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1config DEFCONFIG_LIST
2 string
b2670eac 3 depends on !UML
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4 option defconfig_list
5 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
6 default "/etc/kernel-config"
7 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
8 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
9
ff0cfc66 10menu "General setup"
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11
12config EXPERIMENTAL
13 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
14 ---help---
15 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
16 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
17 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
18 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
19 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
20 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
21 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
22 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
23 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
24 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
25 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
26 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
27 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
28 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
29 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
30 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
31
32 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
33 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
34 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
35
36 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
37 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
38 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
39 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
40 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
41 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
42
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43config BROKEN
44 bool
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45
46config BROKEN_ON_SMP
47 bool
48 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
49 default y
50
51config LOCK_KERNEL
52 bool
53 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
54 default y
55
56config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
57 int
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58 default 32 if !UML
59 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 60 help
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61 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
62 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 63
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64
65config LOCALVERSION
66 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
67 help
68 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
69 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
70 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
71 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
72 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
73 be a maximum of 64 characters.
74
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75config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
76 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
77 default y
78 help
79 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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80 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
81 top of tree revision.
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82
83 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 84 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 85 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 86 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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88 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
89 by running the command:
90
91 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
92
93 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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95config SWAP
96 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 97 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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98 default y
99 help
100 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 101 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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102 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
103 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
104
105config SYSVIPC
106 bool "System V IPC"
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107 ---help---
108 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
109 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
110 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
111 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
112 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
113 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
114 you'll need to say Y here.
115
116 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
117 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
118 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
119
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120config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
121 bool
122 depends on SYSVIPC
123 depends on SYSCTL
124 default y
125
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126config POSIX_MQUEUE
127 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
128 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
129 ---help---
130 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
131 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
132 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
133 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 134 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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135
136 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
137 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
138 operations on message queues.
139
140 If unsure, say Y.
141
142config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
143 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
144 help
145 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
146 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
147 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
148 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
149 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
150 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
151 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
152 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
153 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
154
155config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
156 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
157 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
158 default n
159 help
160 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
161 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
162 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
163 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
164 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
165 at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
166
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167config TASKSTATS
168 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
169 depends on NET
170 default n
171 help
172 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
173 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
174 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
175 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
176 space on task exit.
177
178 Say N if unsure.
179
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180config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
181 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 182 depends on TASKSTATS
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183 help
184 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
185 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
186 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
187 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
188
189 Say N if unsure.
190
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191config TASK_XACCT
192 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
193 depends on TASKSTATS
194 help
195 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
196 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
197
198 Say N if unsure.
199
200config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
201 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
202 depends on TASK_XACCT
203 help
204 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
205 task has caused.
206
207 Say N if unsure.
208
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209config USER_NS
210 bool "User Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
211 default n
212 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
213 help
214 Support user namespaces. This allows containers, i.e.
215 vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
216 user info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
217
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218config AUDIT
219 bool "Auditing support"
804a6a49 220 depends on NET
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221 help
222 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
223 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
224 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
225 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
226
227config AUDITSYSCALL
228 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
347a8dc3 229 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
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230 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
231 help
232 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
233 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
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234 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
235 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
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1da177e4 237config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 238 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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239 ---help---
240 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
241 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
242 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
243 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
244 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
245 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
246 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
247 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
248
249config IKCONFIG_PROC
250 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
251 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
252 ---help---
253 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
254 through /proc/config.gz.
255
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256config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
257 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
258 range 12 21
259 default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
260 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
261 default 15 if SMP
262 default 14
263 help
264 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
265 Defaults and Examples:
266 17 => 128 KB for S/390
267 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
268 15 => 32 KB for SMP
269 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
270 13 => 8 KB
271 12 => 4 KB
272
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273config CGROUPS
274 bool "Control Group support"
275 help
276 This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
277 such as Cpusets
278
279 Say N if unsure.
280
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281config CGROUP_DEBUG
282 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
283 depends on CGROUPS
284 help
285 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
286 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
287 framework
288
289 Say N if unsure
290
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291config CGROUP_NS
292 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
293 depends on CGROUPS
294 help
295 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
296 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
297 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
298 jobs.
299
300config CGROUP_CPUACCT
301 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
302 depends on CGROUPS
303 help
304 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
305 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
306
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307config CPUSETS
308 bool "Cpuset support"
8793d854 309 depends on SMP && CGROUPS
1da177e4 310 help
d9fd8a6d 311 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
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312 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
313 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
314 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
315
316 Say N if unsure.
317
29f59db3 318config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
fb615581 319 bool "Fair group CPU scheduler"
de8d585a 320 default y
9b5b7751 321 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
29f59db3 322 help
fb615581 323 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9b5b7751 324 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
29f59db3 325
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326choice
327 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
328 prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
329 default FAIR_USER_SCHED
330
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331config FAIR_USER_SCHED
332 bool "user id"
333 help
334 This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
335 tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
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337endchoice
338
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339config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
340 bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
341 default y
342 help
343 This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
344 "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
345 "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
346 uevent environment.
347 None of these features or values should be used today, as
348 they export driver core implementation details to userspace
349 or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
350 releases.
351
352 If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
3dde6ad8 353 that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
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354 order to support older versions of udev.
355
356 If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
357 it should be safe to say N here.
358
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359config PROC_PID_CPUSET
360 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
361 depends on CPUSETS
362 default y
363
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364config RELAY
365 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
366 help
367 This option enables support for relay interface support in
368 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
369 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
370 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
371 user space.
372
373 If unsure, say N.
374
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375config BLK_DEV_INITRD
376 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
377 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
378 help
379 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
380 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
381 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
382 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
383 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
384
385 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
386 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
387 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
388
389 If unsure say Y.
390
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391if BLK_DEV_INITRD
392
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393source "usr/Kconfig"
394
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395endif
396
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397config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
398 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
399 default y
32582fa4 400 depends on ARM || H8300 || SUPERH || EXPERIMENTAL
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401 help
402 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
403 resulting in a smaller kernel.
404
405 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
406 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
407
408 If unsure, say N.
409
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410config SYSCTL
411 bool
412
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413menuconfig EMBEDDED
414 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
415 help
416 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
417 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
418 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
419 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
420
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421config UID16
422 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
1394f032 423 depends on ARM || BFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
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424 default y
425 help
426 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
427
b89a8171 428config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
0847062a 429 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
13bb7e37 430 default y
b89a8171 431 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 432 ---help---
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433 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
434 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
435 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
436 information.
b89a8171 437
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438 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
439 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
440 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 441
13bb7e37 442 If unsure say Y here.
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1da177e4 444config KALLSYMS
979c6a1e 445 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
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446 default y
447 help
448 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
449 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
450 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
451
452config KALLSYMS_ALL
453 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
455 help
456 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
457 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
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458 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
459 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
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461 Say N.
462
463config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
464 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
465 depends on KALLSYMS
466 help
467 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
468 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
469 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
470 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
471 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
472 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
473
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475config HOTPLUG
476 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
477 default y
478 help
479 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
480 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
481 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
482 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
483
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484config PRINTK
485 default y
486 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
487 help
488 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
489 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
490 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
491 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
492 strongly discouraged.
493
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494config BUG
495 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
496 default y
497 help
498 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
499 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
500 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
501 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
502 Just say Y.
503
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504config ELF_CORE
505 default y
506 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
507 help
508 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
509
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510config BASE_FULL
511 default y
512 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
513 help
514 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
515 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
516 but may reduce performance.
517
518config FUTEX
519 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
520 default y
23f78d4a 521 select RT_MUTEXES
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522 help
523 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
524 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
525 run glibc-based applications correctly.
526
5dc8bf81 527config ANON_INODES
448e3cee 528 bool
5dc8bf81 529
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530config EPOLL
531 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
532 default y
448e3cee 533 select ANON_INODES
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534 help
535 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
536 support for epoll family of system calls.
537
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538config SIGNALFD
539 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 540 select ANON_INODES
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541 default y
542 help
543 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
544 on a file descriptor.
545
546 If unsure, say Y.
547
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548config TIMERFD
549 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 550 select ANON_INODES
e4260197 551 depends on BROKEN
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552 default y
553 help
554 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
555 events on a file descriptor.
556
557 If unsure, say Y.
558
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559config EVENTFD
560 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 561 select ANON_INODES
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562 default y
563 help
564 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
565 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
566
567 If unsure, say Y.
568
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569config SHMEM
570 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
571 default y
572 depends on MMU
573 help
574 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
575 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
576 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
577 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
578 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
579
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580config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
581 default y
582 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
583 help
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584 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
585 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
586 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
587 if VM event counters are disabled.
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589config SLUB_DEBUG
590 default y
591 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
d4751a27 592 depends on SLUB
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593 help
594 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
595 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
596 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
597 no support for cache validation etc.
598
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600 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 601 default SLUB
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603 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
604
605config SLAB
606 bool "SLAB"
607 help
608 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 609 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
81819f0f 610 per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
34013886 611 a slab allocator.
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613config SLUB
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614 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
615 help
616 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
617 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
618 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
619 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
34013886 620 and has enhanced diagnostics.
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622config SLOB
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624 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
625 help
626 SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
afc0cedb 627 allocator. SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not
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628 scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly
629 susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object
630 density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB.
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632endchoice
633
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634endmenu # General setup
635
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636config RT_MUTEXES
637 boolean
638 select PLIST
639
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640config TINY_SHMEM
641 default !SHMEM
642 bool
643
644config BASE_SMALL
645 int
646 default 0 if BASE_FULL
647 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
648
66da5733 649menuconfig MODULES
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650 bool "Enable loadable module support"
651 help
652 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
653 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
654 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
655 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
656 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
657 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
658 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
659 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
660 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
661
662 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
663 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
664 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
665 this).
666
667 If unsure, say Y.
668
669config MODULE_UNLOAD
670 bool "Module unloading"
671 depends on MODULES
672 help
673 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
674 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
675 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
676 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
677
678config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
679 bool "Forced module unloading"
680 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
681 help
682 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
683 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
684 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
685 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
686 If unsure, say N.
687
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689 bool "Module versioning support"
690 depends on MODULES
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691 help
692 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
693 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
694 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
695 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
696 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
697 unsure, say N.
698
699config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
700 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
701 depends on MODULES
702 help
703 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
704 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
705 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
706 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
707 others sometimes change the module source without updating
708 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
709 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
710
711config KMOD
712 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
713 depends on MODULES
714 help
715 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
716 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
717 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
718 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
719 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
720 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
721 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
722
723config STOP_MACHINE
724 bool
725 default y
726 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
727 help
728 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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732config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
733 bool