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-rw-r--r--init/main.c7
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index f068071fcc5d..5a3ad5c20e2b 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 844209453c02..bfe4fb0c9842 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();
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