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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
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053079config UPROBES
Ingo Molnar7b2d81d2012-02-17 09:27:41 +010080 bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Srikar Dronamrajuec83db02012-05-08 16:41:26 +053081 depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053082 default n
Oleg Nesterov22b361d2012-12-17 16:01:39 -080083 select PERCPU_RWSEM
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053084 help
Ingo Molnar7b2d81d2012-02-17 09:27:41 +010085 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
86 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
87 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
88 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
89 are hit by user-space applications.
90
91 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
92 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
93 application. )
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053094
95 If in doubt, say "N".
96
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -070097config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -070098 bool
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -070099 help
100 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
101 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
102 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
103 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
104 handler.)
105
106 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
107 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
108 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
109 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
110 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
111 much.
112
113 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
114 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
115
David Woodhousecf66bb92012-12-03 16:25:40 +0000116config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
117 bool
118 help
119 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
120 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
121 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
122 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
123 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
124 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
125 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
126 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
127 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
128 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
129 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
130
131 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
132 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
133 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
134
Heiko Carstens1a94bc32009-01-14 14:13:59 +0100135config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
136 bool
137
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800138config KRETPROBES
139 def_bool y
140 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
141
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300142config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
143 bool
144 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
145 help
146 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
147 switch to user mode.
148
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700149config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700150 bool
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700151
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500152config HAVE_KPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700153 bool
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800154
155config HAVE_KRETPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700156 bool
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700157
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500158config HAVE_OPTPROBES
159 bool
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700160
161config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
162 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700163#
164# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
165#
166# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
167# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
168# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700169# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
170# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
171# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
172# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
173# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
174# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
175#
176config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700177 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700178
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700179config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700180 bool
Jens Axboe3d442232008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200181
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100182config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
183 bool
184
Jens Axboe3d442232008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200185config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700186 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700187
Thomas Gleixner29d5e042012-04-20 13:05:45 +0000188config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
189 bool
190
Thomas Gleixnera6359d12012-05-03 09:03:02 +0000191# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
192config ARCH_INIT_TASK
Thomas Gleixnera4a2eb42012-05-03 09:02:48 +0000193 bool
194
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000195# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
196config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
197 bool
198
199# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
200config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
201 bool
202
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100203config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
204 bool
Heiko Carstense01292b2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100205 help
206 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
207 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
208 declared in asm/ptrace.h
209 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100210
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700211config HAVE_CLK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700212 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700213 help
214 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
215 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
216
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100217config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
218 bool
Heiko Carstens36cd3c92009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200219
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530220config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
221 bool
Frederic Weisbecker99e8c5a2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100222 depends on PERF_EVENTS
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530223
Frederic Weisbecker01027522010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200224config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
225 bool
226 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
227 help
228 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
229 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
230 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
231 them but define the access type in a control register.
232 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
233 latter fashion.
234
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300235config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
236 bool
Ingo Molnara1922ed2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200237
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200238config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
239 bool
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200240 help
241 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
242 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
243 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200244
Jiri Olsac5e63192012-08-07 15:20:36 +0200245config HAVE_PERF_REGS
246 bool
247 help
248 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
249 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
250
Jiri Olsac5ebced2012-08-07 15:20:40 +0200251config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
252 bool
253 help
254 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
255 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
256 architectures.
257
Jason Baronbf5438fc2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400258config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
259 bool
260
Gerald Schaefer335d7af2010-11-22 15:47:36 +0100261config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX
262 bool
263
Peter Zijlstra26723912011-05-24 17:12:00 -0700264config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
265 bool
266
Huang Yingdf013ff2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800267config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
268 bool
269
Heiko Carstens43570fd2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800270config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
271 bool
272 help
273 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
274 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
275 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
276 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
277
Heiko Carstens41561532012-01-12 17:17:30 -0800278config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
279 bool
280
Heiko Carstens25654092012-01-12 17:17:33 -0800281config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
282 bool
283
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700284config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
285 bool
286
287config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
288 bool
289
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400290config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700291 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400292 bool
293
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500294config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
295 bool
296 help
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500297 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
Will Drewrybb6ea432012-04-12 16:48:01 -0500298 - syscall_get_arch()
299 - syscall_get_arguments()
300 - syscall_rollback()
301 - syscall_set_return_value()
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500302 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
303 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
304 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
305 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500306
307config SECCOMP_FILTER
308 def_bool y
309 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
310 help
311 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
312 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
313 task-defined system call filtering polices.
314
315 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
316
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100317config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200318 bool
319 help
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100320 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
321 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
322 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
323 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
324 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
325 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
326 irq exit still need to be protected.
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200327
Frederic Weisbeckerb9527412012-06-16 15:39:34 +0200328config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
329 bool
330
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200331config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
332 bool
333 help
334 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
335 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
336
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700337config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
338 bool
339
David Howells786d35d2012-09-28 14:31:03 +0930340config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
341 bool
342 help
343 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
344 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
345 should not enable this.
346
347config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
348 bool
349 help
350 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
351 relocations will give an error.
352
353config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
354 bool
355 help
356 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
357 relocations will give an error.
358
Al Viro6bf9adf2012-12-14 14:09:47 -0500359config GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK
360 bool
361
Al Virod2125042012-10-23 13:17:59 -0400362#
363# ABI hall of shame
364#
365config CLONE_BACKWARDS
366 bool
367 help
368 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
369 not the 5th one.
370
371config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
372 bool
373 help
374 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
375
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700376source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"