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 201d314d74cSCong Wangconfig HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 20242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek depends on HAVE_NMI 203d314d74cSCong Wang bool 2041f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2051f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 2061f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2071f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 2081f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 2091f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 2101f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 2111f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 2121f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 2131f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 2141f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume() 2151f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler() 2161f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2171f5a4ad9SRoland McGrathconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2189ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2191f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath 220c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 221c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool 222c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 22329d5e047SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 22429d5e047SThomas Gleixner bool 22529d5e047SThomas Gleixner 226485cf5daSKevin Hilmanconfig GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 227485cf5daSKevin Hilman bool 228485cf5daSKevin Hilman 229d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h 230d2852a22SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 231d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann bool 232d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann 233a6359d1eSThomas Gleixner# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c 234a6359d1eSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_INIT_TASK 235a4a2eb49SThomas Gleixner bool 236a4a2eb49SThomas Gleixner 237f5e10287SThomas Gleixner# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function 238f5e10287SThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 239f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 240f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 241b235beeaSLinus Torvalds# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function 242b235beeaSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR 243f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 244f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 2455aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 2465aaeb5c0SIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 2475aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar bool 2485aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 249f850c30cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 250f850c30cSHeiko Carstens bool 251e01292b1SHeiko Carstens help 252e01292b1SHeiko Carstens This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports 253e01292b1SHeiko Carstens the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 254e01292b1SHeiko Carstens declared in asm/ptrace.h 255e01292b1SHeiko Carstens For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 256f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 2579483a578SDavid Brownellconfig HAVE_CLK 2589ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2599483a578SDavid Brownell help 2609483a578SDavid Brownell The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and 2619483a578SDavid Brownell thus are a key power management tool on many systems. 2629483a578SDavid Brownell 2635ee00bd4SJoerg Roedelconfig HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 2645ee00bd4SJoerg Roedel bool 26536cd3c9fSHeiko Carstens 26662a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 26762a038d3SK.Prasad bool 26899e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 26962a038d3SK.Prasad 2700102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 2710102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 2720102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2730102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 2740102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 2750102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 2760102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 2770102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 2780102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 2790102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 2800102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 2817c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 2827c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 283a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 284c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 285c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 28623637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 28723637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 28823637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 28923637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 290c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 291c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 292c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 293c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 294c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 295c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 296c5e63197SJiri Olsa 297c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 298c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 299c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 300c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 301c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 302c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 303c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 304bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 305bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 306bf5438fcSJason Baron 30726723911SPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE 30826723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 30926723911SPeter Zijlstra 310df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 311df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 312df013ffbSHuang Ying 31343570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 31443570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 31543570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 31643570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 31743570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 31843570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 31943570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 32043570fd2SHeiko Carstens 3214156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 3224156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 3234156153cSHeiko Carstens 3242565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 3252565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 3262565409fSHeiko Carstens 32777e58496SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 32877e58496SPaul E. McKenney bool 32977e58496SPaul E. McKenney 330c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 331c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 332c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 333c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 334c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 335c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 33648b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 337c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 33848b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 33948b25c43SChris Metcalf 340e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 341e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 342e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 343fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 344bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 345bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 346bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 347bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 348fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 349fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 350fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 351fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 35248dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 353e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 354e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 355e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 356e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 357e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 358e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 359e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 360e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 361e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 362e2cfabdfSWill Drewry See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. 363e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 3646b90bd4bSEmese Revfyconfig HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 3656b90bd4bSEmese Revfy bool 3666b90bd4bSEmese Revfy help 3676b90bd4bSEmese Revfy An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with 3686b90bd4bSEmese Revfy GCC plugins. 3696b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 3706b90bd4bSEmese Revfymenuconfig GCC_PLUGINS 3716b90bd4bSEmese Revfy bool "GCC plugins" 3726b90bd4bSEmese Revfy depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 373a519167eSKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 3746b90bd4bSEmese Revfy help 3756b90bd4bSEmese Revfy GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the 3766b90bd4bSEmese Revfy compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. 3776b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 3786b90bd4bSEmese Revfy See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details. 3796b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 3800dae776cSEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY 381215e2aa6SKees Cook bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT 3820dae776cSEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 383215e2aa6SKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 3840dae776cSEmese Revfy help 3850dae776cSEmese Revfy The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as: 3860dae776cSEmese Revfy M = E - N + 2P 3870dae776cSEmese Revfy where 3880dae776cSEmese Revfy 3890dae776cSEmese Revfy E = the number of edges 3900dae776cSEmese Revfy N = the number of nodes 3910dae776cSEmese Revfy P = the number of connected components (exit nodes). 3920dae776cSEmese Revfy 393215e2aa6SKees Cook Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the 394215e2aa6SKees Cook build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a 395215e2aa6SKees Cook gcc plugin for the kernel. 396215e2aa6SKees Cook 397543c37cbSEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV 398543c37cbSEmese Revfy bool 399543c37cbSEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 400543c37cbSEmese Revfy help 401543c37cbSEmese Revfy This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of 402543c37cbSEmese Revfy basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from 403543c37cbSEmese Revfy gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support" 404543c37cbSEmese Revfy by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>. 405543c37cbSEmese Revfy 40638addce8SEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 40738addce8SEmese Revfy bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime" 40838addce8SEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 40938addce8SEmese Revfy help 41038addce8SEmese Revfy By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to 41138addce8SEmese Revfy extract some entropy from both original and artificially created 41238addce8SEmese Revfy program state. This will help especially embedded systems where 41338addce8SEmese Revfy there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost 41438addce8SEmese Revfy is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and 41538addce8SEmese Revfy irq processing. 41638addce8SEmese Revfy 41738addce8SEmese Revfy Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically 41838addce8SEmese Revfy secure! 41938addce8SEmese Revfy 42038addce8SEmese Revfy This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 42138addce8SEmese Revfy * https://grsecurity.net/ 42238addce8SEmese Revfy * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 42338addce8SEmese Revfy 424c61f13eaSKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 425c61f13eaSKees Cook bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses" 426c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGINS 427c61f13eaSKees Cook help 428c61f13eaSKees Cook This plugin zero-initializes any structures that containing a 429c61f13eaSKees Cook __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information 430c61f13eaSKees Cook exposures. 431c61f13eaSKees Cook 432c61f13eaSKees Cook This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 433c61f13eaSKees Cook * https://grsecurity.net/ 434c61f13eaSKees Cook * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 435c61f13eaSKees Cook 436c61f13eaSKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE 437c61f13eaSKees Cook bool "Report forcefully initialized variables" 438c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 439c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 440c61f13eaSKees Cook help 441c61f13eaSKees Cook This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the 442c61f13eaSKees Cook structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be 443c61f13eaSKees Cook initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected 444c61f13eaSKees Cook by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings. 445c61f13eaSKees Cook 446*313dd1b6SKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 447*313dd1b6SKees Cook bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures" 448*313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGINS 449*313dd1b6SKees Cook select MODVERSIONS if MODULES 450*313dd1b6SKees Cook help 451*313dd1b6SKees Cook If you say Y here, the layouts of structures explicitly 452*313dd1b6SKees Cook marked by __randomize_layout will be randomized at 453*313dd1b6SKees Cook compile-time. This can introduce the requirement of an 454*313dd1b6SKees Cook additional information exposure vulnerability for exploits 455*313dd1b6SKees Cook targeting these structure types. 456*313dd1b6SKees Cook 457*313dd1b6SKees Cook Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact, 458*313dd1b6SKees Cook slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic 459*313dd1b6SKees Cook tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel 460*313dd1b6SKees Cook source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation). 461*313dd1b6SKees Cook 462*313dd1b6SKees Cook The seed used for compilation is located at 463*313dd1b6SKees Cook scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after 464*313dd1b6SKees Cook a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with 465*313dd1b6SKees Cook the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or 466*313dd1b6SKees Cook make distclean. 467*313dd1b6SKees Cook 468*313dd1b6SKees Cook Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer. 469*313dd1b6SKees Cook 470*313dd1b6SKees Cook This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 471*313dd1b6SKees Cook * https://grsecurity.net/ 472*313dd1b6SKees Cook * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 473*313dd1b6SKees Cook 474*313dd1b6SKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE 475*313dd1b6SKees Cook bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization" 476*313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 477*313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 478*313dd1b6SKees Cook help 479*313dd1b6SKees Cook If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a 480*313dd1b6SKees Cook best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized 481*313dd1b6SKees Cook groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields 482*313dd1b6SKees Cook in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT 483*313dd1b6SKees Cook at the cost of weakened randomization. 484*313dd1b6SKees Cook 48519952a92SKees Cookconfig HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 48619952a92SKees Cook bool 48719952a92SKees Cook help 48819952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 48919952a92SKees Cook - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option 49019952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 49119952a92SKees Cook 49219952a92SKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 4938779657dSKees Cook def_bool n 49419952a92SKees Cook help 4958779657dSKees Cook Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build 4968779657dSKees Cook can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature. 4978779657dSKees Cook 4988779657dSKees Cookchoice 4998779657dSKees Cook prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 5008779657dSKees Cook depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 5018779657dSKees Cook default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 5028779657dSKees Cook help 5038779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 50419952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 50519952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 50619952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 50719952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 50819952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 50919952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 51019952a92SKees Cook 5118779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 5128779657dSKees Cook bool "None" 5138779657dSKees Cook help 5148779657dSKees Cook Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature. 5158779657dSKees Cook 5168779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR 5178779657dSKees Cook bool "Regular" 5188779657dSKees Cook select CC_STACKPROTECTOR 5198779657dSKees Cook help 5208779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 5218779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 5228779657dSKees Cook 52319952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 5248779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 5258779657dSKees Cook 5268779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5278779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 5288779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 5298779657dSKees Cook 5308779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 5318779657dSKees Cook bool "Strong" 5328779657dSKees Cook select CC_STACKPROTECTOR 5338779657dSKees Cook help 5348779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 5358779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 5368779657dSKees Cook 5378779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 5388779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 5398779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 5408779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 5418779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 5428779657dSKees Cook 5438779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 5448779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 5458779657dSKees Cook 5468779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5478779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 5488779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 5498779657dSKees Cook 5508779657dSKees Cookendchoice 55119952a92SKees Cook 552a5967db9SStephen Rothwellconfig THIN_ARCHIVES 553a5967db9SStephen Rothwell bool 554a5967db9SStephen Rothwell help 555a5967db9SStephen Rothwell Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives 556a5967db9SStephen Rothwell instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files. 557a5967db9SStephen Rothwell 558b67067f1SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 559b67067f1SNicholas Piggin bool 560b67067f1SNicholas Piggin help 561b67067f1SNicholas Piggin Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and 562b67067f1SNicholas Piggin data elimination with the linker by compiling with 563b67067f1SNicholas Piggin -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with 564b67067f1SNicholas Piggin --gc-sections. 565b67067f1SNicholas Piggin 566b67067f1SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 567b67067f1SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 568b67067f1SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 5690f4c4af0SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 5700f4c4af0SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 5710f4c4af0SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 572b67067f1SNicholas Piggin 5730f60a8efSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 5740f60a8efSKees Cook bool 5750f60a8efSKees Cook help 5760f60a8efSKees Cook An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 5770f60a8efSKees Cook frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 5780f60a8efSKees Cook or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 5790f60a8efSKees Cook and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 5800f60a8efSKees Cook which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 5810f60a8efSKees Cook 58291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 5832b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 5842b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 58591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 58691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 58791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through 58891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be 58991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside 59091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on 59191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker irq exit still need to be protected. 5922b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 593b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 594b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 595b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 59640565b5aSStanislaw Gruszkaconfig ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 59740565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka bool 59840565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka 599554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 600554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 601554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 602554b0004SKevin Hilman help 603554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 604554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 605554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 606554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 607554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 608554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 609554b0004SKevin Hilman 610554b0004SKevin Hilman 611fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 612fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 613fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 614fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 615fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 616fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 61715626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 61815626062SGerald Schaefer bool 61915626062SGerald Schaefer 620a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcoxconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 621a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox bool 622a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox 6230ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 6240ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 6250ddab1d2SToshi Kani 6260f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 6270f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 6280f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 629786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 630786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 631786d35d4SDavid Howells help 632786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 633786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 634786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 635786d35d4SDavid Howells 636786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 637786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 638786d35d4SDavid Howells help 639786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 640786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 641786d35d4SDavid Howells 642786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 643786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 644786d35d4SDavid Howells help 645786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 646786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 647786d35d4SDavid Howells 648b92021b0SRusty Russellconfig HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX 649b92021b0SRusty Russell bool 650b92021b0SRusty Russell help 651b92021b0SRusty Russell Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like 652b92021b0SRusty Russell module loading and assembly files need to know about this. 653b92021b0SRusty Russell 654cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 655cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 656cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 657cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 658cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 659cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 660cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 661cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 662cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 663cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 664235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 665235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 666235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 667235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 6682b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 6692b68f6caSKees Cook bool 6702b68f6caSKees Cook help 6712b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 6722b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 6732b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 674204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 6752b68f6caSKees Cook 676d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 677d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 678d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 679d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 680d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 681d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 682d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 683d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 684d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 6855f56a5dfSJiri Slabyconfig HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 6865f56a5dfSJiri Slaby bool 6875f56a5dfSJiri Slaby help 6885f56a5dfSJiri Slaby An architecture implements exit_thread. 6895f56a5dfSJiri Slaby 690d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 691d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 692d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 693d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 694d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 695d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 696d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 697d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 698d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 699d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 700d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 701d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 702d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 703d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 704d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 705d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 706d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 707d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 708d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 709d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 710d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 711d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 712d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 713d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 714d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 715d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 716d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 717d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 718d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 719d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 720d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 721d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 722d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 723d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 724d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 725d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 726d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 727d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 728d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 729d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 730d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 731d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 732d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 733d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 734d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 735d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 736d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 737d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 738d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_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 for compatible applications This 743d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 744d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 745d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 746d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 747d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 748d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 7491b028f78SDmitry Safonovconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 7501b028f78SDmitry Safonov bool 7511b028f78SDmitry Safonov help 7521b028f78SDmitry Safonov This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 7531b028f78SDmitry Safonov and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 7541b028f78SDmitry Safonov Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 7551b028f78SDmitry Safonov 7563033f14aSJosh Triplettconfig HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS 7573033f14aSJosh Triplett bool 7583033f14aSJosh Triplett help 7593033f14aSJosh Triplett Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via 7603033f14aSJosh Triplett normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall 7613033f14aSJosh Triplett argument from pt_regs. 7623033f14aSJosh Triplett 763b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 764b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 765b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 766b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which 767b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf performs compile-time stack metadata validation. 768b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 769af085d90SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 770af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf bool 771af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf help 772af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which 773af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 774af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf 775468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 776468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 777468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 778468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 779468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 780468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 781468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 782468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 7833a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS_API 7843a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray def_bool ISA 7853a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 786d2125043SAl Viro# 787d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 788d2125043SAl Viro# 789d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 790d2125043SAl Viro bool 791d2125043SAl Viro help 792d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 793d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 794d2125043SAl Viro 795d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 796d2125043SAl Viro bool 797d2125043SAl Viro help 798d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 799d2125043SAl Viro 800dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 801dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 802dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 803dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 804dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 805dfa9771aSMichal Simek 806eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 807eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 808eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 809eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 810eaca6eaeSAl Viro 8110a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 8120a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8130a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8140a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 8150a0e8cdfSAl Viro 8160a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 8170a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8180a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8190a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 8200a0e8cdfSAl Viro 821495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 822495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 823495dfbf7SAl Viro help 824495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 825495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 826495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 827495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 828495dfbf7SAl Viro 829495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 830495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 831495dfbf7SAl Viro 8320d4a619bSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP 8330d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig bool 8340d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig 835fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zengconfig CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 836fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng def_bool n 837fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng 838ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 839ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 840ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski help 841ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 842ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski in vmalloc space. This means: 843ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 844ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 845ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 846ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 847ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 848ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 849ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 850ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 851ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 852ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 853ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 854ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 855ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 856ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 857ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 858ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VMAP_STACK 859ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski default y 860ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 861ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN 862ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski ---help--- 863ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 864ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 865ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 866ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski corruption. 867ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 868ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects 869ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula 870ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space. 871ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 872ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 873ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 874ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 875ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 876ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 877ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 878ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 879ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 880ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 8810f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 882ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 883ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 884ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 885ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 886ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 887ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 888ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 889ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott or modifying text) 890ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 891ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott These features are considered standard security practice these days. 892ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott You should say Y here in almost all cases. 893ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 894ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 895ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 896ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 8970f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_MODULE_RWX 898ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 899ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 900ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 901ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 902ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 903ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 904ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 905ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9061a8b6d76SMao Wenanconfig ARCH_WANT_RELAX_ORDER 9071a8b6d76SMao Wenan bool 9081a8b6d76SMao Wenan 9092521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 910