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 USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
165 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
168 # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
169 config ARCH_INIT_TASK
172 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
173 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
176 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
177 config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
180 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
183 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
184 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
185 declared in asm/ptrace.h
186 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
191 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
192 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
194 config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
197 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
199 depends on PERF_EVENTS
201 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
203 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
205 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
206 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
207 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
208 them but define the access type in a control register.
209 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
212 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
215 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
218 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
219 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
220 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
222 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
225 config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX
228 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
231 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
234 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
237 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
238 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
239 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
240 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
242 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
245 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
248 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
251 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
254 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
256 - syscall_get_arguments()
258 - syscall_set_return_value()
259 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
260 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
261 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
262 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
264 config SECCOMP_FILTER
266 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
268 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
269 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
270 task-defined system call filtering polices.
272 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
274 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"