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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
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +090079config 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
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053088config UPROBES
Ingo Molnar7b2d81d2012-02-17 09:27:41 +010089 bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Srikar Dronamrajuec83db02012-05-08 16:41:26 +053090 depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053091 default n
Oleg Nesterov22b361d2012-12-17 16:01:39 -080092 select PERCPU_RWSEM
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053093 help
Ingo Molnar7b2d81d2012-02-17 09:27:41 +010094 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. )
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +0530103
104 If in doubt, say "N".
105
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700106config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700107 bool
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700108 help
109 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
110 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
111 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
112 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
113 handler.)
114
115 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
116 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
117 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
118 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
119 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
120 much.
121
122 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
123 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
124
David Woodhousecf66bb92012-12-03 16:25:40 +0000125config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
126 bool
127 help
128 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
129 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
130 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
131 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
132 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
133 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
134 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
135 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
136 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
137 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
138 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
139
140 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
141 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
142 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
143
Heiko Carstens1a94bc32009-01-14 14:13:59 +0100144config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
145 bool
146
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800147config KRETPROBES
148 def_bool y
149 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
150
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300151config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
152 bool
153 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
154 help
155 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
156 switch to user mode.
157
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700158config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700159 bool
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700160
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500161config HAVE_KPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700162 bool
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800163
164config HAVE_KRETPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700165 bool
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700166
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500167config HAVE_OPTPROBES
168 bool
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700169
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +0900170config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
171 bool
172
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700173config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
174 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700175#
176# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
177#
178# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
179# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
180# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700181# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
182# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
183# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
184# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
185# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
186# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
187#
188config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700189 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700190
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700191config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700192 bool
Jens Axboe3d442232008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200193
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100194config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
195 bool
196
Jens Axboe3d442232008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200197config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700198 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700199
Thomas Gleixner29d5e042012-04-20 13:05:45 +0000200config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
201 bool
202
Thomas Gleixnera6359d12012-05-03 09:03:02 +0000203# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
204config ARCH_INIT_TASK
Thomas Gleixnera4a2eb42012-05-03 09:02:48 +0000205 bool
206
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000207# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
208config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
209 bool
210
211# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
212config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
213 bool
214
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100215config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
216 bool
Heiko Carstense01292b2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100217 help
218 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
219 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
220 declared in asm/ptrace.h
221 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100222
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700223config HAVE_CLK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700224 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700225 help
226 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
227 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
228
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100229config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
230 bool
Heiko Carstens36cd3c92009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200231
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530232config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
233 bool
Frederic Weisbecker99e8c5a2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100234 depends on PERF_EVENTS
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530235
Frederic Weisbecker01027522010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200236config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
237 bool
238 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
239 help
240 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
241 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
242 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
243 them but define the access type in a control register.
244 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
245 latter fashion.
246
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300247config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
248 bool
Ingo Molnara1922ed2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200249
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200250config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
251 bool
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200252 help
253 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
254 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
255 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200256
Jiri Olsac5e63192012-08-07 15:20:36 +0200257config HAVE_PERF_REGS
258 bool
259 help
260 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
261 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
262
Jiri Olsac5ebced2012-08-07 15:20:40 +0200263config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
264 bool
265 help
266 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
267 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
268 architectures.
269
Jason Baronbf5438fc2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400270config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
271 bool
272
Gerald Schaefer335d7af2010-11-22 15:47:36 +0100273config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX
274 bool
275
Peter Zijlstra26723912011-05-24 17:12:00 -0700276config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
277 bool
278
Huang Yingdf013ff2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800279config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
280 bool
281
Heiko Carstens43570fd2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800282config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
283 bool
284 help
285 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
286 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
287 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
288 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
289
Heiko Carstens41561532012-01-12 17:17:30 -0800290config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
291 bool
292
Heiko Carstens25654092012-01-12 17:17:33 -0800293config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
294 bool
295
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700296config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
297 bool
298
299config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
300 bool
301
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400302config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700303 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400304 bool
305
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500306config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
307 bool
308 help
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500309 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
Will Drewrybb6ea432012-04-12 16:48:01 -0500310 - syscall_get_arch()
311 - syscall_get_arguments()
312 - syscall_rollback()
313 - syscall_set_return_value()
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500314 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
315 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
316 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
317 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500318
319config SECCOMP_FILTER
320 def_bool y
321 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
322 help
323 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
324 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
325 task-defined system call filtering polices.
326
327 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
328
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100329config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200330 bool
331 help
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100332 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
333 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
334 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
335 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
336 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
337 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
338 irq exit still need to be protected.
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200339
Frederic Weisbeckerb9527412012-06-16 15:39:34 +0200340config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
341 bool
342
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200343config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
344 bool
345 help
346 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
347 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
348
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700349config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
350 bool
351
David Howells786d35d2012-09-28 14:31:03 +0930352config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
353 bool
354 help
355 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
356 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
357 should not enable this.
358
359config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
360 bool
361 help
362 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
363 relocations will give an error.
364
365config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
366 bool
367 help
368 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
369 relocations will give an error.
370
Al Viro6bf9adf2012-12-14 14:09:47 -0500371config GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK
372 bool
373
Al Virod2125042012-10-23 13:17:59 -0400374#
375# ABI hall of shame
376#
377config CLONE_BACKWARDS
378 bool
379 help
380 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
381 not the 5th one.
382
383config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
384 bool
385 help
386 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
387
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700388source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"