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# General architecture dependent options
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config OPROFILE
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tristate "OProfile system profiling"
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depends on PROFILING
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depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
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select RING_BUFFER
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select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
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help
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OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
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whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
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and applications.
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If unsure, say N.
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config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
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bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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default n
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depends on OPROFILE && X86
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help
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The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
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feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
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are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
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between events at an user specified time interval.
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If unsure, say N.
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config HAVE_OPROFILE
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bool
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config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
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def_bool y
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depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
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config KPROBES
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bool "Kprobes"
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depends on MODULES
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depends on HAVE_KPROBES
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select KALLSYMS
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help
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Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
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execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
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a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
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for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
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If in doubt, say "N".
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config JUMP_LABEL
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bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
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depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
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help
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This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
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makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
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conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
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Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
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scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
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branches and include support for this optimization technique.
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If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
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the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
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instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
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nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
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conditional block of instructions.
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This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
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of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
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of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
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( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
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flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
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config OPTPROBES
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def_bool y
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depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
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depends on !PREEMPT
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2008-07-25 02:45:33 -06:00
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config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
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bool
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help
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Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
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without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
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unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
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unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
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handler.)
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This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
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perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
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code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
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drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
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problems with received packets if doing so would not help
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much.
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See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
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information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
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2009-01-14 06:13:59 -07:00
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config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
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bool
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config KRETPROBES
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def_bool y
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depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
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2009-09-19 00:40:22 -06:00
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config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
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bool
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depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
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help
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Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
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switch to user mode.
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config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
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bool
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config HAVE_KPROBES
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bool
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config HAVE_KRETPROBES
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bool
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config HAVE_OPTPROBES
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bool
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config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
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bool
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#
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# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
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#
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# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
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# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
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# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
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# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
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# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
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# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
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# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
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# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
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# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
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#
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config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
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bool
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config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
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bool
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config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
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bool
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config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
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bool
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help
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This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
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the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
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declared in asm/ptrace.h
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For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
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config HAVE_CLK
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bool
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help
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The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
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thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
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config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
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bool
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config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
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bool
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depends on PERF_EVENTS
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config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
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bool
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depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
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help
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Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
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some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
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breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
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them but define the access type in a control register.
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Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
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latter fashion.
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config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
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bool
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config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
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bool
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help
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System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
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subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
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to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
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config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
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bool
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config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX
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bool
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config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
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bool
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config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
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bool
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config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
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bool
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help
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This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
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e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
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on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
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might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
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config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
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bool
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config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
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bool
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[PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls
When using the "compat" APIs, architectures will generally want to
be able to make direct syscalls to msgsnd(), shmctl(), etc., and
in the kernel we would want them to be handled directly by
compat_sys_xxx() functions, as is true for other compat syscalls.
However, for historical reasons, several of the existing compat IPC
syscalls do not do this. semctl() expects a pointer to the fourth
argument, instead of the fourth argument itself. msgsnd(), msgrcv()
and shmat() expect arguments in different order.
This change adds an ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC config option that can be
set to preserve this behavior for ports that use it (x86, sparc, powerpc,
s390, and mips). No actual semantics are changed for those architectures,
and there is only a minimal amount of code refactoring in ipc/compat.c.
Newer architectures like tile (and perhaps future architectures such
as arm64 and unicore64) should not select this option, and thus can
avoid having any IPC-specific code at all in their architecture-specific
compat layer. In the same vein, if this option is not selected, IPC_64
mode is assumed, since that's what the <asm-generic> headers expect.
The workaround code in "tile" for msgsnd() and msgrcv() is removed
with this change; it also fixes the bug that shmat() and semctl() were
not being properly handled.
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2012-03-15 11:13:38 -06:00
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config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
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bool
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source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
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