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1222 | config ARCH string option env="ARCH" config KERNELVERSION string option env="KERNELVERSION" config DEFCONFIG_LIST string depends on !UML option defconfig_list default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" default "/etc/kernel-config" default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" config CONSTRUCTORS bool depends on !UML default y menu "General setup" config EXPERIMENTAL bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" ---help--- Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires using these features, you should probably say N here, which will cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. config BROKEN bool config BROKEN_ON_SMP bool depends on BROKEN || !SMP default y config LOCK_KERNEL bool depends on SMP || PREEMPT default y config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT int default 32 if !UML default 128 if UML help Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment variables passed to init from the kernel command line. config LOCALVERSION string "Local version - append to kernel release" help Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. This will show up when you type uname, for example. The string you set here will be appended after the contents of any files with a filename matching localversion* in your object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can be a maximum of 64 characters. config LOCALVERSION_AUTO bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" default y help This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current top of tree revision. A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced by running the command: $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP bool config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 bool config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA bool choice prompt "Kernel compression mode" default KERNEL_GZIP depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA help The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. Several compression algorithms are available, which differ in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was supplied by Christian Ludwig) High compression options are mostly useful for users, who are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram size matters less. If in doubt, select 'gzip' config KERNEL_GZIP bool "Gzip" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP help The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. config KERNEL_BZIP2 bool "Bzip2" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 help Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. config KERNEL_LZMA bool "LZMA" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA help The most recent compression algorithm. Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. endchoice config SWAP bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" depends on MMU && BLOCK default y help This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present in your computer. If unsure say Y. config SYSVIPC bool "System V IPC" ---help--- Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), you'll need to say Y here. You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL bool depends on SYSVIPC depends on SYSCTL default y config POSIX_MQUEUE bool "POSIX Message Queues" depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL ---help--- POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message queues every message has a priority which decides about succession of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem operations on message queues. If unsure, say Y. config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL bool depends on POSIX_MQUEUE depends on SYSCTL default y config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT bool "BSD Process Accounting" help If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The information includes things such as creation time, owning user, command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is up to the user level program to do useful things with this information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT default n help If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. config TASKSTATS bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on NET default n help Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user space on task exit. Say N if unsure. config TASK_DELAY_ACCT bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on TASKSTATS help Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. Say N if unsure. config TASK_XACCT bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on TASKSTATS help Collect extended task accounting data and send the data to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. Say N if unsure. config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on TASK_XACCT help Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this task has caused. Say N if unsure. config AUDIT bool "Auditing support" depends on NET help Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. config AUDITSYSCALL bool "Enable system-call auditing support" depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) default y if SECURITY_SELINUX help Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please ensure that INOTIFY is configured. config AUDIT_TREE def_bool y depends on AUDITSYSCALL select INOTIFY menu "RCU Subsystem" choice prompt "RCU Implementation" default TREE_RCU config TREE_RCU bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" help This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to smaller systems. config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU" depends on PREEMPT help This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response is also required. It also scales down nicely to smaller systems. endchoice config RCU_TRACE bool "Enable tracing for RCU" depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU help This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing Say N if you are unsure. config RCU_FANOUT int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" range 2 64 if 64BIT range 2 32 if !64BIT depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU default 64 if 64BIT default 32 if !64BIT help This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. Take the default if unsure. config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU default n help This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with strong NUMA behavior. Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. Say N if unsure. config TREE_RCU_TRACE def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) select DEBUG_FS help This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" config IKCONFIG tristate "Kernel .config support" ---help--- This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). config IKCONFIG_PROC bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS ---help--- This option enables access to the kernel configuration file through /proc/config.gz. config LOG_BUF_SHIFT int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" range 12 21 default 17 help Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. Examples: 17 => 128 KB 16 => 64 KB 15 => 32 KB 14 => 16 KB 13 => 8 KB 12 => 4 KB # # Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: # config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK bool config GROUP_SCHED bool "Group CPU scheduler" depends on EXPERIMENTAL default n help This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU bandwidth allocation to such task groups. In order to create a group from arbitrary set of processes, use CONFIG_CGROUPS. (See Control Group support.) config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" depends on GROUP_SCHED default GROUP_SCHED config RT_GROUP_SCHED bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" depends on EXPERIMENTAL depends on GROUP_SCHED default n help This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth to users or control groups (depending on the "Basis for grouping tasks" setting below. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate realtime bandwidth for them. See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. choice depends on GROUP_SCHED prompt "Basis for grouping tasks" default USER_SCHED config USER_SCHED bool "user id" help This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user. config CGROUP_SCHED bool "Control groups" depends on CGROUPS help This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group. Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. endchoice menuconfig CGROUPS boolean "Control Group support" help This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory controls or device isolation. See - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation and resource control) Say N if unsure. if CGROUPS config CGROUP_DEBUG bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" depends on CGROUPS default n help This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that exports useful debugging information about the cgroups framework. Say N if unsure. config CGROUP_NS bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" depends on CGROUPS help Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart jobs. config CGROUP_FREEZER bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" depends on CGROUPS help Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a cgroup. config CGROUP_DEVICE bool "Device controller for cgroups" depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL help Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. config CPUSETS bool "Cpuset support" depends on CGROUPS help This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. Say N if unsure. config PROC_PID_CPUSET bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" depends on CPUSETS default y config CGROUP_CPUACCT bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" depends on CGROUPS help Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. config RESOURCE_COUNTERS bool "Resource counters" help This option enables controller independent resource accounting infrastructure that works with cgroups. depends on CGROUPS config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS select MM_OWNER help Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out at boot. Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL help Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. endif # CGROUPS config MM_OWNER bool config SYSFS_DEPRECATED bool config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 bool "enable deprecated sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools" depends on SYSFS default n select SYSFS_DEPRECATED help This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated version. Do not use it on recent distributions. The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which depend on the unified device tree. This option is not a pure compatibility option that can be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, and disable some features, which can not be exported without confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which depend on the deprecated layout or this option. If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has this option set to N. config RELAY bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" help This option enables support for relay interface support in certain file systems (such as debugfs). It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to user space. If unsure, say N. config NAMESPACES bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED default !EMBEDDED help Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in different namespaces. config UTS_NS bool "UTS namespace" depends on NAMESPACES help In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the uname() system call config IPC_NS bool "IPC namespace" depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) help In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to different IPC objects in different namespaces. config USER_NS bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL help This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different user info for different servers. If unsure, say N. config PID_NS bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" default n depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL help Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple processes with the same pid as long as they are in different pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. Unless you want to work with an experimental feature say N here. config NET_NS bool "Network namespace" default n depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET help Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances of the network stack. config BLK_DEV_INITRD bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" depends on BROKEN || !FRV help The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. If unsure say Y. if BLK_DEV_INITRD source "usr/Kconfig" endif config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE bool "Optimize for size" default y help Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc resulting in a smaller kernel. If unsure, say Y. config SYSCTL bool config ANON_INODES bool menuconfig EMBEDDED bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" help This option allows certain base kernel options and settings to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. Only use this if you really know what you are doing. config UID16 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) default y help This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. config SYSCTL_SYSCALL bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED default y select SYSCTL ---help--- sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this information. Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, making your kernel marginally smaller. If unsure say Y here. config KALLSYMS bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED default y help Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. config KALLSYMS_ALL bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS help Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. Say N. config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" depends on KALLSYMS help If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. config HOTPLUG bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED default y help This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. config PRINTK default y bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED help This option enables normal printk support. Removing it eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is strongly discouraged. config BUG bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED default y help Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. Just say Y. config ELF_CORE default y bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED help Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. config PCSPKR_PLATFORM bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES default y help This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker support, saving some memory. config BASE_FULL default y bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED help Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, but may reduce performance. config FUTEX bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED default y select RT_MUTEXES help Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not run glibc-based applications correctly. config EPOLL bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED default y select ANON_INODES help Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without support for epoll family of system calls. config SIGNALFD bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED select ANON_INODES default y help Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals on a file descriptor. If unsure, say Y. config TIMERFD bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED select ANON_INODES default y help Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer events on a file descriptor. If unsure, say Y. config EVENTFD bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED select ANON_INODES default y help Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. If unsure, say Y. config SHMEM bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED default y depends on MMU help The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. config AIO bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED default y help This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling this option saves about 7k. config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS bool help See tools/perf/design.txt for details. config PERF_USE_VMALLOC bool help See tools/perf/design.txt for details menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" config PERF_EVENTS bool "Kernel performance events and counters" default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS select ANON_INODES help Enable kernel support for various performance events provided by software and hardware. Software events are supported either built-in or via the use of generic tracepoints. Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance counter registers. These registers count the number of certain types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event capabilities on top of those. Say Y if unsure. config EVENT_PROFILE bool "Tracepoint profiling sources" depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING default y help Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance events. When this is enabled, you can create perf events based on tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.) config PERF_COUNTERS bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS help This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS config option - please see that one for details. It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. Say N if unsure. config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC default n bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL select PERF_USE_VMALLOC help Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms that don't require it. Say N if unsure. endmenu config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS default y bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED help VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts if VM event counters are disabled. config PCI_QUIRKS default y bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED depends on PCI help This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is unaffected by PCI quirks. config SLUB_DEBUG default y bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED depends on SLUB && SYSFS help SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can result in significant savings in code size. This also disables SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be no support for cache validation etc. config COMPAT_BRK bool "Disable heap randomization" default y help Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. choice prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" default SLUB help This option allows to select a slab allocator. config SLAB bool "SLAB" help The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in per cpu and per node queues. config SLUB bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" help SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for a slab allocator. config SLOB depends on EMBEDDED bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" help SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but does not perform as well on large systems. endchoice config PROFILING bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" help Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used by profilers such as OProfile. # # Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be # dynamically changed for a probe function. # config TRACEPOINTS bool source "arch/Kconfig" config SLOW_WORK default n bool help The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that take a relatively long time. An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch disk. See Documentation/slow-work.txt. config SLOW_WORK_DEBUG bool "Slow work debugging through debugfs" default n depends on SLOW_WORK && DEBUG_FS help Display the contents of the slow work run queue through debugfs, including items currently executing. See Documentation/slow-work.txt. endmenu # General setup config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT bool default n config SLABINFO bool depends on PROC_FS depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG default y config RT_MUTEXES boolean config BASE_SMALL int default 0 if BASE_FULL default 1 if !BASE_FULL menuconfig MODULES bool "Enable loadable module support" help Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most useful for infrequently used options which are not required for booting. For more information, see the man pages for modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. If you say Y here, you will need to run "make modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do this). If unsure, say Y. if MODULES config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD bool "Forced module loading" default n help Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and is usually a really bad idea. config MODULE_UNLOAD bool "Module unloading" help Without this option you will not be able to unload any modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster and simpler. If unsure, say Y. config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD bool "Forced module unloading" depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL help This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. If unsure, say N. config MODVERSIONS bool "Module versioning support" help Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If unsure, say N. config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL bool "Source checksum for all modules" help Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers see exactly which source was used to build a module (since others sometimes change the module source without updating the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. endif # MODULES config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE bool help Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. config STOP_MACHINE bool default y depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU help Need stop_machine() primitive. source "block/Kconfig" config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS bool |