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1 config ARCH
2 string
3 option env="ARCH"
4
5 config KERNELVERSION
6 string
7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
8
9 config DEFCONFIG_LIST
10 string
11 depends on !UML
12 option defconfig_list
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
18
19 menu "General setup"
20
21 config 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42 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are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
52 config BROKEN
53 bool
54
55 config BROKEN_ON_SMP
56 bool
57 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
58 default y
59
60 config LOCK_KERNEL
61 bool
62 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
63 default y
64
65 config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
66 int
67 default 32 if !UML
68 default 128 if UML
69 help
70 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
71 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
72
73
74 config 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
84 config 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
89 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
90 top of tree revision.
91
92 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
93 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
94 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
95 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
96
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".)
103
104 config SWAP
105 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
106 depends on MMU && BLOCK
107 default y
108 help
109 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
110 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
111 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
112 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
113
114 config SYSVIPC
115 bool "System V IPC"
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
129 config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
130 bool
131 depends on SYSVIPC
132 depends on SYSCTL
133 default y
134
135 config 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
143 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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
151 config 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
164 config 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
174 at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
175
176 config 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
189 config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
190 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
191 depends on TASKSTATS
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
200 config 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
209 config 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
218 config AUDIT
219 bool "Auditing support"
220 depends on NET
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
227 config AUDITSYSCALL
228 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
229 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
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,
234 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
235 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
236
237 config AUDIT_TREE
238 def_bool y
239 depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
240
241 config IKCONFIG
242 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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
253 config 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
260 config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
261 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
262 range 12 21
263 default 17
264 help
265 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
266 Examples:
267 17 => 128 KB
268 16 => 64 KB
269 15 => 32 KB
270 14 => 16 KB
271 13 => 8 KB
272 12 => 4 KB
273
274 config 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
282 config CGROUP_DEBUG
283 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
284 depends on CGROUPS
285 default n
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
293 config 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
302 config 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
309 config 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
316 config CPUSETS
317 bool "Cpuset support"
318 depends on SMP && CGROUPS
319 help
320 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
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
327 #
328 # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this:
329 #
330 config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
331 bool
332
333 config GROUP_SCHED
334 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
335 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
336 default n
337 help
338 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
339 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
340
341 config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
342 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
343 depends on GROUP_SCHED
344 default GROUP_SCHED
345
346 config RT_GROUP_SCHED
347 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
348 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
349 depends on GROUP_SCHED
350 default n
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.
357 See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information.
358
359 choice
360 depends on GROUP_SCHED
361 prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
362 default USER_SCHED
363
364 config USER_SCHED
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.
369
370 config CGROUP_SCHED
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
380 endchoice
381
382 config 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
389 config 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
396 config MM_OWNER
397 bool
398
399 config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
400 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
401 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
402 select MM_OWNER
403 help
404 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
405 memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
406
407 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
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.
412
413 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
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)
418
419 This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
420 could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
421
422 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
423 bool
424
425 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
426 bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools"
427 depends on SYSFS
428 default y
429 select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
430 help
431 This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated
432 version.
433
434 The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at
435 /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between
436 class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the
437 unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at
438 /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at
439 /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by
440 "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block"
441 class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some
442 subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which
443 depend on the unified device tree.
444
445 This option is not a pure compatibility option that can
446 be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the
447 layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version,
448 and disable some features, which can not be exported without
449 confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major
450 distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which
451 depend on the deprecated layout or this option.
452
453 If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use
454 older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y,
455 if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
456 this option set to N.
457
458 config PROC_PID_CPUSET
459 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
460 depends on CPUSETS
461 default y
462
463 config RELAY
464 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
465 help
466 This option enables support for relay interface support in
467 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
468 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
469 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
470 user space.
471
472 If unsure, say N.
473
474 config NAMESPACES
475 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
476 default !EMBEDDED
477 help
478 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
479 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
480 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
481 different namespaces.
482
483 config UTS_NS
484 bool "UTS namespace"
485 depends on NAMESPACES
486 help
487 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
488 uname() system call
489
490 config IPC_NS
491 bool "IPC namespace"
492 depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC
493 help
494 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
495 different IPC objects in different namespaces
496
497 config USER_NS
498 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
499 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
500 help
501 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
502 to provide different user info for different servers.
503 If unsure, say N.
504
505 config PID_NS
506 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
507 default n
508 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
509 help
510 Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
511 process with the same pid as long as they are in different
512 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
513
514 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
515 say N here.
516
517 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
518 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
519 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
520 help
521 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
522 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
523 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
524 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
525 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
526
527 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
528 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
529 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
530
531 If unsure say Y.
532
533 if BLK_DEV_INITRD
534
535 source "usr/Kconfig"
536
537 endif
538
539 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
540 bool "Optimize for size"
541 default y
542 help
543 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
544 resulting in a smaller kernel.
545
546 If unsure, say Y.
547
548 config SYSCTL
549 bool
550
551 menuconfig EMBEDDED
552 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
553 help
554 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
555 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
556 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
557 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
558
559 config UID16
560 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
561 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
562 default y
563 help
564 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
565
566 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
567 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
568 default y
569 select SYSCTL
570 ---help---
571 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
572 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
573 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
574 information.
575
576 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
577 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
578 making your kernel marginally smaller.
579
580 If unsure say Y here.
581
582 config KALLSYMS
583 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
584 default y
585 help
586 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
587 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
588 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
589
590 config KALLSYMS_ALL
591 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
592 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
593 help
594 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
595 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
596 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
597 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
598
599 Say N.
600
601 config KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED
602 bool "Strip machine generated symbols from kallsyms"
603 depends on KALLSYMS_ALL
604 default y
605 help
606 Say N if you want kallsyms to retain even machine generated symbols.
607
608 config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
609 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
610 depends on KALLSYMS
611 help
612 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
613 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
614 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
615 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
616 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
617 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
618
619
620 config HOTPLUG
621 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
622 default y
623 help
624 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
625 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
626 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
627 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
628
629 config PRINTK
630 default y
631 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
632 help
633 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
634 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
635 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
636 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
637 strongly discouraged.
638
639 config BUG
640 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
641 default y
642 help
643 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
644 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
645 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
646 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
647 Just say Y.
648
649 config ELF_CORE
650 default y
651 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
652 help
653 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
654
655 config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
656 bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
657 depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
658 default y
659 help
660 This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
661 support, saving some memory.
662
663 config COMPAT_BRK
664 bool "Disable heap randomization"
665 default y
666 help
667 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
668 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
669 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
670 disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
671 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
672
673 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
674
675 config BASE_FULL
676 default y
677 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
678 help
679 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
680 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
681 but may reduce performance.
682
683 config FUTEX
684 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
685 default y
686 select RT_MUTEXES
687 help
688 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
689 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
690 run glibc-based applications correctly.
691
692 config ANON_INODES
693 bool
694
695 config EPOLL
696 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
697 default y
698 select ANON_INODES
699 help
700 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
701 support for epoll family of system calls.
702
703 config SIGNALFD
704 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
705 select ANON_INODES
706 default y
707 help
708 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
709 on a file descriptor.
710
711 If unsure, say Y.
712
713 config TIMERFD
714 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
715 select ANON_INODES
716 default y
717 help
718 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
719 events on a file descriptor.
720
721 If unsure, say Y.
722
723 config EVENTFD
724 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
725 select ANON_INODES
726 default y
727 help
728 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
729 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
730
731 If unsure, say Y.
732
733 config SHMEM
734 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
735 default y
736 depends on MMU
737 help
738 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
739 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
740 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
741 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
742 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
743
744 config AIO
745 bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
746 default y
747 help
748 This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
749 by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
750 this option saves about 7k.
751
752 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
753 default y
754 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
755 help
756 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
757 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
758 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
759 if VM event counters are disabled.
760
761 config PCI_QUIRKS
762 default y
763 bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
764 depends on PCI
765 help
766 This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
767 bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is
768 unaffected by PCI quirks.
769
770 config SLUB_DEBUG
771 default y
772 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
773 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
774 help
775 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
776 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
777 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
778 no support for cache validation etc.
779
780 choice
781 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
782 default SLUB
783 help
784 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
785
786 config SLAB
787 bool "SLAB"
788 help
789 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
790 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
791 per cpu and per node queues.
792
793 config SLUB
794 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
795 help
796 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
797 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
798 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
799 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
800 and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
801 a slab allocator.
802
803 config SLOB
804 depends on EMBEDDED
805 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
806 help
807 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
808 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
809 does not perform as well on large systems.
810
811 endchoice
812
813 config PROFILING
814 bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
815 help
816 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
817 by profilers such as OProfile.
818
819 #
820 # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
821 # dynamically changed for a probe function.
822 #
823 config TRACEPOINTS
824 bool
825
826 config MARKERS
827 bool "Activate markers"
828 depends on TRACEPOINTS
829 help
830 Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
831 dynamically changed for a probe function.
832
833 source "arch/Kconfig"
834
835 endmenu # General setup
836
837 config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
838 bool
839 default n
840
841 config SLABINFO
842 bool
843 depends on PROC_FS
844 depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG
845 default y
846
847 config RT_MUTEXES
848 boolean
849 select PLIST
850
851 config BASE_SMALL
852 int
853 default 0 if BASE_FULL
854 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
855
856 menuconfig MODULES
857 bool "Enable loadable module support"
858 help
859 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
860 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
861 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
862 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
863 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
864 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
865 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
866 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
867 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
868
869 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
870 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
871 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
872 this).
873
874 If unsure, say Y.
875
876 if MODULES
877
878 config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
879 bool "Forced module loading"
880 default n
881 help
882 Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe
883 --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and
884 is usually a really bad idea.
885
886 config MODULE_UNLOAD
887 bool "Module unloading"
888 help
889 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
890 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
891 anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
892 and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
893
894 config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
895 bool "Forced module unloading"
896 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
897 help
898 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
899 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
900 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
901 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
902 If unsure, say N.
903
904 config MODVERSIONS
905 bool "Module versioning support"
906 help
907 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
908 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
909 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
910 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
911 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
912 unsure, say N.
913
914 config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
915 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
916 help
917 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
918 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
919 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
920 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
921 others sometimes change the module source without updating
922 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
923 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
924
925 endif # MODULES
926
927 config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
928 bool
929 help
930 Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
931 cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
932 with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
933 it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
934 and have several arch maintainers persuing me down dark alleys.
935
936 config STOP_MACHINE
937 bool
938 default y
939 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
940 help
941 Need stop_machine() primitive.
942
943 source "block/Kconfig"
944
945 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
946 bool
947
948 choice
949 prompt "RCU Implementation"
950 default CLASSIC_RCU
951
952 config CLASSIC_RCU
953 bool "Classic RCU"
954 help
955 This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
956 designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
957 systems.
958
959 Select this option if you are unsure.
960
961 config TREE_RCU
962 bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
963 help
964 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
965 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
966 thousands of CPUs.
967
968 config PREEMPT_RCU
969 bool "Preemptible RCU"
970 depends on PREEMPT
971 help
972 This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
973 RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
974 this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
975 preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
976 now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
977 remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
978
979 endchoice
980
981 config RCU_TRACE
982 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
983 depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
984 help
985 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
986 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
987
988 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
989 Say N if you are unsure.
990
991 config RCU_FANOUT
992 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
993 range 2 64 if 64BIT
994 range 2 32 if !64BIT
995 depends on TREE_RCU
996 default 64 if 64BIT
997 default 32 if !64BIT
998 help
999 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
1000 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
1001 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube
1002 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
1003 systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
1004
1005 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
1006 Take the default if unsure.
1007
1008 config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
1009 bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
1010 depends on TREE_RCU
1011 default n
1012 help
1013 This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
1014 regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for
1015 testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
1016 strong NUMA behavior.
1017
1018 Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
1019
1020 Say N if unsure.
1021
1022 config TREE_RCU_TRACE
1023 def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU
1024 select DEBUG_FS
1025 help
1026 This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation,
1027 permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
1028
1029 config PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE
1030 def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU
1031 select DEBUG_FS
1032 help
1033 This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation,
1034 permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c.