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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42 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are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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274#
275# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
276#
277config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
278 bool
279
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280config GROUP_SCHED
281 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
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282 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
283 default n
29f59db3 284 help
fb615581 285 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9b5b7751 286 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
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287 In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use
288 CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.)
29f59db3 289
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290config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
291 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
292 depends on GROUP_SCHED
aac6abca 293 default GROUP_SCHED
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295config RT_GROUP_SCHED
296 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
297 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
298 depends on GROUP_SCHED
299 default n
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300 help
301 This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
302 to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks"
303 setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to
304 schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate
305 realtime bandwidth for them.
2fe401e3 306 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
052f1dc7 307
24e377a8 308choice
052f1dc7 309 depends on GROUP_SCHED
24e377a8 310 prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
052f1dc7 311 default USER_SCHED
24e377a8 312
052f1dc7 313config USER_SCHED
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314 bool "user id"
315 help
316 This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
317 tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
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052f1dc7 319config CGROUP_SCHED
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320 bool "Control groups"
321 depends on CGROUPS
322 help
323 This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
324 using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
325 the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
326 Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
327 on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
328
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330
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331menu "Control Group support"
332config CGROUPS
333 bool "Control Group support"
334 help
335 This option add support for grouping sets of processes together, for
336 use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
337 controls or device isolation.
338 See
339 - Documentation/cpusets.txt (Cpusets)
340 - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS)
341 - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation)
342 - Documentation/controllers/ (features for resource control)
343
344 Say N if unsure.
345
346config CGROUP_DEBUG
347 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
348 depends on CGROUPS
349 default n
350 help
351 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
352 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
353 framework
354
355 Say N if unsure
356
357config CGROUP_NS
358 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
359 depends on CGROUPS
360 help
361 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
362 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
363 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
364 jobs.
365
366config CGROUP_FREEZER
367 bool "control group freezer subsystem"
368 depends on CGROUPS
369 help
370 Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
371 cgroup.
372
373config CGROUP_DEVICE
374 bool "Device controller for cgroups"
375 depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL
376 help
377 Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which
378 a process in the cgroup can mknod or open.
379
380config CPUSETS
381 bool "Cpuset support"
382 depends on SMP && CGROUPS
383 help
384 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
385 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
386 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
387 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
388
389 Say N if unsure.
390
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391config CGROUP_CPUACCT
392 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
393 depends on CGROUPS
394 help
395 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
396 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
397
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398config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
399 bool "Resource counters"
400 help
401 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
402 infrastructure that works with cgroups
403 depends on CGROUPS
404
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405config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
406 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
407 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
cf475ad2 408 select MM_OWNER
00f0b825 409 help
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410 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
411 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
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412
413 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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414 associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
415 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
416 usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
417 at boot.
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419 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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420 sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
421 this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
422 disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
c9d5409f 423 (and lose benefits of memory resource controller)
00f0b825 424
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425 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
426 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
427
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428config MM_OWNER
429 bool
430
431endmenu
432
88a22c98 433config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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434 bool
435
436config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
fce3e804 437 bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools"
9148fe87 438 depends on SYSFS
88a22c98 439 default y
d47846c5 440 select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
88a22c98 441 help
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442 This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
443 version.
444
445 The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
446 /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
447 class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
448 unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
449 /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
450 /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
451 "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
452 class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
453 subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
454 depend on the unified device tree.
455
456 This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
457 be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
458 layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
459 and disable some features, which can not be exported without
460 confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
461 distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
462 depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
463
464 If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
465 older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
466 if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
467 this option set to N.
88a22c98 468
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469config PROC_PID_CPUSET
470 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
471 depends on CPUSETS
472 default y
473
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474config RELAY
475 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
476 help
477 This option enables support for relay interface support in
478 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
479 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
480 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
481 user space.
482
483 If unsure, say N.
484
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485config NAMESPACES
486 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
487 default !EMBEDDED
488 help
489 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
490 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
491 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
492 different namespaces.
493
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494config UTS_NS
495 bool "UTS namespace"
496 depends on NAMESPACES
497 help
498 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
499 uname() system call
500
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501config IPC_NS
502 bool "IPC namespace"
503 depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC
504 help
505 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
506 different IPC objects in different namespaces
507
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508config USER_NS
509 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
510 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
511 help
512 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
513 to provide different user info for different servers.
514 If unsure, say N.
515
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516config PID_NS
517 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
518 default n
519 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
520 help
12d2b8f9 521 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
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522 process with the same pid as long as they are in different
523 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
524
525 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
526 say N here.
527
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528config BLK_DEV_INITRD
529 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
530 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
531 help
532 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
533 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
534 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
535 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
536 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
537
538 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
539 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
540 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
541
542 If unsure say Y.
543
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544if BLK_DEV_INITRD
545
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546source "usr/Kconfig"
547
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548endif
549
c45b4f1f 550config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
96fffeb4 551 bool "Optimize for size"
c45b4f1f 552 default y
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553 help
554 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
555 resulting in a smaller kernel.
556
775a7229 557 If unsure, say Y.
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559config SYSCTL
560 bool
561
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562menuconfig EMBEDDED
563 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
564 help
565 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
566 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
567 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
568 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
569
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570config UID16
571 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
09337f50 572 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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573 default y
574 help
575 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
576
b89a8171 577config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
0847062a 578 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
13bb7e37 579 default y
b89a8171 580 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 581 ---help---
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582 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
583 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
584 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
585 information.
b89a8171 586
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587 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
588 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
589 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 590
13bb7e37 591 If unsure say Y here.
ae81f9e3 592
1da177e4 593config KALLSYMS
979c6a1e 594 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
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595 default y
596 help
597 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
598 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
599 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
600
601config KALLSYMS_ALL
602 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
603 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
604 help
605 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
606 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
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607 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
608 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
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609
610 Say N.
611
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612config KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED
613 bool "Strip machine generated symbols from kallsyms"
614 depends on KALLSYMS_ALL
615 default y
616 help
617 Say N if you want kallsyms to retain even machine generated symbols.
618
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619config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
620 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
621 depends on KALLSYMS
622 help
623 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
624 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
625 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
626 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
627 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
628 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
629
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631config HOTPLUG
632 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
633 default y
634 help
635 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
636 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
637 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
638 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
639
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640config PRINTK
641 default y
642 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
643 help
644 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
645 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
646 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
647 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
648 strongly discouraged.
649
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650config BUG
651 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
652 default y
653 help
654 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
655 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
656 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
657 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
658 Just say Y.
659
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660config ELF_CORE
661 default y
662 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
663 help
664 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
665
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666config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
667 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
668 depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
669 default y
670 help
671 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
672 support, saving some memory.
673
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675 bool "Disable heap randomization"
676 default y
677 help
678 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
679 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
680 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
681 disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
682 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
683
166124fd 684 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
32a93233 685
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686config BASE_FULL
687 default y
688 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
689 help
690 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
691 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
692 but may reduce performance.
693
694config FUTEX
695 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
696 default y
23f78d4a 697 select RT_MUTEXES
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699 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
700 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
701 run glibc-based applications correctly.
702
5dc8bf81 703config ANON_INODES
448e3cee 704 bool
5dc8bf81 705
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706config EPOLL
707 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
708 default y
448e3cee 709 select ANON_INODES
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711 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
712 support for epoll family of system calls.
713
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715 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 716 select ANON_INODES
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717 default y
718 help
719 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
720 on a file descriptor.
721
722 If unsure, say Y.
723
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725 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 726 select ANON_INODES
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727 default y
728 help
729 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
730 events on a file descriptor.
731
732 If unsure, say Y.
733
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735 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 736 select ANON_INODES
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738 help
739 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
740 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
741
742 If unsure, say Y.
743
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745 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
746 default y
747 depends on MMU
748 help
749 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
750 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
751 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
752 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
753 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
754
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755config AIO
756 bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
757 default y
758 help
759 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
760 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
761 this option saves about 7k.
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764 default y
765 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
766 help
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768 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
769 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
770 if VM event counters are disabled.
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772config PCI_QUIRKS
773 default y
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774 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
775 depends on PCI
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777 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
778 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
779 unaffected by PCI quirks.
780
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781config SLUB_DEBUG
782 default y
783 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
f6acb635 784 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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786 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
787 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
788 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
789 no support for cache validation etc.
790
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792 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 793 default SLUB
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795 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
796
797config SLAB
798 bool "SLAB"
799 help
800 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 801 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
02f56210 802 per cpu and per node queues.
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804config SLUB
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805 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
806 help
807 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
808 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
809 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
810 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
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812 a slab allocator.
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814config SLOB
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816 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
817 help
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818 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
819 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
820 does not perform as well on large systems.
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825 bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
826 help
827 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
828 by profilers such as OProfile.
829
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831# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
832# dynamically changed for a probe function.
833#
97e1c18e 834config TRACEPOINTS
5f87f112 835 bool
97e1c18e 836
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838 bool "Activate markers"
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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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863 int
864 default 0 if BASE_FULL
865 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
866
66da5733 867menuconfig MODULES
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868 bool "Enable loadable module support"
869 help
870 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
871 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
872 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
873 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
874 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
875 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
876 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
877 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
878 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
879
880 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
881 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
882 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
883 this).
884
885 If unsure, say Y.
886
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888
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889config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
890 bool "Forced module loading"
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891 default n
892 help
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894 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
895 is usually a really bad idea.
826e4506 896
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898 bool "Module unloading"
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900 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
901 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
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903 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
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905config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
906 bool "Forced module unloading"
907 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
908 help
909 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
910 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
911 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
912 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
913 If unsure, say N.
914
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0d541643 916 bool "Module versioning support"
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918 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
919 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
920 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
921 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
922 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
923 unsure, say N.
924
925config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
926 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
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928 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
929 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
930 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
931 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
932 others sometimes change the module source without updating
933 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
934 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
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939 bool
940 help
941 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
942 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
943 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
944 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
945 and have several arch maintainers persuing me down dark alleys.
946
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948 bool
949 default y
950 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
951 help
952 Need stop_machine() primitive.
3a65dfe8 953
3a65dfe8 954source "block/Kconfig"
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956config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
957 bool
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960 prompt "RCU Implementation"
961 default CLASSIC_RCU
962
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12d79baf 964 bool "Classic RCU"
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966 This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
967 designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
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969
970 Select this option if you are unsure.
971
972config TREE_RCU
973 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
974 help
975 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
976 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
977 thousands of CPUs.
978
979config PREEMPT_RCU
980 bool "Preemptible RCU"
981 depends on PREEMPT
982 help
983 This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
984 RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
985 this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
986 preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
987 now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
988 remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
989
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991
992config RCU_TRACE
993 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
994 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
995 help
996 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
997 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
998
999 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
1000 Say N if you are unsure.
1001
1002config RCU_FANOUT
1003 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
1004 range 2 64 if 64BIT
1005 range 2 32 if !64BIT
1006 depends on TREE_RCU
1007 default 64 if 64BIT
1008 default 32 if !64BIT
1009 help
1010 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
1011 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
1012 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube
1013 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
1014 systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
1015
1016 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
1017 Take the default if unsure.
1018
1019config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
1020 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
1021 depends on TREE_RCU
1022 default n
1023 help
1024 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
1025 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
1026 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
1027 strong NUMA behavior.
1028
1029 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
1030
1031 Say N if unsure.
1032
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1034 def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU
1035 select DEBUG_FS
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1037 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation,
1038 permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
1039
1040config PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE
1041 def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU
1042 select DEBUG_FS
1043 help
1044 This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation,
1045 permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c.