config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
bool
+config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
+ bool
+
choice
prompt "Kernel compression mode"
default KERNEL_GZIP
- depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
+ depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
help
The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
bool "Gzip"
depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
help
- The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is
- the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both
- compression and decompression) is the fastest.
+ The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
+ between compression ratio and decompression speed.
config KERNEL_BZIP2
bool "Bzip2"
two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
+config KERNEL_LZO
+ bool "LZO"
+ depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
+ help
+ Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
+ size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
+ (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
+
endchoice
config SWAP
config AUDITSYSCALL
bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
- depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64|| SUPERH)
+ depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH)
default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
help
Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
bool
config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
- bool "remove sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools"
+ bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
depends on SYSFS
default n
select SYSFS_DEPRECATED
config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
+ depends on PROC_SYSCTL
default y
select SYSCTL
---help---
Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
by software and hardware.
- Software events are supported either build-in or via the
+ Software events are supported either built-in or via the
use of generic tracepoints.
Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
- these software and hardware cevent apabilities, available via a
+ these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
capabilities on top of those.
Say Y if unsure.
-config EVENT_PROFILE
- bool "Tracepoint profiling sources"
- depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING
- default y
- help
- Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance events.
-
- When this is enabled, you can create perf events based on
- tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID
- found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events
- option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic
- tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.)
-
config PERF_COUNTERS
bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
endchoice
+config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
+ bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
+ depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
+ default n
+ help
+ Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
+ from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to
+ userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that
+ mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus
+ providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled,
+ then the flag will be ignored.
+
+ This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by
+ ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator.
+
+ Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be
+ enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in
+ userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems,
+ it is normally safe to say Y here.
+
+ See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
+
config PROFILING
bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
help
See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
+config SLOW_WORK_DEBUG
+ bool "Slow work debugging through debugfs"
+ default n
+ depends on SLOW_WORK && DEBUG_FS
+ help
+ Display the contents of the slow work run queue through debugfs,
+ including items currently executing.
+
+ See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
+
endmenu # General setup
config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
bool
+source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"