diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig
index 2183fcf41d59..d751fcb637bb 100644
--- a/fs/proc/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig
@@ -71,3 +71,7 @@ config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
 	  /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.
+
+config PROC_CHILDREN
+	bool "Include /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children file"
+	default n
diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index 3f57dac31ba6..ce065cf3104f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ int proc_pid_statm(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN
 static struct pid *
 get_children_pid(struct inode *inode, struct pid *pid_prev, loff_t pos)
 {
@@ -700,4 +700,4 @@ const struct file_operations proc_tid_children_operations = {
 	.llseek  = seq_lseek,
 	.release = children_seq_release,
 };
-#endif /* CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE */
+#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN */
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index bd7a9affc14b..1d540b3f226f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -3109,7 +3109,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tid_base_stuff[] = {
 	ONE("stat",      S_IRUGO, proc_tid_stat),
 	ONE("statm",     S_IRUGO, proc_pid_statm),
 	REG("maps",      S_IRUGO, proc_tid_maps_operations),
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN
 	REG("children",  S_IRUGO, proc_tid_children_operations),
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index b999fa381bf9..6a930b7494ef 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1131,6 +1131,7 @@ endif # CGROUPS
 
 config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
 	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
+	select PROC_CHILDREN
 	default n
 	help
 	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.