Revert "Revert some of the suspicious changes to debug the boot process"

This reverts commit e74b718f36.

Looks like it was a false alarm.

kernel-x86_64.config

@@ -115,12 +115,12 @@ CONFIG_RCU_STALL_COMMON=y
 # CONFIG_TREE_RCU_TRACE is not set
 # CONFIG_RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT is not set
 CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C=y
-CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
-CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
+# CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set
 CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=18
 CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT=12
 CONFIG_NMI_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=13
-# CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING is not set
+CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
+CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED=y
 CONFIG_CGROUPS=y
 CONFIG_PAGE_COUNTER=y
 CONFIG_MEMCG=y
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
 # CONFIG_SLAB is not set
 CONFIG_SLUB=y
 # CONFIG_SLOB is not set
-# CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM is not set
+CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM=y
 CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL=y
 # CONFIG_SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION is not set
 CONFIG_PROFILING=y
@@ -592,9 +592,7 @@ CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_EINJ=m
 # CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_ERST_DEBUG is not set
 CONFIG_DPTF_POWER=m
 CONFIG_ACPI_EXTLOG=m
-CONFIG_PMIC_OPREGION=y
-CONFIG_CRC_PMIC_OPREGION=y
-# CONFIG_BXT_WC_PMIC_OPREGION is not set
+# CONFIG_PMIC_OPREGION is not set
 CONFIG_ACPI_CONFIGFS=m
 CONFIG_SFI=y
 
@@ -8022,8 +8020,8 @@ CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is not set
-# CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is not set
-# CONFIG_MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT is not set
+CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y
+CONFIG_MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT=m
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is not set
 # CONFIG_KASAN is not set
@@ -8523,7 +8521,7 @@ CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y
 CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y
 CONFIG_LZO_COMPRESS=y
 CONFIG_LZO_DECOMPRESS=y
-CONFIG_LZ4_COMPRESS=y
+CONFIG_LZ4_COMPRESS=m
 CONFIG_LZ4HC_COMPRESS=m
 CONFIG_LZ4_DECOMPRESS=y
 CONFIG_XZ_DEC=y