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
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
config CPUSETS
bool "Cpuset support"
- depends on SMP && CGROUPS
+ depends on CGROUPS
help
This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
select MM_OWNER
help
Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
- memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
+ 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,
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 IPC_NS
bool "IPC namespace"
- depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC
+ depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
help
In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
- different IPC objects in different namespaces
+ different IPC objects in different namespaces.
config USER_NS
bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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
+ 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
config SYSCTL
bool
+config ANON_INODES
+ bool
+
menuconfig EMBEDDED
bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
help
Say N.
-config KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED
- bool "Strip machine generated symbols from kallsyms"
- depends on KALLSYMS_ALL
- default y
- help
- Say N if you want kallsyms to retain even machine generated symbols.
-
config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
depends on KALLSYMS
you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
+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 HOTPLUG
bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
default y
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
support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
run glibc-based applications correctly.
-config ANON_INODES
- bool
-
config EPOLL
bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
default y
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
config MARKERS
bool "Activate markers"
- depends on TRACEPOINTS
+ 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 HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
config RT_MUTEXES
boolean
- select PLIST
config BASE_SMALL
int
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 persuing me down dark alleys.
+ and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
config STOP_MACHINE
bool
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