+config DEFCONFIG_LIST
+ string
+ depends on !UML
+ option defconfig_list
+ default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
+ default "/etc/kernel-config"
+ default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
+ default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
menu "Code maturity level options"
you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
-config CLEAN_COMPILE
- bool "Select only drivers expected to compile cleanly" if EXPERIMENTAL
- default y
- help
- Select this option if you don't even want to see the option
- to configure known-broken drivers.
-
- 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
- default y
config BROKEN_ON_SMP
bool
depends on BROKEN || !SMP
default y
-endmenu
+config LOCK_KERNEL
+ bool
+ depends on SMP || PREEMPT
+ default y
+
+config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
+ int
+ default 32 if !UML
+ default 128 if UML
+ help
+ 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"
+ 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 LOCALVERSION_AUTO
+ bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
+ default y
+ help
+ This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
+ release tree by looking for git tags that
+ belong to the current top of tree revision.
+
+ A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
+ if a git based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
+ appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
+ set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
+
+ Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
+ the git or cogito tools to be installed.
+
config SWAP
bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
- depends on MMU
+ depends on MMU && BLOCK
default y
help
This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
- for socalled swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
+ for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
in your computer. If unsure say Y.
section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
+config IPC_NS
+ bool "IPC Namespaces"
+ depends on SYSVIPC
+ default n
+ help
+ Support ipc namespaces. This allows containers, i.e. virtual
+ environments, to use ipc namespaces to provide different ipc
+ objects for different servers. If unsure, say N.
+
config POSIX_MQUEUE
bool "POSIX Message Queues"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
---help---
POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
up to the user level program to do useful things with this
information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
-config SYSCTL
- bool "Sysctl support"
- ---help---
- The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
- certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
- a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
- interface consists of a system call, but if you say Y to "/proc
- file system support", a tree of modifiable sysctl entries will be
- generated beneath the /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the
- files in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
- option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
-
- As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
- building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
- limited in memory.
+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/>.
+
+config TASKSTATS
+ bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on NET
+ default n
+ help
+ Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
+ generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
+ statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
+ responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
+ space on task exit.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
+ bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on TASKSTATS
+ help
+ Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
+ resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
+ in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
+ relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+config UTS_NS
+ bool "UTS Namespaces"
+ default n
+ help
+ Support uts namespaces. This allows containers, i.e.
+ vservers, to use uts namespaces to provide different
+ uts info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
config AUDIT
bool "Auditing support"
- default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
- default n
+ depends on NET
help
Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
config AUDITSYSCALL
bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
- depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC64 || ARCH_S390)
+ depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
- default n
help
Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
- such as SELinux.
-
-config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
- int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
- range 12 20
- default 17 if ARCH_S390
- default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
- default 15 if SMP
- default 14
- 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
- 13 => 8 KB
- 12 => 4 KB
-
-config HOTPLUG
- bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if !ARCH_S390
- default ARCH_S390
- help
- Say Y here if you want to plug devices into your computer while
- the system is running, and be able to use them quickly. In many
- cases, the devices can likewise be unplugged at any time too.
-
- One well known example of this is PCMCIA- or PC-cards, credit-card
- size devices such as network cards, modems or hard drives which are
- plugged into slots found on all modern laptop computers. Another
- example, used on modern desktops as well as laptops, is USB.
-
- Enable HOTPLUG and KMOD, and build a modular kernel. Get agent
- software (at <http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/>) and install it.
- Then your kernel will automatically call out to a user mode "policy
- agent" (/sbin/hotplug) to load modules and set up software needed
- to use devices as you hotplug them.
+ such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
+ ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
config IKCONFIG
- bool "Kernel .config support"
+ tristate "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 CPUSETS
+ bool "Cpuset support"
+ depends on SMP
+ help
+ This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
+ allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
+ Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
+ This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
+ bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
+ default y
+ help
+ This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
+ "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
+ "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
+ uevent environment.
+ None of these features or values should be used today, as
+ they export driver core implementation details to userspace
+ or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
+ releases.
+
+ If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
+ that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class heirachy, in
+ order to support older versions of udev.
+
+ If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
+ it should be safe to say N here.
+
+config RELAY
+ bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
+ help
+ This option enables support for relay interface support in
+ certain file systems (such as debugfs).
+ It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
+ facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
+ user space.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+source "usr/Kconfig"
+
+config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
+ bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
+ 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.
+
+config TASK_XACCT
+ bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on TASKSTATS
+ help
+ Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
+ to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
+ bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on TASK_XACCT
+ help
+ Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
+ task has caused.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+config SYSCTL
+ bool
menuconfig EMBEDDED
bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
+config UID16
+ bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
+ depends on ARM || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
+ default y
+ help
+ This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
+
+config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
+ bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
+ select SYSCTL
+ ---help---
+ sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
+ to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
+ using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
+ information.
+
+ Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
+ trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
+ making your kernel marginally smaller.
+
+ If unsure say Y here.
+
config KALLSYMS
- bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED
+ bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
default y
help
Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
+config KALLSYMS_ALL
+ bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
+ help
+ Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
+ OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
+ symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
+ and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
+
+ 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 HOTPLUG
+ bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
+ help
+ This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
+ capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
+ disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
+ dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
+
+config PRINTK
+ default y
+ bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
+ help
+ This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
+ eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
+ and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
+ very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
+ strongly discouraged.
+
+config BUG
+ bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
+ help
+ Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
+ the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
+ numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
+ option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
+ Just say Y.
+
+config ELF_CORE
+ default y
+ bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
+ help
+ Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
+
+config BASE_FULL
+ default y
+ bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
+ help
+ Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
+ kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
+ but may reduce performance.
+
config FUTEX
bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
default y
+ select RT_MUTEXES
help
Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
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" if EMBEDDED
- default y if ARM || H8300
- default n
+config SHMEM
+ bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
+ depends on MMU
help
- Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
- resulting in a smaller kernel.
+ 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.
- WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
- option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
+config SLAB
+ default y
+ bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if (EMBEDDED && !SMP && !SPARSEMEM)
+ help
+ Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
+ kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.
+ SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
+ more susceptible to fragmentation.
- If unsure, say N.
+config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
+ default y
+ bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
+ help
+ VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
+ This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
+ on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
+ if VM event counters are disabled.
endmenu # General setup
+config RT_MUTEXES
+ boolean
+ select PLIST
+
+config TINY_SHMEM
+ default !SHMEM
+ bool
+
+config BASE_SMALL
+ int
+ default 0 if BASE_FULL
+ default 1 if !BASE_FULL
+
+config SLOB
+ default !SLAB
+ bool
menu "Loadable module support"
rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
If unsure, say N.
-config OBSOLETE_MODPARM
- bool
- default y
- depends on MODULES
- help
- You need this option to use module parameters on modules which
- have not been converted to the new module parameter system yet.
- If unsure, say Y.
-
config MODVERSIONS
- bool "Module versioning support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on MODULES && EXPERIMENTAL
+ 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
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_VERIFY_ELF
+ bool "Module ELF structure verification"
+ depends on MODULES
+ help
+ Check ELF structure of modules upon load
+
+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 MODULE_VERIFY
+ bool
+ depends on MODULES
+ default y if MODULE_VERIFY_ELF || MODULE_SIG
+
config KMOD
bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
depends on MODULES
help
Need stop_machine() primitive.
endmenu
+
+menu "Process debugging support"
+
+config UTRACE
+ bool "Infrastructure for tracing and debugging user processes"
+ default y
+ help
+ Enable the utrace process tracing interface.
+ This is an internal kernel interface to track events in user
+ threads, extract and change user thread state. This interface
+ is exported to kernel modules, and is also used to implement ptrace.
+ If you disable this, no facilities for debugging user processes
+ will be available, nor the facilities used by UML and other
+ applications. Unless you are making a specially stripped-down
+ kernel and are very sure you don't need these facilitiies,
+ say Y.
+
+config PTRACE
+ bool "Legacy ptrace system call interface"
+ default y
+ depends on UTRACE
+ help
+ Enable the ptrace system call.
+ This is traditionally used by debuggers like GDB,
+ and is used by UML and some other applications.
+ Unless you are very sure you won't run anything that needs it,
+ say Y.
+
+endmenu
+
+menu "Block layer"
+source "block/Kconfig"
+endmenu
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