7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
16 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
21 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
23 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
24 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
25 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
26 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
27 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
28 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
29 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
30 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
31 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
32 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
33 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
34 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
35 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
36 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
37 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
38 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
40 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
41 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
42 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
44 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
45 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
46 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
47 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
48 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
49 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
56 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
61 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
64 config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
69 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
70 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
74 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
76 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
77 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
78 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
79 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
80 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
81 be a maximum of 64 characters.
83 config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
84 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
87 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
88 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
91 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
92 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
93 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
94 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
96 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
97 by running the command:
99 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
101 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
104 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
105 depends on MMU && BLOCK
108 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
109 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
110 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
111 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
116 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
117 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
118 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
119 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
120 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
121 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
122 you'll need to say Y here.
124 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
125 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
126 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
128 config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
135 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
136 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
138 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
139 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
140 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
141 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
142 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
144 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
145 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
146 operations on message queues.
150 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
151 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
153 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
154 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
155 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
156 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
157 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
158 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
159 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
160 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
161 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
163 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
164 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
165 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
168 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
169 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
170 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
171 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
172 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
173 at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
176 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
180 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
181 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
182 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
183 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
188 config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
189 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
192 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
193 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
194 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
195 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
200 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
203 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
204 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
208 config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
209 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
210 depends on TASK_XACCT
212 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
218 bool "Auditing support"
221 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
222 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
223 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
224 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
227 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
228 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
229 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
231 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
232 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
233 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
234 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
238 depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
241 tristate "Kernel .config support"
243 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
244 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
245 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
246 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
247 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
248 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
249 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
250 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
253 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
254 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
256 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
257 through /proc/config.gz.
260 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
264 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
274 bool "Control Group support"
276 This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
282 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
286 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
287 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
293 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
296 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
297 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
298 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
302 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
303 depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
305 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
306 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
309 bool "Cpuset support"
310 depends on SMP && CGROUPS
312 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
313 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
314 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
315 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
320 # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
322 config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
326 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
327 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
330 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
331 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
333 config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
334 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
335 depends on GROUP_SCHED
338 config RT_GROUP_SCHED
339 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
340 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
341 depends on GROUP_SCHED
344 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
345 to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
346 setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
347 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
348 realtime bandwidth for them.
349 See Documentation/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
352 depends on GROUP_SCHED
353 prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
359 This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
360 tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
363 bool "Control groups"
366 This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
367 using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
368 the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
369 Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
370 on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
374 config CGROUP_CPUACCT
375 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
378 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
379 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
381 config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
382 bool "Resource counters"
384 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
385 infrastructure that works with cgroups
391 config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
392 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
393 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
396 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both page cache and
399 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
400 associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes
401 and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit
402 systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore.
404 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
405 sure you need the memory resource controller.
407 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
408 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
410 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
413 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
414 bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
417 select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
419 This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
420 "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
421 "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
423 None of these features or values should be used today, as
424 they export driver core implementation details to userspace
425 or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
428 If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
429 that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
430 order to support older versions of udev and some userspace
433 If you are using a distro with the most recent userspace
434 packages, it should be safe to say N here.
436 config PROC_PID_CPUSET
437 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
442 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
444 This option enables support for relay interface support in
445 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
446 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
447 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
453 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
456 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
457 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
458 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
459 different namespaces.
463 depends on NAMESPACES
465 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
470 depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC
472 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
473 different IPC objects in different namespaces
476 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
477 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
479 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
480 to provide different user info for different servers.
484 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
486 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
488 Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
489 process with the same pid as long as they are in different
490 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
492 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
495 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
496 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
497 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
499 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
500 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
501 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
502 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
503 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
505 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
506 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
507 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
517 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
518 bool "Optimize for size"
521 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
522 resulting in a smaller kernel.
530 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
532 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
533 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
534 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
535 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
538 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
539 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
542 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
544 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
545 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
549 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
550 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
551 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
554 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
555 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
556 making your kernel marginally smaller.
558 If unsure say Y here.
560 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
561 bool "Sysctl checks" if EMBEDDED
562 depends on SYSCTL_SYSCALL
565 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
566 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
567 you to keep things correct.
569 If unsure say Y here.
572 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
575 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
576 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
577 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
580 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
581 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
583 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
584 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
585 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
586 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
590 config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
591 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
594 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
595 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
596 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
597 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
598 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
599 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
603 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
606 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
607 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
608 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
609 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
613 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
615 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
616 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
617 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
618 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
619 strongly discouraged.
622 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
625 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
626 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
627 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
628 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
633 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
635 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
637 config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
638 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
639 depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
642 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
643 support, saving some memory.
646 bool "Disable heap randomization"
649 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
650 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
651 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
652 disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
653 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
655 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
659 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
661 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
662 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
663 but may reduce performance.
666 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
670 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
671 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
672 run glibc-based applications correctly.
678 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
682 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
683 support for epoll family of system calls.
686 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
690 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
691 on a file descriptor.
696 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
700 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
701 events on a file descriptor.
706 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
710 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
711 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
716 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
720 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
721 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
722 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
723 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
724 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
726 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
728 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
730 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
731 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
732 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
733 if VM event counters are disabled.
737 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
738 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
740 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
741 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
742 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
743 no support for cache validation etc.
746 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
749 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
754 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
755 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
756 per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
760 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
762 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
763 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
764 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
765 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
766 and has enhanced diagnostics.
770 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
772 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
773 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
774 does not perform as well on large systems.
779 bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
781 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
782 by profilers such as OProfile.
785 bool "Activate markers"
787 Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
788 dynamically changed for a probe function.
790 source "arch/Kconfig"
792 config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
794 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
795 bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED
797 Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory utilization:
798 /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap,
799 /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these
800 interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb.
802 endmenu # General setup
807 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
820 default 0 if BASE_FULL
821 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
824 bool "Enable loadable module support"
826 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
827 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
828 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
829 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
830 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
831 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
832 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
833 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
834 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
836 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
837 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
838 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
843 config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
844 bool "Forced module loading"
848 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
849 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
850 is usually a really bad idea.
853 bool "Module unloading"
856 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
857 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
858 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
859 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
861 config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
862 bool "Forced module unloading"
863 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
865 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
866 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
867 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
868 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
872 bool "Module versioning support"
875 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
876 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
877 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
878 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
879 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
882 config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
883 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
886 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
887 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
888 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
889 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
890 others sometimes change the module source without updating
891 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
892 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
895 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
898 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
899 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
900 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
901 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
902 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
903 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
904 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
909 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
911 Need stop_machine() primitive.
913 source "block/Kconfig"
915 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
919 def_bool !PREEMPT_RCU
921 This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
922 designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
923 systems. Classic RCU is the default. Note that the
924 PREEMPT_RCU symbol is used to select/deselect this option.
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