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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