1fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 2fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# General architecture dependent options 3fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 4125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 5692f66f2SHari Bathiniconfig CRASH_CORE 6692f66f2SHari Bathini bool 7692f66f2SHari Bathini 82965faa5SDave Youngconfig KEXEC_CORE 9692f66f2SHari Bathini select CRASH_CORE 102965faa5SDave Young bool 112965faa5SDave Young 12467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig HAVE_IMA_KEXEC 13467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermann bool 14467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermann 15125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig OPROFILE 16b309a294SRobert Richter tristate "OProfile system profiling" 17125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on PROFILING 18125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_OPROFILE 19d69d59f4SIngo Molnar select RING_BUFFER 209a5963ebSChristian Borntraeger select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 21125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 22125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the 23125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, 24125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers and applications. 25125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 26125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 27125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 284d4036e0SJason Yehconfig OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX 294d4036e0SJason Yeh bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 304d4036e0SJason Yeh default n 314d4036e0SJason Yeh depends on OPROFILE && X86 324d4036e0SJason Yeh help 334d4036e0SJason Yeh The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing 344d4036e0SJason Yeh feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters 354d4036e0SJason Yeh are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching 369332ef9dSMasahiro Yamada between events at a user specified time interval. 374d4036e0SJason Yeh 384d4036e0SJason Yeh If unsure, say N. 394d4036e0SJason Yeh 40125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_OPROFILE 419ba16087SJan Beulich bool 42125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 43dcfce4a0SRobert Richterconfig OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER 44dcfce4a0SRobert Richter def_bool y 45af9feebeSAnton Blanchard depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64 46dcfce4a0SRobert Richter 47125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig KPROBES 48125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Kprobes" 4905ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu depends on MODULES 50125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_KPROBES 5105ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu select KALLSYMS 52125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 53125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and 54125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes 55125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful 56125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. 57125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If in doubt, say "N". 58125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 5945f81b1cSSteven Rostedtconfig JUMP_LABEL 60c5905afbSIngo Molnar bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" 6145f81b1cSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 6245f81b1cSSteven Rostedt help 63c5905afbSIngo Molnar This option enables a transparent branch optimization that 64c5905afbSIngo Molnar makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch 65c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. 6645f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 67c5905afbSIngo Molnar Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, 68c5905afbSIngo Molnar scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such 69c5905afbSIngo Molnar branches and include support for this optimization technique. 70c5905afbSIngo Molnar 71c5905afbSIngo Molnar If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", 72c5905afbSIngo Molnar the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop 73c5905afbSIngo Molnar instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the 74c5905afbSIngo Molnar nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the 75c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditional block of instructions. 76c5905afbSIngo Molnar 77c5905afbSIngo Molnar This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction 78c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update 79c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. 80c5905afbSIngo Molnar 81c5905afbSIngo Molnar ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler 82c5905afbSIngo Molnar flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) 8345f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 841987c947SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST 851987c947SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static key selftest" 861987c947SPeter Zijlstra depends on JUMP_LABEL 871987c947SPeter Zijlstra help 881987c947SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. 891987c947SPeter Zijlstra 90afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig OPTPROBES 915cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 925cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES 93afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu depends on !PREEMPT 94afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu 95e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 96e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 97e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 98e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 99e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu help 100e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full 101e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can 102e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu optimize on top of function tracing. 103e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 1042b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig UPROBES 10509294e31SDavid A. Long def_bool n 106e8f4aa60SAllen Pais depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 1072b144498SSrikar Dronamraju help 1087b2d81d4SIngo Molnar Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they 1097b2d81d4SIngo Molnar enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') 1107b2d81d4SIngo Molnar to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and 1117b2d81d4SIngo Molnar libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes 1127b2d81d4SIngo Molnar are hit by user-space applications. 1137b2d81d4SIngo Molnar 1147b2d81d4SIngo Molnar ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, 1157b2d81d4SIngo Molnar managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed 1167b2d81d4SIngo Molnar application. ) 1172b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 118c19fa94aSJames Hoganconfig HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS 119c19fa94aSJames Hogan def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 120c19fa94aSJames Hogan help 121c19fa94aSJames Hogan Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit 122c19fa94aSJames Hogan aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values 123c19fa94aSJames Hogan to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit 124c19fa94aSJames Hogan architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit 125c19fa94aSJames Hogan architectures without unaligned access. 126c19fa94aSJames Hogan 127c19fa94aSJames Hogan This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit 128c19fa94aSJames Hogan accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even 129c19fa94aSJames Hogan though it is not a 64 bit architecture. 130c19fa94aSJames Hogan 131c19fa94aSJames Hogan See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more 132c19fa94aSJames Hogan information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 133c19fa94aSJames Hogan 13458340a07SJohannes Bergconfig HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 1359ba16087SJan Beulich bool 13658340a07SJohannes Berg help 13758340a07SJohannes Berg Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses 13858340a07SJohannes Berg without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are 13958340a07SJohannes Berg unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on 14058340a07SJohannes Berg unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception 14158340a07SJohannes Berg handler.) 14258340a07SJohannes Berg 14358340a07SJohannes Berg This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can 14458340a07SJohannes Berg perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different 14558340a07SJohannes Berg code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network 14658340a07SJohannes Berg drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment 14758340a07SJohannes Berg problems with received packets if doing so would not help 14858340a07SJohannes Berg much. 14958340a07SJohannes Berg 15058340a07SJohannes Berg See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more 15158340a07SJohannes Berg information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 15258340a07SJohannes Berg 153cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouseconfig ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 154cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse bool 155cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse help 156cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions 157cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old 158cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the 159cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's 160cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In 161cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap 162cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or 163cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It 164cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the 165cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it 166cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse does, the use of the builtins is optional. 167cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 168cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap 169cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it 170cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse on architectures that don't have such instructions. 171cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 1729edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig KRETPROBES 1739edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli def_bool y 1749edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES 1759edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1767c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1777c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 1787c68af6eSAvi Kivity depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1797c68af6eSAvi Kivity help 1807c68af6eSAvi Kivity Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to 1817c68af6eSAvi Kivity switch to user mode. 1827c68af6eSAvi Kivity 18328b2ee20SRik van Rielconfig HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 1849ba16087SJan Beulich bool 18528b2ee20SRik van Riel 186125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_KPROBES 1879ba16087SJan Beulich bool 1889edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1899edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig HAVE_KRETPROBES 1909ba16087SJan Beulich bool 19174bc7ceeSArthur Kepner 192afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_OPTPROBES 193afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu bool 194d314d74cSCong Wang 195e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 196e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu bool 197e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 19842a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig HAVE_NMI 19942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek bool 20042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 2011f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2021f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 2031f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2041f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 2051f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 2061f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 2071f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 2081f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 2091f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 2101f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 2111f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume() 2121f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler() 2131f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2141f5a4ad9SRoland McGrathconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2159ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2161f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath 217c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 218c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool 219c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 22029d5e047SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 22129d5e047SThomas Gleixner bool 22229d5e047SThomas Gleixner 223485cf5daSKevin Hilmanconfig GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 224485cf5daSKevin Hilman bool 225485cf5daSKevin Hilman 226d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h 227d2852a22SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 228d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann bool 229d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann 230a6359d1eSThomas Gleixner# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c 231a6359d1eSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_INIT_TASK 232a4a2eb49SThomas Gleixner bool 233a4a2eb49SThomas Gleixner 234f5e10287SThomas Gleixner# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function 235f5e10287SThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 236f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 237f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 238b235beeaSLinus Torvalds# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function 239b235beeaSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR 240f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 241f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 2425aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 2435aaeb5c0SIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 2445aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar bool 2455aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 246f850c30cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 247f850c30cSHeiko Carstens bool 248e01292b1SHeiko Carstens help 249e01292b1SHeiko Carstens This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports 250e01292b1SHeiko Carstens the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 251e01292b1SHeiko Carstens declared in asm/ptrace.h 252e01292b1SHeiko Carstens For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 253f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 2549483a578SDavid Brownellconfig HAVE_CLK 2559ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2569483a578SDavid Brownell help 2579483a578SDavid Brownell The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and 2589483a578SDavid Brownell thus are a key power management tool on many systems. 2599483a578SDavid Brownell 2605ee00bd4SJoerg Roedelconfig HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 2615ee00bd4SJoerg Roedel bool 26236cd3c9fSHeiko Carstens 26362a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 26462a038d3SK.Prasad bool 26599e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 26662a038d3SK.Prasad 2670102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 2680102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 2690102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2700102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 2710102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 2720102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 2730102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 2740102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 2750102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 2760102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 2770102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 2787c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 2797c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 280a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 281c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 282c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 28323637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 28423637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 28523637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 28623637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 287c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 288*05a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 289*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 290*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 291*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 292*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup 293*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. 294*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin 295*05a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 296*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_NMI 297*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 298*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 299*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides 300*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(). 301*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin 302*05a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 303*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 304*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 305*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 306*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is 307*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config 308*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem. 309*05a4a952SNicholas Piggin 310c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 311c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 312c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 313c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 314c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 315c5e63197SJiri Olsa 316c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 317c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 318c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 319c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 320c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 321c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 322c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 323bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 324bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 325bf5438fcSJason Baron 32626723911SPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE 32726723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 32826723911SPeter Zijlstra 329df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 330df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 331df013ffbSHuang Ying 33243570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 33343570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 33443570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 33543570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 33643570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 33743570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 33843570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 33943570fd2SHeiko Carstens 3404156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 3414156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 3424156153cSHeiko Carstens 3432565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 3442565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 3452565409fSHeiko Carstens 34677e58496SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 34777e58496SPaul E. McKenney bool 34877e58496SPaul E. McKenney 349c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 350c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 351c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 352c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 353c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 354c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 35548b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 356c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 35748b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 35848b25c43SChris Metcalf 359e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 360e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 361e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 362fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 363bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 364bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 365bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 366bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 367fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 368fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 369fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 370fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 37148dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 372e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 373e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 374e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 375e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 376e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 377e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 378e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 379e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 380e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 381e2cfabdfSWill Drewry See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. 382e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 3836b90bd4bSEmese Revfyconfig HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 3846b90bd4bSEmese Revfy bool 3856b90bd4bSEmese Revfy help 3866b90bd4bSEmese Revfy An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with 3876b90bd4bSEmese Revfy GCC plugins. 3886b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 3896b90bd4bSEmese Revfymenuconfig GCC_PLUGINS 3906b90bd4bSEmese Revfy bool "GCC plugins" 3916b90bd4bSEmese Revfy depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 392a519167eSKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 3936b90bd4bSEmese Revfy help 3946b90bd4bSEmese Revfy GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the 3956b90bd4bSEmese Revfy compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. 3966b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 3976b90bd4bSEmese Revfy See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details. 3986b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 3990dae776cSEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY 400215e2aa6SKees Cook bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT 4010dae776cSEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 402215e2aa6SKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 4030dae776cSEmese Revfy help 4040dae776cSEmese Revfy The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as: 4050dae776cSEmese Revfy M = E - N + 2P 4060dae776cSEmese Revfy where 4070dae776cSEmese Revfy 4080dae776cSEmese Revfy E = the number of edges 4090dae776cSEmese Revfy N = the number of nodes 4100dae776cSEmese Revfy P = the number of connected components (exit nodes). 4110dae776cSEmese Revfy 412215e2aa6SKees Cook Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the 413215e2aa6SKees Cook build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a 414215e2aa6SKees Cook gcc plugin for the kernel. 415215e2aa6SKees Cook 416543c37cbSEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV 417543c37cbSEmese Revfy bool 418543c37cbSEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 419543c37cbSEmese Revfy help 420543c37cbSEmese Revfy This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of 421543c37cbSEmese Revfy basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from 422543c37cbSEmese Revfy gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support" 423543c37cbSEmese Revfy by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>. 424543c37cbSEmese Revfy 42538addce8SEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 42638addce8SEmese Revfy bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime" 42738addce8SEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 42838addce8SEmese Revfy help 42938addce8SEmese Revfy By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to 43038addce8SEmese Revfy extract some entropy from both original and artificially created 43138addce8SEmese Revfy program state. This will help especially embedded systems where 43238addce8SEmese Revfy there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost 43338addce8SEmese Revfy is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and 43438addce8SEmese Revfy irq processing. 43538addce8SEmese Revfy 43638addce8SEmese Revfy Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically 43738addce8SEmese Revfy secure! 43838addce8SEmese Revfy 43938addce8SEmese Revfy This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 44038addce8SEmese Revfy * https://grsecurity.net/ 44138addce8SEmese Revfy * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 44238addce8SEmese Revfy 443c61f13eaSKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 444c61f13eaSKees Cook bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses" 445c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGINS 446c61f13eaSKees Cook help 447f136e090SJean Delvare This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a 448c61f13eaSKees Cook __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information 449c61f13eaSKees Cook exposures. 450c61f13eaSKees Cook 451c61f13eaSKees Cook This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 452c61f13eaSKees Cook * https://grsecurity.net/ 453c61f13eaSKees Cook * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 454c61f13eaSKees Cook 455c61f13eaSKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE 456c61f13eaSKees Cook bool "Report forcefully initialized variables" 457c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 458c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 459c61f13eaSKees Cook help 460c61f13eaSKees Cook This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the 461c61f13eaSKees Cook structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be 462c61f13eaSKees Cook initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected 463c61f13eaSKees Cook by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings. 464c61f13eaSKees Cook 465313dd1b6SKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 466313dd1b6SKees Cook bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures" 467313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGINS 468313dd1b6SKees Cook select MODVERSIONS if MODULES 469313dd1b6SKees Cook help 470313dd1b6SKees Cook If you say Y here, the layouts of structures explicitly 471313dd1b6SKees Cook marked by __randomize_layout will be randomized at 472313dd1b6SKees Cook compile-time. This can introduce the requirement of an 473313dd1b6SKees Cook additional information exposure vulnerability for exploits 474313dd1b6SKees Cook targeting these structure types. 475313dd1b6SKees Cook 476313dd1b6SKees Cook Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact, 477313dd1b6SKees Cook slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic 478313dd1b6SKees Cook tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel 479313dd1b6SKees Cook source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation). 480313dd1b6SKees Cook 481313dd1b6SKees Cook The seed used for compilation is located at 482313dd1b6SKees Cook scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after 483313dd1b6SKees Cook a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with 484313dd1b6SKees Cook the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or 485313dd1b6SKees Cook make distclean. 486313dd1b6SKees Cook 487313dd1b6SKees Cook Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer. 488313dd1b6SKees Cook 489313dd1b6SKees Cook This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 490313dd1b6SKees Cook * https://grsecurity.net/ 491313dd1b6SKees Cook * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 492313dd1b6SKees Cook 493313dd1b6SKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE 494313dd1b6SKees Cook bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization" 495313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 496313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 497313dd1b6SKees Cook help 498313dd1b6SKees Cook If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a 499313dd1b6SKees Cook best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized 500313dd1b6SKees Cook groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields 501313dd1b6SKees Cook in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT 502313dd1b6SKees Cook at the cost of weakened randomization. 503313dd1b6SKees Cook 50419952a92SKees Cookconfig HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 50519952a92SKees Cook bool 50619952a92SKees Cook help 50719952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 50819952a92SKees Cook - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option 50919952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 51019952a92SKees Cook 51119952a92SKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 5128779657dSKees Cook def_bool n 51319952a92SKees Cook help 5148779657dSKees Cook Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build 5158779657dSKees Cook can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature. 5168779657dSKees Cook 5178779657dSKees Cookchoice 5188779657dSKees Cook prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 5198779657dSKees Cook depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 5208779657dSKees Cook default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 5218779657dSKees Cook help 5228779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 52319952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 52419952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 52519952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 52619952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 52719952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 52819952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 52919952a92SKees Cook 5308779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 5318779657dSKees Cook bool "None" 5328779657dSKees Cook help 5338779657dSKees Cook Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature. 5348779657dSKees Cook 5358779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR 5368779657dSKees Cook bool "Regular" 5378779657dSKees Cook select CC_STACKPROTECTOR 5388779657dSKees Cook help 5398779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 5408779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 5418779657dSKees Cook 54219952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 5438779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 5448779657dSKees Cook 5458779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5468779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 5478779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 5488779657dSKees Cook 5498779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 5508779657dSKees Cook bool "Strong" 5518779657dSKees Cook select CC_STACKPROTECTOR 5528779657dSKees Cook help 5538779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 5548779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 5558779657dSKees Cook 5568779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 5578779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 5588779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 5598779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 5608779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 5618779657dSKees Cook 5628779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 5638779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 5648779657dSKees Cook 5658779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5668779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 5678779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 5688779657dSKees Cook 5698779657dSKees Cookendchoice 57019952a92SKees Cook 571a5967db9SStephen Rothwellconfig THIN_ARCHIVES 572799c4341SNicholas Piggin def_bool y 573a5967db9SStephen Rothwell help 574a5967db9SStephen Rothwell Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives 575a5967db9SStephen Rothwell instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files. 576a5967db9SStephen Rothwell 577b67067f1SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 578b67067f1SNicholas Piggin bool 579b67067f1SNicholas Piggin help 580b67067f1SNicholas Piggin Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and 581b67067f1SNicholas Piggin data elimination with the linker by compiling with 582b67067f1SNicholas Piggin -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with 583b67067f1SNicholas Piggin --gc-sections. 584b67067f1SNicholas Piggin 585b67067f1SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 586b67067f1SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 587b67067f1SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 5880f4c4af0SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 5890f4c4af0SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 5900f4c4af0SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 591b67067f1SNicholas Piggin 5920f60a8efSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 5930f60a8efSKees Cook bool 5940f60a8efSKees Cook help 5950f60a8efSKees Cook An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 5960f60a8efSKees Cook frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 5970f60a8efSKees Cook or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 5980f60a8efSKees Cook and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 5990f60a8efSKees Cook which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 6000f60a8efSKees Cook 60191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 6022b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 6032b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 60491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 60591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 60691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through 60791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be 60891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside 60991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on 61091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker irq exit still need to be protected. 6112b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 612b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 613b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 614b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 61540565b5aSStanislaw Gruszkaconfig ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 61640565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka bool 61740565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka 618554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 619554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 620554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 621554b0004SKevin Hilman help 622554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 623554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 624554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 625554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 626554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 627554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 628554b0004SKevin Hilman 629554b0004SKevin Hilman 630fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 631fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 632fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 633fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 634fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 635fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 63615626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 63715626062SGerald Schaefer bool 63815626062SGerald Schaefer 639a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcoxconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 640a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox bool 641a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox 6420ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 6430ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 6440ddab1d2SToshi Kani 6450f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 6460f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 6470f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 648786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 649786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 650786d35d4SDavid Howells help 651786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 652786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 653786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 654786d35d4SDavid Howells 655786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 656786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 657786d35d4SDavid Howells help 658786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 659786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 660786d35d4SDavid Howells 661786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 662786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 663786d35d4SDavid Howells help 664786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 665786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 666786d35d4SDavid Howells 667b92021b0SRusty Russellconfig HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX 668b92021b0SRusty Russell bool 669b92021b0SRusty Russell help 670b92021b0SRusty Russell Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like 671b92021b0SRusty Russell module loading and assembly files need to know about this. 672b92021b0SRusty Russell 673cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 674cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 675cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 676cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 677cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 678cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 679cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 680cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 681cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 682cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 683235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 684235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 685235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 686235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 6872b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 6882b68f6caSKees Cook bool 6892b68f6caSKees Cook help 6902b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 6912b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 6922b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 693204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 6942b68f6caSKees Cook 695d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 696d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 697d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 698d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 699d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 700d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 701d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 702d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 703d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 7045f56a5dfSJiri Slabyconfig HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 7055f56a5dfSJiri Slaby bool 7065f56a5dfSJiri Slaby help 7075f56a5dfSJiri Slaby An architecture implements exit_thread. 7085f56a5dfSJiri Slaby 709d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 710d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 711d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 712d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 713d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 714d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 715d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 716d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 717d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 718d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 719d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 720d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 721d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 722d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 723d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 724d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 725d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 726d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 727d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 728d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 729d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 730d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 731d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 732d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 733d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 734d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 735d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 736d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 737d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 738d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 739d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 740d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 741d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 742d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 743d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 744d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 745d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 746d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 747d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 748d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 749d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 750d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 751d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 752d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 753d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 754d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 755d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 756d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 757d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 758d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 759d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 760d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 761d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 762d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 763d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 764d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 765d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 766d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 767d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 7681b028f78SDmitry Safonovconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 7691b028f78SDmitry Safonov bool 7701b028f78SDmitry Safonov help 7711b028f78SDmitry Safonov This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 7721b028f78SDmitry Safonov and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 7731b028f78SDmitry Safonov Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 7741b028f78SDmitry Safonov 7753033f14aSJosh Triplettconfig HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS 7763033f14aSJosh Triplett bool 7773033f14aSJosh Triplett help 7783033f14aSJosh Triplett Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via 7793033f14aSJosh Triplett normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall 7803033f14aSJosh Triplett argument from pt_regs. 7813033f14aSJosh Triplett 782b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 783b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 784b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 785b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which 786b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf performs compile-time stack metadata validation. 787b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 788af085d90SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 789af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf bool 790af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf help 791af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which 792af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 793af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf 794468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 795468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 796468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 797468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 798468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 799468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 800468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 801468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 8023a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS_API 8033a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray def_bool ISA 8043a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 805d2125043SAl Viro# 806d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 807d2125043SAl Viro# 808d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 809d2125043SAl Viro bool 810d2125043SAl Viro help 811d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 812d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 813d2125043SAl Viro 814d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 815d2125043SAl Viro bool 816d2125043SAl Viro help 817d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 818d2125043SAl Viro 819dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 820dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 821dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 822dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 823dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 824dfa9771aSMichal Simek 825eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 826eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 827eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 828eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 829eaca6eaeSAl Viro 8300a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 8310a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8320a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8330a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 8340a0e8cdfSAl Viro 8350a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 8360a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8370a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8380a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 8390a0e8cdfSAl Viro 840495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 841495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 842495dfbf7SAl Viro help 843495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 844495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 845495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 846495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 847495dfbf7SAl Viro 848495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 849495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 850495dfbf7SAl Viro 8510d4a619bSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP 8520d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig bool 8530d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig 854fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zengconfig CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 855fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng def_bool n 856fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng 857ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 858ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 859ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski help 860ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 861ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski in vmalloc space. This means: 862ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 863ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 864ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 865ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 866ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 867ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 868ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 869ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 870ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 871ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 872ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 873ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 874ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 875ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 876ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 877ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VMAP_STACK 878ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski default y 879ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 880ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN 881ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski ---help--- 882ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 883ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 884ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 885ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski corruption. 886ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 887ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects 888ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula 889ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space. 890ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 891ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 892ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 893ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 894ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 895ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 896ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 897ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 898ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 899ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9000f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 901ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 902ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 903ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 904ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 905ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 906ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 907ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 908ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott or modifying text) 909ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 910ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott These features are considered standard security practice these days. 911ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott You should say Y here in almost all cases. 912ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 913ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 914ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 915ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9160f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_MODULE_RWX 917ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 918ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 919ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 920ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 921ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 922ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 923ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 924ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9251a8b6d76SMao Wenanconfig ARCH_WANT_RELAX_ORDER 9261a8b6d76SMao Wenan bool 9271a8b6d76SMao Wenan 928fd25d19fSKees Cookconfig REFCOUNT_FULL 929fd25d19fSKees Cook bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed" 930fd25d19fSKees Cook help 931fd25d19fSKees Cook Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast 932fd25d19fSKees Cook unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked 933fd25d19fSKees Cook implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections 934fd25d19fSKees Cook against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in 935fd25d19fSKees Cook security flaw exploits. 936fd25d19fSKees Cook 9372521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 938