If in doubt, say "N".
config JUMP_LABEL
- bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
- depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
- depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
- help
- This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
+ bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
+ depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
+ depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
+ help
+ This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
branches and include support for this optimization technique.
- If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
+ If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
- bool
- help
+ bool
+ help
Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
bool
config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
- bool
+ bool
config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
- bool
+ bool
config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
bool
# Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
- bool
+ bool
# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
bool
-config 64BIT_TIME
- def_bool y
- help
- This should be selected by all architectures that need to support
- new system calls with a 64-bit time_t. This is relevant on all 32-bit
- architectures, and 64-bit architectures as part of compat syscall
- handling.
-
config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
- def_bool !64BIT || COMPAT
+ bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t"
+ default !64BIT || COMPAT
help
This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures