1b2441318SGreg Kroah-Hartman# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 3fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# General architecture dependent options 4fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 5125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 6*1572497cSChristoph Hellwig# 7*1572497cSChristoph Hellwig# Note: arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig needs to be included first so that it can 8*1572497cSChristoph Hellwig# override the default values in this file. 9*1572497cSChristoph Hellwig# 10*1572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig" 11*1572497cSChristoph Hellwig 12692f66f2SHari Bathiniconfig CRASH_CORE 13692f66f2SHari Bathini bool 14692f66f2SHari Bathini 152965faa5SDave Youngconfig KEXEC_CORE 16692f66f2SHari Bathini select CRASH_CORE 172965faa5SDave Young bool 182965faa5SDave Young 19467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig HAVE_IMA_KEXEC 20467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermann bool 21467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermann 22125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig OPROFILE 23b309a294SRobert Richter tristate "OProfile system profiling" 24125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on PROFILING 25125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_OPROFILE 26d69d59f4SIngo Molnar select RING_BUFFER 279a5963ebSChristian Borntraeger select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 28125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 29125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the 30125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, 31125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers and applications. 32125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 33125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 34125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 354d4036e0SJason Yehconfig OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX 364d4036e0SJason Yeh bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 374d4036e0SJason Yeh default n 384d4036e0SJason Yeh depends on OPROFILE && X86 394d4036e0SJason Yeh help 404d4036e0SJason Yeh The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing 414d4036e0SJason Yeh feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters 424d4036e0SJason Yeh are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching 439332ef9dSMasahiro Yamada between events at a user specified time interval. 444d4036e0SJason Yeh 454d4036e0SJason Yeh If unsure, say N. 464d4036e0SJason Yeh 47125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_OPROFILE 489ba16087SJan Beulich bool 49125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 50dcfce4a0SRobert Richterconfig OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER 51dcfce4a0SRobert Richter def_bool y 52af9feebeSAnton Blanchard depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64 53dcfce4a0SRobert Richter 54125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig KPROBES 55125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Kprobes" 5605ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu depends on MODULES 57125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_KPROBES 5805ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu select KALLSYMS 59125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 60125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and 61125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes 62125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful 63125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. 64125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If in doubt, say "N". 65125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 6645f81b1cSSteven Rostedtconfig JUMP_LABEL 67c5905afbSIngo Molnar bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" 6845f81b1cSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 6945f81b1cSSteven Rostedt help 70c5905afbSIngo Molnar This option enables a transparent branch optimization that 71c5905afbSIngo Molnar makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch 72c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. 7345f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 74c5905afbSIngo Molnar Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, 75c5905afbSIngo Molnar scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such 76c5905afbSIngo Molnar branches and include support for this optimization technique. 77c5905afbSIngo Molnar 78c5905afbSIngo Molnar If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", 79c5905afbSIngo Molnar the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop 80c5905afbSIngo Molnar instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the 81c5905afbSIngo Molnar nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the 82c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditional block of instructions. 83c5905afbSIngo Molnar 84c5905afbSIngo Molnar This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction 85c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update 86c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. 87c5905afbSIngo Molnar 88c5905afbSIngo Molnar ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler 89c5905afbSIngo Molnar flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) 9045f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 911987c947SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST 921987c947SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static key selftest" 931987c947SPeter Zijlstra depends on JUMP_LABEL 941987c947SPeter Zijlstra help 951987c947SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. 961987c947SPeter Zijlstra 97afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig OPTPROBES 985cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 995cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES 100a30b85dfSMasami Hiramatsu select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPT 101afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu 102e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 103e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 104e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 105e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 106e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu help 107e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full 108e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can 109e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu optimize on top of function tracing. 110e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 1112b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig UPROBES 11209294e31SDavid A. Long def_bool n 113e8f4aa60SAllen Pais depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 1142b144498SSrikar Dronamraju help 1157b2d81d4SIngo Molnar Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they 1167b2d81d4SIngo Molnar enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') 1177b2d81d4SIngo Molnar to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and 1187b2d81d4SIngo Molnar libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes 1197b2d81d4SIngo Molnar are hit by user-space applications. 1207b2d81d4SIngo Molnar 1217b2d81d4SIngo Molnar ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, 1227b2d81d4SIngo Molnar managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed 1237b2d81d4SIngo Molnar application. ) 1242b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 125c19fa94aSJames Hoganconfig HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS 126c19fa94aSJames Hogan def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 127c19fa94aSJames Hogan help 128c19fa94aSJames Hogan Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit 129c19fa94aSJames Hogan aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values 130c19fa94aSJames Hogan to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit 131c19fa94aSJames Hogan architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit 132c19fa94aSJames Hogan architectures without unaligned access. 133c19fa94aSJames Hogan 134c19fa94aSJames Hogan This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit 135c19fa94aSJames Hogan accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even 136c19fa94aSJames Hogan though it is not a 64 bit architecture. 137c19fa94aSJames Hogan 138c19fa94aSJames Hogan See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more 139c19fa94aSJames Hogan information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 140c19fa94aSJames Hogan 14158340a07SJohannes Bergconfig HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 1429ba16087SJan Beulich bool 14358340a07SJohannes Berg help 14458340a07SJohannes Berg Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses 14558340a07SJohannes Berg without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are 14658340a07SJohannes Berg unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on 14758340a07SJohannes Berg unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception 14858340a07SJohannes Berg handler.) 14958340a07SJohannes Berg 15058340a07SJohannes Berg This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can 15158340a07SJohannes Berg perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different 15258340a07SJohannes Berg code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network 15358340a07SJohannes Berg drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment 15458340a07SJohannes Berg problems with received packets if doing so would not help 15558340a07SJohannes Berg much. 15658340a07SJohannes Berg 15758340a07SJohannes Berg See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more 15858340a07SJohannes Berg information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 15958340a07SJohannes Berg 160cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouseconfig ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 161cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse bool 162cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse help 163cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions 164cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old 165cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the 166cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's 167cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In 168cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap 169cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or 170cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It 171cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the 172cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it 173cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse does, the use of the builtins is optional. 174cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 175cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap 176cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it 177cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse on architectures that don't have such instructions. 178cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 1799edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig KRETPROBES 1809edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli def_bool y 1819edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES 1829edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1837c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1847c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 1857c68af6eSAvi Kivity depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1867c68af6eSAvi Kivity help 1877c68af6eSAvi Kivity Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to 1887c68af6eSAvi Kivity switch to user mode. 1897c68af6eSAvi Kivity 19028b2ee20SRik van Rielconfig HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 1919ba16087SJan Beulich bool 19228b2ee20SRik van Riel 193125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_KPROBES 1949ba16087SJan Beulich bool 1959edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1969edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig HAVE_KRETPROBES 1979ba16087SJan Beulich bool 19874bc7ceeSArthur Kepner 199afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_OPTPROBES 200afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu bool 201d314d74cSCong Wang 202e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 203e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu bool 204e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 205540adea3SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 2069802d865SJosef Bacik bool 2079802d865SJosef Bacik 20842a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig HAVE_NMI 20942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek bool 21042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 2111f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2121f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 2131f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2141f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 2151f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 2161f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 2171f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 2181f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 2191f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 2201f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 2211f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume() 2221f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler() 2231f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2241f5a4ad9SRoland McGrathconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2259ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2261f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath 227c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 228c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool 229c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 23029d5e047SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 23129d5e047SThomas Gleixner bool 23229d5e047SThomas Gleixner 233485cf5daSKevin Hilmanconfig GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 234485cf5daSKevin Hilman bool 235485cf5daSKevin Hilman 2366974f0c4SDaniel Micayconfig ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 2376974f0c4SDaniel Micay bool 2386974f0c4SDaniel Micay help 2396974f0c4SDaniel Micay An architecture should select this when it can successfully 2406974f0c4SDaniel Micay build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. 2416974f0c4SDaniel Micay 242d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h 243d2852a22SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 244d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann bool 245d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann 2460500871fSDavid Howells# Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section 2470500871fSDavid Howellsconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK 248a4a2eb49SThomas Gleixner bool 249a4a2eb49SThomas Gleixner 250f5e10287SThomas Gleixner# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function 251f5e10287SThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 252f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 253f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 2545905429aSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST 2555905429aSKees Cook bool 2565905429aSKees Cook depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 2575905429aSKees Cook help 2585905429aSKees Cook An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy 2595905429aSKees Cook knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be 2605905429aSKees Cook whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the 2615905429aSKees Cook FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist() 2625905429aSKees Cook should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct 2635905429aSKees Cook field in task_struct will be left whitelisted. 2645905429aSKees Cook 265b235beeaSLinus Torvalds# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function 266b235beeaSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR 267f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 268f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 2695aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 2705aaeb5c0SIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 2715aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar bool 2725aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 273f850c30cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 274f850c30cSHeiko Carstens bool 275e01292b1SHeiko Carstens help 276e01292b1SHeiko Carstens This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports 277e01292b1SHeiko Carstens the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 278e01292b1SHeiko Carstens declared in asm/ptrace.h 279e01292b1SHeiko Carstens For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 280f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 281d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_RSEQ 282d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool 283d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 284d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 285d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it 286d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers supports an implementation of restartable sequences. 287d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 2889483a578SDavid Brownellconfig HAVE_CLK 2899ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2909483a578SDavid Brownell help 2919483a578SDavid Brownell The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and 2929483a578SDavid Brownell thus are a key power management tool on many systems. 2939483a578SDavid Brownell 29462a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 29562a038d3SK.Prasad bool 29699e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 29762a038d3SK.Prasad 2980102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 2990102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 3000102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 3010102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 3020102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 3030102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 3040102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 3050102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 3060102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 3070102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 3080102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 3097c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 3107c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 311a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 312c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 313c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 31423637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 31523637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 31623637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 31723637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 318c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 31905a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 32005a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 32105a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 32205a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 32305a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup 32405a4a952SNicholas Piggin detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. 32505a4a952SNicholas Piggin 32605a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 32705a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_NMI 32805a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 32905a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 33005a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides 33105a4a952SNicholas Piggin asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(). 33205a4a952SNicholas Piggin 33305a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 33405a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 33505a4a952SNicholas Piggin select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 33605a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 33705a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is 33805a4a952SNicholas Piggin a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config 33905a4a952SNicholas Piggin interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem. 34005a4a952SNicholas Piggin 341c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 342c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 343c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 344c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 345c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 346c5e63197SJiri Olsa 347c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 348c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 349c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 350c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 351c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 352c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 353c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 354bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 355bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 356bf5438fcSJason Baron 35726723911SPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE 35826723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 35926723911SPeter Zijlstra 360df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 361df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 362df013ffbSHuang Ying 36343570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 36443570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 36543570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 36643570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 36743570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 36843570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 36943570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 37043570fd2SHeiko Carstens 3714156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 3724156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 3734156153cSHeiko Carstens 3742565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 3752565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 3762565409fSHeiko Carstens 37777e58496SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 37877e58496SPaul E. McKenney bool 37977e58496SPaul E. McKenney 380c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 381c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 382c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 383c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 384c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 385c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 38648b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 387c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 38848b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 38948b25c43SChris Metcalf 390e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 391e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 392e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 393fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 394bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 395bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 396bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 397bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 398fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 399fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 400fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 401fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 40248dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 403e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 404e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 405e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 406e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 407e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 408e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 409e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 410e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 411e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 4125fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details. 413e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 41459f53855SMasahiro Yamadapreferred-plugin-hostcc := $(if-success,[ $(gcc-version) -ge 40800 ],$(HOSTCXX),$(HOSTCC)) 41559f53855SMasahiro Yamada 41659f53855SMasahiro Yamadaconfig PLUGIN_HOSTCC 41759f53855SMasahiro Yamada string 41859f53855SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-plugin.sh "$(preferred-plugin-hostcc)" "$(HOSTCXX)" "$(CC)")" 41959f53855SMasahiro Yamada help 42059f53855SMasahiro Yamada Host compiler used to build GCC plugins. This can be $(HOSTCXX), 42159f53855SMasahiro Yamada $(HOSTCC), or a null string if GCC plugin is unsupported. 42259f53855SMasahiro Yamada 4236b90bd4bSEmese Revfyconfig HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 4246b90bd4bSEmese Revfy bool 4256b90bd4bSEmese Revfy help 4266b90bd4bSEmese Revfy An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with 4276b90bd4bSEmese Revfy GCC plugins. 4286b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 4296b90bd4bSEmese Revfymenuconfig GCC_PLUGINS 4306b90bd4bSEmese Revfy bool "GCC plugins" 4316b90bd4bSEmese Revfy depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 43259f53855SMasahiro Yamada depends on PLUGIN_HOSTCC != "" 4336b90bd4bSEmese Revfy help 4346b90bd4bSEmese Revfy GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the 4356b90bd4bSEmese Revfy compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. 4366b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 4376b90bd4bSEmese Revfy See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details. 4386b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 4390dae776cSEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY 440215e2aa6SKees Cook bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT 4410dae776cSEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 4421658dceeSMasahiro Yamada depends on !COMPILE_TEST # too noisy 4430dae776cSEmese Revfy help 4440dae776cSEmese Revfy The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as: 4450dae776cSEmese Revfy M = E - N + 2P 4460dae776cSEmese Revfy where 4470dae776cSEmese Revfy 4480dae776cSEmese Revfy E = the number of edges 4490dae776cSEmese Revfy N = the number of nodes 4500dae776cSEmese Revfy P = the number of connected components (exit nodes). 4510dae776cSEmese Revfy 452215e2aa6SKees Cook Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the 453215e2aa6SKees Cook build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a 454215e2aa6SKees Cook gcc plugin for the kernel. 455215e2aa6SKees Cook 456543c37cbSEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV 457543c37cbSEmese Revfy bool 458543c37cbSEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 459543c37cbSEmese Revfy help 460543c37cbSEmese Revfy This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of 461543c37cbSEmese Revfy basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from 462543c37cbSEmese Revfy gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support" 463543c37cbSEmese Revfy by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>. 464543c37cbSEmese Revfy 46538addce8SEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 46638addce8SEmese Revfy bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime" 46738addce8SEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 46838addce8SEmese Revfy help 46938addce8SEmese Revfy By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to 47038addce8SEmese Revfy extract some entropy from both original and artificially created 47138addce8SEmese Revfy program state. This will help especially embedded systems where 47238addce8SEmese Revfy there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost 47338addce8SEmese Revfy is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and 47438addce8SEmese Revfy irq processing. 47538addce8SEmese Revfy 47638addce8SEmese Revfy Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically 47738addce8SEmese Revfy secure! 47838addce8SEmese Revfy 47938addce8SEmese Revfy This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 48038addce8SEmese Revfy * https://grsecurity.net/ 48138addce8SEmese Revfy * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 48238addce8SEmese Revfy 483c61f13eaSKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 484c61f13eaSKees Cook bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses" 485c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGINS 486c9cf87eaSDmitry Vyukov # Currently STRUCTLEAK inserts initialization out of live scope of 487c9cf87eaSDmitry Vyukov # variables from KASAN point of view. This leads to KASAN false 488c9cf87eaSDmitry Vyukov # positive reports. Prohibit this combination for now. 489c9cf87eaSDmitry Vyukov depends on !KASAN_EXTRA 490c61f13eaSKees Cook help 491f136e090SJean Delvare This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a 492c61f13eaSKees Cook __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information 493c61f13eaSKees Cook exposures. 494c61f13eaSKees Cook 495c61f13eaSKees Cook This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 496c61f13eaSKees Cook * https://grsecurity.net/ 497c61f13eaSKees Cook * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 498c61f13eaSKees Cook 499f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvelconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL 500f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel bool "Force initialize all struct type variables passed by reference" 501f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 502caa91ba5SMasahiro Yamada depends on !COMPILE_TEST 503f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel help 504f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel Zero initialize any struct type local variable that may be passed by 505f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel reference without having been initialized. 506f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel 507c61f13eaSKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE 508c61f13eaSKees Cook bool "Report forcefully initialized variables" 509c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 5101658dceeSMasahiro Yamada depends on !COMPILE_TEST # too noisy 511c61f13eaSKees Cook help 512c61f13eaSKees Cook This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the 513c61f13eaSKees Cook structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be 514c61f13eaSKees Cook initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected 515c61f13eaSKees Cook by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings. 516c61f13eaSKees Cook 517313dd1b6SKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 518313dd1b6SKees Cook bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures" 519313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGINS 520313dd1b6SKees Cook select MODVERSIONS if MODULES 521313dd1b6SKees Cook help 5229225331bSKees Cook If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely 5239225331bSKees Cook function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with 5249225331bSKees Cook __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly 5259225331bSKees Cook marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time. 5269225331bSKees Cook This can introduce the requirement of an additional information 5279225331bSKees Cook exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure 5289225331bSKees Cook types. 529313dd1b6SKees Cook 530313dd1b6SKees Cook Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact, 531313dd1b6SKees Cook slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic 532313dd1b6SKees Cook tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel 533313dd1b6SKees Cook source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation). 534313dd1b6SKees Cook 535313dd1b6SKees Cook The seed used for compilation is located at 536313dd1b6SKees Cook scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after 537313dd1b6SKees Cook a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with 538313dd1b6SKees Cook the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or 539313dd1b6SKees Cook make distclean. 540313dd1b6SKees Cook 541313dd1b6SKees Cook Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer. 542313dd1b6SKees Cook 543313dd1b6SKees Cook This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 544313dd1b6SKees Cook * https://grsecurity.net/ 545313dd1b6SKees Cook * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 546313dd1b6SKees Cook 547313dd1b6SKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE 548313dd1b6SKees Cook bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization" 549313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 5501658dceeSMasahiro Yamada depends on !COMPILE_TEST # do not reduce test coverage 551313dd1b6SKees Cook help 552313dd1b6SKees Cook If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a 553313dd1b6SKees Cook best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized 554313dd1b6SKees Cook groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields 555313dd1b6SKees Cook in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT 556313dd1b6SKees Cook at the cost of weakened randomization. 557313dd1b6SKees Cook 558d148eac0SMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 55919952a92SKees Cook bool 56019952a92SKees Cook help 56119952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 56219952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 56319952a92SKees Cook 5642a61f474SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 5652a61f474SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector) 5662a61f474SMasahiro Yamada 567050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR 5682a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 569d148eac0SMasahiro Yamada depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 5702a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector) 5712a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 5728779657dSKees Cook help 5738779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 57419952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 57519952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 57619952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 57719952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 57819952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 57919952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 58019952a92SKees Cook 5818779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 5828779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 5838779657dSKees Cook 58419952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 5858779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 5868779657dSKees Cook 5878779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5888779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 5898779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 5908779657dSKees Cook 591050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 5922a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Strong Stack Protector" 593050e9baaSLinus Torvalds depends on STACKPROTECTOR 5942a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong) 5952a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 5968779657dSKees Cook help 5978779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 5988779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 5998779657dSKees Cook 6008779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 6018779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 6028779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 6038779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 6048779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 6058779657dSKees Cook 6068779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 6078779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 6088779657dSKees Cook 6098779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 6108779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 6118779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 6128779657dSKees Cook 6130f60a8efSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 6140f60a8efSKees Cook bool 6150f60a8efSKees Cook help 6160f60a8efSKees Cook An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 6170f60a8efSKees Cook frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 6180f60a8efSKees Cook or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 6190f60a8efSKees Cook and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 6200f60a8efSKees Cook which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 6210f60a8efSKees Cook 62291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 6232b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 6242b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 62591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 62691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 62791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through 62891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be 62991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside 63091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on 63191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker irq exit still need to be protected. 6322b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 633b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 634b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 635b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 63640565b5aSStanislaw Gruszkaconfig ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 63740565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka bool 63840565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka 639554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 640554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 641554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 642554b0004SKevin Hilman help 643554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 644554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 645554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 646554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 647554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 648554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 649554b0004SKevin Hilman 650554b0004SKevin Hilman 651fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 652fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 653fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 654fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 655fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 656fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 65715626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 65815626062SGerald Schaefer bool 65915626062SGerald Schaefer 660a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcoxconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 661a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox bool 662a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox 6630ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 6640ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 6650ddab1d2SToshi Kani 6660f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 6670f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 6680f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 669786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 670786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 671786d35d4SDavid Howells help 672786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 673786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 674786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 675786d35d4SDavid Howells 676786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 677786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 678786d35d4SDavid Howells help 679786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 680786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 681786d35d4SDavid Howells 682786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 683786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 684786d35d4SDavid Howells help 685786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 686786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 687786d35d4SDavid Howells 688cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 689cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 690cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 691cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 692cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 693cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 694cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 695cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 696cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 697cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 698235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 699235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 700235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 701235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 7022b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 7032b68f6caSKees Cook bool 7042b68f6caSKees Cook help 7052b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 7062b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 7072b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 708204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 7092b68f6caSKees Cook 710d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 711d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 712d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 713d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 714d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 715d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 716d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 717d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 718d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 7195f56a5dfSJiri Slabyconfig HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 7205f56a5dfSJiri Slaby bool 7215f56a5dfSJiri Slaby help 7225f56a5dfSJiri Slaby An architecture implements exit_thread. 7235f56a5dfSJiri Slaby 724d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 725d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 726d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 727d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 728d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 729d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 730d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 731d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 732d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 733d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 734d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 735d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 736d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 737d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 738d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 739d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 740d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 741d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 742d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 743d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 744d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 745d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 746d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 747d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 748d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 749d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 750d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 751d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 752d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 753d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 754d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 755d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 756d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 757d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 758d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 759d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 760d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 761d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 762d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 763d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 764d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 765d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 766d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 767d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 768d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 769d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 770d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 771d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 772d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 773d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 774d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 775d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 776d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 777d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 778d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 779d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 780d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 781d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 782d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 7831b028f78SDmitry Safonovconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 7841b028f78SDmitry Safonov bool 7851b028f78SDmitry Safonov help 7861b028f78SDmitry Safonov This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 7871b028f78SDmitry Safonov and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 7881b028f78SDmitry Safonov Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 7891b028f78SDmitry Safonov 7903033f14aSJosh Triplettconfig HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS 7913033f14aSJosh Triplett bool 7923033f14aSJosh Triplett help 7933033f14aSJosh Triplett Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via 7943033f14aSJosh Triplett normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall 7953033f14aSJosh Triplett argument from pt_regs. 7963033f14aSJosh Triplett 797b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 798b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 799b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 800b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which 801b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf performs compile-time stack metadata validation. 802b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 803af085d90SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 804af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf bool 805af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf help 806af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which 807af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 808af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf 809468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 810468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 811468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 812468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 813468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 814468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 815468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 816468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 8173a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS_API 8183a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray def_bool ISA 8193a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 820d2125043SAl Viro# 821d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 822d2125043SAl Viro# 823d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 824d2125043SAl Viro bool 825d2125043SAl Viro help 826d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 827d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 828d2125043SAl Viro 829d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 830d2125043SAl Viro bool 831d2125043SAl Viro help 832d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 833d2125043SAl Viro 834dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 835dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 836dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 837dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 838dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 839dfa9771aSMichal Simek 840eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 841eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 842eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 843eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 844eaca6eaeSAl Viro 8450a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 8460a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8470a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8480a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 8490a0e8cdfSAl Viro 8500a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 8510a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8520a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8530a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 8540a0e8cdfSAl Viro 855495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 856495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 857495dfbf7SAl Viro help 858495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 859495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 860495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 861495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 862495dfbf7SAl Viro 863495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 864495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 865495dfbf7SAl Viro 866d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamaniconfig 64BIT_TIME 867d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani def_bool ARCH_HAS_64BIT_TIME 868d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani help 869d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani This should be selected by all architectures that need to support 870d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani new system calls with a 64-bit time_t. This is relevant on all 32-bit 871d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani architectures, and 64-bit architectures as part of compat syscall 872d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani handling. 873d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani 87417435e5fSDeepa Dinamaniconfig COMPAT_32BIT_TIME 87517435e5fSDeepa Dinamani def_bool (!64BIT && 64BIT_TIME) || COMPAT 87617435e5fSDeepa Dinamani help 87717435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support. 87817435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures 87917435e5fSDeepa Dinamani as part of compat syscall handling. 88017435e5fSDeepa Dinamani 8810d4a619bSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP 8820d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig bool 8830d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig 884fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zengconfig CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 885fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng def_bool n 886fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng 887ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 888ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 889ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski help 890ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 891ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski in vmalloc space. This means: 892ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 893ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 894ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 895ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 896ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 897ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 898ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 899ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 900ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 901ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 902ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 903ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 904ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 905ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 906ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 907ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VMAP_STACK 908ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski default y 909ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 910ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN 911ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski ---help--- 912ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 913ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 914ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 915ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski corruption. 916ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 917ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects 918ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula 919ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space. 920ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 921ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 922ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 923ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 924ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 925ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 926ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 927ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 928ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 929ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9300f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 931ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 932ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 933ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 934ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 935ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 936ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 937ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 938ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott or modifying text) 939ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 940ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott These features are considered standard security practice these days. 941ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott You should say Y here in almost all cases. 942ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 943ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 944ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 945ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9460f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_MODULE_RWX 947ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 948ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 949ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 950ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 951ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 952ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 953ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 954ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 955ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig# select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header 956ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA 957ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig bool 958ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig 9597a46ec0eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT 9607a46ec0eSKees Cook bool 9617a46ec0eSKees Cook help 9627a46ec0eSKees Cook An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t 9637a46ec0eSKees Cook using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized 9647a46ec0eSKees Cook refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full 9657a46ec0eSKees Cook refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y. 9667a46ec0eSKees Cook 9677a46ec0eSKees Cook The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained. 9687a46ec0eSKees Cook Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting 9697a46ec0eSKees Cook against bugs in reference counts. 9707a46ec0eSKees Cook 971fd25d19fSKees Cookconfig REFCOUNT_FULL 972fd25d19fSKees Cook bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed" 973fd25d19fSKees Cook help 974fd25d19fSKees Cook Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast 975fd25d19fSKees Cook unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked 976fd25d19fSKees Cook implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections 977fd25d19fSKees Cook against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in 978fd25d19fSKees Cook security flaw exploits. 979fd25d19fSKees Cook 9802521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 981