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_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
107 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
109 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
110 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
111 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
112 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
113 architectures without unaligned access.
115 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
116 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
117 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
119 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
120 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
122 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
125 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
126 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
127 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
128 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
131 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
132 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
133 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
134 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
135 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
138 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
139 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
141 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
144 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
145 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
146 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
147 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
148 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
149 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
150 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
151 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
152 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
153 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
154 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
156 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
157 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
158 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
162 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
164 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
166 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
168 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
171 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
177 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
180 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
183 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
186 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
189 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
191 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
192 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
193 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
194 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
195 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
196 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
197 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
198 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
199 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
201 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
204 config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
207 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
210 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
213 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
216 # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
217 config ARCH_INIT_TASK
220 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
221 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
224 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
225 config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
228 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
231 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
232 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
233 declared in asm/ptrace.h
234 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
239 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
240 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
242 config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
245 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
247 depends on PERF_EVENTS
249 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
251 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
253 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
254 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
255 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
256 them but define the access type in a control register.
257 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
260 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
263 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
266 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
267 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
268 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
270 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
273 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
274 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
276 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
279 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
280 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
283 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
286 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
289 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
292 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
295 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
296 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
297 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
298 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
300 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
303 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
306 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
309 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
312 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
313 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
316 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
319 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
321 - syscall_get_arguments()
323 - syscall_set_return_value()
324 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
325 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
326 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
327 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
329 config SECCOMP_FILTER
331 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
333 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
334 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
335 task-defined system call filtering polices.
337 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
339 config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
342 An arch should select this symbol if:
343 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
344 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
346 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
349 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
350 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
353 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
354 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
355 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
357 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
358 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
359 the stack just before the return address, and validates
360 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
361 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
362 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
363 neutralized via a kernel panic.
365 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
368 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
370 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
372 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
374 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
375 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
377 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
378 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
380 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
381 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
384 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
386 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
388 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
389 of the following conditions:
391 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
392 assignment or function argument
393 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
394 regardless of array type or length
395 - uses register local variables
397 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
398 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
400 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
401 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
406 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
409 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
410 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
411 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
412 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
413 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
414 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
415 irq exit still need to be protected.
417 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
420 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
424 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
425 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
426 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
427 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
428 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
429 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
432 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
435 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
436 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
438 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
441 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
444 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
447 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
448 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
449 should not enable this.
451 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
454 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
455 relocations will give an error.
457 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
460 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
461 relocations will give an error.
463 config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
466 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
467 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
469 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
472 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
473 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
474 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
475 in the end of an hardirq.
476 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
482 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
485 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
488 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
491 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
493 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
496 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
499 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
502 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
504 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
507 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
509 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
512 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
517 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
518 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
519 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
522 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
525 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"