If unsure, say Y.
+config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
+ bool
+ depends on POSIX_MQUEUE
+ depends on SYSCTL
+ default y
+
config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
bool "BSD Process Accounting"
help
select MM_OWNER
help
Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
- memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
+ memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
config IPC_NS
bool "IPC namespace"
- depends on NAMESPACES && SYSVIPC
+ depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)
help
In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
- different IPC objects in different namespaces
+ different IPC objects in different namespaces.
config USER_NS
bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
help
Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
- process with the same pid as long as they are in different
+ processes with the same pid as long as they are in different
pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
+config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
+ bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
+ default n
+ help
+ Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
+ that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
+ get_wchan() and suchlike.
+
config HOTPLUG
bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
default y
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
+ disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting
/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
config MARKERS
bool "Activate markers"
- depends on TRACEPOINTS
+ select TRACEPOINTS
help
Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
dynamically changed for a probe function.
source "arch/Kconfig"
+config SLOW_WORK
+ default n
+ bool
+ help
+ The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
+ threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
+ take a relatively long time.
+
+ An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
+ by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
+ disk.
+
+ See Documentation/slow-work.txt.
+
endmenu # General setup
config HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
- and have several arch maintainers persuing me down dark alleys.
+ and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.
config STOP_MACHINE
bool