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1config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
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9config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
b2670eac 11 depends on !UML
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12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
73531905 16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
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17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
ff0cfc66 19menu "General setup"
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20
21config EXPERIMENTAL
22 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
23 ---help---
24 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
25 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
26 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
27 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
28 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
29 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
30 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
31 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
32 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
33 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
34 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
35 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
36 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
37 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
38 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
39 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
40
41 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
42 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
43 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
44
45 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
46 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
47 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
48 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
49 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
50 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
51
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52config BROKEN
53 bool
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54
55config BROKEN_ON_SMP
56 bool
57 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
58 default y
59
60config LOCK_KERNEL
61 bool
62 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
63 default y
64
65config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
66 int
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67 default 32 if !UML
68 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 69 help
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70 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
71 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
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73
74config LOCALVERSION
75 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
76 help
77 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
78 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
79 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
80 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
81 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
82 be a maximum of 64 characters.
83
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84config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
85 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
86 default y
87 help
88 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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89 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
90 top of tree revision.
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91
92 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 93 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 94 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 95 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 96
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97 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
98 by running the command:
99
100 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
101
102 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
aaebf433 103
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104config SWAP
105 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 106 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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107 default y
108 help
109 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 110 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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111 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
112 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
113
114config SYSVIPC
115 bool "System V IPC"
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116 ---help---
117 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
118 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
119 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
120 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
121 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
122 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
123 you'll need to say Y here.
124
125 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
126 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
127 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
128
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129config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
130 bool
131 depends on SYSVIPC
132 depends on SYSCTL
133 default y
134
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135config POSIX_MQUEUE
136 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
137 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
138 ---help---
139 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
140 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
141 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
142 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 143 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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144
145 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
146 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
147 operations on message queues.
148
149 If unsure, say Y.
150
151config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
152 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
153 help
154 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
155 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
156 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
157 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
158 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
159 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
160 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
161 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
162 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
163
164config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
165 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
166 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
167 default n
168 help
169 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
170 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
171 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
172 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
173 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
37a4c940 174 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
1da177e4 175
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176config TASKSTATS
177 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
178 depends on NET
179 default n
180 help
181 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
182 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
183 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
184 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
185 space on task exit.
186
187 Say N if unsure.
188
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189config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
190 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 191 depends on TASKSTATS
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192 help
193 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
194 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
195 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
196 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
197
198 Say N if unsure.
199
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200config TASK_XACCT
201 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
202 depends on TASKSTATS
203 help
204 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
205 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
206
207 Say N if unsure.
208
209config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
210 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
211 depends on TASK_XACCT
212 help
213 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
214 task has caused.
215
216 Say N if unsure.
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"
1322b9de 229 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
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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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237config AUDIT_TREE
238 def_bool y
239 depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
240
1da177e4 241config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 242 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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243 ---help---
244 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
245 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
246 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
247 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
248 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
249 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
250 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
251 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
252
253config IKCONFIG_PROC
254 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
255 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
256 ---help---
257 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
258 through /proc/config.gz.
259
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260config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
261 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
262 range 12 21
f17a32e9 263 default 17
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264 help
265 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
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266 Examples:
267 17 => 128 KB
268 16 => 64 KB
269 15 => 32 KB
270 14 => 16 KB
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271 13 => 8 KB
272 12 => 4 KB
273
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274config CGROUPS
275 bool "Control Group support"
276 help
277 This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
278 such as Cpusets
279
280 Say N if unsure.
281
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282config CGROUP_DEBUG
283 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
284 depends on CGROUPS
418d7d87 285 default n
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286 help
287 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
288 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
289 framework
290
291 Say N if unsure
292
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293config CGROUP_NS
294 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
295 depends on CGROUPS
296 help
297 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
298 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
299 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
300 jobs.
301
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302config CGROUP_FREEZER
303 bool "control group freezer subsystem"
304 depends on CGROUPS
305 help
306 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
307 cgroup.
308
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309config CGROUP_DEVICE
310 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
311 depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
312 help
313 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
314 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
315
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316config CPUSETS
317 bool "Cpuset support"
8793d854 318 depends on SMP && CGROUPS
1da177e4 319 help
d9fd8a6d 320 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
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321 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
322 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
323 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
324
325 Say N if unsure.
326
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327#
328# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
329#
330config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
331 bool
332
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333config GROUP_SCHED
334 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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335 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
336 default n
29f59db3 337 help
fb615581 338 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9b5b7751 339 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
29f59db3 340
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341config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
342 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
343 depends on GROUP_SCHED
aac6abca 344 default GROUP_SCHED
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345
346config RT_GROUP_SCHED
347 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
348 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
349 depends on GROUP_SCHED
350 default n
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351 help
352 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
353 to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
354 setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
355 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
356 realtime bandwidth for them.
2fe401e3 357 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
052f1dc7 358
24e377a8 359choice
052f1dc7 360 depends on GROUP_SCHED
24e377a8 361 prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
052f1dc7 362 default USER_SCHED
24e377a8 363
052f1dc7 364config USER_SCHED
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365 bool "user id"
366 help
367 This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
368 tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
24e377a8 369
052f1dc7 370config CGROUP_SCHED
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371 bool "Control groups"
372 depends on CGROUPS
373 help
374 This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
375 using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
376 the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
377 Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
378 on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
379
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381
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382config CGROUP_CPUACCT
383 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
384 depends on CGROUPS
385 help
386 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
387 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
388
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389config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
390 bool "Resource counters"
391 help
392 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
393 infrastructure that works with cgroups
394 depends on CGROUPS
395
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396config MM_OWNER
397 bool
398
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399config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
400 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
401 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 402 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 403 help
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404 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
405 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
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406
407 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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408 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
409 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
410 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
411 at boot.
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413 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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414 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
415 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
416 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
417 (and lose benefits of memory resource contoller)
00f0b825 418
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419 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
420 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
421
88a22c98 422config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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423 bool
424
425config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
88a22c98 426 bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
9148fe87 427 depends on SYSFS
88a22c98 428 default y
d47846c5 429 select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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430 help
431 This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
432 "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
433 "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
434 uevent environment.
435 None of these features or values should be used today, as
436 they export driver core implementation details to userspace
437 or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
438 releases.
439
440 If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
3dde6ad8 441 that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
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442 order to support older versions of udev and some userspace
443 programs.
88a22c98 444
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445 If you are using a distro with the most recent userspace
446 packages, it should be safe to say N here.
88a22c98 447
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448config PROC_PID_CPUSET
449 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
450 depends on CPUSETS
451 default y
452
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453config RELAY
454 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
455 help
456 This option enables support for relay interface support in
457 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
458 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
459 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
460 user space.
461
462 If unsure, say N.
463
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464config NAMESPACES
465 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
466 default !EMBEDDED
467 help
468 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
469 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
470 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
471 different namespaces.
472
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473config UTS_NS
474 bool "UTS namespace"
475 depends on NAMESPACES
476 help
477 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
478 uname() system call
479
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480config IPC_NS
481 bool "IPC namespace"
482 depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC
483 help
484 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
485 different IPC objects in different namespaces
486
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487config USER_NS
488 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
489 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
490 help
491 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
492 to provide different user info for different servers.
493 If unsure, say N.
494
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495config PID_NS
496 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
497 default n
498 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
499 help
12d2b8f9 500 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
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501 process with the same pid as long as they are in different
502 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
503
504 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
505 say N here.
506
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507config BLK_DEV_INITRD
508 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
509 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
510 help
511 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
512 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
513 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
514 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
515 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
516
517 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
518 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
519 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
520
521 If unsure say Y.
522
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523if BLK_DEV_INITRD
524
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525source "usr/Kconfig"
526
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527endif
528
c45b4f1f 529config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 530 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 531 default y
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532 help
533 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
534 resulting in a smaller kernel.
535
775a7229 536 If unsure, say Y.
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538config SYSCTL
539 bool
540
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541menuconfig EMBEDDED
542 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
543 help
544 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
545 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
546 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
547 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
548
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549config UID16
550 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
09337f50 551 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
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552 default y
553 help
554 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
555
b89a8171 556config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
0847062a 557 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
13bb7e37 558 default y
b89a8171 559 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 560 ---help---
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561 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
562 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
563 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
564 information.
b89a8171 565
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566 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
567 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
568 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 569
13bb7e37 570 If unsure say Y here.
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1da177e4 572config KALLSYMS
979c6a1e 573 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
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574 default y
575 help
576 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
577 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
578 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
579
580config KALLSYMS_ALL
581 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
582 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
583 help
584 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
585 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
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586 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
587 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
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588
589 Say N.
590
591config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
592 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
593 depends on KALLSYMS
594 help
595 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
596 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
597 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
598 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
599 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
600 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
601
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603config HOTPLUG
604 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
605 default y
606 help
607 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
608 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
609 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
610 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
611
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612config PRINTK
613 default y
614 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
615 help
616 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
617 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
618 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
619 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
620 strongly discouraged.
621
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622config BUG
623 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
624 default y
625 help
626 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
627 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
628 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
629 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
630 Just say Y.
631
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632config ELF_CORE
633 default y
634 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
635 help
636 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
637
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638config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
639 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
640 depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
641 default y
642 help
643 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
644 support, saving some memory.
645
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646config COMPAT_BRK
647 bool "Disable heap randomization"
648 default y
649 help
650 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
651 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
652 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
653 disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
654 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
655
166124fd 656 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
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658config BASE_FULL
659 default y
660 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
661 help
662 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
663 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
664 but may reduce performance.
665
666config FUTEX
667 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
668 default y
23f78d4a 669 select RT_MUTEXES
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670 help
671 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
672 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
673 run glibc-based applications correctly.
674
5dc8bf81 675config ANON_INODES
448e3cee 676 bool
5dc8bf81 677
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678config EPOLL
679 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
680 default y
448e3cee 681 select ANON_INODES
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682 help
683 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
684 support for epoll family of system calls.
685
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686config SIGNALFD
687 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 688 select ANON_INODES
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689 default y
690 help
691 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
692 on a file descriptor.
693
694 If unsure, say Y.
695
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696config TIMERFD
697 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 698 select ANON_INODES
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699 default y
700 help
701 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
702 events on a file descriptor.
703
704 If unsure, say Y.
705
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706config EVENTFD
707 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 708 select ANON_INODES
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709 default y
710 help
711 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
712 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
713
714 If unsure, say Y.
715
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717 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
718 default y
719 depends on MMU
720 help
721 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
722 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
723 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
724 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
725 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
726
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727config AIO
728 bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
729 default y
730 help
731 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
732 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
733 this option saves about 7k.
734
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736 bool
737
738menu "Performance Counters"
739
740config PERF_COUNTERS
741 bool "Kernel Performance Counters"
742 depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
743 default y
744 help
745 Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware.
746
747 Performance counters are special hardware registers available
748 on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain
749 types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
750 suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
751 kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
752 when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
753 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
754
755 The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of
756 these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It
757 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
758 capabilities on top of those.
759
760 Say Y if unsure.
761
762endmenu
763
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765 default y
766 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
767 help
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768 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
769 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
770 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
771 if VM event counters are disabled.
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774 default y
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775 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
776 depends on PCI
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778 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
779 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
780 unaffected by PCI quirks.
781
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783 default y
784 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
f6acb635 785 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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787 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
788 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
789 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
790 no support for cache validation etc.
791
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793 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 794 default SLUB
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796 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
797
798config SLAB
799 bool "SLAB"
800 help
801 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 802 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 803 per cpu and per node queues.
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805config SLUB
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806 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
807 help
808 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
809 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
810 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
811 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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812 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
813 a slab allocator.
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815config SLOB
84a01c2f 816 depends on EMBEDDED
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817 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
818 help
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819 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
820 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
821 does not perform as well on large systems.
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824
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826 bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
827 help
828 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
829 by profilers such as OProfile.
830
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832# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
833# dynamically changed for a probe function.
834#
97e1c18e 835config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 836 bool
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839 bool "Activate markers"
840 help
841 Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
842 dynamically changed for a probe function.
843
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845
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847
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848config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
849 bool
850 default n
851
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852config SLABINFO
853 bool
854 depends on PROC_FS
0f389ec6 855 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
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856 default y
857
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858config RT_MUTEXES
859 boolean
860 select PLIST
861
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862config TINY_SHMEM
863 default !SHMEM
864 bool
865
866config BASE_SMALL
867 int
868 default 0 if BASE_FULL
869 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
870
66da5733 871menuconfig MODULES
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872 bool "Enable loadable module support"
873 help
874 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
875 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
876 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
877 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
878 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
879 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
880 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
881 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
882 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
883
884 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
885 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
886 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
887 this).
888
889 If unsure, say Y.
890
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892
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894 bool "Forced module loading"
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895 default n
896 help
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897 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
898 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
899 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 900
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901config MODULE_UNLOAD
902 bool "Module unloading"
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904 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
905 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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906 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
907 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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909config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
910 bool "Forced module unloading"
911 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
912 help
913 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
914 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
915 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
916 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
917 If unsure, say N.
918
1da177e4 919config MODVERSIONS
0d541643 920 bool "Module versioning support"
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921 help
922 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
923 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
924 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
925 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
926 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
927 unsure, say N.
928
929config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
930 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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931 help
932 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
933 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
934 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
935 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
936 others sometimes change the module source without updating
937 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
938 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
939
940config KMOD
baabaae9 941 def_bool y
1da177e4 942 help
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943 This is being removed soon. These days, CONFIG_MODULES
944 implies CONFIG_KMOD, so use that instead.
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947
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948config STOP_MACHINE
949 bool
950 default y
951 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
952 help
953 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 955source "block/Kconfig"
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957config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
958 bool
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e260be67 960config CLASSIC_RCU
21bbb39c 961 def_bool !PREEMPT_RCU
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963 This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
964 designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
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966 PREEMPT_RCU symbol is used to select/deselect this option.