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Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | init/main.c | 7 |
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f068071fcc5..5a3ad5c20e2 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -869,6 +869,36 @@ config AIO by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling this option saves about 7k. +config HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS + bool + +menu "Performance Counters" + +config PERF_COUNTERS + bool "Kernel Performance Counters" + depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS + default y + select ANON_INODES + help + Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware. + + Performance counters are special hardware registers available + on most modern CPUs. 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 + provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event + capabilities on top of those. + + Say Y if unsure. + +endmenu + config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS default y bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 844209453c0..bfe4fb0c984 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include <linux/proc_fs.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/syscalls.h> +#include <linux/stackprotector.h> #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/ctype.h> #include <linux/delay.h> @@ -539,6 +540,12 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void) */ lockdep_init(); debug_objects_early_init(); + + /* + * Set up the the initial canary ASAP: + */ + boot_init_stack_canary(); + cgroup_init_early(); local_irq_disable(); |