depends on BROKEN || !SMP
default y
-config LOCK_KERNEL
- bool
- depends on (SMP || PREEMPT) && BKL
- default y
-
config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
int
default 32 if !UML
endchoice
+config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
+ string "Default hostname"
+ default "(none)"
+ help
+ This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
+ calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
+ but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
+ system more usable with less configuration.
+
config SWAP
bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
depends on MMU && BLOCK
config RCU_BOOST
bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
- depends on RT_MUTEXES && TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
+ depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
default n
help
This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
Say N if unsure.
-config CGROUP_NS
- bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
- help
- Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
- provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
- for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
- jobs.
-
config CGROUP_FREEZER
bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
help
select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
then noswapaccount does the trick).
+config CGROUP_PERF
+ bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
+ depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS
+ help
+ This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
+ threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the
+ designated cpu.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
menuconfig CGROUP_SCHED
bool "Group CPU scheduler"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
This option only enables generic Block IO controller infrastructure.
One needs to also enable actual IO controlling logic/policy. For
- enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ seti
- CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y and for enabling throttling policy set
- CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y.
+ enabling proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ, set
+ CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set
+ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y.
See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
bool
config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
- bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
+ bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
depends on SYSFS
default n
help
need to say Y here.
config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
- bool "enabled deprecated sysfs features by default"
+ bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features by default"
default n
depends on SYSFS
depends on SYSFS_DEPRECATED
config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
bool "Optimize for size"
- default y
help
Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
resulting in a smaller kernel.
environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
-config EMBEDDED
- bool "Embedded system"
- select EXPERT
- help
- This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
- an embedded system so certain expert options are available
- for configuration.
-
config UID16
bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
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.
+ Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
+ OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
+ sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
+ cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
+ names of variables from the data sections, etc).
-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.
+ This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
+ image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
+ size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
+ something like this).
+ Say N unless you really need all symbols.
config HOTPLUG
bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT
by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
this option saves about 7k.
+config EMBEDDED
+ bool "Embedded system"
+ select EXPERT
+ help
+ This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
+ an embedded system so certain expert options are available
+ for configuration.
+
config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
bool
help