| 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" | 
|  | 35 | depends on KALLSYMS && MODULES | 
|  | 36 | depends on HAVE_KPROBES | 
|  | 37 | help | 
|  | 38 | Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and | 
|  | 39 | execute a callback function.  register_kprobe() establishes | 
|  | 40 | a probepoint and specifies the callback.  Kprobes is useful | 
|  | 41 | for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. | 
|  | 42 | If in doubt, say "N". | 
|  | 43 |  | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | config OPTPROBES | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | 5cc718b | 2010-03-15 13:00:54 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | def_bool y | 
|  | 46 | depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | depends on !PREEMPT | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | select KALLSYMS_ALL | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 49 |  | 
| Johannes Berg | 58340a0 | 2008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | bool | 
| Johannes Berg | 58340a0 | 2008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | help | 
|  | 53 | Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses | 
|  | 54 | without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are | 
|  | 55 | unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on | 
|  | 56 | unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception | 
|  | 57 | handler.) | 
|  | 58 |  | 
|  | 59 | This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can | 
|  | 60 | perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different | 
|  | 61 | code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network | 
|  | 62 | drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment | 
|  | 63 | problems with received packets if doing so would not help | 
|  | 64 | much. | 
|  | 65 |  | 
|  | 66 | See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | 
|  | 67 | information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | 
|  | 68 |  | 
| Heiko Carstens | 1a94bc3 | 2009-01-14 14:13:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS | 
|  | 70 | bool | 
|  | 71 |  | 
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli | 9edddaa | 2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | config KRETPROBES | 
|  | 73 | def_bool y | 
|  | 74 | depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES | 
|  | 75 |  | 
| Avi Kivity | 7c68af6 | 2009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
|  | 77 | bool | 
|  | 78 | depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
|  | 79 | help | 
|  | 80 | Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to | 
|  | 81 | switch to user mode. | 
|  | 82 |  | 
| Rik van Riel | 28b2ee2 | 2008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | bool | 
| Rik van Riel | 28b2ee2 | 2008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 85 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | config HAVE_KPROBES | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | bool | 
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli | 9edddaa | 2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 88 |  | 
|  | 89 | config HAVE_KRETPROBES | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | bool | 
| Arthur Kepner | 74bc7ce | 2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 91 |  | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | config HAVE_OPTPROBES | 
|  | 93 | bool | 
| Roland McGrath | 1f5a4ad | 2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 94 | # | 
|  | 95 | # An arch should select this if it provides all these things: | 
|  | 96 | # | 
|  | 97 | #	task_pt_regs()		in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h | 
|  | 98 | #	arch_has_single_step()	if there is hardware single-step support | 
|  | 99 | #	arch_has_block_step()	if there is hardware block-step support | 
| Roland McGrath | 1f5a4ad | 2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | #	asm/syscall.h		supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface | 
|  | 101 | #	linux/regset.h		user_regset interfaces | 
|  | 102 | #	CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET	#define'd in linux/elf.h | 
|  | 103 | #	TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE	calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} | 
|  | 104 | #	TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME	calls tracehook_notify_resume() | 
|  | 105 | #	signal delivery		calls tracehook_signal_handler() | 
|  | 106 | # | 
|  | 107 | config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | bool | 
| Roland McGrath | 1f5a4ad | 2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 109 |  | 
| Arthur Kepner | 74bc7ce | 2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | bool | 
| Jens Axboe | 3d44223 | 2008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 112 |  | 
|  | 113 | config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | bool | 
| David Brownell | 9483a57 | 2008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 115 |  | 
| Heiko Carstens | f850c30 | 2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API | 
|  | 117 | bool | 
| Heiko Carstens | e01292b | 2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | help | 
|  | 119 | This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports | 
|  | 120 | the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, | 
|  | 121 | declared in asm/ptrace.h | 
|  | 122 | For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. | 
| Heiko Carstens | f850c30 | 2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 123 |  | 
| David Brownell | 9483a57 | 2008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | config HAVE_CLK | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 125 | bool | 
| David Brownell | 9483a57 | 2008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | help | 
|  | 127 | The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and | 
|  | 128 | thus are a key power management tool on many systems. | 
|  | 129 |  | 
| Joerg Roedel | 5ee00bd | 2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG | 
|  | 131 | bool | 
| Heiko Carstens | 36cd3c9 | 2009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 132 |  | 
|  | 133 | config HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES | 
|  | 134 | bool | 
| K.Prasad | 62a038d | 2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 135 |  | 
|  | 136 | config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | 
|  | 137 | bool | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 99e8c5a | 2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | depends on PERF_EVENTS | 
| K.Prasad | 62a038d | 2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 139 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 0102752 | 2010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS | 
|  | 141 | bool | 
|  | 142 | depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | 
|  | 143 | help | 
|  | 144 | Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, | 
|  | 145 | some of them have separate registers for data and instruction | 
|  | 146 | breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store | 
|  | 147 | them but define the access type in a control register. | 
|  | 148 | Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the | 
|  | 149 | latter fashion. | 
|  | 150 |  | 
| Avi Kivity | 7c68af6 | 2009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 151 | config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
|  | 152 | bool | 
| Ingo Molnar | a1922ed | 2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 153 |  | 
| Peter Oberparleiter | 2521f2c | 2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 154 | source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" |