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author | Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> | 2009-03-12 21:12:46 -0400 |
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committer | Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> | 2009-03-12 21:12:46 -0400 |
commit | 51b643b404827d8fde60d7953773a42d46ca87e0 (patch) | |
tree | ae71fcbd8b3640b68fc11e1dca620a8ee96bac5f /init/Kconfig | |
parent | 554f786e284a6ce859d51f62240d615603944c8e (diff) | |
parent | 480c93df5b99699390f93a7024c9f60d09da0e96 (diff) |
Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/ftrace-merge
Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 90 |
1 files changed, 75 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 26b5bab6f6e..69d5190918e 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -101,6 +101,66 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) +config HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 + bool + +config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + bool + +choice + prompt "Kernel compression mode" + default KERNEL_GZIP + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + help + The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. + Several compression algorithms are available, which differ + in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. + Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. + Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. + + If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed + kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older + version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was + supplied by Christian Ludwig) + + High compression options are mostly useful for users, who + are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram + size matters less. + + If in doubt, select 'gzip' + +config KERNEL_GZIP + 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. + +config KERNEL_BZIP2 + bool "Bzip2" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 + help + Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. + Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel + size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. + Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you + will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. + +config KERNEL_LZMA + bool "LZMA" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + help + The most recent compression algorithm. + Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other + two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% + smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. + +endchoice + config SWAP bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" depends on MMU && BLOCK @@ -675,6 +735,9 @@ config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE config SYSCTL bool +config ANON_INODES + bool + menuconfig EMBEDDED bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" help @@ -780,18 +843,6 @@ config PCSPKR_PLATFORM This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker support, saving some memory. -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) N is usually a safe choice. - config BASE_FULL default y bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED @@ -809,9 +860,6 @@ config FUTEX support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not run glibc-based applications correctly. -config ANON_INODES - bool - config EPOLL bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED default y @@ -897,6 +945,18 @@ config SLUB_DEBUG SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be no support for cache validation etc. +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) N is usually a safe choice. + choice prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" default SLUB |