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1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2#
3# Timer subsystem related configuration options
4#
5
6# Options selectable by arch Kconfig
7
8# Watchdog function for clocksources to detect instabilities
9config CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
10 bool
11
12# Architecture has extra clocksource data
13config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
14 bool
15
16# Architecture has extra clocksource init called from registration
17config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_INIT
18 bool
19
20# Clocksources require validation of the clocksource against the last
21# cycle update - x86/TSC misfeature
22config CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
23 bool
24
25# Timekeeping vsyscall support
26config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
27 bool
28
29# Old style timekeeping
30config ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
31 bool
32
33# The generic clock events infrastructure
34config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
35 bool
36
37# Architecture can handle broadcast in a driver-agnostic way
38config ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST
39 bool
40
41# Clockevents broadcasting infrastructure
42config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
43 bool
44 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
45
46# Automatically adjust the min. reprogramming time for
47# clock event device
48config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
49 bool
50
51# Generic update of CMOS clock
52config GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
53 bool
54
55if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
56menu "Timers subsystem"
57
58# Core internal switch. Selected by NO_HZ_COMMON / HIGH_RES_TIMERS. This is
59# only related to the tick functionality. Oneshot clockevent devices
60# are supported independent of this.
61config TICK_ONESHOT
62 bool
63
64config NO_HZ_COMMON
65 bool
66 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
67 select TICK_ONESHOT
68
69choice
70 prompt "Timer tick handling"
71 default NO_HZ_IDLE if NO_HZ
72
73config HZ_PERIODIC
74 bool "Periodic timer ticks (constant rate, no dynticks)"
75 help
76 This option keeps the tick running periodically at a constant
77 rate, even when the CPU doesn't need it.
78
79config NO_HZ_IDLE
80 bool "Idle dynticks system (tickless idle)"
81 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
82 select NO_HZ_COMMON
83 help
84 This option enables a tickless idle system: timer interrupts
85 will only trigger on an as-needed basis when the system is idle.
86 This is usually interesting for energy saving.
87
88 Most of the time you want to say Y here.
89
90config NO_HZ_FULL
91 bool "Full dynticks system (tickless)"
92 # NO_HZ_COMMON dependency
93 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
94 # We need at least one periodic CPU for timekeeping
95 depends on SMP
96 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
97 # VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN dependency
98 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
99 select NO_HZ_COMMON
100 select RCU_NOCB_CPU
101 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
102 select IRQ_WORK
103 select CPU_ISOLATION
104 help
105 Adaptively try to shutdown the tick whenever possible, even when
106 the CPU is running tasks. Typically this requires running a single
107 task on the CPU. Chances for running tickless are maximized when
108 the task mostly runs in userspace and has few kernel activity.
109
110 You need to fill up the nohz_full boot parameter with the
111 desired range of dynticks CPUs.
112
113 This is implemented at the expense of some overhead in user <-> kernel
114 transitions: syscalls, exceptions and interrupts. Even when it's
115 dynamically off.
116
117 Say N.
118
119endchoice
120
121config CONTEXT_TRACKING
122 bool
123
124config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
125 bool "Force context tracking"
126 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
127 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
128 help
129 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
130 support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
131 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
132 dynticks working.
133
134 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
135 context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
136 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
137 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
138 for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
139 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
140 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
141 dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
142 CPUs in the system.
143
144 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
145 architecture backend for the context tracking.
146
147 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
148 don't want in production.
149
150config NO_HZ
151 bool "Old Idle dynticks config"
152 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
153 help
154 This is the old config entry that enables dynticks idle.
155 We keep it around for a little while to enforce backward
156 compatibility with older config files.
157
158config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
159 bool "High Resolution Timer Support"
160 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
161 select TICK_ONESHOT
162 help
163 This option enables high resolution timer support. If your
164 hardware is not capable then this option only increases
165 the size of the kernel image.
166
167endmenu
168endif
1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2#
3# Timer subsystem related configuration options
4#
5
6# Options selectable by arch Kconfig
7
8# Watchdog function for clocksources to detect instabilities
9config CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
10 bool
11
12# Architecture has extra clocksource data
13config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
14 bool
15
16# Architecture has extra clocksource init called from registration
17config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_INIT
18 bool
19
20# Clocksources require validation of the clocksource against the last
21# cycle update - x86/TSC misfeature
22config CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
23 bool
24
25# Timekeeping vsyscall support
26config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
27 bool
28
29# The generic clock events infrastructure
30config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
31 def_bool !LEGACY_TIMER_TICK
32
33# Architecture can handle broadcast in a driver-agnostic way
34config ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST
35 bool
36
37# Clockevents broadcasting infrastructure
38config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
39 bool
40 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
41
42# Automatically adjust the min. reprogramming time for
43# clock event device
44config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
45 bool
46
47# Generic update of CMOS clock
48config GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
49 bool
50
51# Select to handle posix CPU timers from task_work
52# and not from the timer interrupt context
53config HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
54 bool
55
56config POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
57 bool
58 default y if POSIX_TIMERS && HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
59
60config LEGACY_TIMER_TICK
61 bool
62 help
63 The legacy timer tick helper is used by platforms that
64 lack support for the generic clockevent framework.
65 New platforms should use generic clockevents instead.
66
67config TIME_KUNIT_TEST
68 tristate "KUnit test for kernel/time functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
69 depends on KUNIT
70 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
71 help
72 Enable this option to test RTC library functions.
73
74 If unsure, say N.
75
76config CONTEXT_TRACKING
77 bool
78
79config CONTEXT_TRACKING_IDLE
80 bool
81 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
82 help
83 Tracks idle state on behalf of RCU.
84
85if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
86menu "Timers subsystem"
87
88# Core internal switch. Selected by NO_HZ_COMMON / HIGH_RES_TIMERS. This is
89# only related to the tick functionality. Oneshot clockevent devices
90# are supported independent of this.
91config TICK_ONESHOT
92 bool
93
94config NO_HZ_COMMON
95 bool
96 select TICK_ONESHOT
97
98choice
99 prompt "Timer tick handling"
100 default NO_HZ_IDLE if NO_HZ
101
102config HZ_PERIODIC
103 bool "Periodic timer ticks (constant rate, no dynticks)"
104 help
105 This option keeps the tick running periodically at a constant
106 rate, even when the CPU doesn't need it.
107
108config NO_HZ_IDLE
109 bool "Idle dynticks system (tickless idle)"
110 select NO_HZ_COMMON
111 help
112 This option enables a tickless idle system: timer interrupts
113 will only trigger on an as-needed basis when the system is idle.
114 This is usually interesting for energy saving.
115
116 Most of the time you want to say Y here.
117
118config NO_HZ_FULL
119 bool "Full dynticks system (tickless)"
120 # NO_HZ_COMMON dependency
121 # We need at least one periodic CPU for timekeeping
122 depends on SMP
123 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
124 # VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN dependency
125 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
126 select NO_HZ_COMMON
127 select RCU_NOCB_CPU
128 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
129 select IRQ_WORK
130 select CPU_ISOLATION
131 help
132 Adaptively try to shutdown the tick whenever possible, even when
133 the CPU is running tasks. Typically this requires running a single
134 task on the CPU. Chances for running tickless are maximized when
135 the task mostly runs in userspace and has few kernel activity.
136
137 You need to fill up the nohz_full boot parameter with the
138 desired range of dynticks CPUs to use it. This is implemented at
139 the expense of some overhead in user <-> kernel transitions:
140 syscalls, exceptions and interrupts.
141
142 By default, without passing the nohz_full parameter, this behaves just
143 like NO_HZ_IDLE.
144
145 If you're a distro say Y.
146
147endchoice
148
149config CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
150 bool
151 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
152 select CONTEXT_TRACKING
153 help
154 Track transitions between kernel and user on behalf of RCU and
155 tickless cputime accounting. The former case relies on context
156 tracking to enter/exit RCU extended quiescent states.
157
158config CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_FORCE
159 bool "Force user context tracking"
160 depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
161 default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
162 help
163 The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
164 support the user context tracking subsystem. But there are also
165 other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
166 dynticks working.
167
168 This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
169 user context tracking backend but doesn't yet fulfill all the
170 requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
171 Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
172 for user context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
173 userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
174 accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
175 dynticks subsystem by forcing the user context tracking on all
176 CPUs in the system.
177
178 Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
179 architecture backend for the user context tracking.
180
181 Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
182 don't want in production.
183
184config NO_HZ
185 bool "Old Idle dynticks config"
186 help
187 This is the old config entry that enables dynticks idle.
188 We keep it around for a little while to enforce backward
189 compatibility with older config files.
190
191config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
192 bool "High Resolution Timer Support"
193 select TICK_ONESHOT
194 help
195 This option enables high resolution timer support. If your
196 hardware is not capable then this option only increases
197 the size of the kernel image.
198
199config CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW_US
200 int "Clocksource watchdog maximum allowable skew (in μs)"
201 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
202 range 50 1000
203 default 100
204 help
205 Specify the maximum amount of allowable watchdog skew in
206 microseconds before reporting the clocksource to be unstable.
207
208endmenu
209endif