]> git.proxmox.com Git - mirror_ubuntu-zesty-kernel.git/blame - arch/Kconfig
x86/fpu, sched: Dynamically allocate 'struct fpu'
[mirror_ubuntu-zesty-kernel.git] / arch / Kconfig
CommitLineData
fb32e03f
MD
1#
2# General architecture dependent options
3#
125e5645
MD
4
5config OPROFILE
b309a294 6 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
125e5645
MD
7 depends on PROFILING
8 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
d69d59f4 9 select RING_BUFFER
9a5963eb 10 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
125e5645
MD
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
18config 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 30config HAVE_OPROFILE
9ba16087 31 bool
125e5645 32
dcfce4a0
RR
33config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
34 def_bool y
af9feebe 35 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
dcfce4a0 36
125e5645
MD
37config KPROBES
38 bool "Kprobes"
05ed160e 39 depends on MODULES
125e5645 40 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
05ed160e 41 select KALLSYMS
125e5645
MD
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 49config 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 74config OPTPROBES
5cc718b9
MH
75 def_bool y
76 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
afd66255 77 depends on !PREEMPT
afd66255 78
e7dbfe34
MH
79config 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 88config UPROBES
09294e31 89 def_bool n
22b361d1 90 select PERCPU_RWSEM
2b144498 91 help
7b2d81d4
IM
92 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
93 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
94 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
95 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
96 are hit by user-space applications.
97
98 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
99 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
100 application. )
2b144498 101
c19fa94a
JH
102config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
103 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
104 help
105 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
106 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
107 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
108 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
109 architectures without unaligned access.
110
111 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
112 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
113 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
114
115 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
116 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
117
58340a07 118config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
9ba16087 119 bool
58340a07
JB
120 help
121 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
122 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
123 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
124 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
125 handler.)
126
127 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
128 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
129 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
130 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
131 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
132 much.
133
134 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
135 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
136
cf66bb93
DW
137config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
138 bool
139 help
140 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
141 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
142 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
143 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
144 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
145 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
146 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
147 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
148 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
149 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
150 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
151
152 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
153 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
154 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
155
9edddaa2
AM
156config KRETPROBES
157 def_bool y
158 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
159
7c68af6e
AK
160config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
161 bool
162 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
163 help
164 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
165 switch to user mode.
166
28b2ee20 167config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
9ba16087 168 bool
28b2ee20 169
125e5645 170config HAVE_KPROBES
9ba16087 171 bool
9edddaa2
AM
172
173config HAVE_KRETPROBES
9ba16087 174 bool
74bc7cee 175
afd66255
MH
176config HAVE_OPTPROBES
177 bool
d314d74c 178
e7dbfe34
MH
179config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
180 bool
181
d314d74c
CW
182config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
183 bool
1f5a4ad9
RM
184#
185# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
186#
187# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
188# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
189# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
1f5a4ad9
RM
190# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
191# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
192# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
193# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
194# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
195# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
196#
197config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
9ba16087 198 bool
1f5a4ad9 199
74bc7cee 200config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
9ba16087 201 bool
3d442233 202
c64be2bb
MS
203config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
204 bool
205
29d5e047
TG
206config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
207 bool
208
485cf5da
KH
209config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
210 bool
211
a6359d1e
TG
212# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
213config ARCH_INIT_TASK
a4a2eb49
TG
214 bool
215
f5e10287
TG
216# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
217config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
218 bool
219
220# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
221config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
222 bool
223
f850c30c
HC
224config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
225 bool
e01292b1
HC
226 help
227 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
228 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
229 declared in asm/ptrace.h
230 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
f850c30c 231
9483a578 232config HAVE_CLK
9ba16087 233 bool
9483a578
DB
234 help
235 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
236 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
237
5ee00bd4
JR
238config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
239 bool
36cd3c9f 240
62a038d3
P
241config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
242 bool
99e8c5a3 243 depends on PERF_EVENTS
62a038d3 244
0102752e
FW
245config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
246 bool
247 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
248 help
249 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
250 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
251 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
252 them but define the access type in a control register.
253 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
254 latter fashion.
255
7c68af6e
AK
256config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
257 bool
a1922ed6 258
c01d4323
FW
259config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
260 bool
23637d47
FW
261 help
262 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
263 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
264 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
c01d4323 265
c5e63197
JO
266config HAVE_PERF_REGS
267 bool
268 help
269 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
270 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
271
c5ebcedb
JO
272config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
273 bool
274 help
275 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
276 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
277 architectures.
278
bf5438fc
JB
279config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
280 bool
281
26723911
PZ
282config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
283 bool
284
df013ffb
HY
285config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
286 bool
287
43570fd2
HC
288config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
289 bool
290 help
291 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
292 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
293 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
294 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
295
4156153c
HC
296config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
297 bool
298
2565409f
HC
299config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
300 bool
301
c1d7e01d
WD
302config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
303 bool
304
305config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
306 bool
307
48b25c43 308config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
c1d7e01d 309 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
48b25c43
CM
310 bool
311
e2cfabdf
WD
312config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
313 bool
314 help
fb0fadf9 315 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
bb6ea430
WD
316 - syscall_get_arch()
317 - syscall_get_arguments()
318 - syscall_rollback()
319 - syscall_set_return_value()
fb0fadf9
WD
320 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
321 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
322 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
323 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
48dc92b9 324 - seccomp syscall wired up
e2cfabdf 325
ff27f38e
AL
326 For best performance, an arch should use seccomp_phase1 and
327 seccomp_phase2 directly. It should call seccomp_phase1 for all
328 syscalls if TIF_SECCOMP is set, but seccomp_phase1 does not
329 need to be called from a ptrace-safe context. It must then
330 call seccomp_phase2 if seccomp_phase1 returns anything other
331 than SECCOMP_PHASE1_OK or SECCOMP_PHASE1_SKIP.
332
333 As an additional optimization, an arch may provide seccomp_data
334 directly to seccomp_phase1; this avoids multiple calls
335 to the syscall_xyz helpers for every syscall.
336
e2cfabdf
WD
337config SECCOMP_FILTER
338 def_bool y
339 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
340 help
341 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
342 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
343 task-defined system call filtering polices.
344
345 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
346
19952a92
KC
347config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
348 bool
349 help
350 An arch should select this symbol if:
351 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
352 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
353
354config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
8779657d
KC
355 def_bool n
356 help
357 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
358 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
359
360choice
361 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
19952a92 362 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
8779657d 363 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
19952a92 364 help
8779657d 365 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
19952a92
KC
366 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
367 the stack just before the return address, and validates
368 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
369 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
370 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
371 neutralized via a kernel panic.
372
8779657d
KC
373config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
374 bool "None"
375 help
376 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
377
378config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
379 bool "Regular"
380 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
381 help
382 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
383 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
384
19952a92 385 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
8779657d
KC
386 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
387
388 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
389 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
390 by about 0.3%.
391
392config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
393 bool "Strong"
394 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
395 help
396 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
397 of the following conditions:
398
399 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
400 assignment or function argument
401 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
402 regardless of array type or length
403 - uses register local variables
404
405 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
406 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
407
408 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
409 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
410 size by about 2%.
411
412endchoice
19952a92 413
91d1aa43 414config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
2b1d5024
FW
415 bool
416 help
91d1aa43
FW
417 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
418 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
419 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
420 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
421 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
422 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
423 irq exit still need to be protected.
2b1d5024 424
b952741c
FW
425config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
426 bool
427
554b0004
KH
428config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
429 bool
430 default y if 64BIT
431 help
432 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
433 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
434 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
435 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
436 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
437 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
438
439
fdf9c356
FW
440config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
441 bool
442 help
443 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
444 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
445
15626062
GS
446config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
447 bool
448
0ddab1d2
TK
449config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
450 bool
451
0f8975ec
PE
452config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
453 bool
454
786d35d4
DH
455config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
456 bool
457 help
458 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
459 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
460 should not enable this.
461
462config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
463 bool
464 help
465 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
466 relocations will give an error.
467
468config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
469 bool
470 help
471 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
472 relocations will give an error.
473
b92021b0
RR
474config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
475 bool
476 help
477 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
478 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
479
cc1f0274
FW
480config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
481 bool
482 help
483 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
484 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
485 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
486 in the end of an hardirq.
487 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
488 processing.
489
235a8f02
KS
490config PGTABLE_LEVELS
491 int
492 default 2
493
2b68f6ca
KC
494config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
495 bool
496 help
497 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
498 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
499 - arch_mmap_rnd()
204db6ed 500 - arch_randomize_brk()
2b68f6ca 501
3033f14a
JT
502config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
503 bool
504 help
505 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
506 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
507 argument from pt_regs.
508
d2125043
AV
509#
510# ABI hall of shame
511#
512config CLONE_BACKWARDS
513 bool
514 help
515 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
516 not the 5th one.
517
518config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
519 bool
520 help
521 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
522
dfa9771a
MS
523config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
524 bool
525 help
526 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
527 not the 5th one.
528
eaca6eae
AV
529config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
530 bool
531 help
532 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
533
0a0e8cdf
AV
534config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
535 bool
536 help
537 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
538
539config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
540 bool
541 help
542 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
543
495dfbf7
AV
544config OLD_SIGACTION
545 bool
546 help
547 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
548 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
549 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
550 compatibility...
551
552config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
553 bool
554
2521f2c2 555source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"