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Mathieu Desnoyersfb32e032008-02-02 15:10:33 -05001#
2# General architecture dependent options
3#
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05004
Dave Young2965faa2015-09-09 15:38:55 -07005config KEXEC_CORE
6 bool
7
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05008config OPROFILE
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +01009 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050010 depends on PROFILING
11 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
Ingo Molnard69d59f2008-12-12 09:38:57 +010012 select RING_BUFFER
Christian Borntraeger9a5963eb2009-09-16 21:56:49 +020013 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050014 help
15 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
16 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
17 and applications.
18
19 If unsure, say N.
20
Jason Yeh4d4036e2009-07-08 13:49:38 +020021config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
22 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
23 default n
24 depends on OPROFILE && X86
25 help
26 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
27 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
28 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
29 between events at an user specified time interval.
30
31 If unsure, say N.
32
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050033config HAVE_OPROFILE
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -070034 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050035
Robert Richterdcfce4a2011-10-11 17:11:08 +020036config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
37 def_bool y
Anton Blanchardaf9feeb2015-04-09 12:52:55 +100038 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
Robert Richterdcfce4a2011-10-11 17:11:08 +020039
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050040config KPROBES
41 bool "Kprobes"
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090042 depends on MODULES
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050043 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090044 select KALLSYMS
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050045 help
46 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
47 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
48 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
49 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
50 If in doubt, say "N".
51
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040052config JUMP_LABEL
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010053 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040054 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
55 help
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010056 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
57 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
58 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040059
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010060 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
61 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
62 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
63
64 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
65 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
66 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
67 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
68 conditional block of instructions.
69
70 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
71 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
72 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
73
74 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
75 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040076
Peter Zijlstra1987c942015-07-27 18:32:09 +020077config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
78 bool "Static key selftest"
79 depends on JUMP_LABEL
80 help
81 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
82
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050083config OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu5cc718b2010-03-15 13:00:54 -040084 def_bool y
85 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050086 depends on !PREEMPT
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050087
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +090088config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
89 def_bool y
90 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
91 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
92 help
93 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
94 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
95 optimize on top of function tracing.
96
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053097config UPROBES
David A. Long09294e32014-03-07 10:32:22 -050098 def_bool n
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053099 help
Ingo Molnar7b2d81d2012-02-17 09:27:41 +0100100 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
101 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
102 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
103 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
104 are hit by user-space applications.
105
106 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
107 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
108 application. )
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +0530109
James Hoganc19fa942012-05-30 11:23:23 +0100110config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
111 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
112 help
113 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
114 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
115 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
116 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
117 architectures without unaligned access.
118
119 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
120 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
121 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
122
123 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
124 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
125
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700126config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700127 bool
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700128 help
129 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
130 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
131 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
132 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
133 handler.)
134
135 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
136 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
137 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
138 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
139 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
140 much.
141
142 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
143 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
144
David Woodhousecf66bb92012-12-03 16:25:40 +0000145config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
146 bool
147 help
148 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
149 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
150 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
151 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
152 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
153 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
154 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
155 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
156 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
157 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
158 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
159
160 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
161 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
162 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
163
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800164config KRETPROBES
165 def_bool y
166 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
167
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300168config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
169 bool
170 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
171 help
172 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
173 switch to user mode.
174
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700175config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700176 bool
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700177
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500178config HAVE_KPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700179 bool
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800180
181config HAVE_KRETPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700182 bool
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700183
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500184config HAVE_OPTPROBES
185 bool
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700186
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +0900187config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
188 bool
189
Petr Mladek42a0bb32016-05-20 17:00:33 -0700190config HAVE_NMI
191 bool
192
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700193config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
Petr Mladek42a0bb32016-05-20 17:00:33 -0700194 depends on HAVE_NMI
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700195 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700196#
197# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
198#
199# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
200# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
201# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700202# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
203# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
204# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
205# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
206# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
207# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
208#
209config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700210 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700211
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100212config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
213 bool
214
Thomas Gleixner29d5e042012-04-20 13:05:45 +0000215config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
216 bool
217
Kevin Hilman485cf5d2013-04-24 17:19:13 -0700218config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
219 bool
220
Thomas Gleixnera6359d12012-05-03 09:03:02 +0000221# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
222config ARCH_INIT_TASK
Thomas Gleixnera4a2eb42012-05-03 09:02:48 +0000223 bool
224
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000225# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
226config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
227 bool
228
Linus Torvaldsb235bee2016-06-24 15:09:37 -0700229# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
230config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000231 bool
232
Ingo Molnar5aaeb5c2015-07-17 12:28:12 +0200233# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
234config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
235 bool
236
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100237config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
238 bool
Heiko Carstense01292b2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100239 help
240 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
241 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
242 declared in asm/ptrace.h
243 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100244
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700245config HAVE_CLK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700246 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700247 help
248 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
249 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
250
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100251config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
252 bool
Heiko Carstens36cd3c92009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200253
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530254config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
255 bool
Frederic Weisbecker99e8c5a2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100256 depends on PERF_EVENTS
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530257
Frederic Weisbecker01027522010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200258config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
259 bool
260 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
261 help
262 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
263 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
264 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
265 them but define the access type in a control register.
266 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
267 latter fashion.
268
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300269config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
270 bool
Ingo Molnara1922ed2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200271
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200272config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
273 bool
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200274 help
275 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
276 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
277 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200278
Jiri Olsac5e63192012-08-07 15:20:36 +0200279config HAVE_PERF_REGS
280 bool
281 help
282 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
283 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
284
Jiri Olsac5ebced2012-08-07 15:20:40 +0200285config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
286 bool
287 help
288 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
289 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
290 architectures.
291
Jason Baronbf5438fc2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400292config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
293 bool
294
Peter Zijlstra26723912011-05-24 17:12:00 -0700295config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
296 bool
297
Huang Yingdf013ff2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800298config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
299 bool
300
Heiko Carstens43570fd2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800301config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
302 bool
303 help
304 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
305 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
306 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
307 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
308
Heiko Carstens41561532012-01-12 17:17:30 -0800309config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
310 bool
311
Heiko Carstens25654092012-01-12 17:17:33 -0800312config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
313 bool
314
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700315config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
316 bool
317
318config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
319 bool
320
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400321config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700322 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400323 bool
324
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500325config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
326 bool
327 help
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500328 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
Will Drewrybb6ea432012-04-12 16:48:01 -0500329 - syscall_get_arch()
330 - syscall_get_arguments()
331 - syscall_rollback()
332 - syscall_set_return_value()
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500333 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
334 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
335 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
336 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
Kees Cook48dc92b2014-06-25 16:08:24 -0700337 - seccomp syscall wired up
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500338
339config SECCOMP_FILTER
340 def_bool y
341 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
342 help
343 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
344 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
345 task-defined system call filtering polices.
346
347 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
348
Emese Revfy6b90bd42016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200349config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
350 bool
351 help
352 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
353 GCC plugins.
354
355menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
356 bool "GCC plugins"
357 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
Kees Cooka519167e2016-06-11 09:09:28 -0700358 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
Emese Revfy6b90bd42016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200359 help
360 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
361 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
362
363 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
364
Emese Revfy0dae7762016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200365config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
366 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function"
367 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
368 help
369 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
370 M = E - N + 2P
371 where
372
373 E = the number of edges
374 N = the number of nodes
375 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
376
Emese Revfy543c37c2016-05-24 00:11:37 +0200377config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
378 bool
379 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
380 help
381 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
382 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
383 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
384 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
385
Emese Revfy38addce2016-06-20 20:41:19 +0200386config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
387 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
388 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
389 help
390 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
391 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
392 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
393 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
394 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
395 irq processing.
396
397 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
398 secure!
399
400 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
401 * https://grsecurity.net/
402 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
403
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800404config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
405 bool
406 help
407 An arch should select this symbol if:
408 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
409 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
410
411config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800412 def_bool n
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800413 help
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800414 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
415 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
416
417choice
418 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
419 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
420 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
421 help
422 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800423 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
424 the stack just before the return address, and validates
425 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
426 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
427 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
428 neutralized via a kernel panic.
429
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800430config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
431 bool "None"
432 help
433 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
434
435config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
436 bool "Regular"
437 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
438 help
439 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
440 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
441
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800442 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800443 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
444
445 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
446 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
447 by about 0.3%.
448
449config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
450 bool "Strong"
451 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
452 help
453 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
454 of the following conditions:
455
456 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
457 assignment or function argument
458 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
459 regardless of array type or length
460 - uses register local variables
461
462 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
463 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
464
465 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
466 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
467 size by about 2%.
468
469endchoice
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800470
Stephen Rothwella5967db2016-08-24 22:29:19 +1000471config THIN_ARCHIVES
472 bool
473 help
474 Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
475 instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
476
Nicholas Pigginb67067f2016-08-24 22:29:20 +1000477config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
478 bool
479 help
480 Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
481 data elimination with the linker by compiling with
482 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
483 --gc-sections.
484
485 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
486 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
487 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
Nicholas Piggin0f4c4af2016-09-14 12:24:03 +1000488 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
489 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
490 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
Nicholas Pigginb67067f2016-08-24 22:29:20 +1000491
Kees Cook0f60a8e2016-07-12 16:19:48 -0700492config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
493 bool
494 help
495 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
496 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
497 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
498 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
499 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
500
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100501config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200502 bool
503 help
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100504 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
505 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
506 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
507 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
508 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
509 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
510 irq exit still need to be protected.
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200511
Frederic Weisbeckerb9527412012-06-16 15:39:34 +0200512config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
513 bool
514
Kevin Hilman554b0002013-09-16 15:28:21 -0700515config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
516 bool
517 default y if 64BIT
518 help
519 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
520 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
521 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
522 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
523 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
524 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
525
526
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200527config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
528 bool
529 help
530 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
531 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
532
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700533config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
534 bool
535
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -0700536config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
537 bool
538
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700539config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
540 bool
541
David Howells786d35d2012-09-28 14:31:03 +0930542config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
543 bool
544 help
545 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
546 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
547 should not enable this.
548
549config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
550 bool
551 help
552 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
553 relocations will give an error.
554
555config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
556 bool
557 help
558 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
559 relocations will give an error.
560
Rusty Russellb92021b2013-03-15 15:04:17 +1030561config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
562 bool
563 help
564 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
565 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
566
Frederic Weisbeckercc1f0272013-09-24 17:17:47 +0200567config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
568 bool
569 help
570 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
571 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
572 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
573 in the end of an hardirq.
574 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
575 processing.
576
Kirill A. Shutemov235a8f02015-04-14 15:46:17 -0700577config PGTABLE_LEVELS
578 int
579 default 2
580
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700581config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
582 bool
583 help
584 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
585 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
586 - arch_mmap_rnd()
Kees Cook204db6e2015-04-14 15:48:12 -0700587 - arch_randomize_brk()
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700588
Daniel Cashmand07e2252016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800589config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
590 bool
591 help
592 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
593 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
594 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
595 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
596 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
597
Jiri Slaby5f56a5d2016-05-20 17:00:16 -0700598config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
599 bool
600 help
601 An architecture implements exit_thread.
602
Daniel Cashmand07e2252016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800603config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
604 int
605
606config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
607 int
608
609config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
610 int
611
612config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
613 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
614 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
615 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
616 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
617 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
618 help
619 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
620 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
621 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
622 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
623
624 This value can be changed after boot using the
625 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
626
627config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
628 bool
629 help
630 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
631 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
632 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
633 enabled and provides values for both:
634 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
635 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
636
637config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
638 int
639
640config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
641 int
642
643config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
644 int
645
646config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
647 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
648 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
649 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
650 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
651 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
652 help
653 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
654 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
655 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
656 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
657 supported values.
658
659 This value can be changed after boot using the
660 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
661
Josh Triplett3033f14a2015-06-25 15:01:19 -0700662config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
663 bool
664 help
665 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
666 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
667 argument from pt_regs.
668
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600669config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
670 bool
671 help
672 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
673 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
674
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -0400675config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
676 bool
677 default n
678 help
679 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
680 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
681 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
682
William Breathitt Gray3a495512016-05-27 18:08:27 -0400683config ISA_BUS_API
684 def_bool ISA
685
Al Virod2125042012-10-23 13:17:59 -0400686#
687# ABI hall of shame
688#
689config CLONE_BACKWARDS
690 bool
691 help
692 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
693 not the 5th one.
694
695config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
696 bool
697 help
698 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
699
Michal Simekdfa97712013-08-13 16:00:53 -0700700config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
701 bool
702 help
703 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
704 not the 5th one.
705
Al Viroeaca6ea2012-11-25 23:12:10 -0500706config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
707 bool
708 help
709 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
710
Al Viro0a0e8cd2012-12-25 16:04:12 -0500711config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
712 bool
713 help
714 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
715
716config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
717 bool
718 help
719 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
720
Al Viro495dfbf2012-12-25 19:09:45 -0500721config OLD_SIGACTION
722 bool
723 help
724 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
725 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
726 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
727 compatibility...
728
729config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
730 bool
731
Christoph Hellwig0d4a6192016-01-20 15:01:22 -0800732config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
733 bool
734
Zhaoxiu Zengfff7fb02016-05-20 17:03:57 -0700735config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
736 def_bool n
737
Andy Lutomirskiba14a192016-08-11 02:35:21 -0700738config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
739 def_bool n
740 help
741 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
742 in vmalloc space. This means:
743
744 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
745 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
746
747 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
748 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
749 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
750 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
751 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
752 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
753
754 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
755 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
756 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
757
758config VMAP_STACK
759 default y
760 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
761 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
762 ---help---
763 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
764 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
765 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
766 corruption.
767
768 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
769 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
770 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
771
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700772source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"