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authorNathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>2015-03-25 19:16:05 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2015-03-27 22:20:45 +0000
commite5b61deb3af465f11db7e5e11944ba00a33ece1f (patch)
tree9a33472595fbd61a56618226340db1d9b53476f8 /arch/arm/mm
parentecf99a439105ebd0a507af1a9cd901a2e166bf9a (diff)
ARM: 8332/1: add CONFIG_VDSO Kconfig and Makefile bits
Allow users to enable the vdso in Kconfig; include the vdso in the build if CONFIG_VDSO is enabled. Add 'vdso_install' target. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mm/Kconfig14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index 9b4f29e595a4..8a5f1e644104 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -825,6 +825,20 @@ config KUSER_HELPERS
Say N here only if you are absolutely certain that you do not
need these helpers; otherwise, the safe option is to say Y.
+config VDSO
+ bool "Enable VDSO for acceleration of some system calls"
+ depends on AEABI && MMU
+ default y if ARM_ARCH_TIMER
+ select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
+ help
+ Place in the process address space an ELF shared object
+ providing fast implementations of gettimeofday and
+ clock_gettime. Systems that implement the ARM architected
+ timer will receive maximum benefit.
+
+ You must have glibc 2.22 or later for programs to seamlessly
+ take advantage of this.
+
config DMA_CACHE_RWFO
bool "Enable read/write for ownership DMA cache maintenance"
depends on CPU_V6K && SMP