7 option env="KERNELVERSION"
13 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
14 default "/etc/kernel-config"
15 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
16 default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
17 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
22 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
24 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
25 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
26 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
27 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
28 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
29 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
30 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
31 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
32 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
33 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
34 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
35 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
36 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
37 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
38 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
39 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
41 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
42 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
43 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
45 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
46 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
47 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
48 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
49 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
50 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
57 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
62 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
65 config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
70 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
71 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
75 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
77 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
78 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
79 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
80 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
81 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
82 be a maximum of 64 characters.
84 config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
85 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
88 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
89 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
92 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
93 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
94 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
95 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
97 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
98 by running the command:
100 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
102 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
105 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
106 depends on MMU && BLOCK
109 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
110 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
111 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
112 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
117 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
118 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
119 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
120 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
121 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
122 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
123 you'll need to say Y here.
125 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
126 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
127 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
129 config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
136 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
137 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
139 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
140 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
141 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
142 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
143 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
145 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
146 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
147 operations on message queues.
151 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
152 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
154 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
155 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
156 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
157 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
158 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
159 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
160 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
161 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
162 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
164 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
165 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
166 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
169 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
170 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
171 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
172 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
173 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
174 at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
177 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
181 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
182 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
183 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
184 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
189 config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
190 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
193 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
194 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
195 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
196 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
201 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
204 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
205 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
209 config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
210 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
211 depends on TASK_XACCT
213 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
219 bool "Auditing support"
222 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
223 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
224 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
225 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
228 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
229 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
230 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
232 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
233 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
234 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
235 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
239 depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
242 tristate "Kernel .config support"
244 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
245 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
246 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
247 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
248 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
249 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
250 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
251 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
254 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
255 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
257 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
258 through /proc/config.gz.
261 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
263 default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
264 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
268 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
269 Defaults and Examples:
270 17 => 128 KB for S/390
271 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
273 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
278 bool "Control Group support"
280 This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
286 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
289 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
290 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
296 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
299 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
300 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
301 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
305 bool "Cpuset support"
306 depends on SMP && CGROUPS
308 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
309 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
310 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
311 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
316 bool "Group CPU scheduler"
319 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
320 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
322 config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
323 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER"
324 depends on GROUP_SCHED
327 config RT_GROUP_SCHED
328 bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
329 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
330 depends on GROUP_SCHED
334 depends on GROUP_SCHED
335 prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
341 This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
342 tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
345 bool "Control groups"
348 This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
349 using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
350 the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
351 Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
352 on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
356 config CGROUP_CPUACCT
357 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
360 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
361 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
363 config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
364 bool "Resource counters"
366 This option enables controller independent resource accounting
367 infrastructure that works with cgroups
370 config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
371 bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
372 depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
374 Provides a memory resource controller that manages both page cache and
377 Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
378 associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes
379 and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit
380 systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore.
382 Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
383 sure you need the memory resource controller.
385 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
388 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
389 bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
392 select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
394 This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
395 "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
396 "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
398 None of these features or values should be used today, as
399 they export driver core implementation details to userspace
400 or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
403 If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
404 that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
405 order to support older versions of udev and some userspace
408 If you are using a distro with the most recent userspace
409 packages, it should be safe to say N here.
411 config PROC_PID_CPUSET
412 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
417 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
419 This option enables support for relay interface support in
420 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
421 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
422 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
428 bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
431 Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
432 the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
433 or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in
434 different namespaces.
438 depends on NAMESPACES
440 In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
445 depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC
447 In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
448 different IPC objects in different namespaces
451 bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
452 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
454 This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
455 to provide different user info for different servers.
459 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
461 depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
463 Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
464 process with the same pid as long as they are in different
465 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
467 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
470 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
471 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
472 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
474 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
475 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
476 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
477 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
478 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
480 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
481 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
482 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
492 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
493 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
495 depends on ARM || H8300 || SUPERH || EXPERIMENTAL
497 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
498 resulting in a smaller kernel.
500 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
501 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
509 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
511 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
512 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
513 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
514 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
517 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
518 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
521 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
523 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
524 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
528 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
529 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
530 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
533 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
534 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
535 making your kernel marginally smaller.
537 If unsure say Y here.
540 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
543 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
544 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
545 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
548 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
549 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
551 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
552 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
553 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
554 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
558 config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
559 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
562 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
563 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
564 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
565 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
566 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
567 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
571 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
574 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
575 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
576 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
577 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
581 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
583 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
584 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
585 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
586 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
587 strongly discouraged.
590 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
593 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
594 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
595 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
596 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
601 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
603 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
606 bool "Disable heap randomization"
609 Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
610 also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
611 This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
612 disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
613 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
615 On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
619 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
621 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
622 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
623 but may reduce performance.
626 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
630 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
631 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
632 run glibc-based applications correctly.
638 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
642 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
643 support for epoll family of system calls.
646 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
650 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
651 on a file descriptor.
656 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
660 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
661 events on a file descriptor.
666 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
670 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
671 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
676 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
680 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
681 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
682 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
683 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
684 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
686 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
688 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
690 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
691 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
692 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
693 if VM event counters are disabled.
697 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
700 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
701 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
702 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
703 no support for cache validation etc.
706 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
709 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
714 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
715 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
716 per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
720 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
722 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
723 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
724 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
725 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
726 and has enhanced diagnostics.
730 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
732 SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
733 allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
734 does not perform as well on large systems.
739 bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
741 Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
742 by profilers such as OProfile.
745 bool "Activate markers"
747 Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
748 dynamically changed for a probe function.
750 source "arch/Kconfig"
752 config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
754 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
755 bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED
757 Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory utilization:
758 /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap,
759 /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these
760 interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb.
762 endmenu # General setup
767 depends on SLAB || SLUB
780 default 0 if BASE_FULL
781 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
784 bool "Enable loadable module support"
786 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
787 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
788 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
789 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
790 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
791 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
792 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
793 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
794 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
796 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
797 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
798 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
804 bool "Module unloading"
807 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
808 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
809 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
810 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
812 config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
813 bool "Forced module unloading"
814 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
816 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
817 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
818 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
819 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
823 bool "Module versioning support"
826 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
827 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
828 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
829 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
830 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
833 config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
834 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
837 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
838 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
839 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
840 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
841 others sometimes change the module source without updating
842 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
843 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
846 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
849 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
850 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
851 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
852 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
853 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
854 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
855 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
860 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
862 Need stop_machine() primitive.
864 source "block/Kconfig"
866 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
870 def_bool !PREEMPT_RCU
872 This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
873 designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
874 systems. Classic RCU is the default. Note that the
875 PREEMPT_RCU symbol is used to select/deselect this option.