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.
+ 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
+ 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
+ set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
- Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
- the git or cogito tools to be installed.
+ (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
+ by running the command:
+
+ $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
+
+ which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
config SWAP
bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
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/>
+ queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
through /proc/config.gz.
+config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
+ int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
+ range 12 21
+ default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
+ 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 CPUSETS
bool "Cpuset support"
depends on SMP
releases.
If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
- that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class heirachy, in
+ that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
order to support older versions of udev.
If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
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)
+ depends on ARM || BFIN || 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.
support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
run glibc-based applications correctly.
+config ANON_INODES
+ bool "Enable anonymous inode source" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
+ help
+ Anonymous inode source for pseudo-files like epoll, signalfd,
+ timerfd and eventfd.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
config EPOLL
bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
default y
+ depends on ANON_INODES
help
Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
support for epoll family of system calls.
+config SIGNALFD
+ bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
+ depends on ANON_INODES
+ default y
+ help
+ Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
+ on a file descriptor.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config TIMERFD
+ bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
+ depends on ANON_INODES
+ default y
+ help
+ Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
+ events on a file descriptor.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config EVENTFD
+ bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
+ depends on ANON_INODES
+ default y
+ help
+ Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
+ kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
config SHMEM
bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
default y
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 && !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.
-
config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
default y
bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
if VM event counters are disabled.
+config SLUB_DEBUG
+ default y
+ bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
+ depends on SLUB
+ help
+ SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
+ result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
+ SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
+ no support for cache validation etc.
+
+choice
+ prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
+ default SLAB
+ help
+ This option allows to select a slab allocator.
+
+config SLAB
+ bool "SLAB"
+ help
+ The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
+ well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
+ per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
+ a slab allocator.
+
+config SLUB
+ bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
+ help
+ SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
+ instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
+ Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
+ of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
+ and has enhanced diagnostics.
+
+config SLOB
+ depends on EMBEDDED && !SPARSEMEM
+ bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
+ help
+ SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
+ allocator. SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not
+ scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly
+ susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object
+ density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB.
+
+endchoice
+
endmenu # General setup
config RT_MUTEXES
default 0 if BASE_FULL
default 1 if !BASE_FULL
-config SLOB
- default !SLAB
- bool
-
menu "Loadable module support"
config MODULES
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