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 | |
Al Boldi | ff0cfc6 | 2007-07-31 00:39:23 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | menu "General setup" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | |
| 21 | config EXPERIMENTAL |
| 22 | bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" |
| 23 | ---help--- |
| 24 | Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network |
| 25 | drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state |
| 26 | of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of |
| 27 | testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually |
| 28 | known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is |
| 29 | currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage |
| 30 | uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to |
| 31 | avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active |
| 32 | testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it |
| 33 | may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work |
| 34 | in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar |
| 35 | with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers |
| 36 | (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents |
| 37 | <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, |
| 38 | <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and |
| 39 | <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). |
| 40 | |
| 41 | This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are |
| 42 | drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are |
| 43 | scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that |
| 46 | falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires |
| 47 | using these features, you should probably say N here, which will |
| 48 | cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If |
| 49 | you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or |
| 50 | drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. |
| 51 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | config BROKEN |
| 53 | bool |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | |
| 55 | config BROKEN_ON_SMP |
| 56 | bool |
| 57 | depends on BROKEN || !SMP |
| 58 | default y |
| 59 | |
| 60 | config LOCK_KERNEL |
| 61 | bool |
| 62 | depends on SMP || PREEMPT |
| 63 | default y |
| 64 | |
| 65 | config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT |
| 66 | int |
Adrian Bunk | dd673bc | 2006-06-30 01:55:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | default 32 if !UML |
| 68 | default 128 if UML |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | help |
Randy Dunlap | 34ad92c | 2005-10-30 15:01:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment |
| 71 | variables passed to init from the kernel command line. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | |
| 74 | config LOCALVERSION |
| 75 | string "Local version - append to kernel release" |
| 76 | help |
| 77 | Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. |
| 78 | This will show up when you type uname, for example. |
| 79 | The string you set here will be appended after the contents of |
| 80 | any files with a filename matching localversion* in your |
| 81 | object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can |
| 82 | be a maximum of 64 characters. |
| 83 | |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | config LOCALVERSION_AUTO |
| 85 | bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" |
| 86 | default y |
| 87 | help |
| 88 | This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a |
Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current |
| 90 | top of tree revision. |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | |
| 92 | 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] | 93 | 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] | 94 | appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value |
Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 95 | set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | |
Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 97 | (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced |
| 98 | by running the command: |
| 99 | |
| 100 | $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD |
| 101 | |
| 102 | which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) |
Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | config SWAP |
| 105 | bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" |
David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | depends on MMU && BLOCK |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | default y |
| 108 | help |
| 109 | This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support |
Jesper Juhl | 92c3504 | 2006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | 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] | 111 | used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present |
| 112 | in your computer. If unsure say Y. |
| 113 | |
| 114 | config SYSVIPC |
| 115 | bool "System V IPC" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | ---help--- |
| 117 | Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and |
| 118 | system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and |
| 119 | exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, |
| 120 | and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if |
| 121 | you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the |
| 122 | DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), |
| 123 | you'll need to say Y here. |
| 124 | |
| 125 | You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in |
| 126 | section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from |
| 127 | <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. |
| 128 | |
Eric W. Biederman | a5494dc | 2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 129 | config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL |
| 130 | bool |
| 131 | depends on SYSVIPC |
| 132 | depends on SYSCTL |
| 133 | default y |
| 134 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 135 | config POSIX_MQUEUE |
| 136 | bool "POSIX Message Queues" |
| 137 | depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 138 | ---help--- |
| 139 | POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message |
| 140 | queues every message has a priority which decides about succession |
| 141 | of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run |
| 142 | programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message |
Robert P. J. Day | b0e3765 | 2007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 143 | queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | |
| 145 | POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' |
| 146 | and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem |
| 147 | operations on message queues. |
| 148 | |
| 149 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 150 | |
| 151 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT |
| 152 | bool "BSD Process Accounting" |
| 153 | help |
| 154 | If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the |
| 155 | kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting |
| 156 | information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about |
| 157 | that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The |
| 158 | information includes things such as creation time, owning user, |
| 159 | command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete |
| 160 | list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is |
| 161 | up to the user level program to do useful things with this |
| 162 | information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. |
| 163 | |
| 164 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 |
| 165 | bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" |
| 166 | depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT |
| 167 | default n |
| 168 | help |
| 169 | If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written |
| 170 | in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each |
| 171 | process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible |
| 172 | with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools |
| 173 | for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available |
S.Çağlar Onur | 37a4c94 | 2008-06-18 11:45:13 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | |
Shailabh Nagar | c757249 | 2006-07-14 00:24:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | config TASKSTATS |
| 177 | bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 178 | depends on NET |
| 179 | default n |
| 180 | help |
| 181 | Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the |
| 182 | generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the |
| 183 | statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as |
| 184 | responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user |
| 185 | space on task exit. |
| 186 | |
| 187 | Say N if unsure. |
| 188 | |
Shailabh Nagar | ca74e92 | 2006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 189 | config TASK_DELAY_ACCT |
| 190 | bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
Shailabh Nagar | 6f44993 | 2006-07-14 00:24:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | depends on TASKSTATS |
Shailabh Nagar | ca74e92 | 2006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | help |
| 193 | Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system |
| 194 | resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping |
| 195 | in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities |
| 196 | relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. |
| 197 | |
| 198 | Say N if unsure. |
| 199 | |
Alexey Dobriyan | 18f705f | 2007-02-10 01:46:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | config TASK_XACCT |
| 201 | bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 202 | depends on TASKSTATS |
| 203 | help |
| 204 | Collect extended task accounting data and send the data |
| 205 | to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. |
| 206 | |
| 207 | Say N if unsure. |
| 208 | |
| 209 | config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING |
| 210 | bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 211 | depends on TASK_XACCT |
| 212 | help |
| 213 | Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this |
| 214 | task has caused. |
| 215 | |
| 216 | Say N if unsure. |
| 217 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 218 | config AUDIT |
| 219 | bool "Auditing support" |
Chris Wright | 804a6a4 | 2005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 220 | depends on NET |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 221 | 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 | |
| 227 | config AUDITSYSCALL |
| 228 | bool "Enable system-call auditing support" |
Yuichi Nakamura | 1322b9d | 2007-11-10 19:21:34 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 230 | 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 Griffis | f368c07d | 2006-04-07 16:55:56 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 234 | such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please |
| 235 | ensure that INOTIFY is configured. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 236 | |
Al Viro | 74c3cbe | 2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 237 | config AUDIT_TREE |
| 238 | def_bool y |
| 239 | depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY |
| 240 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 241 | config IKCONFIG |
Ross Biro | f2443ab | 2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 242 | tristate "Kernel .config support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 243 | ---help--- |
| 244 | This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file |
| 245 | contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation |
| 246 | of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an |
| 247 | on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel |
| 248 | image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as |
| 249 | input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. |
| 250 | It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading |
| 251 | /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). |
| 252 | |
| 253 | config IKCONFIG_PROC |
| 254 | bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" |
| 255 | depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS |
| 256 | ---help--- |
| 257 | This option enables access to the kernel configuration file |
| 258 | through /proc/config.gz. |
| 259 | |
Alistair John Strachan | 794543a | 2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 260 | config LOG_BUF_SHIFT |
| 261 | int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" |
| 262 | range 12 21 |
Adrian Bunk | f17a32e | 2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 263 | default 17 |
Alistair John Strachan | 794543a | 2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 264 | help |
| 265 | Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. |
Adrian Bunk | f17a32e | 2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 266 | Examples: |
| 267 | 17 => 128 KB |
| 268 | 16 => 64 KB |
| 269 | 15 => 32 KB |
| 270 | 14 => 16 KB |
Alistair John Strachan | 794543a | 2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 271 | 13 => 8 KB |
| 272 | 12 => 4 KB |
| 273 | |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 5cdc38f | 2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 274 | # |
| 275 | # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: |
| 276 | # |
| 277 | config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK |
| 278 | bool |
| 279 | |
| 280 | config GROUP_SCHED |
| 281 | bool "Group CPU scheduler" |
| 282 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
| 283 | default n |
| 284 | help |
| 285 | This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU |
| 286 | bandwidth allocation to such task groups. |
| 287 | In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use |
| 288 | CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) |
| 289 | |
| 290 | config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED |
| 291 | bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" |
| 292 | depends on GROUP_SCHED |
| 293 | default GROUP_SCHED |
| 294 | |
| 295 | config RT_GROUP_SCHED |
| 296 | bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" |
| 297 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
| 298 | depends on GROUP_SCHED |
| 299 | default n |
| 300 | help |
| 301 | This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth |
| 302 | to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" |
| 303 | setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to |
| 304 | schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate |
| 305 | realtime bandwidth for them. |
| 306 | See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. |
| 307 | |
| 308 | choice |
| 309 | depends on GROUP_SCHED |
| 310 | prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" |
| 311 | default USER_SCHED |
| 312 | |
| 313 | config USER_SCHED |
| 314 | bool "user id" |
| 315 | help |
| 316 | This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping |
| 317 | tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. |
| 318 | |
| 319 | config CGROUP_SCHED |
| 320 | bool "Control groups" |
| 321 | depends on CGROUPS |
| 322 | help |
| 323 | This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups |
| 324 | using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control |
| 325 | the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. |
| 326 | Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information |
| 327 | on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. |
| 328 | |
| 329 | endchoice |
| 330 | |
| 331 | menu "Control Group support" |
Paul Menage | ddbcc7e | 2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | config CGROUPS |
| 333 | bool "Control Group support" |
| 334 | help |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 5cdc38f | 2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 335 | This option add support for grouping sets of processes together, for |
| 336 | use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory |
| 337 | controls or device isolation. |
| 338 | See |
| 339 | - Documentation/cpusets.txt (Cpusets) |
| 340 | - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) |
| 341 | - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation) |
| 342 | - Documentation/controllers/ (features for resource control) |
Paul Menage | ddbcc7e | 2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 343 | |
| 344 | Say N if unsure. |
| 345 | |
Paul Menage | 006cb99 | 2007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 346 | config CGROUP_DEBUG |
| 347 | bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" |
| 348 | depends on CGROUPS |
Paul Menage | 418d7d8 | 2008-04-29 01:00:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 349 | default n |
Paul Menage | 006cb99 | 2007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 350 | help |
| 351 | This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that |
| 352 | exports useful debugging information about the cgroups |
| 353 | framework |
| 354 | |
| 355 | Say N if unsure |
| 356 | |
Serge E. Hallyn | 858d72e | 2007-10-18 23:39:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 357 | config CGROUP_NS |
| 358 | bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" |
| 359 | depends on CGROUPS |
| 360 | help |
| 361 | Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to |
| 362 | provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, |
| 363 | for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart |
| 364 | jobs. |
| 365 | |
Matt Helsley | dc52ddc | 2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 366 | config CGROUP_FREEZER |
| 367 | bool "control group freezer subsystem" |
| 368 | depends on CGROUPS |
| 369 | help |
| 370 | Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a |
| 371 | cgroup. |
| 372 | |
Serge E. Hallyn | 08ce5f1 | 2008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 373 | config CGROUP_DEVICE |
| 374 | bool "Device controller for cgroups" |
| 375 | depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 376 | help |
| 377 | Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which |
| 378 | a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. |
| 379 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 380 | config CPUSETS |
| 381 | bool "Cpuset support" |
Paul Menage | 8793d85 | 2007-10-18 23:39:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | depends on SMP && CGROUPS |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 383 | help |
Randy Dunlap | d9fd8a6 | 2005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 385 | allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and |
| 386 | Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. |
| 387 | This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. |
| 388 | |
| 389 | Say N if unsure. |
| 390 | |
Srivatsa Vaddagiri | d842de8 | 2007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 391 | config CGROUP_CPUACCT |
| 392 | bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" |
| 393 | depends on CGROUPS |
| 394 | help |
| 395 | Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the |
| 396 | total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup |
| 397 | |
Pavel Emelianov | e552b66 | 2008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 398 | config RESOURCE_COUNTERS |
| 399 | bool "Resource counters" |
| 400 | help |
| 401 | This option enables controller independent resource accounting |
| 402 | infrastructure that works with cgroups |
| 403 | depends on CGROUPS |
| 404 | |
Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 405 | config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR |
| 406 | bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" |
| 407 | depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS |
Balbir Singh | cf475ad | 2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 408 | select MM_OWNER |
Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 409 | help |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 84ad6d7 | 2008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous |
| 411 | memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) |
Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 412 | |
| 413 | Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 84ad6d7 | 2008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 414 | associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, |
| 415 | 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory |
| 416 | usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out |
| 417 | at boot. |
Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 418 | |
| 419 | Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 84ad6d7 | 2008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 420 | sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable |
| 421 | this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to |
| 422 | disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. |
Li Zefan | c9d5409 | 2009-01-07 18:07:35 -0800 | [diff] [blame^] | 423 | (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) |
Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 424 | |
Balbir Singh | cf475ad | 2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 425 | This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which |
| 426 | could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. |
| 427 | |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 5cdc38f | 2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 428 | config MM_OWNER |
| 429 | bool |
| 430 | |
| 431 | endmenu |
| 432 | |
Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 433 | config SYSFS_DEPRECATED |
Ingo Molnar | d47846c | 2008-03-04 14:54:47 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 434 | bool |
| 435 | |
| 436 | config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 |
Kay Sievers | fce3e80 | 2008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 437 | bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools" |
Randy Dunlap | 9148fe8 | 2007-12-31 10:05:34 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 438 | depends on SYSFS |
Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 439 | default y |
Ingo Molnar | d47846c | 2008-03-04 14:54:47 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 440 | select SYSFS_DEPRECATED |
Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 441 | help |
Kay Sievers | fce3e80 | 2008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 442 | This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated |
| 443 | version. |
Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 444 | |
Kay Sievers | fce3e80 | 2008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 445 | The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at |
| 446 | /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between |
| 447 | class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the |
| 448 | unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at |
| 449 | /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at |
| 450 | /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by |
| 451 | "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" |
| 452 | class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some |
| 453 | subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which |
| 454 | depend on the unified device tree. |
Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 455 | |
Kay Sievers | fce3e80 | 2008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 456 | This option is not a pure compatibility option that can |
| 457 | be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the |
| 458 | layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, |
| 459 | and disable some features, which can not be exported without |
| 460 | confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major |
| 461 | distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which |
| 462 | depend on the deprecated layout or this option. |
| 463 | |
| 464 | If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use |
| 465 | older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, |
| 466 | if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has |
| 467 | this option set to N. |
Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 468 | |
Paul Menage | 8793d85 | 2007-10-18 23:39:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 469 | config PROC_PID_CPUSET |
| 470 | bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" |
| 471 | depends on CPUSETS |
| 472 | default y |
| 473 | |
Jens Axboe | b86ff98 | 2006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 474 | config RELAY |
| 475 | bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" |
| 476 | help |
| 477 | This option enables support for relay interface support in |
| 478 | certain file systems (such as debugfs). |
| 479 | It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and |
| 480 | facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to |
| 481 | user space. |
| 482 | |
| 483 | If unsure, say N. |
| 484 | |
Pavel Emelyanov | c5289a6 | 2008-02-08 04:18:19 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 485 | config NAMESPACES |
| 486 | bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED |
| 487 | default !EMBEDDED |
| 488 | help |
| 489 | Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using |
| 490 | the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects |
| 491 | or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in |
| 492 | different namespaces. |
| 493 | |
Pavel Emelyanov | 58bfdd6d | 2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 494 | config UTS_NS |
| 495 | bool "UTS namespace" |
| 496 | depends on NAMESPACES |
| 497 | help |
| 498 | In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the |
| 499 | uname() system call |
| 500 | |
Pavel Emelyanov | ae5e1b2 | 2008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 501 | config IPC_NS |
| 502 | bool "IPC namespace" |
| 503 | depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC |
| 504 | help |
| 505 | In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to |
| 506 | different IPC objects in different namespaces |
| 507 | |
Pavel Emelyanov | aee16ce | 2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 508 | config USER_NS |
| 509 | bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 510 | depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 511 | help |
| 512 | This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces |
| 513 | to provide different user info for different servers. |
| 514 | If unsure, say N. |
| 515 | |
Pavel Emelyanov | 74bd59b | 2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 516 | config PID_NS |
| 517 | bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 518 | default n |
| 519 | depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 520 | help |
Heikki Orsila | 12d2b8f | 2008-07-06 15:48:02 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 521 | Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple |
Pavel Emelyanov | 74bd59b | 2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 522 | process with the same pid as long as they are in different |
| 523 | pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. |
| 524 | |
| 525 | Unless you want to work with an experimental feature |
| 526 | say N here. |
| 527 | |
Dimitri Gorokhovik | f991633 | 2007-03-06 01:42:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 528 | config BLK_DEV_INITRD |
| 529 | bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" |
| 530 | depends on BROKEN || !FRV |
| 531 | help |
| 532 | The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the |
| 533 | boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root |
| 534 | before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to |
| 535 | load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, |
| 536 | etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. |
| 537 | |
| 538 | If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this |
| 539 | also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds |
| 540 | 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. |
| 541 | |
| 542 | If unsure say Y. |
| 543 | |
Jean-Paul Saman | c33df4e | 2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 544 | if BLK_DEV_INITRD |
| 545 | |
Sam Ravnborg | dbec486 | 2005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 546 | source "usr/Kconfig" |
| 547 | |
Jean-Paul Saman | c33df4e | 2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 548 | endif |
| 549 | |
Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE |
Ingo Molnar | 96fffeb | 2008-04-28 01:39:43 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 551 | bool "Optimize for size" |
Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 552 | default y |
Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 553 | help |
| 554 | Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc |
| 555 | resulting in a smaller kernel. |
| 556 | |
jkacur | 775a722 | 2008-07-16 00:31:16 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 557 | If unsure, say Y. |
Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 558 | |
Randy Dunlap | 0847062 | 2006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 559 | config SYSCTL |
| 560 | bool |
| 561 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 562 | menuconfig EMBEDDED |
| 563 | bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" |
| 564 | help |
| 565 | This option allows certain base kernel options and settings |
| 566 | to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized |
| 567 | environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. |
| 568 | Only use this if you really know what you are doing. |
| 569 | |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 570 | config UID16 |
| 571 | bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED |
David S. Miller | 09337f5 | 2008-04-26 03:17:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 572 | 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] | 573 | default y |
| 574 | help |
| 575 | This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. |
| 576 | |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 577 | config SYSCTL_SYSCALL |
Randy Dunlap | 0847062 | 2006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 578 | bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 579 | default y |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 580 | select SYSCTL |
| 581 | ---help--- |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 582 | sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging |
| 583 | to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys |
| 584 | using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this |
| 585 | information. |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 586 | |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 587 | Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are |
| 588 | trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, |
| 589 | making your kernel marginally smaller. |
Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 590 | |
Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 591 | If unsure say Y here. |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 592 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 593 | config KALLSYMS |
Jesper Juhl | 979c6a1 | 2006-12-12 19:25:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 594 | bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 595 | default y |
| 596 | help |
| 597 | Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and |
| 598 | symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel |
| 599 | somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. |
| 600 | |
| 601 | config KALLSYMS_ALL |
| 602 | bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" |
| 603 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS |
| 604 | help |
| 605 | Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer |
| 606 | OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other |
Jesper Juhl | f9f97bc | 2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 607 | symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them |
| 608 | 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] | 609 | |
| 610 | Say N. |
| 611 | |
Jan Beulich | 9bb4824 | 2008-12-16 11:30:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 612 | config KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED |
| 613 | bool "Strip machine generated symbols from kallsyms" |
| 614 | depends on KALLSYMS_ALL |
| 615 | default y |
| 616 | help |
| 617 | Say N if you want kallsyms to retain even machine generated symbols. |
| 618 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 619 | config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS |
| 620 | bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" |
| 621 | depends on KALLSYMS |
| 622 | help |
| 623 | If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with |
| 624 | inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and |
| 625 | turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. |
| 626 | Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be |
| 627 | reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while |
| 628 | you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. |
| 629 | |
Matt Mackall | d59745c | 2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 630 | |
Greg Kroah-Hartman | 712f47c | 2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 631 | config HOTPLUG |
| 632 | bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED |
| 633 | default y |
| 634 | help |
| 635 | This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent |
| 636 | capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider |
| 637 | disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a |
| 638 | dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. |
| 639 | |
Matt Mackall | d59745c | 2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 640 | config PRINTK |
| 641 | default y |
| 642 | bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED |
| 643 | help |
| 644 | This option enables normal printk support. Removing it |
| 645 | eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image |
| 646 | and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it |
| 647 | very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is |
| 648 | strongly discouraged. |
| 649 | |
Matt Mackall | c8538a7 | 2005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 650 | config BUG |
| 651 | bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED |
| 652 | default y |
| 653 | help |
| 654 | Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing |
| 655 | the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring |
| 656 | numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this |
| 657 | option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. |
| 658 | Just say Y. |
| 659 | |
Matt Mackall | 708e9a7 | 2006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 660 | config ELF_CORE |
| 661 | default y |
| 662 | bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED |
| 663 | help |
| 664 | Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. |
| 665 | |
Stas Sergeev | e5e1d3c | 2008-05-07 12:39:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 666 | config PCSPKR_PLATFORM |
| 667 | bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED |
| 668 | depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES |
| 669 | default y |
| 670 | help |
| 671 | This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker |
| 672 | support, saving some memory. |
| 673 | |
Ingo Molnar | 32a9323 | 2008-02-06 22:39:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 674 | config COMPAT_BRK |
| 675 | bool "Disable heap randomization" |
| 676 | default y |
| 677 | help |
| 678 | Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it |
| 679 | also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). |
| 680 | This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization |
| 681 | disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting |
| 682 | /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. |
| 683 | |
Ingo Molnar | 166124f | 2008-02-09 23:24:09 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 684 | On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. |
Ingo Molnar | 32a9323 | 2008-02-06 22:39:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 685 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 686 | config BASE_FULL |
| 687 | default y |
| 688 | bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED |
| 689 | help |
| 690 | Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core |
| 691 | kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, |
| 692 | but may reduce performance. |
| 693 | |
| 694 | config FUTEX |
| 695 | bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED |
| 696 | default y |
Ingo Molnar | 23f78d4 | 2006-06-27 02:54:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 697 | select RT_MUTEXES |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 698 | help |
| 699 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without |
| 700 | support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not |
| 701 | run glibc-based applications correctly. |
| 702 | |
Davide Libenzi | 5dc8bf8 | 2007-05-10 22:23:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 703 | config ANON_INODES |
Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 704 | bool |
Davide Libenzi | 5dc8bf8 | 2007-05-10 22:23:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 705 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 706 | config EPOLL |
| 707 | bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED |
| 708 | default y |
Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 709 | select ANON_INODES |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 710 | help |
| 711 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without |
| 712 | support for epoll family of system calls. |
| 713 | |
Davide Libenzi | fba2afa | 2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 714 | config SIGNALFD |
| 715 | bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED |
Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 716 | select ANON_INODES |
Davide Libenzi | fba2afa | 2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 717 | default y |
| 718 | help |
| 719 | Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals |
| 720 | on a file descriptor. |
| 721 | |
| 722 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 723 | |
Davide Libenzi | b215e28 | 2007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 724 | config TIMERFD |
| 725 | bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED |
Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 726 | select ANON_INODES |
Davide Libenzi | b215e28 | 2007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 727 | default y |
| 728 | help |
| 729 | Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer |
| 730 | events on a file descriptor. |
| 731 | |
| 732 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 733 | |
Davide Libenzi | e1ad746 | 2007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 734 | config EVENTFD |
| 735 | bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED |
Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 736 | select ANON_INODES |
Davide Libenzi | e1ad746 | 2007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 737 | default y |
| 738 | help |
| 739 | Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both |
| 740 | kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. |
| 741 | |
| 742 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 743 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 744 | config SHMEM |
| 745 | bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED |
| 746 | default y |
| 747 | depends on MMU |
| 748 | help |
| 749 | The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. |
| 750 | It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported |
| 751 | to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this |
| 752 | option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, |
| 753 | which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. |
| 754 | |
Thomas Petazzoni | ebf3f09 | 2008-10-15 22:05:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 755 | config AIO |
| 756 | bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED |
| 757 | default y |
| 758 | help |
| 759 | This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used |
| 760 | by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling |
| 761 | this option saves about 7k. |
| 762 | |
Christoph Lameter | f8891e5 | 2006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 763 | config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS |
| 764 | default y |
| 765 | bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED |
| 766 | help |
Paul Jackson | 2aea4fb | 2006-12-22 01:06:10 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 767 | VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. |
| 768 | This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters |
| 769 | on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts |
| 770 | if VM event counters are disabled. |
Christoph Lameter | f8891e5 | 2006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 771 | |
Thomas Petazzoni | 3d13731 | 2008-08-19 10:28:24 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 772 | config PCI_QUIRKS |
| 773 | default y |
Geert Uytterhoeven | 61cfc7e | 2008-10-22 08:53:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 774 | bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED |
| 775 | depends on PCI |
Thomas Petazzoni | 3d13731 | 2008-08-19 10:28:24 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 776 | help |
| 777 | This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset |
| 778 | bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is |
| 779 | unaffected by PCI quirks. |
| 780 | |
Christoph Lameter | 41ecc55 | 2007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 781 | config SLUB_DEBUG |
| 782 | default y |
| 783 | bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED |
Christoph Lameter | f6acb63 | 2008-04-29 16:16:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 784 | depends on SLUB && SYSFS |
Christoph Lameter | 41ecc55 | 2007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 785 | help |
| 786 | SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can |
| 787 | result in significant savings in code size. This also disables |
| 788 | SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be |
| 789 | no support for cache validation etc. |
| 790 | |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 791 | choice |
| 792 | prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" |
Christoph Lameter | a0acd82 | 2007-07-17 04:03:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 793 | default SLUB |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 794 | help |
| 795 | This option allows to select a slab allocator. |
| 796 | |
| 797 | config SLAB |
| 798 | bool "SLAB" |
| 799 | help |
| 800 | The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work |
Christoph Lameter | 3401388 | 2007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 801 | well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in |
Simon Arlott | 02f5621 | 2008-11-05 22:18:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 802 | per cpu and per node queues. |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 803 | |
| 804 | config SLUB |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 805 | bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" |
| 806 | help |
| 807 | SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage |
| 808 | instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). |
| 809 | Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead |
| 810 | of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently |
Simon Arlott | 02f5621 | 2008-11-05 22:18:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 811 | and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for |
| 812 | a slab allocator. |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 813 | |
| 814 | config SLOB |
Paul Mundt | 84a01c2 | 2007-07-15 23:38:24 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 815 | depends on EMBEDDED |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 816 | bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" |
| 817 | help |
Matt Mackall | 3729145 | 2008-02-04 22:29:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 818 | SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler |
| 819 | allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but |
| 820 | does not perform as well on large systems. |
Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 821 | |
| 822 | endchoice |
| 823 | |
Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 824 | config PROFILING |
| 825 | bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 826 | help |
| 827 | Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used |
| 828 | by profilers such as OProfile. |
| 829 | |
Ingo Molnar | 5f87f11 | 2008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 830 | # |
| 831 | # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be |
| 832 | # dynamically changed for a probe function. |
| 833 | # |
Mathieu Desnoyers | 97e1c18 | 2008-07-18 12:16:16 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 834 | config TRACEPOINTS |
Ingo Molnar | 5f87f11 | 2008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 835 | bool |
Mathieu Desnoyers | 97e1c18 | 2008-07-18 12:16:16 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 836 | |
Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 837 | config MARKERS |
| 838 | bool "Activate markers" |
Mathieu Desnoyers | c1df1bd | 2008-11-14 17:47:39 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 839 | depends on TRACEPOINTS |
Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 840 | help |
| 841 | Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be |
| 842 | dynamically changed for a probe function. |
| 843 | |
Mathieu Desnoyers | fb32e03 | 2008-02-02 15:10:33 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 844 | source "arch/Kconfig" |
| 845 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 846 | endmenu # General setup |
| 847 | |
Dmitry Baryshkov | ee7e551 | 2008-06-29 14:18:46 +0400 | [diff] [blame] | 848 | config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT |
| 849 | bool |
| 850 | default n |
| 851 | |
Linus Torvalds | 158a962 | 2008-01-02 13:04:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 852 | config SLABINFO |
| 853 | bool |
| 854 | depends on PROC_FS |
Christoph Lameter | 0f389ec | 2008-04-14 18:53:02 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 855 | depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG |
Linus Torvalds | 158a962 | 2008-01-02 13:04:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 856 | default y |
| 857 | |
Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 858 | config RT_MUTEXES |
| 859 | boolean |
| 860 | select PLIST |
| 861 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 862 | config BASE_SMALL |
| 863 | int |
| 864 | default 0 if BASE_FULL |
| 865 | default 1 if !BASE_FULL |
| 866 | |
Jan Engelhardt | 66da573 | 2007-07-15 23:39:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 867 | menuconfig MODULES |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 868 | bool "Enable loadable module support" |
| 869 | help |
| 870 | Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can |
| 871 | be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being |
| 872 | permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" |
| 873 | tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, |
| 874 | many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by |
| 875 | answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most |
| 876 | useful for infrequently used options which are not required |
| 877 | for booting. For more information, see the man pages for |
| 878 | modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. |
| 879 | |
| 880 | If you say Y here, you will need to run "make |
| 881 | modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ |
| 882 | where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do |
| 883 | this). |
| 884 | |
| 885 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 886 | |
Robert P. J. Day | 0b0de14 | 2008-08-04 13:31:32 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 887 | if MODULES |
| 888 | |
Linus Torvalds | 826e450 | 2008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 889 | config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD |
| 890 | bool "Forced module loading" |
Linus Torvalds | 826e450 | 2008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 891 | default n |
| 892 | help |
Rusty Russell | 91e37a7 | 2008-05-09 16:25:28 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 893 | Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe |
| 894 | --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and |
| 895 | is usually a really bad idea. |
Linus Torvalds | 826e450 | 2008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 896 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 897 | config MODULE_UNLOAD |
| 898 | bool "Module unloading" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 899 | help |
| 900 | Without this option you will not be able to unload any |
| 901 | modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable |
Denys Vlasenko | f7f5b67 | 2008-07-22 19:24:26 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 902 | anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster |
| 903 | and simpler. If unsure, say Y. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 904 | |
| 905 | config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD |
| 906 | bool "Forced module unloading" |
| 907 | depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 908 | help |
| 909 | This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the |
| 910 | kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module |
| 911 | without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to |
| 912 | rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. |
| 913 | If unsure, say N. |
| 914 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 915 | config MODVERSIONS |
Sam Ravnborg | 0d54164 | 2005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 916 | bool "Module versioning support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 917 | help |
| 918 | Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. |
| 919 | Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules |
| 920 | compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information |
| 921 | to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would |
| 922 | make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If |
| 923 | unsure, say N. |
| 924 | |
| 925 | config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL |
| 926 | bool "Source checksum for all modules" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 927 | help |
| 928 | Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" |
| 929 | field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a |
| 930 | sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers |
| 931 | see exactly which source was used to build a module (since |
| 932 | others sometimes change the module source without updating |
| 933 | the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field |
| 934 | will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. |
| 935 | |
Robert P. J. Day | 0b0de14 | 2008-08-04 13:31:32 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 936 | endif # MODULES |
| 937 | |
Rusty Russell | 98a79d6 | 2008-12-13 21:19:41 +1030 | [diff] [blame] | 938 | config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE |
| 939 | bool |
| 940 | help |
| 941 | Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and |
| 942 | cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map |
| 943 | with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, |
| 944 | it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs |
| 945 | and have several arch maintainers persuing me down dark alleys. |
| 946 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 947 | config STOP_MACHINE |
| 948 | bool |
| 949 | default y |
| 950 | depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU |
| 951 | help |
| 952 | Need stop_machine() primitive. |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 953 | |
Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 954 | source "block/Kconfig" |
Avi Kivity | e98c320 | 2007-10-16 23:27:31 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 955 | |
| 956 | config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS |
| 957 | bool |
Paul E. McKenney | e260be6 | 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 958 | |
Ingo Molnar | 12d79ba | 2008-12-25 09:31:28 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 959 | choice |
| 960 | prompt "RCU Implementation" |
| 961 | default CLASSIC_RCU |
| 962 | |
Paul E. McKenney | e260be6 | 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 963 | config CLASSIC_RCU |
Ingo Molnar | 12d79ba | 2008-12-25 09:31:28 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 964 | bool "Classic RCU" |
Paul E. McKenney | e260be6 | 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 965 | help |
| 966 | This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is |
| 967 | designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime |
Ingo Molnar | 12d79ba | 2008-12-25 09:31:28 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 968 | systems. |
| 969 | |
| 970 | Select this option if you are unsure. |
| 971 | |
| 972 | config TREE_RCU |
| 973 | bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" |
| 974 | help |
| 975 | This option selects the RCU implementation that is |
| 976 | designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or |
| 977 | thousands of CPUs. |
| 978 | |
| 979 | config PREEMPT_RCU |
| 980 | bool "Preemptible RCU" |
| 981 | depends on PREEMPT |
| 982 | help |
| 983 | This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain |
| 984 | RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if |
| 985 | this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become |
| 986 | preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to |
| 987 | now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section |
| 988 | remaining on a given CPU through its execution. |
| 989 | |
| 990 | endchoice |
| 991 | |
| 992 | config RCU_TRACE |
| 993 | bool "Enable tracing for RCU" |
| 994 | depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU |
| 995 | help |
| 996 | This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats |
| 997 | in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. |
| 998 | |
| 999 | Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing |
| 1000 | Say N if you are unsure. |
| 1001 | |
| 1002 | config RCU_FANOUT |
| 1003 | int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" |
| 1004 | range 2 64 if 64BIT |
| 1005 | range 2 32 if !64BIT |
| 1006 | depends on TREE_RCU |
| 1007 | default 64 if 64BIT |
| 1008 | default 32 if !64BIT |
| 1009 | help |
| 1010 | This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations |
| 1011 | of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with |
| 1012 | large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube |
| 1013 | root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit |
| 1014 | systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. |
| 1015 | |
| 1016 | Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. |
| 1017 | Take the default if unsure. |
| 1018 | |
| 1019 | config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT |
| 1020 | bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" |
| 1021 | depends on TREE_RCU |
| 1022 | default n |
| 1023 | help |
| 1024 | This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, |
| 1025 | regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for |
| 1026 | testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with |
| 1027 | strong NUMA behavior. |
| 1028 | |
| 1029 | Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. |
| 1030 | |
| 1031 | Say N if unsure. |
| 1032 | |
Paul E. McKenney | 64db4cf | 2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1033 | config TREE_RCU_TRACE |
| 1034 | def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU |
| 1035 | select DEBUG_FS |
Paul E. McKenney | e260be6 | 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1036 | help |
Paul E. McKenney | 64db4cf | 2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1037 | This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation, |
| 1038 | permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. |
| 1039 | |
| 1040 | config PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE |
| 1041 | def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU |
| 1042 | select DEBUG_FS |
| 1043 | help |
| 1044 | This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation, |
| 1045 | permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c. |