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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index b2acdeb2d3..92b23e2566 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -541,6 +541,18 @@ config ELF_CORE
 	help
 	  Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
 
+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) Y is usually a safe choice.
+
 config BASE_FULL
 	default y
 	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
@@ -582,7 +594,6 @@ config SIGNALFD
 config TIMERFD
 	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
 	select ANON_INODES
-	depends on BROKEN
 	default y
 	help
 	  Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
@@ -657,11 +668,9 @@ config SLOB
 	depends on EMBEDDED
 	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
 	help
-	   SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
-	   allocator.  SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not
-	   scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly
-	   susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object
-	   density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB.
+	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
+	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
+	   does not perform as well on large systems.
 
 endchoice
 
@@ -679,6 +688,16 @@ config MARKERS
 
 source "arch/Kconfig"
 
+config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
+ 	default y
+	depends on PROC_FS && MMU
+	bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED
+ 	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.
+
 endmenu		# General setup
 
 config SLABINFO