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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 8da93745c087..72ace9515a07 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -86,10 +86,6 @@ config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
config HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
def_bool y
-config FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
- bool
- default y
-
config MMU
def_bool y
@@ -495,7 +491,7 @@ if PARAVIRT_GUEST
source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
config VMI
- bool "VMI Guest support"
+ bool "VMI Guest support (DEPRECATED)"
select PARAVIRT
depends on X86_32
---help---
@@ -504,6 +500,15 @@ config VMI
at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
provided by the hypervisor.
+ As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement
+ of this feature from VMware's products. Please see
+ feature-removal-schedule.txt for details. If you are
+ planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot
+ live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product,
+ which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to
+ seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this
+ disabled.
+
config KVM_CLOCK
bool "KVM paravirtualized clock"
select PARAVIRT
@@ -1438,12 +1443,8 @@ config SECCOMP
If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here.
-config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
- bool
-
config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
---help---
This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This
feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on