Merge branches 'release' and 'autoload' into release

[powerpc.git] / init / Kconfig

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 0eda68f..92b23e2 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+config ARCH
+       string
+       option env="ARCH"
+
+config KERNELVERSION
+       string
+       option env="KERNELVERSION"
+
 config DEFCONFIG_LIST
        string
        depends on !UML
@@ -238,7 +246,7 @@ config AUDIT
 
 config AUDITSYSCALL
        bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
-       depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
+       depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
        default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
        help
          Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
@@ -533,6 +541,18 @@ config ELF_CORE
        help
          Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
 
+config COMPAT_BRK
+       bool "Disable heap randomization"
+       default y
+       help
+         Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
+         also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
+         This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
+         disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
+         /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
+
+         On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) Y is usually a safe choice.
+
 config BASE_FULL
        default y
        bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
@@ -574,7 +594,6 @@ config SIGNALFD
 config TIMERFD
        bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
        select ANON_INODES
-       depends on BROKEN
        default y
        help
          Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
@@ -649,14 +668,36 @@ config SLOB
        depends on EMBEDDED
        bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
        help
-          SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
-          allocator.  SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not
-          scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly
-          susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object
-          density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB.
+          SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
+          allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
+          does not perform as well on large systems.
 
 endchoice
 
+config PROFILING
+       bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+       help
+         Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used
+         by profilers such as OProfile.
+
+config MARKERS
+       bool "Activate markers"
+       help
+         Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
+         dynamically changed for a probe function.
+
+source "arch/Kconfig"
+
+config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
+       default y
+       depends on PROC_FS && MMU
+       bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED
+       help
+         Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory utilization:
+         /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap,
+         /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these
+          interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb.
+
 endmenu                # General setup
 
 config SLABINFO
@@ -767,6 +808,14 @@ config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
 choice
        prompt "RCU implementation type:"
        default CLASSIC_RCU
+       help
+         This allows you to choose either the classic RCU implementation
+         that is designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
+         systems, or the preemptible RCU implementation for best latency
+         on realtime systems.  Note that some kernel preemption modes
+         will restrict your choice.
+
+         Select the default if you are unsure.
 
 config CLASSIC_RCU
        bool "Classic RCU"