Revision 52d7523d84d534c241ebac5ac89f5c0a6cb51e41 authored by EunTaik Lee on 16 February 2016, 04:44:35 UTC, committed by Will Deacon on 19 February 2016, 12:20:37 UTC
Although we don't expect to take alignment faults on access to normal memory, misbehaving (i.e. buggy) user code can pass MMIO pointers into system calls, leading to things like get_user accessing device memory. Rather than OOPS the kernel, allow any exception fixups to run and return something like -EFAULT back to userspace. This makes the behaviour more consistent with userspace, even though applications with access to device mappings can easily cause other issues if they try hard enough. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Eun Taik Lee <eun.taik.lee@samsung.com> [will: dropped __kprobes annotation and rewrote commit mesage] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Kconfig.preempt
choice
prompt "Preemption Model"
default PREEMPT_NONE
config PREEMPT_NONE
bool "No Forced Preemption (Server)"
help
This is the traditional Linux preemption model, geared towards
throughput. It will still provide good latencies most of the
time, but there are no guarantees and occasional longer delays
are possible.
Select this option if you are building a kernel for a server or
scientific/computation system, or if you want to maximize the
raw processing power of the kernel, irrespective of scheduling
latencies.
config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
bool "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)"
help
This option reduces the latency of the kernel by adding more
"explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
preemption points have been selected to reduce the maximum
latency of rescheduling, providing faster application reactions,
at the cost of slightly lower throughput.
This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a
low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it
is in kernel mode executing a system call. This allows
applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the system is
under load.
Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop system.
config PREEMPT
bool "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)"
select PREEMPT_COUNT
select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK if !ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
help
This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making
all kernel code (that is not executing in a critical section)
preemptible. This allows reaction to interactive events by
permitting a low priority process to be preempted involuntarily
even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call and would
otherwise not be about to reach a natural preemption point.
This allows applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the
system is under load, at the cost of slightly lower throughput
and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code.
Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or
embedded system with latency requirements in the milliseconds
range.
endchoice
config PREEMPT_COUNT
bool
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