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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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070010menu "Code maturity level options"
11
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33 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are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
64endmenu
65
66menu "General setup"
67
68config LOCALVERSION
69 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
70 help
71 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
72 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
73 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
74 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
75 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
76 be a maximum of 64 characters.
77
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040078config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
79 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
80 default y
81 help
82 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020083 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
84 top of tree revision.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040085
86 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020087 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040088 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020089 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040090
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +020091 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
92 by running the command:
93
94 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
95
96 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040097
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070098config SWAP
99 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200100 depends on MMU && BLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700101 default y
102 help
103 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
Jesper Juhl92c35042006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100104 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700105 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
106 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
107
108config SYSVIPC
109 bool "System V IPC"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700110 ---help---
111 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
112 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
113 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
114 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
115 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
116 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
117 you'll need to say Y here.
118
119 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
120 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
121 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
122
Eric W. Biedermana5494dc2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800123config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
124 bool
125 depends on SYSVIPC
126 depends on SYSCTL
127 default y
128
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700129config POSIX_MQUEUE
130 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
131 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
132 ---help---
133 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
134 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
135 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
136 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
Robert P. J. Dayb0e37652007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200137 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700138
139 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
140 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
141 operations on message queues.
142
143 If unsure, say Y.
144
145config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
146 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
147 help
148 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
149 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
150 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
151 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
152 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
153 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
154 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
155 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
156 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
157
158config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
159 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
160 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
161 default n
162 help
163 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
164 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
165 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
166 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
167 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
168 at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
169
Shailabh Nagarc7572492006-07-14 00:24:40 -0700170config TASKSTATS
171 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
172 depends on NET
173 default n
174 help
175 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
176 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
177 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
178 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
179 space on task exit.
180
181 Say N if unsure.
182
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700183config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
184 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Shailabh Nagar6f449932006-07-14 00:24:41 -0700185 depends on TASKSTATS
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700186 help
187 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
188 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
189 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
190 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
191
192 Say N if unsure.
193
Alexey Dobriyan18f705f2007-02-10 01:46:44 -0800194config TASK_XACCT
195 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
196 depends on TASKSTATS
197 help
198 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
199 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
200
201 Say N if unsure.
202
203config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
204 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
205 depends on TASK_XACCT
206 help
207 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
208 task has caused.
209
210 Say N if unsure.
211
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700212config AUDIT
213 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a42005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100214 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700215 help
216 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
217 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
218 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
219 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
220
221config AUDITSYSCALL
222 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
Martin Schwidefsky347a8dc2006-01-06 00:19:28 -0800223 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700224 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
225 help
226 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
227 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
Amy Griffisf368c07d2006-04-07 16:55:56 -0400228 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
229 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700230
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700231config IKCONFIG
Ross Birof2443ab2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700232 tristate "Kernel .config support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700233 ---help---
234 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
235 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
236 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
237 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
238 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
239 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
240 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
241 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
242
243config IKCONFIG_PROC
244 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
245 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
246 ---help---
247 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
248 through /proc/config.gz.
249
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700250config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
251 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
252 range 12 21
253 default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
254 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
255 default 15 if SMP
256 default 14
257 help
258 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
259 Defaults and Examples:
260 17 => 128 KB for S/390
261 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
262 15 => 32 KB for SMP
263 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
264 13 => 8 KB
265 12 => 4 KB
266
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700267config CPUSETS
268 bool "Cpuset support"
269 depends on SMP
270 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700271 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700272 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
273 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
274 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
275
276 Say N if unsure.
277
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200278config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
279 bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
280 default y
281 help
282 This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
283 "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
284 "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
285 uevent environment.
286 None of these features or values should be used today, as
287 they export driver core implementation details to userspace
288 or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
289 releases.
290
291 If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
David Sterba3dde6ad2007-05-09 07:12:20 +0200292 that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
Kay Sievers88a22c92006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200293 order to support older versions of udev.
294
295 If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
296 it should be safe to say N here.
297
Jens Axboeb86ff982006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100298config RELAY
299 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
300 help
301 This option enables support for relay interface support in
302 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
303 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
304 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
305 user space.
306
307 If unsure, say N.
308
Dimitri Gorokhovikf9916332007-03-06 01:42:17 -0800309config BLK_DEV_INITRD
310 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
311 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
312 help
313 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
314 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
315 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
316 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
317 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
318
319 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
320 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
321 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
322
323 If unsure say Y.
324
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800325if BLK_DEV_INITRD
326
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200327source "usr/Kconfig"
328
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800329endif
330
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800331config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
332 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
333 default y
334 depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800335 help
336 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
337 resulting in a smaller kernel.
338
339 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
340 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
341
342 If unsure, say N.
343
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700344config SYSCTL
345 bool
346
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700347menuconfig EMBEDDED
348 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
349 help
350 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
351 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
352 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
353 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
354
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700355config UID16
356 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
Bryan Wu1394f032007-05-06 14:50:22 -0700357 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 -0700358 default y
359 help
360 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
361
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700362config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700363 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800364 default y
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700365 select SYSCTL
366 ---help---
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800367 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
368 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
369 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
370 information.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700371
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800372 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
373 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
374 making your kernel marginally smaller.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700375
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800376 If unsure say Y here.
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700377
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700378config KALLSYMS
Jesper Juhl979c6a12006-12-12 19:25:11 +0100379 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700380 default y
381 help
382 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
383 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
384 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
385
386config KALLSYMS_ALL
387 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
388 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
389 help
390 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
391 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
Jesper Juhlf9f97bc2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200392 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
393 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700394
395 Say N.
396
397config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
398 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
399 depends on KALLSYMS
400 help
401 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
402 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
403 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
404 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
405 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
406 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
407
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700408
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800409config HOTPLUG
410 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
411 default y
412 help
413 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
414 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
415 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
416 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
417
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700418config PRINTK
419 default y
420 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
421 help
422 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
423 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
424 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
425 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
426 strongly discouraged.
427
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700428config BUG
429 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
430 default y
431 help
432 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
433 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
434 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
435 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
436 Just say Y.
437
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800438config ELF_CORE
439 default y
440 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
441 help
442 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
443
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700444config BASE_FULL
445 default y
446 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
447 help
448 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
449 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
450 but may reduce performance.
451
452config FUTEX
453 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
454 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d42006-06-27 02:54:53 -0700455 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700456 help
457 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
458 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
459 run glibc-based applications correctly.
460
Davide Libenzi5dc8bf82007-05-10 22:23:11 -0700461config ANON_INODES
462 bool "Enable anonymous inode source" if EMBEDDED
463 default y
464 help
465 Anonymous inode source for pseudo-files like epoll, signalfd,
466 timerfd and eventfd.
467
468 If unsure, say Y.
469
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700470config EPOLL
471 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
472 default y
Davide Libenzi5dc8bf82007-05-10 22:23:11 -0700473 depends on ANON_INODES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700474 help
475 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
476 support for epoll family of system calls.
477
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700478config SIGNALFD
479 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
480 depends on ANON_INODES
481 default y
482 help
483 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
484 on a file descriptor.
485
486 If unsure, say Y.
487
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700488config TIMERFD
489 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
490 depends on ANON_INODES
491 default y
492 help
493 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
494 events on a file descriptor.
495
496 If unsure, say Y.
497
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700498config EVENTFD
499 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
500 depends on ANON_INODES
501 default y
502 help
503 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
504 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
505
506 If unsure, say Y.
507
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700508config SHMEM
509 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
510 default y
511 depends on MMU
512 help
513 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
514 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
515 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
516 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
517 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
518
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700519config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
520 default y
521 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
522 help
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -0800523 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
524 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
525 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
526 if VM event counters are disabled.
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700527
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700528config SLUB_DEBUG
529 default y
530 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
Christoph Lameterd4751a22007-05-10 03:15:40 -0700531 depends on SLUB
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700532 help
533 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
534 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
535 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
536 no support for cache validation etc.
537
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700538choice
539 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
540 default SLAB
541 help
542 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
543
544config SLAB
545 bool "SLAB"
546 help
547 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700548 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700549 per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700550 a slab allocator.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700551
552config SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700553 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
554 help
555 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
556 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
557 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
558 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700559 and has enhanced diagnostics.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700560
561config SLOB
Paul Mundt84a01c22007-07-15 23:38:24 -0700562 depends on EMBEDDED
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700563 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
564 help
565 SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
Nick Pigginafc0ced2007-05-16 22:10:49 -0700566 allocator. SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700567 scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly
568 susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object
569 density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700570
571endchoice
572
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700573endmenu # General setup
574
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700575config RT_MUTEXES
576 boolean
577 select PLIST
578
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700579config TINY_SHMEM
580 default !SHMEM
581 bool
582
583config BASE_SMALL
584 int
585 default 0 if BASE_FULL
586 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
587
Jan Engelhardt66da5732007-07-15 23:39:29 -0700588menuconfig MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700589 bool "Enable loadable module support"
590 help
591 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
592 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
593 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
594 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
595 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
596 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
597 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
598 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
599 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
600
601 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
602 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
603 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
604 this).
605
606 If unsure, say Y.
607
608config MODULE_UNLOAD
609 bool "Module unloading"
610 depends on MODULES
611 help
612 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
613 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
614 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
615 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
616
617config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
618 bool "Forced module unloading"
619 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
620 help
621 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
622 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
623 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
624 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
625 If unsure, say N.
626
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700627config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100628 bool "Module versioning support"
629 depends on MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700630 help
631 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
632 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
633 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
634 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
635 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
636 unsure, say N.
637
638config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
639 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
640 depends on MODULES
641 help
642 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
643 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
644 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
645 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
646 others sometimes change the module source without updating
647 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
648 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
649
650config KMOD
651 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
652 depends on MODULES
653 help
654 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
655 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
656 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
657 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
658 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
659 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
660 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
661
662config STOP_MACHINE
663 bool
664 default y
665 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
666 help
667 Need stop_machine() primitive.
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100668
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100669source "block/Kconfig"