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+#
+# Timer subsystem related configuration options
+#
+
+# Options selectable by arch Kconfig
+
+# Watchdog function for clocksources to detect instabilities
+config CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
+ bool
+
+# Architecture has extra clocksource data
+config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
+ bool
+
+# Clocksources require validation of the clocksource against the last
+# cycle update - x86/TSC misfeature
+config CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
+ bool
+
+# Timekeeping vsyscall support
+config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
+ bool
+
+# Timekeeping vsyscall support
+config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
+ bool
+
+# Old style timekeeping
+config ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
+ bool
+
+# The generic clock events infrastructure
+config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
+ bool
+
+# Architecture can handle broadcast in a driver-agnostic way
+config ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST
+ bool
+
+# Clockevents broadcasting infrastructure
+config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
+ bool
+ depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
+
+# Automatically adjust the min. reprogramming time for
+# clock event device
+config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
+ bool
+
+# Generic update of CMOS clock
+config GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
+ bool
+
+if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
+menu "Timers subsystem"
+
+# Core internal switch. Selected by NO_HZ_COMMON / HIGH_RES_TIMERS. This is
+# only related to the tick functionality. Oneshot clockevent devices
+# are supported independ of this.
+config TICK_ONESHOT
+ bool
+
+config NO_HZ_COMMON
+ bool
+ depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
+ select TICK_ONESHOT
+
+choice
+ prompt "Timer tick handling"
+ default NO_HZ_IDLE if NO_HZ
+
+config HZ_PERIODIC
+ bool "Periodic timer ticks (constant rate, no dynticks)"
+ help
+ This option keeps the tick running periodically at a constant
+ rate, even when the CPU doesn't need it.
+
+config NO_HZ_IDLE
+ bool "Idle dynticks system (tickless idle)"
+ depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
+ select NO_HZ_COMMON
+ help
+ This option enables a tickless idle system: timer interrupts
+ will only trigger on an as-needed basis when the system is idle.
+ This is usually interesting for energy saving.
+
+ Most of the time you want to say Y here.
+
+config NO_HZ_FULL
+ bool "Full dynticks system (tickless)"
+ # NO_HZ_COMMON dependency
+ depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS && !SCHED_BFS
+ # We need at least one periodic CPU for timekeeping
+ depends on SMP
+ # RCU_USER_QS dependency
+ depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
+ # VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN dependency
+ depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
+ select NO_HZ_COMMON
+ select RCU_USER_QS
+ select RCU_NOCB_CPU
+ select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
+ select IRQ_WORK
+ help
+ Adaptively try to shutdown the tick whenever possible, even when
+ the CPU is running tasks. Typically this requires running a single
+ task on the CPU. Chances for running tickless are maximized when
+ the task mostly runs in userspace and has few kernel activity.
+
+ You need to fill up the nohz_full boot parameter with the
+ desired range of dynticks CPUs.
+
+ This is implemented at the expense of some overhead in user <-> kernel
+ transitions: syscalls, exceptions and interrupts. Even when it's
+ dynamically off.
+
+ Say N.
+
+endchoice
+
+config NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
+ bool "Full dynticks system on all CPUs by default (except CPU 0)"
+ depends on NO_HZ_FULL
+ help
+ If the user doesn't pass the nohz_full boot option to
+ define the range of full dynticks CPUs, consider that all
+ CPUs in the system are full dynticks by default.
+ Note the boot CPU will still be kept outside the range to
+ handle the timekeeping duty.
+
+config NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE
+ bool "Detect full-system idle state for full dynticks system"
+ depends on NO_HZ_FULL
+ default n
+ help
+ At least one CPU must keep the scheduling-clock tick running for
+ timekeeping purposes whenever there is a non-idle CPU, where
+ "non-idle" also includes dynticks CPUs as long as they are
+ running non-idle tasks. Because the underlying adaptive-tick
+ support cannot distinguish between all CPUs being idle and
+ all CPUs each running a single task in dynticks mode, the
+ underlying support simply ensures that there is always a CPU
+ handling the scheduling-clock tick, whether or not all CPUs
+ are idle. This Kconfig option enables scalable detection of
+ the all-CPUs-idle state, thus allowing the scheduling-clock
+ tick to be disabled when all CPUs are idle. Note that scalable
+ detection of the all-CPUs-idle state means that larger systems
+ will be slower to declare the all-CPUs-idle state.
+
+ Say Y if you would like to help debug all-CPUs-idle detection.
+
+ Say N if you are unsure.
+
+config NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE_SMALL
+ int "Number of CPUs above which large-system approach is used"
+ depends on NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE
+ range 1 NR_CPUS
+ default 8
+ help
+ The full-system idle detection mechanism takes a lazy approach
+ on large systems, as is required to attain decent scalability.
+ However, on smaller systems, scalability is not anywhere near as
+ large a concern as is energy efficiency. The sysidle subsystem
+ therefore uses a fast but non-scalable algorithm for small
+ systems and a lazier but scalable algorithm for large systems.
+ This Kconfig parameter defines the number of CPUs in the largest
+ system that will be considered to be "small".
+
+ The default value will be fine in most cases. Battery-powered
+ systems that (1) enable NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE, (2) have larger
+ numbers of CPUs, and (3) are suffering from battery-lifetime
+ problems due to long sysidle latencies might wish to experiment
+ with larger values for this Kconfig parameter. On the other
+ hand, they might be even better served by disabling NO_HZ_FULL
+ entirely, given that NO_HZ_FULL is intended for HPC and
+ real-time workloads that at present do not tend to be run on
+ battery-powered systems.
+
+ Take the default if you are unsure.
+
+config NO_HZ
+ bool "Old Idle dynticks config"
+ depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
+ help
+ This is the old config entry that enables dynticks idle.
+ We keep it around for a little while to enforce backward
+ compatibility with older config files.
+
+config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
+ bool "High Resolution Timer Support"
+ depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
+ select TICK_ONESHOT
+ help
+ This option enables high resolution timer support. If your
+ hardware is not capable then this option only increases
+ the size of the kernel image.
+
+endmenu
+endif