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-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig81
-rw-r--r--init/do_mounts.c2
-rw-r--r--init/main.c39
3 files changed, 58 insertions, 64 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 8e8b76d8a27..09c5c6431f4 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -331,7 +331,8 @@ config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
This option selects the RCU implementation that is
designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
- is also required.
+ is also required. It also scales down nicely to
+ smaller systems.
endchoice
@@ -915,31 +916,41 @@ config AIO
by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
this option saves about 7k.
-config HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
bool
help
See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
-menu "Performance Counters"
+config PERF_USE_VMALLOC
+ bool
+ help
+ See tools/perf/design.txt for details
+
+menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
-config PERF_COUNTERS
- bool "Kernel Performance Counters"
- default y if PROFILING
- depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+config PERF_EVENTS
+ bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
+ default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
+ depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
select ANON_INODES
help
- Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware.
+ Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
+ by software and hardware.
+
+ Software events are supported either build-in or via the
+ use of generic tracepoints.
- Performance counters are special hardware registers available
- on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain
+ Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
+ counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
- The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of
- these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It
+ The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
+ these software and hardware cevent apabilities, available via a
+ system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
capabilities on top of those.
@@ -947,17 +958,42 @@ config PERF_COUNTERS
config EVENT_PROFILE
bool "Tracepoint profiling sources"
- depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACING
+ depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING
default y
help
- Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance counters.
+ Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance events.
- When this is enabled, you can create perf counters based on
+ When this is enabled, you can create perf events based on
tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID
found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events
option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic
tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.)
+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"
+ depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
+ select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
+ help
+ Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.
+
+ Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms
+ that don't require it.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
endmenu
config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
@@ -988,14 +1024,6 @@ config SLUB_DEBUG
SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
no support for cache validation etc.
-config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
- bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
- default n
- help
- Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
- that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
- get_wchan() and suchlike.
-
config COMPAT_BRK
bool "Disable heap randomization"
default y
@@ -1054,13 +1082,6 @@ config PROFILING
config TRACEPOINTS
bool
-config MARKERS
- bool "Activate markers"
- select TRACEPOINTS
- help
- Place an empty function call at each marker site. Can be
- dynamically changed for a probe function.
-
source "arch/Kconfig"
config SLOW_WORK
diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index 093f6591550..bb008d064c1 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ void __init prepare_namespace(void)
mount_root();
out:
+ devtmpfs_mount("dev");
sys_mount(".", "/", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
sys_chroot(".");
}
-
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index b34fd8e5ede..5988debfc50 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
-#include <linux/utsname.h>
#include <linux/ioport.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
@@ -68,6 +67,8 @@
#include <linux/async.h>
#include <linux/kmemcheck.h>
#include <linux/kmemtrace.h>
+#include <linux/sfi.h>
+#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
#include <trace/boot.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
@@ -353,17 +354,11 @@ static void __init smp_init(void)
#define smp_init() do { } while (0)
#endif
-static inline void setup_per_cpu_areas(void) { }
static inline void setup_nr_cpu_ids(void) { }
static inline void smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int maxcpus) { }
#else
-#if NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG
-cpumask_t cpu_mask_all __read_mostly = CPU_MASK_ALL;
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_mask_all);
-#endif
-
/* Setup number of possible processor ids */
int nr_cpu_ids __read_mostly = NR_CPUS;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nr_cpu_ids);
@@ -374,29 +369,6 @@ static void __init setup_nr_cpu_ids(void)
nr_cpu_ids = find_last_bit(cpumask_bits(cpu_possible_mask),NR_CPUS) + 1;
}
-#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
-unsigned long __per_cpu_offset[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_offset);
-
-static void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
-{
- unsigned long size, i;
- char *ptr;
- unsigned long nr_possible_cpus = num_possible_cpus();
-
- /* Copy section for each CPU (we discard the original) */
- size = ALIGN(PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM, PAGE_SIZE);
- ptr = alloc_bootmem_pages(size * nr_possible_cpus);
-
- for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
- __per_cpu_offset[i] = ptr - __per_cpu_start;
- memcpy(ptr, __per_cpu_start, __per_cpu_end - __per_cpu_start);
- ptr += size;
- }
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA */
-
/* Called by boot processor to activate the rest. */
static void __init smp_init(void)
{
@@ -691,12 +663,12 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
#endif
thread_info_cache_init();
cred_init();
- fork_init(num_physpages);
+ fork_init(totalram_pages);
proc_caches_init();
buffer_init();
key_init();
security_init();
- vfs_caches_init(num_physpages);
+ vfs_caches_init(totalram_pages);
radix_tree_init();
signals_init();
/* rootfs populating might need page-writeback */
@@ -712,6 +684,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
check_bugs();
acpi_early_init(); /* before LAPIC and SMP init */
+ sfi_init_late();
ftrace_init();
@@ -805,10 +778,10 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void)
*/
static void __init do_basic_setup(void)
{
- rcu_init_sched(); /* needed by module_init stage. */
init_workqueues();
cpuset_init_smp();
usermodehelper_init();
+ init_tmpfs();
driver_init();
init_irq_proc();
do_ctors();