+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"
config EXPERIMENTAL
config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
int
- default 32 if !USERMODE
- default 128 if USERMODE
+ 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.
for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
-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.
+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.
- 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.
+ 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 AUDIT
bool "Auditing support"
help
Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
- such as SELinux.
+ such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
+ ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
config IKCONFIG
bool "Kernel .config support"
source "usr/Kconfig"
-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 VM86
- depends X86
- default y
- bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED
- help
- This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
- code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like
- XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
- option saves about 6k.
-
config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
default y
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
+ bool "Sysctl support" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
+ ---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 KALLSYMS
bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED
default y
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
SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
more susceptible to fragmentation.
+config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
+ default y
+ bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
+ help
+ VM event counters are only needed to for event counts to be
+ shown. They have no function for the kernel itself. This
+ option allows the disabling of the VM event counters.
+ /proc/vmstat will only show page counts.
+
endmenu # General setup
+config RT_MUTEXES
+ boolean
+ select PLIST
+
config TINY_SHMEM
default !SHMEM
bool
default !SLAB
bool
-config OBSOLETE_INTERMODULE
- tristate
-
menu "Loadable module support"
config MODULES
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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