| Roman Zippel | 80daa56 | 2008-01-14 04:51:16 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | config ARCH | 
|  | 2 | string | 
|  | 3 | option env="ARCH" | 
|  | 4 |  | 
|  | 5 | config KERNELVERSION | 
|  | 6 | string | 
|  | 7 | option env="KERNELVERSION" | 
|  | 8 |  | 
| Roman Zippel | face437 | 2006-06-08 22:12:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | config DEFCONFIG_LIST | 
|  | 10 | string | 
| Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso | b2670eac | 2006-10-19 23:28:23 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | depends on !UML | 
| Roman Zippel | face437 | 2006-06-08 22:12:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | option defconfig_list | 
|  | 13 | default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" | 
|  | 14 | default "/etc/kernel-config" | 
|  | 15 | default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 7353190 | 2008-05-25 23:03:18 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" | 
| Roman Zippel | face437 | 2006-06-08 22:12:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" | 
|  | 18 |  | 
| Peter Oberparleiter | b99b87f | 2009-06-17 16:28:03 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | config CONSTRUCTORS | 
|  | 20 | bool | 
|  | 21 | depends on !UML | 
|  | 22 | default y | 
|  | 23 |  | 
| Al Boldi | ff0cfc6 | 2007-07-31 00:39:23 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | menu "General setup" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 25 |  | 
|  | 26 | config EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 27 | bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" | 
|  | 28 | ---help--- | 
|  | 29 | Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network | 
|  | 30 | drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state | 
|  | 31 | of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of | 
|  | 32 | testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually | 
|  | 33 | known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is | 
|  | 34 | currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage | 
|  | 35 | uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to | 
|  | 36 | avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active | 
|  | 37 | testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it | 
|  | 38 | may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work | 
|  | 39 | in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar | 
|  | 40 | with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers | 
|  | 41 | (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents | 
|  | 42 | <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, | 
|  | 43 | <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and | 
|  | 44 | <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). | 
|  | 45 |  | 
|  | 46 | This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are | 
|  | 47 | drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are | 
|  | 48 | scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. | 
|  | 49 |  | 
|  | 50 | Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that | 
|  | 51 | falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires | 
|  | 52 | using these features, you should probably say N here, which will | 
|  | 53 | cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If | 
|  | 54 | you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or | 
|  | 55 | drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. | 
|  | 56 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | config BROKEN | 
|  | 58 | bool | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 59 |  | 
|  | 60 | config BROKEN_ON_SMP | 
|  | 61 | bool | 
|  | 62 | depends on BROKEN || !SMP | 
|  | 63 | default y | 
|  | 64 |  | 
|  | 65 | config LOCK_KERNEL | 
|  | 66 | bool | 
|  | 67 | depends on SMP || PREEMPT | 
|  | 68 | default y | 
|  | 69 |  | 
|  | 70 | config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT | 
|  | 71 | int | 
| Adrian Bunk | dd673bc | 2006-06-30 01:55:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | default 32 if !UML | 
|  | 73 | default 128 if UML | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | help | 
| Randy Dunlap | 34ad92c | 2005-10-30 15:01:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment | 
|  | 76 | variables passed to init from the kernel command line. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 77 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 78 |  | 
|  | 79 | config LOCALVERSION | 
|  | 80 | string "Local version - append to kernel release" | 
|  | 81 | help | 
|  | 82 | Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. | 
|  | 83 | This will show up when you type uname, for example. | 
|  | 84 | The string you set here will be appended after the contents of | 
|  | 85 | any files with a filename matching localversion* in your | 
|  | 86 | object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can | 
|  | 87 | be a maximum of 64 characters. | 
|  | 88 |  | 
| Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | config LOCALVERSION_AUTO | 
|  | 90 | bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" | 
|  | 91 | default y | 
|  | 92 | help | 
|  | 93 | This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a | 
| Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 94 | release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current | 
|  | 95 | top of tree revision. | 
| Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 96 |  | 
|  | 97 | A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion | 
| Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be | 
| Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value | 
| Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. | 
| Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 101 |  | 
| Robert P. J. Day | 6e5a542 | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced | 
|  | 103 | by running the command: | 
|  | 104 |  | 
|  | 105 | $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD | 
|  | 106 |  | 
|  | 107 | which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) | 
| Ryan Anderson | aaebf43 | 2005-07-31 04:57:49 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 108 |  | 
| H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP | 
|  | 110 | bool | 
|  | 111 |  | 
|  | 112 | config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 | 
|  | 113 | bool | 
|  | 114 |  | 
|  | 115 | config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA | 
|  | 116 | bool | 
|  | 117 |  | 
| Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | choice | 
| H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | prompt "Kernel compression mode" | 
|  | 120 | default KERNEL_GZIP | 
|  | 121 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA | 
|  | 122 | help | 
| Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 123 | The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. | 
|  | 124 | Several compression algorithms are available, which differ | 
|  | 125 | in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. | 
|  | 126 | Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. | 
|  | 127 | Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. | 
|  | 128 |  | 
|  | 129 | If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed | 
|  | 130 | kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older | 
|  | 131 | version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was | 
|  | 132 | supplied by Christian Ludwig) | 
|  | 133 |  | 
|  | 134 | High compression options are mostly useful for users, who | 
|  | 135 | are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram | 
|  | 136 | size matters less. | 
|  | 137 |  | 
|  | 138 | If in doubt, select 'gzip' | 
|  | 139 |  | 
|  | 140 | config KERNEL_GZIP | 
| H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | bool "Gzip" | 
|  | 142 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP | 
|  | 143 | help | 
|  | 144 | The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is | 
|  | 145 | the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both | 
|  | 146 | compression and decompression) is the fastest. | 
| Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 147 |  | 
|  | 148 | config KERNEL_BZIP2 | 
|  | 149 | bool "Bzip2" | 
| H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 | 
| Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 151 | help | 
|  | 152 | Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. | 
| H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel | 
|  | 154 | size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. | 
|  | 155 | Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you | 
|  | 156 | will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. | 
| Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 157 |  | 
|  | 158 | config KERNEL_LZMA | 
| H. Peter Anvin | 2e9f3bd | 2009-01-04 15:41:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | bool "LZMA" | 
|  | 160 | depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA | 
|  | 161 | help | 
|  | 162 | The most recent compression algorithm. | 
|  | 163 | Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other | 
|  | 164 | two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33% | 
|  | 165 | smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. | 
| Alain Knaff | 30d65db | 2009-01-04 22:46:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 166 |  | 
|  | 167 | endchoice | 
|  | 168 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 169 | config SWAP | 
|  | 170 | bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 171 | depends on MMU && BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | default y | 
|  | 173 | help | 
|  | 174 | This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support | 
| Jesper Juhl | 92c3504 | 2006-01-15 02:40:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present | 
|  | 177 | in your computer.  If unsure say Y. | 
|  | 178 |  | 
|  | 179 | config SYSVIPC | 
|  | 180 | bool "System V IPC" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | ---help--- | 
|  | 182 | Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and | 
|  | 183 | system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and | 
|  | 184 | exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, | 
|  | 185 | and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if | 
|  | 186 | you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the | 
|  | 187 | DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), | 
|  | 188 | you'll need to say Y here. | 
|  | 189 |  | 
|  | 190 | You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in | 
|  | 191 | section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from | 
|  | 192 | <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. | 
|  | 193 |  | 
| Eric W. Biederman | a5494dc | 2007-02-14 00:34:06 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL | 
|  | 195 | bool | 
|  | 196 | depends on SYSVIPC | 
|  | 197 | depends on SYSCTL | 
|  | 198 | default y | 
|  | 199 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | config POSIX_MQUEUE | 
|  | 201 | bool "POSIX Message Queues" | 
|  | 202 | depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 203 | ---help--- | 
|  | 204 | POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message | 
|  | 205 | queues every message has a priority which decides about succession | 
|  | 206 | of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run | 
|  | 207 | programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message | 
| Robert P. J. Day | b0e3765 | 2007-05-09 07:25:13 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 208 | queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 209 |  | 
|  | 210 | POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' | 
|  | 211 | and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem | 
|  | 212 | operations on message queues. | 
|  | 213 |  | 
|  | 214 | If unsure, say Y. | 
|  | 215 |  | 
| Serge E. Hallyn | bdc8e5f | 2009-04-06 19:01:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL | 
|  | 217 | bool | 
|  | 218 | depends on POSIX_MQUEUE | 
|  | 219 | depends on SYSCTL | 
|  | 220 | default y | 
|  | 221 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT | 
|  | 223 | bool "BSD Process Accounting" | 
|  | 224 | help | 
|  | 225 | If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the | 
|  | 226 | kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting | 
|  | 227 | information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about | 
|  | 228 | that process will be appended to the file by the kernel.  The | 
|  | 229 | information includes things such as creation time, owning user, | 
|  | 230 | command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete | 
|  | 231 | list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>).  It is | 
|  | 232 | up to the user level program to do useful things with this | 
|  | 233 | information.  This is generally a good idea, so say Y. | 
|  | 234 |  | 
|  | 235 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 | 
|  | 236 | bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" | 
|  | 237 | depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT | 
|  | 238 | default n | 
|  | 239 | help | 
|  | 240 | If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written | 
|  | 241 | in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each | 
|  | 242 | process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible | 
|  | 243 | with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools | 
|  | 244 | for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available | 
| S.Çağlar Onur | 37a4c94 | 2008-06-18 11:45:13 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 246 |  | 
| Shailabh Nagar | c757249 | 2006-07-14 00:24:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 247 | config TASKSTATS | 
|  | 248 | bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | 249 | depends on NET | 
|  | 250 | default n | 
|  | 251 | help | 
|  | 252 | Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the | 
|  | 253 | generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the | 
|  | 254 | statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as | 
|  | 255 | responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user | 
|  | 256 | space on task exit. | 
|  | 257 |  | 
|  | 258 | Say N if unsure. | 
|  | 259 |  | 
| Shailabh Nagar | ca74e92 | 2006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 260 | config TASK_DELAY_ACCT | 
|  | 261 | bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| Shailabh Nagar | 6f44993 | 2006-07-14 00:24:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 262 | depends on TASKSTATS | 
| Shailabh Nagar | ca74e92 | 2006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 263 | help | 
|  | 264 | Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system | 
|  | 265 | resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping | 
|  | 266 | in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities | 
|  | 267 | relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. | 
|  | 268 |  | 
|  | 269 | Say N if unsure. | 
|  | 270 |  | 
| Alexey Dobriyan | 18f705f | 2007-02-10 01:46:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 271 | config TASK_XACCT | 
|  | 272 | bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | 273 | depends on TASKSTATS | 
|  | 274 | help | 
|  | 275 | Collect extended task accounting data and send the data | 
|  | 276 | to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. | 
|  | 277 |  | 
|  | 278 | Say N if unsure. | 
|  | 279 |  | 
|  | 280 | config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING | 
|  | 281 | bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | 282 | depends on TASK_XACCT | 
|  | 283 | help | 
|  | 284 | Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this | 
|  | 285 | task has caused. | 
|  | 286 |  | 
|  | 287 | Say N if unsure. | 
|  | 288 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 289 | config AUDIT | 
|  | 290 | bool "Auditing support" | 
| Chris Wright | 804a6a4 | 2005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 291 | depends on NET | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 292 | help | 
|  | 293 | Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another | 
|  | 294 | kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for | 
|  | 295 | logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call | 
|  | 296 | auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. | 
|  | 297 |  | 
|  | 298 | config AUDITSYSCALL | 
|  | 299 | bool "Enable system-call auditing support" | 
| Kumar Gala | 022382a | 2009-10-16 07:21:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 300 | depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 301 | default y if SECURITY_SELINUX | 
|  | 302 | help | 
|  | 303 | Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that | 
|  | 304 | can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, | 
| Amy Griffis | f368c07d | 2006-04-07 16:55:56 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 305 | such as SELinux.  To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please | 
|  | 306 | ensure that INOTIFY is configured. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 307 |  | 
| Al Viro | 74c3cbe | 2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 308 | config AUDIT_TREE | 
|  | 309 | def_bool y | 
| Eric Paris | 63c882a | 2009-05-21 17:02:01 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | depends on AUDITSYSCALL | 
|  | 311 | select INOTIFY | 
| Al Viro | 74c3cbe | 2007-07-22 08:04:18 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 312 |  | 
| Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 313 | menu "RCU Subsystem" | 
|  | 314 |  | 
|  | 315 | choice | 
|  | 316 | prompt "RCU Implementation" | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 31c9a24 | 2009-04-02 21:06:25 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 317 | default TREE_RCU | 
| Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 318 |  | 
| Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 319 | config TREE_RCU | 
|  | 320 | bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" | 
|  | 321 | help | 
|  | 322 | This option selects the RCU implementation that is | 
|  | 323 | designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or | 
| Paul E. McKenney | c17ef45 | 2009-06-23 17:12:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 324 | thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to | 
|  | 325 | smaller systems. | 
| Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 326 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 327 | config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | 
|  | 328 | bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU" | 
|  | 329 | depends on PREEMPT | 
|  | 330 | help | 
|  | 331 | This option selects the RCU implementation that is | 
|  | 332 | designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or | 
|  | 333 | thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response | 
| Paul E. McKenney | bbe3eae | 2009-09-13 09:15:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | is also required.  It also scales down nicely to | 
|  | 335 | smaller systems. | 
| Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 336 |  | 
| Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | endchoice | 
|  | 338 |  | 
|  | 339 | config RCU_TRACE | 
|  | 340 | bool "Enable tracing for RCU" | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 6b3ef48 | 2009-08-22 13:56:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | 
| Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | help | 
|  | 343 | This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats | 
|  | 344 | in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. | 
|  | 345 |  | 
|  | 346 | Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing | 
|  | 347 | Say N if you are unsure. | 
|  | 348 |  | 
|  | 349 | config RCU_FANOUT | 
|  | 350 | int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" | 
|  | 351 | range 2 64 if 64BIT | 
|  | 352 | range 2 32 if !64BIT | 
| Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 353 | depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | 
| Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 354 | default 64 if 64BIT | 
|  | 355 | default 32 if !64BIT | 
|  | 356 | help | 
|  | 357 | This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations | 
|  | 358 | of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with | 
|  | 359 | large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the cube | 
|  | 360 | root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit | 
|  | 361 | systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. | 
|  | 362 |  | 
|  | 363 | Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. | 
|  | 364 | Take the default if unsure. | 
|  | 365 |  | 
|  | 366 | config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT | 
|  | 367 | bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" | 
| Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 368 | depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | 
| Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 369 | default n | 
|  | 370 | help | 
|  | 371 | This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, | 
|  | 372 | regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for | 
|  | 373 | testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with | 
|  | 374 | strong NUMA behavior. | 
|  | 375 |  | 
|  | 376 | Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. | 
|  | 377 |  | 
|  | 378 | Say N if unsure. | 
|  | 379 |  | 
|  | 380 | config TREE_RCU_TRACE | 
| Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 381 | def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) | 
| Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | select DEBUG_FS | 
|  | 383 | help | 
| Paul E. McKenney | f41d911 | 2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and | 
|  | 385 | TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to | 
|  | 386 | trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. | 
| Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 387 |  | 
| Mike Travis | c903ff8 | 2009-01-15 12:28:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 388 | endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" | 
|  | 389 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 390 | config IKCONFIG | 
| Ross Biro | f2443ab | 2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 391 | tristate "Kernel .config support" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | ---help--- | 
|  | 393 | This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file | 
|  | 394 | contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation | 
|  | 395 | of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an | 
|  | 396 | on-disk kernel.  This information can be extracted from the kernel | 
|  | 397 | image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as | 
|  | 398 | input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. | 
|  | 399 | It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading | 
|  | 400 | /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). | 
|  | 401 |  | 
|  | 402 | config IKCONFIG_PROC | 
|  | 403 | bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" | 
|  | 404 | depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS | 
|  | 405 | ---help--- | 
|  | 406 | This option enables access to the kernel configuration file | 
|  | 407 | through /proc/config.gz. | 
|  | 408 |  | 
| Alistair John Strachan | 794543a | 2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 409 | config LOG_BUF_SHIFT | 
|  | 410 | int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" | 
|  | 411 | range 12 21 | 
| Adrian Bunk | f17a32e | 2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 412 | default 17 | 
| Alistair John Strachan | 794543a | 2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 413 | help | 
|  | 414 | Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. | 
| Adrian Bunk | f17a32e | 2008-04-29 00:58:58 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 415 | Examples: | 
|  | 416 | 17 => 128 KB | 
|  | 417 | 16 => 64 KB | 
|  | 418 | 15 => 32 KB | 
|  | 419 | 14 => 16 KB | 
| Alistair John Strachan | 794543a | 2007-05-08 00:31:15 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 420 | 13 =>  8 KB | 
|  | 421 | 12 =>  4 KB | 
|  | 422 |  | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 5cdc38f | 2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 423 | # | 
|  | 424 | # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: | 
|  | 425 | # | 
|  | 426 | config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK | 
|  | 427 | bool | 
|  | 428 |  | 
|  | 429 | config GROUP_SCHED | 
|  | 430 | bool "Group CPU scheduler" | 
|  | 431 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 432 | default n | 
|  | 433 | help | 
|  | 434 | This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU | 
|  | 435 | bandwidth allocation to such task groups. | 
|  | 436 | In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use | 
|  | 437 | CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) | 
|  | 438 |  | 
|  | 439 | config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED | 
|  | 440 | bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" | 
|  | 441 | depends on GROUP_SCHED | 
|  | 442 | default GROUP_SCHED | 
|  | 443 |  | 
|  | 444 | config RT_GROUP_SCHED | 
|  | 445 | bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" | 
|  | 446 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 447 | depends on GROUP_SCHED | 
|  | 448 | default n | 
|  | 449 | help | 
|  | 450 | This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth | 
|  | 451 | to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" | 
|  | 452 | setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to | 
|  | 453 | schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate | 
|  | 454 | realtime bandwidth for them. | 
|  | 455 | See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. | 
|  | 456 |  | 
|  | 457 | choice | 
|  | 458 | depends on GROUP_SCHED | 
|  | 459 | prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" | 
|  | 460 | default USER_SCHED | 
|  | 461 |  | 
|  | 462 | config USER_SCHED | 
|  | 463 | bool "user id" | 
|  | 464 | help | 
|  | 465 | This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping | 
|  | 466 | tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. | 
|  | 467 |  | 
|  | 468 | config CGROUP_SCHED | 
|  | 469 | bool "Control groups" | 
|  | 470 | depends on CGROUPS | 
|  | 471 | help | 
|  | 472 | This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups | 
|  | 473 | using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control | 
|  | 474 | the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. | 
| Li Zefan | 45ce80f | 2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 475 | Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more | 
|  | 476 | information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 5cdc38f | 2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 477 |  | 
|  | 478 | endchoice | 
|  | 479 |  | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 480 | menuconfig CGROUPS | 
|  | 481 | boolean "Control Group support" | 
| Paul Menage | ddbcc7e | 2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 482 | help | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 483 | This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 5cdc38f | 2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 484 | use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory | 
|  | 485 | controls or device isolation. | 
|  | 486 | See | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 5cdc38f | 2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 487 | - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS) | 
| Li Zefan | 45ce80f | 2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 488 | - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation | 
|  | 489 | and resource control) | 
| Paul Menage | ddbcc7e | 2007-10-18 23:39:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 490 |  | 
|  | 491 | Say N if unsure. | 
|  | 492 |  | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 493 | if CGROUPS | 
|  | 494 |  | 
| Paul Menage | 006cb99 | 2007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 495 | config CGROUP_DEBUG | 
|  | 496 | bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" | 
|  | 497 | depends on CGROUPS | 
| Paul Menage | 418d7d8 | 2008-04-29 01:00:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 498 | default n | 
| Paul Menage | 006cb99 | 2007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 499 | help | 
|  | 500 | This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that | 
|  | 501 | exports useful debugging information about the cgroups | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 502 | framework. | 
| Paul Menage | 006cb99 | 2007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 503 |  | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 504 | Say N if unsure. | 
| Paul Menage | 006cb99 | 2007-10-18 23:39:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 505 |  | 
| Serge E. Hallyn | 858d72e | 2007-10-18 23:39:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 506 | config CGROUP_NS | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 507 | bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" | 
|  | 508 | depends on CGROUPS | 
|  | 509 | help | 
|  | 510 | Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to | 
|  | 511 | provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, | 
|  | 512 | for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart | 
|  | 513 | jobs. | 
| Serge E. Hallyn | 858d72e | 2007-10-18 23:39:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 514 |  | 
| Matt Helsley | dc52ddc | 2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | config CGROUP_FREEZER | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 516 | bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" | 
|  | 517 | depends on CGROUPS | 
|  | 518 | help | 
|  | 519 | Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a | 
| Matt Helsley | dc52ddc | 2008-10-18 20:27:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 520 | cgroup. | 
|  | 521 |  | 
| Serge E. Hallyn | 08ce5f1 | 2008-04-29 01:00:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 522 | config CGROUP_DEVICE | 
|  | 523 | bool "Device controller for cgroups" | 
|  | 524 | depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 525 | help | 
|  | 526 | Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which | 
|  | 527 | a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. | 
|  | 528 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 529 | config CPUSETS | 
|  | 530 | bool "Cpuset support" | 
| Paul Menage | db7f47c | 2009-04-02 16:57:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 531 | depends on CGROUPS | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 532 | help | 
| Randy Dunlap | d9fd8a6 | 2005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 533 | This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 534 | allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and | 
|  | 535 | Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. | 
|  | 536 | This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. | 
|  | 537 |  | 
|  | 538 | Say N if unsure. | 
|  | 539 |  | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 540 | config PROC_PID_CPUSET | 
|  | 541 | bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" | 
|  | 542 | depends on CPUSETS | 
|  | 543 | default y | 
|  | 544 |  | 
| Srivatsa Vaddagiri | d842de8 | 2007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 545 | config CGROUP_CPUACCT | 
|  | 546 | bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" | 
|  | 547 | depends on CGROUPS | 
|  | 548 | help | 
|  | 549 | Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. | 
| Srivatsa Vaddagiri | d842de8 | 2007-12-02 20:04:49 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 551 |  | 
| Pavel Emelianov | e552b66 | 2008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 552 | config RESOURCE_COUNTERS | 
|  | 553 | bool "Resource counters" | 
|  | 554 | help | 
|  | 555 | This option enables controller independent resource accounting | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 556 | infrastructure that works with cgroups. | 
| Pavel Emelianov | e552b66 | 2008-02-07 00:13:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 557 | depends on CGROUPS | 
|  | 558 |  | 
| Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 559 | config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR | 
|  | 560 | bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" | 
|  | 561 | depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS | 
| Balbir Singh | cf475ad | 2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 562 | select MM_OWNER | 
| Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 563 | help | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 84ad6d7 | 2008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 564 | Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous | 
| Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo | 21acb9c | 2009-02-04 10:12:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 565 | memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) | 
| Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 566 |  | 
|  | 567 | Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 84ad6d7 | 2008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 568 | associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, | 
|  | 569 | 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory | 
|  | 570 | usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out | 
|  | 571 | at boot. | 
| Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 572 |  | 
|  | 573 | Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 84ad6d7 | 2008-10-29 14:01:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 574 | sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable | 
|  | 575 | this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to | 
|  | 576 | disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. | 
| Li Zefan | c9d5409 | 2009-01-07 18:07:35 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 577 | (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) | 
| Balbir Singh | 00f0b82 | 2008-03-04 14:28:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 578 |  | 
| Balbir Singh | cf475ad | 2008-04-29 01:00:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 579 | This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which | 
|  | 580 | could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. | 
|  | 581 |  | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | c077719 | 2009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 582 | config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP | 
|  | 583 | bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | 584 | depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 585 | help | 
|  | 586 | Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you | 
|  | 587 | enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, | 
|  | 588 | when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to | 
|  | 589 | usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension | 
|  | 590 | is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself | 
|  | 591 | adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. | 
|  | 592 | Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please | 
|  | 593 | be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller | 
|  | 594 | is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and | 
|  | 595 | there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, | 
|  | 596 | if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 627991a | 2009-04-02 16:57:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 597 | Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page | 
|  | 598 | size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | c077719 | 2009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 599 |  | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 600 | endif # CGROUPS | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | c077719 | 2009-01-07 18:07:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 601 |  | 
| Li Zefan | 23964d2 | 2009-01-15 13:50:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 602 | config MM_OWNER | 
|  | 603 | bool | 
| KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 5cdc38f | 2009-01-07 18:07:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 604 |  | 
| Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 605 | config SYSFS_DEPRECATED | 
| Ingo Molnar | d47846c | 2008-03-04 14:54:47 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 606 | bool | 
|  | 607 |  | 
|  | 608 | config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 | 
| Kay Sievers | f6ee649 | 2009-04-16 19:56:37 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 609 | bool "remove sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools" | 
| Randy Dunlap | 9148fe8 | 2007-12-31 10:05:34 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 610 | depends on SYSFS | 
| Kay Sievers | f6ee649 | 2009-04-16 19:56:37 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 611 | default n | 
| Ingo Molnar | d47846c | 2008-03-04 14:54:47 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 612 | select SYSFS_DEPRECATED | 
| Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 613 | help | 
| Kay Sievers | fce3e80 | 2008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 614 | This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated | 
| Kay Sievers | f6ee649 | 2009-04-16 19:56:37 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 615 | version. Do not use it on recent distributions. | 
| Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 616 |  | 
| Kay Sievers | fce3e80 | 2008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 617 | The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at | 
|  | 618 | /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between | 
|  | 619 | class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the | 
|  | 620 | unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at | 
|  | 621 | /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at | 
|  | 622 | /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by | 
|  | 623 | "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" | 
|  | 624 | class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some | 
|  | 625 | subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which | 
|  | 626 | depend on the unified device tree. | 
| Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 627 |  | 
| Kay Sievers | fce3e80 | 2008-11-01 14:03:00 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 628 | This option is not a pure compatibility option that can | 
|  | 629 | be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the | 
|  | 630 | layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, | 
|  | 631 | and disable some features, which can not be exported without | 
|  | 632 | confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major | 
|  | 633 | distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which | 
|  | 634 | depend on the deprecated layout or this option. | 
|  | 635 |  | 
|  | 636 | If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use | 
|  | 637 | older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, | 
|  | 638 | if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has | 
|  | 639 | this option set to N. | 
| Kay Sievers | 88a22c9 | 2006-09-14 11:23:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 640 |  | 
| Jens Axboe | b86ff981 | 2006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 641 | config RELAY | 
|  | 642 | bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" | 
|  | 643 | help | 
|  | 644 | This option enables support for relay interface support in | 
|  | 645 | certain file systems (such as debugfs). | 
|  | 646 | It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and | 
|  | 647 | facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to | 
|  | 648 | user space. | 
|  | 649 |  | 
|  | 650 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 651 |  | 
| Pavel Emelyanov | c5289a6 | 2008-02-08 04:18:19 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 652 | config NAMESPACES | 
|  | 653 | bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 654 | default !EMBEDDED | 
|  | 655 | help | 
|  | 656 | Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using | 
|  | 657 | the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects | 
|  | 658 | or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in | 
|  | 659 | different namespaces. | 
|  | 660 |  | 
| Pavel Emelyanov | 58bfdd6d | 2008-02-08 04:18:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 661 | config UTS_NS | 
|  | 662 | bool "UTS namespace" | 
|  | 663 | depends on NAMESPACES | 
|  | 664 | help | 
|  | 665 | In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the | 
|  | 666 | uname() system call | 
|  | 667 |  | 
| Pavel Emelyanov | ae5e1b2 | 2008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 668 | config IPC_NS | 
|  | 669 | bool "IPC namespace" | 
| Serge E. Hallyn | 614b84c | 2009-04-06 19:01:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 670 | depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) | 
| Pavel Emelyanov | ae5e1b2 | 2008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 671 | help | 
|  | 672 | In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to | 
| Serge E. Hallyn | 614b84c | 2009-04-06 19:01:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 673 | different IPC objects in different namespaces. | 
| Pavel Emelyanov | ae5e1b2 | 2008-02-08 04:18:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 674 |  | 
| Pavel Emelyanov | aee16ce | 2008-02-08 04:18:23 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 675 | config USER_NS | 
|  | 676 | bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | 677 | depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 678 | help | 
|  | 679 | This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces | 
|  | 680 | to provide different user info for different servers. | 
|  | 681 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 682 |  | 
| Pavel Emelyanov | 74bd59b | 2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 683 | config PID_NS | 
|  | 684 | bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | 685 | default n | 
|  | 686 | depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 687 | help | 
| Heikki Orsila | 12d2b8f | 2008-07-06 15:48:02 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 688 | Support process id namespaces.  This allows having multiple | 
| Matt LaPlante | 692105b | 2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 689 | processes with the same pid as long as they are in different | 
| Pavel Emelyanov | 74bd59b | 2008-02-08 04:18:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 690 | pid namespaces.  This is a building block of containers. | 
|  | 691 |  | 
|  | 692 | Unless you want to work with an experimental feature | 
|  | 693 | say N here. | 
|  | 694 |  | 
| Matt Helsley | d6eb633 | 2009-01-26 12:25:55 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 695 | config NET_NS | 
|  | 696 | bool "Network namespace" | 
|  | 697 | default n | 
|  | 698 | depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET | 
|  | 699 | help | 
|  | 700 | Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances | 
|  | 701 | of the network stack. | 
|  | 702 |  | 
| Dimitri Gorokhovik | f991633 | 2007-03-06 01:42:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 703 | config BLK_DEV_INITRD | 
|  | 704 | bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" | 
|  | 705 | depends on BROKEN || !FRV | 
|  | 706 | help | 
|  | 707 | The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the | 
|  | 708 | boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root | 
|  | 709 | before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to | 
|  | 710 | load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, | 
|  | 711 | etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. | 
|  | 712 |  | 
|  | 713 | If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this | 
|  | 714 | also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds | 
|  | 715 | 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. | 
|  | 716 |  | 
|  | 717 | If unsure say Y. | 
|  | 718 |  | 
| Jean-Paul Saman | c33df4e | 2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 719 | if BLK_DEV_INITRD | 
|  | 720 |  | 
| Sam Ravnborg | dbec486 | 2005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 721 | source "usr/Kconfig" | 
|  | 722 |  | 
| Jean-Paul Saman | c33df4e | 2007-02-10 01:44:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 723 | endif | 
|  | 724 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 725 | config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE | 
| Ingo Molnar | 96fffeb | 2008-04-28 01:39:43 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 726 | bool "Optimize for size" | 
| Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 727 | default y | 
| Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 728 | help | 
|  | 729 | Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc | 
|  | 730 | resulting in a smaller kernel. | 
|  | 731 |  | 
| jkacur | 775a722 | 2008-07-16 00:31:16 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 732 | If unsure, say Y. | 
| Linus Torvalds | c45b4f1 | 2005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 733 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | 0847062 | 2006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 734 | config SYSCTL | 
|  | 735 | bool | 
|  | 736 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | b943c46 | 2009-03-10 12:55:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 737 | config ANON_INODES | 
|  | 738 | bool | 
|  | 739 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 740 | menuconfig EMBEDDED | 
|  | 741 | bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" | 
|  | 742 | help | 
|  | 743 | This option allows certain base kernel options and settings | 
|  | 744 | to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized | 
|  | 745 | environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. | 
|  | 746 | Only use this if you really know what you are doing. | 
|  | 747 |  | 
| Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 748 | config UID16 | 
|  | 749 | bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED | 
| David S. Miller | 09337f5 | 2008-04-26 03:17:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 750 | depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) | 
| Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 751 | default y | 
|  | 752 | help | 
|  | 753 | This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. | 
|  | 754 |  | 
| Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 755 | config SYSCTL_SYSCALL | 
| Randy Dunlap | 0847062 | 2006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 756 | bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED | 
| Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 757 | default y | 
| Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 758 | select SYSCTL | 
|  | 759 | ---help--- | 
| Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 760 | sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging | 
|  | 761 | to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys | 
|  | 762 | using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this | 
|  | 763 | information. | 
| Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 764 |  | 
| Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 765 | Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are | 
|  | 766 | trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, | 
|  | 767 | making your kernel marginally smaller. | 
| Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 768 |  | 
| Eric W. Biederman | 13bb7e3 | 2006-11-08 17:44:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 769 | If unsure say Y here. | 
| Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 770 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 771 | config KALLSYMS | 
| Jesper Juhl | 979c6a1 | 2006-12-12 19:25:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 772 | bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 773 | default y | 
|  | 774 | help | 
|  | 775 | Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and | 
|  | 776 | symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel | 
|  | 777 | somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. | 
|  | 778 |  | 
|  | 779 | config KALLSYMS_ALL | 
|  | 780 | bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" | 
|  | 781 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS | 
|  | 782 | help | 
|  | 783 | Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer | 
|  | 784 | OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other | 
| Jesper Juhl | f9f97bc | 2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 785 | symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them | 
|  | 786 | and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 787 |  | 
|  | 788 | Say N. | 
|  | 789 |  | 
|  | 790 | config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS | 
|  | 791 | bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" | 
|  | 792 | depends on KALLSYMS | 
|  | 793 | help | 
|  | 794 | If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with | 
|  | 795 | inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and | 
|  | 796 | turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. | 
|  | 797 | Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be | 
|  | 798 | reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while | 
|  | 799 | you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. | 
|  | 800 |  | 
| Matt Mackall | d59745c | 2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 801 |  | 
| Greg Kroah-Hartman | 712f47c | 2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 802 | config HOTPLUG | 
|  | 803 | bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 804 | default y | 
|  | 805 | help | 
|  | 806 | This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent | 
|  | 807 | capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider | 
|  | 808 | disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a | 
|  | 809 | dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y. | 
|  | 810 |  | 
| Matt Mackall | d59745c | 2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 811 | config PRINTK | 
|  | 812 | default y | 
|  | 813 | bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 814 | help | 
|  | 815 | This option enables normal printk support. Removing it | 
|  | 816 | eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image | 
|  | 817 | and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it | 
|  | 818 | very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is | 
|  | 819 | strongly discouraged. | 
|  | 820 |  | 
| Matt Mackall | c8538a7 | 2005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 821 | config BUG | 
|  | 822 | bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 823 | default y | 
|  | 824 | help | 
|  | 825 | Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing | 
|  | 826 | the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring | 
|  | 827 | numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this | 
|  | 828 | option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. | 
|  | 829 | Just say Y. | 
|  | 830 |  | 
| Matt Mackall | 708e9a7 | 2006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 831 | config ELF_CORE | 
|  | 832 | default y | 
|  | 833 | bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 834 | help | 
|  | 835 | Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. | 
|  | 836 |  | 
| Stas Sergeev | e5e1d3c | 2008-05-07 12:39:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 837 | config PCSPKR_PLATFORM | 
|  | 838 | bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 839 | depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES | 
|  | 840 | default y | 
|  | 841 | help | 
|  | 842 | This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker | 
|  | 843 | support, saving some memory. | 
|  | 844 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 845 | config BASE_FULL | 
|  | 846 | default y | 
|  | 847 | bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 848 | help | 
|  | 849 | Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core | 
|  | 850 | kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, | 
|  | 851 | but may reduce performance. | 
|  | 852 |  | 
|  | 853 | config FUTEX | 
|  | 854 | bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 855 | default y | 
| Ingo Molnar | 23f78d4 | 2006-06-27 02:54:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 856 | select RT_MUTEXES | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 857 | help | 
|  | 858 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | 
|  | 859 | support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not | 
|  | 860 | run glibc-based applications correctly. | 
|  | 861 |  | 
|  | 862 | config EPOLL | 
|  | 863 | bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 864 | default y | 
| Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 865 | select ANON_INODES | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 866 | help | 
|  | 867 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | 
|  | 868 | support for epoll family of system calls. | 
|  | 869 |  | 
| Davide Libenzi | fba2afa | 2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 870 | config SIGNALFD | 
|  | 871 | bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED | 
| Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 872 | select ANON_INODES | 
| Davide Libenzi | fba2afa | 2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 873 | default y | 
|  | 874 | help | 
|  | 875 | Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals | 
|  | 876 | on a file descriptor. | 
|  | 877 |  | 
|  | 878 | If unsure, say Y. | 
|  | 879 |  | 
| Davide Libenzi | b215e28 | 2007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 880 | config TIMERFD | 
|  | 881 | bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED | 
| Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 882 | select ANON_INODES | 
| Davide Libenzi | b215e28 | 2007-05-10 22:23:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 883 | default y | 
|  | 884 | help | 
|  | 885 | Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer | 
|  | 886 | events on a file descriptor. | 
|  | 887 |  | 
|  | 888 | If unsure, say Y. | 
|  | 889 |  | 
| Davide Libenzi | e1ad746 | 2007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 890 | config EVENTFD | 
|  | 891 | bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED | 
| Adrian Bunk | 448e3ce | 2007-07-31 00:39:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 892 | select ANON_INODES | 
| Davide Libenzi | e1ad746 | 2007-05-10 22:23:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 893 | default y | 
|  | 894 | help | 
|  | 895 | Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both | 
|  | 896 | kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. | 
|  | 897 |  | 
|  | 898 | If unsure, say Y. | 
|  | 899 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 900 | config SHMEM | 
|  | 901 | bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 902 | default y | 
|  | 903 | depends on MMU | 
|  | 904 | help | 
|  | 905 | The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. | 
|  | 906 | It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported | 
|  | 907 | to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this | 
|  | 908 | option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, | 
|  | 909 | which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. | 
|  | 910 |  | 
| Thomas Petazzoni | ebf3f09 | 2008-10-15 22:05:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 911 | config AIO | 
|  | 912 | bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 913 | default y | 
|  | 914 | help | 
|  | 915 | This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used | 
|  | 916 | by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling | 
|  | 917 | this option saves about 7k. | 
|  | 918 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | cdd6c48 | 2009-09-21 12:02:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 919 | config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 920 | bool | 
| Mike Frysinger | 018df72 | 2009-06-12 13:17:43 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 921 | help | 
|  | 922 | See tools/perf/design.txt for details. | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 923 |  | 
| Peter Zijlstra | 906010b | 2009-09-21 16:08:49 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 924 | config PERF_USE_VMALLOC | 
|  | 925 | bool | 
|  | 926 | help | 
|  | 927 | See tools/perf/design.txt for details | 
|  | 928 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 929 | menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 930 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | cdd6c48 | 2009-09-21 12:02:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 931 | config PERF_EVENTS | 
| Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 932 | bool "Kernel performance events and counters" | 
|  | 933 | default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) | 
| Ingo Molnar | cdd6c48 | 2009-09-21 12:02:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 934 | depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4c59e46 | 2008-12-08 19:38:33 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 935 | select ANON_INODES | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 936 | help | 
| Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 937 | Enable kernel support for various performance events provided | 
|  | 938 | by software and hardware. | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 939 |  | 
| Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo | dd77038 | 2009-10-30 19:32:25 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 940 | Software events are supported either built-in or via the | 
| Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 941 | use of generic tracepoints. | 
|  | 942 |  | 
|  | 943 | Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance | 
|  | 944 | counter registers. These registers count the number of certain | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 945 | types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses | 
|  | 946 | suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the | 
|  | 947 | kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts | 
|  | 948 | when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be | 
|  | 949 | used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. | 
|  | 950 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 951 | The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of | 
| Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo | dd77038 | 2009-10-30 19:32:25 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 952 | these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a | 
| Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 953 | system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 954 | provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event | 
|  | 955 | capabilities on top of those. | 
|  | 956 |  | 
|  | 957 | Say Y if unsure. | 
|  | 958 |  | 
| Peter Zijlstra | e077df4 | 2009-03-19 20:26:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 959 | config EVENT_PROFILE | 
| Peter Zijlstra | 470a139 | 2009-07-29 10:50:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 960 | bool "Tracepoint profiling sources" | 
| Ingo Molnar | cdd6c48 | 2009-09-21 12:02:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 961 | depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING | 
| Peter Zijlstra | e077df4 | 2009-03-19 20:26:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 962 | default y | 
| Peter Zijlstra | 470a139 | 2009-07-29 10:50:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 963 | help | 
| Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 964 | Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance events. | 
| Peter Zijlstra | 470a139 | 2009-07-29 10:50:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 965 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 966 | When this is enabled, you can create perf events based on | 
| Peter Zijlstra | 470a139 | 2009-07-29 10:50:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 967 | tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID | 
|  | 968 | found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events | 
|  | 969 | option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic | 
|  | 970 | tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.) | 
| Peter Zijlstra | e077df4 | 2009-03-19 20:26:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 971 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 57c0c15 | 2009-09-21 12:20:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 972 | config PERF_COUNTERS | 
|  | 973 | bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" | 
|  | 974 | depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS | 
|  | 975 | help | 
|  | 976 | This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS | 
|  | 977 | config option - please see that one for details. | 
|  | 978 |  | 
|  | 979 | It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable | 
|  | 980 | it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. | 
|  | 981 |  | 
|  | 982 | Say N if unsure. | 
|  | 983 |  | 
| Peter Zijlstra | 906010b | 2009-09-21 16:08:49 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 984 | config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC | 
|  | 985 | default n | 
|  | 986 | bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" | 
|  | 987 | depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 988 | select PERF_USE_VMALLOC | 
|  | 989 | help | 
|  | 990 | Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. | 
|  | 991 |  | 
|  | 992 | Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms | 
|  | 993 | that don't require it. | 
|  | 994 |  | 
|  | 995 | Say N if unsure. | 
|  | 996 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 0793a61 | 2008-12-04 20:12:29 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 997 | endmenu | 
|  | 998 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | f8891e5 | 2006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 999 | config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS | 
|  | 1000 | default y | 
|  | 1001 | bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 1002 | help | 
| Paul Jackson | 2aea4fb | 2006-12-22 01:06:10 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1003 | VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. | 
|  | 1004 | This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters | 
|  | 1005 | on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts | 
|  | 1006 | if VM event counters are disabled. | 
| Christoph Lameter | f8891e5 | 2006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1007 |  | 
| Thomas Petazzoni | 3d13731 | 2008-08-19 10:28:24 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1008 | config PCI_QUIRKS | 
|  | 1009 | default y | 
| Geert Uytterhoeven | 61cfc7e | 2008-10-22 08:53:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1010 | bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 1011 | depends on PCI | 
| Thomas Petazzoni | 3d13731 | 2008-08-19 10:28:24 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1012 | help | 
|  | 1013 | This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset | 
|  | 1014 | bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is | 
|  | 1015 | unaffected by PCI quirks. | 
|  | 1016 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | 41ecc55 | 2007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1017 | config SLUB_DEBUG | 
|  | 1018 | default y | 
|  | 1019 | bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED | 
| Christoph Lameter | f6acb63 | 2008-04-29 16:16:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1020 | depends on SLUB && SYSFS | 
| Christoph Lameter | 41ecc55 | 2007-05-09 02:32:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1021 | help | 
|  | 1022 | SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can | 
|  | 1023 | result in significant savings in code size. This also disables | 
|  | 1024 | SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be | 
|  | 1025 | no support for cache validation etc. | 
|  | 1026 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | b943c46 | 2009-03-10 12:55:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1027 | config COMPAT_BRK | 
|  | 1028 | bool "Disable heap randomization" | 
|  | 1029 | default y | 
|  | 1030 | help | 
|  | 1031 | Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it | 
|  | 1032 | also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). | 
|  | 1033 | This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization | 
| Matt LaPlante | 692105b | 2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1034 | disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting | 
| Randy Dunlap | b943c46 | 2009-03-10 12:55:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1035 | /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. | 
|  | 1036 |  | 
|  | 1037 | On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. | 
|  | 1038 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1039 | choice | 
|  | 1040 | prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" | 
| Christoph Lameter | a0acd82 | 2007-07-17 04:03:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1041 | default SLUB | 
| Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1042 | help | 
|  | 1043 | This option allows to select a slab allocator. | 
|  | 1044 |  | 
|  | 1045 | config SLAB | 
|  | 1046 | bool "SLAB" | 
|  | 1047 | help | 
|  | 1048 | The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work | 
| Christoph Lameter | 3401388 | 2007-05-09 02:32:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1049 | well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in | 
| Simon Arlott | 02f5621 | 2008-11-05 22:18:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1050 | per cpu and per node queues. | 
| Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1051 |  | 
|  | 1052 | config SLUB | 
| Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1053 | bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" | 
|  | 1054 | help | 
|  | 1055 | SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage | 
|  | 1056 | instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). | 
|  | 1057 | Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead | 
|  | 1058 | of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently | 
| Simon Arlott | 02f5621 | 2008-11-05 22:18:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1059 | and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for | 
|  | 1060 | a slab allocator. | 
| Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1061 |  | 
|  | 1062 | config SLOB | 
| Paul Mundt | 84a01c2 | 2007-07-15 23:38:24 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1063 | depends on EMBEDDED | 
| Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1064 | bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" | 
|  | 1065 | help | 
| Matt Mackall | 3729145 | 2008-02-04 22:29:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1066 | SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler | 
|  | 1067 | allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but | 
|  | 1068 | does not perform as well on large systems. | 
| Christoph Lameter | 81819f0 | 2007-05-06 14:49:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1069 |  | 
|  | 1070 | endchoice | 
|  | 1071 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1072 | config PROFILING | 
|  | 1073 | bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | 1074 | help | 
|  | 1075 | Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used | 
|  | 1076 | by profilers such as OProfile. | 
|  | 1077 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 5f87f11 | 2008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1078 | # | 
|  | 1079 | # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be | 
|  | 1080 | # dynamically changed for a probe function. | 
|  | 1081 | # | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 97e1c18 | 2008-07-18 12:16:16 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1082 | config TRACEPOINTS | 
| Ingo Molnar | 5f87f11 | 2008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1083 | bool | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 97e1c18 | 2008-07-18 12:16:16 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1084 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | fb32e03 | 2008-02-02 15:10:33 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1085 | source "arch/Kconfig" | 
|  | 1086 |  | 
| David Howells | 07fe7cb | 2009-04-03 16:42:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1087 | config SLOW_WORK | 
|  | 1088 | default n | 
| David Howells | 1c2d008 | 2009-04-06 15:47:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1089 | bool | 
| David Howells | 07fe7cb | 2009-04-03 16:42:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1090 | help | 
|  | 1091 | The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated | 
|  | 1092 | threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that | 
|  | 1093 | take a relatively long time. | 
|  | 1094 |  | 
|  | 1095 | An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed | 
|  | 1096 | by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch | 
|  | 1097 | disk. | 
|  | 1098 |  | 
| David Howells | 1c2d008 | 2009-04-06 15:47:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1099 | See Documentation/slow-work.txt. | 
|  | 1100 |  | 
| David Howells | 8fba10a | 2009-11-19 18:10:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1101 | config SLOW_WORK_PROC | 
|  | 1102 | bool "Slow work debugging through /proc" | 
|  | 1103 | default n | 
|  | 1104 | depends on SLOW_WORK && PROC_FS | 
|  | 1105 | help | 
|  | 1106 | Display the contents of the slow work run queue through /proc, | 
|  | 1107 | including items currently executing. | 
|  | 1108 |  | 
|  | 1109 | See Documentation/slow-work.txt. | 
|  | 1110 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1111 | endmenu		# General setup | 
|  | 1112 |  | 
| Dmitry Baryshkov | ee7e551 | 2008-06-29 14:18:46 +0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1113 | config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT | 
|  | 1114 | bool | 
|  | 1115 | default n | 
|  | 1116 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 158a962 | 2008-01-02 13:04:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1117 | config SLABINFO | 
|  | 1118 | bool | 
|  | 1119 | depends on PROC_FS | 
| Christoph Lameter | 0f389ec | 2008-04-14 18:53:02 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 1120 | depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG | 
| Linus Torvalds | 158a962 | 2008-01-02 13:04:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1121 | default y | 
|  | 1122 |  | 
| Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1123 | config RT_MUTEXES | 
|  | 1124 | boolean | 
| Chuck Ebbert | ae81f9e | 2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1125 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1126 | config BASE_SMALL | 
|  | 1127 | int | 
|  | 1128 | default 0 if BASE_FULL | 
|  | 1129 | default 1 if !BASE_FULL | 
|  | 1130 |  | 
| Jan Engelhardt | 66da573 | 2007-07-15 23:39:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1131 | menuconfig MODULES | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1132 | bool "Enable loadable module support" | 
|  | 1133 | help | 
|  | 1134 | Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can | 
|  | 1135 | be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being | 
|  | 1136 | permanently built into the kernel.  You use the "modprobe" | 
|  | 1137 | tool to add (and sometimes remove) them.  If you say Y here, | 
|  | 1138 | many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by | 
|  | 1139 | answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most | 
|  | 1140 | useful for infrequently used options which are not required | 
|  | 1141 | for booting.  For more information, see the man pages for | 
|  | 1142 | modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. | 
|  | 1143 |  | 
|  | 1144 | If you say Y here, you will need to run "make | 
|  | 1145 | modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ | 
|  | 1146 | where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do | 
|  | 1147 | this). | 
|  | 1148 |  | 
|  | 1149 | If unsure, say Y. | 
|  | 1150 |  | 
| Robert P. J. Day | 0b0de14 | 2008-08-04 13:31:32 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1151 | if MODULES | 
|  | 1152 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 826e450 | 2008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1153 | config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD | 
|  | 1154 | bool "Forced module loading" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 826e450 | 2008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1155 | default n | 
|  | 1156 | help | 
| Rusty Russell | 91e37a7 | 2008-05-09 16:25:28 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 1157 | Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe | 
|  | 1158 | --force).  Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and | 
|  | 1159 | is usually a really bad idea. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 826e450 | 2008-05-04 17:04:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1160 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1161 | config MODULE_UNLOAD | 
|  | 1162 | bool "Module unloading" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1163 | help | 
|  | 1164 | Without this option you will not be able to unload any | 
|  | 1165 | modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable | 
| Denys Vlasenko | f7f5b67 | 2008-07-22 19:24:26 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1166 | anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster | 
|  | 1167 | and simpler.  If unsure, say Y. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1168 |  | 
|  | 1169 | config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD | 
|  | 1170 | bool "Forced module unloading" | 
|  | 1171 | depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 1172 | help | 
|  | 1173 | This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the | 
|  | 1174 | kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module | 
|  | 1175 | without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to | 
|  | 1176 | rmmod).  This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. | 
|  | 1177 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1178 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1179 | config MODVERSIONS | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 0d54164 | 2005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1180 | bool "Module versioning support" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1181 | help | 
|  | 1182 | Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. | 
|  | 1183 | Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules | 
|  | 1184 | compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information | 
|  | 1185 | to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would | 
|  | 1186 | make them incompatible with the kernel you are running.  If | 
|  | 1187 | unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1188 |  | 
|  | 1189 | config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL | 
|  | 1190 | bool "Source checksum for all modules" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1191 | help | 
|  | 1192 | Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" | 
|  | 1193 | field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a | 
|  | 1194 | sum of the source files which made it.  This helps maintainers | 
|  | 1195 | see exactly which source was used to build a module (since | 
|  | 1196 | others sometimes change the module source without updating | 
|  | 1197 | the version).  With this option, such a "srcversion" field | 
|  | 1198 | will be created for all modules.  If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1199 |  | 
| Robert P. J. Day | 0b0de14 | 2008-08-04 13:31:32 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1200 | endif # MODULES | 
|  | 1201 |  | 
| Rusty Russell | 98a79d6 | 2008-12-13 21:19:41 +1030 | [diff] [blame] | 1202 | config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE | 
|  | 1203 | bool | 
|  | 1204 | help | 
|  | 1205 | Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and | 
|  | 1206 | cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map | 
|  | 1207 | with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised, | 
|  | 1208 | it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs | 
| Matt LaPlante | 692105b | 2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1209 | and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. | 
| Rusty Russell | 98a79d6 | 2008-12-13 21:19:41 +1030 | [diff] [blame] | 1210 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1211 | config STOP_MACHINE | 
|  | 1212 | bool | 
|  | 1213 | default y | 
|  | 1214 | depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU | 
|  | 1215 | help | 
|  | 1216 | Need stop_machine() primitive. | 
| Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1217 |  | 
| Jens Axboe | 3a65dfe | 2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1218 | source "block/Kconfig" | 
| Avi Kivity | e98c320 | 2007-10-16 23:27:31 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1219 |  | 
|  | 1220 | config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS | 
|  | 1221 | bool | 
| Paul E. McKenney | e260be6 | 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1222 |  |