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Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 27 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 58a4b705c1c2..a46aa8f3174d 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ config SWAP config SYSVIPC bool "System V IPC" - ---help--- + help Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL config POSIX_MQUEUE bool "POSIX Message Queues" depends on NET - ---help--- + help POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message queues every message has a priority which decides about succession of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run @@ -367,6 +367,18 @@ config POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL depends on SYSCTL default y +config WATCH_QUEUE + bool "General notification queue" + default n + help + + This is a general notification queue for the kernel to pass events to + userspace by splicing them into pipes. It can be used in conjunction + with watches for key/keyring change notifications and device + notifications. + + See Documentation/watch_queue.rst + config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH bool "Enable process_vm_readv/writev syscalls" depends on MMU @@ -614,7 +626,7 @@ config BUILD_BIN2C config IKCONFIG tristate "Kernel .config support" - ---help--- + help This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an @@ -627,7 +639,7 @@ config IKCONFIG config IKCONFIG_PROC bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS - ---help--- + help This option enables access to the kernel configuration file through /proc/config.gz. @@ -873,7 +885,7 @@ config BLK_CGROUP bool "IO controller" depends on BLOCK default n - ---help--- + help Generic block IO controller cgroup interface. This is the common cgroup interface which should be used by various IO controlling policies. @@ -1293,7 +1305,6 @@ config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION depends on EXPERT - depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800) depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections) depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections) help @@ -1375,7 +1386,7 @@ config MULTIUSER config SGETMASK_SYSCALL bool "sgetmask/ssetmask syscalls support" if EXPERT def_bool PARISC || M68K || PPC || MIPS || X86 || SPARC || MICROBLAZE || SUPERH - ---help--- + help sys_sgetmask and sys_ssetmask are obsolete system calls no longer supported in libc but still enabled by default in some architectures. @@ -1385,7 +1396,7 @@ config SGETMASK_SYSCALL config SYSFS_SYSCALL bool "Sysfs syscall support" if EXPERT default y - ---help--- + help sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported in libc. Note that disabling this option is more secure but might break compatibility with some systems. |