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42 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are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