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Revert "menu: fix embedded menu snafu"
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This reverts commit 155b25b, which was
totally wrong - the "embedded" options still exists (very much so) even
on non-embedded platforms.

It's just that we don't bother with actually asking about them when
we're not embedded, we just take their default values (which is usually
'y' - the options add features that may not be worth it in a constrained
environment).

Noticed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds committed Mar 3, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -683,8 +683,6 @@ menuconfig EMBEDDED
environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
Only use this if you really know what you are doing.

if EMBEDDED

config UID16
bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -782,6 +780,18 @@ 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
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SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
no support for cache validation etc.

endif # EMBEDDED

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
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