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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
James Hoganc19fa942012-05-30 11:23:23 +010097config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
98 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
99 help
100 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
101 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
102 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
103 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
104 architectures without unaligned access.
105
106 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
107 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
108 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
109
110 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
111 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
112
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700113config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700114 bool
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700115 help
116 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
117 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
118 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
119 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
120 handler.)
121
122 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
123 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
124 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
125 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
126 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
127 much.
128
129 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
130 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
131
David Woodhousecf66bb92012-12-03 16:25:40 +0000132config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
133 bool
134 help
135 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
136 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
137 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
138 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
139 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
140 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
141 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
142 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
143 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
144 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
145 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
146
147 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
148 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
149 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
150
Heiko Carstens1a94bc32009-01-14 14:13:59 +0100151config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
152 bool
153
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800154config KRETPROBES
155 def_bool y
156 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
157
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300158config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
159 bool
160 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
161 help
162 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
163 switch to user mode.
164
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700165config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700166 bool
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700167
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500168config HAVE_KPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700169 bool
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800170
171config HAVE_KRETPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700172 bool
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700173
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500174config HAVE_OPTPROBES
175 bool
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700176
177config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
178 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700179#
180# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
181#
182# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
183# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
184# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700185# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
186# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
187# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
188# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
189# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
190# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
191#
192config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700193 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700194
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700195config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700196 bool
Jens Axboe3d442232008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200197
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100198config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
199 bool
200
Jens Axboe3d442232008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200201config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700202 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700203
Thomas Gleixner29d5e042012-04-20 13:05:45 +0000204config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
205 bool
206
Thomas Gleixnera6359d12012-05-03 09:03:02 +0000207# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
208config ARCH_INIT_TASK
Thomas Gleixnera4a2eb42012-05-03 09:02:48 +0000209 bool
210
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000211# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
212config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
213 bool
214
215# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
216config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
217 bool
218
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100219config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
220 bool
Heiko Carstense01292b2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100221 help
222 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
223 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
224 declared in asm/ptrace.h
225 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100226
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700227config HAVE_CLK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700228 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700229 help
230 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
231 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
232
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100233config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
234 bool
Heiko Carstens36cd3c92009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200235
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530236config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
237 bool
Frederic Weisbecker99e8c5a2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100238 depends on PERF_EVENTS
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530239
Frederic Weisbecker01027522010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200240config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
241 bool
242 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
243 help
244 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
245 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
246 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
247 them but define the access type in a control register.
248 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
249 latter fashion.
250
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300251config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
252 bool
Ingo Molnara1922ed2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200253
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200254config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
255 bool
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200256 help
257 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
258 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
259 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200260
Jiri Olsac5e63192012-08-07 15:20:36 +0200261config HAVE_PERF_REGS
262 bool
263 help
264 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
265 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
266
Jiri Olsac5ebced2012-08-07 15:20:40 +0200267config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
268 bool
269 help
270 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
271 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
272 architectures.
273
Jason Baronbf5438fc2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400274config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
275 bool
276
Gerald Schaefer335d7af2010-11-22 15:47:36 +0100277config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX
278 bool
279
Peter Zijlstra26723912011-05-24 17:12:00 -0700280config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
281 bool
282
Huang Yingdf013ff2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800283config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
284 bool
285
Heiko Carstens43570fd2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800286config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
287 bool
288 help
289 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
290 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
291 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
292 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
293
Heiko Carstens41561532012-01-12 17:17:30 -0800294config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
295 bool
296
Heiko Carstens25654092012-01-12 17:17:33 -0800297config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
298 bool
299
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700300config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
301 bool
302
303config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
304 bool
305
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400306config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700307 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400308 bool
309
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500310config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
311 bool
312 help
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500313 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
Will Drewrybb6ea432012-04-12 16:48:01 -0500314 - syscall_get_arch()
315 - syscall_get_arguments()
316 - syscall_rollback()
317 - syscall_set_return_value()
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500318 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
319 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
320 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
321 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500322
323config SECCOMP_FILTER
324 def_bool y
325 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
326 help
327 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
328 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
329 task-defined system call filtering polices.
330
331 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
332
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100333config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200334 bool
335 help
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100336 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
337 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
338 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
339 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
340 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
341 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
342 irq exit still need to be protected.
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200343
Frederic Weisbeckerb9527412012-06-16 15:39:34 +0200344config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
345 bool
346
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200347config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
348 bool
349 help
350 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
351 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
352
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700353config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
354 bool
355
David Howells786d35d2012-09-28 14:31:03 +0930356config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
357 bool
358 help
359 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
360 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
361 should not enable this.
362
363config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
364 bool
365 help
366 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
367 relocations will give an error.
368
369config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
370 bool
371 help
372 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
373 relocations will give an error.
374
Al Viro6bf9adf2012-12-14 14:09:47 -0500375config GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK
376 bool
377
Al Virod2125042012-10-23 13:17:59 -0400378#
379# ABI hall of shame
380#
381config CLONE_BACKWARDS
382 bool
383 help
384 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
385 not the 5th one.
386
387config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
388 bool
389 help
390 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
391
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700392source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"