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- 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
- bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
- ---help---
- Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
- drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
- of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
- testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
- known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
- currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
- uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
- avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
- testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
- may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
- in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
- with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
- (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
- <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
- <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
- <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
- This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
- drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
- scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
- Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
- falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
- using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
- cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
- 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 BROKEN
- bool
- config BROKEN_ON_SMP
- bool
- depends on BROKEN || !SMP
- default y
- 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 && BLOCK
- default y
- help
- This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
- 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.
- config SYSVIPC
- bool "System V IPC"
- ---help---
- Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
- system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
- exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
- and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
- 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.
- You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
- 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 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
- of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
- programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
- queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. To use this feature you will
- also need mqueue library, available from
- <http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~wrona/posix_ipc/>
- POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
- and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
- operations on message queues.
- If unsure, say Y.
- config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
- bool "BSD Process Accounting"
- help
- If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
- kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
- information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
- that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
- information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
- command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
- list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
- 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/>.
- 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"
- depends on NET
- help
- Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
- kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
- logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
- auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
- config AUDITSYSCALL
- bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
- depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
- default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
- help
- Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
- can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
- such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
- ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
- config IKCONFIG
- tristate "Kernel .config support"
- ---help---
- This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
- 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 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 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 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 SYSCTL
- bool
- menuconfig EMBEDDED
- bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
- help
- This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
- to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
- 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 n
- select SYSCTL
- ---help---
- Enable the deprecated sysctl system call. sys_sysctl uses
- binary paths that have been found to be a major pain to maintain
- and use. The interface in /proc/sys is now the primary and what
- everyone uses.
- Nothing has been using the binary sysctl interface for some
- time now so nothing should break if you disable sysctl syscall
- support, and your kernel will get marginally smaller.
- Unless you have an application that uses the sys_sysctl interface
- you should probably say N here.
- config KALLSYMS
- bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" 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
- run glibc-based applications correctly.
- config EPOLL
- bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
- default y
- help
- Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
- support for epoll family of system calls.
- config SHMEM
- bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
- default y
- depends on 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 SLAB
- default y
- bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if EMBEDDED
- 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.
- 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
- config BASE_SMALL
- int
- default 0 if BASE_FULL
- default 1 if !BASE_FULL
- config SLOB
- default !SLAB
- bool
- menu "Loadable module support"
- config MODULES
- bool "Enable loadable module support"
- help
- Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
- be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
- permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
- tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
- many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
- answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
- useful for infrequently used options which are not required
- for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
- modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
- If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
- modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
- where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
- this).
- If unsure, say Y.
- config MODULE_UNLOAD
- bool "Module unloading"
- depends on MODULES
- help
- Without this option you will not be able to unload any
- modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
- anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
- simpler. If unsure, say Y.
- config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
- bool "Forced module unloading"
- depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
- help
- This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
- kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
- without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
- rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
- If unsure, say N.
- config MODVERSIONS
- 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
- compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
- to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
- 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 KMOD
- bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
- depends on MODULES
- help
- Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
- be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
- "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
- here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
- automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
- runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
- loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
- config STOP_MACHINE
- bool
- default y
- depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
- help
- Need stop_machine() primitive.
- endmenu
- menu "Block layer"
- source "block/Kconfig"
- endmenu
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