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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index b5dff4d1e1de..ccb5248474c2 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.
@@ -1284,7 +1329,7 @@ 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
@@ -1311,18 +1356,6 @@ 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"
@@ -1542,8 +1575,8 @@ endif # MODULES
config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
bool
help
- Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
- cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
+ Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_mask and
+ cpu_possible_mask, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_mask
with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised,
it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys.