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1 | # |
2 | # General architecture dependent options | |
3 | # | |
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4 | |
5 | config OPROFILE | |
b309a294 | 6 | tristate "OProfile system profiling" |
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7 | depends on PROFILING |
8 | depends on HAVE_OPROFILE | |
d69d59f4 | 9 | select RING_BUFFER |
9a5963eb | 10 | select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP |
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11 | help |
12 | OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the | |
13 | whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, | |
14 | and applications. | |
15 | ||
16 | If unsure, say N. | |
17 | ||
4d4036e0 JY |
18 | config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX |
19 | bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
20 | default n | |
21 | depends on OPROFILE && X86 | |
22 | help | |
23 | The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing | |
24 | feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters | |
25 | are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching | |
26 | between events at an user specified time interval. | |
27 | ||
28 | If unsure, say N. | |
29 | ||
125e5645 | 30 | config HAVE_OPROFILE |
9ba16087 | 31 | bool |
125e5645 | 32 | |
dcfce4a0 RR |
33 | config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER |
34 | def_bool y | |
35 | depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI | |
36 | ||
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37 | config KPROBES |
38 | bool "Kprobes" | |
05ed160e | 39 | depends on MODULES |
125e5645 | 40 | depends on HAVE_KPROBES |
05ed160e | 41 | select KALLSYMS |
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42 | help |
43 | Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and | |
44 | execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes | |
45 | a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful | |
46 | for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. | |
47 | If in doubt, say "N". | |
48 | ||
45f81b1c | 49 | config JUMP_LABEL |
c5905afb | 50 | bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" |
45f81b1c SR |
51 | depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL |
52 | help | |
c5905afb IM |
53 | This option enables a transparent branch optimization that |
54 | makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch | |
55 | conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. | |
56 | ||
57 | Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, | |
58 | scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such | |
59 | branches and include support for this optimization technique. | |
60 | ||
45f81b1c | 61 | If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", |
c5905afb IM |
62 | the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop |
63 | instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the | |
64 | nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the | |
65 | conditional block of instructions. | |
66 | ||
67 | This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction | |
68 | of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update | |
69 | of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. | |
45f81b1c | 70 | |
c5905afb IM |
71 | ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler |
72 | flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) | |
45f81b1c | 73 | |
afd66255 | 74 | config OPTPROBES |
5cc718b9 MH |
75 | def_bool y |
76 | depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES | |
afd66255 | 77 | depends on !PREEMPT |
afd66255 | 78 | |
e7dbfe34 MH |
79 | config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE |
80 | def_bool y | |
81 | depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | |
82 | depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS | |
83 | help | |
84 | If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full | |
85 | passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can | |
86 | optimize on top of function tracing. | |
87 | ||
2b144498 | 88 | config UPROBES |
7b2d81d4 | 89 | bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
ec83db0f | 90 | depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS |
2b144498 | 91 | default n |
22b361d1 | 92 | select PERCPU_RWSEM |
2b144498 | 93 | help |
7b2d81d4 IM |
94 | Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they |
95 | enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') | |
96 | to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and | |
97 | libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes | |
98 | are hit by user-space applications. | |
99 | ||
100 | ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, | |
101 | managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed | |
102 | application. ) | |
2b144498 SD |
103 | |
104 | If in doubt, say "N". | |
105 | ||
c19fa94a JH |
106 | config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS |
107 | def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS | |
108 | help | |
109 | Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit | |
110 | aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values | |
111 | to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit | |
112 | architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit | |
113 | architectures without unaligned access. | |
114 | ||
115 | This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit | |
116 | accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even | |
117 | though it is not a 64 bit architecture. | |
118 | ||
119 | See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | |
120 | information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | |
121 | ||
58340a07 | 122 | config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS |
9ba16087 | 123 | bool |
58340a07 JB |
124 | help |
125 | Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses | |
126 | without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are | |
127 | unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on | |
128 | unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception | |
129 | handler.) | |
130 | ||
131 | This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can | |
132 | perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different | |
133 | code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network | |
134 | drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment | |
135 | problems with received packets if doing so would not help | |
136 | much. | |
137 | ||
138 | See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | |
139 | information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | |
140 | ||
cf66bb93 DW |
141 | config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP |
142 | bool | |
143 | help | |
144 | Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions | |
145 | for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old | |
146 | inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the | |
147 | __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's | |
148 | happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In | |
149 | particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap | |
150 | with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or | |
151 | store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It | |
152 | should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the | |
153 | hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it | |
154 | does, the use of the builtins is optional. | |
155 | ||
156 | Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap | |
157 | instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it | |
158 | on architectures that don't have such instructions. | |
159 | ||
9edddaa2 AM |
160 | config KRETPROBES |
161 | def_bool y | |
162 | depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES | |
163 | ||
7c68af6e AK |
164 | config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER |
165 | bool | |
166 | depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | |
167 | help | |
168 | Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to | |
169 | switch to user mode. | |
170 | ||
28b2ee20 | 171 | config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT |
9ba16087 | 172 | bool |
28b2ee20 | 173 | |
125e5645 | 174 | config HAVE_KPROBES |
9ba16087 | 175 | bool |
9edddaa2 AM |
176 | |
177 | config HAVE_KRETPROBES | |
9ba16087 | 178 | bool |
74bc7cee | 179 | |
afd66255 MH |
180 | config HAVE_OPTPROBES |
181 | bool | |
d314d74c | 182 | |
e7dbfe34 MH |
183 | config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE |
184 | bool | |
185 | ||
d314d74c CW |
186 | config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG |
187 | bool | |
1f5a4ad9 RM |
188 | # |
189 | # An arch should select this if it provides all these things: | |
190 | # | |
191 | # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h | |
192 | # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support | |
193 | # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support | |
1f5a4ad9 RM |
194 | # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface |
195 | # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces | |
196 | # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h | |
197 | # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} | |
198 | # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume() | |
199 | # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler() | |
200 | # | |
201 | config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK | |
9ba16087 | 202 | bool |
1f5a4ad9 | 203 | |
74bc7cee | 204 | config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS |
9ba16087 | 205 | bool |
3d442233 | 206 | |
c64be2bb MS |
207 | config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS |
208 | bool | |
209 | ||
3d442233 | 210 | config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS |
9ba16087 | 211 | bool |
9483a578 | 212 | |
29d5e047 TG |
213 | config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD |
214 | bool | |
215 | ||
485cf5da KH |
216 | config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP |
217 | bool | |
218 | ||
a6359d1e TG |
219 | # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c |
220 | config ARCH_INIT_TASK | |
a4a2eb49 TG |
221 | bool |
222 | ||
f5e10287 TG |
223 | # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function |
224 | config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR | |
225 | bool | |
226 | ||
227 | # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function | |
228 | config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR | |
229 | bool | |
230 | ||
f850c30c HC |
231 | config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API |
232 | bool | |
e01292b1 HC |
233 | help |
234 | This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports | |
235 | the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, | |
236 | declared in asm/ptrace.h | |
237 | For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. | |
f850c30c | 238 | |
9483a578 | 239 | config HAVE_CLK |
9ba16087 | 240 | bool |
9483a578 DB |
241 | help |
242 | The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and | |
243 | thus are a key power management tool on many systems. | |
244 | ||
5ee00bd4 JR |
245 | config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG |
246 | bool | |
36cd3c9f | 247 | |
62a038d3 P |
248 | config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT |
249 | bool | |
99e8c5a3 | 250 | depends on PERF_EVENTS |
62a038d3 | 251 | |
0102752e FW |
252 | config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS |
253 | bool | |
254 | depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | |
255 | help | |
256 | Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, | |
257 | some of them have separate registers for data and instruction | |
258 | breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store | |
259 | them but define the access type in a control register. | |
260 | Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the | |
261 | latter fashion. | |
262 | ||
7c68af6e AK |
263 | config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER |
264 | bool | |
a1922ed6 | 265 | |
c01d4323 FW |
266 | config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI |
267 | bool | |
23637d47 FW |
268 | help |
269 | System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event | |
270 | subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events | |
271 | to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. | |
c01d4323 | 272 | |
c5e63197 JO |
273 | config HAVE_PERF_REGS |
274 | bool | |
275 | help | |
276 | Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes | |
277 | bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. | |
278 | ||
c5ebcedb JO |
279 | config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP |
280 | bool | |
281 | help | |
282 | Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs | |
283 | access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across | |
284 | architectures. | |
285 | ||
bf5438fc JB |
286 | config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL |
287 | bool | |
288 | ||
335d7afb GS |
289 | config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX |
290 | bool | |
291 | ||
26723911 PZ |
292 | config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE |
293 | bool | |
294 | ||
df013ffb HY |
295 | config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG |
296 | bool | |
297 | ||
43570fd2 HC |
298 | config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE |
299 | bool | |
300 | help | |
301 | This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that | |
302 | e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations | |
303 | on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this | |
304 | might increase the size of a struct page by a word. | |
305 | ||
4156153c HC |
306 | config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL |
307 | bool | |
308 | ||
2565409f HC |
309 | config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE |
310 | bool | |
311 | ||
c1d7e01d WD |
312 | config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION |
313 | bool | |
314 | ||
315 | config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION | |
316 | bool | |
317 | ||
48b25c43 | 318 | config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC |
c1d7e01d | 319 | select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION |
48b25c43 CM |
320 | bool |
321 | ||
e2cfabdf WD |
322 | config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER |
323 | bool | |
324 | help | |
fb0fadf9 | 325 | An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: |
bb6ea430 WD |
326 | - syscall_get_arch() |
327 | - syscall_get_arguments() | |
328 | - syscall_rollback() | |
329 | - syscall_set_return_value() | |
fb0fadf9 WD |
330 | - SIGSYS siginfo_t support |
331 | - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context | |
332 | - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 | |
333 | results in the system call being skipped immediately. | |
e2cfabdf WD |
334 | |
335 | config SECCOMP_FILTER | |
336 | def_bool y | |
337 | depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET | |
338 | help | |
339 | Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined | |
340 | in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement | |
341 | task-defined system call filtering polices. | |
342 | ||
343 | See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. | |
344 | ||
91d1aa43 | 345 | config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING |
2b1d5024 FW |
346 | bool |
347 | help | |
91d1aa43 FW |
348 | Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems |
349 | that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. | |
350 | Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through | |
351 | the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be | |
352 | wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside | |
353 | rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on | |
354 | irq exit still need to be protected. | |
2b1d5024 | 355 | |
b952741c FW |
356 | config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING |
357 | bool | |
358 | ||
fdf9c356 FW |
359 | config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING |
360 | bool | |
361 | help | |
362 | Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to | |
363 | support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). | |
364 | ||
15626062 GS |
365 | config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
366 | bool | |
367 | ||
786d35d4 DH |
368 | config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC |
369 | bool | |
370 | help | |
371 | The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches | |
372 | just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those | |
373 | should not enable this. | |
374 | ||
375 | config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA | |
376 | bool | |
377 | help | |
378 | Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL | |
379 | relocations will give an error. | |
380 | ||
381 | config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL | |
382 | bool | |
383 | help | |
384 | Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA | |
385 | relocations will give an error. | |
386 | ||
b92021b0 RR |
387 | config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX |
388 | bool | |
389 | help | |
390 | Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like | |
391 | module loading and assembly files need to know about this. | |
392 | ||
d2125043 AV |
393 | # |
394 | # ABI hall of shame | |
395 | # | |
396 | config CLONE_BACKWARDS | |
397 | bool | |
398 | help | |
399 | Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), | |
400 | not the 5th one. | |
401 | ||
402 | config CLONE_BACKWARDS2 | |
403 | bool | |
404 | help | |
405 | Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. | |
406 | ||
eaca6eae AV |
407 | config ODD_RT_SIGACTION |
408 | bool | |
409 | help | |
410 | Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments | |
411 | ||
0a0e8cdf AV |
412 | config OLD_SIGSUSPEND |
413 | bool | |
414 | help | |
415 | Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety | |
416 | ||
417 | config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 | |
418 | bool | |
419 | help | |
420 | Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) | |
421 | ||
495dfbf7 AV |
422 | config OLD_SIGACTION |
423 | bool | |
424 | help | |
425 | Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same | |
426 | as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), | |
427 | but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 | |
428 | compatibility... | |
429 | ||
430 | config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION | |
431 | bool | |
432 | ||
2521f2c2 | 433 | source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" |