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Mathieu Desnoyersfb32e032008-02-02 15:10:33 -05001#
2# General architecture dependent options
3#
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05004
5config OPROFILE
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +01006 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05007 depends on PROFILING
8 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
Ingo Molnard69d59f2008-12-12 09:38:57 +01009 select RING_BUFFER
Christian Borntraeger9a5963e2009-09-16 21:56:49 +020010 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050011 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
Jason Yeh4d4036e2009-07-08 13:49:38 +020018config 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
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050030config HAVE_OPROFILE
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -070031 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050032
Robert Richterdcfce4a2011-10-11 17:11:08 +020033config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
34 def_bool y
35 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
36
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050037config KPROBES
38 bool "Kprobes"
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090039 depends on MODULES
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050040 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090041 select KALLSYMS
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050042 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
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040049config JUMP_LABEL
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010050 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040051 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
52 help
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010053 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.
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040056
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010057 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
61 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
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.
70
71 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
72 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040073
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050074config OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu5cc718b2010-03-15 13:00:54 -040075 def_bool y
76 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050077 depends on !PREEMPT
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050078
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -070079config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -070080 bool
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -070081 help
82 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
83 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
84 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
85 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
86 handler.)
87
88 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
89 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
90 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
91 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
92 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
93 much.
94
95 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
96 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
97
Heiko Carstens1a94bc32009-01-14 14:13:59 +010098config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
99 bool
100
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800101config KRETPROBES
102 def_bool y
103 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
104
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300105config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
106 bool
107 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
108 help
109 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
110 switch to user mode.
111
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700112config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700113 bool
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700114
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500115config HAVE_KPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700116 bool
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800117
118config HAVE_KRETPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700119 bool
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700120
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500121config HAVE_OPTPROBES
122 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700123#
124# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
125#
126# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
127# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
128# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700129# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
130# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
131# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
132# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
133# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
134# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
135#
136config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700137 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700138
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700139config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700140 bool
Jens Axboe3d442232008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200141
142config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700143 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700144
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100145config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
146 bool
Heiko Carstense01292b2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100147 help
148 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
149 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
150 declared in asm/ptrace.h
151 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100152
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700153config HAVE_CLK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700154 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700155 help
156 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
157 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
158
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100159config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
160 bool
Heiko Carstens36cd3c92009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200161
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530162config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
163 bool
Frederic Weisbecker99e8c5a2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100164 depends on PERF_EVENTS
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530165
Frederic Weisbecker01027522010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200166config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
167 bool
168 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
169 help
170 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
171 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
172 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
173 them but define the access type in a control register.
174 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
175 latter fashion.
176
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300177config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
178 bool
Ingo Molnara1922ed2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200179
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200180config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
181 bool
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200182 help
183 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
184 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
185 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200186
Jason Baronbf5438fc2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400187config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
188 bool
189
Gerald Schaefer335d7af2010-11-22 15:47:36 +0100190config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX
191 bool
192
Peter Zijlstra26723912011-05-24 17:12:00 -0700193config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
194 bool
195
Huang Yingdf013ff2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800196config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
197 bool
198
Heiko Carstens43570fd2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800199config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
200 bool
201 help
202 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
203 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
204 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
205 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
206
Heiko Carstens41561532012-01-12 17:17:30 -0800207config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
208 bool
209
Heiko Carstens25654092012-01-12 17:17:33 -0800210config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
211 bool
212
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700213source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"