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Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -07001config DEFCONFIG_LIST
2 string
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrussob2670ea2006-10-19 23:28:23 -07003 depends on !UML
Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -07004 option defconfig_list
5 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
6 default "/etc/kernel-config"
7 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
8 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
9
Al Boldiff0cfc62007-07-31 00:39:23 -070010menu "General setup"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070011
12config EXPERIMENTAL
13 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
14 ---help---
15 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
16 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
17 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
18 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
19 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
20 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
21 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
22 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
23 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
24 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
25 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
26 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
27 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
28 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
29 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
30 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
31
32 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
33 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
34 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
35
36 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
37 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
38 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
39 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
40 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
41 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
42
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070043config BROKEN
44 bool
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070045
46config BROKEN_ON_SMP
47 bool
48 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
49 default y
50
51config LOCK_KERNEL
52 bool
53 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
54 default y
55
56config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
57 int
Adrian Bunkdd673bc2006-06-30 01:55:51 -070058 default 32 if !UML
59 default 128 if UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070060 help
Randy Dunlap34ad92c2005-10-30 15:01:46 -080061 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
62 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070063
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070064
65config LOCALVERSION
66 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
67 help
68 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
69 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
70 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
71 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
72 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
73 be a maximum of 64 characters.
74
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040075config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
76 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
77 default y
78 help
79 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020080 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
81 top of tree revision.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040082
83 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020084 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040085 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020086 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040087
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020088 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
89 by running the command:
90
91 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
92
93 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040094
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070095config SWAP
96 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +020097 depends on MMU && BLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070098 default y
99 help
100 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
Jesper Juhl92c35042006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100101 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700102 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
103 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
104
105config SYSVIPC
106 bool "System V IPC"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700107 ---help---
108 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
109 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
110 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
111 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
112 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
113 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
114 you'll need to say Y here.
115
116 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
117 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
118 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
119
Eric W. Biedermana5494dc2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800120config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
121 bool
122 depends on SYSVIPC
123 depends on SYSCTL
124 default y
125
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700126config POSIX_MQUEUE
127 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
128 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
129 ---help---
130 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
131 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
132 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
133 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
Robert P. J. Dayb0e37652007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200134 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700135
136 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
137 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
138 operations on message queues.
139
140 If unsure, say Y.
141
142config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
143 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
144 help
145 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
146 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
147 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
148 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
149 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
150 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
151 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
152 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
153 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
154
155config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
156 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
157 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
158 default n
159 help
160 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
161 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
162 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
163 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
164 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
165 at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
166
Shailabh Nagarc7572492006-07-14 00:24:40 -0700167config TASKSTATS
168 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
169 depends on NET
170 default n
171 help
172 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
173 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
174 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
175 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
176 space on task exit.
177
178 Say N if unsure.
179
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700180config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
181 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Shailabh Nagar6f449932006-07-14 00:24:41 -0700182 depends on TASKSTATS
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700183 help
184 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
185 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
186 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
187 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
188
189 Say N if unsure.
190
Alexey Dobriyan18f705f2007-02-10 01:46:44 -0800191config TASK_XACCT
192 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
193 depends on TASKSTATS
194 help
195 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
196 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
197
198 Say N if unsure.
199
200config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
201 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
202 depends on TASK_XACCT
203 help
204 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
205 task has caused.
206
207 Say N if unsure.
208
Cedric Le Goateracce2922007-07-15 23:40:59 -0700209config USER_NS
210 bool "User Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
211 default n
212 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
213 help
214 Support user namespaces. This allows containers, i.e.
215 vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
216 user info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
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"
Martin Schwidefsky347a8dc2006-01-06 00:19:28 -0800229 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700237config IKCONFIG
Ross Birof2443ab2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700238 tristate "Kernel .config support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700239 ---help---
240 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
241 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
242 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
243 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
244 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
245 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
246 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
247 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
248
249config IKCONFIG_PROC
250 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
251 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
252 ---help---
253 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
254 through /proc/config.gz.
255
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700256config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
257 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
258 range 12 21
259 default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
260 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
261 default 15 if SMP
262 default 14
263 help
264 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
265 Defaults and Examples:
266 17 => 128 KB for S/390
267 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
268 15 => 32 KB for SMP
269 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
270 13 => 8 KB
271 12 => 4 KB
272
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700273config CPUSETS
274 bool "Cpuset support"
275 depends on SMP
276 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700277 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700278 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
279 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
280 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
281
282 Say N if unsure.
283
Srivatsa Vaddagiri29f59db2007-10-15 17:00:07 +0200284config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
Srivatsa Vaddagiri9b5b7752007-10-15 17:00:09 +0200285 bool "Fair group cpu scheduler"
286 default n
287 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
Srivatsa Vaddagiri29f59db2007-10-15 17:00:07 +0200288 help
Srivatsa Vaddagiri9b5b7752007-10-15 17:00:09 +0200289 This feature lets cpu scheduler recognize task groups and control cpu
290 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
Srivatsa Vaddagiri29f59db2007-10-15 17:00:07 +0200291
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200292config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
293 bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
294 default y
295 help
296 This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
297 "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
298 "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
299 uevent environment.
300 None of these features or values should be used today, as
301 they export driver core implementation details to userspace
302 or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
303 releases.
304
305 If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
David Sterba3dde6ad2007-05-09 07:12:20 +0200306 that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200307 order to support older versions of udev.
308
309 If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
310 it should be safe to say N here.
311
Jens Axboeb86ff982006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100312config RELAY
313 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
314 help
315 This option enables support for relay interface support in
316 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
317 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
318 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
319 user space.
320
321 If unsure, say N.
322
Dimitri Gorokhovikf9916332007-03-06 01:42:17 -0800323config BLK_DEV_INITRD
324 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
325 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
326 help
327 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
328 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
329 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
330 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
331 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
332
333 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
334 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
335 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
336
337 If unsure say Y.
338
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800339if BLK_DEV_INITRD
340
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200341source "usr/Kconfig"
342
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800343endif
344
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800345config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
346 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
347 default y
Paul Mundt32582fa2007-07-25 11:27:05 +0900348 depends on ARM || H8300 || SUPERH || EXPERIMENTAL
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800349 help
350 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
351 resulting in a smaller kernel.
352
353 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
354 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
355
356 If unsure, say N.
357
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700358config SYSCTL
359 bool
360
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700361menuconfig EMBEDDED
362 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
363 help
364 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
365 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
366 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
367 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
368
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700369config UID16
370 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
Bryan Wu1394f032007-05-06 14:50:22 -0700371 depends on ARM || BFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700372 default y
373 help
374 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
375
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700376config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700377 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800378 default y
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700379 select SYSCTL
380 ---help---
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800381 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
382 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
383 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
384 information.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700385
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800386 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
387 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
388 making your kernel marginally smaller.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700389
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800390 If unsure say Y here.
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700391
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700392config KALLSYMS
Jesper Juhl979c6a12006-12-12 19:25:11 +0100393 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700394 default y
395 help
396 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
397 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
398 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
399
400config KALLSYMS_ALL
401 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
402 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
403 help
404 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
405 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
Jesper Juhlf9f97bc2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200406 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
407 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700408
409 Say N.
410
411config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
412 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
413 depends on KALLSYMS
414 help
415 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
416 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
417 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
418 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
419 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
420 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
421
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700422
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800423config HOTPLUG
424 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
425 default y
426 help
427 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
428 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
429 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
430 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
431
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700432config PRINTK
433 default y
434 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
435 help
436 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
437 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
438 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
439 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
440 strongly discouraged.
441
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700442config BUG
443 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
444 default y
445 help
446 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
447 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
448 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
449 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
450 Just say Y.
451
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800452config ELF_CORE
453 default y
454 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
455 help
456 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
457
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700458config BASE_FULL
459 default y
460 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
461 help
462 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
463 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
464 but may reduce performance.
465
466config FUTEX
467 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
468 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d42006-06-27 02:54:53 -0700469 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700470 help
471 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
472 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
473 run glibc-based applications correctly.
474
Davide Libenzi5dc8bf82007-05-10 22:23:11 -0700475config ANON_INODES
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700476 bool
Davide Libenzi5dc8bf82007-05-10 22:23:11 -0700477
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700478config EPOLL
479 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
480 default y
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700481 select ANON_INODES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700482 help
483 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
484 support for epoll family of system calls.
485
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700486config SIGNALFD
487 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700488 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700489 default y
490 help
491 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
492 on a file descriptor.
493
494 If unsure, say Y.
495
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700496config TIMERFD
497 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700498 select ANON_INODES
Andrew Mortone4260192007-09-18 22:46:41 -0700499 depends on BROKEN
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700500 default y
501 help
502 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
503 events on a file descriptor.
504
505 If unsure, say Y.
506
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700507config EVENTFD
508 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700509 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700510 default y
511 help
512 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
513 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
514
515 If unsure, say Y.
516
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700517config SHMEM
518 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
519 default y
520 depends on MMU
521 help
522 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
523 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
524 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
525 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
526 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
527
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700528config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
529 default y
530 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
531 help
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -0800532 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
533 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
534 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
535 if VM event counters are disabled.
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700536
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700537config SLUB_DEBUG
538 default y
539 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
Christoph Lameterd4751a22007-05-10 03:15:40 -0700540 depends on SLUB
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700541 help
542 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
543 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
544 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
545 no support for cache validation etc.
546
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700547choice
548 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
Christoph Lametera0acd822007-07-17 04:03:32 -0700549 default SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700550 help
551 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
552
553config SLAB
554 bool "SLAB"
555 help
556 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700557 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700558 per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700559 a slab allocator.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700560
561config SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700562 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
563 help
564 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
565 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
566 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
567 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700568 and has enhanced diagnostics.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700569
570config SLOB
Paul Mundt84a01c22007-07-15 23:38:24 -0700571 depends on EMBEDDED
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700572 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
573 help
574 SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
Nick Pigginafc0ced2007-05-16 22:10:49 -0700575 allocator. SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700576 scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly
577 susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object
578 density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700579
580endchoice
581
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700582endmenu # General setup
583
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700584config RT_MUTEXES
585 boolean
586 select PLIST
587
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700588config TINY_SHMEM
589 default !SHMEM
590 bool
591
592config BASE_SMALL
593 int
594 default 0 if BASE_FULL
595 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
596
Jan Engelhardt66da5732007-07-15 23:39:29 -0700597menuconfig MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598 bool "Enable loadable module support"
599 help
600 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
601 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
602 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
603 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
604 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
605 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
606 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
607 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
608 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
609
610 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
611 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
612 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
613 this).
614
615 If unsure, say Y.
616
617config MODULE_UNLOAD
618 bool "Module unloading"
619 depends on MODULES
620 help
621 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
622 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
623 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
624 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
625
626config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
627 bool "Forced module unloading"
628 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
629 help
630 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
631 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
632 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
633 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
634 If unsure, say N.
635
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700636config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100637 bool "Module versioning support"
638 depends on MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700639 help
640 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
641 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
642 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
643 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
644 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
645 unsure, say N.
646
647config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
648 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
649 depends on MODULES
650 help
651 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
652 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
653 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
654 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
655 others sometimes change the module source without updating
656 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
657 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
658
659config KMOD
660 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
661 depends on MODULES
662 help
663 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
664 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
665 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
666 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
667 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
668 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
669 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
670
671config STOP_MACHINE
672 bool
673 default y
674 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
675 help
676 Need stop_machine() primitive.
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100677
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100678source "block/Kconfig"