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1 | # |
2 | # General architecture dependent options | |
3 | # | |
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4 | |
5 | config OPROFILE | |
b309a294 | 6 | tristate "OProfile system profiling" |
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7 | depends on PROFILING |
8 | depends on HAVE_OPROFILE | |
d69d59f4 | 9 | select RING_BUFFER |
9a5963eb | 10 | select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP |
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11 | help |
12 | OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the | |
13 | whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, | |
14 | and applications. | |
15 | ||
16 | If unsure, say N. | |
17 | ||
4d4036e0 JY |
18 | config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX |
19 | bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
20 | default n | |
21 | depends on OPROFILE && X86 | |
22 | help | |
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. | |
27 | ||
28 | If unsure, say N. | |
29 | ||
125e5645 | 30 | config HAVE_OPROFILE |
9ba16087 | 31 | bool |
125e5645 | 32 | |
dcfce4a0 RR |
33 | config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER |
34 | def_bool y | |
35 | depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI | |
36 | ||
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37 | config KPROBES |
38 | bool "Kprobes" | |
05ed160e | 39 | depends on MODULES |
125e5645 | 40 | depends on HAVE_KPROBES |
05ed160e | 41 | select KALLSYMS |
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42 | help |
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. | |
47 | If in doubt, say "N". | |
48 | ||
45f81b1c | 49 | config JUMP_LABEL |
c5905afb | 50 | bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" |
45f81b1c SR |
51 | depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL |
52 | help | |
c5905afb IM |
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. | |
56 | ||
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. | |
60 | ||
45f81b1c | 61 | If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", |
c5905afb IM |
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. | |
66 | ||
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. | |
45f81b1c | 70 | |
c5905afb IM |
71 | ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler |
72 | flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) | |
45f81b1c | 73 | |
afd66255 | 74 | config OPTPROBES |
5cc718b9 MH |
75 | def_bool y |
76 | depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES | |
afd66255 | 77 | depends on !PREEMPT |
afd66255 | 78 | |
e7dbfe34 MH |
79 | config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE |
80 | def_bool y | |
81 | depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | |
82 | depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS | |
83 | help | |
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. | |
87 | ||
2b144498 | 88 | config UPROBES |
7b2d81d4 | 89 | bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
ec83db0f | 90 | depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS |
2b144498 | 91 | default n |
22b361d1 | 92 | select PERCPU_RWSEM |
2b144498 | 93 | help |
7b2d81d4 IM |
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. | |
99 | ||
100 | ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, | |
101 | managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed | |
102 | application. ) | |
2b144498 SD |
103 | |
104 | If in doubt, say "N". | |
105 | ||
c19fa94a JH |
106 | config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS |
107 | def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS | |
108 | help | |
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. | |
114 | ||
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. | |
118 | ||
119 | See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | |
120 | information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | |
121 | ||
58340a07 | 122 | config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS |
9ba16087 | 123 | bool |
58340a07 JB |
124 | help |
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 | |
129 | handler.) | |
130 | ||
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 | |
136 | much. | |
137 | ||
138 | See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | |
139 | information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | |
140 | ||
cf66bb93 DW |
141 | config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP |
142 | bool | |
143 | help | |
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. | |
155 | ||
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. | |
159 | ||
9edddaa2 AM |
160 | config KRETPROBES |
161 | def_bool y | |
162 | depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES | |
163 | ||
7c68af6e AK |
164 | config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER |
165 | bool | |
166 | depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | |
167 | help | |
168 | Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to | |
169 | switch to user mode. | |
170 | ||
28b2ee20 | 171 | config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT |
9ba16087 | 172 | bool |
28b2ee20 | 173 | |
125e5645 | 174 | config HAVE_KPROBES |
9ba16087 | 175 | bool |
9edddaa2 AM |
176 | |
177 | config HAVE_KRETPROBES | |
9ba16087 | 178 | bool |
74bc7cee | 179 | |
afd66255 MH |
180 | config HAVE_OPTPROBES |
181 | bool | |
d314d74c | 182 | |
e7dbfe34 MH |
183 | config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE |
184 | bool | |
185 | ||
d314d74c CW |
186 | config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG |
187 | bool | |
1f5a4ad9 RM |
188 | # |
189 | # An arch should select this if it provides all these things: | |
190 | # | |
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 | |
1f5a4ad9 RM |
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() | |
200 | # | |
201 | config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK | |
9ba16087 | 202 | bool |
1f5a4ad9 | 203 | |
74bc7cee | 204 | config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS |
9ba16087 | 205 | bool |
3d442233 | 206 | |
c64be2bb MS |
207 | config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS |
208 | bool | |
209 | ||
29d5e047 TG |
210 | config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD |
211 | bool | |
212 | ||
485cf5da KH |
213 | config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP |
214 | bool | |
215 | ||
a6359d1e TG |
216 | # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c |
217 | config ARCH_INIT_TASK | |
a4a2eb49 TG |
218 | bool |
219 | ||
f5e10287 TG |
220 | # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function |
221 | config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR | |
222 | bool | |
223 | ||
224 | # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function | |
225 | config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR | |
226 | bool | |
227 | ||
f850c30c HC |
228 | config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API |
229 | bool | |
e01292b1 HC |
230 | help |
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. | |
f850c30c | 235 | |
9483a578 | 236 | config HAVE_CLK |
9ba16087 | 237 | bool |
9483a578 DB |
238 | help |
239 | The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and | |
240 | thus are a key power management tool on many systems. | |
241 | ||
5ee00bd4 JR |
242 | config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG |
243 | bool | |
36cd3c9f | 244 | |
62a038d3 P |
245 | config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT |
246 | bool | |
99e8c5a3 | 247 | depends on PERF_EVENTS |
62a038d3 | 248 | |
0102752e FW |
249 | config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS |
250 | bool | |
251 | depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | |
252 | help | |
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 | |
258 | latter fashion. | |
259 | ||
7c68af6e AK |
260 | config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER |
261 | bool | |
a1922ed6 | 262 | |
c01d4323 FW |
263 | config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI |
264 | bool | |
23637d47 FW |
265 | help |
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. | |
c01d4323 | 269 | |
c5e63197 JO |
270 | config HAVE_PERF_REGS |
271 | bool | |
272 | help | |
273 | Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes | |
274 | bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. | |
275 | ||
c5ebcedb JO |
276 | config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP |
277 | bool | |
278 | help | |
279 | Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs | |
280 | access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across | |
281 | architectures. | |
282 | ||
bf5438fc JB |
283 | config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL |
284 | bool | |
285 | ||
26723911 PZ |
286 | config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE |
287 | bool | |
288 | ||
df013ffb YH |
289 | config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG |
290 | bool | |
291 | ||
43570fd2 HC |
292 | config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE |
293 | bool | |
294 | help | |
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. | |
299 | ||
4156153c HC |
300 | config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL |
301 | bool | |
302 | ||
2565409f HC |
303 | config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE |
304 | bool | |
305 | ||
c1d7e01d WD |
306 | config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION |
307 | bool | |
308 | ||
309 | config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION | |
310 | bool | |
311 | ||
48b25c43 | 312 | config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC |
c1d7e01d | 313 | select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION |
48b25c43 CM |
314 | bool |
315 | ||
e2cfabdf WD |
316 | config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER |
317 | bool | |
318 | help | |
fb0fadf9 | 319 | An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: |
bb6ea430 WD |
320 | - syscall_get_arch() |
321 | - syscall_get_arguments() | |
322 | - syscall_rollback() | |
323 | - syscall_set_return_value() | |
fb0fadf9 WD |
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. | |
e2cfabdf WD |
328 | |
329 | config SECCOMP_FILTER | |
330 | def_bool y | |
331 | depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET | |
332 | help | |
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. | |
336 | ||
337 | See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. | |
338 | ||
19952a92 KC |
339 | config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR |
340 | bool | |
341 | help | |
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) | |
345 | ||
346 | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR | |
8779657d KC |
347 | def_bool n |
348 | help | |
349 | Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build | |
350 | can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature. | |
351 | ||
352 | choice | |
353 | prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" | |
19952a92 | 354 | depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR |
8779657d | 355 | default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE |
19952a92 | 356 | help |
8779657d | 357 | This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This |
19952a92 KC |
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. | |
364 | ||
8779657d KC |
365 | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE |
366 | bool "None" | |
367 | help | |
368 | Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature. | |
369 | ||
370 | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR | |
371 | bool "Regular" | |
372 | select CC_STACKPROTECTOR | |
373 | help | |
374 | Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they | |
375 | have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. | |
376 | ||
19952a92 | 377 | This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution |
8779657d KC |
378 | gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). |
379 | ||
380 | On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to | |
381 | about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size | |
382 | by about 0.3%. | |
383 | ||
384 | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG | |
385 | bool "Strong" | |
386 | select CC_STACKPROTECTOR | |
387 | help | |
388 | Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any | |
389 | of the following conditions: | |
390 | ||
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 | |
396 | ||
397 | This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution | |
398 | gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). | |
399 | ||
400 | On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to | |
401 | about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code | |
402 | size by about 2%. | |
403 | ||
404 | endchoice | |
19952a92 | 405 | |
91d1aa43 | 406 | config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING |
2b1d5024 FW |
407 | bool |
408 | help | |
91d1aa43 FW |
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. | |
2b1d5024 | 416 | |
b952741c FW |
417 | config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING |
418 | bool | |
419 | ||
554b0004 KH |
420 | config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN |
421 | bool | |
422 | default y if 64BIT | |
423 | help | |
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. | |
430 | ||
431 | ||
fdf9c356 FW |
432 | config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING |
433 | bool | |
434 | help | |
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(). | |
437 | ||
15626062 GS |
438 | config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE |
439 | bool | |
440 | ||
0f8975ec PE |
441 | config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY |
442 | bool | |
443 | ||
786d35d4 DH |
444 | config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC |
445 | bool | |
446 | help | |
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. | |
450 | ||
451 | config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA | |
452 | bool | |
453 | help | |
454 | Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL | |
455 | relocations will give an error. | |
456 | ||
457 | config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL | |
458 | bool | |
459 | help | |
460 | Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA | |
461 | relocations will give an error. | |
462 | ||
b92021b0 RR |
463 | config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX |
464 | bool | |
465 | help | |
466 | Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like | |
467 | module loading and assembly files need to know about this. | |
468 | ||
cc1f0274 FW |
469 | config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK |
470 | bool | |
471 | help | |
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 | |
477 | processing. | |
478 | ||
d2125043 AV |
479 | # |
480 | # ABI hall of shame | |
481 | # | |
482 | config CLONE_BACKWARDS | |
483 | bool | |
484 | help | |
485 | Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), | |
486 | not the 5th one. | |
487 | ||
488 | config CLONE_BACKWARDS2 | |
489 | bool | |
490 | help | |
491 | Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. | |
492 | ||
dfa9771a MS |
493 | config CLONE_BACKWARDS3 |
494 | bool | |
495 | help | |
496 | Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), | |
497 | not the 5th one. | |
498 | ||
eaca6eae AV |
499 | config ODD_RT_SIGACTION |
500 | bool | |
501 | help | |
502 | Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments | |
503 | ||
0a0e8cdf AV |
504 | config OLD_SIGSUSPEND |
505 | bool | |
506 | help | |
507 | Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety | |
508 | ||
509 | config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 | |
510 | bool | |
511 | help | |
512 | Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) | |
513 | ||
495dfbf7 AV |
514 | config OLD_SIGACTION |
515 | bool | |
516 | help | |
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 | |
520 | compatibility... | |
521 | ||
522 | config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION | |
523 | bool | |
524 | ||
2521f2c2 | 525 | source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" |