trick). |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | c077719 | 2009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 692 | |
Stephane Eranian | e5d1367 | 2011-02-14 11:20:01 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 693 | config CGROUP_PERF |
| 694 | bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" |
| 695 | depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS |
| 696 | help |
| 697 | This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to |
Li Zefan | 2d0f252 | 2011-03-03 14:26:20 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 698 | threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the |
Stephane Eranian | e5d1367 | 2011-02-14 11:20:01 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 699 | designated cpu. |
| 700 | |
| 701 | Say N if unsure. |
| 702 | |
Dhaval Giani | 7c94143 | 2010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 703 | menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED |
| 704 | bool "Group CPU scheduler" |
Daniel Lezcano | 79ae9c2 | 2010-10-27 15:34:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 705 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
Dhaval Giani | 7c94143 | 2010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 706 | default n |
| 707 | help |
| 708 | This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU |
| 709 | bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group |
| 710 | tasks. |
| 711 | |
| 712 | if CGROUP_SCHED |
| 713 | config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED |
| 714 | bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" |
| 715 | depends on CGROUP_SCHED |
| 716 | default CGROUP_SCHED |
| 717 | |
| 718 | config RT_GROUP_SCHED |
| 719 | bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" |
| 720 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
| 721 | depends on CGROUP_SCHED |
| 722 | default n |
| 723 | help |
| 724 | This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth |
Li Zefan | 32bd7eb | 2010-03-24 13:17:19 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 725 | to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to |
Dhaval Giani | 7c94143 | 2010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 726 | schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate |
| 727 | realtime bandwidth for them. |
| 728 | See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. |
| 729 | |
| 730 | endif #CGROUP_SCHED |
| 731 | |
Vivek Goyal | afc24d4 | 2010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 732 | config BLK_CGROUP |
| 733 | tristate "Block IO controller" |
Daniel Lezcano | 79ae9c2 | 2010-10-27 15:34:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 734 | depends on BLOCK |
Vivek Goyal | afc24d4 | 2010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 735 | default n |
| 736 | ---help--- |
| 737 | Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common |
| 738 | cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling |
| 739 | policies. |
| 740 | |
| 741 | Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and |
| 742 | control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) |
Vivek Goyal | e43473b | 2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 743 | to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in |
| 744 | block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. |
Vivek Goyal | afc24d4 | 2010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 745 | |
| 746 | This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure. |
Vivek Goyal | e43473b | 2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 747 | One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For |
Michael Witten | 79e2e75 | 2011-01-16 21:43:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 748 | enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set |
| 749 | CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set |
Michael Witten | c5e0591 | 2011-01-17 00:08:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 750 | CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. |
Vivek Goyal | afc24d4 | 2010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 751 | |
| 752 | See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. |
| 753 | |
| 754 | config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP |
| 755 | bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" |
| 756 | depends on BLK_CGROUP |
| 757 | default n |
| 758 | ---help--- |
| 759 | Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat |
| 760 | files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. |
| 761 | |
Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 762 | endif # CGROUPS |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | c077719 | 2009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 763 | |
Daniel Lezcano | 8dd2a82 | 2010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 764 | menuconfig NAMESPACES |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 765 | bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT |
| 766 | default !EXPERT |
Pavel Emelyanov | c5289a6 | 2008-02-08 04:18:19 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 767 | help |
| 768 | Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using |
| 769 | the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects |
| 770 | or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in |
| 771 | different namespaces. |
| 772 | |
Daniel Lezcano | 8dd2a82 | 2010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 773 | if NAMESPACES |
| 774 | |
Pavel Emelyanov | 58bfdd6d | 2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 775 | config UTS_NS |
| 776 | bool "UTS namespace" |
Daniel Lezcano | 17a6d44 | 2010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 777 | default y |
Pavel Emelyanov | 58bfdd6d | 2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 778 | help |
| 779 | In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the |
| 780 | uname() system call |
| 781 | |
Pavel Emelyanov | ae5e1b2 | 2008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 782 | config IPC_NS |
| 783 | bool "IPC namespace" |
Daniel Lezcano | 8dd2a82 | 2010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 784 | depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) |
Daniel Lezcano | 17a6d44 | 2010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 785 | default y |
Pavel Emelyanov | ae5e1b2 | 2008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 786 | help |
| 787 | In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to |
Serge E. Hallyn | 614b84c | 2009-04-06 19:01:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 788 | different IPC objects in different namespaces. |
Pavel Emelyanov | ae5e1b2 | 2008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 789 | |
Pavel Emelyanov | aee16ce | 2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 790 | config USER_NS |
| 791 | bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
Daniel Lezcano | 8dd2a82 | 2010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 792 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
Daniel Lezcano | 17a6d44 | 2010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 793 | default y |
Pavel Emelyanov | aee16ce | 2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 794 | help |
| 795 | This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces |
| 796 | to provide different user info for different servers. |
| 797 | If unsure, say N. |
| 798 | |
Pavel Emelyanov | 74bd59b | 2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 799 | config PID_NS |
Daniel Lezcano | 9bd38c2 | 2010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 800 | bool "PID Namespaces" |
Daniel Lezcano | 17a6d44 | 2010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 801 | default y |
Pavel Emelyanov | 74bd59b | 2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 802 | help |
Heikki Orsila | 12d2b8f | 2008-07-06 15:48:02 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 803 | Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple |
Matt LaPlante | 692105b | 2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 804 | processes with the same pid as long as they are in different |
Pavel Emelyanov | 74bd59b | 2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 805 | pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. |
| 806 | |
Matt Helsley | d6eb633 | 2009-01-26 12:25:55 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 807 | config NET_NS |
| 808 | bool "Network namespace" |
Daniel Lezcano | 8dd2a82 | 2010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 809 | depends on NET |
Daniel Lezcano | 17a6d44 | 2010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 810 | default y |
Matt Helsley | d6eb633 | 2009-01-26 12:25:55 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 811 | help |
| 812 | Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances |
| 813 | of the network stack. |
| 814 | |
Daniel Lezcano | 8dd2a82 | 2010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 815 | endif # NAMESPACES |
| 816 | |
Mike Galbraith | 5091faa | 2010-11-30 14:18:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 817 | config SCHED_AUTOGROUP |
| 818 | bool "Automatic process group scheduling" |
| 819 | select EVENTFD |
| 820 | select CGROUPS |
| 821 | select CGROUP_SCHED |
| 822 | select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED |
| 823 | help |
| 824 | This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by |
| 825 | automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation |
| 826 | of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from |
| 827 | desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based |
| 828 | upon task session. |
| 829 | |
Daniel Lezcano | 7af37be | 2010-10-27 15:34:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 830 | config MM_OWNER |
| 831 | bool |
| 832 | |
| 833 | config SYSFS_DEPRECATED |
Ferenc Wagner | 5d6a4ea | 2011-01-10 19:04:22 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 834 | bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" |
Daniel Lezcano | 7af37be | 2010-10-27 15:34:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 835 | depends on SYSFS |
| 836 | default n |
| 837 | help |
| 838 | This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class |
| 839 | devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in |
| 840 | /sys/block/. |
| 841 | |
| 842 | This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is |
| 843 | passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set. |
| 844 | |
| 845 | This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools, |
| 846 | which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all |
| 847 | major distributions and tools handle this just fine. |
| 848 | |
| 849 | Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on |
| 850 | the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this |
| 851 | option enabled. |
| 852 | |
| 853 | Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might |
| 854 | need to say Y here. |
| 855 | |
| 856 | config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 |
Ferenc Wagner | 5d6a4ea | 2011-01-10 19:04:22 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 857 | bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default" |
Daniel Lezcano | 7af37be | 2010-10-27 15:34:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 858 | default n |
| 859 | depends on SYSFS |
| 860 | depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED |
| 861 | help |
| 862 | Enable deprecated sysfs by default. |
| 863 | |
| 864 | See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this |
| 865 | option. |
| 866 | |
| 867 | Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might |
| 868 | need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it |
| 869 | enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary. |
| 870 | |
| 871 | config RELAY |
| 872 | bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" |
| 873 | help |
| 874 | This option enables support for relay interface support in |
| 875 | certain file systems (such as debugfs). |
| 876 | It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and |
| 877 | facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to |
| 878 | user space. |
| 879 | |
| 880 | If unsure, say N. |
| 881 | |
Dimitri Gorokhovik | f991633 | 2007-03-06 01:42:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 882 | config BLK_DEV_INITRD |
| 883 | bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" |
| 884 | depends on BROKEN || !FRV |
| 885 | help |
| 886 | The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the |
| 887 | boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root |
| 888 | before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to |
| 889 | load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, |
| 890 | etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. |
| 891 | |
| 892 | If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this |
| 893 | also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds |
| 894 | 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. |
| 895 | |
| 896 | If unsure say Y. |
| 897 | |
Jean-Paul Saman | c33df4e | 2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 898 | if BLK_DEV_INITRD |
| 899 | |
Sam Ravnborg | dbec486 | 2005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 900 | source "usr/Kconfig" |
| 901 | |
Jean-Paul Saman | c33df4e | 2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 902 | endif |
| 903 | |
Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 904 | config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE |
Ingo Molnar | 96fffeb | 2008-04-28 01:39:43 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 905 | bool "Optimize for size" |
Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 906 | default y |
Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 907 | help |
| 908 | Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc |
| 909 | resulting in a smaller kernel. |
| 910 | |
jkacur | 775a722 | 2008-07-16 00:31:16 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 911 | If unsure, say Y. |
Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 912 | |
Randy Dunlap | 0847062 | 2006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 913 | config SYSCTL |
| 914 | bool |
| 915 | |
Randy Dunlap | b943c46 | 2009-03-10 12:55:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 916 | config ANON_INODES |
| 917 | bool |
| 918 | |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 919 | menuconfig EXPERT |
| 920 | bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 921 | help |
| 922 | This option allows certain base kernel options and settings |
| 923 | to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized |
| 924 | environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. |
| 925 | Only use this if you really know what you are doing. |
| 926 | |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 927 | config UID16 |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 928 | bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT |
David S. Miller | 09337f5 | 2008-04-26 03:17:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 929 | depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 930 | default y |
| 931 | help |
| 932 | This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. |
| 933 | |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 934 | config SYSCTL_SYSCALL |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 935 | bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT |
Eric W. Biederman | 26a7034 | 2009-11-05 05:26:41 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 936 | depends on PROC_SYSCTL |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 937 | default y |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 938 | select SYSCTL |
| 939 | ---help--- |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 940 | sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging |
| 941 | to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys |
| 942 | using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this |
| 943 | information. |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 944 | |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 945 | Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are |
| 946 | trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, |
| 947 | making your kernel marginally smaller. |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 948 | |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 949 | If unsure say Y here. |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 950 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 951 | config KALLSYMS |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 952 | bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 953 | default y |
| 954 | help |
| 955 | Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and |
| 956 | symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel |
| 957 | somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. |
| 958 | |
| 959 | config KALLSYMS_ALL |
| 960 | bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" |
| 961 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS |
| 962 | help |
| 963 | Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer |
| 964 | OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other |
Jesper Juhl | f9f97bc | 2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 965 | symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them |
| 966 | and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 967 | |
| 968 | Say N. |
| 969 | |
| 970 | config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS |
| 971 | bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" |
| 972 | depends on KALLSYMS |
| 973 | help |
| 974 | If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with |
| 975 | inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and |
| 976 | turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. |
| 977 | Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be |
| 978 | reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while |
| 979 | you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. |
| 980 | |
Matt Mackall | d59745c | 2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 981 | |
Greg Kroah-Hartman | 712f47c | 2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 982 | config HOTPLUG |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 983 | bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT |
Greg Kroah-Hartman | 712f47c | 2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 984 | default y |
| 985 | help |
| 986 | This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent |
| 987 | capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider |
| 988 | disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a |
| 989 | dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. |
| 990 | |
Matt Mackall | d59745c | 2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 991 | config PRINTK |
| 992 | default y |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 993 | bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT |
Matt Mackall | d59745c | 2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 994 | help |
| 995 | This option enables normal printk support. Removing it |
| 996 | eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image |
| 997 | and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it |
| 998 | very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is |
| 999 | strongly discouraged. |
| 1000 | |
Matt Mackall | c8538a7 | 2005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1001 | config BUG |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1002 | bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT |
Matt Mackall | c8538a7 | 2005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1003 | default y |
| 1004 | help |
| 1005 | Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing |
| 1006 | the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring |
| 1007 | numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this |
| 1008 | option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. |
| 1009 | Just say Y. |
| 1010 | |
Matt Mackall | 708e9a7 | 2006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1011 | config ELF_CORE |
| 1012 | default y |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1013 | bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT |
Matt Mackall | 708e9a7 | 2006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1014 | help |
| 1015 | Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. |
| 1016 | |
Stas Sergeev | e5e1d3c | 2008-05-07 12:39:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1017 | config PCSPKR_PLATFORM |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1018 | bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT |
Stas Sergeev | e5e1d3c | 2008-05-07 12:39:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1019 | depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES |
| 1020 | default y |
| 1021 | help |
| 1022 | This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker |
| 1023 | support, saving some memory. |
| 1024 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1025 | config BASE_FULL |
| 1026 | default y |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1027 | bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1028 | help |
| 1029 | Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core |
| 1030 | kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, |
| 1031 | but may reduce performance. |
| 1032 | |
| 1033 | config FUTEX |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1034 | bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1035 | default y |
Ingo Molnar | 23f78d4 | 2006-06-27 02:54:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1036 | select RT_MUTEXES |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1037 | help |
| 1038 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without |
| 1039 | support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not |
| 1040 | run glibc-based applications correctly. |
| 1041 | |
| 1042 | config EPOLL |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1043 | bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1044 | default y |
Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1045 | select ANON_INODES |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1046 | help |
| 1047 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without |
| 1048 | support for epoll family of system calls. |
| 1049 | |
Davide Libenzi | fba2afa | 2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1050 | config SIGNALFD |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1051 | bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT |
Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1052 | select ANON_INODES |
Davide Libenzi | fba2afa | 2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1053 | default y |
| 1054 | help |
| 1055 | Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals |
| 1056 | on a file descriptor. |
| 1057 | |
| 1058 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 1059 | |
Davide Libenzi | b215e28 | 2007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1060 | config TIMERFD |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1061 | bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT |
Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1062 | select ANON_INODES |
Davide Libenzi | b215e28 | 2007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1063 | default y |
| 1064 | help |
| 1065 | Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer |
| 1066 | events on a file descriptor. |
| 1067 | |
| 1068 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 1069 | |
Davide Libenzi | e1ad746 | 2007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1070 | config EVENTFD |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1071 | bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT |
Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1072 | select ANON_INODES |
Davide Libenzi | e1ad746 | 2007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1073 | default y |
| 1074 | help |
| 1075 | Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both |
| 1076 | kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. |
| 1077 | |
| 1078 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 1079 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1080 | config SHMEM |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1081 | bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1082 | default y |
| 1083 | depends on MMU |
| 1084 | help |
| 1085 | The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. |
| 1086 | It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported |
| 1087 | to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this |
| 1088 | option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, |
| 1089 | which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. |
| 1090 | |
Thomas Petazzoni | ebf3f09 | 2008-10-15 22:05:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1091 | config AIO |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1092 | bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT |
Thomas Petazzoni | ebf3f09 | 2008-10-15 22:05:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1093 | default y |
| 1094 | help |
| 1095 | This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used |
| 1096 | by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling |
| 1097 | this option saves about 7k. |
| 1098 | |
Randy Dunlap | 6befe5f | 2011-04-26 12:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame^] | 1099 | config EMBEDDED |
| 1100 | bool "Embedded system" |
| 1101 | select EXPERT |
| 1102 | help |
| 1103 | This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for |
| 1104 | an embedded system so certain expert options are available |
| 1105 | for configuration. |
| 1106 | |
Ingo Molnar | cdd6c48 | 2009-09-21 12:02:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1107 | config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS |
Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1108 | bool |
Mike Frysinger | 018df72 | 2009-06-12 13:17:43 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1109 | help |
| 1110 | See tools/perf/design.txt for details. |
Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1111 | |
Peter Zijlstra | 906010b | 2009-09-21 16:08:49 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1112 | config PERF_USE_VMALLOC |
| 1113 | bool |
| 1114 | help |
| 1115 | See tools/perf/design.txt for details |
| 1116 | |
Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1117 | menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" |
Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1118 | |
Ingo Molnar | cdd6c48 | 2009-09-21 12:02:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1119 | config PERF_EVENTS |
Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1120 | bool "Kernel performance events and counters" |
| 1121 | default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) |
Ingo Molnar | cdd6c48 | 2009-09-21 12:02:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1122 | depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS |
Ingo Molnar | 4c59e46 | 2008-12-08 19:38:33 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1123 | select ANON_INODES |
Peter Zijlstra | e360adb | 2010-10-14 14:01:34 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1124 | select IRQ_WORK |
Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1125 | help |
Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1126 | Enable kernel support for various performance events provided |
| 1127 | by software and hardware. |
Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1128 | |
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo | dd77038 | 2009-10-30 19:32:25 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1129 | Software events are supported either built-in or via the |
Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1130 | use of generic tracepoints. |
| 1131 | |
| 1132 | Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance |
| 1133 | counter registers. These registers count the number of certain |
Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1134 | types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses |
| 1135 | suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the |
| 1136 | kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts |
| 1137 | when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be |
| 1138 | used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. |
| 1139 | |
Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1140 | The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of |
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo | dd77038 | 2009-10-30 19:32:25 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1141 | these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a |
Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1142 | system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It |
Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1143 | provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event |
| 1144 | capabilities on top of those. |
| 1145 | |
| 1146 | Say Y if unsure. |
| 1147 | |
Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1148 | config PERF_COUNTERS |
| 1149 | bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" |
| 1150 | depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS |
| 1151 | help |
| 1152 | This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS |
| 1153 | config option - please see that one for details. |
| 1154 | |
| 1155 | It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable |
| 1156 | it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. |
| 1157 | |
| 1158 | Say N if unsure. |
| 1159 | |
Peter Zijlstra | 906010b | 2009-09-21 16:08:49 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1160 | config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC |
| 1161 | default n |
| 1162 | bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" |
| 1163 | depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 1164 | select PERF_USE_VMALLOC |
| 1165 | help |
| 1166 | Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. |
| 1167 | |
| 1168 | Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms |
| 1169 | that don't require it. |
| 1170 | |
| 1171 | Say N if unsure. |
| 1172 | |
Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1173 | endmenu |
| 1174 | |
Christoph Lameter | f8891e5 | 2006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1175 | config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS |
| 1176 | default y |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1177 | bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT |
Christoph Lameter | f8891e5 | 2006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1178 | help |
Paul Jackson | 2aea4fb | 2006-12-22 01:06:10 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1179 | VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. |
| 1180 | This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1181 | on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts |
Paul Jackson | 2aea4fb | 2006-12-22 01:06:10 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1182 | if VM event counters are disabled. |
Christoph Lameter | f8891e5 | 2006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1183 | |
Thomas Petazzoni | 3d13731 | 2008-08-19 10:28:24 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1184 | config PCI_QUIRKS |
| 1185 | default y |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1186 | bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT |
Geert Uytterhoeven | 61cfc7e | 2008-10-22 08:53:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1187 | depends on PCI |
Thomas Petazzoni | 3d13731 | 2008-08-19 10:28:24 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1188 | help |
| 1189 | This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset |
| 1190 | bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is |
| 1191 | unaffected by PCI quirks. |
| 1192 | |
Christoph Lameter | 41ecc55 | 2007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1193 | config SLUB_DEBUG |
| 1194 | default y |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1195 | bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT |
Christoph Lameter | f6acb63 | 2008-04-29 16:16:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1196 | depends on SLUB && SYSFS |
Christoph Lameter | 41ecc55 | 2007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1197 | help |
| 1198 | SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can |
| 1199 | result in significant savings in code size. This also disables |
| 1200 | SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be |
| 1201 | no support for cache validation etc. |
| 1202 | |
Randy Dunlap | b943c46 | 2009-03-10 12:55:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1203 | config COMPAT_BRK |
| 1204 | bool "Disable heap randomization" |
| 1205 | default y |
| 1206 | help |
| 1207 | Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it |
| 1208 | also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). |
| 1209 | This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization |
Matt LaPlante | 692105b | 2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1210 | disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting |
Randy Dunlap | b943c46 | 2009-03-10 12:55:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1211 | /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. |
| 1212 | |
| 1213 | On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. |
| 1214 | |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1215 | choice |
| 1216 | prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" |
Christoph Lameter | a0acd82 | 2007-07-17 04:03:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1217 | default SLUB |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1218 | help |
| 1219 | This option allows to select a slab allocator. |
| 1220 | |
| 1221 | config SLAB |
| 1222 | bool "SLAB" |
| 1223 | help |
| 1224 | The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work |
Christoph Lameter | 3401388 | 2007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1225 | well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in |
Simon Arlott | 02f5621 | 2008-11-05 22:18:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1226 | per cpu and per node queues. |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1227 | |
| 1228 | config SLUB |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1229 | bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" |
| 1230 | help |
| 1231 | SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage |
| 1232 | instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). |
| 1233 | Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead |
| 1234 | of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently |
Simon Arlott | 02f5621 | 2008-11-05 22:18:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1235 | and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for |
| 1236 | a slab allocator. |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1237 | |
| 1238 | config SLOB |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1239 | depends on EXPERT |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1240 | bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" |
| 1241 | help |
Matt Mackall | 3729145 | 2008-02-04 22:29:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1242 | SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler |
| 1243 | allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but |
| 1244 | does not perform as well on large systems. |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1245 | |
| 1246 | endchoice |
| 1247 | |
Jie Zhang | ea63763 | 2009-12-14 18:00:02 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1248 | config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED |
| 1249 | bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" |
David Rientjes | 6a108a1 | 2011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1250 | depends on EXPERT && !MMU |
Jie Zhang | ea63763 | 2009-12-14 18:00:02 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1251 | default n |
| 1252 | help |
| 1253 | Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained |
| 1254 | from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to |
| 1255 | userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that |
| 1256 | mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus |
| 1257 | providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, |
| 1258 | then the flag will be ignored. |
| 1259 | |
| 1260 | This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by |
| 1261 | ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. |
| 1262 | |
| 1263 | Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be |
| 1264 | enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in |
| 1265 | userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, |
| 1266 | it is normally safe to say Y here. |
| 1267 | |
| 1268 | See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. |
| 1269 | |
Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1270 | config PROFILING |
Robert Richter | b309a29 | 2010-02-26 15:01:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1271 | bool "Profiling support" |
Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1272 | help |
| 1273 | Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used |
| 1274 | by profilers such as OProfile. |
| 1275 | |
Ingo Molnar | 5f87f11 | 2008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1276 | # |
| 1277 | # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be |
| 1278 | # dynamically changed for a probe function. |
| 1279 | # |
Mathieu Desnoyers | 97e1c18 | 2008-07-18 12:16:16 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1280 | config TRACEPOINTS |
Ingo Molnar | 5f87f11 | 2008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1281 | bool |
Mathieu Desnoyers | 97e1c18 | 2008-07-18 12:16:16 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1282 | |
Mathieu Desnoyers | fb32e03 | 2008-02-02 15:10:33 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1283 | source "arch/Kconfig" |
| 1284 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1285 | endmenu # General setup |
| 1286 | |
Dmitry Baryshkov | ee7e551 | 2008-06-29 14:18:46 +0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1287 | config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT |
| 1288 | bool |
| 1289 | default n |
| 1290 | |
Linus Torvalds | 158a962 | 2008-01-02 13:04:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1291 | config SLABINFO |
| 1292 | bool |
| 1293 | depends on PROC_FS |
Christoph Lameter | 0f389ec | 2008-04-14 18:53:02 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 1294 | depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG |
Linus Torvalds | 158a962 | 2008-01-02 13:04:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1295 | default y |
| 1296 | |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1297 | config RT_MUTEXES |
| 1298 | boolean |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1299 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1300 | config BASE_SMALL |
| 1301 | int |
| 1302 | default 0 if BASE_FULL |
| 1303 | default 1 if !BASE_FULL |
| 1304 | |
Jan Engelhardt | 66da573 | 2007-07-15 23:39:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1305 | menuconfig MODULES |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1306 | bool "Enable loadable module support" |
| 1307 | help |
| 1308 | Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can |
| 1309 | be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being |
| 1310 | permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" |
| 1311 | tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, |
| 1312 | many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by |
| 1313 | answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most |
| 1314 | useful for infrequently used options which are not required |
| 1315 | for booting. For more information, see the man pages for |
| 1316 | modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. |
| 1317 | |
| 1318 | If you say Y here, you will need to run "make |
| 1319 | modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ |
| 1320 | where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do |
| 1321 | this). |
| 1322 | |
| 1323 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 1324 | |
Robert P. J. Day | 0b0de14 | 2008-08-04 13:31:32 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1325 | if MODULES |
| 1326 | |
Linus Torvalds | 826e450 | 2008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1327 | config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD |
| 1328 | bool "Forced module loading" |
Linus Torvalds | 826e450 | 2008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1329 | default n |
| 1330 | help |
Rusty Russell | 91e37a7 | 2008-05-09 16:25:28 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 1331 | Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe |
| 1332 | --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and |
| 1333 | is usually a really bad idea. |
Linus Torvalds | 826e450 | 2008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1334 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1335 | config MODULE_UNLOAD |
| 1336 | bool "Module unloading" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1337 | help |
| 1338 | Without this option you will not be able to unload any |
| 1339 | modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable |
Denys Vlasenko | f7f5b67 | 2008-07-22 19:24:26 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1340 | anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster |
| 1341 | and simpler. If unsure, say Y. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1342 | |
| 1343 | config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD |
| 1344 | bool "Forced module unloading" |
| 1345 | depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 1346 | help |
| 1347 | This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the |
| 1348 | kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module |
| 1349 | without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to |
| 1350 | rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. |
| 1351 | If unsure, say N. |
| 1352 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1353 | config MODVERSIONS |
Sam Ravnborg | 0d54164 | 2005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1354 | bool "Module versioning support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1355 | help |
| 1356 | Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. |
| 1357 | Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules |
| 1358 | compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information |
| 1359 | to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would |
| 1360 | make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If |
| 1361 | unsure, say N. |
| 1362 | |
| 1363 | config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL |
| 1364 | bool "Source checksum for all modules" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1365 | help |
| 1366 | Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" |
| 1367 | field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a |
| 1368 | sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers |
| 1369 | see exactly which source was used to build a module (since |
| 1370 | others sometimes change the module source without updating |
| 1371 | the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field |
| 1372 | will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. |
| 1373 | |
Robert P. J. Day | 0b0de14 | 2008-08-04 13:31:32 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1374 | endif # MODULES |
| 1375 | |
Rusty Russell | 98a79d6 | 2008-12-13 21:19:41 +1030 | [diff] [blame] | 1376 | config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE |
| 1377 | bool |
| 1378 | help |
| 1379 | Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and |
| 1380 | cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map |
| 1381 | with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, |
| 1382 | it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs |
Matt LaPlante | 692105b | 2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1383 | and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. |
Rusty Russell | 98a79d6 | 2008-12-13 21:19:41 +1030 | [diff] [blame] | 1384 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1385 | config STOP_MACHINE |
| 1386 | bool |
| 1387 | default y |
| 1388 | depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU |
| 1389 | help |
| 1390 | Need stop_machine() primitive. |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1391 | |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1392 | source "block/Kconfig" |
Avi Kivity | e98c320 | 2007-10-16 23:27:31 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1393 | |
| 1394 | config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS |
| 1395 | bool |
Paul E. McKenney | e260be6 | 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1396 | |
Steffen Klassert | 16295be | 2010-01-06 19:47:10 +1100 | [diff] [blame] | 1397 | config PADATA |
| 1398 | depends on SMP |
| 1399 | bool |
| 1400 | |
Thomas Gleixner | 6beb000 | 2009-11-09 15:21:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1401 | source "kernel/Kconfig.locks" |