1fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 2fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# General architecture dependent options 3fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 4125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 52965faa5SDave Youngconfig KEXEC_CORE 62965faa5SDave Young bool 72965faa5SDave Young 8125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig OPROFILE 9b309a294SRobert Richter tristate "OProfile system profiling" 10125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on PROFILING 11125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_OPROFILE 12d69d59f4SIngo Molnar select RING_BUFFER 139a5963ebSChristian Borntraeger select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 14125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 15125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the 16125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, 17125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers and applications. 18125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 19125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 20125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 214d4036e0SJason Yehconfig OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX 224d4036e0SJason Yeh bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 234d4036e0SJason Yeh default n 244d4036e0SJason Yeh depends on OPROFILE && X86 254d4036e0SJason Yeh help 264d4036e0SJason Yeh The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing 274d4036e0SJason Yeh feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters 284d4036e0SJason Yeh are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching 294d4036e0SJason Yeh between events at an user specified time interval. 304d4036e0SJason Yeh 314d4036e0SJason Yeh If unsure, say N. 324d4036e0SJason Yeh 33125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_OPROFILE 349ba16087SJan Beulich bool 35125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 36dcfce4a0SRobert Richterconfig OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER 37dcfce4a0SRobert Richter def_bool y 38af9feebeSAnton Blanchard depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64 39dcfce4a0SRobert Richter 40125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig KPROBES 41125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Kprobes" 4205ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu depends on MODULES 43125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_KPROBES 4405ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu select KALLSYMS 45125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 46125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and 47125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes 48125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful 49125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. 50125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If in doubt, say "N". 51125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 5245f81b1cSSteven Rostedtconfig JUMP_LABEL 53c5905afbSIngo Molnar bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" 5445f81b1cSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 5545f81b1cSSteven Rostedt help 56c5905afbSIngo Molnar This option enables a transparent branch optimization that 57c5905afbSIngo Molnar makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch 58c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. 5945f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 60c5905afbSIngo Molnar Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, 61c5905afbSIngo Molnar scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such 62c5905afbSIngo Molnar branches and include support for this optimization technique. 63c5905afbSIngo Molnar 64c5905afbSIngo Molnar If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", 65c5905afbSIngo Molnar the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop 66c5905afbSIngo Molnar instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the 67c5905afbSIngo Molnar nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the 68c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditional block of instructions. 69c5905afbSIngo Molnar 70c5905afbSIngo Molnar This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction 71c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update 72c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. 73c5905afbSIngo Molnar 74c5905afbSIngo Molnar ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler 75c5905afbSIngo Molnar flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) 7645f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 771987c947SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST 781987c947SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static key selftest" 791987c947SPeter Zijlstra depends on JUMP_LABEL 801987c947SPeter Zijlstra help 811987c947SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. 821987c947SPeter Zijlstra 83afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig OPTPROBES 845cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 855cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES 86afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu depends on !PREEMPT 87afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu 88e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 89e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 90e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 91e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 92e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu help 93e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full 94e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can 95e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu optimize on top of function tracing. 96e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 972b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig UPROBES 9809294e31SDavid A. Long def_bool n 992b144498SSrikar Dronamraju help 1007b2d81d4SIngo Molnar Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they 1017b2d81d4SIngo Molnar enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') 1027b2d81d4SIngo Molnar to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and 1037b2d81d4SIngo Molnar libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes 1047b2d81d4SIngo Molnar are hit by user-space applications. 1057b2d81d4SIngo Molnar 1067b2d81d4SIngo Molnar ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, 1077b2d81d4SIngo Molnar managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed 1087b2d81d4SIngo Molnar application. ) 1092b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 110c19fa94aSJames Hoganconfig HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS 111c19fa94aSJames Hogan def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 112c19fa94aSJames Hogan help 113c19fa94aSJames Hogan Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit 114c19fa94aSJames Hogan aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values 115c19fa94aSJames Hogan to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit 116c19fa94aSJames Hogan architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit 117c19fa94aSJames Hogan architectures without unaligned access. 118c19fa94aSJames Hogan 119c19fa94aSJames Hogan This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit 120c19fa94aSJames Hogan accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even 121c19fa94aSJames Hogan though it is not a 64 bit architecture. 122c19fa94aSJames Hogan 123c19fa94aSJames Hogan See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more 124c19fa94aSJames Hogan information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 125c19fa94aSJames Hogan 12658340a07SJohannes Bergconfig HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 1279ba16087SJan Beulich bool 12858340a07SJohannes Berg help 12958340a07SJohannes Berg Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses 13058340a07SJohannes Berg without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are 13158340a07SJohannes Berg unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on 13258340a07SJohannes Berg unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception 13358340a07SJohannes Berg handler.) 13458340a07SJohannes Berg 13558340a07SJohannes Berg This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can 13658340a07SJohannes Berg perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different 13758340a07SJohannes Berg code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network 13858340a07SJohannes Berg drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment 13958340a07SJohannes Berg problems with received packets if doing so would not help 14058340a07SJohannes Berg much. 14158340a07SJohannes Berg 14258340a07SJohannes Berg See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more 14358340a07SJohannes Berg information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 14458340a07SJohannes Berg 145cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouseconfig ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 146cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse bool 147cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse help 148cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions 149cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old 150cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the 151cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's 152cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In 153cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap 154cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or 155cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It 156cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the 157cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it 158cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse does, the use of the builtins is optional. 159cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 160cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap 161cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it 162cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse on architectures that don't have such instructions. 163cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 1649edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig KRETPROBES 1659edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli def_bool y 1669edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES 1679edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1687c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1697c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 1707c68af6eSAvi Kivity depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1717c68af6eSAvi Kivity help 1727c68af6eSAvi Kivity Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to 1737c68af6eSAvi Kivity switch to user mode. 1747c68af6eSAvi Kivity 17528b2ee20SRik van Rielconfig HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 1769ba16087SJan Beulich bool 17728b2ee20SRik van Riel 178125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_KPROBES 1799ba16087SJan Beulich bool 1809edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1819edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig HAVE_KRETPROBES 1829ba16087SJan Beulich bool 18374bc7ceeSArthur Kepner 184afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_OPTPROBES 185afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu bool 186d314d74cSCong Wang 187e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 188e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu bool 189e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 190d314d74cSCong Wangconfig HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 191d314d74cSCong Wang bool 1921f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 1931f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 1941f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 1951f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 1961f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 1971f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 1981f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 1991f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 2001f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 2011f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 2021f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume() 2031f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler() 2041f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2051f5a4ad9SRoland McGrathconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2069ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2071f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath 208c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 209c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool 210c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 21129d5e047SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 21229d5e047SThomas Gleixner bool 21329d5e047SThomas Gleixner 214485cf5daSKevin Hilmanconfig GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 215485cf5daSKevin Hilman bool 216485cf5daSKevin Hilman 217a6359d1eSThomas Gleixner# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c 218a6359d1eSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_INIT_TASK 219a4a2eb49SThomas Gleixner bool 220a4a2eb49SThomas Gleixner 221f5e10287SThomas Gleixner# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function 222f5e10287SThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 223f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 224f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 225f5e10287SThomas Gleixner# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function 226f5e10287SThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR 227f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 228f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 2295aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 2305aaeb5c0SIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 2315aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar bool 2325aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 233f850c30cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 234f850c30cSHeiko Carstens bool 235e01292b1SHeiko Carstens help 236e01292b1SHeiko Carstens This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports 237e01292b1SHeiko Carstens the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 238e01292b1SHeiko Carstens declared in asm/ptrace.h 239e01292b1SHeiko Carstens For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 240f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 2419483a578SDavid Brownellconfig HAVE_CLK 2429ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2439483a578SDavid Brownell help 2449483a578SDavid Brownell The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and 2459483a578SDavid Brownell thus are a key power management tool on many systems. 2469483a578SDavid Brownell 2475ee00bd4SJoerg Roedelconfig HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 2485ee00bd4SJoerg Roedel bool 24936cd3c9fSHeiko Carstens 25062a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 25162a038d3SK.Prasad bool 25299e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 25362a038d3SK.Prasad 2540102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 2550102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 2560102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2570102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 2580102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 2590102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 2600102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 2610102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 2620102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 2630102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 2640102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 2657c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 2667c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 267a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 268c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 269c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 27023637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 27123637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 27223637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 27323637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 274c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 275c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 276c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 277c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 278c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 279c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 280c5e63197SJiri Olsa 281c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 282c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 283c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 284c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 285c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 286c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 287c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 288bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 289bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 290bf5438fcSJason Baron 29126723911SPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE 29226723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 29326723911SPeter Zijlstra 294df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 295df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 296df013ffbSHuang Ying 29743570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 29843570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 29943570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 30043570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 30143570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 30243570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 30343570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 30443570fd2SHeiko Carstens 3054156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 3064156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 3074156153cSHeiko Carstens 3082565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 3092565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 3102565409fSHeiko Carstens 311c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 312c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 313c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 314c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 315c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 316c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 31748b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 318c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 31948b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 32048b25c43SChris Metcalf 321e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 322e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 323e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 324fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 325bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 326bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 327bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 328bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 329fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 330fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 331fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 332fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 33348dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 334e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 335ff27f38eSAndy Lutomirski For best performance, an arch should use seccomp_phase1 and 336ff27f38eSAndy Lutomirski seccomp_phase2 directly. It should call seccomp_phase1 for all 337ff27f38eSAndy Lutomirski syscalls if TIF_SECCOMP is set, but seccomp_phase1 does not 338ff27f38eSAndy Lutomirski need to be called from a ptrace-safe context. It must then 339ff27f38eSAndy Lutomirski call seccomp_phase2 if seccomp_phase1 returns anything other 340ff27f38eSAndy Lutomirski than SECCOMP_PHASE1_OK or SECCOMP_PHASE1_SKIP. 341ff27f38eSAndy Lutomirski 342ff27f38eSAndy Lutomirski As an additional optimization, an arch may provide seccomp_data 343ff27f38eSAndy Lutomirski directly to seccomp_phase1; this avoids multiple calls 344ff27f38eSAndy Lutomirski to the syscall_xyz helpers for every syscall. 345ff27f38eSAndy Lutomirski 346e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 347e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 348e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 349e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 350e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 351e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 352e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 353e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 354e2cfabdfSWill Drewry See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. 355e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 35619952a92SKees Cookconfig HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 35719952a92SKees Cook bool 35819952a92SKees Cook help 35919952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 36019952a92SKees Cook - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option 36119952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 36219952a92SKees Cook 36319952a92SKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 3648779657dSKees Cook def_bool n 36519952a92SKees Cook help 3668779657dSKees Cook Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build 3678779657dSKees Cook can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature. 3688779657dSKees Cook 3698779657dSKees Cookchoice 3708779657dSKees Cook prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 3718779657dSKees Cook depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 3728779657dSKees Cook default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 3738779657dSKees Cook help 3748779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 37519952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 37619952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 37719952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 37819952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 37919952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 38019952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 38119952a92SKees Cook 3828779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 3838779657dSKees Cook bool "None" 3848779657dSKees Cook help 3858779657dSKees Cook Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature. 3868779657dSKees Cook 3878779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR 3888779657dSKees Cook bool "Regular" 3898779657dSKees Cook select CC_STACKPROTECTOR 3908779657dSKees Cook help 3918779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 3928779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 3938779657dSKees Cook 39419952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 3958779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 3968779657dSKees Cook 3978779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 3988779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 3998779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 4008779657dSKees Cook 4018779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 4028779657dSKees Cook bool "Strong" 4038779657dSKees Cook select CC_STACKPROTECTOR 4048779657dSKees Cook help 4058779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 4068779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 4078779657dSKees Cook 4088779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 4098779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 4108779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 4118779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 4128779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 4138779657dSKees Cook 4148779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 4158779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 4168779657dSKees Cook 4178779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 4188779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 4198779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 4208779657dSKees Cook 4218779657dSKees Cookendchoice 42219952a92SKees Cook 42391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 4242b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 4252b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 42691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 42791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 42891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through 42991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be 43091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside 43191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on 43291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker irq exit still need to be protected. 4332b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 434b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 435b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 436b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 437554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 438554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 439554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 440554b0004SKevin Hilman help 441554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 442554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 443554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 444554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 445554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 446554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 447554b0004SKevin Hilman 448554b0004SKevin Hilman 449fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 450fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 451fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 452fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 453fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 454fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 45515626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 45615626062SGerald Schaefer bool 45715626062SGerald Schaefer 4580ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 4590ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 4600ddab1d2SToshi Kani 4610f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 4620f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 4630f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 464786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 465786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 466786d35d4SDavid Howells help 467786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 468786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 469786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 470786d35d4SDavid Howells 471786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 472786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 473786d35d4SDavid Howells help 474786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 475786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 476786d35d4SDavid Howells 477786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 478786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 479786d35d4SDavid Howells help 480786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 481786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 482786d35d4SDavid Howells 483b92021b0SRusty Russellconfig HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX 484b92021b0SRusty Russell bool 485b92021b0SRusty Russell help 486b92021b0SRusty Russell Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like 487b92021b0SRusty Russell module loading and assembly files need to know about this. 488b92021b0SRusty Russell 489cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 490cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 491cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 492cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 493cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 494cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 495cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 496cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 497cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 498cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 499235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 500235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 501235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 502235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 5032b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 5042b68f6caSKees Cook bool 5052b68f6caSKees Cook help 5062b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 5072b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 5082b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 509204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 5102b68f6caSKees Cook 511d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 512d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 513d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 514d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 515d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 516d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 517d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 518d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 519d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 520d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 521d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 522d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 523d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 524d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 525d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 526d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 527d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 528d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 529d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 530d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 531d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 532d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 533d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 534d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 535d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 536d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 537d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 538d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 539d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 540d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 541d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 542d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 543d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 544d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 545d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 546d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 547d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 548d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 549d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 550d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 551d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 552d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 553d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 554d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 555d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 556d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 557d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 558d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 559d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 560d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 561d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 562d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 563d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 564d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 565d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 566d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 567d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 568d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 569d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 570d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 571d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 572d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 573d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 574d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 575d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 576d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 577d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 578d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 5793033f14aSJosh Triplettconfig HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS 5803033f14aSJosh Triplett bool 5813033f14aSJosh Triplett help 5823033f14aSJosh Triplett Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via 5833033f14aSJosh Triplett normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall 5843033f14aSJosh Triplett argument from pt_regs. 5853033f14aSJosh Triplett 586b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 587b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 588b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 589b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which 590b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf performs compile-time stack metadata validation. 591b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 592*468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 593*468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 594*468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 595*468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 596*468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 597*468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 598*468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 599*468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 600d2125043SAl Viro# 601d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 602d2125043SAl Viro# 603d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 604d2125043SAl Viro bool 605d2125043SAl Viro help 606d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 607d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 608d2125043SAl Viro 609d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 610d2125043SAl Viro bool 611d2125043SAl Viro help 612d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 613d2125043SAl Viro 614dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 615dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 616dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 617dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 618dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 619dfa9771aSMichal Simek 620eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 621eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 622eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 623eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 624eaca6eaeSAl Viro 6250a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 6260a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 6270a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 6280a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 6290a0e8cdfSAl Viro 6300a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 6310a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 6320a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 6330a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 6340a0e8cdfSAl Viro 635495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 636495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 637495dfbf7SAl Viro help 638495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 639495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 640495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 641495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 642495dfbf7SAl Viro 643495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 644495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 645495dfbf7SAl Viro 6460d4a619bSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP 6470d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig bool 6480d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig 6492521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 650