+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"
+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"
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 USER_NS
- bool "User Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- default n
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
- help
- Support user namespaces. This allows containers, i.e.
- vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
- user 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 && INOTIFY
+
config IKCONFIG
tristate "Kernel .config support"
---help---
config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
range 12 21
- default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
- default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
- default 15 if SMP
- default 14
+ default 17
help
Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
- Defaults and Examples:
- 17 => 128 KB for S/390
- 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
- 15 => 32 KB for SMP
- 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
+ Examples:
+ 17 => 128 KB
+ 16 => 64 KB
+ 15 => 32 KB
+ 14 => 16 KB
13 => 8 KB
12 => 4 KB
+config CGROUPS
+ bool "Control Group support"
+ help
+ This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
+ such as Cpusets
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+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 "control group freezer 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 SMP && 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.
+#
+# 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.
+
+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/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.txt for more information
+ on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
+
+endchoice
+
+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 MM_OWNER
+ bool
+
+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 page cache and
+ RSS memory.
+
+ Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
+ associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes
+ and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit
+ systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore.
+
+ Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
+ sure you need the memory resource controller.
+
+ This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
+ could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
+
config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
+ bool
+
+config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
+ depends on SYSFS
default y
+ select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
help
This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
"device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
- order to support older versions of udev.
+ order to support older versions of udev and some userspace
+ programs.
- If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
- it should be safe to say N here.
+ If you are using a distro with the most recent userspace
+ packages, it should be safe to say N here.
+
+config PROC_PID_CPUSET
+ bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
+ depends on CPUSETS
+ default y
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
+ 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
+ process 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 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 UID16
bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
- depends on ARM || BFIN || 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 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 overriden runtime by setting
+ /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
+
+ On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
+
config BASE_FULL
default y
bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
run glibc-based applications correctly.
config ANON_INODES
- bool "Enable anonymous inode source" if EMBEDDED
- default y
- help
- Anonymous inode source for pseudo-files like epoll, signalfd,
- timerfd and eventfd.
-
- If unsure, say Y.
+ bool
config EPOLL
bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
default y
- depends on ANON_INODES
+ 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
- depends on ANON_INODES
+ select ANON_INODES
default y
help
Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
config TIMERFD
bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
- depends on ANON_INODES
+ select ANON_INODES
default y
help
Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
config EVENTFD
bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
- depends on ANON_INODES
+ select ANON_INODES
default y
help
Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
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 VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
default y
bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
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 && 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
+ depends on SLUB && SYSFS
help
SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
depends on EMBEDDED
bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
help
- SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
- allocator. SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not
- scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly
- susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object
- density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB.
+ 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"
+ help
+ Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
+ dynamically changed for a probe function.
+
+source "arch/Kconfig"
+
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
select PLIST
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
will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
config KMOD
- bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
- depends on MODULES
+ def_bool y
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.
+ This is being removed soon. These days, CONFIG_MODULES
+ implies CONFIG_KMOD, so use that instead.
+
+endif # MODULES
config STOP_MACHINE
bool
Need stop_machine() primitive.
source "block/Kconfig"
+
+config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
+ bool
+
+config CLASSIC_RCU
+ def_bool !PREEMPT_RCU
+ help
+ This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
+ designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
+ systems. Classic RCU is the default. Note that the
+ PREEMPT_RCU symbol is used to select/deselect this option.
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