1.\" $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.299 2005/12/20 18:15:30 elad Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1996 4.\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgment: 16.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project 17.\" by Perry E. Metzger. 18.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 19.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 20.\" 21.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 23.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 24.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 25.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 26.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 27.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 28.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 29.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 30.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" 33.Dd December 20, 2005 34.Os 35.Dt OPTIONS 4 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm options 38.Nd Miscellaneous kernel configuration options 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Cd cinclude ... 41.Cd config ... 42.Cd [no] file-system ... 43.Cd ident ... 44.Cd include ... 45.Cd [no] makeoptions ... 46.Cd maxusers ... 47.Cd [no] options ... 48.Cd [no] pseudo-device ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50This manual page describes a number of miscellaneous kernel 51configuration options that may be specified in a kernel config 52file. 53See 54.Xr config 1 55for information on how to configure and build kernels. 56.Pp 57The 58.Ar no 59form removes a previously specified option. 60.Ss Keywords 61The following keywords are recognized in a kernel configuration file: 62.Bl -ohang 63.It Sy cinclude Xo 64.Qq Ar filename 65.Xc 66Conditionally includes another kernel configuration file whose name is 67.Ar filename , 68which may be double-quoted and may be an explicit path or relative to 69the kernel source directory. 70Failure to open the named file is ignored. 71.It Sy config Xo 72.Ar exec_name 73.No root on 74.Ar rootdev 75.Op type Ar fstype 76.Op dumps on Ar dumpdev 77.Xc 78Defines a configuration whose kernel executable is named 79.Ar exec_name , 80normally 81.Dq netbsd , 82with its root file system of type 83.Ar fstype 84on the device 85.Ar rootdev , 86and optionally specifying the location of kernel core dumps on the device 87.Ar dumpdev . 88.Ar dev 89or 90.Ar dumpdev 91and 92.Ar fstype 93may be specified as 94.Dq \&? , 95which is a wild card. 96The root 97.Ar fstype 98and 99.Ar dumpdev 100are optional and assumed to be wild carded if they are not specified. 101.It Ar device_instance Xo 102at 103.Ar attachment 104.Op Ar locators value Op ... 105.Op flags Ar value 106.Xc 107Define an instance of the device driver 108.Ar device_instance 109that attaches to the bus or device named 110.Ar attachment . 111An 112.Ar attachment 113may require additional information on where the device can be found, such 114as an address, channel, function, offset, and/or slot, referred to as 115.Ar locators , 116whose 117.Ar value 118often may be a wild card, 119.Dq \&? . 120Some device drivers have one or more 121.Ar flags 122that can be adjusted to affect the way they operate. 123.It Sy file-system Xo 124.Ar fs_name Op , Ar fs_name Op ... 125.Xc 126Include support for the file-system 127.Ar fs_name . 128.It Sy ident Xo 129.Qq Ar string 130.Xc 131Sets the kernel identification string to 132.Ar string . 133.It Sy include Xo 134.Qq Ar filename 135.Xc 136Functions the same as 137.Ar cinclude , 138except failure to open 139.Ar filename 140produces a fatal error. 141.It Sy options Xo 142.Ar option_name Op , Ar option_name=value Op ... 143.Xc 144Specifies (or sets) the option, or comma-separated list of options, 145.Ar option_name . 146Some options expect to be assigned a value, which may be an integer, 147a double-quoted word, a bare word, or an empty string 148.Pq Qq . 149.Pp 150.Em Note : 151Options that are not defined by device definition files are passed to 152the compile process as 153.Fl D 154flags to the C compiler. 155.It Sy makeoptions Xo 156.Ar name=value 157.Xc 158Defines a 159.Xr make 1 160macro 161.Ar name 162with the value 163.Ar value 164in the kernel Makefile. 165.It Sy maxusers Xo 166.Ar integer 167.Xc 168Set the maxusers variable in the kernel. 169.It Sy no Xo 170.Ar keyword Ar name Op Ar arguments Op ... 171.Xc 172For the 173.Xr config 1 174.Ar keywords 175file-system, makeoptions, options, and pseudo-device, 176.Ar no 177removes the file-system, makeoption, options, or pseudo-device, 178.Ar name . 179This is useful when a kernel configuration file includes another which 180has undesired options. 181.Pp 182For example, a local configuration file that wanted the kitchen sink, but 183not COMPAT_09 or bridging, might be: 184.Bd -literal -offset indent 185include "arch/i386/conf/GENERIC" 186no options COMPAT_09 187no pseudo-device bridge 188.Ed 189.It Sy pseudo-device Xo 190.Ar name 191.Op Ar N 192.Xc 193Includes support for the pseudo-device 194.Ar name . 195Some pseudo-devices can have multiple or 196.Ar N 197instances. 198.El 199.Ss Compatibility Options 200.Bl -ohang 201.It Cd options COMPAT_09 202Enable binary compatibility with 203.Nx 0.9 . 204This enables support for 20516-bit user, group, and process IDs (following revisions support 20632-bit identifiers). 207It also allows the use of the deprecated 208.Xr getdomainname 3 , 209.Xr setdomainname 3 , 210and 211.Xr uname 3 212syscalls. 213This option also allows using numeric file system identifiers rather 214than strings. 215Post 216.Nx 0.9 217versions use string identifiers. 218.It Cd options COMPAT_10 219Enable binary compatibility with 220.Nx 1.0 . 221This option allows the use of the file system name of 222.Dq ufs 223as an alias for 224.Dq ffs . 225The name 226.Dq ffs 227should be used post 1.0 in 228.Pa /etc/fstab 229and other files. 230It also adds old syscalls for the 231.At V 232shared memory interface. 233This was changed post 1.0 to work on 64-bit architectures. 234This option also enables 235.Dq sgtty 236compatibility, without which programs using the old interface produce 237an 238.Dq inappropriate ioctl 239error, and 240.Pa /dev/io 241only works when this option is set in the kernel, 242see 243.Xr io 4 244on ports that support it. 245.It Cd options COMPAT_11 246Enable binary compatibility with 247.Nx 1.1 . 248This allows binaries running on the i386 port to gain direct access to 249the io ports by opening 250.Pa /dev/io 251read/write. 252This functionality was replaced by 253.Xr i386_iopl 2 254post 1.1. 255On the 256.Tn Atari 257port, the location of the disk label was moved after 1.1. 258When the 259.Em COMPAT_11 260option is set, the kernel will read (pre) 1.1 style disk labels as a 261last resort. 262When a disklabel is re-written, the old style label will be replaced 263with a post 1.1 style label. 264This also enables the 265.Em EXEC_ELF_NOTELESS 266option. 267.It Cd options COMPAT_12 268Enable binary compatibility with 269.Nx 1.2 . 270This allows the use of old syscalls for 271.Fn reboot 272and 273.Fn swapon . 274The syscall numbers were changed post 1.2 to add functionality to the 275.Xr reboot 2 276syscall, and the new 277.Xr swapctl 2 278interface was introduced. 279This also enables the 280.Em EXEC_ELF_NOTELESS 281option. 282.It Cd options COMPAT_13 283Enable binary compatibility with 284.Nx 1.3 . 285This allows the use of old syscalls for 286.Fn sigaltstack , 287and also enables the old 288.Xr swapctl 2 289command 290.Dv SWAP_STATS 291(now called 292.Dv SWAP_OSTATS ) , 293which does not include the 294.Fa se_path 295member of 296.Va struct swapent . 297.It Cd options COMPAT_14 298Enable binary compatibility with 299.Nx 1.4 . 300This allows some old 301.Xr ioctl 2 302on 303.Xr wscons 4 304to be performed, and allows the 305.Dv NFSSVC_BIOD 306mode of the 307.Xr nfssvc 2 308system call to be used for compatibility with the deprecated nfsiod program. 309.It Cd options COMPAT_16 310Enable binary compatibility with 311.Nx 1.6 . 312This allows the use of old signal trampoline code which has been deprecated 313with the addition of 314.Xr siginfo 2 . 315.It Cd options COMPAT_20 316Enable binary compatibility with 317.Nx 2.0 . 318This allows the use of old syscalls for 319.Fn statfs 320and 321.Fn fstatfs , 322which has been deprecated with the addition of the 323.Xr statvfs 2 324family of system calls. 325.It Cd options COMPAT_43 326Enables compatibility with 327.Bx 4.3 . 328This adds an old syscall for 329.Xr lseek 2 . 330It also adds the ioctls for 331.Dv TIOCGETP 332and 333.Dv TIOCSETP . 334The return values for 335.Xr getpid 2 , 336.Xr getgid 2 , 337and 338.Xr getuid 2 339syscalls are modified as well, to return the parent's PID and 340UID as well as the current process's. 341It also enables the deprecated 342.Dv NTTYDISC 343terminal line discipline. 344It also provides backwards compatibility with 345.Dq old 346SIOC[GS]IF{ADDR,DSTADDR,BRDADDR,NETMASK} interface ioctls, including 347binary compatibility with code written before the introduction of the 348sa_len field in sockaddrs. 349It also enables 350support for some older pre 351.Bx 4.4 352socket calls. 353.It Cd options COMPAT_BSDPTY 354This option is currenty on by default and enables the pty multiplexor 355.Xr ptm 4 356and 357.Xr ptmx 4 358to find and use ptys named 359.Pa /dev/ptyXX 360(master) and 361.Pa /dev/ttyXX 362(slave). 363Eventually this option will become optional as ptyfs based pseudo-ttys become 364the default, see 365.Xr mount_ptyfs 8 . 366.It Cd options COMPAT_SVR4 367On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 368compatibility with 369.At V.4 370applications built for the same architecture. 371This currently includes the i386, m68k, and sparc ports. 372.It Cd options COMPAT_LINUX 373On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 374compatibility with Linux ELF and 375.Xr a.out 5 376applications built for the same architecture. 377This currently includes the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, mips, powerpc, and 378x86_64 ports. 379.It Cd options COMPAT_SUNOS 380On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 381compatibility with 382.Tn SunOS 4.1 383applications built for the same architecture. 384This currently includes the sparc, sparc64 and most or all m68k ports. 385Note that the sparc64 requires the 386.Em COMPAT_NETBSD32 387option for 64-bit kernels, in addition to this option. 388.It Cd options COMPAT_ULTRIX 389On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 390compatibility with 391.Tn ULTRIX 392applications built for the same architecture. 393This currently is limited to the pmax. 394The functionality of this option is unknown. 395.It Cd options COMPAT_DARWIN 396On those architectures that support it, this enables binary compatibility with 397.Tn Darwin 398applications built for the same architecture. 399This feature is highly experimental, it requires COMPAT_MACH and 400EXEC_MACHO and it is currently limited to i386 and powerpc ports of 401.Nx . 402.It Cd options COMPAT_FREEBSD 403On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 404compatibility with 405.Fx 406applications built for the same architecture. 407At the moment this is limited to the i386 port. 408.It Cd options COMPAT_HPUX 409On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 410compatibility with 411.Tn HP/UX 412applications built for the same architecture. 413This is limited to the hp300 port, and has some known bugs. 414A limited set of programs do work. 415.It Cd options COMPAT_IBCS2 416On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 417compatibility with iBCS2 or SVR3 applications built for the same architecture. 418This is currently limited to the i386 and vax ports. 419.It Cd options COMPAT_IRIX 420On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 421compatibility with IRIX o32 binaries built for the same architecture. 422This feature is experimental, and it is currently limited to 423the sgimips port. 424.It Cd options COMPAT_MACH 425On those architectures that support it, this enables the emulation of 426Mach kernel traps for binaries built for the same architecture. 427This feature is highly experimental and it is currently 428limited to the i386 and powerpc ports of 429.Nx . 430.It Cd options COMPAT_OSF1 431On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 432compatibility with 433.Tn Digital 434.Ux 435.Po 436formerly 437.Tn OSF/1 438.Pc 439applications built for the same architecture. 440This is currently limited to the alpha port. 441.It Cd options COMPAT_NOMID 442Enable compatibility with 443.Xr a.out 5 444executables that lack a machine ID. 445This includes 446.Nx 0.8 Ns 's 447ZMAGIC format, and 386BSD and BSDI's 448QMAGIC, NMAGIC, and OMAGIC 449.Xr a.out 5 450formats. 451.It Cd options COMPAT_NETBSD32 452On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 453compatibility with 32-bit applications built for the same architecture. 454This is currently limited to the amd64 and sparc64 ports, and only 455applicable for 64-bit kernels. 456.It Cd options COMPAT_SVR4_32 457On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 458compatibility with 32-bit SVR4 applications built for the same architecture. 459This is currently limited to the sparc64 port, and only applicable for 46064-bit kernels. 461.It Cd options COMPAT_AOUT_M68K 462On m68k architectures which have switched to ELF, 463this enables binary compatibility with 464.Nx Ns Tn /m68k 465.Xr a.out 5 466executables on 467.Nx Ns Tn /m68k 468ELF kernels. 469This handles alignment incompatibility of m68k ABI between 470a.out and ELF which causes the structure padding differences. 471Currently only some system calls which use 472.Va struct stat 473are adjusted and some binaries which use 474.Xr sysctl 3 475to retrieve network details would not work properly. 476.It Cd options EXEC_MACHO 477On those architectures that support it, this adds support for running 478Mach-O executables. 479This is currently limited to the i386 and powerpc ports of 480.Nx . 481.It Cd options EXEC_ELF_NOTELESS 482Run unidentified ELF binaries as 483.Nx 484binaries. 485This might be needed for very old 486.Nx 487ELF binaries on some archs. 488These old binaries didn't contain an appropriate 489.Li .note.netbsd.ident 490section, and thus can't be identified by the kernel as 491.Nx 492binaries otherwise. 493Beware - if this option is on, the kernel would run 494.Em any 495unknown ELF binaries as if they were 496.Nx 497binaries. 498.It Cd options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORE 499Includes kernel support for the standard C library 500.Pq libc 501functions that implement semaphores as specified in 502.St -p1003.1-96 . 503.El 504.Ss Debugging Options 505.Bl -ohang 506.It Cd options DDB 507Compiles in a kernel debugger for diagnosing kernel problems. 508See 509.Xr ddb 4 510for details. 511.Em NOTE : 512not available on all architectures. 513.It Cd options DDB_FROMCONSOLE=integer 514If set to non-zero, DDB may be entered by sending a break on a serial 515console or by a special key sequence on a graphics console. 516A value of "0" ignores console breaks or key sequences. 517If not explicitly specified, the default value is "1". 518Note that this sets the value of the 519.Em ddb.fromconsole 520.Xr sysctl 3 521variable which may be changed at run time -- see 522.Xr sysctl 8 523for details. 524.It Cd options DDB_HISTORY_SIZE=integer 525If this is non-zero, enable history editing in the kernel debugger 526and set the size of the history to this value. 527.It Cd options DDB_ONPANIC 528If set to non-zero, DDB will be entered upon kernel panic. 529The default if not specified is "1". 530Note that this sets the value of the 531.Em ddb.onpanic 532.Xr sysctl 3 533variable which may be changed at run time -- see 534.Xr sysctl 8 535for details. 536.It Cd options DDB_BREAK_CHAR=integer 537This option overrides using break to enter the kernel debugger 538on the serial console. 539The value given is the ascii value to be used instead. 540This is currently only supported by the com driver. 541.It Cd options KGDB 542Compiles in a remote kernel debugger stub for diagnosing kernel problems 543using the 544.Dq remote target 545feature of gdb. 546See 547.Xr gdb 1 548for details. 549.Em NOTE : 550not available on all architectures. 551.It Cd options KGDB_DEV 552Device number 553.Po 554as a 555.Dv dev_t 556.Pc 557of kgdb device. 558.It Cd options KGDB_DEVADDR 559Memory address of kgdb device. 560.It Cd options KGDB_DEVMODE 561Permissions of kgdb device. 562.It Cd options KGDB_DEVNAME 563Device name of kgdb device. 564.It Cd options KGDB_DEVRATE 565Baud rate of kgdb device. 566.It Cd makeoptions DEBUG="-g" 567The 568.Fl g 569flag causes 570.Pa netbsd.gdb 571to be built in addition to 572.Pa netbsd . 573.Pa netbsd.gdb 574is useful for debugging kernel crash dumps with gdb. 575See 576.Xr gdb 1 577for details. 578This also turns on 579.Em options DEBUG 580(which see). 581.It Cd options DEBUG 582Turns on miscellaneous kernel debugging. 583Since options are turned into preprocessor defines (see above), 584.Em options DEBUG 585is equivalent to doing a 586.Em #define DEBUG 587throughout the kernel. 588Much of the kernel has 589.Em #ifdef DEBUG 590conditionalized debugging code. 591Note that many parts of the kernel (typically device drivers) include their own 592.Em #ifdef XXX_DEBUG 593conditionals instead. 594This option also turns on certain other options, 595which may decrease system performance. 596.It Cd options DIAGNOSTIC 597Adds code to the kernel that does internal consistency checks. 598This code will cause the kernel to panic if corruption of internal data 599structures is detected. 600These checks can decrease performance up to 15%. 601.It Cd options KSTACK_CHECK_MAGIC 602Check kernel stack usage and panic if stack overflow is detected. 603This check is performance sensitive because it scans stack on each context 604switch. 605.It Cd options KTRACE 606Add hooks for the system call tracing facility, which allows users to 607watch the system call invocation behavior of processes. 608See 609.Xr ktrace 1 610for details. 611.It Cd options MSGBUFSIZE=integer 612This option sets the size of the kernel message buffer. 613This buffer holds the kernel output of 614.Fn printf 615when not (yet) read by 616.Xr syslogd 8 . 617This is particularly useful when the system has crashed and you wish to lookup 618the kernel output from just before the crash. 619Also, since the autoconfig output becomes more and more verbose, 620it sometimes happens that the message buffer overflows before 621.Xr syslogd 8 622was able to read it. 623Note that not all systems are capable of obtaining a variable sized message 624buffer. 625There are also some systems on which memory contents are not preserved 626across reboots. 627.It Cd options MALLOCLOG 628Enables an event log for 629.Xr malloc 9 . 630Useful for tracking down 631.Dq Data modified on freelist 632and 633.Dq multiple free 634problems. 635.It Cd options MALLOCLOGSIZE=integer 636Defines the number of entries in the malloc log. 637Default is 100000 entries. 638.It Cd options SYSTRACE 639Add hooks for the system call policy facility. 640See 641.Xr systrace 1 642for details. 643.It Cd options UVMHIST 644Enables the UVM history logs, which create in-memory traces of 645various UVM activities. 646These logs can be displayed be calling 647.Fn uvmhist_dump 648or 649.Fn uvm_hist 650with appropriate arguments from DDB. 651See the kernel source file sys/uvm/uvm_stat.c for details. 652.It Cd options UVMHIST_PRINT 653Prints the UVM history logs on the system console as entries are added. 654Note that the output is 655.Em extremely 656voluminous, so this option is really only useful for debugging 657the very earliest parts of kernel initialization. 658.El 659.Ss File Systems 660.Bl -ohang 661.It Cd file-system FFS 662Includes code implementing the Berkeley Fast File System 663.Em ( FFS ) . 664Most machines need this if they are not running diskless. 665.It Cd file-system EXT2FS 666Includes code implementing the Second Extended File System 667.Em ( EXT2FS ) , 668revision 0 and revision 1 with the 669.Em filetype 670and 671.Em sparse_super 672options. 673This is the most commonly used file system on the Linux operating system, 674and is provided here for compatibility. 675Some of the specific features of 676.Em EXT2FS 677like the "behavior on errors" are not implemented. 678This file system can't be used with UID or GID greater than 65535. 679See 680.Xr mount_ext2fs 8 681for details. 682.It Cd file-system LFS 683.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 684Include the Log-structured File System 685.Em ( LFS ) . 686See 687.Xr mount_lfs 8 688and 689.Xr newfs_lfs 8 690for details. 691.It Cd file-system MFS 692Include the Memory File System 693.Em ( MFS ) . 694This file system stores files in swappable memory, and produces 695notable performance improvements when it is used as the file store 696for 697.Pa /tmp 698and similar file systems. 699See 700.Xr mount_mfs 8 701for details. 702.It Cd file-system NFS 703Include the client side of the Network File System 704.Pq Tn NFS 705remote file sharing protocol. 706Although the bulk of the code implementing 707.Tn NFS 708is kernel based, several user level daemons are needed for it to work. 709See 710.Xr mount_nfs 8 711for details. 712.It Cd file-system CD9660 713Includes code for the 714.Tn ISO 7159660 + Rock Ridge file system, which is the standard file system on many 716.Tn CD-ROM 717discs. 718Useful primarily if you have a 719.Tn CD-ROM 720drive. 721See 722.Xr mount_cd9660 8 723for details. 724.It Cd file-system MSDOSFS 725Includes the 726.Tn MS-DOS 727FAT file system, which is reportedly still used 728by unfortunate people who have not heard about 729.Nx . 730Also implements the 731.Tn Windows 95 732extensions to the same, which permit the use of longer, mixed case 733file names. 734See 735.Xr mount_msdos 8 736and 737.Xr fsck_msdos 8 738for details. 739.It Cd file-system NTFS 740.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 741Includes code for the 742.Tn Microsoft Windows NT 743file system. 744See 745.Xr mount_ntfs 8 746for details. 747.It Cd file-system FDESC 748Includes code for a file system, conventionally mounted on 749.Pa /dev/fd , 750which permits access to the per-process file descriptor space via 751special files in the file system. 752See 753.Xr mount_fdesc 8 754for details. 755Note that this facility is redundant, and thus unneeded on most 756.Nx 757systems, since the 758.Xr fd 4 759pseudo-device driver already provides identical functionality. 760On most 761.Nx 762systems, instances of 763.Xr fd 4 764are mknoded under 765.Pa /dev/fd/ 766and on 767.Pa /dev/stdin , 768.Pa /dev/stdout , 769and 770.Pa /dev/stderr . 771.It Cd file-system KERNFS 772Includes code which permits the mounting of a special file system 773(normally mounted on 774.Pa /kern ) 775in which files representing various kernel variables and parameters 776may be found. 777See 778.Xr mount_kernfs 8 779for details. 780.It Cd file-system NULLFS 781Includes code for a loopback file system. 782This permits portions of the file hierarchy to be re-mounted in other places. 783The code really exists to provide an example of a stackable file system layer. 784See 785.Xr mount_null 8 786for details. 787.It Cd file-system OVERLAY 788Includes code for a file system filter. 789This permits the overlay file system to intercept all access to an underlying 790file system. 791This file system is intended to serve as an example of a stacking file 792system which has a need to interpose itself between an underlying file 793system and all other access. 794See 795.Xr mount_overlay 8 796for details. 797.It Cd file-system PORTAL 798.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 799Includes the portal file system. 800This permits interesting tricks like opening 801.Tn TCP 802sockets by opening files in the file system. 803The portal file system is conventionally mounted on 804.Pa /p 805and is partially implemented by a special daemon. 806See 807.Xr mount_portal 8 808for details. 809.It Cd file-system PROCFS 810Includes code for a special file system (conventionally mounted on 811.Pa /proc ) 812in which the process space becomes visible in the file system. 813Among 814other things, the memory spaces of processes running on the system are 815visible as files, and signals may be sent to processes by writing to 816.Pa ctl 817files in the procfs namespace. 818See 819.Xr mount_procfs 8 820for details. 821.It Cd file-system UMAPFS 822Includes a loopback file system in which user and group IDs may be 823remapped -- this can be useful when mounting alien file systems with 824different UIDs and GIDs than the local system. 825See 826.Xr mount_umap 8 827for details. 828.It Cd file-system UNION 829.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 830Includes code for the union file system, which permits directories to 831be mounted on top of each other in such a way that both file systems 832remain visible -- this permits tricks like allowing writing (and the 833deleting of files) on a read-only file system like a 834.Tn CD-ROM 835by mounting a local writable file system on top of the read-only file system. 836See 837.Xr mount_union 8 838for details. 839.It Cd file-system CODA 840.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 841Includes code for the Coda file system. 842Coda is a distributed file system like NFS and AFS. 843It is freely available, like NFS, but it functions much like AFS in being a 844.Dq stateful 845file system. 846Both Coda and AFS cache files on your local machine to improve performance. 847Then Coda goes a step further than AFS by letting you access the cached 848files when there is no available network, viz. disconnected laptops and 849network outages. 850In Coda, both the client and server are outside the kernel which makes 851them easier to experiment with. 852Coda is available for several UNIX and non-UNIX platforms. 853See http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu for more details. 854.Em NOTE : 855You also need to enable the pseudo-device, vcoda, for the Coda 856file system to work. 857.It Cd file-system SMBFS 858.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 859Includes code for the SMB/CIFS file system. 860See 861.Xr mount_smbfs 8 862for details. 863.Em NOTE : 864You also need to enable the pseudo-device, nsmb, for the SMB 865file system to work. 866.It Cd file-system PTYFS 867.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 868Includes code for a special file system (normally mounted on 869.Pa /dev/pts ) 870in which pseudo-terminal slave devices become visible in the file system. 871See 872.Xr mount_ptyfs 8 873for details. 874.It Cd file-system TMPFS 875.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 876Includes code for the efficient memory file system, normally used over 877.Pa /tmp . 878See 879.Xr mount_tmpfs 8 880for details. 881.El 882.Ss File System Options 883.Bl -ohang 884.It Cd options ROOTFS_MAGICLINKS 885Enables the expansion of special strings 886.Po 887beginning with 888.Dq @ 889.Pc 890when traversing symbolic links on the root file system. 891See 892.Xr symlink 7 893for a list of supported strings. 894Note that this option only controls the enabling of this feature when 895the root file system is first mounted by the kernel at boot-up. 896This feature can still be manipulated with the 897.Xr mount 8 898command regardless of the setting of this option. 899.It Cd options NFSSERVER 900Include the server side of the 901.Em NFS 902(Network File System) remote file sharing protocol. 903Although the bulk of the code implementing 904.Em NFS 905is kernel based, several user level daemons are needed for it to 906work. 907See 908.Xr mountd 8 909and 910.Xr nfsd 8 911for details. 912.It Cd options QUOTA 913Enables kernel support for file system quotas. 914See 915.Xr quotaon 8 , 916.Xr edquota 8 , 917and 918.Xr quota 1 919for details. 920Note that quotas only work on 921.Dq ffs 922file systems, although 923.Xr rpc.rquotad 8 924permits them to be accessed over 925.Em NFS . 926.It Cd options FFS_EI 927Enable ``Endian-Independent'' FFS support. 928This allows a system to mount an FFS file system created for another 929architecture, at a small performance cost for all FFS file systems. 930See also 931.Xr newfs 8 , 932.Xr fsck_ffs 8 , 933.Xr dumpfs 8 934for file system byte order status and manipulation. 935.It Cd options FFS_NO_SNAPSHOT 936Disable the 937.Dq file system snapshot 938support in FFS file systems. 939Maybe useful for install media kernels, small memory systems and 940embedded systems which don't require the snapshot support. 941.It Cd options NVNODE=integer 942This option sets the size of the cache used by the name-to-inode translation 943routines, (a.k.a. the 944.Fn namei 945cache, though called by many other names in the kernel source). 946By default, this cache has 947.Dv NPROC 948(set as 20 + 16 * MAXUSERS) * (80 + NPROC / 8) entries. 949A reasonable way to derive a value of 950.Dv NVNODE , 951should you notice a large number of namei cache misses with a tool such as 952.Xr systat 1 , 953is to examine your system's current computed value with 954.Xr sysctl 8 , 955(which calls this parameter "kern.maxvnodes") and to increase this value 956until either the namei cache hit rate improves or it is determined that 957your system does not benefit substantially from an increase in the size of 958the namei cache. 959.It Cd options NAMECACHE_ENTER_REVERSE 960Causes the namei cache to always enter a reverse mapping (vnode -\*[Gt] name) 961as well as a normal one. 962Normally, this is already done for directory vnodes, to speed up the getcwd 963operation. 964This option will cause longer hash chains in the reverse cache, and thus 965slow down getcwd somewhat. 966However, it does make vnode -\*[Gt] path translations possible in some cases. 967For now, only useful if strict /proc/#/maps emulation for Linux binaries is 968required. 969.It Cd options EXT2FS_SYSTEM_FLAGS 970This option changes the behavior of the APPEND and IMMUTABLE flags 971for a file on an 972.Em EXT2FS 973file system. 974Without this option, the superuser or owner of the file can 975set and clear them. 976With this option, only the superuser can set them, and 977they can't be cleared if the securelevel is greater than 0. 978See also 979.Xr chflags 1 . 980.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_BOOTP 981Enable use of the BOOTP protocol (RFCs 951 and 1048) to get configuration 982information if NFS is used to mount the root file system. 983See 984.Xr diskless 8 985for details. 986.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_DHCP 987Same as 988.Dq NFS_BOOT_BOOTP , 989but use the DHCP extensions to the 990BOOTP protocol (RFC 1541). 991.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_BOOTP_REQFILE 992Specifies the string sent in the bp_file field of the BOOTP / DHCP 993request packet. 994.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_BOOTPARAM 995Enable use of the BOOTPARAM protocol, consisting of RARP and 996BOOTPARAM RPC, to get configuration information if NFS 997is used to mount the root file system. 998See 999.Xr diskless 8 1000for details. 1001.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_RWSIZE=value 1002Set the initial NFS read and write sizes for diskless-boot requests. 1003The normal default is 8Kbytes. 1004This option provides a way to lower the value (e.g., to 1024 bytes) 1005as a workaround for buggy network interface cards or boot PROMs. 1006Once booted, the read and write request sizes can be increased by 1007remounting the file system. 1008See 1009.Xr mount_nfs 8 1010for details. 1011.It Cd options NFS_V2_ONLY 1012Reduce the size of the NFS client code by omitting code that's only required 1013for NFSv3 and NQNFS support, leaving only that code required to use NFSv2 1014servers. 1015.It Cd options SOFTDEP 1016Enable kernel support for soft-dependencies in FFS filesystems. 1017Softdep improves write performance by aggregating and properly 1018ordering disk metadata writes, achieving near-asynchronous write 1019performance while maintaining the filesystem consistency of 1020synchronous writes. 1021Soft-dependencies are enabled on a per-mount basis. 1022See 1023.Xr mount 8 1024for details. 1025.It Cd options UFS_DIRHASH 1026Increase lookup performance by maintaining in-core hash tables 1027for large directories. 1028.El 1029.Ss Buffer queue strategy options 1030The following options enable alternative buffer queue strategies. 1031.Bl -ohang 1032.It Cd options BUFQ_READPRIO 1033Enable experimental buffer queue strategy for disk I/O. 1034In the default strategy, outstanding disk requests are ordered by 1035sector number and sent to the disk, regardless of whether the 1036operation is a read or write; this option gives priority to issuing 1037read requests over write requests. 1038Although requests may therefore be issued out of sector-order, causing 1039more seeks and thus lower overall throughput, interactive system 1040responsiveness under heavy disk I/O load may be improved, as processes 1041blocking on disk reads are serviced sooner (file writes typically 1042don't cause applications to block). 1043The performance effect varies greatly depending on the hardware, drive 1044firmware, filesystem configuration, workload, and desired performance 1045trade-off. 1046Systems using drive write-cache (most modern IDE disks, by default) 1047are unlikely to benefit and may well suffer; such disks acknowledge 1048writes very quickly, and optimise them internally according to 1049physical layout. 1050Giving these disks as many requests to work with as possible (the 1051standard strategy) will typically produce the best results, especially 1052if the drive has a large cache; the drive will silently complete 1053writes from cache as it seeks for reads. 1054Disks that support a large number of concurrent tagged requests (SCSI 1055disks and many hardware RAID controllers) expose this internal 1056scheduling with tagged responses, and don't block for reads; such 1057disks may not see a noticable difference with either strategy. 1058However, if IDE disks are run with write-cache disabled for safety, 1059writes are not acknowledged until actually completed, and only one 1060request can be outstanding; a large number of small writes in one 1061locality can keep the disk busy, starving reads elsewhere on the disk. 1062Such systems are likely to see the most benefit from this option. 1063Finally, the performance interaction of this option with ffs soft 1064dependencies can be subtle, as that mechanism can drastically alter 1065the workload for filesystem metadata writes. 1066.It Cd options BUFQ_PRIOCSCAN 1067Enable another experimental buffer queue strategy for disk I/O, 1068Per-priority cyclical scan. 1069.It Cd options NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY 1070Synonym of 1071.Em BUFQ_READPRIO . 1072.El 1073.Ss Miscellaneous Options 1074.Bl -ohang 1075.It Cd options LKM 1076Enable loadable kernel modules. 1077See 1078.Xr lkm 4 1079for details. 1080.Em NOTE : 1081not available on all architectures. 1082.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_DYNAMIC 1083This options makes the 1084.Xr md 4 1085.Tn RAM 1086disk size dynamically sized. 1087It is incompatible with 1088.Xr mdsetimage 8 . 1089.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_HOOKS 1090This option allows for some machine dependent functions to be called when 1091the 1092.Xr md 4 1093.Tn RAM 1094disk driver is configured. 1095This can result in automatically loading a 1096.Tn RAM 1097disk from floppy on open (among other things). 1098.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_IS_ROOT 1099Forces the 1100.Xr md 4 1101.Tn RAM 1102disk to be the root device. 1103This can only be overridden when 1104the kernel is booted in the 'ask-for-root' mode. 1105.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_ROOT_SIZE=integer 1106Allocates the given number of 512 byte blocks as memory for the 1107.Xr md 4 1108.Tn RAM 1109disk, to be populated with 1110.Xr mdsetimage 8 . 1111.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_SERVER=0 1112Do not include the interface to a userland memory disk server process. 1113Per default, this options is set to 1, including the support code. 1114Useful for install media kernels. 1115.It Cd options VND_COMPRESSION 1116Enables the 1117.Xr vnd 4 1118driver to also handle compressed images. 1119See 1120.Xr vndcompress 1 , 1121.Xr vnd 4 1122and 1123.Xr vnconfig 8 1124for more information. 1125.It Cd options MALLOC_NOINLINE 1126Time critical fixed size memory allocation is performed with 1127.Fn MALLOC 1128and 1129.Fn FREE . 1130Normally these expand to inline code, but with 1131.Em MALLOC_NOINLINE 1132these call the normal 1133.Fn malloc 1134and 1135.Fn free 1136functions. 1137Useful for install media kernels, small memory systems and embedded systems. 1138.It Cd options HZ=integer 1139On ports that support it, set the system clock frequency (see 1140.Xr hz 9 ) 1141to the supplied value. 1142Handle with care. 1143.It Cd options NTP 1144Turns on in-kernel precision timekeeping support used by software 1145implementing 1146.Em NTP 1147(Network Time Protocol, RFC 1305). 1148The 1149.Em NTP 1150option adds an in-kernel Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) for normal 1151.Em NTP 1152operation, and a Frequency-Locked Loop (FLL) for intermittently-connected 1153operation. 1154.Xr ntpd 8 1155will employ a user-level PLL when kernel support is unavailable, 1156but the in-kernel version has lower latency and more precision, and 1157so typically keeps much better time. 1158The interface to the kernel 1159.Em NTP 1160support is provided by the 1161.Xr ntp_adjtime 2 1162and 1163.Xr ntp_gettime 2 1164system calls, which are intended for use by 1165.Xr ntpd 8 1166and are enabled by the option. 1167On systems with sub-microsecond resolution timers, or where (HZ / 100000) 1168is not an integer, the 1169.Em NTP 1170option also enables extended-precision arithmetic to keep track of 1171fractional clock ticks at NTP time-format precision. 1172.It Cd options PPS_SYNC 1173This option enables a kernel serial line discipline for receiving time 1174phase signals from an external reference clock such as a radio clock. 1175(The 1176.Em NTP 1177option (which see) must be on if the 1178.Em PPS_SYNC 1179option is used.) 1180Some reference clocks generate a Pulse Per Second (PPS) signal in 1181phase with their time source. 1182The 1183.Em PPS 1184line discipline receives this signal on either the data leads 1185or the DCD control lead of a serial port. 1186.Em NTP 1187uses the PPS signal to discipline the local clock oscillator to a high 1188degree of precision (typically less than 50 microseconds in time and 11890.1 ppm in accuracy). 1190.Em PPS 1191can also generate a serial output pulse when the system receives a PPS 1192interrupt. 1193This can be used to measure the system interrupt latency and thus calibrate 1194.Em NTP 1195to account for it. 1196Using 1197.Em PPS 1198usually requires a 1199gadget box 1200to convert from TTL to RS-232 signal levels. 1201The gadget box and PPS are described in more detail in the HTML documentation 1202for 1203.Xr ntpd 8 1204in 1205.Pa /usr/share/doc/html/ntp . 1206.It Cd options NO_TSC_TIME 1207Don't use TSC microtime, even if available (i386 only). 1208Improves time behavior under VMware. 1209.It Cd options SETUIDSCRIPTS 1210Allows scripts with the setuid bit set to execute as the effective 1211user rather than the real user, just like binary executables. 1212.Pp 1213.Em NOTE : 1214Using this option will also enable 1215.Em options FDSCRIPTS 1216.It Cd options FDSCRIPTS 1217Allows execution of scripts with the execute bit set, but not the 1218read bit, by opening the file and passing the file descriptor to 1219the shell, rather than the filename. 1220.Pp 1221.Em NOTE : 1222Execute only (non-readable) scripts will have 1223.Va argv[0] 1224set to 1225.Pa /dev/fd/* . 1226What this option allows as far as security is 1227concerned, is the ability to safely ensure that the correct script 1228is run by the interpreter, as it is passed as an already open file. 1229.It Cd options PUCCN 1230Enables treating serial ports found on PCI boards 1231.Xr puc 4 1232as potential console devices. 1233The method for choosing such a console device is port dependent. 1234.It Cd options RTC_OFFSET=integer 1235The kernel (and typically the hardware battery backed-up clock on 1236those machines that have one) keeps time in 1237.Em UTC 1238(Universal Coordinated Time, once known as 1239.Em GMT , 1240or Greenwich Mean Time) 1241and not in the time of the local time zone. 1242The 1243.Em RTC_OFFSET 1244option is used on some ports (such as the i386) to tell the kernel 1245that the hardware clock is offset from 1246.Em UTC 1247by the specified number of minutes. 1248This is typically used when a machine boots several operating 1249systems and one of them wants the hardware clock to run in the 1250local time zone and not in 1251.Em UTC , 1252e.g. 1253.Em RTC_OFFSET=300 1254means 1255the hardware clock is set to US Eastern Time (300 minutes behind 1256.Em UTC ) , 1257and not 1258.Em UTC . 1259(Note: 1260.Em RTC_OFFSET 1261is used to initialize a kernel variable named 1262.Va rtc_offset 1263which is the source actually used to determine the clock offset, and 1264which may be accessed via the kern.rtc_offset sysctl variable. 1265See 1266.Xr sysctl 8 1267and 1268.Xr sysctl 3 1269for details. 1270Since the kernel clock is initialized from the hardware clock very 1271early in the boot process, it is not possible to meaningfully change 1272.Va rtc_offset 1273in system initialization scripts. 1274Changing this value currently may only be done at kernel compile 1275time or by patching the kernel and rebooting). 1276.Pp 1277.Em NOTE : 1278Unfortunately, in many cases where the hardware clock 1279is kept in local time, it is adjusted for Daylight Savings 1280Time; this means that attempting to use 1281.Em RTC_OFFSET 1282to let 1283.Nx 1284coexist with such an operating system, like Windows, 1285would necessitate changing 1286.Em RTC_OFFSET 1287twice a year. 1288As such, this solution is imperfect. 1289.It Cd options KMEMSTATS 1290The kernel memory allocator, 1291.Xr malloc 9 , 1292will keep statistics on its performance if this option is enabled. 1293Unfortunately, this option therefore essentially disables the 1294.Fn MALLOC 1295and 1296.Fn FREE 1297forms of the memory allocator, which are used to enhance the performance 1298of certain critical sections of code in the kernel. 1299This option therefore can lead to a significant decrease in the 1300performance of certain code in the kernel if enabled. 1301Examples of such code include the 1302.Fn namei 1303routine, the 1304.Xr ccd 4 1305driver, 1306and much of the networking code. 1307.It Cd options MAXUPRC=integer 1308Sets the soft 1309.Dv RLIMIT_NPROC 1310resource limit, which specifies the maximum number of simultaneous 1311processes a user is permitted to run, for process 0; 1312this value is inherited by its child processes. 1313It defaults to 1314.Em CHILD_MAX , 1315which is currently defined to be 160. 1316Setting 1317.Em MAXUPRC 1318to a value less than 1319.Em CHILD_MAX 1320is not permitted, as this would result in a violation of the semantics of 1321.St -p1003.1-90 . 1322.It Cd options NOFILE=integer 1323Sets the soft 1324.Dv RLIMIT_NOFILE 1325resource limit, which specifies the maximum number of open 1326file descriptors for each process; 1327this value is inherited by its child processes. 1328It defaults to 1329.Em OPEN_MAX , 1330which is currently defined to be 64. 1331.It Cd options MAXFILES=integer 1332Sets the default value of the 1333.Em kern.maxfiles 1334sysctl variable, which indicates the maximum number of files that may 1335be open in the system. 1336.It Cd options DEFCORENAME=string 1337Sets the default value of the 1338.Em kern.defcorename 1339sysctl variable, otherwise it is set to 1340.Nm %n.core . 1341See 1342.Xr sysctl 8 1343and 1344.Xr sysctl 3 1345for details. 1346.It Cd options RASOPS_CLIPPING 1347Enables clipping within the 1348.Nm rasops 1349raster-console output system. 1350.Em NOTE : 1351only available on architectures that use 1352.Nm rasops 1353for console output. 1354.It Cd options RASOPS_SMALL 1355Removes optimized character writing code from the 1356.Nm rasops 1357raster-console output system. 1358.Em NOTE : 1359only available on architectures that use 1360.Nm rasops 1361for console output. 1362.It Cd options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE 1363Embeds the kernel config file used to define the kernel in the kernel 1364binary itself. 1365The embedded data also includes any files directly included by the config 1366file itself, e.g. 1367.Pa GENERIC.local 1368or 1369.Pa std.$MACHINE . 1370The embedded config file can be extracted from the resulting kernel with 1371.Xr config 1 1372.Fl x , 1373or by the following command: 1374.Bd -literal -offset indent 1375strings netbsd | sed -n 's/^_CFG_//p' | unvis 1376.Ed 1377.It Cd options INCLUDE_JUST_CONFIG 1378Similar to the above option, but includes just the actual config file, 1379not any included files. 1380.It Cd options PIPE_SOCKETPAIR 1381Use slower, but smaller socketpair(2)-based pipe implementation instead 1382of default faster, but bigger one. 1383Primarily useful for installation kernels. 1384.It Cd options USERCONF 1385Compiles in the in-kernel device configuration manager. 1386See 1387.Xr userconf 4 1388for details. 1389.It Cd options PERFCTRS 1390Compiles in kernel support for CPU performance-monitoring counters. 1391See 1392.Xr pmc 1 1393for details. 1394.Em NOTE : 1395not available on all architectures. 1396.It Cd options XSERVER 1397Compiles in kernel support for 1398.Tn X11 1399on architectures that still use (or can use) the legacy 1400.Em pccons 1401console drivers rather than 1402.Xr wscons 4 . 1403These include bebox, i386, shark. 1404.It Cd options XSERVER_DDB 1405A supplement to XSERVER that adds support for entering 1406.Xr ddb 4 1407while in 1408.Tn X11 . 1409.El 1410.Ss Networking Options 1411.Bl -ohang 1412.It Cd options GATEWAY 1413Enables 1414.Em IPFORWARDING 1415(which see) 1416and (on most ports) increases the size of 1417.Em NMBCLUSTERS 1418(which see). 1419In general, 1420.Em GATEWAY 1421is used to indicate that a system should act as a router, and 1422.Em IPFORWARDING 1423is not invoked directly. 1424(Note that 1425.Em GATEWAY 1426has no impact on protocols other than 1427.Tn IP , 1428such as 1429.Tn CLNP 1430or 1431.Tn XNS ) . 1432.Em GATEWAY 1433option also compiles IPv4 fast forwarding code into the kernel. 1434.It Cd options ICMPPRINTFS 1435The 1436.Em ICMPPRINTFS 1437option will enable debugging information to be printed about 1438the 1439.Xr icmp 4 1440protocol. 1441.It Cd options IPFORWARDING=value 1442If 1443.Em value 1444is 1 this enables IP routing behavior. 1445If 1446.Em value 1447is 0 (the default), it disables it. 1448The 1449.Em GATEWAY 1450option sets this to 1 automatically. 1451With this option enabled, the machine will forward IP datagrams destined 1452for other machines between its interfaces. 1453Note that even without this option, the kernel will 1454still forward some packets (such as source routed packets) -- removing 1455.Em GATEWAY 1456and 1457.Em IPFORWARDING 1458is insufficient to stop all routing through a bastion host on a 1459firewall -- source routing is controlled independently. 1460To turn off source routing, use 1461.Em options IPFORWSRCRT=0 1462(which see). 1463Note that IP forwarding may be turned on and off independently of the 1464setting of the 1465.Em IPFORWARDING 1466option through the use of the 1467.Em net.inet.ip.forwarding 1468sysctl variable. 1469If 1470.Em net.inet.ip.forwarding 1471is 1, IP forwarding is on. 1472See 1473.Xr sysctl 8 1474and 1475.Xr sysctl 3 1476for details. 1477.It Cd options IPFORWSRCRT=value 1478If 1479.Em value 1480is set to zero, source routing of IP datagrams is turned off. 1481If 1482.Em value 1483is set to one (the default) or the option is absent, source routed IP 1484datagrams are forwarded by the machine. 1485Note that source routing of IP packets may be turned on and off 1486independently of the setting of the 1487.Em IPFORWSRCRT 1488option through the use of the 1489.Em net.inet.ip.forwsrcrt 1490sysctl variable. 1491If 1492.Em net.inet.ip.forwsrcrt 1493is 1, forwarding of source routed IP datagrams is on. 1494See 1495.Xr sysctl 8 1496and 1497.Xr sysctl 3 1498for details. 1499.It Cd options IFA_STATS 1500Tells the kernel to maintain per-address statistics on bytes sent 1501and received over (currently) internet and appletalk addresses. 1502.\"This can be a fairly expensive operation, so you probably want to 1503.\"keep this disabled. 1504The option is not recommended as it degrades system stability. 1505.It Cd options IFQ_MAXLEN=value 1506Increases the allowed size of the network interface packet queues. 1507The default queue size is 50 packets, and you do not normally need 1508to increase it. 1509.It Cd options MROUTING 1510Includes support for IP multicast routers. 1511You certainly want 1512.Em INET 1513with this. 1514Multicast routing is controlled by the 1515.Xr mrouted 8 1516daemon. 1517See also option 1518.Cd PIM . 1519.It Cd options PIM 1520Includes support for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) routing. 1521You need 1522.Em MROUTING 1523and 1524.Em INET 1525with this. 1526Software using this can be found e.g. in 1527.Pa pkgsrc/net/xorp . 1528.It Cd options INET 1529Includes support for the 1530.Tn TCP/IP 1531protocol stack. 1532You almost certainly want this. 1533See 1534.Xr inet 4 1535for details. 1536.It Cd options INET6 1537Includes support for the 1538.Tn IPv6 1539protocol stack. 1540See 1541.Xr inet6 4 1542for details. 1543Unlike 1544.Em INET , 1545.Em INET6 1546enables multicast routing code as well. 1547This option requires 1548.Em INET 1549at this moment, but it should not. 1550.It Cd options ND6_DEBUG 1551The option sets the default value of net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_debug to 1, 1552for debugging IPv6 neighbor discovery protocol handling. 1553See 1554.Xr sysctl 3 1555for details. 1556.It Cd options IPSEC 1557Includes support for the 1558.Tn IPsec 1559protocol. 1560See 1561.Xr ipsec 4 1562for details. 1563.It Cd options IPSEC_DEBUG 1564Enables debugging code in 1565.Tn IPsec 1566stack. 1567See 1568.Xr ipsec 4 1569for details. 1570.It Cd options IPSEC_ESP 1571Includes support for 1572.Tn IPsec 1573.Tn ESP 1574protocol. 1575See 1576.Xr ipsec 4 1577for details. 1578.It Cd options IPSEC_NAT_T 1579Includes support for 1580.Tn IPsec 1581Network Address Translator traversal (NAT-T), as described in RFCs 3947 1582and 3948. 1583This feature might be patent-encumbered in some countries. 1584.It Cd options ALTQ 1585Enabled ALTQ (Alternate Queueing). 1586For simple rate-limiting, use 1587.Xr tbrconfig 8 1588to set up the interface transmission rate. 1589To use queueing disciplines, their appropriate kernel options should also 1590be defined (documented below). 1591Queueing disciplines are managed by 1592.Xr altqd 8 . 1593See 1594.Xr altq 9 1595for details. 1596.It Cd options ALTQ_HFSC 1597Include support for ALTQ-implemented HFSC (Hierarchical Fair Service Curve) 1598module. 1599HFSC supports both link-sharing and guaranteed real-time services. 1600HFSC employs a service curve based QoS model, and its unique feature 1601is an ability to decouple delay and bandwidth allocation. 1602Requires 1603.Em ALTQ_RED 1604to use the RED queueing discipline on HFSC classes, or 1605.Em ALTQ_RIO 1606to use the RIO queueing discipline on HFSC classes. 1607This option assumes 1608.Em ALTQ . 1609.It Cd options ALTQ_PRIQ 1610Include support for ALTQ-implemented PRIQ (Priority Queueing). 1611PRIQ implements a simple priority-based queueing discipline. 1612A higher priority class is always served first. 1613Requires 1614.Em ALTQ_RED 1615to use the RED queueing discipline on HFSC classes, or 1616.Em ALTQ_RIO 1617to use the RIO queueing discipline on HFSC classes. 1618This option assumes 1619.Em ALTQ . 1620.It Cd options ALTQ_WFQ 1621Include support for ALTQ-implemented WFQ (Weighted Fair Queueing). 1622WFQ implements a weighted-round robin scheduler for a set of queues. 1623A weight can be assigned to each queue to give a different proportion 1624of the link capacity. 1625A hash function is used to map a flow to one of a set of queues. 1626This option assumes 1627.Em ALTQ . 1628.It Cd options ALTQ_FIFOQ 1629Include support for ALTQ-implemented FIFO queueing. 1630FIFOQ is a simple drop-tail FIFO (First In, First Out) queueing discipline. 1631This option assumes 1632.Em ALTQ . 1633.It Cd options ALTQ_RIO 1634Include support for ALTQ-implemented RIO (RED with In/Out). 1635The original RIO has 2 sets of RED parameters; one for in-profile 1636packets and the other for out-of-profile packets. 1637At the ingress of the network, profile meters tag packets as IN or 1638OUT based on contracted profiles for customers. 1639Inside the network, IN packets receive preferential treatment by 1640the RIO dropper. 1641ALTQ/RIO has 3 drop precedence levels defined for the Assured Forwarding 1642PHB of DiffServ (RFC 2597). 1643This option assumes 1644.Em ALTQ . 1645.It Cd options ALTQ_BLUE 1646Include support for ALTQ-implemented Blue buffer management. 1647Blue is another active buffer management mechanism. 1648This option assumes 1649.Em ALTQ . 1650.It Cd options ALTQ_FLOWVALVE 1651Include support for ALTQ-implemented Flowvalve. 1652Flowvalve is a simple implementation of a RED penalty box that identifies 1653and punishes misbehaving flows. 1654This option requires 1655.Em ALTQ_RED 1656and assumes 1657.Em ALTQ . 1658.It Cd options ALTQ_CDNR 1659Include support for ALTQ-implemented CDNR (diffserv traffic conditioner) 1660packet marking/manipulation. 1661Traffic conditioners are components to meter, mark, or drop incoming 1662packets according to some rules. 1663As opposed to queueing disciplines, traffic conditioners handle incoming 1664packets at an input interface. 1665This option assumes 1666.Em ALTQ . 1667.It Cd options ALTQ_NOPCC 1668Disables use of processor cycle counter to measure time in ALTQ. 1669This option should be defined for a non-Pentium i386 CPU which does not 1670have TSC, SMP (per-CPU counters are not in sync), or power management 1671which affects processor cycle counter. 1672This option assumes 1673.Em ALTQ . 1674.It Cd options ALTQ_IPSEC 1675Include support for IPsec in IPv4 ALTQ. 1676This option assumes 1677.Em ALTQ . 1678.It Cd options ALTQ_JOBS 1679Undocumented at this time. 1680.It Cd options ALTQ_AFMAP 1681Include support for an undocumented ALTQ feature that is used to map an IP 1682flow to an ATM VC (Virtual Circuit). 1683This option assumes 1684.Em ALTQ . 1685.It Cd options ALTQ_LOCALQ 1686Include support for ALTQ-implemented local queues. 1687Its practical use is undefined. 1688Assumes 1689.Em ALTQ . 1690.It Cd options SUBNETSARELOCAL 1691Sets default value for net.inet.ip.subnetsarelocal variable, which 1692controls whether non-directly-connected subnets of connected networks 1693are considered "local" for purposes of choosing the MSS for a TCP 1694connection. 1695This is mostly present for historic reasons and completely irrelevant if 1696you enable Path MTU discovery. 1697.It Cd options HOSTZEROBROADCAST 1698Sets default value for net.inet.ip.hostzerobroadcast variable, which 1699controls whether the zeroth host address of each connected subnet is 1700also considered a broadcast address. 1701Default value is "1", for compatibility with old systems; if this is 1702set to zero on all hosts on a subnet, you should be able to fit an extra 1703host per subnet on the 1704".0" address. 1705.It Cd options MCLSHIFT=value 1706This option is the base-2 logarithm of the size of mbuf clusters. 1707The 1708.Bx 1709networking stack keeps network packets in a linked 1710list, or chain, of kernel buffer objects called mbufs. 1711The system provides larger mbuf clusters as an optimization for 1712large packets, instead of using long chains for large packets. 1713The mbuf cluster size, 1714or 1715.Em MCLBYTES , 1716must be a power of two, and is computed as two raised to the power 1717.Em MCLSHIFT . 1718On systems with Ethernet network adaptors, 1719.Em MCLSHIFT 1720is often set to 11, giving 2048-byte mbuf clusters, large enough to 1721hold a 1500-byte 1722.Tn Ethernet 1723frame in a single cluster. 1724Systems with network interfaces supporting larger frame sizes like 1725.Tn ATM , 1726.Tn FDDI , 1727or 1728.Tn HIPPI 1729may perform better with 1730.Em MCLSHIFT 1731set to 12 or 13, giving mbuf cluster sizes of 4096 and 8192 bytes, 1732respectively. 1733.It Cd options NS 1734Include support for the 1735.Tn Xerox 1736.Tn XNS 1737protocol stack. 1738See 1739.Xr ns 4 1740for details. 1741.It Cd options ISO,TPIP 1742Include support for the ubiquitous 1743.Tn OSI 1744protocol stack. 1745See 1746.Xr iso 4 1747for details. 1748This option assumes 1749.Em INET . 1750.It Cd options EON 1751Include support for tunneling 1752.Tn OSI 1753protocols over 1754.Tn IP . 1755Known to be broken, or at least very fragile, and undocumented. 1756.It Cd options CCITT,LLC,HDLC 1757Include support for the 1758.Tn CCITT 1759(nee 1760.Tn ITU-TSS ) 1761.Tn X.25 1762protocol stack. 1763The state of this code is currently unknown, and probably contains bugs. 1764This option assumes 1765.Em INET . 1766.It Cd options NETATALK 1767Include support for the 1768.Tn AppleTalk 1769protocol stack. 1770The kernel provides provision for the 1771.Em Datagram Delivery Protocol 1772(DDP), providing SOCK_DGRAM support and 1773.Tn AppleTalk 1774routing. 1775This stack is used by the 1776.Em NETATALK 1777package, which adds support for 1778.Tn AppleTalk 1779server services via user libraries and applications. 1780.It Cd options IPNOPRIVPORTS 1781Normally, only root can bind a socket descriptor to a so-called 1782.Dq privileged 1783.Tn TCP 1784port, that is, a port number in the range 0-1023. 1785This option eliminates those checks from the kernel. 1786This can be useful if there is a desire to allow daemons without 1787privileges to bind those ports, e.g., on firewalls. 1788The security tradeoffs in doing this are subtle. 1789This option should only be used by experts. 1790.It Cd options TCP_COMPAT_42 1791.Tn TCP 1792bug compatibility with 1793.Bx 4.2 . 1794In 1795.Bx 4.2 , 1796.Tn TCP 1797sequence numbers were 32-bit signed values. 1798Modern implementations of TCP use unsigned values. 1799This option clamps the initial sequence number to start in 1800the range 2^31 rather than the full unsigned range of 2^32. 1801Also, under 1802.Bx 4.2 , 1803keepalive packets must contain at least one byte or else 1804the remote end would not respond. 1805.It Cd options TCP_DEBUG 1806Record the last 1807.Em TCP_NDEBUG 1808TCP packets with SO_DEBUG set, and decode to the console if 1809.Em tcpconsdebug 1810is set. 1811.It Cd options TCP_NDEBUG 1812Number of packets to record for 1813.Em TCP_DEBUG . 1814Defaults to 100. 1815.It Cd options TCP_SENDSPACE=value 1816.It Cd options TCP_RECVSPACE=value 1817These options set the max TCP window size to other sizes than the default. 1818The TCP window sizes can be altered via 1819.Xr sysctl 8 1820as well. 1821.It Cd options TCP_INIT_WIN=value 1822This option sets the initial TCP window size for non-local connections, 1823which is used when the transmission starts. 1824The default size is 1, but if the machine should act more aggressively, 1825the initial size can be set to some other value. 1826The initial TCP window size can be set via 1827.Xr sysctl 8 1828as well. 1829.It Cd options PFIL_HOOKS 1830This option turns on the packet filter interface hooks. 1831See 1832.Xr pfil 9 1833for details. 1834This option assumes 1835.Em INET . 1836.It Cd options IPFILTER_LOG 1837This option, in conjunction with 1838.Em pseudo-device ipfilter , 1839enables logging of IP packets using ip-filter. 1840.It Cd options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK 1841This option sets the default policy of ip-filter. 1842If it is set, ip-filter will block packets by default. 1843.It Cd options BRIDGE_IPF 1844This option causes 1845.Em bridge 1846devices to use the IP and/or IPv6 filtering hooks, forming 1847a link-layer filter that uses protocol-layer rules. 1848This option assumes the presence of 1849.Em pseudo-device ipfilter . 1850.It Cd options MBUFTRACE 1851This option can help track down mbuf leaks. 1852When enabled, mbufs are tagged with the devices and protocols using them, 1853which slightly decreases network performance. 1854This additional information can be viewed with 1855.Xr netstat 1 : 1856.Dl Ic netstat Fl mssv 1857Not all devices or protocols support this option. 1858.El 1859.Ss Sysctl Related Options 1860.Bl -ohang 1861.It Cd options SYSCTL_DISALLOW_CREATE 1862Disallows the creation or deletion of nodes from the sysctl tree, as 1863well as the assigning of descriptions to nodes that lack them, by any 1864process. 1865These operations are still available to kernel sub-systems, including 1866loadable kernel modules. 1867.It Cd options SYSCTL_DISALLOW_KWRITE 1868Prevents processes from adding nodes to the sysctl tree that make 1869existing kernel memory areas writeable. 1870Sections of kernel memory can still be read and new nodes that own 1871their own data may still be writeable. 1872.It Cd options SYSCTL_DEBUG_SETUP 1873Causes the SYSCTL_SETUP routines to print a brief message when they 1874are invoked. 1875This is merely meant as an aid in determining the order in which 1876sections of the tree are created. 1877.It Cd options SYSCTL_DEBUG_CREATE 1878Prints a message each time 1879.Fn sysctl_create , 1880the function that adds nodes to the tree, is called. 1881.It Cd options SYSCTL_INCLUDE_DESCR 1882Causes the kernel to include short, human readable descriptions for 1883nodes in the sysctl tree. 1884The descriptions can be retrieved programmatically (see 1885.Xr sysctl 3 ) , 1886or by the sysctl binary itself (see 1887.Xr sysctl 8 ) . 1888The descriptions are meant to give an indication of the purpose and/or 1889effects of a given node's value, not replace the documentation for the 1890given subsystem as a whole. 1891.El 1892.Ss System V IPC Options 1893.Bl -ohang 1894.It Cd options SYSVMSG 1895Includes support for 1896.At V 1897style message queues. 1898See 1899.Xr msgctl 2 , 1900.Xr msgget 2 , 1901.Xr msgrcv 2 , 1902.Xr msgsnd 2 . 1903.It Cd options SYSVSEM 1904Includes support for 1905.At V 1906style semaphores. 1907See 1908.Xr semctl 2 , 1909.Xr semget 2 , 1910.Xr semop 2 . 1911.It Cd options SEMMNI=value 1912Sets the number of 1913.At V 1914style semaphore identifiers. 1915The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default. 1916.It Cd options SEMMNS=value 1917Sets the number of 1918.At V 1919style semaphores in the system. 1920The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default. 1921.It Cd options SEMUME=value 1922Sets the maximum number of undo entries per process for 1923.At V 1924style semaphores. 1925The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default. 1926.It Cd options SEMMNU=value 1927Sets the number of undo structures in the system for 1928.At V 1929style semaphores. 1930The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default. 1931.It Cd options SYSVSHM 1932Includes support for 1933.At V 1934style shared memory. 1935See 1936.Xr shmat 2 , 1937.Xr shmctl 2 , 1938.Xr shmdt 2 , 1939.Xr shmget 2 . 1940.It Cd options SHMMAXPGS=value 1941Sets the maximum number of 1942.At V 1943style shared memory pages that are available through the 1944.Xr shmget 2 1945system call. 1946Default value is 1024 on most ports. 1947See 1948.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 1949for the default. 1950.El 1951.Ss VM Related Options 1952.Bl -ohang 1953.It Cd options NMBCLUSTERS=value 1954The number of mbuf clusters the kernel supports. 1955Mbuf clusters are MCLBYTES in size (usually 2k). 1956This is used to compute the size of the kernel VM map 1957.Em mb_map , 1958which maps mbuf clusters. 1959Default on most ports is 1024 (2048 with 1960.Dq options GATEWAY 1961). 1962See 1963.Pa /usr/include/machine/param.h 1964for exact default information. 1965Increase this value if you get 1966.Dq mclpool limit reached 1967messages. 1968.It Cd options NKMEMPAGES=value 1969.It Cd options NKMEMPAGES_MIN=value 1970.It Cd options NKMEMPAGES_MAX=value 1971Size of kernel VM map 1972.Em kmem_map , 1973in PAGE_SIZE-sized chunks (the VM page size; this value may be read 1974from the 1975.Xr sysctl 8 1976variable 1977.Em hw.pagesize 1978). 1979This VM map is used to map the kernel malloc arena. 1980The kernel attempts to auto-size this map based on the amount of 1981physical memory in the system. 1982Platform-specific code may place bounds on this computed size, 1983which may be viewed with the 1984.Xr sysctl 8 1985variable 1986.Em vm.nkmempages . 1987See 1988.Pa /usr/include/machine/param.h 1989for the default upper and lower bounds. 1990The related options 1991.Sq NKMEMPAGES_MIN 1992and 1993.Sq NKMEMPAGES_MAX 1994allow the bounds to be overridden in the kernel configuration file. 1995These options are provided in the event the computed value is 1996insufficient resulting in an 1997.Dq out of space in kmem_map 1998panic. 1999.It Cd options SB_MAX=value 2000Sets the max size in bytes that a socket buffer is allowed to occupy. 2001The default is 256k, but sometimes it needs to be increased, for example 2002when using large TCP windows. 2003This option can be changed via 2004.Xr sysctl 8 2005as well. 2006.It Cd options SOMAXKVA=value 2007Sets the maximum size of kernel virtual memory that the socket buffers 2008are allowed to use. 2009The default is 16MB, but in situations where for example large TCP 2010windows are used this value must also be increased. 2011This option can be changed via 2012.Xr sysctl 8 2013as well. 2014.It Cd options BUFCACHE=value 2015Size of the buffer cache as a percentage of total available 2016.Tn RAM . 2017Ignored if BUFPAGES is also specified. 2018.It Cd options NBUF=value 2019Sets the number of buffer headers available, i.e., the number of 2020open files that may have a buffer cache entry. 2021Each buffer header 2022requires MAXBSIZE (machine dependent, but usually 65536) bytes. 2023The default value is machine dependent, but is usually equal to the 2024value of BUFPAGES. 2025If an architecture dependent VM_MAX_KERNEL_BUF constant is defined 2026then NBUF may be reduced at run time so that the storage allocated 2027for buffer headers doesn't exceed that limit. 2028.It Cd options BUFPAGES=value 2029These options set the number of pages available for the buffer cache. 2030Their default value is a machine dependent value, often calculated as 2031between 5% and 10% of total available 2032.Tn RAM . 2033.It Cd options MAXTSIZ=bytes 2034Sets the maximum size limit of a process' text segment. 2035See 2036.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2037for the port-specific default. 2038.It Cd options DFLDSIZ=bytes 2039Sets the default size limit of a process' data segment, the value that 2040will be returned as the soft limit for 2041.Dv RLIMIT_DATA 2042(as returned by 2043.Xr getrlimit 2 ) . 2044See 2045.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2046for the port-specific default. 2047.It Cd options MAXDSIZ=bytes 2048Sets the maximum size limit of a process' data segment, the value that 2049will be returned as the hard limit for 2050.Dv RLIMIT_DATA 2051(as returned by 2052.Xr getrlimit 2 ) . 2053See 2054.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2055for the port-specific default. 2056.It Cd options DFLSSIZ=bytes 2057Sets the default size limit of a process' stack segment, the value that 2058will be returned as the soft limit for 2059.Dv RLIMIT_STACK 2060(as returned by 2061.Xr getrlimit 2 ) . 2062See 2063.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2064for the port-specific default. 2065.It Cd options MAXSSIZ=bytes 2066Sets the maximum size limit of a process' stack segment, the value that 2067will be returned as the hard limit for 2068.Dv RLIMIT_STACK 2069(as returned by 2070.Xr getrlimit 2 ) . 2071See 2072.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2073for the port-specific default. 2074.It Cd options DUMP_ON_PANIC=integer 2075Defaults to one. 2076If set to zero, the kernel will not dump to the dump device when 2077it panics, though dumps can still be forced via 2078.Xr ddb 4 2079with the 2080.Dq sync 2081command. 2082Note that this sets the value of the 2083.Em kern.dump_on_panic 2084.Xr sysctl 3 2085variable which may be changed at run time -- see 2086.Xr sysctl 8 2087for details. 2088.It Cd options USE_TOPDOWN_VM 2089User space memory allocations (as made by 2090.Xr mmap 2 ) 2091will be arranged in a 2092.Dq top down 2093fashion instead of the traditional 2094.Dq upwards from MAXDSIZ \+ vm_daddr 2095method. 2096This includes the placement of 2097.Xr ld.so 1 . 2098Arranging memory in this manner allows either (or both of) the heap or 2099.Xr mmap 2 2100allocated space to grow larger than traditionally possible. 2101This option is not available on all ports, but is instead expected to be 2102offered on a port-by-port basis, after which some ports will commit to 2103using it by default. 2104See the files 2105.Pa /usr/include/uvm/uvm_param.h 2106for some implementation details, and 2107.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2108for port specific details including availability. 2109.It Cd options VMSWAP 2110Enable paging device/file support. 2111This option is on by default. 2112.El 2113.Ss Security Options 2114.Bl -ohang 2115.It Cd options INSECURE 2116Hardwires the kernel security level at -1. 2117This means that the system 2118always runs in secure level -1 mode, even when running multiuser. 2119See the manual page for 2120.Xr init 8 2121for details on the implications of this. 2122The kernel secure level may manipulated by the superuser by altering the 2123.Em kern.securelevel 2124.Xr sysctl 3 2125variable (the secure level may only be lowered by a call from process ID 1, 2126i.e. 2127.Xr init 8 ) . 2128See also 2129.Xr sysctl 8 2130and 2131.Xr sysctl 3 . 2132.It Cd options VERIFIED_EXEC 2133Enables Veriexec, the in-kernel file integrity subsystem. 2134.It Cd options VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_MD5 2135Enables support for MD5 hashes in Veriexec. 2136.It Cd options VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_SHA1 2137Enables support for SHA1 hashes in Veriexec. 2138.It Cd options VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_RMD160 2139Enables support for RMD160 hashes in Veriexec. 2140.It Cd options VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_SHA256 2141Enables support for SHA256 hashes in Veriexec. 2142.It Cd options VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_SHA384 2143Enables support for SHA384 hashes in Veriexec. 2144.It Cd options VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_SHA512 2145Enables support for SHA512 hashes in Veriexec. 2146.El 2147.Ss amiga-specific Options 2148.Bl -ohang 2149.It Cd options BB060STUPIDROM 2150When the bootloader (which passes 2151.Tn AmigaOS 2152.Tn ROM 2153information) claims we have a 68060 2154.Tn CPU 2155without 2156.Tn FPU , 2157go look into the Processor Configuration Register (PCR) to find out. 2158You need this with 2159.Tn Amiga 2160.Tn ROM Ns s 2161up to (at least) V40.xxx (OS3.1), 2162when you boot via the bootblocks and don't have a DraCo. 2163.It Cd options IOBZCLOCK=frequency 2164The IOBlix boards come with two different serial master clocks: older ones 2165use 24 MHz, newer ones use 22.1184 MHz. 2166The driver normally assumes the latter. 2167If your board uses 24 MHz, you can recompile your kernel with 2168options IOBZCLOCK=24000000 2169or patch the kernel variable 2170.Tn iobzclock 2171to the same value. 2172.It Cd options LIMITMEM=value 2173If there, limit the part of the first memory bank used by 2174.Nx 2175to value megabytes. 2176Default is unlimited. 2177.It Cd options NKPTADD=addvalue 2178.It Cd options NKPTADDSHIFT=shiftvalue 2179The 2180.Tn CPU 2181specific 2182.Tn MMU 2183table for the kernel is pre-allocated at kernel startup time. 2184Part of it is scaled with 2185.Va maxproc , 2186to have enough room to hold the user program 2187.Tn MMU 2188tables; the second part is a fixed amount for the kernel itself. 2189.Pp 2190The third part accounts for the size of the file buffer cache. 2191Its size is either 2192.Dv NKPTADD 2193pages (if defined) or memory size in bytes divided by two to 2194the power of 2195.Dv NKPTADDSHIFT . 2196The default is undefined 2197.Dv NKPTADD 2198and 2199.Dv NKPTADDSHIFT=24 , 2200allowing for 16 buffers per megabyte of main memory (while 2201a GENERIC kernel allocates about half of that). 2202When you get "can't get KPT page" panics, you should increase 2203.Dv NKPTADD 2204(if defined), or decrease 2205.Dv NKPTADDSHIFT 2206by one. 2207.It Cd options P5PPC68KBOARD 2208Add special support for Phase5 mixed 68k+PPC boards. 2209Currently, this only affects rebooting from 2210.Nx 2211and is only needed on 68040+PPC, not on 221268060+PPC; without this, affected machines will hang after 2213.Nx 2214has shut 2215down and will only restart after a keyboard reset or a power cycle. 2216.El 2217.Ss arm32-specific Options 2218.Bl -ohang 2219.It Cd options FRENCH_KBD 2220Include translation for French keyboards when using 2221.Em pccons 2222on a Shark. 2223.It Cd options FINNISH_KBD 2224Include translation for Finnish keyboards when using 2225.Em pccons 2226on a Shark. 2227.It Cd options GERMAN_KBD 2228Include translation for German keyboards when using 2229.Em pccons 2230on a Shark. 2231.It Cd options NORWEGIAN_KBD 2232Include translation for French keyboards when using 2233.Em pccons 2234on a Shark. 2235.El 2236.Ss atari-specific Options 2237.Bl -ohang 2238.It Cd options DISKLABEL_AHDI 2239Include support for AHDI (native Atari) disklabels. 2240.It Cd options DISKLABEL_NBDA 2241Include support for 2242.Nx Ns Tn /atari 2243labels. 2244If you don't set this option, it will be set automatically. 2245.Nx Ns Tn /atari 2246will not work without it. 2247.It Cd options FALCON_SCSI 2248Include support for the 5380-SCSI configuration as found on the Falcon. 2249.It Cd options RELOC_KERNEL 2250If set, the kernel will relocate itself to TT-RAM, if possible. 2251This will give you a slightly faster system. 2252.Em Beware 2253that on some TT030 systems, 2254the system will frequently dump with MMU-faults with this option enabled. 2255.It Cd options SERCONSOLE 2256Allow the modem1-port to act as the system-console. 2257A carrier should be active on modem1 during system boot to active 2258the console functionality. 2259.It Cd options TT_SCSI 2260Include support for the 5380-SCSI configuration as found on the TT030 2261and Hades. 2262.El 2263.Ss i386-specific Options 2264.Bl -ohang 2265.It Cd options I386_CPU,I486_CPU,I586_CPU,I686_CPU 2266Include support for a particular class of 2267.Tn CPU 2268.Po 2269.Tn i386 , 2270.Tn i486 , 2271.Tn Pentium , 2272or 2273.Tn Pentium Pro 2274.Pc . 2275If the appropriate class for your 2276.Tn CPU 2277is not configured, the kernel will use the highest class available 2278that will work. 2279In general, using the correct 2280.Tn CPU 2281class will result in the best performance. 2282At least one of these options must be present. 2283.It Cd options ENHANCED_SPEEDSTEP 2284Include support for the 2285.Tn Enhanced SpeedStep Technology 2286present in newer 2287.Tn CPU Ns s . 2288.It Cd options EST_FREQ_USERWRITE 2289Allow any user to change the frequency of an 2290.Tn Enhanced SpeedStep Technology 2291capable 2292.Tn CPU . 2293.It Cd options CPURESET_DELAY=value 2294Specifies the time (in millisecond) to wait before doing a hardware reset 2295in the last phase of a reboot. 2296This gives the user a chance to see error messages from the shutdown 2297operations (like NFS unmounts, buffer cache flush, etc ...). 2298Setting this to 0 will disable the delay. 2299Default is 2 seconds. 2300.It Cd options MATH_EMULATE 2301Include the floating point emulator. 2302This is useful only for 2303.Tn CPU Ns s 2304that lack an 2305internal Floating Point Unit 2306.Pq Tn FPU 2307or co-processor. 2308.It Cd options VM86 2309Include support for virtual 8086 mode, used by 2310.Tn DOS 2311emulators and X servers to run BIOS code, e.g., for some VESA routines. 2312.It Cd options USER_LDT 2313Include i386-specific system calls for modifying the local descriptor table, 2314used by Windows emulators. 2315.It Cd options REALBASEMEM=integer 2316Overrides the base memory size passed in from the boot block. 2317(Value given in kilobytes.) 2318Use this option only if the boot block reports the size incorrectly. 2319(Note that some 2320.Tn BIOS Ns es 2321put the extended 2322.Tn BIOS 2323data area at the top of base memory, and therefore report a smaller 2324base memory size to prevent programs overwriting it. 2325This is correct behavior, and you should not use the 2326.Em REALBASEMEM 2327option to access this memory). 2328.It Cd options REALEXTMEM=integer 2329Overrides the extended memory size passed in from the boot block. 2330(Value given in kilobytes. 2331Extended memory does not include the first megabyte.) 2332Use this option only if the boot block reports the size incorrectly. 2333.It Cd options FRENCH_KBD,FINNISH_KBD,GERMAN_KBD,NORWEGIAN_KBD 2334Select a non-US keyboard layout for the 2335.Em pccons 2336console driver. 2337.It Cd options CYRIX_CACHE_WORKS 2338Relevant only to the Cyrix 486DLC CPU. 2339This option is used to turn on the cache in hold-flush mode. 2340It is not turned on by default because it is known to have problems in 2341certain motherboard implementations. 2342.It Cd options CYRIX_CACHE_REALLY_WORKS 2343Relevant only to the Cyrix 486DLC CPU. 2344This option is used to turn on the cache in write-back mode. 2345It is not turned on by default because it is known to have problems in 2346certain motherboard implementations. 2347In order for this option to take effect, option 2348.Em CYRIX_CACHE_WORKS 2349must also be specified. 2350.It Cd options PCIBIOS 2351Enable support for initializing the 2352.Tn PCI 2353bus using information from the 2354.Tn BIOS . 2355See 2356.Xr pcibios 4 2357for details. 2358.It Cd options KSTACK_CHECK_DR0 2359Detect kernel stack overflow using DR0 register. 2360This option uses DR0 register exclusively so you can't use DR0 register for 2361other purpose (e.g., hardware breakpoint) if you turn this on. 2362.It Cd options MTRR 2363Include support for accessing MTRR registers from user-space. 2364See 2365.Xr i386_get_mtrr 2 . 2366.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT 2367Make the system speaker emit several beeps when it is completely safe to 2368power down the computer after a 2369.Xr halt 8 2370command. 2371Requires 2372.Xr sysbeep 4 2373support. 2374.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT_COUNT=times 2375Number of times to beep the speaker when 2376.Cd options BEEP_ONHALT 2377is enabled. 2378Defaults to 3. 2379.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT_PITCH=hz 2380The tone frequency used when 2381.Cd options BEEP_ONHALT 2382option, in hertz. 2383Defaults to 1500. 2384.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT_PERIOD=msecs 2385The duration of each beep when 2386.Cd options BEEP_ONHALT 2387is enabled, in milliseconds. 2388Defaults to 250. 2389.El 2390.Ss isa-specific Options 2391Options specific to 2392.Xr isa 4 2393busses. 2394.Bl -ohang 2395.It Cd options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE=address, PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOSIZE=size 2396Control the section of IO bus space used for PCMCIA bus space mapping. 2397Ideally the probed defaults are satisfactory, however in practice 2398that is not always the case. 2399See 2400.Xr pcmcia 4 2401for details. 2402.It Cd options PCIC_ISA_INTR_ALLOC_MASK=mask 2403Controls the allowable interrupts that may be used for 2404.Tn PCMCIA 2405devices. 2406This mask is a logical-or of power-of-2s of allowable interrupts: 2407.Bd -literal -offset 04n 2408.Em "IRQ Val IRQ Val IRQ Val IRQ Val" 2409 0 0x0001 4 0x0010 8 0x0100 12 0x1000 2410 1 0x0002 5 0x0020 9 0x0200 13 0x2000 2411 2 0x0004 6 0x0040 10 0x0400 14 0x4000 2412 3 0x0008 7 0x0080 11 0x0800 15 0x8000 2413.Ed 2414.It Cd options PCKBC_CNATTACH_SELFTEST 2415Perform a self test of the keyboard controller before attaching it as a 2416console. 2417This might be necessary on machines where we boot on cold iron, and 2418pckbc refuses to talk until we request a self test. 2419Currently only the netwinder port uses it. 2420.It Cd options PCKBD_CNATTACH_MAY_FAIL 2421If this option is set the PS/2 keyboard will not be used as the console 2422if it cannot be found during boot. 2423This allows other keyboards, like USB, to be the console keyboard. 2424.It Cd options PCKBD_LAYOUT=layout 2425Sets the default keyboard layout, see 2426.Xr pckbd 4 . 2427.El 2428.Ss m68k-specific Options 2429.Bl -ohang 2430.It Cd options FPU_EMULATE 2431Include support for MC68881/MC68882 emulator. 2432.It Cd options FPSP 2433Include support for 68040 floating point. 2434.It Cd options M68020,M68030,M68040,M68060 2435Include support for a specific 2436.Tn CPU , 2437at least one (the one you are using) should be specified. 2438.It Cd options M060SP 2439Include software support for 68060. 2440This provides emulation of unimplemented 2441integer instructions as well as emulation of unimplemented floating point 2442instructions and data types and software support for floating point traps. 2443.El 2444.Ss powerpc-specific Options 2445.Bl -ohang 2446.It Cd options PMAP_MEMLIMIT=value 2447Limit the amount of memory seen by the kernel to 2448.Ar value 2449bytes (OEA only). 2450.El 2451.Ss sparc-specific Options 2452.Bl -ohang 2453.It Cd options AUDIO_DEBUG 2454Enable simple event debugging of the logging of the 2455.Xr audio 4 2456device. 2457.It Cd options BLINK 2458Enable blinking of LED. 2459Blink rate is full cycle every N seconds for 2460N \*[Lt] then current load average. 2461See 2462.Xr getloadavg 3 . 2463.\" .It Cd options COLORFONT_CACHE 2464.\" What does this do? 2465.It Cd options COUNT_SW_LEFTOVERS 2466Count how many times the sw SCSI device has left 3, 2, 1 and 0 in the 2467sw_3_leftover, sw_2_leftover, sw_1_leftover, and sw_0_leftover 2468variables accessible from 2469.Xr ddb 4 . 2470See 2471.Xr sw 4 . 2472.It Cd options DEBUG_ALIGN 2473Adds debugging messages calls when user-requested alignment fault 2474handling happens. 2475.It Cd options DEBUG_EMUL 2476Adds debugging messages calls for emulated floating point and 2477alignment fixing operations. 2478.It Cd options DEBUG_SVR4 2479Prints registers messages calls for emulated SVR4 getcontext and 2480setcontext operations. 2481See 2482.Em options COMPAT_SVR4 . 2483.It Cd options EXTREME_DEBUG 2484Adds debugging functions callable from 2485.Xr ddb 4 . 2486The debug_pagetables, test_region and print_fe_map 2487functions print information about page tables for the SUN4M 2488platforms only. 2489.It Cd options EXTREME_EXTREME_DEBUG 2490Adds extra info to 2491.Em options EXTREME_DEBUG . 2492.It Cd options FPU_CONTEXT 2493Make 2494.Em options COMPAT_SVR4 2495getcontext and setcontext include floating point registers. 2496.It Cd options MAGMA_DEBUG 2497Adds debugging messages to the 2498.Xr magma 4 2499device. 2500.It Cd options RASTERCONS_FULLSCREEN 2501Use the entire screen for the console. 2502.It Cd options RASTERCONS_SMALLFONT 2503Use the Fixed font on the console, instead of the normal font. 2504.It Cd options SUN4 2505Support sun4 class machines. 2506.It Cd options SUN4C 2507Support sun4c class machines. 2508.It Cd options SUN4M 2509Support sun4m class machines. 2510.It Cd options SUN4_MMU3L 2511.\" XXX ??? 2512Enable support for sun4 3-level MMU machines. 2513.It Cd options V9 2514Enable SPARC V9 assembler in 2515.Xr ddb 4 . 2516.El 2517.Ss sparc64-specific Options 2518.Bl -ohang 2519.It Cd options AUDIO_DEBUG 2520Enable simple event debugging of the logging of the 2521.Xr audio 4 2522device. 2523.It Cd options BLINK 2524Enable blinking of LED. 2525Blink rate is full cycle every N seconds for 2526N \*[Lt] then current load average. 2527See 2528.Xr getloadavg 3 . 2529.El 2530.Ss x68k-specific Options 2531.Bl -ohang 2532.It Cd options EXTENDED_MEMORY 2533Include support for extended memory, e.g., TS-6BE16 and 060turbo on-board. 2534.It Cd options JUPITER 2535Include support for Jupiter-X MPU accelerator 2536.It Cd options ZSCONSOLE,ZSCN_SPEED=value 2537Use the built-in serial port as the system-console. 2538Speed is specified in bps, defaults to 9600. 2539.It Cd options ITE_KERNEL_ATTR=value 2540Set the kernel message attribute for ITE. 2541Value, an integer, is a logical or of the following values: 2542.Bl -tag -width 4n -compact -offset indent 2543.It 1 2544color inversed 2545.It 2 2546underlined 2547.It 4 2548bolded 2549.El 2550.El 2551.\" The following requests should be uncommented and used where appropriate. 2552.\" .Sh FILES 2553.\" .Sh EXAMPLES 2554.Sh SEE ALSO 2555.Xr config 1 , 2556.Xr gdb 1 , 2557.Xr ktrace 1 , 2558.Xr pmc 1 , 2559.Xr quota 1 , 2560.Xr vndcompress 1 , 2561.Xr gettimeofday 2 , 2562.Xr i386_get_mtrr 2 , 2563.Xr i386_iopl 2 , 2564.Xr msgctl 2 , 2565.Xr msgget 2 , 2566.Xr msgrcv 2 , 2567.Xr msgsnd 2 , 2568.Xr ntp_adjtime 2 , 2569.Xr ntp_gettime 2 , 2570.Xr semctl 2 , 2571.Xr semget 2 , 2572.Xr semop 2 , 2573.Xr shmat 2 , 2574.Xr shmctl 2 , 2575.Xr shmdt 2 , 2576.Xr shmget 2 , 2577.Xr sysctl 3 , 2578.Xr apm 4 , 2579.Xr ddb 4 , 2580.Xr inet 4 , 2581.Xr iso 4 , 2582.Xr lkm 4 , 2583.Xr md 4 , 2584.Xr ns 4 , 2585.Xr pcibios 4 , 2586.Xr pcmcia 4 , 2587.Xr ppp 4 , 2588.Xr userconf 4 , 2589.Xr vnd 4 , 2590.Xr wscons 4 , 2591.Xr edquota 8 , 2592.Xr init 8 , 2593.Xr mdsetimage 8 , 2594.Xr mount_cd9660 8 , 2595.Xr mount_fdesc 8 , 2596.Xr mount_kernfs 8 , 2597.Xr mount_lfs 8 , 2598.Xr mount_mfs 8 , 2599.Xr mount_msdos 8 , 2600.Xr mount_nfs 8 , 2601.Xr mount_ntfs 8 , 2602.Xr mount_null 8 , 2603.Xr mount_portal 8 , 2604.Xr mount_procfs 8 , 2605.Xr mount_umap 8 , 2606.Xr mount_union 8 , 2607.Xr mrouted 8 , 2608.Xr newfs_lfs 8 , 2609.Xr ntpd 8 , 2610.Xr quotaon 8 , 2611.Xr rpc.rquotad 8 , 2612.Xr sysctl 8 2613.Sh HISTORY 2614The 2615.Nm 2616man page first appeared in 2617.Nx 1.3 . 2618.Sh BUGS 2619The 2620.Em EON 2621option should be a pseudo-device, and is also very fragile. 2622