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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"
16 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
17
ff0cfc66 18menu "General setup"
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19
20config EXPERIMENTAL
21 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
22 ---help---
23 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
24 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
25 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
26 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
27 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
28 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
29 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
30 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
31 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
32 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
33 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
34 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
35 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
36 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
37 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
38 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
39
40 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
41 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
42 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
43
44 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
45 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
46 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
47 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
48 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
49 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
50
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51config BROKEN
52 bool
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53
54config BROKEN_ON_SMP
55 bool
56 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
57 default y
58
59config LOCK_KERNEL
60 bool
61 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
62 default y
63
64config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
65 int
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66 default 32 if !UML
67 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 68 help
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69 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
70 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 71
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72
73config LOCALVERSION
74 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
75 help
76 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
77 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
78 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
79 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
80 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
81 be a maximum of 64 characters.
82
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83config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
84 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
85 default y
86 help
87 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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88 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
89 top of tree revision.
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91 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 92 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 93 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 94 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
aaebf433 95
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96 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
97 by running the command:
98
99 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
100
101 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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103config SWAP
104 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 105 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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106 default y
107 help
108 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 109 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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110 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
111 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
112
113config SYSVIPC
114 bool "System V IPC"
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115 ---help---
116 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
117 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
118 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
119 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
120 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
121 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
122 you'll need to say Y here.
123
124 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
125 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
126 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
127
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128config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
129 bool
130 depends on SYSVIPC
131 depends on SYSCTL
132 default y
133
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134config POSIX_MQUEUE
135 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
136 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
137 ---help---
138 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
139 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
140 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
141 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
b0e37650 142 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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143
144 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
145 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
146 operations on message queues.
147
148 If unsure, say Y.
149
150config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
151 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
152 help
153 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
154 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
155 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
156 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
157 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
158 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
159 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
160 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
161 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
162
163config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
164 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
165 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
166 default n
167 help
168 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
169 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
170 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
171 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
172 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
173 at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
174
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175config TASKSTATS
176 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
177 depends on NET
178 default n
179 help
180 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
181 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
182 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
183 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
184 space on task exit.
185
186 Say N if unsure.
187
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188config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
189 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 190 depends on TASKSTATS
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191 help
192 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
193 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
194 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
195 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
196
197 Say N if unsure.
198
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199config TASK_XACCT
200 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
201 depends on TASKSTATS
202 help
203 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
204 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
205
206 Say N if unsure.
207
208config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
209 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
210 depends on TASK_XACCT
211 help
212 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
213 task has caused.
214
215 Say N if unsure.
216
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217config AUDIT
218 bool "Auditing support"
804a6a49 219 depends on NET
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220 help
221 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
222 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
223 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
224 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
225
226config AUDITSYSCALL
227 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
1322b9de 228 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
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229 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
230 help
231 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
232 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
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233 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
234 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
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236config AUDIT_TREE
237 def_bool y
238 depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
239
1da177e4 240config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 241 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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242 ---help---
243 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
244 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
245 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
246 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
247 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
248 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
249 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
250 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
251
252config IKCONFIG_PROC
253 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
254 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
255 ---help---
256 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
257 through /proc/config.gz.
258
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259config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
260 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
261 range 12 21
262 default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
263 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
264 default 15 if SMP
265 default 14
266 help
267 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
268 Defaults and Examples:
269 17 => 128 KB for S/390
270 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
271 15 => 32 KB for SMP
272 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
273 13 => 8 KB
274 12 => 4 KB
275
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276config CGROUPS
277 bool "Control Group support"
278 help
279 This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
280 such as Cpusets
281
282 Say N if unsure.
283
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284config CGROUP_DEBUG
285 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
286 depends on CGROUPS
287 help
288 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
289 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
290 framework
291
292 Say N if unsure
293
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294config CGROUP_NS
295 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
296 depends on CGROUPS
297 help
298 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
299 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
300 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
301 jobs.
302
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303config CPUSETS
304 bool "Cpuset support"
8793d854 305 depends on SMP && CGROUPS
1da177e4 306 help
d9fd8a6d 307 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
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308 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
309 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
310 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
311
312 Say N if unsure.
313
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314config GROUP_SCHED
315 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
de8d585a 316 default y
29f59db3 317 help
fb615581 318 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9b5b7751 319 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
29f59db3 320
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321config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
322 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
323 depends on GROUP_SCHED
324 default y
325
326config RT_GROUP_SCHED
327 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
328 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
329 depends on GROUP_SCHED
330 default n
331
24e377a8 332choice
052f1dc7 333 depends on GROUP_SCHED
24e377a8 334 prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
052f1dc7 335 default USER_SCHED
24e377a8 336
052f1dc7 337config USER_SCHED
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338 bool "user id"
339 help
340 This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
341 tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
24e377a8 342
052f1dc7 343config CGROUP_SCHED
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344 bool "Control groups"
345 depends on CGROUPS
346 help
347 This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
348 using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
349 the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
350 Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
351 on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
352
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353endchoice
354
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355config CGROUP_CPUACCT
356 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
357 depends on CGROUPS
358 help
359 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
360 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
361
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362config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
363 bool "Resource counters"
364 help
365 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
366 infrastructure that works with cgroups
367 depends on CGROUPS
368
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369config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
370 bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
9148fe87 371 depends on SYSFS
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372 default y
373 help
374 This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
375 "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
376 "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
377 uevent environment.
378 None of these features or values should be used today, as
379 they export driver core implementation details to userspace
380 or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
381 releases.
382
383 If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
3dde6ad8 384 that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
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385 order to support older versions of udev and some userspace
386 programs.
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388 If you are using a distro with the most recent userspace
389 packages, it should be safe to say N here.
88a22c98 390
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391config CGROUP_MEM_CONT
392 bool "Memory controller for cgroups"
393 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
394 help
395 Provides a memory controller that manages both page cache and
396 RSS memory.
397
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398 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
399 associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes
400 and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit
401 systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore.
402
403 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
404 sure you need the memory controller.
405
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406config PROC_PID_CPUSET
407 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
408 depends on CPUSETS
409 default y
410
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411config RELAY
412 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
413 help
414 This option enables support for relay interface support in
415 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
416 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
417 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
418 user space.
419
420 If unsure, say N.
421
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422config NAMESPACES
423 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
424 default !EMBEDDED
425 help
426 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
427 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
428 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
429 different namespaces.
430
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431config UTS_NS
432 bool "UTS namespace"
433 depends on NAMESPACES
434 help
435 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
436 uname() system call
437
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438config IPC_NS
439 bool "IPC namespace"
440 depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC
441 help
442 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
443 different IPC objects in different namespaces
444
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445config USER_NS
446 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
447 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
448 help
449 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
450 to provide different user info for different servers.
451 If unsure, say N.
452
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453config PID_NS
454 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
455 default n
456 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
457 help
458 Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
459 process with the same pid as long as they are in different
460 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
461
462 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
463 say N here.
464
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465config BLK_DEV_INITRD
466 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
467 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
468 help
469 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
470 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
471 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
472 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
473 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
474
475 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
476 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
477 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
478
479 If unsure say Y.
480
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481if BLK_DEV_INITRD
482
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483source "usr/Kconfig"
484
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485endif
486
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487config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
488 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
489 default y
32582fa4 490 depends on ARM || H8300 || SUPERH || EXPERIMENTAL
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491 help
492 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
493 resulting in a smaller kernel.
494
495 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
496 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
497
498 If unsure, say N.
499
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500config SYSCTL
501 bool
502
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503menuconfig EMBEDDED
504 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
505 help
506 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
507 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
508 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
509 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
510
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511config UID16
512 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
529a73fb 513 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
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514 default y
515 help
516 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
517
b89a8171 518config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
0847062a 519 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
13bb7e37 520 default y
b89a8171 521 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 522 ---help---
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523 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
524 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
525 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
526 information.
b89a8171 527
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528 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
529 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
530 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 531
13bb7e37 532 If unsure say Y here.
ae81f9e3 533
1da177e4 534config KALLSYMS
979c6a1e 535 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
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536 default y
537 help
538 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
539 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
540 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
541
542config KALLSYMS_ALL
543 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
545 help
546 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
547 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
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548 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
549 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
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550
551 Say N.
552
553config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
554 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
555 depends on KALLSYMS
556 help
557 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
558 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
559 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
560 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
561 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
562 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
563
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565config HOTPLUG
566 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
567 default y
568 help
569 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
570 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
571 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
572 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
573
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574config PRINTK
575 default y
576 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
577 help
578 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
579 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
580 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
581 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
582 strongly discouraged.
583
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584config BUG
585 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
586 default y
587 help
588 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
589 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
590 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
591 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
592 Just say Y.
593
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594config ELF_CORE
595 default y
596 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
597 help
598 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
599
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600config COMPAT_BRK
601 bool "Disable heap randomization"
602 default y
603 help
604 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
605 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
606 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
607 disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
608 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
609
166124fd 610 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
32a93233 611
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612config BASE_FULL
613 default y
614 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
615 help
616 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
617 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
618 but may reduce performance.
619
620config FUTEX
621 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
622 default y
23f78d4a 623 select RT_MUTEXES
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624 help
625 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
626 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
627 run glibc-based applications correctly.
628
5dc8bf81 629config ANON_INODES
448e3cee 630 bool
5dc8bf81 631
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632config EPOLL
633 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
634 default y
448e3cee 635 select ANON_INODES
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636 help
637 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
638 support for epoll family of system calls.
639
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640config SIGNALFD
641 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 642 select ANON_INODES
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643 default y
644 help
645 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
646 on a file descriptor.
647
648 If unsure, say Y.
649
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650config TIMERFD
651 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 652 select ANON_INODES
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653 default y
654 help
655 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
656 events on a file descriptor.
657
658 If unsure, say Y.
659
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660config EVENTFD
661 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 662 select ANON_INODES
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663 default y
664 help
665 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
666 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
667
668 If unsure, say Y.
669
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670config SHMEM
671 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
672 default y
673 depends on MMU
674 help
675 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
676 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
677 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
678 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
679 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
680
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682 default y
683 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
684 help
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685 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
686 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
687 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
688 if VM event counters are disabled.
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690config SLUB_DEBUG
691 default y
692 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
d4751a27 693 depends on SLUB
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694 help
695 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
696 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
697 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
698 no support for cache validation etc.
699
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701 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 702 default SLUB
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704 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
705
706config SLAB
707 bool "SLAB"
708 help
709 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 710 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
81819f0f 711 per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
34013886 712 a slab allocator.
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714config SLUB
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715 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
716 help
717 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
718 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
719 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
720 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
34013886 721 and has enhanced diagnostics.
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723config SLOB
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725 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
726 help
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727 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
728 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
729 does not perform as well on large systems.
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733config PROFILING
734 bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
735 help
736 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
737 by profilers such as OProfile.
738
739config MARKERS
740 bool "Activate markers"
741 help
742 Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
743 dynamically changed for a probe function.
744
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746
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748 default y
749 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
750 bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED
751 help
752 Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory utilization:
753 /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap,
754 /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these
755 interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb.
756
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758
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759config SLABINFO
760 bool
761 depends on PROC_FS
762 depends on SLAB || SLUB
763 default y
764
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766 boolean
767 select PLIST
768
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769config TINY_SHMEM
770 default !SHMEM
771 bool
772
773config BASE_SMALL
774 int
775 default 0 if BASE_FULL
776 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
777
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779 bool "Enable loadable module support"
780 help
781 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
782 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
783 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
784 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
785 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
786 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
787 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
788 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
789 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
790
791 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
792 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
793 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
794 this).
795
796 If unsure, say Y.
797
798config MODULE_UNLOAD
799 bool "Module unloading"
800 depends on MODULES
801 help
802 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
803 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
804 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
805 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
806
807config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
808 bool "Forced module unloading"
809 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
810 help
811 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
812 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
813 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
814 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
815 If unsure, say N.
816
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818 bool "Module versioning support"
819 depends on MODULES
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821 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
822 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
823 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
824 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
825 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
826 unsure, say N.
827
828config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
829 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
830 depends on MODULES
831 help
832 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
833 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
834 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
835 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
836 others sometimes change the module source without updating
837 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
838 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
839
840config KMOD
841 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
842 depends on MODULES
843 help
844 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
845 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
846 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
847 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
848 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
849 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
850 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
851
852config STOP_MACHINE
853 bool
854 default y
855 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
856 help
857 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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861config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
862 bool
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865 prompt "RCU implementation type:"
866 default CLASSIC_RCU
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868 This allows you to choose either the classic RCU implementation
869 that is designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
870 systems, or the preemptible RCU implementation for best latency
871 on realtime systems. Note that some kernel preemption modes
872 will restrict your choice.
873
874 Select the default if you are unsure.
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876config CLASSIC_RCU
877 bool "Classic RCU"
878 help
879 This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
880 designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
881 systems.
882
883 Say Y if you are unsure.
884
885config PREEMPT_RCU
886 bool "Preemptible RCU"
887 depends on PREEMPT
888 help
889 This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
890 RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
891 this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
892 preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
893 now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
894 remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
895
896 Say N if you are unsure.
897
898endchoice