5 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
6 default "/etc/kernel-config"
7 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
8 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
13 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
15 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
16 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
17 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
18 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
19 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
20 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
21 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
22 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
23 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
24 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
25 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
26 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
27 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
28 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
29 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
30 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
32 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
33 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
34 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
36 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
37 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
38 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
39 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
40 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
41 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
48 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
53 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
56 config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
61 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
62 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
66 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
68 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
69 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
70 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
71 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
72 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
73 be a maximum of 64 characters.
75 config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
76 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
79 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
80 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
83 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
84 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
85 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
86 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
88 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
89 by running the command:
91 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
93 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
96 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
97 depends on MMU && BLOCK
100 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
101 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
102 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
103 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
108 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
109 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
110 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
111 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
112 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
113 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
114 you'll need to say Y here.
116 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
117 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
118 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
120 config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
127 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
128 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
130 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
131 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
132 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
133 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
134 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
136 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
137 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
138 operations on message queues.
142 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
143 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
145 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
146 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
147 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
148 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
149 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
150 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
151 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
152 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
153 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
155 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
156 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
157 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
160 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
161 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
162 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
163 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
164 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
165 at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
168 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
172 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
173 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
174 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
175 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
180 config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
181 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
184 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
185 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
186 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
187 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
192 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
195 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
196 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
200 config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
201 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
202 depends on TASK_XACCT
204 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
210 bool "User Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
212 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
214 Support user namespaces. This allows containers, i.e.
215 vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
216 user info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
219 bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
221 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
223 Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
224 process with the same pid as long as they are in different
225 pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
227 Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
231 bool "Auditing support"
234 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
235 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
236 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
237 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
240 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
241 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
242 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
244 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
245 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
246 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
247 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
251 depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
254 tristate "Kernel .config support"
256 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
257 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
258 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
259 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
260 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
261 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
262 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
263 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
266 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
267 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
269 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
270 through /proc/config.gz.
273 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
275 default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
276 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
280 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
281 Defaults and Examples:
282 17 => 128 KB for S/390
283 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
285 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
290 bool "Control Group support"
292 This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
298 bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
301 This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
302 exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
308 bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
311 Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
312 provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
313 for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
317 bool "Cpuset support"
318 depends on SMP && CGROUPS
320 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
321 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
322 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
323 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
327 config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
328 bool "Fair group CPU scheduler"
331 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
332 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
335 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
336 prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
337 default FAIR_USER_SCHED
339 config FAIR_USER_SCHED
342 This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
343 tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
345 config FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED
346 bool "Control groups"
349 This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
350 using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
351 the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
352 Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
353 on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
357 config CGROUP_CPUACCT
358 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
361 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
362 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
364 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
365 bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
369 This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
370 "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
371 "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
373 None of these features or values should be used today, as
374 they export driver core implementation details to userspace
375 or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
378 If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
379 that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
380 order to support older versions of udev.
382 If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
383 it should be safe to say N here.
385 config PROC_PID_CPUSET
386 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
391 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
393 This option enables support for relay interface support in
394 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
395 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
396 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
401 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
402 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
403 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
405 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
406 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
407 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
408 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
409 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
411 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
412 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
413 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
423 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
424 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
426 depends on ARM || H8300 || SUPERH || EXPERIMENTAL
428 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
429 resulting in a smaller kernel.
431 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
432 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
440 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
442 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
443 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
444 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
445 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
448 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
449 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
452 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
454 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
455 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
459 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
460 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
461 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
464 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
465 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
466 making your kernel marginally smaller.
468 If unsure say Y here.
471 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
474 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
475 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
476 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
479 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
480 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
482 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
483 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
484 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
485 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
489 config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
490 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
493 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
494 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
495 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
496 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
497 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
498 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
502 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
505 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
506 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
507 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
508 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
512 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
514 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
515 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
516 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
517 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
518 strongly discouraged.
521 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
524 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
525 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
526 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
527 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
532 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
534 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
538 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
540 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
541 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
542 but may reduce performance.
545 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
549 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
550 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
551 run glibc-based applications correctly.
557 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
561 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
562 support for epoll family of system calls.
565 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
569 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
570 on a file descriptor.
575 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
580 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
581 events on a file descriptor.
586 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
590 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
591 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
596 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
600 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
601 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
602 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
603 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
604 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
606 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
608 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
610 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
611 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
612 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
613 if VM event counters are disabled.
617 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
620 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
621 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
622 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
623 no support for cache validation etc.
626 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
629 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
634 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
635 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
636 per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
640 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
642 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
643 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
644 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
645 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
646 and has enhanced diagnostics.
650 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
652 SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
653 allocator. SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not
654 scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly
655 susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object
656 density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB.
660 endmenu # General setup
665 depends on SLAB || SLUB
678 default 0 if BASE_FULL
679 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
682 bool "Enable loadable module support"
684 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
685 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
686 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
687 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
688 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
689 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
690 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
691 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
692 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
694 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
695 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
696 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
702 bool "Module unloading"
705 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
706 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
707 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
708 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
710 config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
711 bool "Forced module unloading"
712 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
714 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
715 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
716 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
717 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
721 bool "Module versioning support"
724 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
725 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
726 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
727 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
728 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
731 config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
732 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
735 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
736 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
737 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
738 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
739 others sometimes change the module source without updating
740 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
741 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
744 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
747 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
748 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
749 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
750 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
751 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
752 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
753 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
758 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
760 Need stop_machine() primitive.
762 source "block/Kconfig"
764 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
768 prompt "RCU implementation type:"
774 This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
775 designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
778 Say Y if you are unsure.
781 bool "Preemptible RCU"
784 This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
785 RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
786 this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
787 preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
788 now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
789 remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
791 Say N if you are unsure.