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1 | config ARCH |
2 | string | |
3 | option env="ARCH" | |
4 | ||
5 | config KERNELVERSION | |
6 | string | |
7 | option env="KERNELVERSION" | |
8 | ||
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9 | config DEFCONFIG_LIST |
10 | string | |
b2670eac | 11 | depends on !UML |
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12 | option defconfig_list |
13 | default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" | |
14 | default "/etc/kernel-config" | |
15 | default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" | |
73531905 | 16 | default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" |
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17 | default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" |
18 | ||
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19 | config CONSTRUCTORS |
20 | bool | |
21 | depends on !UML | |
22 | default y | |
23 | ||
ff0cfc66 | 24 | menu "General setup" |
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25 | |
26 | config EXPERIMENTAL | |
27 | bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" | |
28 | ---help--- | |
29 | Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network | |
30 | drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state | |
31 | of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of | |
32 | testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually | |
33 | known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is | |
34 | currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage | |
35 | uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to | |
36 | avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active | |
37 | testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it | |
38 | may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work | |
39 | in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar | |
40 | with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers | |
41 | (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents | |
42 | <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, | |
43 | <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and | |
44 | <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). | |
45 | ||
46 | This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are | |
47 | drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are | |
48 | scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. | |
49 | ||
50 | Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that | |
51 | falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires | |
52 | using these features, you should probably say N here, which will | |
53 | cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If | |
54 | you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or | |
55 | drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. | |
56 | ||
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57 | config BROKEN |
58 | bool | |
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59 | |
60 | config BROKEN_ON_SMP | |
61 | bool | |
62 | depends on BROKEN || !SMP | |
63 | default y | |
64 | ||
65 | config LOCK_KERNEL | |
66 | bool | |
67 | depends on SMP || PREEMPT | |
68 | default y | |
69 | ||
70 | config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT | |
71 | int | |
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72 | default 32 if !UML |
73 | default 128 if UML | |
1da177e4 | 74 | help |
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75 | Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment |
76 | variables passed to init from the kernel command line. | |
1da177e4 | 77 | |
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78 | |
79 | config LOCALVERSION | |
80 | string "Local version - append to kernel release" | |
81 | help | |
82 | Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. | |
83 | This will show up when you type uname, for example. | |
84 | The string you set here will be appended after the contents of | |
85 | any files with a filename matching localversion* in your | |
86 | object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can | |
87 | be a maximum of 64 characters. | |
88 | ||
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89 | config LOCALVERSION_AUTO |
90 | bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" | |
91 | default y | |
92 | help | |
93 | This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a | |
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94 | release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current |
95 | top of tree revision. | |
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96 | |
97 | A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion | |
6e5a5420 | 98 | if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be |
aaebf433 | 99 | appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value |
6e5a5420 | 100 | set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. |
aaebf433 | 101 | |
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102 | (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced |
103 | by running the command: | |
104 | ||
105 | $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD | |
106 | ||
107 | which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) | |
aaebf433 | 108 | |
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109 | config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP |
110 | bool | |
111 | ||
112 | config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 | |
113 | bool | |
114 | ||
115 | config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA | |
116 | bool | |
117 | ||
30d65dbf | 118 | choice |
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119 | prompt "Kernel compression mode" |
120 | default KERNEL_GZIP | |
121 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA | |
122 | help | |
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123 | The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. |
124 | Several compression algorithms are available, which differ | |
125 | in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. | |
126 | Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. | |
127 | Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. | |
128 | ||
129 | If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed | |
130 | kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older | |
131 | version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was | |
132 | supplied by Christian Ludwig) | |
133 | ||
134 | High compression options are mostly useful for users, who | |
135 | are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram | |
136 | size matters less. | |
137 | ||
138 | If in doubt, select 'gzip' | |
139 | ||
140 | config KERNEL_GZIP | |
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141 | bool "Gzip" |
142 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP | |
143 | help | |
144 | The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is | |
145 | the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both | |
146 | compression and decompression) is the fastest. | |
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147 | |
148 | config KERNEL_BZIP2 | |
149 | bool "Bzip2" | |
2e9f3bdd | 150 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 |
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151 | help |
152 | Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. | |
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153 | Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel |
154 | size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. | |
155 | Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you | |
156 | will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. | |
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157 | |
158 | config KERNEL_LZMA | |
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159 | bool "LZMA" |
160 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA | |
161 | help | |
162 | The most recent compression algorithm. | |
163 | Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other | |
164 | two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% | |
165 | smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. | |
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166 | |
167 | endchoice | |
168 | ||
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169 | config SWAP |
170 | bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" | |
9361401e | 171 | depends on MMU && BLOCK |
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172 | default y |
173 | help | |
174 | This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support | |
92c3504e | 175 | for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are |
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176 | used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present |
177 | in your computer. If unsure say Y. | |
178 | ||
179 | config SYSVIPC | |
180 | bool "System V IPC" | |
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181 | ---help--- |
182 | Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and | |
183 | system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and | |
184 | exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, | |
185 | and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if | |
186 | you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the | |
187 | DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), | |
188 | you'll need to say Y here. | |
189 | ||
190 | You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in | |
191 | section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from | |
192 | <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. | |
193 | ||
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194 | config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL |
195 | bool | |
196 | depends on SYSVIPC | |
197 | depends on SYSCTL | |
198 | default y | |
199 | ||
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200 | config POSIX_MQUEUE |
201 | bool "POSIX Message Queues" | |
202 | depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL | |
203 | ---help--- | |
204 | POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message | |
205 | queues every message has a priority which decides about succession | |
206 | of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run | |
207 | programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message | |
b0e37650 | 208 | queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. |
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209 | |
210 | POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' | |
211 | and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem | |
212 | operations on message queues. | |
213 | ||
214 | If unsure, say Y. | |
215 | ||
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216 | config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL |
217 | bool | |
218 | depends on POSIX_MQUEUE | |
219 | depends on SYSCTL | |
220 | default y | |
221 | ||
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222 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT |
223 | bool "BSD Process Accounting" | |
224 | help | |
225 | If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the | |
226 | kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting | |
227 | information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about | |
228 | that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The | |
229 | information includes things such as creation time, owning user, | |
230 | command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete | |
231 | list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is | |
232 | up to the user level program to do useful things with this | |
233 | information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. | |
234 | ||
235 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 | |
236 | bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" | |
237 | depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT | |
238 | default n | |
239 | help | |
240 | If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written | |
241 | in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each | |
242 | process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible | |
243 | with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools | |
244 | for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available | |
37a4c940 | 245 | at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. |
1da177e4 | 246 | |
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247 | config TASKSTATS |
248 | bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
249 | depends on NET | |
250 | default n | |
251 | help | |
252 | Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the | |
253 | generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the | |
254 | statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as | |
255 | responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user | |
256 | space on task exit. | |
257 | ||
258 | Say N if unsure. | |
259 | ||
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260 | config TASK_DELAY_ACCT |
261 | bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
6f44993f | 262 | depends on TASKSTATS |
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263 | help |
264 | Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system | |
265 | resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping | |
266 | in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities | |
267 | relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. | |
268 | ||
269 | Say N if unsure. | |
270 | ||
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271 | config TASK_XACCT |
272 | bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
273 | depends on TASKSTATS | |
274 | help | |
275 | Collect extended task accounting data and send the data | |
276 | to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. | |
277 | ||
278 | Say N if unsure. | |
279 | ||
280 | config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING | |
281 | bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
282 | depends on TASK_XACCT | |
283 | help | |
284 | Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this | |
285 | task has caused. | |
286 | ||
287 | Say N if unsure. | |
288 | ||
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289 | config AUDIT |
290 | bool "Auditing support" | |
804a6a49 | 291 | depends on NET |
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292 | help |
293 | Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another | |
294 | kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for | |
295 | logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call | |
296 | auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. | |
297 | ||
298 | config AUDITSYSCALL | |
299 | bool "Enable system-call auditing support" | |
1322b9de | 300 | depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) |
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301 | default y if SECURITY_SELINUX |
302 | help | |
303 | Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that | |
304 | can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, | |
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305 | such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please |
306 | ensure that INOTIFY is configured. | |
1da177e4 | 307 | |
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308 | config AUDIT_TREE |
309 | def_bool y | |
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310 | depends on AUDITSYSCALL |
311 | select INOTIFY | |
74c3cbe3 | 312 | |
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313 | menu "RCU Subsystem" |
314 | ||
315 | choice | |
316 | prompt "RCU Implementation" | |
31c9a24e | 317 | default TREE_RCU |
c903ff83 | 318 | |
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319 | config TREE_RCU |
320 | bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" | |
321 | help | |
322 | This option selects the RCU implementation that is | |
323 | designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or | |
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324 | thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to |
325 | smaller systems. | |
c903ff83 | 326 | |
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327 | config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU |
328 | bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU" | |
329 | depends on PREEMPT | |
330 | help | |
331 | This option selects the RCU implementation that is | |
332 | designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or | |
333 | thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response | |
334 | is also required. | |
335 | ||
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336 | endchoice |
337 | ||
338 | config RCU_TRACE | |
339 | bool "Enable tracing for RCU" | |
6b3ef48a | 340 | depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU |
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341 | help |
342 | This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats | |
343 | in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. | |
344 | ||
345 | Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing | |
346 | Say N if you are unsure. | |
347 | ||
348 | config RCU_FANOUT | |
349 | int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" | |
350 | range 2 64 if 64BIT | |
351 | range 2 32 if !64BIT | |
f41d911f | 352 | depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU |
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353 | default 64 if 64BIT |
354 | default 32 if !64BIT | |
355 | help | |
356 | This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations | |
357 | of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with | |
358 | large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube | |
359 | root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit | |
360 | systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. | |
361 | ||
362 | Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. | |
363 | Take the default if unsure. | |
364 | ||
365 | config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT | |
366 | bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" | |
f41d911f | 367 | depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU |
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368 | default n |
369 | help | |
370 | This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, | |
371 | regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for | |
372 | testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with | |
373 | strong NUMA behavior. | |
374 | ||
375 | Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. | |
376 | ||
377 | Say N if unsure. | |
378 | ||
379 | config TREE_RCU_TRACE | |
f41d911f | 380 | def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) |
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381 | select DEBUG_FS |
382 | help | |
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383 | This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and |
384 | TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to | |
385 | trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. | |
c903ff83 | 386 | |
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387 | endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" |
388 | ||
1da177e4 | 389 | config IKCONFIG |
f2443ab6 | 390 | tristate "Kernel .config support" |
1da177e4 LT |
391 | ---help--- |
392 | This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file | |
393 | contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation | |
394 | of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an | |
395 | on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel | |
396 | image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as | |
397 | input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. | |
398 | It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading | |
399 | /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). | |
400 | ||
401 | config IKCONFIG_PROC | |
402 | bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" | |
403 | depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS | |
404 | ---help--- | |
405 | This option enables access to the kernel configuration file | |
406 | through /proc/config.gz. | |
407 | ||
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408 | config LOG_BUF_SHIFT |
409 | int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" | |
410 | range 12 21 | |
f17a32e9 | 411 | default 17 |
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412 | help |
413 | Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. | |
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414 | Examples: |
415 | 17 => 128 KB | |
416 | 16 => 64 KB | |
417 | 15 => 32 KB | |
418 | 14 => 16 KB | |
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419 | 13 => 8 KB |
420 | 12 => 4 KB | |
421 | ||
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422 | # |
423 | # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: | |
424 | # | |
425 | config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK | |
426 | bool | |
427 | ||
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428 | config GROUP_SCHED |
429 | bool "Group CPU scheduler" | |
aac6abca PW |
430 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
431 | default n | |
29f59db3 | 432 | help |
fb615581 | 433 | This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU |
9b5b7751 | 434 | bandwidth allocation to such task groups. |
5cdc38f9 KH |
435 | In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use |
436 | CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) | |
29f59db3 | 437 | |
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438 | config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED |
439 | bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" | |
440 | depends on GROUP_SCHED | |
aac6abca | 441 | default GROUP_SCHED |
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442 | |
443 | config RT_GROUP_SCHED | |
444 | bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" | |
445 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | |
446 | depends on GROUP_SCHED | |
447 | default n | |
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448 | help |
449 | This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth | |
450 | to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" | |
451 | setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to | |
452 | schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate | |
453 | realtime bandwidth for them. | |
2fe401e3 | 454 | See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. |
052f1dc7 | 455 | |
24e377a8 | 456 | choice |
052f1dc7 | 457 | depends on GROUP_SCHED |
24e377a8 | 458 | prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" |
052f1dc7 | 459 | default USER_SCHED |
24e377a8 | 460 | |
052f1dc7 | 461 | config USER_SCHED |
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462 | bool "user id" |
463 | help | |
464 | This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping | |
465 | tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. | |
24e377a8 | 466 | |
052f1dc7 | 467 | config CGROUP_SCHED |
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468 | bool "Control groups" |
469 | depends on CGROUPS | |
470 | help | |
471 | This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups | |
472 | using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control | |
473 | the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. | |
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474 | Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more |
475 | information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. | |
68318b8e | 476 | |
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477 | endchoice |
478 | ||
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479 | menuconfig CGROUPS |
480 | boolean "Control Group support" | |
5cdc38f9 | 481 | help |
23964d2d | 482 | This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for |
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483 | use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory |
484 | controls or device isolation. | |
485 | See | |
5cdc38f9 | 486 | - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) |
45ce80fb LZ |
487 | - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation |
488 | and resource control) | |
5cdc38f9 KH |
489 | |
490 | Say N if unsure. | |
491 | ||
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492 | if CGROUPS |
493 | ||
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494 | config CGROUP_DEBUG |
495 | bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" | |
496 | depends on CGROUPS | |
497 | default n | |
498 | help | |
499 | This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that | |
500 | exports useful debugging information about the cgroups | |
23964d2d | 501 | framework. |
5cdc38f9 | 502 | |
23964d2d | 503 | Say N if unsure. |
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504 | |
505 | config CGROUP_NS | |
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506 | bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" |
507 | depends on CGROUPS | |
508 | help | |
509 | Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to | |
510 | provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, | |
511 | for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart | |
512 | jobs. | |
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513 | |
514 | config CGROUP_FREEZER | |
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515 | bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" |
516 | depends on CGROUPS | |
517 | help | |
518 | Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a | |
5cdc38f9 KH |
519 | cgroup. |
520 | ||
521 | config CGROUP_DEVICE | |
522 | bool "Device controller for cgroups" | |
523 | depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL | |
524 | help | |
525 | Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which | |
526 | a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. | |
527 | ||
528 | config CPUSETS | |
529 | bool "Cpuset support" | |
db7f47cf | 530 | depends on CGROUPS |
5cdc38f9 KH |
531 | help |
532 | This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which | |
533 | allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and | |
534 | Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. | |
535 | This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. | |
536 | ||
537 | Say N if unsure. | |
538 | ||
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539 | config PROC_PID_CPUSET |
540 | bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" | |
541 | depends on CPUSETS | |
542 | default y | |
543 | ||
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544 | config CGROUP_CPUACCT |
545 | bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" | |
546 | depends on CGROUPS | |
547 | help | |
548 | Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the | |
23964d2d | 549 | total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. |
d842de87 | 550 | |
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551 | config RESOURCE_COUNTERS |
552 | bool "Resource counters" | |
553 | help | |
554 | This option enables controller independent resource accounting | |
23964d2d | 555 | infrastructure that works with cgroups. |
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556 | depends on CGROUPS |
557 | ||
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558 | config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR |
559 | bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" | |
560 | depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS | |
cf475ad2 | 561 | select MM_OWNER |
00f0b825 | 562 | help |
84ad6d70 | 563 | Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous |
21acb9ca | 564 | memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) |
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565 | |
566 | Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead | |
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567 | associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, |
568 | 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory | |
569 | usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out | |
570 | at boot. | |
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571 | |
572 | Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really | |
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573 | sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable |
574 | this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to | |
575 | disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. | |
c9d5409f | 576 | (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) |
00f0b825 | 577 | |
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578 | This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which |
579 | could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. | |
580 | ||
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581 | config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP |
582 | bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
583 | depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL | |
584 | help | |
585 | Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you | |
586 | enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, | |
587 | when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to | |
588 | usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension | |
589 | is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself | |
590 | adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. | |
591 | Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please | |
592 | be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller | |
593 | is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and | |
594 | there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, | |
595 | if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. | |
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596 | Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page |
597 | size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. | |
c077719b | 598 | |
23964d2d | 599 | endif # CGROUPS |
c077719b | 600 | |
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601 | config MM_OWNER |
602 | bool | |
5cdc38f9 | 603 | |
88a22c98 | 604 | config SYSFS_DEPRECATED |
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605 | bool |
606 | ||
607 | config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 | |
f6ee649f | 608 | bool "remove sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools" |
9148fe87 | 609 | depends on SYSFS |
f6ee649f | 610 | default n |
d47846c5 | 611 | select SYSFS_DEPRECATED |
88a22c98 | 612 | help |
fce3e804 | 613 | This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated |
f6ee649f | 614 | version. Do not use it on recent distributions. |
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615 | |
616 | The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at | |
617 | /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between | |
618 | class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the | |
619 | unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at | |
620 | /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at | |
621 | /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by | |
622 | "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" | |
623 | class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some | |
624 | subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which | |
625 | depend on the unified device tree. | |
626 | ||
627 | This option is not a pure compatibility option that can | |
628 | be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the | |
629 | layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, | |
630 | and disable some features, which can not be exported without | |
631 | confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major | |
632 | distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which | |
633 | depend on the deprecated layout or this option. | |
634 | ||
635 | If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use | |
636 | older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, | |
637 | if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has | |
638 | this option set to N. | |
88a22c98 | 639 | |
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640 | config RELAY |
641 | bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" | |
642 | help | |
643 | This option enables support for relay interface support in | |
644 | certain file systems (such as debugfs). | |
645 | It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and | |
646 | facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to | |
647 | user space. | |
648 | ||
649 | If unsure, say N. | |
650 | ||
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651 | config NAMESPACES |
652 | bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED | |
653 | default !EMBEDDED | |
654 | help | |
655 | Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using | |
656 | the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects | |
657 | or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in | |
658 | different namespaces. | |
659 | ||
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660 | config UTS_NS |
661 | bool "UTS namespace" | |
662 | depends on NAMESPACES | |
663 | help | |
664 | In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the | |
665 | uname() system call | |
666 | ||
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667 | config IPC_NS |
668 | bool "IPC namespace" | |
614b84cf | 669 | depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) |
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670 | help |
671 | In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to | |
614b84cf | 672 | different IPC objects in different namespaces. |
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674 | config USER_NS |
675 | bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
676 | depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL | |
677 | help | |
678 | This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces | |
679 | to provide different user info for different servers. | |
680 | If unsure, say N. | |
681 | ||
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682 | config PID_NS |
683 | bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
684 | default n | |
685 | depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL | |
686 | help | |
12d2b8f9 | 687 | Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple |
692105b8 | 688 | processes with the same pid as long as they are in different |
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689 | pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. |
690 | ||
691 | Unless you want to work with an experimental feature | |
692 | say N here. | |
693 | ||
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694 | config NET_NS |
695 | bool "Network namespace" | |
696 | default n | |
697 | depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET | |
698 | help | |
699 | Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances | |
700 | of the network stack. | |
701 | ||
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702 | config BLK_DEV_INITRD |
703 | bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" | |
704 | depends on BROKEN || !FRV | |
705 | help | |
706 | The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the | |
707 | boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root | |
708 | before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to | |
709 | load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, | |
710 | etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. | |
711 | ||
712 | If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this | |
713 | also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds | |
714 | 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. | |
715 | ||
716 | If unsure say Y. | |
717 | ||
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718 | if BLK_DEV_INITRD |
719 | ||
dbec4866 SR |
720 | source "usr/Kconfig" |
721 | ||
c33df4ea JPS |
722 | endif |
723 | ||
c45b4f1f | 724 | config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE |
96fffeb4 | 725 | bool "Optimize for size" |
c45b4f1f | 726 | default y |
c45b4f1f LT |
727 | help |
728 | Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc | |
729 | resulting in a smaller kernel. | |
730 | ||
775a7229 | 731 | If unsure, say Y. |
c45b4f1f | 732 | |
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733 | config SYSCTL |
734 | bool | |
735 | ||
b943c460 RD |
736 | config ANON_INODES |
737 | bool | |
738 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
739 | menuconfig EMBEDDED |
740 | bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" | |
741 | help | |
742 | This option allows certain base kernel options and settings | |
743 | to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized | |
744 | environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. | |
745 | Only use this if you really know what you are doing. | |
746 | ||
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747 | config UID16 |
748 | bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED | |
09337f50 | 749 | depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) |
ae81f9e3 CE |
750 | default y |
751 | help | |
752 | This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. | |
753 | ||
b89a8171 | 754 | config SYSCTL_SYSCALL |
0847062a | 755 | bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED |
13bb7e37 | 756 | default y |
b89a8171 | 757 | select SYSCTL |
ae81f9e3 | 758 | ---help--- |
13bb7e37 EB |
759 | sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging |
760 | to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys | |
761 | using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this | |
762 | information. | |
b89a8171 | 763 | |
13bb7e37 EB |
764 | Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are |
765 | trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, | |
766 | making your kernel marginally smaller. | |
b89a8171 | 767 | |
13bb7e37 | 768 | If unsure say Y here. |
ae81f9e3 | 769 | |
1da177e4 | 770 | config KALLSYMS |
979c6a1e | 771 | bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED |
1da177e4 LT |
772 | default y |
773 | help | |
774 | Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and | |
775 | symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel | |
776 | somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. | |
777 | ||
778 | config KALLSYMS_ALL | |
779 | bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" | |
780 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS | |
781 | help | |
782 | Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer | |
783 | OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other | |
f9f97bc0 JJ |
784 | symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them |
785 | and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. | |
1da177e4 LT |
786 | |
787 | Say N. | |
788 | ||
789 | config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS | |
790 | bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" | |
791 | depends on KALLSYMS | |
792 | help | |
793 | If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with | |
794 | inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and | |
795 | turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. | |
796 | Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be | |
797 | reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while | |
798 | you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. | |
799 | ||
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801 | config HOTPLUG |
802 | bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED | |
803 | default y | |
804 | help | |
805 | This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent | |
806 | capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider | |
807 | disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a | |
808 | dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. | |
809 | ||
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810 | config PRINTK |
811 | default y | |
812 | bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED | |
813 | help | |
814 | This option enables normal printk support. Removing it | |
815 | eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image | |
816 | and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it | |
817 | very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is | |
818 | strongly discouraged. | |
819 | ||
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820 | config BUG |
821 | bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED | |
822 | default y | |
823 | help | |
824 | Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing | |
825 | the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring | |
826 | numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this | |
827 | option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. | |
828 | Just say Y. | |
829 | ||
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830 | config ELF_CORE |
831 | default y | |
832 | bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED | |
833 | help | |
834 | Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. | |
835 | ||
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836 | config PCSPKR_PLATFORM |
837 | bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED | |
838 | depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES | |
839 | default y | |
840 | help | |
841 | This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker | |
842 | support, saving some memory. | |
843 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
844 | config BASE_FULL |
845 | default y | |
846 | bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED | |
847 | help | |
848 | Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core | |
849 | kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, | |
850 | but may reduce performance. | |
851 | ||
852 | config FUTEX | |
853 | bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED | |
854 | default y | |
23f78d4a | 855 | select RT_MUTEXES |
1da177e4 LT |
856 | help |
857 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | |
858 | support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not | |
859 | run glibc-based applications correctly. | |
860 | ||
861 | config EPOLL | |
862 | bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED | |
863 | default y | |
448e3cee | 864 | select ANON_INODES |
1da177e4 LT |
865 | help |
866 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | |
867 | support for epoll family of system calls. | |
868 | ||
fba2afaa DL |
869 | config SIGNALFD |
870 | bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED | |
448e3cee | 871 | select ANON_INODES |
fba2afaa DL |
872 | default y |
873 | help | |
874 | Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals | |
875 | on a file descriptor. | |
876 | ||
877 | If unsure, say Y. | |
878 | ||
b215e283 DL |
879 | config TIMERFD |
880 | bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED | |
448e3cee | 881 | select ANON_INODES |
b215e283 DL |
882 | default y |
883 | help | |
884 | Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer | |
885 | events on a file descriptor. | |
886 | ||
887 | If unsure, say Y. | |
888 | ||
e1ad7468 DL |
889 | config EVENTFD |
890 | bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED | |
448e3cee | 891 | select ANON_INODES |
e1ad7468 DL |
892 | default y |
893 | help | |
894 | Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both | |
895 | kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. | |
896 | ||
897 | If unsure, say Y. | |
898 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
899 | config SHMEM |
900 | bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED | |
901 | default y | |
902 | depends on MMU | |
903 | help | |
904 | The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. | |
905 | It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported | |
906 | to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this | |
907 | option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, | |
908 | which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. | |
909 | ||
ebf3f09c TP |
910 | config AIO |
911 | bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED | |
912 | default y | |
913 | help | |
914 | This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used | |
915 | by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling | |
916 | this option saves about 7k. | |
917 | ||
0793a61d TG |
918 | config HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS |
919 | bool | |
018df72d MF |
920 | help |
921 | See tools/perf/design.txt for details. | |
0793a61d TG |
922 | |
923 | menu "Performance Counters" | |
924 | ||
925 | config PERF_COUNTERS | |
926 | bool "Kernel Performance Counters" | |
f2654260 | 927 | default y if PROFILING |
0793a61d | 928 | depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS |
4c59e467 | 929 | select ANON_INODES |
0793a61d TG |
930 | help |
931 | Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware. | |
932 | ||
933 | Performance counters are special hardware registers available | |
934 | on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain | |
935 | types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses | |
936 | suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the | |
937 | kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts | |
938 | when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be | |
939 | used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. | |
940 | ||
941 | The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of | |
942 | these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It | |
943 | provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event | |
944 | capabilities on top of those. | |
945 | ||
946 | Say Y if unsure. | |
947 | ||
e077df4f | 948 | config EVENT_PROFILE |
470a1396 | 949 | bool "Tracepoint profiling sources" |
d4d7d0b9 | 950 | depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACING |
e077df4f | 951 | default y |
470a1396 PZ |
952 | help |
953 | Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance counters. | |
954 | ||
955 | When this is enabled, you can create perf counters based on | |
956 | tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID | |
957 | found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events | |
958 | option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic | |
959 | tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.) | |
e077df4f | 960 | |
0793a61d TG |
961 | endmenu |
962 | ||
f8891e5e CL |
963 | config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS |
964 | default y | |
965 | bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED | |
966 | help | |
2aea4fb6 PJ |
967 | VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. |
968 | This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters | |
969 | on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts | |
970 | if VM event counters are disabled. | |
f8891e5e | 971 | |
3d137310 TP |
972 | config PCI_QUIRKS |
973 | default y | |
61cfc7e4 GU |
974 | bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED |
975 | depends on PCI | |
3d137310 TP |
976 | help |
977 | This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset | |
978 | bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is | |
979 | unaffected by PCI quirks. | |
980 | ||
41ecc55b CL |
981 | config SLUB_DEBUG |
982 | default y | |
983 | bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED | |
f6acb635 | 984 | depends on SLUB && SYSFS |
41ecc55b CL |
985 | help |
986 | SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can | |
987 | result in significant savings in code size. This also disables | |
988 | SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be | |
989 | no support for cache validation etc. | |
990 | ||
a9eb5223 RD |
991 | config STRIP_ASM_SYMS |
992 | bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" | |
993 | default n | |
994 | help | |
995 | Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols | |
996 | that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of | |
997 | get_wchan() and suchlike. | |
998 | ||
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999 | config COMPAT_BRK |
1000 | bool "Disable heap randomization" | |
1001 | default y | |
1002 | help | |
1003 | Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it | |
1004 | also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). | |
1005 | This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization | |
692105b8 | 1006 | disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting |
b943c460 RD |
1007 | /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. |
1008 | ||
1009 | On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. | |
1010 | ||
81819f0f CL |
1011 | choice |
1012 | prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" | |
a0acd820 | 1013 | default SLUB |
81819f0f CL |
1014 | help |
1015 | This option allows to select a slab allocator. | |
1016 | ||
1017 | config SLAB | |
1018 | bool "SLAB" | |
1019 | help | |
1020 | The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work | |
34013886 | 1021 | well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in |
02f56210 | 1022 | per cpu and per node queues. |
81819f0f CL |
1023 | |
1024 | config SLUB | |
81819f0f CL |
1025 | bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" |
1026 | help | |
1027 | SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage | |
1028 | instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). | |
1029 | Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead | |
1030 | of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently | |
02f56210 SA |
1031 | and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for |
1032 | a slab allocator. | |
81819f0f CL |
1033 | |
1034 | config SLOB | |
84a01c2f | 1035 | depends on EMBEDDED |
81819f0f CL |
1036 | bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" |
1037 | help | |
37291458 MM |
1038 | SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler |
1039 | allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but | |
1040 | does not perform as well on large systems. | |
81819f0f CL |
1041 | |
1042 | endchoice | |
1043 | ||
125e5645 MD |
1044 | config PROFILING |
1045 | bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
1046 | help | |
1047 | Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used | |
1048 | by profilers such as OProfile. | |
1049 | ||
5f87f112 IM |
1050 | # |
1051 | # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be | |
1052 | # dynamically changed for a probe function. | |
1053 | # | |
97e1c18e | 1054 | config TRACEPOINTS |
5f87f112 | 1055 | bool |
97e1c18e | 1056 | |
125e5645 MD |
1057 | config MARKERS |
1058 | bool "Activate markers" | |
91f73f90 | 1059 | select TRACEPOINTS |
125e5645 MD |
1060 | help |
1061 | Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be | |
1062 | dynamically changed for a probe function. | |
1063 | ||
fb32e03f MD |
1064 | source "arch/Kconfig" |
1065 | ||
07fe7cb7 DH |
1066 | config SLOW_WORK |
1067 | default n | |
1c2d008c | 1068 | bool |
07fe7cb7 DH |
1069 | help |
1070 | The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated | |
1071 | threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that | |
1072 | take a relatively long time. | |
1073 | ||
1074 | An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed | |
1075 | by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch | |
1076 | disk. | |
1077 | ||
1c2d008c DH |
1078 | See Documentation/slow-work.txt. |
1079 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1080 | endmenu # General setup |
1081 | ||
ee7e5516 DB |
1082 | config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT |
1083 | bool | |
1084 | default n | |
1085 | ||
158a9624 LT |
1086 | config SLABINFO |
1087 | bool | |
1088 | depends on PROC_FS | |
0f389ec6 | 1089 | depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG |
158a9624 LT |
1090 | default y |
1091 | ||
ae81f9e3 CE |
1092 | config RT_MUTEXES |
1093 | boolean | |
ae81f9e3 | 1094 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1095 | config BASE_SMALL |
1096 | int | |
1097 | default 0 if BASE_FULL | |
1098 | default 1 if !BASE_FULL | |
1099 | ||
66da5733 | 1100 | menuconfig MODULES |
1da177e4 LT |
1101 | bool "Enable loadable module support" |
1102 | help | |
1103 | Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can | |
1104 | be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being | |
1105 | permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" | |
1106 | tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, | |
1107 | many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by | |
1108 | answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most | |
1109 | useful for infrequently used options which are not required | |
1110 | for booting. For more information, see the man pages for | |
1111 | modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. | |
1112 | ||
1113 | If you say Y here, you will need to run "make | |
1114 | modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ | |
1115 | where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do | |
1116 | this). | |
1117 | ||
1118 | If unsure, say Y. | |
1119 | ||
0b0de144 RD |
1120 | if MODULES |
1121 | ||
826e4506 LT |
1122 | config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD |
1123 | bool "Forced module loading" | |
826e4506 LT |
1124 | default n |
1125 | help | |
91e37a79 RR |
1126 | Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe |
1127 | --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and | |
1128 | is usually a really bad idea. | |
826e4506 | 1129 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1130 | config MODULE_UNLOAD |
1131 | bool "Module unloading" | |
1da177e4 LT |
1132 | help |
1133 | Without this option you will not be able to unload any | |
1134 | modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable | |
f7f5b675 DV |
1135 | anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster |
1136 | and simpler. If unsure, say Y. | |
1da177e4 LT |
1137 | |
1138 | config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD | |
1139 | bool "Forced module unloading" | |
1140 | depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL | |
1141 | help | |
1142 | This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the | |
1143 | kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module | |
1144 | without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to | |
1145 | rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. | |
1146 | If unsure, say N. | |
1147 | ||
1da177e4 | 1148 | config MODVERSIONS |
0d541643 | 1149 | bool "Module versioning support" |
1da177e4 LT |
1150 | help |
1151 | Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. | |
1152 | Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules | |
1153 | compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information | |
1154 | to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would | |
1155 | make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If | |
1156 | unsure, say N. | |
1157 | ||
1158 | config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL | |
1159 | bool "Source checksum for all modules" | |
1da177e4 LT |
1160 | help |
1161 | Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" | |
1162 | field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a | |
1163 | sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers | |
1164 | see exactly which source was used to build a module (since | |
1165 | others sometimes change the module source without updating | |
1166 | the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field | |
1167 | will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. | |
1168 | ||
0b0de144 RD |
1169 | endif # MODULES |
1170 | ||
98a79d6a RR |
1171 | config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE |
1172 | bool | |
1173 | help | |
1174 | Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and | |
1175 | cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map | |
1176 | with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, | |
1177 | it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs | |
692105b8 | 1178 | and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. |
98a79d6a | 1179 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1180 | config STOP_MACHINE |
1181 | bool | |
1182 | default y | |
1183 | depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU | |
1184 | help | |
1185 | Need stop_machine() primitive. | |
3a65dfe8 | 1186 | |
3a65dfe8 | 1187 | source "block/Kconfig" |
e98c3202 AK |
1188 | |
1189 | config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS | |
1190 | bool | |
e260be67 | 1191 |