2 # General architecture dependent options
6 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
8 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
10 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
12 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
13 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
18 config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
19 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
21 depends on OPROFILE && X86
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.
33 config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
35 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
40 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
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.
50 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
51 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
53 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.
57 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.
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.
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.
71 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
72 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
76 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
79 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
81 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
82 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
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.
89 bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
90 depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS
94 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.
100 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
101 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
104 If in doubt, say "N".
106 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
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
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
122 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
123 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
125 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
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.
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.
144 config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
149 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
151 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
153 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
155 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
158 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
164 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
167 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
170 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
173 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
176 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
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
181 # 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()
188 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
191 config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
194 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
197 config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
200 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
203 # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
204 config ARCH_INIT_TASK
207 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
208 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
211 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
212 config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
215 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
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.
226 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
227 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
229 config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
232 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
234 depends on PERF_EVENTS
236 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
238 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
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
247 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
250 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
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.
257 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
260 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
261 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
263 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
266 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
267 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
270 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
273 config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX
276 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
279 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
282 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
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.
290 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
293 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
296 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
299 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
302 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
303 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
306 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
309 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
311 - syscall_get_arguments()
313 - syscall_set_return_value()
314 - 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.
319 config SECCOMP_FILTER
321 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
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.
327 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
329 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
332 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.
340 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
343 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
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().
349 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
352 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
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.
359 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
362 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
363 relocations will give an error.
365 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
368 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
369 relocations will give an error.
374 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
377 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
380 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
383 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
385 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
388 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
390 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
393 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
395 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
398 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
403 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
404 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
405 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
408 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
411 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"