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
80 bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
81 depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS
84 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
85 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
86 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
87 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
88 are hit by user-space applications.
90 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
91 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
96 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
99 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
100 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
101 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
102 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
105 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
106 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
107 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
108 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
109 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
112 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
113 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
115 config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
120 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
122 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
124 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
126 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
129 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
135 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
138 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
141 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
144 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
146 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
147 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
148 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
149 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
150 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
151 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
152 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
153 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
154 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
156 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
159 config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
162 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
165 config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
168 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
171 # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
172 config ARCH_INIT_TASK
175 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
176 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
179 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
180 config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
183 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
186 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
187 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
188 declared in asm/ptrace.h
189 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
194 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
195 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
197 config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
200 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
202 depends on PERF_EVENTS
204 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
206 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
208 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
209 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
210 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
211 them but define the access type in a control register.
212 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
215 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
218 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
221 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
222 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
223 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
225 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
228 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
229 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
231 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
234 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
235 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
238 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
241 config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX
244 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
247 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
250 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
253 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
254 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
255 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
256 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
258 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
261 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
264 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
267 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
270 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
271 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
274 config GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD
277 config GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE
280 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
283 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
285 - syscall_get_arguments()
287 - syscall_set_return_value()
288 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
289 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
290 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
291 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
293 config SECCOMP_FILTER
295 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
297 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
298 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
299 task-defined system call filtering polices.
301 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
303 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
306 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
307 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
308 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
309 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
310 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
311 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
312 irq exit still need to be protected.
314 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
317 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
320 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
321 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
323 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
326 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
329 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
330 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
331 should not enable this.
333 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
336 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
337 relocations will give an error.
339 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
342 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
343 relocations will give an error.
348 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
351 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
354 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
357 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
359 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"