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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
Thomas Gleixnercb7cb772011-07-24 12:11:43 +02009 depends on !PREEMPT_RT_FULL
Ingo Molnard69d59f2008-12-12 09:38:57 +010010 select RING_BUFFER
Christian Borntraeger9a5963e2009-09-16 21:56:49 +020011 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050012 help
13 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
14 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
15 and applications.
16
17 If unsure, say N.
18
Jason Yeh4d4036e2009-07-08 13:49:38 +020019config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
20 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
21 default n
22 depends on OPROFILE && X86
23 help
24 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
25 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
26 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
27 between events at an user specified time interval.
28
29 If unsure, say N.
30
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050031config HAVE_OPROFILE
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -070032 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050033
Robert Richterdcfce4a2011-10-11 17:11:08 +020034config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
35 def_bool y
36 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
37
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050038config KPROBES
39 bool "Kprobes"
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090040 depends on MODULES
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050041 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090042 select KALLSYMS
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050043 help
44 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
45 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
46 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
47 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
48 If in doubt, say "N".
49
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040050config JUMP_LABEL
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010051 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040052 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
53 help
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010054 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
55 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
56 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040057
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010058 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
59 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
60 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
61
62 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
63 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
64 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
65 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
66 conditional block of instructions.
67
68 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
69 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
70 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
71
72 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
73 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040074
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050075config OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu5cc718b2010-03-15 13:00:54 -040076 def_bool y
77 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050078 depends on !PREEMPT
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050079
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +090080config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
81 def_bool y
82 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
83 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
84 help
85 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
86 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
87 optimize on top of function tracing.
88
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053089config UPROBES
Ingo Molnar7b2d81d2012-02-17 09:27:41 +010090 bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Srikar Dronamrajuec83db02012-05-08 16:41:26 +053091 depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053092 default n
Oleg Nesterov22b361d2012-12-17 16:01:39 -080093 select PERCPU_RWSEM
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053094 help
Ingo Molnar7b2d81d2012-02-17 09:27:41 +010095 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
96 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
97 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
98 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
99 are hit by user-space applications.
100
101 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
102 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
103 application. )
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +0530104
105 If in doubt, say "N".
106
James Hoganc19fa942012-05-30 11:23:23 +0100107config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
108 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
109 help
110 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
111 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
112 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
113 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
114 architectures without unaligned access.
115
116 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
117 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
118 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
119
120 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
121 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
122
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700123config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700124 bool
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700125 help
126 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
127 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
128 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
129 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
130 handler.)
131
132 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
133 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
134 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
135 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
136 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
137 much.
138
139 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
140 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
141
David Woodhousecf66bb92012-12-03 16:25:40 +0000142config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
143 bool
144 help
145 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
146 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
147 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
148 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
149 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
150 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
151 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
152 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
153 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
154 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
155 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
156
157 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
158 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
159 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
160
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800161config KRETPROBES
162 def_bool y
163 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
164
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300165config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
166 bool
167 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
168 help
169 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
170 switch to user mode.
171
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700172config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700173 bool
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700174
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500175config HAVE_KPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700176 bool
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800177
178config HAVE_KRETPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700179 bool
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700180
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500181config HAVE_OPTPROBES
182 bool
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700183
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +0900184config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
185 bool
186
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700187config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
188 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700189#
190# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
191#
192# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
193# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
194# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700195# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
196# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
197# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
198# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
199# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
200# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
201#
202config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700203 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700204
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700205config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700206 bool
Jens Axboe3d442232008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200207
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100208config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
209 bool
210
Jens Axboe3d442232008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200211config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700212 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700213
Thomas Gleixner29d5e042012-04-20 13:05:45 +0000214config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
215 bool
216
Kevin Hilman485cf5d2013-04-24 17:19:13 -0700217config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
218 bool
219
Thomas Gleixnera6359d12012-05-03 09:03:02 +0000220# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
221config ARCH_INIT_TASK
Thomas Gleixnera4a2eb42012-05-03 09:02:48 +0000222 bool
223
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000224# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
225config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
226 bool
227
228# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
229config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
230 bool
231
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100232config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
233 bool
Heiko Carstense01292b2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100234 help
235 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
236 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
237 declared in asm/ptrace.h
238 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100239
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700240config HAVE_CLK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700241 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700242 help
243 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
244 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
245
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100246config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
247 bool
Heiko Carstens36cd3c92009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200248
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530249config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
250 bool
Frederic Weisbecker99e8c5a2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100251 depends on PERF_EVENTS
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530252
Frederic Weisbecker01027522010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200253config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
254 bool
255 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
256 help
257 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
258 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
259 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
260 them but define the access type in a control register.
261 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
262 latter fashion.
263
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300264config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
265 bool
Ingo Molnara1922ed2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200266
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200267config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
268 bool
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200269 help
270 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
271 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
272 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200273
Jiri Olsac5e63192012-08-07 15:20:36 +0200274config HAVE_PERF_REGS
275 bool
276 help
277 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
278 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
279
Jiri Olsac5ebced2012-08-07 15:20:40 +0200280config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
281 bool
282 help
283 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
284 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
285 architectures.
286
Jason Baronbf5438fc2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400287config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
288 bool
289
Gerald Schaefer335d7af2010-11-22 15:47:36 +0100290config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX
291 bool
292
Peter Zijlstra26723912011-05-24 17:12:00 -0700293config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
294 bool
295
Huang Yingdf013ff2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800296config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
297 bool
298
Heiko Carstens43570fd2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800299config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
300 bool
301 help
302 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
303 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
304 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
305 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
306
Heiko Carstens41561532012-01-12 17:17:30 -0800307config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
308 bool
309
Heiko Carstens25654092012-01-12 17:17:33 -0800310config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
311 bool
312
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700313config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
314 bool
315
316config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
317 bool
318
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400319config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700320 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400321 bool
322
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500323config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
324 bool
325 help
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500326 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
Will Drewrybb6ea432012-04-12 16:48:01 -0500327 - syscall_get_arch()
328 - syscall_get_arguments()
329 - syscall_rollback()
330 - syscall_set_return_value()
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500331 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
332 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
333 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
334 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500335
336config SECCOMP_FILTER
337 def_bool y
338 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
339 help
340 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
341 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
342 task-defined system call filtering polices.
343
344 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
345
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100346config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200347 bool
348 help
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100349 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
350 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
351 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
352 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
353 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
354 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
355 irq exit still need to be protected.
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200356
Frederic Weisbeckerb9527412012-06-16 15:39:34 +0200357config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
358 bool
359
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200360config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
361 bool
362 help
363 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
364 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
365
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700366config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
367 bool
368
David Howells786d35d2012-09-28 14:31:03 +0930369config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
370 bool
371 help
372 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
373 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
374 should not enable this.
375
376config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
377 bool
378 help
379 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
380 relocations will give an error.
381
382config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
383 bool
384 help
385 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
386 relocations will give an error.
387
Rusty Russellb92021b2013-03-15 15:04:17 +1030388config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
389 bool
390 help
391 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
392 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
393
Al Virod2125042012-10-23 13:17:59 -0400394#
395# ABI hall of shame
396#
397config CLONE_BACKWARDS
398 bool
399 help
400 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
401 not the 5th one.
402
403config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
404 bool
405 help
406 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
407
Michal Simek4f01c722013-08-13 16:00:53 -0700408config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
409 bool
410 help
411 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
412 not the 5th one.
413
Al Viroeaca6ea2012-11-25 23:12:10 -0500414config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
415 bool
416 help
417 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
418
Al Viro0a0e8cd2012-12-25 16:04:12 -0500419config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
420 bool
421 help
422 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
423
424config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
425 bool
426 help
427 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
428
Al Viro495dfbf2012-12-25 19:09:45 -0500429config OLD_SIGACTION
430 bool
431 help
432 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
433 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
434 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
435 compatibility...
436
437config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
438 bool
439
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700440source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"