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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 6cfd71d06463..a30fe085940e 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ config IRQ_WORK
bool
depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
+config BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
+ bool
+
menu "General setup"
config EXPERIMENTAL
@@ -458,6 +461,33 @@ config RCU_FANOUT
Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
Take the default if unsure.
+config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
+ int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
+ range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT
+ range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT
+ depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
+ default 16
+ help
+ This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
+ implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
+ against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
+ scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
+ want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
+ lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
+ (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
+ value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
+ number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
+ initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
+ are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
+ skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
+ leaf-level fanouts work well.
+
+ Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
+
+ Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
+
+ Take the default if unsure.
+
config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
@@ -515,10 +545,25 @@ config RCU_BOOST_PRIO
depends on RCU_BOOST
default 1
help
- This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted
- RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound
- real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then
- the highest-priority CPU-bound application.
+ This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term
+ preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working
+ with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound
+ threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set
+ RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority
+ real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value
+ of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time
+ applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads.
+
+ Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time
+ thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have
+ multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize
+ that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to
+ a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is
+ conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time
+ tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another
+ thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming
+ the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be
+ set to priority 6 or higher.
Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure.
@@ -1156,7 +1201,7 @@ menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
config PERF_EVENTS
bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
- default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
+ default y if PROFILING
depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
select ANON_INODES
select IRQ_WORK
@@ -1183,18 +1228,6 @@ config PERF_EVENTS
Say Y if unsure.
-config PERF_COUNTERS
- bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
- depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
- help
- This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
- config option - please see that one for details.
-
- It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
- it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
-
- Say N if unsure.
-
config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
default n
bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"