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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/Kconfig | 35 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 330176824594..7f8f281f2585 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ config UPROBES bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS default n + select PERCPU_RWSEM help Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') @@ -112,6 +113,25 @@ config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. +config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP + bool + help + Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions + for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old + inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the + __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's + happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In + particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap + with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or + store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It + should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the + hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it + does, the use of the builtins is optional. + + Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap + instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it + on architectures that don't have such instructions. + config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS bool @@ -294,15 +314,16 @@ config SECCOMP_FILTER See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. -config HAVE_RCU_USER_QS +config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 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. + Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems + that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. + Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-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 |