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1 config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5 config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
9 config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
11 depends on !UML
12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
19 config CONSTRUCTORS
20 bool
21 depends on !UML
22 default y
23
24 config HAVE_IRQ_WORK
25 bool
26
27 config IRQ_WORK
28 bool
29 depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
30
31 menu "General setup"
32
33 config EXPERIMENTAL
34 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
35 ---help---
36 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
37 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
38 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
39 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
40 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
41 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
42 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
43 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
44 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
45 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
46 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
47 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
48 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
49 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
50 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
51 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
52
53 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
54 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
55 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
56
57 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
58 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
59 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
60 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
61 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
62 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
63
64 config BROKEN
65 bool
66
67 config BROKEN_ON_SMP
68 bool
69 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
70 default y
71
72 config LOCK_KERNEL
73 bool
74 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
75 default y
76
77 config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
78 int
79 default 32 if !UML
80 default 128 if UML
81 help
82 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
83 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
84
85
86 config CROSS_COMPILE
87 string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
88 help
89 Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
90 default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
91 need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
92 directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
93
94 config LOCALVERSION
95 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
96 help
97 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
98 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
99 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
100 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
101 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
102 be a maximum of 64 characters.
103
104 config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
105 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
106 default y
107 help
108 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
109 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
110 top of tree revision.
111
112 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
113 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
114 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
115 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
116
117 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
118 by running the command:
119
120 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
121
122 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
123
124 config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
125 bool
126
127 config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
128 bool
129
130 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
131 bool
132
133 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
134 bool
135
136 choice
137 prompt "Kernel compression mode"
138 default KERNEL_GZIP
139 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
140 help
141 The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
142 Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
143 in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
144 Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
145 Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
146
147 If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
148 kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
149 version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
150 supplied by Christian Ludwig)
151
152 High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
153 are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
154 size matters less.
155
156 If in doubt, select 'gzip'
157
158 config KERNEL_GZIP
159 bool "Gzip"
160 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
161 help
162 The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
163 between compression ratio and decompression speed.
164
165 config KERNEL_BZIP2
166 bool "Bzip2"
167 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
168 help
169 Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
170 Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel
171 size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
172 Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
173 will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
174
175 config KERNEL_LZMA
176 bool "LZMA"
177 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
178 help
179 The most recent compression algorithm.
180 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
181 two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
182 smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
183
184 config KERNEL_LZO
185 bool "LZO"
186 depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
187 help
188 Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
189 size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
190 (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
191
192 endchoice
193
194 config SWAP
195 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
196 depends on MMU && BLOCK
197 default y
198 help
199 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
200 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
201 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
202 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
203
204 config SYSVIPC
205 bool "System V IPC"
206 ---help---
207 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
208 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
209 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
210 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
211 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
212 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
213 you'll need to say Y here.
214
215 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
216 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
217 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
218
219 config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
220 bool
221 depends on SYSVIPC
222 depends on SYSCTL
223 default y
224
225 config POSIX_MQUEUE
226 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
227 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
228 ---help---
229 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
230 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
231 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
232 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
233 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
234
235 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
236 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
237 operations on message queues.
238
239 If unsure, say Y.
240
241 config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
242 bool
243 depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
244 depends on SYSCTL
245 default y
246
247 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
248 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
249 help
250 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
251 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
252 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
253 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
254 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
255 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
256 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
257 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
258 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
259
260 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
261 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
262 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
263 default n
264 help
265 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
266 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
267 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
268 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
269 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
270 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
271
272 config TASKSTATS
273 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
274 depends on NET
275 default n
276 help
277 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
278 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
279 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
280 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
281 space on task exit.
282
283 Say N if unsure.
284
285 config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
286 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
287 depends on TASKSTATS
288 help
289 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
290 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
291 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
292 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
293
294 Say N if unsure.
295
296 config TASK_XACCT
297 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
298 depends on TASKSTATS
299 help
300 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
301 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
302
303 Say N if unsure.
304
305 config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
306 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
307 depends on TASK_XACCT
308 help
309 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
310 task has caused.
311
312 Say N if unsure.
313
314 config AUDIT
315 bool "Auditing support"
316 depends on NET
317 help
318 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
319 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
320 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
321 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
322
323 config AUDITSYSCALL
324 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
325 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
326 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
327 help
328 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
329 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
330 such as SELinux.
331
332 config AUDIT_WATCH
333 def_bool y
334 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
335 select FSNOTIFY
336
337 config AUDIT_TREE
338 def_bool y
339 depends on AUDITSYSCALL
340 select FSNOTIFY
341
342 menu "RCU Subsystem"
343
344 choice
345 prompt "RCU Implementation"
346 default TREE_RCU
347
348 config TREE_RCU
349 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
350 depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
351 help
352 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
353 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
354 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
355 smaller systems.
356
357 config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
358 bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
359 depends on PREEMPT
360 help
361 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
362 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
363 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
364 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
365 smaller systems.
366
367 config TINY_RCU
368 bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
369 depends on !SMP
370 help
371 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
372 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
373 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
374 memory footprint of RCU.
375
376 config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
377 bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU"
378 depends on !SMP && PREEMPT
379 help
380 This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed
381 for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the
382 memory footprint of RCU.
383
384 endchoice
385
386 config PREEMPT_RCU
387 def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU )
388 help
389 This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
390 the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
391
392 config RCU_TRACE
393 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
394 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
395 help
396 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
397 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
398
399 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
400 Say N if you are unsure.
401
402 config RCU_FANOUT
403 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
404 range 2 64 if 64BIT
405 range 2 32 if !64BIT
406 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
407 default 64 if 64BIT
408 default 32 if !64BIT
409 help
410 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
411 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
412 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
413 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
414 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
415 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
416 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
417 code paths on small(er) systems.
418
419 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
420 Take the default if unsure.
421
422 config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
423 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
424 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
425 default n
426 help
427 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
428 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
429 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
430 strong NUMA behavior.
431
432 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
433
434 Say N if unsure.
435
436 config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
437 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
438 depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
439 default n
440 help
441 This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
442 in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
443 more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the
444 overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
445 with large numbers of CPUs.
446
447 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
448 if you have relatively few CPUs.
449
450 Say N if you are unsure.
451
452 config TREE_RCU_TRACE
453 def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
454 select DEBUG_FS
455 help
456 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
457 TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
458 trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
459
460 endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
461
462 config IKCONFIG
463 tristate "Kernel .config support"
464 ---help---
465 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
466 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
467 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
468 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
469 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
470 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
471 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
472 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
473
474 config IKCONFIG_PROC
475 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
476 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
477 ---help---
478 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
479 through /proc/config.gz.
480
481 config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
482 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
483 range 12 21
484 default 17
485 help
486 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
487 Examples:
488 17 => 128 KB
489 16 => 64 KB
490 15 => 32 KB
491 14 => 16 KB
492 13 => 8 KB
493 12 => 4 KB
494
495 #
496 # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
497 #
498 config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
499 bool
500
501 menuconfig CGROUPS
502 boolean "Control Group support"
503 depends on EVENTFD
504 help
505 This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
506 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
507 controls or device isolation.
508 See
509 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
510 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
511 and resource control)
512
513 Say N if unsure.
514
515 if CGROUPS
516
517 config CGROUP_DEBUG
518 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
519 depends on CGROUPS
520 default n
521 help
522 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
523 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
524 framework.
525
526 Say N if unsure.
527
528 config CGROUP_NS
529 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
530 depends on CGROUPS
531 help
532 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
533 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
534 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
535 jobs.
536
537 config CGROUP_FREEZER
538 bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
539 depends on CGROUPS
540 help
541 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
542 cgroup.
543
544 config CGROUP_DEVICE
545 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
546 depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
547 help
548 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
549 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
550
551 config CPUSETS
552 bool "Cpuset support"
553 depends on CGROUPS
554 help
555 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
556 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
557 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
558 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
559
560 Say N if unsure.
561
562 config PROC_PID_CPUSET
563 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
564 depends on CPUSETS
565 default y
566
567 config CGROUP_CPUACCT
568 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
569 depends on CGROUPS
570 help
571 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
572 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
573
574 config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
575 bool "Resource counters"
576 help
577 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
578 infrastructure that works with cgroups.
579 depends on CGROUPS
580
581 config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
582 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
583 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
584 select MM_OWNER
585 help
586 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
587 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
588
589 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
590 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
591 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
592 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
593 at boot.
594
595 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
596 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
597 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
598 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
599 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
600
601 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
602 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
603
604 config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
605 bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension"
606 depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP
607 help
608 Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you
609 enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words,
610 when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to
611 usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension
612 is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself
613 adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information.
614 Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please
615 be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller
616 is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and
617 there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
618 if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
619 Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page
620 size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap.
621
622 menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
623 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
624 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS
625 default n
626 help
627 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
628 bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group
629 tasks.
630
631 if CGROUP_SCHED
632 config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
633 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
634 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
635 default CGROUP_SCHED
636
637 config RT_GROUP_SCHED
638 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
639 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
640 depends on CGROUP_SCHED
641 default n
642 help
643 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
644 to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
645 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
646 realtime bandwidth for them.
647 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
648
649 endif #CGROUP_SCHED
650
651 config BLK_CGROUP
652 tristate "Block IO controller"
653 depends on CGROUPS && BLOCK
654 default n
655 ---help---
656 Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common
657 cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling
658 policies.
659
660 Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and
661 control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation)
662 to such task groups.
663
664 This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
665 One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic in CFQ for it
666 to take effect. (CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y).
667
668 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
669
670 config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
671 bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging"
672 depends on BLK_CGROUP
673 default n
674 ---help---
675 Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat
676 files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging.
677
678 endif # CGROUPS
679
680 config MM_OWNER
681 bool
682
683 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
684 bool
685
686 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
687 bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
688 depends on SYSFS
689 default n
690 select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
691 help
692 This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
693 version. Do not use it on recent distributions.
694
695 The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
696 /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
697 class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
698 unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
699 /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
700 /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
701 "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
702 class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
703 subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
704 depend on the unified device tree.
705
706 This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
707 be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
708 layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
709 and disable some features, which can not be exported without
710 confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
711 distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
712 depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
713
714 If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
715 older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
716 if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
717 this option set to N.
718
719 config RELAY
720 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
721 help
722 This option enables support for relay interface support in
723 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
724 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
725 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
726 user space.
727
728 If unsure, say N.
729
730 config NAMESPACES
731 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
732 default !EMBEDDED
733 help
734 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
735 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
736 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
737 different namespaces.
738
739 config UTS_NS
740 bool "UTS namespace"
741 depends on NAMESPACES
742 help
743 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
744 uname() system call
745
746 config IPC_NS
747 bool "IPC namespace"
748 depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
749 help
750 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
751 different IPC objects in different namespaces.
752
753 config USER_NS
754 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
755 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
756 help
757 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
758 to provide different user info for different servers.
759 If unsure, say N.
760
761 config PID_NS
762 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
763 default n
764 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
765 help
766 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
767 processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
768 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
769
770 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
771 say N here.
772
773 config NET_NS
774 bool "Network namespace"
775 default n
776 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
777 help
778 Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
779 of the network stack.
780
781 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
782 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
783 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
784 help
785 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
786 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
787 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
788 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
789 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
790
791 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
792 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
793 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
794
795 If unsure say Y.
796
797 if BLK_DEV_INITRD
798
799 source "usr/Kconfig"
800
801 endif
802
803 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
804 bool "Optimize for size"
805 default y
806 help
807 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
808 resulting in a smaller kernel.
809
810 If unsure, say Y.
811
812 config SYSCTL
813 bool
814
815 config ANON_INODES
816 bool
817
818 menuconfig EMBEDDED
819 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
820 help
821 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
822 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
823 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
824 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
825
826 config UID16
827 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
828 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
829 default y
830 help
831 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
832
833 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
834 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
835 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
836 default y
837 select SYSCTL
838 ---help---
839 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
840 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
841 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
842 information.
843
844 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
845 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
846 making your kernel marginally smaller.
847
848 If unsure say Y here.
849
850 config KALLSYMS
851 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
852 default y
853 help
854 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
855 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
856 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
857
858 config KALLSYMS_ALL
859 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
860 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
861 help
862 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
863 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
864 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
865 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
866
867 Say N.
868
869 config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
870 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
871 depends on KALLSYMS
872 help
873 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
874 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
875 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
876 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
877 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
878 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
879
880
881 config HOTPLUG
882 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
883 default y
884 help
885 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
886 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
887 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
888 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
889
890 config PRINTK
891 default y
892 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
893 help
894 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
895 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
896 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
897 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
898 strongly discouraged.
899
900 config BUG
901 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
902 default y
903 help
904 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
905 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
906 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
907 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
908 Just say Y.
909
910 config ELF_CORE
911 default y
912 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
913 help
914 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
915
916 config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
917 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
918 depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
919 default y
920 help
921 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
922 support, saving some memory.
923
924 config BASE_FULL
925 default y
926 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
927 help
928 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
929 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
930 but may reduce performance.
931
932 config FUTEX
933 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
934 default y
935 select RT_MUTEXES
936 help
937 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
938 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
939 run glibc-based applications correctly.
940
941 config EPOLL
942 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
943 default y
944 select ANON_INODES
945 help
946 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
947 support for epoll family of system calls.
948
949 config SIGNALFD
950 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
951 select ANON_INODES
952 default y
953 help
954 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
955 on a file descriptor.
956
957 If unsure, say Y.
958
959 config TIMERFD
960 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
961 select ANON_INODES
962 default y
963 help
964 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
965 events on a file descriptor.
966
967 If unsure, say Y.
968
969 config EVENTFD
970 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
971 select ANON_INODES
972 default y
973 help
974 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
975 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
976
977 If unsure, say Y.
978
979 config SHMEM
980 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
981 default y
982 depends on MMU
983 help
984 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
985 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
986 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
987 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
988 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
989
990 config AIO
991 bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
992 default y
993 help
994 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
995 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
996 this option saves about 7k.
997
998 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
999 bool
1000 help
1001 See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
1002
1003 config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1004 bool
1005 help
1006 See tools/perf/design.txt for details
1007
1008 menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
1009
1010 config PERF_EVENTS
1011 bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
1012 default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
1013 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1014 select ANON_INODES
1015 select IRQ_WORK
1016 help
1017 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
1018 by software and hardware.
1019
1020 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
1021 use of generic tracepoints.
1022
1023 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
1024 counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
1025 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
1026 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
1027 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
1028 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
1029 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
1030
1031 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
1032 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
1033 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
1034 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
1035 capabilities on top of those.
1036
1037 Say Y if unsure.
1038
1039 config PERF_COUNTERS
1040 bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
1041 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
1042 help
1043 This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
1044 config option - please see that one for details.
1045
1046 It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
1047 it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
1048
1049 Say N if unsure.
1050
1051 config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1052 default n
1053 bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
1054 depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
1055 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
1056 help
1057 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
1058
1059 Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
1060 that don't require it.
1061
1062 Say N if unsure.
1063
1064 endmenu
1065
1066 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
1067 default y
1068 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
1069 help
1070 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
1071 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
1072 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
1073 if VM event counters are disabled.
1074
1075 config PCI_QUIRKS
1076 default y
1077 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
1078 depends on PCI
1079 help
1080 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
1081 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
1082 unaffected by PCI quirks.
1083
1084 config SLUB_DEBUG
1085 default y
1086 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
1087 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
1088 help
1089 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
1090 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
1091 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
1092 no support for cache validation etc.
1093
1094 config COMPAT_BRK
1095 bool "Disable heap randomization"
1096 default y
1097 help
1098 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
1099 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
1100 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
1101 disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
1102 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
1103
1104 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
1105
1106 choice
1107 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
1108 default SLUB
1109 help
1110 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
1111
1112 config SLAB
1113 bool "SLAB"
1114 help
1115 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
1116 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
1117 per cpu and per node queues.
1118
1119 config SLUB
1120 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
1121 help
1122 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
1123 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
1124 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
1125 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
1126 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
1127 a slab allocator.
1128
1129 config SLOB
1130 depends on EMBEDDED
1131 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
1132 help
1133 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
1134 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
1135 does not perform as well on large systems.
1136
1137 endchoice
1138
1139 config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
1140 bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
1141 depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
1142 default n
1143 help
1144 Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
1145 from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
1146 userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
1147 mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
1148 providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
1149 then the flag will be ignored.
1150
1151 This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
1152 ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
1153
1154 Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
1155 enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
1156 userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
1157 it is normally safe to say Y here.
1158
1159 See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
1160
1161 config PROFILING
1162 bool "Profiling support"
1163 help
1164 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
1165 by profilers such as OProfile.
1166
1167 #
1168 # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
1169 # dynamically changed for a probe function.
1170 #
1171 config TRACEPOINTS
1172 bool
1173
1174 source "arch/Kconfig"
1175
1176 endmenu # General setup
1177
1178 config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
1179 bool
1180 default n
1181
1182 config SLABINFO
1183 bool
1184 depends on PROC_FS
1185 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
1186 default y
1187
1188 config RT_MUTEXES
1189 boolean
1190
1191 config BASE_SMALL
1192 int
1193 default 0 if BASE_FULL
1194 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
1195
1196 menuconfig MODULES
1197 bool "Enable loadable module support"
1198 help
1199 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
1200 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
1201 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
1202 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
1203 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
1204 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
1205 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
1206 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
1207 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
1208
1209 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
1210 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
1211 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
1212 this).
1213
1214 If unsure, say Y.
1215
1216 if MODULES
1217
1218 config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
1219 bool "Forced module loading"
1220 default n
1221 help
1222 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
1223 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
1224 is usually a really bad idea.
1225
1226 config MODULE_UNLOAD
1227 bool "Module unloading"
1228 help
1229 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
1230 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
1231 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
1232 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
1233
1234 config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
1235 bool "Forced module unloading"
1236 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
1237 help
1238 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
1239 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
1240 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
1241 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
1242 If unsure, say N.
1243
1244 config MODVERSIONS
1245 bool "Module versioning support"
1246 help
1247 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
1248 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
1249 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
1250 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
1251 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
1252 unsure, say N.
1253
1254 config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
1255 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
1256 help
1257 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
1258 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
1259 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
1260 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
1261 others sometimes change the module source without updating
1262 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
1263 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
1264
1265 endif # MODULES
1266
1267 config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
1268 bool
1269 help
1270 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
1271 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
1272 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
1273 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
1274 and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
1275
1276 config STOP_MACHINE
1277 bool
1278 default y
1279 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
1280 help
1281 Need stop_machine() primitive.
1282
1283 source "block/Kconfig"
1284
1285 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
1286 bool
1287
1288 config PADATA
1289 depends on SMP
1290 bool
1291
1292 source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
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