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1config DEFCONFIG_LIST
2 string
b2670eac 3 depends on !UML
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4 option defconfig_list
5 default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
6 default "/etc/kernel-config"
7 default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
8 default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
9
ff0cfc66 10menu "General setup"
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11
12config EXPERIMENTAL
13 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
14 ---help---
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).
31
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33 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are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.
35
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.
42
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43config BROKEN
44 bool
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45
46config BROKEN_ON_SMP
47 bool
48 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
49 default y
50
51config LOCK_KERNEL
52 bool
53 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
54 default y
55
56config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
57 int
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58 default 32 if !UML
59 default 128 if UML
1da177e4 60 help
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61 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
62 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
1da177e4 63
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64
65config LOCALVERSION
66 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
67 help
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.
74
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75config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
76 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
77 default y
78 help
79 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
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80 release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
81 top of tree revision.
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83 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
6e5a5420 84 if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
aaebf433 85 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
6e5a5420 86 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
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88 (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
89 by running the command:
90
91 $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
92
93 which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
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95config SWAP
96 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
9361401e 97 depends on MMU && BLOCK
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98 default y
99 help
100 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
92c3504e 101 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
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102 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
103 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
104
105config SYSVIPC
106 bool "System V IPC"
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107 ---help---
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.
115
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>.
119
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120config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
121 bool
122 depends on SYSVIPC
123 depends on SYSCTL
124 default y
125
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126config POSIX_MQUEUE
127 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
128 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
129 ---help---
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
b0e37650 134 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
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135
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.
139
140 If unsure, say Y.
141
142config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
143 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
144 help
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.
154
155config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
156 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
157 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
158 default n
159 help
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/>.
166
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167config TASKSTATS
168 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
169 depends on NET
170 default n
171 help
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
176 space on task exit.
177
178 Say N if unsure.
179
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180config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
181 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
6f44993f 182 depends on TASKSTATS
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183 help
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.
188
189 Say N if unsure.
190
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191config TASK_XACCT
192 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
193 depends on TASKSTATS
194 help
195 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
196 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
197
198 Say N if unsure.
199
200config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
201 bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
202 depends on TASK_XACCT
203 help
204 Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
205 task has caused.
206
207 Say N if unsure.
208
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209config USER_NS
210 bool "User Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
211 default n
212 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
213 help
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.
217
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218config AUDIT
219 bool "Auditing support"
804a6a49 220 depends on NET
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221 help
222 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
223 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
224 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
225 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
226
227config AUDITSYSCALL
228 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
347a8dc3 229 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
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230 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
231 help
232 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
233 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
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234 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
235 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
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1da177e4 237config IKCONFIG
f2443ab6 238 tristate "Kernel .config support"
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239 ---help---
240 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
241 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
242 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
243 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
244 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
245 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
246 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
247 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
248
249config IKCONFIG_PROC
250 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
251 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
252 ---help---
253 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
254 through /proc/config.gz.
255
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256config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
257 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
258 range 12 21
259 default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
260 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
261 default 15 if SMP
262 default 14
263 help
264 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
265 Defaults and Examples:
266 17 => 128 KB for S/390
267 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
268 15 => 32 KB for SMP
269 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
270 13 => 8 KB
271 12 => 4 KB
272
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273config CGROUPS
274 bool "Control Group support"
275 help
276 This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
277 such as Cpusets
278
279 Say N if unsure.
280
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281config CPUSETS
282 bool "Cpuset support"
8793d854 283 depends on SMP && CGROUPS
1da177e4 284 help
d9fd8a6d 285 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
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286 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
287 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
288 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
289
290 Say N if unsure.
291
29f59db3 292config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
fb615581 293 bool "Fair group CPU scheduler"
de8d585a 294 default y
9b5b7751 295 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
29f59db3 296 help
fb615581 297 This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
9b5b7751 298 bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
29f59db3 299
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300choice
301 depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
302 prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
303 default FAIR_USER_SCHED
304
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305config FAIR_USER_SCHED
306 bool "user id"
307 help
308 This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
309 tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
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311endchoice
312
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313config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
314 bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
315 default y
316 help
317 This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
318 "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
319 "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
320 uevent environment.
321 None of these features or values should be used today, as
322 they export driver core implementation details to userspace
323 or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
324 releases.
325
326 If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
3dde6ad8 327 that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
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328 order to support older versions of udev.
329
330 If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
331 it should be safe to say N here.
332
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333config PROC_PID_CPUSET
334 bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
335 depends on CPUSETS
336 default y
337
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338config CGROUP_CPUACCT
339 bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
340 depends on CGROUPS
341 help
342 Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
343 total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
344
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345config RELAY
346 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
347 help
348 This option enables support for relay interface support in
349 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
350 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
351 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
352 user space.
353
354 If unsure, say N.
355
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356config BLK_DEV_INITRD
357 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
358 depends on BROKEN || !FRV
359 help
360 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
361 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
362 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
363 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
364 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
365
366 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
367 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
368 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
369
370 If unsure say Y.
371
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372if BLK_DEV_INITRD
373
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374source "usr/Kconfig"
375
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376endif
377
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378config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
379 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
380 default y
32582fa4 381 depends on ARM || H8300 || SUPERH || EXPERIMENTAL
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382 help
383 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
384 resulting in a smaller kernel.
385
386 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
387 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
388
389 If unsure, say N.
390
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391config SYSCTL
392 bool
393
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394menuconfig EMBEDDED
395 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
396 help
397 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
398 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
399 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
400 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
401
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402config UID16
403 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
1394f032 404 depends on ARM || BFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
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405 default y
406 help
407 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
408
b89a8171 409config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
0847062a 410 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
13bb7e37 411 default y
b89a8171 412 select SYSCTL
ae81f9e3 413 ---help---
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414 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
415 to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
416 using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
417 information.
b89a8171 418
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419 Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
420 trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
421 making your kernel marginally smaller.
b89a8171 422
13bb7e37 423 If unsure say Y here.
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1da177e4 425config KALLSYMS
979c6a1e 426 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
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427 default y
428 help
429 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
430 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
431 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
432
433config KALLSYMS_ALL
434 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
435 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
436 help
437 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
438 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
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439 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
440 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
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441
442 Say N.
443
444config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
445 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
446 depends on KALLSYMS
447 help
448 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
449 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
450 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
451 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
452 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
453 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
454
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456config HOTPLUG
457 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
458 default y
459 help
460 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
461 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
462 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
463 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
464
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465config PRINTK
466 default y
467 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
468 help
469 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
470 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
471 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
472 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
473 strongly discouraged.
474
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475config BUG
476 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
477 default y
478 help
479 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
480 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
481 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
482 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
483 Just say Y.
484
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485config ELF_CORE
486 default y
487 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
488 help
489 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
490
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491config BASE_FULL
492 default y
493 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
494 help
495 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
496 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
497 but may reduce performance.
498
499config FUTEX
500 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
501 default y
23f78d4a 502 select RT_MUTEXES
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503 help
504 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
505 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
506 run glibc-based applications correctly.
507
5dc8bf81 508config ANON_INODES
448e3cee 509 bool
5dc8bf81 510
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511config EPOLL
512 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
513 default y
448e3cee 514 select ANON_INODES
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515 help
516 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
517 support for epoll family of system calls.
518
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519config SIGNALFD
520 bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 521 select ANON_INODES
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522 default y
523 help
524 Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
525 on a file descriptor.
526
527 If unsure, say Y.
528
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529config TIMERFD
530 bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 531 select ANON_INODES
e4260197 532 depends on BROKEN
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533 default y
534 help
535 Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
536 events on a file descriptor.
537
538 If unsure, say Y.
539
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540config EVENTFD
541 bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
448e3cee 542 select ANON_INODES
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543 default y
544 help
545 Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
546 kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
547
548 If unsure, say Y.
549
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550config SHMEM
551 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
552 default y
553 depends on MMU
554 help
555 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
556 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
557 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
558 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
559 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
560
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561config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
562 default y
563 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
564 help
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565 VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
566 This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
567 on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
568 if VM event counters are disabled.
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570config SLUB_DEBUG
571 default y
572 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
d4751a27 573 depends on SLUB
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574 help
575 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
576 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
577 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
578 no support for cache validation etc.
579
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581 prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
a0acd820 582 default SLUB
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583 help
584 This option allows to select a slab allocator.
585
586config SLAB
587 bool "SLAB"
588 help
589 The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
34013886 590 well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
81819f0f 591 per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
34013886 592 a slab allocator.
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594config SLUB
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595 bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
596 help
597 SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
598 instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
599 Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
600 of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
34013886 601 and has enhanced diagnostics.
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603config SLOB
84a01c2f 604 depends on EMBEDDED
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605 bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
606 help
607 SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
afc0cedb 608 allocator. SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not
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609 scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly
610 susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object
611 density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB.
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613endchoice
614
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615endmenu # General setup
616
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617config RT_MUTEXES
618 boolean
619 select PLIST
620
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621config TINY_SHMEM
622 default !SHMEM
623 bool
624
625config BASE_SMALL
626 int
627 default 0 if BASE_FULL
628 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
629
66da5733 630menuconfig MODULES
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631 bool "Enable loadable module support"
632 help
633 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
634 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
635 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
636 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
637 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
638 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
639 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
640 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
641 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
642
643 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
644 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
645 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
646 this).
647
648 If unsure, say Y.
649
650config MODULE_UNLOAD
651 bool "Module unloading"
652 depends on MODULES
653 help
654 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
655 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
656 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
657 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
658
659config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
660 bool "Forced module unloading"
661 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
662 help
663 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
664 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
665 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
666 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
667 If unsure, say N.
668
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670 bool "Module versioning support"
671 depends on MODULES
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672 help
673 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
674 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
675 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
676 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
677 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
678 unsure, say N.
679
680config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
681 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
682 depends on MODULES
683 help
684 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
685 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
686 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
687 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
688 others sometimes change the module source without updating
689 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
690 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
691
692config KMOD
693 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
694 depends on MODULES
695 help
696 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
697 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
698 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
699 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
700 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
701 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
702 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
703
704config STOP_MACHINE
705 bool
706 default y
707 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
708 help
709 Need stop_machine() primitive.
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3a65dfe8 711source "block/Kconfig"
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713config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
714 bool