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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/Kconfig | 22 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig index 73cd7a418f0..2183fcf41d5 100644 --- a/fs/proc/Kconfig +++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ config PROC_FS - bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED + bool "/proc file system support" if EXPERT default y help This is a virtual file system providing information about the status @@ -31,16 +31,20 @@ config PROC_FS config PROC_KCORE bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM depends on PROC_FS && MMU + help + Provides a virtual ELF core file of the live kernel. This can + be read with gdb and other ELF tools. No modifications can be + made using this mechanism. config PROC_VMCORE - bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on PROC_FS && CRASH_DUMP + bool "/proc/vmcore support" + depends on PROC_FS && CRASH_DUMP default y help Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. config PROC_SYSCTL - bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED + bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EXPERT depends on PROC_FS select SYSCTL default y @@ -57,3 +61,13 @@ config PROC_SYSCTL As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very limited in memory. + +config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR + default y + depends on PROC_FS && MMU + bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EXPERT + help + Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory utilization: + /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap, + /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these + interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb. |