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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 | ||
ff0cfc66 | 19 | menu "General setup" |
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20 | |
21 | config EXPERIMENTAL | |
22 | bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" | |
23 | ---help--- | |
24 | Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network | |
25 | drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state | |
26 | of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of | |
27 | testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually | |
28 | known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is | |
29 | currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage | |
30 | uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to | |
31 | avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active | |
32 | testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it | |
33 | may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work | |
34 | in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar | |
35 | with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers | |
36 | (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents | |
37 | <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, | |
38 | <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and | |
39 | <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). | |
40 | ||
41 | This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are | |
42 | drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are | |
43 | scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. | |
44 | ||
45 | Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that | |
46 | falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires | |
47 | using these features, you should probably say N here, which will | |
48 | cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If | |
49 | you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or | |
50 | drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. | |
51 | ||
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52 | config BROKEN |
53 | bool | |
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54 | |
55 | config BROKEN_ON_SMP | |
56 | bool | |
57 | depends on BROKEN || !SMP | |
58 | default y | |
59 | ||
60 | config LOCK_KERNEL | |
61 | bool | |
62 | depends on SMP || PREEMPT | |
63 | default y | |
64 | ||
65 | config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT | |
66 | int | |
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67 | default 32 if !UML |
68 | default 128 if UML | |
1da177e4 | 69 | help |
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70 | Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment |
71 | variables passed to init from the kernel command line. | |
1da177e4 | 72 | |
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73 | |
74 | config LOCALVERSION | |
75 | string "Local version - append to kernel release" | |
76 | help | |
77 | Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. | |
78 | This will show up when you type uname, for example. | |
79 | The string you set here will be appended after the contents of | |
80 | any files with a filename matching localversion* in your | |
81 | object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can | |
82 | be a maximum of 64 characters. | |
83 | ||
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84 | config LOCALVERSION_AUTO |
85 | bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" | |
86 | default y | |
87 | help | |
88 | This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a | |
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89 | release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current |
90 | top of tree revision. | |
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91 | |
92 | A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion | |
6e5a5420 | 93 | if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be |
aaebf433 | 94 | appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value |
6e5a5420 | 95 | set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. |
aaebf433 | 96 | |
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97 | (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced |
98 | by running the command: | |
99 | ||
100 | $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD | |
101 | ||
102 | which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) | |
aaebf433 | 103 | |
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104 | config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP |
105 | bool | |
106 | ||
107 | config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 | |
108 | bool | |
109 | ||
110 | config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA | |
111 | bool | |
112 | ||
30d65dbf | 113 | choice |
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114 | prompt "Kernel compression mode" |
115 | default KERNEL_GZIP | |
116 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA | |
117 | help | |
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118 | The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. |
119 | Several compression algorithms are available, which differ | |
120 | in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. | |
121 | Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. | |
122 | Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. | |
123 | ||
124 | If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed | |
125 | kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older | |
126 | version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was | |
127 | supplied by Christian Ludwig) | |
128 | ||
129 | High compression options are mostly useful for users, who | |
130 | are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram | |
131 | size matters less. | |
132 | ||
133 | If in doubt, select 'gzip' | |
134 | ||
135 | config KERNEL_GZIP | |
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136 | bool "Gzip" |
137 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP | |
138 | help | |
139 | The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is | |
140 | the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both | |
141 | compression and decompression) is the fastest. | |
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142 | |
143 | config KERNEL_BZIP2 | |
144 | bool "Bzip2" | |
2e9f3bdd | 145 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 |
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146 | help |
147 | Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. | |
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148 | Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel |
149 | size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. | |
150 | Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you | |
151 | will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. | |
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152 | |
153 | config KERNEL_LZMA | |
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154 | bool "LZMA" |
155 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA | |
156 | help | |
157 | The most recent compression algorithm. | |
158 | Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other | |
159 | two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% | |
160 | smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. | |
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161 | |
162 | endchoice | |
163 | ||
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164 | config SWAP |
165 | bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" | |
9361401e | 166 | depends on MMU && BLOCK |
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167 | default y |
168 | help | |
169 | This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support | |
92c3504e | 170 | for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are |
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171 | used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present |
172 | in your computer. If unsure say Y. | |
173 | ||
174 | config SYSVIPC | |
175 | bool "System V IPC" | |
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176 | ---help--- |
177 | Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and | |
178 | system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and | |
179 | exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, | |
180 | and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if | |
181 | you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the | |
182 | DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), | |
183 | you'll need to say Y here. | |
184 | ||
185 | You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in | |
186 | section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from | |
187 | <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. | |
188 | ||
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189 | config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL |
190 | bool | |
191 | depends on SYSVIPC | |
192 | depends on SYSCTL | |
193 | default y | |
194 | ||
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195 | config POSIX_MQUEUE |
196 | bool "POSIX Message Queues" | |
197 | depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL | |
198 | ---help--- | |
199 | POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message | |
200 | queues every message has a priority which decides about succession | |
201 | of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run | |
202 | programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message | |
b0e37650 | 203 | queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. |
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204 | |
205 | POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' | |
206 | and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem | |
207 | operations on message queues. | |
208 | ||
209 | If unsure, say Y. | |
210 | ||
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211 | config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL |
212 | bool | |
213 | depends on POSIX_MQUEUE | |
214 | depends on SYSCTL | |
215 | default y | |
216 | ||
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217 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT |
218 | bool "BSD Process Accounting" | |
219 | help | |
220 | If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the | |
221 | kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting | |
222 | information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about | |
223 | that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The | |
224 | information includes things such as creation time, owning user, | |
225 | command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete | |
226 | list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is | |
227 | up to the user level program to do useful things with this | |
228 | information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. | |
229 | ||
230 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 | |
231 | bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" | |
232 | depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT | |
233 | default n | |
234 | help | |
235 | If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written | |
236 | in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each | |
237 | process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible | |
238 | with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools | |
239 | for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available | |
37a4c940 | 240 | at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. |
1da177e4 | 241 | |
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242 | config TASKSTATS |
243 | bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
244 | depends on NET | |
245 | default n | |
246 | help | |
247 | Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the | |
248 | generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the | |
249 | statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as | |
250 | responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user | |
251 | space on task exit. | |
252 | ||
253 | Say N if unsure. | |
254 | ||
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255 | config TASK_DELAY_ACCT |
256 | bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
6f44993f | 257 | depends on TASKSTATS |
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258 | help |
259 | Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system | |
260 | resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping | |
261 | in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities | |
262 | relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. | |
263 | ||
264 | Say N if unsure. | |
265 | ||
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266 | config TASK_XACCT |
267 | bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
268 | depends on TASKSTATS | |
269 | help | |
270 | Collect extended task accounting data and send the data | |
271 | to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. | |
272 | ||
273 | Say N if unsure. | |
274 | ||
275 | config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING | |
276 | bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
277 | depends on TASK_XACCT | |
278 | help | |
279 | Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this | |
280 | task has caused. | |
281 | ||
282 | Say N if unsure. | |
283 | ||
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284 | config AUDIT |
285 | bool "Auditing support" | |
804a6a49 | 286 | depends on NET |
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287 | help |
288 | Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another | |
289 | kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for | |
290 | logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call | |
291 | auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. | |
292 | ||
293 | config AUDITSYSCALL | |
294 | bool "Enable system-call auditing support" | |
1322b9de | 295 | depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH) |
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296 | default y if SECURITY_SELINUX |
297 | help | |
298 | Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that | |
299 | can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, | |
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300 | such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please |
301 | ensure that INOTIFY is configured. | |
1da177e4 | 302 | |
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303 | config AUDIT_TREE |
304 | def_bool y | |
305 | depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY | |
306 | ||
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307 | menu "RCU Subsystem" |
308 | ||
309 | choice | |
310 | prompt "RCU Implementation" | |
311 | default CLASSIC_RCU | |
312 | ||
313 | config CLASSIC_RCU | |
314 | bool "Classic RCU" | |
315 | help | |
316 | This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is | |
317 | designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime | |
318 | systems. | |
319 | ||
320 | Select this option if you are unsure. | |
321 | ||
322 | config TREE_RCU | |
323 | bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" | |
324 | help | |
325 | This option selects the RCU implementation that is | |
326 | designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or | |
327 | thousands of CPUs. | |
328 | ||
329 | config PREEMPT_RCU | |
330 | bool "Preemptible RCU" | |
331 | depends on PREEMPT | |
332 | help | |
333 | This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain | |
334 | RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if | |
335 | this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become | |
336 | preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to | |
337 | now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section | |
338 | remaining on a given CPU through its execution. | |
339 | ||
340 | endchoice | |
341 | ||
342 | config RCU_TRACE | |
343 | bool "Enable tracing for RCU" | |
344 | depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU | |
345 | help | |
346 | This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats | |
347 | in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. | |
348 | ||
349 | Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing | |
350 | Say N if you are unsure. | |
351 | ||
352 | config RCU_FANOUT | |
353 | int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" | |
354 | range 2 64 if 64BIT | |
355 | range 2 32 if !64BIT | |
356 | depends on TREE_RCU | |
357 | default 64 if 64BIT | |
358 | default 32 if !64BIT | |
359 | help | |
360 | This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations | |
361 | of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with | |
362 | large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube | |
363 | root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit | |
364 | systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. | |
365 | ||
366 | Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. | |
367 | Take the default if unsure. | |
368 | ||
369 | config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT | |
370 | bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" | |
371 | depends on TREE_RCU | |
372 | default n | |
373 | help | |
374 | This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, | |
375 | regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for | |
376 | testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with | |
377 | strong NUMA behavior. | |
378 | ||
379 | Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. | |
380 | ||
381 | Say N if unsure. | |
382 | ||
383 | config TREE_RCU_TRACE | |
384 | def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU | |
385 | select DEBUG_FS | |
386 | help | |
387 | This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation, | |
388 | permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. | |
389 | ||
390 | config PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE | |
391 | def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU | |
392 | select DEBUG_FS | |
393 | help | |
394 | This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation, | |
395 | permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c. | |
396 | ||
397 | endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" | |
398 | ||
1da177e4 | 399 | config IKCONFIG |
f2443ab6 | 400 | tristate "Kernel .config support" |
1da177e4 LT |
401 | ---help--- |
402 | This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file | |
403 | contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation | |
404 | of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an | |
405 | on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel | |
406 | image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as | |
407 | input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. | |
408 | It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading | |
409 | /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). | |
410 | ||
411 | config IKCONFIG_PROC | |
412 | bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" | |
413 | depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS | |
414 | ---help--- | |
415 | This option enables access to the kernel configuration file | |
416 | through /proc/config.gz. | |
417 | ||
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418 | config LOG_BUF_SHIFT |
419 | int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" | |
420 | range 12 21 | |
f17a32e9 | 421 | default 17 |
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422 | help |
423 | Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. | |
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424 | Examples: |
425 | 17 => 128 KB | |
426 | 16 => 64 KB | |
427 | 15 => 32 KB | |
428 | 14 => 16 KB | |
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429 | 13 => 8 KB |
430 | 12 => 4 KB | |
431 | ||
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432 | # |
433 | # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: | |
434 | # | |
435 | config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK | |
436 | bool | |
437 | ||
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438 | config GROUP_SCHED |
439 | bool "Group CPU scheduler" | |
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440 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
441 | default n | |
29f59db3 | 442 | help |
fb615581 | 443 | This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU |
9b5b7751 | 444 | bandwidth allocation to such task groups. |
5cdc38f9 KH |
445 | In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use |
446 | CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) | |
29f59db3 | 447 | |
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448 | config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED |
449 | bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" | |
450 | depends on GROUP_SCHED | |
aac6abca | 451 | default GROUP_SCHED |
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452 | |
453 | config RT_GROUP_SCHED | |
454 | bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" | |
455 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | |
456 | depends on GROUP_SCHED | |
457 | default n | |
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458 | help |
459 | This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth | |
460 | to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" | |
461 | setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to | |
462 | schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate | |
463 | realtime bandwidth for them. | |
2fe401e3 | 464 | See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. |
052f1dc7 | 465 | |
24e377a8 | 466 | choice |
052f1dc7 | 467 | depends on GROUP_SCHED |
24e377a8 | 468 | prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" |
052f1dc7 | 469 | default USER_SCHED |
24e377a8 | 470 | |
052f1dc7 | 471 | config USER_SCHED |
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472 | bool "user id" |
473 | help | |
474 | This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping | |
475 | tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. | |
24e377a8 | 476 | |
052f1dc7 | 477 | config CGROUP_SCHED |
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478 | bool "Control groups" |
479 | depends on CGROUPS | |
480 | help | |
481 | This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups | |
482 | using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control | |
483 | the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. | |
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484 | Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more |
485 | information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. | |
68318b8e | 486 | |
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487 | endchoice |
488 | ||
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489 | menuconfig CGROUPS |
490 | boolean "Control Group support" | |
5cdc38f9 | 491 | help |
23964d2d | 492 | This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for |
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493 | use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory |
494 | controls or device isolation. | |
495 | See | |
5cdc38f9 | 496 | - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) |
45ce80fb LZ |
497 | - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation |
498 | and resource control) | |
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499 | |
500 | Say N if unsure. | |
501 | ||
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502 | if CGROUPS |
503 | ||
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504 | config CGROUP_DEBUG |
505 | bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" | |
506 | depends on CGROUPS | |
507 | default n | |
508 | help | |
509 | This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that | |
510 | exports useful debugging information about the cgroups | |
23964d2d | 511 | framework. |
5cdc38f9 | 512 | |
23964d2d | 513 | Say N if unsure. |
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514 | |
515 | config CGROUP_NS | |
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516 | bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" |
517 | depends on CGROUPS | |
518 | help | |
519 | Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to | |
520 | provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, | |
521 | for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart | |
522 | jobs. | |
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523 | |
524 | config CGROUP_FREEZER | |
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525 | bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" |
526 | depends on CGROUPS | |
527 | help | |
528 | Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a | |
5cdc38f9 KH |
529 | cgroup. |
530 | ||
531 | config CGROUP_DEVICE | |
532 | bool "Device controller for cgroups" | |
533 | depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL | |
534 | help | |
535 | Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which | |
536 | a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. | |
537 | ||
538 | config CPUSETS | |
539 | bool "Cpuset support" | |
db7f47cf | 540 | depends on CGROUPS |
5cdc38f9 KH |
541 | help |
542 | This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which | |
543 | allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and | |
544 | Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. | |
545 | This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. | |
546 | ||
547 | Say N if unsure. | |
548 | ||
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549 | config PROC_PID_CPUSET |
550 | bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" | |
551 | depends on CPUSETS | |
552 | default y | |
553 | ||
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554 | config CGROUP_CPUACCT |
555 | bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" | |
556 | depends on CGROUPS | |
557 | help | |
558 | Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the | |
23964d2d | 559 | total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. |
d842de87 | 560 | |
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561 | config RESOURCE_COUNTERS |
562 | bool "Resource counters" | |
563 | help | |
564 | This option enables controller independent resource accounting | |
23964d2d | 565 | infrastructure that works with cgroups. |
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566 | depends on CGROUPS |
567 | ||
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568 | config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR |
569 | bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" | |
570 | depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS | |
cf475ad2 | 571 | select MM_OWNER |
00f0b825 | 572 | help |
84ad6d70 | 573 | Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous |
21acb9ca | 574 | memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) |
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575 | |
576 | Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead | |
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577 | associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, |
578 | 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory | |
579 | usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out | |
580 | at boot. | |
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581 | |
582 | Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really | |
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583 | sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable |
584 | this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to | |
585 | disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. | |
c9d5409f | 586 | (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) |
00f0b825 | 587 | |
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588 | This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which |
589 | could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. | |
590 | ||
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591 | config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP |
592 | bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
593 | depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL | |
594 | help | |
595 | Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you | |
596 | enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, | |
597 | when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to | |
598 | usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension | |
599 | is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself | |
600 | adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. | |
601 | Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please | |
602 | be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller | |
603 | is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and | |
604 | there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, | |
605 | if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. | |
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606 | Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page |
607 | size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. | |
c077719b | 608 | |
23964d2d | 609 | endif # CGROUPS |
c077719b | 610 | |
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611 | config MM_OWNER |
612 | bool | |
5cdc38f9 | 613 | |
88a22c98 | 614 | config SYSFS_DEPRECATED |
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615 | bool |
616 | ||
617 | config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 | |
fce3e804 | 618 | bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools" |
9148fe87 | 619 | depends on SYSFS |
88a22c98 | 620 | default y |
d47846c5 | 621 | select SYSFS_DEPRECATED |
88a22c98 | 622 | help |
fce3e804 KS |
623 | This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated |
624 | version. | |
625 | ||
626 | The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at | |
627 | /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between | |
628 | class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the | |
629 | unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at | |
630 | /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at | |
631 | /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by | |
632 | "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" | |
633 | class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some | |
634 | subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which | |
635 | depend on the unified device tree. | |
636 | ||
637 | This option is not a pure compatibility option that can | |
638 | be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the | |
639 | layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, | |
640 | and disable some features, which can not be exported without | |
641 | confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major | |
642 | distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which | |
643 | depend on the deprecated layout or this option. | |
644 | ||
645 | If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use | |
646 | older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, | |
647 | if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has | |
648 | this option set to N. | |
88a22c98 | 649 | |
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650 | config RELAY |
651 | bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" | |
652 | help | |
653 | This option enables support for relay interface support in | |
654 | certain file systems (such as debugfs). | |
655 | It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and | |
656 | facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to | |
657 | user space. | |
658 | ||
659 | If unsure, say N. | |
660 | ||
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661 | config NAMESPACES |
662 | bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED | |
663 | default !EMBEDDED | |
664 | help | |
665 | Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using | |
666 | the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects | |
667 | or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in | |
668 | different namespaces. | |
669 | ||
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670 | config UTS_NS |
671 | bool "UTS namespace" | |
672 | depends on NAMESPACES | |
673 | help | |
674 | In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the | |
675 | uname() system call | |
676 | ||
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677 | config IPC_NS |
678 | bool "IPC namespace" | |
614b84cf | 679 | depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) |
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680 | help |
681 | In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to | |
614b84cf | 682 | different IPC objects in different namespaces. |
ae5e1b22 | 683 | |
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684 | config USER_NS |
685 | bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
686 | depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL | |
687 | help | |
688 | This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces | |
689 | to provide different user info for different servers. | |
690 | If unsure, say N. | |
691 | ||
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692 | config PID_NS |
693 | bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
694 | default n | |
695 | depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL | |
696 | help | |
12d2b8f9 | 697 | Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple |
692105b8 | 698 | processes with the same pid as long as they are in different |
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699 | pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. |
700 | ||
701 | Unless you want to work with an experimental feature | |
702 | say N here. | |
703 | ||
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704 | config NET_NS |
705 | bool "Network namespace" | |
706 | default n | |
707 | depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET | |
708 | help | |
709 | Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances | |
710 | of the network stack. | |
711 | ||
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712 | config BLK_DEV_INITRD |
713 | bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" | |
714 | depends on BROKEN || !FRV | |
715 | help | |
716 | The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the | |
717 | boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root | |
718 | before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to | |
719 | load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, | |
720 | etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. | |
721 | ||
722 | If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this | |
723 | also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds | |
724 | 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. | |
725 | ||
726 | If unsure say Y. | |
727 | ||
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728 | if BLK_DEV_INITRD |
729 | ||
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730 | source "usr/Kconfig" |
731 | ||
c33df4ea JPS |
732 | endif |
733 | ||
c45b4f1f | 734 | config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE |
96fffeb4 | 735 | bool "Optimize for size" |
c45b4f1f | 736 | default y |
c45b4f1f LT |
737 | help |
738 | Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc | |
739 | resulting in a smaller kernel. | |
740 | ||
775a7229 | 741 | If unsure, say Y. |
c45b4f1f | 742 | |
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743 | config SYSCTL |
744 | bool | |
745 | ||
b943c460 RD |
746 | config ANON_INODES |
747 | bool | |
748 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
749 | menuconfig EMBEDDED |
750 | bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" | |
751 | help | |
752 | This option allows certain base kernel options and settings | |
753 | to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized | |
754 | environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. | |
755 | Only use this if you really know what you are doing. | |
756 | ||
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757 | config UID16 |
758 | bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED | |
09337f50 | 759 | depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) |
ae81f9e3 CE |
760 | default y |
761 | help | |
762 | This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. | |
763 | ||
b89a8171 | 764 | config SYSCTL_SYSCALL |
0847062a | 765 | bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED |
13bb7e37 | 766 | default y |
b89a8171 | 767 | select SYSCTL |
ae81f9e3 | 768 | ---help--- |
13bb7e37 EB |
769 | sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging |
770 | to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys | |
771 | using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this | |
772 | information. | |
b89a8171 | 773 | |
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774 | Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are |
775 | trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, | |
776 | making your kernel marginally smaller. | |
b89a8171 | 777 | |
13bb7e37 | 778 | If unsure say Y here. |
ae81f9e3 | 779 | |
1da177e4 | 780 | config KALLSYMS |
979c6a1e | 781 | bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED |
1da177e4 LT |
782 | default y |
783 | help | |
784 | Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and | |
785 | symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel | |
786 | somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. | |
787 | ||
788 | config KALLSYMS_ALL | |
789 | bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" | |
790 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS | |
791 | help | |
792 | Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer | |
793 | OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other | |
f9f97bc0 JJ |
794 | symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them |
795 | and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. | |
1da177e4 LT |
796 | |
797 | Say N. | |
798 | ||
799 | config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS | |
800 | bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" | |
801 | depends on KALLSYMS | |
802 | help | |
803 | If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with | |
804 | inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and | |
805 | turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. | |
806 | Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be | |
807 | reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while | |
808 | you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. | |
809 | ||
d59745ce | 810 | |
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811 | config STRIP_ASM_SYMS |
812 | bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" | |
813 | default n | |
814 | help | |
815 | Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols | |
816 | that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of | |
817 | get_wchan() and suchlike. | |
818 | ||
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819 | config HOTPLUG |
820 | bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED | |
821 | default y | |
822 | help | |
823 | This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent | |
824 | capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider | |
825 | disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a | |
826 | dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. | |
827 | ||
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828 | config PRINTK |
829 | default y | |
830 | bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED | |
831 | help | |
832 | This option enables normal printk support. Removing it | |
833 | eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image | |
834 | and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it | |
835 | very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is | |
836 | strongly discouraged. | |
837 | ||
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838 | config BUG |
839 | bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED | |
840 | default y | |
841 | help | |
842 | Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing | |
843 | the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring | |
844 | numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this | |
845 | option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. | |
846 | Just say Y. | |
847 | ||
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848 | config ELF_CORE |
849 | default y | |
850 | bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED | |
851 | help | |
852 | Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. | |
853 | ||
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854 | config PCSPKR_PLATFORM |
855 | bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED | |
856 | depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES | |
857 | default y | |
858 | help | |
859 | This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker | |
860 | support, saving some memory. | |
861 | ||
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862 | config BASE_FULL |
863 | default y | |
864 | bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED | |
865 | help | |
866 | Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core | |
867 | kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, | |
868 | but may reduce performance. | |
869 | ||
870 | config FUTEX | |
871 | bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED | |
872 | default y | |
23f78d4a | 873 | select RT_MUTEXES |
1da177e4 LT |
874 | help |
875 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | |
876 | support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not | |
877 | run glibc-based applications correctly. | |
878 | ||
879 | config EPOLL | |
880 | bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED | |
881 | default y | |
448e3cee | 882 | select ANON_INODES |
1da177e4 LT |
883 | help |
884 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | |
885 | support for epoll family of system calls. | |
886 | ||
fba2afaa DL |
887 | config SIGNALFD |
888 | bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED | |
448e3cee | 889 | select ANON_INODES |
fba2afaa DL |
890 | default y |
891 | help | |
892 | Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals | |
893 | on a file descriptor. | |
894 | ||
895 | If unsure, say Y. | |
896 | ||
b215e283 DL |
897 | config TIMERFD |
898 | bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED | |
448e3cee | 899 | select ANON_INODES |
b215e283 DL |
900 | default y |
901 | help | |
902 | Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer | |
903 | events on a file descriptor. | |
904 | ||
905 | If unsure, say Y. | |
906 | ||
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907 | config EVENTFD |
908 | bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED | |
448e3cee | 909 | select ANON_INODES |
e1ad7468 DL |
910 | default y |
911 | help | |
912 | Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both | |
913 | kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. | |
914 | ||
915 | If unsure, say Y. | |
916 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
917 | config SHMEM |
918 | bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED | |
919 | default y | |
920 | depends on MMU | |
921 | help | |
922 | The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. | |
923 | It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported | |
924 | to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this | |
925 | option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, | |
926 | which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. | |
927 | ||
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928 | config AIO |
929 | bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED | |
930 | default y | |
931 | help | |
932 | This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used | |
933 | by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling | |
934 | this option saves about 7k. | |
935 | ||
f8891e5e CL |
936 | config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS |
937 | default y | |
938 | bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED | |
939 | help | |
2aea4fb6 PJ |
940 | VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. |
941 | This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters | |
942 | on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts | |
943 | if VM event counters are disabled. | |
f8891e5e | 944 | |
3d137310 TP |
945 | config PCI_QUIRKS |
946 | default y | |
61cfc7e4 GU |
947 | bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED |
948 | depends on PCI | |
3d137310 TP |
949 | help |
950 | This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset | |
951 | bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is | |
952 | unaffected by PCI quirks. | |
953 | ||
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954 | config SLUB_DEBUG |
955 | default y | |
956 | bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED | |
f6acb635 | 957 | depends on SLUB && SYSFS |
41ecc55b CL |
958 | help |
959 | SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can | |
960 | result in significant savings in code size. This also disables | |
961 | SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be | |
962 | no support for cache validation etc. | |
963 | ||
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964 | config COMPAT_BRK |
965 | bool "Disable heap randomization" | |
966 | default y | |
967 | help | |
968 | Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it | |
969 | also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). | |
970 | This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization | |
692105b8 | 971 | disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting |
b943c460 RD |
972 | /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. |
973 | ||
974 | On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. | |
975 | ||
81819f0f CL |
976 | choice |
977 | prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" | |
a0acd820 | 978 | default SLUB |
81819f0f CL |
979 | help |
980 | This option allows to select a slab allocator. | |
981 | ||
982 | config SLAB | |
983 | bool "SLAB" | |
984 | help | |
985 | The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work | |
34013886 | 986 | well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in |
02f56210 | 987 | per cpu and per node queues. |
81819f0f CL |
988 | |
989 | config SLUB | |
81819f0f CL |
990 | bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" |
991 | help | |
992 | SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage | |
993 | instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). | |
994 | Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead | |
995 | of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently | |
02f56210 SA |
996 | and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for |
997 | a slab allocator. | |
81819f0f CL |
998 | |
999 | config SLOB | |
84a01c2f | 1000 | depends on EMBEDDED |
81819f0f CL |
1001 | bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" |
1002 | help | |
37291458 MM |
1003 | SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler |
1004 | allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but | |
1005 | does not perform as well on large systems. | |
81819f0f CL |
1006 | |
1007 | endchoice | |
1008 | ||
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1009 | config PROFILING |
1010 | bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
1011 | help | |
1012 | Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used | |
1013 | by profilers such as OProfile. | |
1014 | ||
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1015 | # |
1016 | # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be | |
1017 | # dynamically changed for a probe function. | |
1018 | # | |
97e1c18e | 1019 | config TRACEPOINTS |
5f87f112 | 1020 | bool |
97e1c18e | 1021 | |
125e5645 MD |
1022 | config MARKERS |
1023 | bool "Activate markers" | |
91f73f90 | 1024 | select TRACEPOINTS |
125e5645 MD |
1025 | help |
1026 | Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be | |
1027 | dynamically changed for a probe function. | |
1028 | ||
fb32e03f MD |
1029 | source "arch/Kconfig" |
1030 | ||
07fe7cb7 DH |
1031 | config SLOW_WORK |
1032 | default n | |
1c2d008c | 1033 | bool |
07fe7cb7 DH |
1034 | help |
1035 | The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated | |
1036 | threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that | |
1037 | take a relatively long time. | |
1038 | ||
1039 | An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed | |
1040 | by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch | |
1041 | disk. | |
1042 | ||
1c2d008c DH |
1043 | See Documentation/slow-work.txt. |
1044 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1045 | endmenu # General setup |
1046 | ||
ee7e5516 DB |
1047 | config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT |
1048 | bool | |
1049 | default n | |
1050 | ||
158a9624 LT |
1051 | config SLABINFO |
1052 | bool | |
1053 | depends on PROC_FS | |
0f389ec6 | 1054 | depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG |
158a9624 LT |
1055 | default y |
1056 | ||
ae81f9e3 CE |
1057 | config RT_MUTEXES |
1058 | boolean | |
ae81f9e3 | 1059 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1060 | config BASE_SMALL |
1061 | int | |
1062 | default 0 if BASE_FULL | |
1063 | default 1 if !BASE_FULL | |
1064 | ||
66da5733 | 1065 | menuconfig MODULES |
1da177e4 LT |
1066 | bool "Enable loadable module support" |
1067 | help | |
1068 | Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can | |
1069 | be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being | |
1070 | permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" | |
1071 | tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, | |
1072 | many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by | |
1073 | answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most | |
1074 | useful for infrequently used options which are not required | |
1075 | for booting. For more information, see the man pages for | |
1076 | modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. | |
1077 | ||
1078 | If you say Y here, you will need to run "make | |
1079 | modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ | |
1080 | where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do | |
1081 | this). | |
1082 | ||
1083 | If unsure, say Y. | |
1084 | ||
0b0de144 RD |
1085 | if MODULES |
1086 | ||
826e4506 LT |
1087 | config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD |
1088 | bool "Forced module loading" | |
826e4506 LT |
1089 | default n |
1090 | help | |
91e37a79 RR |
1091 | Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe |
1092 | --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and | |
1093 | is usually a really bad idea. | |
826e4506 | 1094 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1095 | config MODULE_UNLOAD |
1096 | bool "Module unloading" | |
1da177e4 LT |
1097 | help |
1098 | Without this option you will not be able to unload any | |
1099 | modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable | |
f7f5b675 DV |
1100 | anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster |
1101 | and simpler. If unsure, say Y. | |
1da177e4 LT |
1102 | |
1103 | config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD | |
1104 | bool "Forced module unloading" | |
1105 | depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL | |
1106 | help | |
1107 | This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the | |
1108 | kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module | |
1109 | without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to | |
1110 | rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. | |
1111 | If unsure, say N. | |
1112 | ||
1da177e4 | 1113 | config MODVERSIONS |
0d541643 | 1114 | bool "Module versioning support" |
1da177e4 LT |
1115 | help |
1116 | Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. | |
1117 | Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules | |
1118 | compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information | |
1119 | to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would | |
1120 | make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If | |
1121 | unsure, say N. | |
1122 | ||
1123 | config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL | |
1124 | bool "Source checksum for all modules" | |
1da177e4 LT |
1125 | help |
1126 | Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" | |
1127 | field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a | |
1128 | sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers | |
1129 | see exactly which source was used to build a module (since | |
1130 | others sometimes change the module source without updating | |
1131 | the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field | |
1132 | will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. | |
1133 | ||
0b0de144 RD |
1134 | endif # MODULES |
1135 | ||
98a79d6a RR |
1136 | config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE |
1137 | bool | |
1138 | help | |
1139 | Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and | |
1140 | cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map | |
1141 | with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, | |
1142 | it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs | |
692105b8 | 1143 | and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. |
98a79d6a | 1144 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1145 | config STOP_MACHINE |
1146 | bool | |
1147 | default y | |
1148 | depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU | |
1149 | help | |
1150 | Need stop_machine() primitive. | |
3a65dfe8 | 1151 | |
3a65dfe8 | 1152 | source "block/Kconfig" |
e98c3202 AK |
1153 | |
1154 | config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS | |
1155 | bool | |
e260be67 | 1156 |