| Mathieu Desnoyers | fb32e03 | 2008-02-02 15:10:33 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # | 
 | 2 | # General architecture dependent options | 
 | 3 | # | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 4 |  | 
 | 5 | config OPROFILE | 
| Robert Richter | b309a29 | 2010-02-26 15:01:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | 	tristate "OProfile system profiling" | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | 	depends on PROFILING | 
 | 8 | 	depends on HAVE_OPROFILE | 
| Ingo Molnar | d69d59f | 2008-12-12 09:38:57 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | 	select RING_BUFFER | 
| Christian Borntraeger | 9a5963e | 2009-09-16 21:56:49 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | 	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 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 |  | 
| Jason Yeh | 4d4036e | 2009-07-08 13:49:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 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 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | config HAVE_OPROFILE | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | 	bool | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 32 |  | 
 | 33 | config KPROBES | 
 | 34 | 	bool "Kprobes" | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | 05ed160 | 2010-09-13 19:25:41 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | 	depends on MODULES | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | 	depends on HAVE_KPROBES | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | 05ed160 | 2010-09-13 19:25:41 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | 	select KALLSYMS | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | 	help | 
 | 39 | 	  Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and | 
 | 40 | 	  execute a callback function.  register_kprobe() establishes | 
 | 41 | 	  a probepoint and specifies the callback.  Kprobes is useful | 
 | 42 | 	  for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. | 
 | 43 | 	  If in doubt, say "N". | 
 | 44 |  | 
| Steven Rostedt | 45f81b1 | 2010-10-29 12:33:43 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | config JUMP_LABEL | 
 | 46 |        bool "Optimize trace point call sites" | 
 | 47 |        depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL | 
 | 48 |        help | 
 | 49 |          If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", | 
 | 50 | 	 the kernel will compile trace point locations with just a | 
 | 51 | 	 nop instruction. When trace points are enabled, the nop will | 
 | 52 | 	 be converted to a jump to the trace function. This technique | 
 | 53 | 	 lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction of the | 
 | 54 | 	 processor. | 
 | 55 |  | 
 | 56 | 	 On i386, options added to the compiler flags may increase | 
 | 57 | 	 the size of the kernel slightly. | 
 | 58 |  | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | config OPTPROBES | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | 5cc718b | 2010-03-15 13:00:54 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 61 | 	depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | 	depends on !PREEMPT | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 63 |  | 
| Johannes Berg | 58340a0 | 2008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | 	bool | 
| Johannes Berg | 58340a0 | 2008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | 	help | 
 | 67 | 	  Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses | 
 | 68 | 	  without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are | 
 | 69 | 	  unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on | 
 | 70 | 	  unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception | 
 | 71 | 	  handler.) | 
 | 72 |  | 
 | 73 | 	  This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can | 
 | 74 | 	  perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different | 
 | 75 | 	  code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network | 
 | 76 | 	  drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment | 
 | 77 | 	  problems with received packets if doing so would not help | 
 | 78 | 	  much. | 
 | 79 |  | 
 | 80 | 	  See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | 
 | 81 | 	  information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | 
 | 82 |  | 
| Heiko Carstens | 1a94bc3 | 2009-01-14 14:13:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS | 
 | 84 | 	bool | 
 | 85 |  | 
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli | 9edddaa | 2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | config KRETPROBES | 
 | 87 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 88 | 	depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES | 
 | 89 |  | 
| Avi Kivity | 7c68af6 | 2009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
 | 91 | 	bool | 
 | 92 | 	depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
 | 93 | 	help | 
 | 94 | 	  Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to | 
 | 95 | 	  switch to user mode. | 
 | 96 |  | 
| Rik van Riel | 28b2ee2 | 2008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 97 | config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | 	bool | 
| Rik van Riel | 28b2ee2 | 2008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 99 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | config HAVE_KPROBES | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | 	bool | 
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli | 9edddaa | 2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 102 |  | 
 | 103 | config HAVE_KRETPROBES | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | 	bool | 
| Arthur Kepner | 74bc7ce | 2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 105 |  | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | config HAVE_OPTPROBES | 
 | 107 | 	bool | 
| Roland McGrath | 1f5a4ad | 2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | # | 
 | 109 | # An arch should select this if it provides all these things: | 
 | 110 | # | 
 | 111 | #	task_pt_regs()		in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h | 
 | 112 | #	arch_has_single_step()	if there is hardware single-step support | 
 | 113 | #	arch_has_block_step()	if there is hardware block-step support | 
| Roland McGrath | 1f5a4ad | 2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | #	asm/syscall.h		supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface | 
 | 115 | #	linux/regset.h		user_regset interfaces | 
 | 116 | #	CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET	#define'd in linux/elf.h | 
 | 117 | #	TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE	calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} | 
 | 118 | #	TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME	calls tracehook_notify_resume() | 
 | 119 | #	signal delivery		calls tracehook_signal_handler() | 
 | 120 | # | 
 | 121 | config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 122 | 	bool | 
| Roland McGrath | 1f5a4ad | 2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 123 |  | 
| Arthur Kepner | 74bc7ce | 2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 125 | 	bool | 
| Jens Axboe | 3d44223 | 2008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 126 |  | 
 | 127 | config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | 	bool | 
| David Brownell | 9483a57 | 2008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 129 |  | 
| Heiko Carstens | f850c30 | 2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API | 
 | 131 | 	bool | 
| Heiko Carstens | e01292b | 2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | 	help | 
 | 133 | 	  This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports | 
 | 134 | 	  the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, | 
 | 135 | 	  declared in asm/ptrace.h | 
 | 136 | 	  For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. | 
| Heiko Carstens | f850c30 | 2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 137 |  | 
| David Brownell | 9483a57 | 2008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | config HAVE_CLK | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | 	bool | 
| David Brownell | 9483a57 | 2008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | 	help | 
 | 141 | 	  The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and | 
 | 142 | 	  thus are a key power management tool on many systems. | 
 | 143 |  | 
| Joerg Roedel | 5ee00bd | 2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG | 
 | 145 | 	bool | 
| Heiko Carstens | 36cd3c9 | 2009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 146 |  | 
 | 147 | config HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES | 
 | 148 | 	bool | 
| K.Prasad | 62a038d | 2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 149 |  | 
 | 150 | config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | 
 | 151 | 	bool | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 99e8c5a | 2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | 	depends on PERF_EVENTS | 
| K.Prasad | 62a038d | 2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 153 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 0102752 | 2010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 154 | config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS | 
 | 155 | 	bool | 
 | 156 | 	depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | 
 | 157 | 	help | 
 | 158 | 	  Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, | 
 | 159 | 	  some of them have separate registers for data and instruction | 
 | 160 | 	  breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store | 
 | 161 | 	  them but define the access type in a control register. | 
 | 162 | 	  Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the | 
 | 163 | 	  latter fashion. | 
 | 164 |  | 
| Avi Kivity | 7c68af6 | 2009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 165 | config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
 | 166 | 	bool | 
| Ingo Molnar | a1922ed | 2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 167 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | c01d432 | 2010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI | 
 | 169 | 	bool | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 23637d4 | 2010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 170 | 	help | 
 | 171 | 	  System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event | 
 | 172 | 	  subsystem.  Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events | 
 | 173 | 	  to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | c01d432 | 2010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 174 |  | 
| Jason Baron | bf5438fc | 2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL | 
 | 176 | 	bool | 
 | 177 |  | 
| Gerald Schaefer | 335d7af | 2010-11-22 15:47:36 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 178 | config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX | 
 | 179 | 	bool | 
 | 180 |  | 
| Peter Oberparleiter | 2521f2c | 2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" |