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Roman Zippel80daa562008-01-14 04:51:16 +01001config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -07009config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrussob2670eac2006-10-19 23:28:23 -070011 depends on !UML
Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -070012 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
Sam Ravnborg73531902008-05-25 23:03:18 +020016 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -070017 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
Peter Oberparleiterb99b87f2009-06-17 16:28:03 -070019config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
Peter Oberparleiterb99b87f2009-06-17 16:28:03 -070022
Peter Zijlstrae360adb2010-10-14 14:01:34 +080023config HAVE_IRQ_WORK
24 bool
25
26config IRQ_WORK
27 bool
28 depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
29
Al Boldiff0cfc62007-07-31 00:39:23 -070030menu "General setup"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070031
32config EXPERIMENTAL
33 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
34 ---help---
35 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
36 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
37 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
38 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
39 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
40 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
41 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
42 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
43 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
44 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
45 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
46 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
47 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
48 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
49 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
50 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
51
52 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
53 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
54 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
55
56 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
57 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
58 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
59 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
60 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
61 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
62
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070063config BROKEN
64 bool
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070065
66config BROKEN_ON_SMP
67 bool
68 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
69 default y
70
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070071config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
72 int
Adrian Bunkdd673bc2006-06-30 01:55:51 -070073 default 32 if !UML
74 default 128 if UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070075 help
Randy Dunlap34ad92c2005-10-30 15:01:46 -080076 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
77 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070078
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070079
Roland McGrath84336462009-12-21 16:24:06 -080080config CROSS_COMPILE
81 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
82 help
83 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
84 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
85 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
86 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
87
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070088config LOCALVERSION
89 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
90 help
91 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
92 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
93 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
94 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
95 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
96 be a maximum of 64 characters.
97
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040098config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
99 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
100 default y
101 help
102 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200103 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
104 top of tree revision.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400105
106 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200107 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400108 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200109 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400110
Robert P. J. Day6e5a5422007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200111 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
112 by running the command:
113
114 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
115
116 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400117
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800118config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
119 bool
120
121config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
122 bool
123
124config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
125 bool
126
Lasse Collin3ebe1242011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800127config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
128 bool
129
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800130config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
131 bool
132
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100133choice
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800134 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
135 default KERNEL_GZIP
Lasse Collin3ebe1242011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800136 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800137 help
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100138 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
139 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
140 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
141 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
142 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
143
144 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
145 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
146 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
147 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
148
149 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
150 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
151 size matters less.
152
153 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
154
155config KERNEL_GZIP
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800156 bool "Gzip"
157 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
158 help
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800159 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
160 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100161
162config KERNEL_BZIP2
163 bool "Bzip2"
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800164 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100165 help
166 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800167 Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel
168 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
169 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
170 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100171
172config KERNEL_LZMA
H. Peter Anvin2e9f3bd2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800173 bool "LZMA"
174 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
175 help
176 The most recent compression algorithm.
177 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
178 two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
179 smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100180
Lasse Collin3ebe1242011-01-12 17:01:23 -0800181config KERNEL_XZ
182 bool "XZ"
183 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
184 help
185 XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
186 BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
187 code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
188 comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
189 filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
190 will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
191
192 The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
193 speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
194 and LZO. Compression is slow.
195
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800196config KERNEL_LZO
197 bool "LZO"
198 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
199 help
200 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
Stephan Sperber681b3042010-07-14 11:23:08 +0200201 size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
Albin Tonnerre7dd65fe2010-01-08 14:42:42 -0800202 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
203
Alain Knaff30d65db2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100204endchoice
205
Josh Triplettbd5dc172011-06-15 15:08:28 -0700206config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
207 string "Default hostname"
208 default "(none)"
209 help
210 This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
211 calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
212 but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
213 system more usable with less configuration.
214
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700215config SWAP
216 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200217 depends on MMU && BLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700218 default y
219 help
220 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
Jesper Juhl92c35042006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100221 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700222 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
223 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
224
225config SYSVIPC
226 bool "System V IPC"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700227 ---help---
228 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
229 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
230 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
231 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
232 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
233 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
234 you'll need to say Y here.
235
236 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
237 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
238 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
239
Eric W. Biedermana5494dc2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800240config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
241 bool
242 depends on SYSVIPC
243 depends on SYSCTL
244 default y
245
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700246config POSIX_MQUEUE
247 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
248 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
249 ---help---
250 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
251 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
252 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
253 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
Robert P. J. Dayb0e37652007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200254 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700255
256 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
257 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
258 operations on message queues.
259
260 If unsure, say Y.
261
Serge E. Hallynbdc8e5f2009-04-06 19:01:11 -0700262config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
263 bool
264 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
265 depends on SYSCTL
266 default y
267
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700268config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
269 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
270 help
271 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
272 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
273 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
274 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
275 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
276 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
277 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
278 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
279 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
280
281config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
282 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
283 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
284 default n
285 help
286 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
287 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
288 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
289 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
290 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
S.Çağlar Onur37a4c942008-06-18 11:45:13 +0300291 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700292
Aneesh Kumar K.V990d6c22011-01-29 18:43:26 +0530293config FHANDLE
294 bool "open by fhandle syscalls"
295 select EXPORTFS
296 help
297 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map
298 file names to handle and then later use the handle for
299 different file system operations. This is useful in implementing
300 userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead
301 of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names
302 get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)
303 syscalls.
304
Shailabh Nagarc7572492006-07-14 00:24:40 -0700305config TASKSTATS
306 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
307 depends on NET
308 default n
309 help
310 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
311 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
312 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
313 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
314 space on task exit.
315
316 Say N if unsure.
317
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700318config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
319 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Shailabh Nagar6f449932006-07-14 00:24:41 -0700320 depends on TASKSTATS
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700321 help
322 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
323 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
324 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
325 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
326
327 Say N if unsure.
328
Alexey Dobriyan18f705f2007-02-10 01:46:44 -0800329config TASK_XACCT
330 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
331 depends on TASKSTATS
332 help
333 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
334 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
335
336 Say N if unsure.
337
338config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
339 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
340 depends on TASK_XACCT
341 help
342 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
343 task has caused.
344
345 Say N if unsure.
346
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700347config AUDIT
348 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a492005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100349 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700350 help
351 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
352 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
353 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
354 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
355
356config AUDITSYSCALL
357 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
Nathaniel Husted29ef73b2012-01-03 14:23:09 -0500358 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH || ARM)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700359 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
360 help
361 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
362 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
Eric Paris67640b62009-12-17 20:12:06 -0500363 such as SELinux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700364
Eric Paris939a67f2009-12-17 20:12:06 -0500365config AUDIT_WATCH
366 def_bool y
367 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
368 select FSNOTIFY
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700369
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400370config AUDIT_TREE
371 def_bool y
Eric Paris63c882a2009-05-21 17:02:01 -0400372 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
Eric Paris28a3a7e2009-12-17 20:12:05 -0500373 select FSNOTIFY
Al Viro74c3cbe2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400374
Eric Paris633b4542012-01-03 14:23:08 -0500375config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
376 bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
377 depends on AUDIT
378 help
Linus Torvaldsf429ee32012-01-17 16:06:51 -0800379 The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
Eric Paris633b4542012-01-03 14:23:08 -0500380 CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
381 but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
382 previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central
383 process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older
384 systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
385 start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows
386 one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
387 but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
388
Thomas Gleixnerd9817eb2010-09-27 12:45:59 +0000389source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
390
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800391menu "RCU Subsystem"
392
393choice
394 prompt "RCU Implementation"
Paul E. McKenney31c9a242009-04-02 21:06:25 -0700395 default TREE_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800396
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800397config TREE_RCU
398 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
Paul E. McKenney687d7a92010-07-21 06:52:40 -0700399 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800400 help
401 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
402 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
Paul E. McKenneyc17ef452009-06-23 17:12:47 -0700403 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
404 smaller systems.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800405
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700406config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700407 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
Paul E. McKenney8008e122011-06-08 16:31:33 -0700408 depends on PREEMPT && SMP
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700409 help
410 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
411 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
412 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
Paul E. McKenneybbe3eae2009-09-13 09:15:08 -0700413 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
414 smaller systems.
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700415
Paul E. McKenney9b1d82f2009-10-25 19:03:50 -0700416config TINY_RCU
417 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
Paul E. McKenney8008e122011-06-08 16:31:33 -0700418 depends on !PREEMPT && !SMP
Paul E. McKenney9b1d82f2009-10-25 19:03:50 -0700419 help
420 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
421 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
422 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
423 memory footprint of RCU.
424
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700425config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
426 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
Paul E. McKenney8008e122011-06-08 16:31:33 -0700427 depends on PREEMPT && !SMP
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700428 help
429 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
430 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
431 memory footprint of RCU.
432
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800433endchoice
434
Paul E. McKenneya57eb942010-06-29 16:49:16 -0700435config PREEMPT_RCU
436 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
437 help
438 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
439 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
440
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800441config RCU_FANOUT
442 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
443 range 2 64 if 64BIT
444 range 2 32 if !64BIT
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700445 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800446 default 64 if 64BIT
447 default 32 if !64BIT
448 help
449 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
450 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
Paul E. McKenney4d87ffa2010-08-04 17:31:12 -0700451 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
452 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
453 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
454 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
455 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
456 code paths on small(er) systems.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800457
458 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
459 Take the default if unsure.
460
461config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
462 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700463 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800464 default n
465 help
466 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
467 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
468 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
469 strong NUMA behavior.
470
471 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
472
473 Say N if unsure.
474
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800475config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
476 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
Paul E. McKenneyb807fbf2011-11-03 14:56:12 -0700477 depends on NO_HZ && SMP
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800478 default n
479 help
480 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
Paul E. McKenneyb807fbf2011-11-03 14:56:12 -0700481 in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more
482 quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead
483 of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with
484 large numbers of CPUs.
Paul E. McKenney8bd93a22010-02-22 17:04:59 -0800485
486 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
487 if you have relatively few CPUs.
488
489 Say N if you are unsure.
490
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800491config TREE_RCU_TRACE
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700492 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800493 select DEBUG_FS
494 help
Paul E. McKenneyf41d9112009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700495 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
496 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
497 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800498
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700499config RCU_BOOST
500 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
Paul E. McKenney27f4d282011-02-07 12:47:15 -0800501 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney24278d12010-09-27 17:25:23 -0700502 default n
503 help
504 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
505 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
506 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
507 callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
508
509 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
510 Say N here if you are unsure.
511
512config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
513 int "Real-time priority to boost RCU readers to"
514 range 1 99
515 depends on RCU_BOOST
516 default 1
517 help
518 This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted
519 RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound
520 real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then
521 the highest-priority CPU-bound application.
522
523 Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
524
525config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
526 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
527 range 0 3000
528 depends on RCU_BOOST
529 default 500
530 help
531 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
532 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
533 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
534 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
535
536 Accept the default if unsure.
537
Mike Travisc903ff82009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800538endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
539
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700540config IKCONFIG
Ross Birof2443ab2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700541 tristate "Kernel .config support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700542 ---help---
543 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
544 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
545 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
546 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
547 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
548 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
549 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
550 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
551
552config IKCONFIG_PROC
553 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
554 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
555 ---help---
556 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
557 through /proc/config.gz.
558
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700559config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
560 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
561 range 12 21
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700562 default 17
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700563 help
564 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
Adrian Bunkf17a32e2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700565 Examples:
566 17 => 128 KB
567 16 => 64 KB
568 15 => 32 KB
569 14 => 16 KB
Alistair John Strachan794543a2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700570 13 => 8 KB
571 12 => 4 KB
572
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800573#
574# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
575#
576config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
577 bool
578
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800579menuconfig CGROUPS
580 boolean "Control Group support"
Kirill A. Shutemov0dea1162010-03-10 15:22:20 -0800581 depends on EVENTFD
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700582 help
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800583 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800584 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
585 controls or device isolation.
586 See
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki5cdc38f2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800587 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
Li Zefan45ce80f2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800588 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
589 and resource control)
Paul Menageddbcc7e2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700590
591 Say N if unsure.
592
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800593if CGROUPS
594
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700595config CGROUP_DEBUG
596 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
Paul Menage418d7d82008-04-29 01:00:05 -0700597 default n
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700598 help
599 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
600 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800601 framework.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700602
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800603 Say N if unsure.
Paul Menage006cb992007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700604
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700605config CGROUP_FREEZER
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800606 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800607 help
608 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
Matt Helsleydc52ddc2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700609 cgroup.
610
Serge E. Hallyn08ce5f12008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700611config CGROUP_DEVICE
612 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
Serge E. Hallyn08ce5f12008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700613 help
614 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
615 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
616
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700617config CPUSETS
618 bool "Cpuset support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700619 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700620 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700621 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
622 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
623 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
624
625 Say N if unsure.
626
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800627config PROC_PID_CPUSET
628 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
629 depends on CPUSETS
630 default y
631
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100632config CGROUP_CPUACCT
633 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100634 help
635 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800636 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
Srivatsa Vaddagirid842de82007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100637
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800638config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
639 bool "Resource counters"
640 help
641 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800642 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
Pavel Emelianove552b662008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800643
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800644config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
645 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
Daniel Lezcano79ae9c22010-10-27 15:34:39 -0700646 depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700647 select MM_OWNER
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800648 help
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700649 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo21acb9c2009-02-04 10:12:08 +0100650 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800651
652 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700653 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
654 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
655 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
656 at boot.
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800657
658 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki84ad6d72008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700659 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
660 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
661 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
Li Zefanc9d54092009-01-07 18:07:35 -0800662 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
Balbir Singh00f0b822008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800663
Balbir Singhcf475ad2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700664 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
665 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
666
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800667config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki65e0e812010-08-10 18:02:56 -0700668 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
669 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800670 help
671 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
672 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
673 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
674 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
675 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
676 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
677 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
678 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
679 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
680 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
WANG Cong00a66d22011-07-25 17:12:12 -0700681 if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted.
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki627991a2009-04-02 16:57:47 -0700682 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
683 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800684config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED
685 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default"
686 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
687 default y
688 help
689 Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in
690 a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels
Jim Cromie43d547f2010-12-17 14:32:36 -0700691 which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -0800692 and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line
693 parameter should have this option unselected.
694 For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
695 select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
WANG Cong00a66d22011-07-25 17:12:12 -0700696 then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
Glauber Costae5671df2011-12-11 21:47:01 +0000697config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
698 bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
699 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && EXPERIMENTAL
700 default n
701 help
702 The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
703 the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
704 fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
705 Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
706 the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
707 will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800708
Stephane Eraniane5d13672011-02-14 11:20:01 +0200709config CGROUP_PERF
710 bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
711 depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
712 help
713 This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
Li Zefan2d0f2522011-03-03 14:26:20 +0800714 threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
Stephane Eraniane5d13672011-02-14 11:20:01 +0200715 designated cpu.
716
717 Say N if unsure.
718
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100719menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
720 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100721 default n
722 help
723 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
724 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
725 tasks.
726
727if CGROUP_SCHED
728config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
729 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
730 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
731 default CGROUP_SCHED
732
Paul Turnerab84d312011-07-21 09:43:28 -0700733config CFS_BANDWIDTH
734 bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED"
735 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
736 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
737 default n
738 help
739 This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for
740 tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit
741 set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no
742 restriction.
743 See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information.
744
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100745config RT_GROUP_SCHED
746 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
747 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
748 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
749 default n
750 help
751 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
Li Zefan32bd7eb2010-03-24 13:17:19 +0800752 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
Dhaval Giani7c941432010-01-20 13:26:18 +0100753 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
754 realtime bandwidth for them.
755 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
756
757endif #CGROUP_SCHED
758
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200759config BLK_CGROUP
760 tristate "Block IO controller"
Daniel Lezcano79ae9c22010-10-27 15:34:39 -0700761 depends on BLOCK
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200762 default n
763 ---help---
764 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
765 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
766 policies.
767
768 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
769 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
Vivek Goyale43473b2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400770 to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in
771 block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200772
773 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
Vivek Goyale43473b2010-09-15 17:06:35 -0400774 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
Michael Witten79e2e752011-01-16 21:43:10 +0000775 enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
776 CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
Michael Wittenc5e05912011-01-17 00:08:41 +0000777 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
Vivek Goyalafc24d42010-04-26 19:27:56 +0200778
779 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
780
781config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
782 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
783 depends on BLK_CGROUP
784 default n
785 ---help---
786 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
787 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
788
Li Zefan23964d22009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800789endif # CGROUPS
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800790
Cyrill Gorcunov067bce12012-01-12 17:20:49 -0800791config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
792 bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
793 default n
794 help
795 Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
796 In particular it adds auxiliary prctl codes to setup process text,
797 data and heap segment sizes, and a few additional /proc filesystem
798 entries.
799
800 If unsure, say N here.
801
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700802menuconfig NAMESPACES
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800803 bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
804 default !EXPERT
Pavel Emelyanovc5289a62008-02-08 04:18:19 -0800805 help
806 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
807 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
808 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
809 different namespaces.
810
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700811if NAMESPACES
812
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800813config UTS_NS
814 bool "UTS namespace"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700815 default y
Pavel Emelyanov58bfdd6d2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800816 help
817 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
818 uname() system call
819
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800820config IPC_NS
821 bool "IPC namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700822 depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700823 default y
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800824 help
825 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
Serge E. Hallyn614b84c2009-04-06 19:01:08 -0700826 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
Pavel Emelyanovae5e1b22008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800827
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800828config USER_NS
829 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700830 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -0800831 select UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
832 default n
Pavel Emelyanovaee16ce2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800833 help
834 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
835 to provide different user info for different servers.
836 If unsure, say N.
837
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800838config PID_NS
Daniel Lezcano9bd38c22010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700839 bool "PID Namespaces"
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700840 default y
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800841 help
Heikki Orsila12d2b8f2008-07-06 15:48:02 +0300842 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100843 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
Pavel Emelyanov74bd59b2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800844 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
845
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -0800846config NET_NS
847 bool "Network namespace"
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700848 depends on NET
Daniel Lezcano17a6d442010-10-27 15:34:37 -0700849 default y
Matt Helsleyd6eb6332009-01-26 12:25:55 -0800850 help
851 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
852 of the network stack.
853
Daniel Lezcano8dd2a822010-10-27 15:34:38 -0700854endif # NAMESPACES
855
Eric W. Biederman5673a942011-11-17 10:23:55 -0800856config UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
857 bool "Require conversions between uid/gids and their internal representation"
858 default n
859 help
860 While the nececessary conversions are being added to all subsystems this option allows
861 the code to continue to build for unconverted subsystems.
862
863 Say Y here if you want the strict type checking enabled
864
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +0100865config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
866 bool "Automatic process group scheduling"
867 select EVENTFD
868 select CGROUPS
869 select CGROUP_SCHED
870 select FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
871 help
872 This option optimizes the scheduler for common desktop workloads by
873 automatically creating and populating task groups. This separation
874 of workloads isolates aggressive CPU burners (like build jobs) from
875 desktop applications. Task group autogeneration is currently based
876 upon task session.
877
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -0700878config MM_OWNER
879 bool
880
881config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Ferenc Wagner5d6a4ea2011-01-10 19:04:22 +0100882 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -0700883 depends on SYSFS
884 default n
885 help
886 This option adds code that switches the layout of the "block" class
887 devices, to not show up in /sys/class/block/, but only in
888 /sys/block/.
889
890 This switch is only active when the sysfs.deprecated=1 boot option is
891 passed or the SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is set.
892
893 This option allows new kernels to run on old distributions and tools,
894 which might get confused by /sys/class/block/. Since 2007/2008 all
895 major distributions and tools handle this just fine.
896
897 Recent distributions and userspace tools after 2009/2010 depend on
898 the existence of /sys/class/block/, and will not work with this
899 option enabled.
900
901 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
902 need to say Y here.
903
904config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
Ferenc Wagner5d6a4ea2011-01-10 19:04:22 +0100905 bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
Daniel Lezcano7af37be2010-10-27 15:34:41 -0700906 default n
907 depends on SYSFS
908 depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
909 help
910 Enable deprecated sysfs by default.
911
912 See the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option for more details about this
913 option.
914
915 Only if you are using a new kernel on an old distribution, you might
916 need to say Y here. Even then, odds are you would not need it
917 enabled, you can always pass the boot option if absolutely necessary.
918
919config RELAY
920 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
921 help
922 This option enables support for relay interface support in
923 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
924 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
925 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
926 user space.
927
928 If unsure, say N.
929
Dimitri Gorokhovikf9916332007-03-06 01:42:17 -0800930config BLK_DEV_INITRD
931 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
932 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
933 help
934 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
935 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
936 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
937 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
938 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
939
940 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
941 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
942 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
943
944 If unsure say Y.
945
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800946if BLK_DEV_INITRD
947
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200948source "usr/Kconfig"
949
Jean-Paul Samanc33df4e2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800950endif
951
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800952config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar96fffeb2008-04-28 01:39:43 +0200953 bool "Optimize for size"
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800954 help
955 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
956 resulting in a smaller kernel.
957
jkacur775a7222008-07-16 00:31:16 +0200958 If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800959
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700960config SYSCTL
961 bool
962
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -0700963config ANON_INODES
964 bool
965
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800966menuconfig EXPERT
967 bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
Josh Triplettf505c552011-06-05 18:23:58 -0700968 # Unhide debug options, to make the on-by-default options visible
969 select DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700970 help
971 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
972 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
973 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
974 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
975
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700976config UID16
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800977 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
David S. Miller09337f52008-04-26 03:17:12 -0700978 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700979 default y
980 help
981 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
982
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700983config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800984 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
Eric W. Biederman26a70342009-11-05 05:26:41 -0800985 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
WANG Congc736de62011-11-02 13:39:25 -0700986 default n
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700987 select SYSCTL
988 ---help---
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800989 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
990 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
991 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
992 information.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700993
Eric W. Biederman13bb7e32006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800994 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
995 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
996 making your kernel marginally smaller.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700997
WANG Congc736de62011-11-02 13:39:25 -0700998 If unsure say N here.
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700999
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001000config KALLSYMS
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001001 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001002 default y
1003 help
1004 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
1005 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
1006 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
1007
1008config KALLSYMS_ALL
1009 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
1010 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
1011 help
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001012 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
1013 OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
1014 sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
1015 cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
1016 names of variables from the data sections, etc).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001017
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001018 This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
1019 image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
1020 size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
1021 something like this).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001022
Artem Bityutskiy71a83ec2011-04-05 13:24:57 +03001023 Say N unless you really need all symbols.
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001024
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -08001025config HOTPLUG
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001026 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -08001027 default y
1028 help
1029 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
1030 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
1031 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
1032 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
1033
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001034config PRINTK
1035 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001036 bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07001037 help
1038 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
1039 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
1040 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
1041 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
1042 strongly discouraged.
1043
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -07001044config BUG
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001045 bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -07001046 default y
1047 help
1048 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
1049 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
1050 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
1051 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
1052 Just say Y.
1053
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001054config ELF_CORE
1055 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001056 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -08001057 help
1058 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
1059
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001060
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +02001061config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001062 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001063 depends on HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
Ralf Baechle15f304b2011-06-01 19:04:59 +01001064 select I8253_LOCK
Stas Sergeeve5e1d3c2008-05-07 12:39:56 +02001065 default y
1066 help
1067 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
1068 support, saving some memory.
1069
Ralf Baechle8761f1a2011-06-01 19:05:09 +01001070config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
1071 bool
1072
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001073config BASE_FULL
1074 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001075 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001076 help
1077 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
1078 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
1079 but may reduce performance.
1080
1081config FUTEX
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001082 bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001083 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d4a2006-06-27 02:54:53 -07001084 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001085 help
1086 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1087 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
1088 run glibc-based applications correctly.
1089
1090config EPOLL
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001091 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001092 default y
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001093 select ANON_INODES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001094 help
1095 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
1096 support for epoll family of system calls.
1097
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -07001098config SIGNALFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001099 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001100 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzifba2afa2007-05-10 22:23:13 -07001101 default y
1102 help
1103 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
1104 on a file descriptor.
1105
1106 If unsure, say Y.
1107
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -07001108config TIMERFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001109 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001110 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzib215e282007-05-10 22:23:16 -07001111 default y
1112 help
1113 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
1114 events on a file descriptor.
1115
1116 If unsure, say Y.
1117
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -07001118config EVENTFD
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001119 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
Adrian Bunk448e3ce2007-07-31 00:39:10 -07001120 select ANON_INODES
Davide Libenzie1ad7462007-05-10 22:23:19 -07001121 default y
1122 help
1123 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
1124 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
1125
1126 If unsure, say Y.
1127
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001128config SHMEM
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001129 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001130 default y
1131 depends on MMU
1132 help
1133 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
1134 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
1135 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
1136 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
1137 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
1138
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001139config AIO
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001140 bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
Thomas Petazzoniebf3f092008-10-15 22:05:12 -07001141 default y
1142 help
1143 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
1144 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
1145 this option saves about 7k.
1146
Randy Dunlap6befe5f2011-04-26 12:33:21 -07001147config EMBEDDED
1148 bool "Embedded system"
1149 select EXPERT
1150 help
1151 This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
1152 an embedded system so certain expert options are available
1153 for configuration.
1154
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001155config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001156 bool
Mike Frysinger018df722009-06-12 13:17:43 -04001157 help
1158 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001159
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001160config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1161 bool
1162 help
1163 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1164
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001165menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001166
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001167config PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001168 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1169 default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
Ingo Molnarcdd6c482009-09-21 12:02:48 +02001170 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnar4c59e462008-12-08 19:38:33 +01001171 select ANON_INODES
Peter Zijlstrae360adb2010-10-14 14:01:34 +08001172 select IRQ_WORK
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001173 help
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001174 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1175 by software and hardware.
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001176
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001177 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001178 use of generic tracepoints.
1179
1180 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1181 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001182 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1183 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1184 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1185 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1186 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1187
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001188 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardodd770382009-10-30 19:32:25 -02001189 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001190 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001191 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1192 capabilities on top of those.
1193
1194 Say Y if unsure.
1195
Ingo Molnar57c0c152009-09-21 12:20:38 +02001196config PERF_COUNTERS
1197 bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
1198 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1199 help
1200 This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
1201 config option - please see that one for details.
1202
1203 It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
1204 it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
1205
1206 Say N if unsure.
1207
Peter Zijlstra906010b2009-09-21 16:08:49 +02001208config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1209 default n
1210 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1211 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1212 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1213 help
1214 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1215
1216 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1217 that don't require it.
1218
1219 Say N if unsure.
1220
Thomas Gleixner0793a612008-12-04 20:12:29 +01001221endmenu
1222
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001223config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1224 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001225 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001226 help
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001227 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1228 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001229 on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
Paul Jackson2aea4fb2006-12-22 01:06:10 -08001230 if VM event counters are disabled.
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -07001231
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +02001232config PCI_QUIRKS
1233 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001234 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
Geert Uytterhoeven61cfc7e2008-10-22 08:53:25 +02001235 depends on PCI
Thomas Petazzoni3d137312008-08-19 10:28:24 +02001236 help
1237 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1238 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1239 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1240
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001241config SLUB_DEBUG
1242 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001243 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
Christoph Lameterf6acb632008-04-29 16:16:06 -07001244 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter41ecc552007-05-09 02:32:44 -07001245 help
1246 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1247 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1248 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1249 no support for cache validation etc.
1250
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001251config COMPAT_BRK
1252 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1253 default y
1254 help
1255 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1256 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1257 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001258 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
Randy Dunlapb943c462009-03-10 12:55:46 -07001259 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1260
1261 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1262
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001263choice
1264 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
Christoph Lametera0acd822007-07-17 04:03:32 -07001265 default SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001266 help
1267 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1268
1269config SLAB
1270 bool "SLAB"
1271 help
1272 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
Christoph Lameter34013882007-05-09 02:32:47 -07001273 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001274 per cpu and per node queues.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001275
1276config SLUB
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001277 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1278 help
1279 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1280 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1281 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1282 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
Simon Arlott02f56212008-11-05 22:18:19 +00001283 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1284 a slab allocator.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001285
1286config SLOB
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001287 depends on EXPERT
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001288 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1289 help
Matt Mackall37291452008-02-04 22:29:38 -08001290 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1291 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1292 does not perform as well on large systems.
Christoph Lameter81819f02007-05-06 14:49:36 -07001293
1294endchoice
1295
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001296config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1297 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001298 depends on EXPERT && !MMU
Jie Zhangea637632009-12-14 18:00:02 -08001299 default n
1300 help
1301 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1302 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1303 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1304 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1305 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1306 then the flag will be ignored.
1307
1308 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1309 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1310
1311 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1312 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1313 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1314 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1315
1316 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1317
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001318config PROFILING
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +01001319 bool "Profiling support"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05001320 help
1321 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1322 by profilers such as OProfile.
1323
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001324#
1325# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1326# dynamically changed for a probe function.
1327#
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001328config TRACEPOINTS
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +02001329 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers97e1c182008-07-18 12:16:16 -04001330
Mathieu Desnoyersfb32e032008-02-02 15:10:33 -05001331source "arch/Kconfig"
1332
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001333endmenu # General setup
1334
Dmitry Baryshkovee7e5512008-06-29 14:18:46 +04001335config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1336 bool
1337 default n
1338
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001339config SLABINFO
1340 bool
1341 depends on PROC_FS
Christoph Lameter0f389ec2008-04-14 18:53:02 +03001342 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
Linus Torvalds158a9622008-01-02 13:04:48 -08001343 default y
1344
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001345config RT_MUTEXES
1346 boolean
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -07001347
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001348config BASE_SMALL
1349 int
1350 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1351 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1352
Jan Engelhardt66da5732007-07-15 23:39:29 -07001353menuconfig MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001354 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1355 help
1356 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1357 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1358 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1359 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1360 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1361 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1362 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1363 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1364 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1365
1366 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1367 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1368 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1369 this).
1370
1371 If unsure, say Y.
1372
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001373if MODULES
1374
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001375config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1376 bool "Forced module loading"
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001377 default n
1378 help
Rusty Russell91e37a72008-05-09 16:25:28 +10001379 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1380 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1381 is usually a really bad idea.
Linus Torvalds826e4502008-05-04 17:04:16 -07001382
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001383config MODULE_UNLOAD
1384 bool "Module unloading"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001385 help
1386 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1387 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
Denys Vlasenkof7f5b672008-07-22 19:24:26 -05001388 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1389 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001390
1391config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1392 bool "Forced module unloading"
1393 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1394 help
1395 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1396 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1397 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1398 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1399 If unsure, say N.
1400
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001401config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +01001402 bool "Module versioning support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001403 help
1404 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1405 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1406 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1407 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1408 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1409 unsure, say N.
1410
1411config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1412 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001413 help
1414 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1415 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1416 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1417 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1418 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1419 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1420 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1421
Robert P. J. Day0b0de142008-08-04 13:31:32 -04001422endif # MODULES
1423
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301424config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1425 bool
1426 help
1427 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
1428 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
1429 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1430 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +01001431 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
Rusty Russell98a79d62008-12-13 21:19:41 +10301432
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001433config STOP_MACHINE
1434 bool
1435 default y
1436 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1437 help
1438 Need stop_machine() primitive.
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01001439
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01001440source "block/Kconfig"
Avi Kivitye98c3202007-10-16 23:27:31 -07001441
1442config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1443 bool
Paul E. McKenneye260be62008-01-25 21:08:24 +01001444
Steffen Klassert16295be2010-01-06 19:47:10 +11001445config PADATA
1446 depends on SMP
1447 bool
1448
Thomas Gleixner6beb0002009-11-09 15:21:34 +00001449source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"