+config ARCH
+ string
+ option env="ARCH"
+
+config KERNELVERSION
+ string
+ option env="KERNELVERSION"
+
config DEFCONFIG_LIST
string
depends on !UML
default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
default "/etc/kernel-config"
default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
+ default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
-menu "Code maturity level options"
+config CONSTRUCTORS
+ bool
+ depends on !UML
+ default y
+
+menu "General setup"
config EXPERIMENTAL
bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
-endmenu
-
-menu "General setup"
config LOCALVERSION
string "Local version - append to kernel release"
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
section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
-config IPC_NS
- bool "IPC Namespaces"
- depends on SYSVIPC
- default n
- help
- Support ipc namespaces. This allows containers, i.e. virtual
- environments, to use ipc namespaces to provide different ipc
- objects for different servers. If unsure, say N.
-
config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
bool
depends on SYSVIPC
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. To use this feature you will
- also need mqueue library, available from
- <http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~wrona/posix_ipc/>
+ 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
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
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.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
+ at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>.
config TASKSTATS
bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Say N if unsure.
-config UTS_NS
- bool "UTS Namespaces"
- default n
- help
- Support uts namespaces. This allows containers, i.e.
- vservers, to use uts namespaces to provide different
- uts info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
-
config AUDIT
bool "Auditing support"
depends on NET
config AUDITSYSCALL
bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
- depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
+ depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
help
Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
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 CLASSIC_RCU
+ bool "Classic RCU"
+ help
+ This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
+ designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
+ systems.
+
+ Select this option if you are unsure.
+
+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.
+
+config PREEMPT_RCU
+ bool "Preemptible RCU"
+ depends on PREEMPT
+ help
+ This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
+ RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
+ this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
+ preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
+ now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
+ remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
+
+endchoice
+
+config RCU_TRACE
+ bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
+ depends on TREE_RCU || 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ select DEBUG_FS
+ help
+ This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation,
+ permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
+
+config PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE
+ def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU
+ select DEBUG_FS
+ help
+ This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation,
+ permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c.
+
+endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
+
config IKCONFIG
tristate "Kernel .config support"
---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 SMP
+ depends on CGROUPS
help
This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
Say N if unsure.
-config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
- bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
+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
- This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
- "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
- "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
- uevent environment.
- None of these features or values should be used today, as
- they export driver core implementation details to userspace
- or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
- releases.
+ Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
+ total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
- If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
- that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class heirachy, in
- order to support older versions of udev.
+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
- If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
- it should be safe to say N here.
+config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
+ bool
+
+config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
+ bool "remove 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)"
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
endif
config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
- bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
+ bool "Optimize for size"
default y
- depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL
help
Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
resulting in a smaller kernel.
- WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
- option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
-
- If unsure, say N.
+ If unsure, say Y.
config SYSCTL
bool
+config ANON_INODES
+ bool
+
menuconfig EMBEDDED
bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
help
config UID16
bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
- depends on ARM || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
+ 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.
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
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
option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
-config SLAB
+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_COUNTERS
+ bool
+ help
+ See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
+
+menu "Performance Counters"
+
+config PERF_COUNTERS
+ bool "Kernel Performance Counters"
+ default y if PROFILING
+ depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+ select ANON_INODES
+ help
+ Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware.
+
+ Performance counters are special hardware registers available
+ on most modern CPUs. 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 Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of
+ these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. 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_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACING
default y
- bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if (EMBEDDED && !SMP && !SPARSEMEM)
help
- Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
- kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.
- SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
- more susceptible to fragmentation.
+ Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance counters.
+
+ When this is enabled, you can create perf counters 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.)
+
+endmenu
config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
default y
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 STRIP_ASM_SYMS
+ bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
+ default n
+ help
+ Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
+ that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
+ get_wchan() and suchlike.
+
+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
+
+config MARKERS
+ bool "Activate markers"
+ select TRACEPOINTS
+ help
+ Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
+ dynamically changed for a probe function.
+
+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.
+
endmenu # General setup
-config RT_MUTEXES
- boolean
- select PLIST
+config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
+ bool
+ default n
-config TINY_SHMEM
- default !SHMEM
+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
-config SLOB
- default !SLAB
- bool
-
-menu "Loadable module support"
-
-config MODULES
+menuconfig MODULES
bool "Enable loadable module support"
help
Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
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"
- depends on MODULES
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 slightly smaller and
- simpler. If unsure, say Y.
+ anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster
+ and simpler. If unsure, say Y.
config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
bool "Forced module unloading"
config MODVERSIONS
bool "Module versioning support"
- depends on MODULES
help
Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
bool "Source checksum for all modules"
- depends on MODULES
help
Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
-config KMOD
- bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
- depends on MODULES
+endif # MODULES
+
+config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
+ bool
help
- Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
- be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
- "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
- here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
- automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
- runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
- loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
+ 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
depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
help
Need stop_machine() primitive.
-endmenu
-menu "Block layer"
source "block/Kconfig"
-endmenu
+
+config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
+ bool
+
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