#
config OPROFILE
- tristate "OProfile system profiling (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ tristate "OProfile system profiling"
depends on PROFILING
depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
select RING_BUFFER
If unsure, say N.
-config OPROFILE_IBS
- bool "OProfile AMD IBS support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- default n
- depends on OPROFILE && SMP && X86
- help
- Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) is a new profiling
- technique that provides rich, precise program performance
- information. IBS is introduced by AMD Family10h processors
- (AMD Opteron Quad-Core processor "Barcelona") to overcome
- the limitations of conventional performance counter
- sampling.
-
- If unsure, say N.
-
config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
default n
config HAVE_OPROFILE
bool
+config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
+ def_bool y
+ depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
+
config KPROBES
bool "Kprobes"
- depends on KALLSYMS && MODULES
+ depends on MODULES
depends on HAVE_KPROBES
+ select KALLSYMS
help
Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
If in doubt, say "N".
+config JUMP_LABEL
+ bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
+ depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
+ help
+ This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
+ makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
+ conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
+
+ Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
+ scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
+ branches and include support for this optimization technique.
+
+ If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
+ the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
+ instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
+ nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
+ conditional block of instructions.
+
+ This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
+ of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
+ of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
+
+ ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
+ flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
+
+config OPTPROBES
+ def_bool y
+ depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
+ depends on !PREEMPT
+
+config UPROBES
+ bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS
+ default n
+ help
+ Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
+ enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
+ to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
+ libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
+ are hit by user-space applications.
+
+ ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
+ managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
+ application. )
+
+ If in doubt, say "N".
+
config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
bool
help
config HAVE_KRETPROBES
bool
+config HAVE_OPTPROBES
+ bool
+
+config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
+ bool
#
# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
#
config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
bool
+config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
+ bool
+
config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
bool
+config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
+ bool
+
+# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
+config ARCH_INIT_TASK
+ bool
+
+# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
+config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
+ bool
+
+# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
+config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
+ bool
+
+config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
+ bool
+ help
+ This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
+ the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
+ declared in asm/ptrace.h
+ For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
+
config HAVE_CLK
bool
help
config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
bool
-config HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES
- bool
-
config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
bool
depends on PERF_EVENTS
+config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
+ bool
+ depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+ help
+ Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
+ some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
+ breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
+ them but define the access type in a control register.
+ Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
+ latter fashion.
+
config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
bool
+config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
+ bool
+ help
+ System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
+ subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
+ to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
+
+config HAVE_PERF_REGS
+ bool
+ help
+ Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
+ bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
+
+config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
+ bool
+ help
+ Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
+ access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
+ architectures.
+
+config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
+ bool
+
+config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX
+ bool
+
+config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
+ bool
+
+config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
+ bool
+
+config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
+ bool
+ help
+ This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
+ e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
+ on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
+ might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
+
+config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
+ bool
+
+config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
+ bool
+
+config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
+ bool
+
+config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
+ bool
+
+config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
+ select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
+ bool
+
+config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
+ bool
+ help
+ An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
+ - syscall_get_arch()
+ - syscall_get_arguments()
+ - syscall_rollback()
+ - syscall_set_return_value()
+ - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
+ - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
+ - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
+ results in the system call being skipped immediately.
+
+config SECCOMP_FILTER
+ def_bool y
+ depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
+ help
+ Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
+ in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
+ task-defined system call filtering polices.
+
+ See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
+
+config HAVE_RCU_USER_QS
+ bool
+ help
+ Provide kernel entry/exit hooks necessary for userspace
+ RCU extended quiescent state. Syscalls need to be wrapped inside
+ rcu_user_exit()-rcu_user_enter() through the slow path using
+ TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs
+ are already protected inside rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but
+ preemption or signal handling on irq exit still need to be protected.
+
+config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
+ bool
+
+config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
+ bool
+ help
+ Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
+ support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
+
+config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+ bool
+
source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
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