From: Florian Fainelli Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:28:33 +0000 (+0000) Subject: buildroot: split Kernel config options to Config-kernel.in X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4341ea40379ed24c103e37b75661c62bfc3270f6;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fthess.git buildroot: split Kernel config options to Config-kernel.in The number of Linux kernel related config options has become quite big over the past few months, they deserve their own Config-kernel.in file. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli SVN-Revision: 38524 --- diff --git a/Config-kernel.in b/Config-kernel.in new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0e51bdde84 --- /dev/null +++ b/Config-kernel.in @@ -0,0 +1,420 @@ +config KERNEL_DEBUG_FS + bool "Compile the kernel with Debug FileSystem enabled" + default y + help + debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put + debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and + write to these files. + +config KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS + bool + default n + +config KERNEL_PROFILING + bool "Compile the kernel with profiling enabled" + default n + select KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS + help + Enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used by profilers such + as OProfile. + +config KERNEL_KALLSYMS + bool "Compile the kernel with symbol table information" + default y + help + This will give you more information in stack traces from kernel oopses + +config KERNEL_FTRACE + bool "Compile the kernel with tracing support" + default n + +config KERNEL_FTRACE_SYSCALLS + bool "Trace system calls" + depends on KERNEL_FTRACE + default n + +config KERNEL_ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS + bool "Trace process context switches and events" + depends on KERNEL_FTRACE + default n + +config KERNEL_DEBUG_KERNEL + bool + default n + +config KERNEL_DEBUG_INFO + bool "Compile the kernel with debug information" + default y + select KERNEL_DEBUG_KERNEL + help + This will compile your kernel and modules with debug information. + +config KERNEL_DEBUG_LL_UART_NONE + bool + default n + depends on arm + +config KERNEL_DEBUG_LL + bool + default n + depends on arm + select KERNEL_DEBUG_LL_UART_NONE + help + ARM low level debugging + +config KERNEL_EARLY_PRINTK + bool "Compile the kernel with early printk" + default n + depends on arm + select KERNEL_DEBUG_KERNEL + select KERNEL_DEBUG_LL if arm + help + Compile the kernel with early printk support. + This is only useful for debugging purposes to send messages + over the serial console in early boot. + Enable this to debug early boot problems. + +config KERNEL_AIO + bool "Compile the kernel with asynchronous IO support" + default n + +config KERNEL_DIRECT_IO + bool "Compile the kernel with direct IO support" + default n + +config KERNEL_MAGIC_SYSRQ + bool "Compile the kernel with SysRq support" + default y + +config KERNEL_COREDUMP + bool + +config KERNEL_ELF_CORE + bool "Enable process core dump support" + select KERNEL_COREDUMP + default y + +config KERNEL_PROVE_LOCKING + bool "Enable kernel lock checking" + select KERNEL_DEBUG_KERNEL + default n + +config KERNEL_PRINTK_TIME + bool "Enable printk timestamps" + default y + +config KERNEL_RELAY + bool + +config KERNEL_KEXEC + bool "Enable kexec support" + +config USE_RFKILL + bool "Enable rfkill support" + default RFKILL_SUPPORT + +# +# CGROUP support symbols +# + +config KERNEL_CGROUPS + bool "Enable kernel cgroups" + default n + +if KERNEL_CGROUPS + + config KERNEL_CGROUP_DEBUG + bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" + default n + help + This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that + exports useful debugging information about the cgroups + framework. + + config KERNEL_FREEZER + bool + default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_FREEZER + + config KERNEL_CGROUP_FREEZER + bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" + default n + help + Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a + cgroup. + + config KERNEL_CGROUP_DEVICE + bool "Device controller for cgroups" + default y + help + Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which + a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. + + config KERNEL_CPUSETS + bool "Cpuset support" + default n + 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. + + config KERNEL_PROC_PID_CPUSET + bool "Include legacy /proc//cpuset file" + default n + depends on KERNEL_CPUSETS + + config KERNEL_CGROUP_CPUACCT + bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" + default n + help + Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the + total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. + + config KERNEL_RESOURCE_COUNTERS + bool "Resource counters" + default n + help + This option enables controller independent resource accounting + infrastructure that works with cgroups. + + config KERNEL_MM_OWNER + bool + default y if KERNEL_MEMCG + + config KERNEL_MEMCG + bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" + default n + depends on KERNEL_RESOURCE_COUNTERS + help + Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous + memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) + + Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead + associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, + 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory + usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out + at boot. + + Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really + sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable + this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to + disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. + (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) + + This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which + could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. + + config KERNEL_MEMCG_SWAP + bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" + default n + depends on KERNEL_MEMCG + help + Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you + enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, + when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to + usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension + is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself + adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. + Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please + be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller + is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and + there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, + if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. + Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page + size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. + + config KERNEL_MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED + bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" + default n + depends on KERNEL_MEMCG_SWAP + help + Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in + a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels + which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default + and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line + parameter should have this option unselected. + For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should + select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it + then swapaccount=0 does the trick). + + + config KERNEL_MEMCG_KMEM + bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" + default n + depends on KERNEL_MEMCG + help + The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit + the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are + fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard + Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of + the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes + will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. + + config KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS + bool + default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_PERF + + config KERNEL_CGROUP_PERF + bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" + default n + 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. + + menuconfig KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED + bool "Group CPU scheduler" + default n + help + This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU + bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group + tasks. + + if KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED + + config KERNEL_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED + bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" + default n + + config KERNEL_CFS_BANDWIDTH + bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" + default n + depends on KERNEL_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED + help + This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for + tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit + set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no + restriction. + See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. + + config KERNEL_RT_GROUP_SCHED + bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" + default n + help + This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth + to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to + schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate + realtime bandwidth for them. + + endif + + config KERNEL_BLK_CGROUP + bool "Block IO controller" + default y + help + Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common + cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling + policies. + + Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and + control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) + to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in + block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. + + 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, set + CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set + CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. + + config KERNEL_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP + bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" + default n + depends on KERNEL_BLK_CGROUP + help + Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat + files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. + + config KERNEL_NET_CLS_CGROUP + bool "Control Group Classifier" + default y + + config KERNEL_NETPRIO_CGROUP + bool "Network priority cgroup" + default y + +endif + +# +# Namespace support symbols +# + +config KERNEL_NAMESPACES + bool "Enable kernel namespaces" + default n + +if KERNEL_NAMESPACES + + config KERNEL_UTS_NS + bool "UTS namespace" + default y + help + In this namespace tasks see different info provided + with the uname() system call + + config KERNEL_IPC_NS + bool "IPC namespace" + default y + help + In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to + different IPC objects in different namespaces. + + config KERNEL_USER_NS + bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" + default y + help + This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces + to provide different user info for different servers. + + config KERNEL_PID_NS + bool "PID Namespaces" + default y + help + Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple + processes with the same pid as long as they are in different + pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. + + config KERNEL_NET_NS + bool "Network namespace" + default y + help + Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances + of the network stack. + +endif + +# +# LXC related symbols +# + +config KERNEL_LXC_MISC + bool "Enable miscellaneous LXC related options" + default n + +if KERNEL_LXC_MISC + + config KERNEL_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES + bool "Support multiple instances of devpts" + default y + help + Enable support for multiple instances of devpts filesystem. + If you want to have isolated PTY namespaces (eg: in containers), + say Y here. Otherwise, say N. If enabled, each mount of devpts + filesystem with the '-o newinstance' option will create an + independent PTY namespace. + + config KERNEL_POSIX_MQUEUE + bool "POSIX Message Queues" + default n + 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. + + 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. + +endif diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in index 38d11eb281..d6fc3b4692 100644 --- a/Config.in +++ b/Config.in @@ -274,423 +274,7 @@ menu "Global build settings" comment "Kernel build options" - config KERNEL_DEBUG_FS - bool "Compile the kernel with Debug FileSystem enabled" - default y - help - debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put - debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and - write to these files. - - config KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS - bool - default n - - config KERNEL_PROFILING - bool "Compile the kernel with profiling enabled" - default n - select KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS - help - Enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used by profilers such - as OProfile. - - config KERNEL_KALLSYMS - bool "Compile the kernel with symbol table information" - default y - help - This will give you more information in stack traces from kernel oopses - - config KERNEL_FTRACE - bool "Compile the kernel with tracing support" - default n - - config KERNEL_FTRACE_SYSCALLS - bool "Trace system calls" - depends on KERNEL_FTRACE - default n - - config KERNEL_ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS - bool "Trace process context switches and events" - depends on KERNEL_FTRACE - default n - - config KERNEL_DEBUG_KERNEL - bool - default n - - config KERNEL_DEBUG_INFO - bool "Compile the kernel with debug information" - default y - select KERNEL_DEBUG_KERNEL - help - This will compile your kernel and modules with debug information. - - config KERNEL_DEBUG_LL_UART_NONE - bool - default n - depends on arm - - config KERNEL_DEBUG_LL - bool - default n - depends on arm - select KERNEL_DEBUG_LL_UART_NONE - help - ARM low level debugging - - config KERNEL_EARLY_PRINTK - bool "Compile the kernel with early printk" - default n - depends on arm - select KERNEL_DEBUG_KERNEL - select KERNEL_DEBUG_LL if arm - help - Compile the kernel with early printk support. - This is only useful for debugging purposes to send messages - over the serial console in early boot. - Enable this to debug early boot problems. - - config KERNEL_AIO - bool "Compile the kernel with asynchronous IO support" - default n - - config KERNEL_DIRECT_IO - bool "Compile the kernel with direct IO support" - default n - - config KERNEL_MAGIC_SYSRQ - bool "Compile the kernel with SysRq support" - default y - - config KERNEL_COREDUMP - bool - - config KERNEL_ELF_CORE - bool "Enable process core dump support" - select KERNEL_COREDUMP - default y - - config KERNEL_PROVE_LOCKING - bool "Enable kernel lock checking" - select KERNEL_DEBUG_KERNEL - default n - - config KERNEL_PRINTK_TIME - bool "Enable printk timestamps" - default y - - config KERNEL_RELAY - bool - - config KERNEL_KEXEC - bool "Enable kexec support" - - config USE_RFKILL - bool "Enable rfkill support" - default RFKILL_SUPPORT - - # - # CGROUP support symbols - # - - config KERNEL_CGROUPS - bool "Enable kernel cgroups" - default n - - if KERNEL_CGROUPS - - config KERNEL_CGROUP_DEBUG - bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" - default n - help - This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that - exports useful debugging information about the cgroups - framework. - - config KERNEL_FREEZER - bool - default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_FREEZER - - config KERNEL_CGROUP_FREEZER - bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" - default n - help - Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a - cgroup. - - config KERNEL_CGROUP_DEVICE - bool "Device controller for cgroups" - default y - help - Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which - a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. - - config KERNEL_CPUSETS - bool "Cpuset support" - default n - 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. - - config KERNEL_PROC_PID_CPUSET - bool "Include legacy /proc//cpuset file" - default n - depends on KERNEL_CPUSETS - - config KERNEL_CGROUP_CPUACCT - bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" - default n - help - Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the - total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. - - config KERNEL_RESOURCE_COUNTERS - bool "Resource counters" - default n - help - This option enables controller independent resource accounting - infrastructure that works with cgroups. - - config KERNEL_MM_OWNER - bool - default y if KERNEL_MEMCG - - config KERNEL_MEMCG - bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" - default n - depends on KERNEL_RESOURCE_COUNTERS - help - Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous - memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) - - Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead - associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, - 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory - usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out - at boot. - - Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really - sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable - this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to - disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. - (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) - - This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which - could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. - - config KERNEL_MEMCG_SWAP - bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension" - default n - depends on KERNEL_MEMCG - help - Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you - enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, - when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to - usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension - is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself - adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. - Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please - be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller - is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and - there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, - if boot option "swapaccount=0" is set, swap will not be accounted. - Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page - size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. - - config KERNEL_MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED - bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension enabled by default" - default n - depends on KERNEL_MEMCG_SWAP - help - Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in - a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels - which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default - and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line - parameter should have this option unselected. - For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should - select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it - then swapaccount=0 does the trick). - - - config KERNEL_MEMCG_KMEM - bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" - default n - depends on KERNEL_MEMCG - help - The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit - the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are - fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard - Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of - the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes - will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. - - config KERNEL_CGROUP_PERF - bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" - default n - select KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS - 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. - - menuconfig KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED - bool "Group CPU scheduler" - default n - help - This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU - bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group - tasks. - - if KERNEL_CGROUP_SCHED - - config KERNEL_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED - bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" - default n - - config KERNEL_CFS_BANDWIDTH - bool "CPU bandwidth provisioning for FAIR_GROUP_SCHED" - default n - depends on KERNEL_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED - help - This option allows users to define CPU bandwidth rates (limits) for - tasks running within the fair group scheduler. Groups with no limit - set are considered to be unconstrained and will run with no - restriction. - See tip/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt for more information. - - config KERNEL_RT_GROUP_SCHED - bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" - default n - help - This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth - to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to - schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate - realtime bandwidth for them. - - endif - - config KERNEL_BLK_CGROUP - bool "Block IO controller" - default y - help - Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common - cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling - policies. - - Currently, CFQ IO scheduler uses it to recognize task groups and - control disk bandwidth allocation (proportional time slice allocation) - to such task groups. It is also used by bio throttling logic in - block layer to implement upper limit in IO rates on a device. - - 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, set - CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y; for enabling throttling policy, set - CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y. - - config KERNEL_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP - bool "Enable Block IO controller debugging" - default n - depends on KERNEL_BLK_CGROUP - help - Enable some debugging help. Currently it exports additional stat - files in a cgroup which can be useful for debugging. - - config KERNEL_NET_CLS_CGROUP - bool "Control Group Classifier" - default y - - config KERNEL_NETPRIO_CGROUP - bool "Network priority cgroup" - default y - - endif - - # - # Namespace support symbols - # - - config KERNEL_NAMESPACES - bool "Enable kernel namespaces" - default n - - if KERNEL_NAMESPACES - - config KERNEL_UTS_NS - bool "UTS namespace" - default y - help - In this namespace tasks see different info provided - with the uname() system call - - config KERNEL_IPC_NS - bool "IPC namespace" - default y - help - In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to - different IPC objects in different namespaces. - - config KERNEL_USER_NS - bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" - default y - help - This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces - to provide different user info for different servers. - - config KERNEL_PID_NS - bool "PID Namespaces" - default y - help - Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple - processes with the same pid as long as they are in different - pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. - - config KERNEL_NET_NS - bool "Network namespace" - default y - help - Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances - of the network stack. - - endif - - # - # LXC related symbols - # - - config KERNEL_LXC_MISC - bool "Enable miscellaneous LXC related options" - default n - - if KERNEL_LXC_MISC - - config KERNEL_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES - bool "Support multiple instances of devpts" - default y - help - Enable support for multiple instances of devpts filesystem. - If you want to have isolated PTY namespaces (eg: in containers), - say Y here. Otherwise, say N. If enabled, each mount of devpts - filesystem with the '-o newinstance' option will create an - independent PTY namespace. - - config KERNEL_POSIX_MQUEUE - bool "POSIX Message Queues" - default n - 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. - - 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. - - endif + source "Config-kernel.in" comment "Package build options"