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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2015-09-04 15:46:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-04 16:54:41 -0700
commita14c151e567cb2c3e62611da808a8bdab86fdee5 (patch)
treeb4161a242eff239842da903da1877672eed387bf /init
parent8d2afd96c20316d112e04d935d9e09150e988397 (diff)
downloadlinux-a14c151e567cb2c3e62611da808a8bdab86fdee5.tar.gz
userfaultfd: buildsystem activation
This allows to select the userfaultfd during configuration to build it.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@gmail.com>
Cc: zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index bb9b4dd55889..161acd8bc56f 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1576,6 +1576,17 @@ config ADVISE_SYSCALLS
 	  applications use these syscalls, you can disable this option to save
 	  space.
 
+config USERFAULTFD
+	bool "Enable userfaultfd() system call"
+	select ANON_INODES
+	default y
+	depends on MMU
+	help
+	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
+	  handle page faults in userland.
+
+	  If unsure, say Y.
+
 config PCI_QUIRKS
 	default y
 	bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT