-
menu "Code maturity level options"
config EXPERIMENTAL
If unsure, say Y
-config STANDALONE
- bool "Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware" if EXPERIMENTAL
- default y
- help
- Select this option if you don't have magic firmware for drivers that
- need it.
-
- If unsure, say Y.
-
config BROKEN
bool
depends on !CLEAN_COMPILE
depends on BROKEN || !SMP
default y
-endmenu
+config LOCK_KERNEL
+ bool
+ depends on SMP || PREEMPT
+ default y
+endmenu
menu "General setup"
+config LOCALVERSION
+ string "Local version - append to kernel release"
+ help
+ Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
+ This will show up when you type uname, for example.
+ The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
+ any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
+ object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
+ be a maximum of 64 characters.
+
config SWAP
bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
depends on MMU
config SYSVIPC
bool "System V IPC"
+ depends on MMU
---help---
Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
you'll need to say Y here.
- DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
- you'll need to say Y here.
You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
up to the user level program to do useful things with this
information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
+config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
+ bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
+ depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
+ default n
+ help
+ If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
+ in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
+ 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/>.
+
menu "Class Based Kernel Resource Management"
config CKRM
one of the resource controllers below. Say N if you are unsure.
config RCFS_FS
- tristate "Resource Class File System (User API)"
- depends on CKRM
- help
+ tristate "Resource Class File System (User API)"
+ depends on CKRM
+ help
RCFS is the filesystem API for CKRM. This separate configuration
option is provided only for debugging and will eventually disappear
since rcfs will be automounted whenever CKRM is configured.
- Say N if unsure, Y if you've enabled CKRM, M to debug rcfs
+ Say N if unsure, Y if you've enabled CKRM, M to debug rcfs
initialization.
config CKRM_TYPE_TASKCLASS
bool "Class Manager for Task Groups"
- depends on CKRM
+ depends on CKRM && RCFS_FS
help
TASKCLASS provides the extensions for CKRM to track task classes
This is the base to enable task class based resource control for
Say N if unsure
+config CKRM_RES_NULL
+ tristate "Null Tasks Resource Manager"
+ depends on CKRM_TYPE_TASKCLASS
+ default m
+
+config CKRM_RES_MEM
+ bool "Class based physical memory controller"
+ default y
+ depends on CKRM
+ help
+ Provide the basic support for collecting physical memory usage
+ information among classes. Say Y if you want to know the memory
+ usage of each class.
+
+config CKRM_TYPE_SOCKETCLASS
+ bool "Class Manager for socket groups"
+ depends on CKRM && RCFS_FS
+ help
+ Provides a Null Resource Controller for CKRM that is purely for
+ demonstration purposes.
+
+ Say N if unsure, Y to use the feature.
+
+
config CKRM_RES_NUMTASKS
tristate "Number of Tasks Resource Manager"
depends on CKRM_TYPE_TASKCLASS
Say N if unsure, Y to use the feature.
+config CKRM_CPU_SCHEDULE
+ bool "CKRM CPU scheduler"
+ depends on CKRM_TYPE_TASKCLASS
+ default y
+ help
+ Use CKRM CPU scheduler instead of Linux Scheduler
+
+ Say N if unsure, Y to use the feature.
+
+config CKRM_RES_BLKIO
+ tristate " Disk I/O Resource Controller"
+ depends on CKRM_TYPE_TASKCLASS && IOSCHED_CFQ
+ default m
+ help
+ Provides a resource controller for best-effort block I/O
+ bandwidth control. The controller attempts this by proportional
+ servicing of requests in the I/O scheduler. However, seek
+ optimizations and reordering by device drivers/disk controllers may
+ alter the actual bandwidth delivered to a class.
+
+ Say N if unsure, Y to use the feature.
+
+config CKRM_CPU_SCHEDULE_AT_BOOT
+ bool "Turn on at boot time"
+ depends on CKRM_CPU_SCHEDULE
+ default n
+ help
+ Enable CKRM CPU Scheduler at boot time. Otherwise
+ it can be turned on dynamically at runtime. If not
+ turned on the default Linux Scheduler behavior
+ will be obtained.
+
+ Say N if unsure, Y to use this feature
+
config CKRM_TYPE_SOCKETCLASS
bool "Class Manager for socket groups"
depends on CKRM
If unsure, say N.
+choice
+ prompt "Classification Engine"
+ depends on CKRM && RCFS_FS
+ optional
+ help
+ Select a classification engine (CE) that assists in
+ automatic classification of kernel objects managed by CKRM when
+ they are created. Without a CE, a user must manually
+ classify objects into classes. Processes inherit their parent's
+ classification.
+
+ Only one engine can be built into the kernel though all can be
+ built as modules (only one will load).
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config CKRM_RBCE
- tristate "Vanilla Rule-based Classification Engine (RBCE)"
- depends on CKRM && RCFS_FS
- default m
+ tristate "Vanilla RBCE"
help
- Provides an optional module to support creation of rules for automatic
- classification of kernel objects. Rules are created/deleted/modified
- through an rcfs interface. RBCE is not required for CKRM.
-
- If unsure, say N.
+ Vanilla Rule-based Classification Engine (RBCE). Rules for
+ classifying kernel objects are created/deleted/modified through
+ a RCFS directory using a filesystem interface.
+
+ Any CE is optional. If unsure, say N.
config CKRM_CRBCE
- tristate "Enhanced Rule-based Classification Engine (RBCE)"
- depends on CKRM && RCFS_FS && RELAYFS_FS && DELAY_ACCT
- default m
+ tristate "Enhanced RBCE"
+ depends on DELAY_ACCT && RELAYFS_FS
help
- Provides an optional module to support creation of rules for automatic
- classification of kernel objects, just like RBCE above. In addition,
- CRBCE provides per-process delay data (requires DELAY_ACCT configured)
- enabled) and makes information on significant kernel events available
- to userspace tools through relayfs (requires RELAYFS_FS configured).
+ Enhanced Rule-based Classification Engine (CRBCE). Like the Vanilla
+ RBCE, rules for classifying kernel objects are created, deleted and
+ modified through a RCFS directory using a filesystem interface
+ (requires CKRM_RCFS configured).
+
+ In addition, CRBCE provides per-process delay data
+ (requires DELAY_ACCT configured) and makes information on significant
+ kernel events available to userspace tools through relayfs
+ (requires RELAYFS_FS configured).
- If unsure, say N.
+ Any CE is optional. If unsure, say N.
-endmenu
-
-config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
- bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
- depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
- default n
- help
- If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
- in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
- 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://http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/acct/>.
+endchoice
+endmenu
config SYSCTL
bool "Sysctl support"
config AUDITSYSCALL
bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
- depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC64 || ARCH_S390)
+ depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC64 || ARCH_S390 || IA64)
default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
default n
help
config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
- range 12 20
+ range 12 21
default 17 if ARCH_S390
default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
default 15 if SMP
agent" (/sbin/hotplug) to load modules and set up software needed
to use devices as you hotplug them.
+config KOBJECT_UEVENT
+ bool "Kernel Userspace Events"
+ depends on NET
+ default y
+ help
+ This option enables the kernel userspace event layer, which is a
+ simple mechanism for kernel-to-user communication over a netlink
+ socket.
+ The goal of the kernel userspace events layer is to provide a simple
+ and efficient events system, that notifies userspace about kobject
+ state changes. This will enable applications to just listen for
+ events instead of polling system devices and files.
+ Hotplug events (kobject addition and removal) are also available on
+ the netlink socket in addition to the execution of /sbin/hotplug if
+ CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled.
+
+ Say Y, unless you are building a system requiring minimal memory
+ consumption.
+
config IKCONFIG
bool "Kernel .config support"
---help---
This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
- contents, information on compiler used to build the kernel,
- kernel running when this kernel was built and kernel version
- from Makefile to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
+ contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
- /proc/config.gz and /proc/config_built_with, if enabled (below).
- /proc/config.gz will list the configuration that was used
- to build the kernel and /proc/config_built_with will list
- information on the compiler and host machine that was used to
- build the kernel.
+ /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
config IKCONFIG_PROC
bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
---help---
- This option enables access to kernel configuration file and build
- information through /proc/config.gz.
+ This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
+ through /proc/config.gz.
+
+config OOM_PANIC
+ bool "OOM Panic"
+ default y
+ ---help---
+ This option enables panic() to be called when a system is out of
+ memory. This feature along with /proc/sys/kernel/panic allows a
+ different behavior on out-of-memory conditions when the standard
+ behavior (killing processes in an attempt to recover) does not
+ make sense.
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config OOM_KILL
+ bool
+ depends on !OOM_PANIC
+ default y
menuconfig EMBEDDED
bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
I/O delays are recorded for memory and regular I/O.
Information is accessible through /proc/<pid>/delay.
-
config KALLSYMS
bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED
default y
Say N.
+config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
+ bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
+ depends on KALLSYMS
+ help
+ If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
+ inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
+ turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
+ Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
+ reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
+ you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
+
config FUTEX
bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
default y
Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
support for epoll family of system calls.
-source "drivers/block/Kconfig.iosched"
-
config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
bool "Optimize for size"
default y if ARM || H8300
If unsure, say N.
+config SHMEM
+ default y
+ bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED && MMU
+ help
+ The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
+ It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
+ to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
+ option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
+ which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
+
+config CC_ALIGN_FUNCTIONS
+ int "Function alignment" if EMBEDDED
+ default 0
+ help
+ Align the start of functions to the next power-of-two greater than n,
+ skipping up to n bytes. For instance, 32 aligns functions
+ to the next 32-byte boundary, but 24 would align to the next
+ 32-byte boundary only if this can be done by skipping 23 bytes or less.
+ Zero means use compiler's default.
+
+config CC_ALIGN_LABELS
+ int "Label alignment" if EMBEDDED
+ default 0
+ help
+ Align all branch targets to a power-of-two boundary, skipping
+ up to n bytes like ALIGN_FUNCTIONS. This option can easily
+ make code slower, because it must insert dummy operations for
+ when the branch target is reached in the usual flow of the code.
+ Zero means use compiler's default.
+
+config CC_ALIGN_LOOPS
+ int "Loop alignment" if EMBEDDED
+ default 0
+ help
+ Align loops to a power-of-two boundary, skipping up to n bytes.
+ Zero means use compiler's default.
+
+config CC_ALIGN_JUMPS
+ int "Jump alignment" if EMBEDDED
+ default 0
+ help
+ Align branch targets to a power-of-two boundary, for branch
+ targets where the targets can only be reached by jumping,
+ skipping up to n bytes like ALIGN_FUNCTIONS. In this case,
+ no dummy operations need be executed.
+ Zero means use compiler's default.
+
endmenu # General setup
+config TINY_SHMEM
+ default !SHMEM
+ bool
menu "Loadable module support"
make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
unsure, say N.
+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
+ sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
+ see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
+ others sometimes change the module source without updating
+ the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
+ will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
+
+config MODULE_SIG
+ bool "Module signature verification (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on MODULES && EXPERIMENTAL
+ select CRYPTO
+ select CRYPTO_SHA1
+ select CRYPTO_SIGNATURE
+ help
+ Check modules for valid signatures upon load.
+
+config MODULE_SIG_FORCE
+ bool "Required modules to be validly signed (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on MODULE_SIG
+ help
+ Reject unsigned modules or signed modules for which we don't have a
+ key.
+
config KMOD
bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
depends on MODULES