1b2441318SGreg Kroah-Hartman# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 3fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# General architecture dependent options 4fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 5125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 61572497cSChristoph Hellwig# 71572497cSChristoph Hellwig# Note: arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig needs to be included first so that it can 81572497cSChristoph Hellwig# override the default values in this file. 91572497cSChristoph Hellwig# 101572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig" 111572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1222471e13SRandy Dunlapmenu "General architecture-dependent options" 1322471e13SRandy Dunlap 14692f66f2SHari Bathiniconfig CRASH_CORE 15692f66f2SHari Bathini bool 16692f66f2SHari Bathini 172965faa5SDave Youngconfig KEXEC_CORE 18692f66f2SHari Bathini select CRASH_CORE 192965faa5SDave Young bool 202965faa5SDave Young 21175fca3bSSven Schnelleconfig KEXEC_ELF 22175fca3bSSven Schnelle bool 23175fca3bSSven Schnelle 24467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig HAVE_IMA_KEXEC 25467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermann bool 26467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermann 2705736e4aSThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_SMT 2805736e4aSThomas Gleixner bool 2905736e4aSThomas Gleixner 30142781e1SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_ENTRY 31142781e1SThomas Gleixner bool 32142781e1SThomas Gleixner 33125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig KPROBES 34125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Kprobes" 3505ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu depends on MODULES 36125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_KPROBES 3705ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu select KALLSYMS 38125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 39125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and 40125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes 41125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful 42125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. 43125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If in doubt, say "N". 44125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 4545f81b1cSSteven Rostedtconfig JUMP_LABEL 46c5905afbSIngo Molnar bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" 4745f81b1cSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 48e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 49*4ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL if HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK 5045f81b1cSSteven Rostedt help 51c5905afbSIngo Molnar This option enables a transparent branch optimization that 52c5905afbSIngo Molnar makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch 53c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. 5445f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 55c5905afbSIngo Molnar Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, 56c5905afbSIngo Molnar scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such 57c5905afbSIngo Molnar branches and include support for this optimization technique. 58c5905afbSIngo Molnar 59c5905afbSIngo Molnar If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", 60c5905afbSIngo Molnar the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop 61c5905afbSIngo Molnar instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the 62c5905afbSIngo Molnar nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the 63c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditional block of instructions. 64c5905afbSIngo Molnar 65c5905afbSIngo Molnar This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction 66c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update 67c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. 68c5905afbSIngo Molnar 69c5905afbSIngo Molnar ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler 70c5905afbSIngo Molnar flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) 7145f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 721987c947SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST 731987c947SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static key selftest" 741987c947SPeter Zijlstra depends on JUMP_LABEL 751987c947SPeter Zijlstra help 761987c947SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. 771987c947SPeter Zijlstra 78f03c4129SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_CALL_SELFTEST 79f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static call selftest" 80f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 81f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra help 82f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the call patching code. 83f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra 84afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig OPTPROBES 855cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 865cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES 8701b1d88bSThomas Gleixner select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 88afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu 89e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 90e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 91e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 92e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 93e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu help 94e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full 95e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can 96e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu optimize on top of function tracing. 97e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 982b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig UPROBES 9909294e31SDavid A. Long def_bool n 100e8f4aa60SAllen Pais depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 1012b144498SSrikar Dronamraju help 1027b2d81d4SIngo Molnar Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they 1037b2d81d4SIngo Molnar enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') 1047b2d81d4SIngo Molnar to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and 1057b2d81d4SIngo Molnar libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes 1067b2d81d4SIngo Molnar are hit by user-space applications. 1077b2d81d4SIngo Molnar 1087b2d81d4SIngo Molnar ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, 1097b2d81d4SIngo Molnar managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed 1107b2d81d4SIngo Molnar application. ) 1112b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 112adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS 113adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 114adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 115adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit 116adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values 117adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit 118adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit 119adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) architectures without unaligned access. 120adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 121adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit 122adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even 123adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) though it is not a 64 bit architecture. 124adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 125ba1a297dSLukas Bulwahn See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for 126ba1a297dSLukas Bulwahn more information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 127adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 12858340a07SJohannes Bergconfig HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 1299ba16087SJan Beulich bool 13058340a07SJohannes Berg help 13158340a07SJohannes Berg Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses 13258340a07SJohannes Berg without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are 13358340a07SJohannes Berg unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on 13458340a07SJohannes Berg unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception 13558340a07SJohannes Berg handler.) 13658340a07SJohannes Berg 13758340a07SJohannes Berg This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can 13858340a07SJohannes Berg perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different 13958340a07SJohannes Berg code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network 14058340a07SJohannes Berg drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment 14158340a07SJohannes Berg problems with received packets if doing so would not help 14258340a07SJohannes Berg much. 14358340a07SJohannes Berg 144c9b54d6fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for more 14558340a07SJohannes Berg information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 14658340a07SJohannes Berg 147cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouseconfig ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 148cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse bool 149cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse help 150cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions 151cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old 152cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the 153cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's 154cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In 155cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap 156cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or 157cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It 158cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the 159cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it 160cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse does, the use of the builtins is optional. 161cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 162cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap 163cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it 164cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse on architectures that don't have such instructions. 165cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 1669edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig KRETPROBES 1679edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli def_bool y 16873f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && (HAVE_KRETPROBES || HAVE_RETHOOK) 16973f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu 17073f9b911SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KRETPROBE_ON_RETHOOK 17173f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 17273f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 17373f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KRETPROBES 17473f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu select RETHOOK 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 1981f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE 1991f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 2001f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2011f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu Since kretprobes modifies return address on the stack, the 2021f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu stacktrace may see the kretprobe trampoline address instead 2031f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu of correct one. If the architecture stacktrace code and 2041f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu unwinder can adjust such entries, select this configuration. 2051f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu 206540adea3SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 2079802d865SJosef Bacik bool 2089802d865SJosef Bacik 20942a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig HAVE_NMI 21042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek bool 21142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 212a257caccSChristophe Leroyconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS 213a257caccSChristophe Leroy bool 214a257caccSChristophe Leroy 2154aae683fSMasahiro Yamadaconfig TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 2164aae683fSMasahiro Yamada bool 2174aae683fSMasahiro Yamada 2181f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2191f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 2201f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2211f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 2221f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 2231f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 2241f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 2251f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 2261f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 227153474baSEric W. Biederman# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 22803248addSEric W. Biederman# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls resume_user_mode_work() 2291f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2301f5a4ad9SRoland McGrathconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2319ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2321f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath 233c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 234c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool 235c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 23629d5e047SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 23729d5e047SThomas Gleixner bool 23829d5e047SThomas Gleixner 239485cf5daSKevin Hilmanconfig GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 240485cf5daSKevin Hilman bool 241485cf5daSKevin Hilman 2426974f0c4SDaniel Micayconfig ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 2436974f0c4SDaniel Micay bool 2446974f0c4SDaniel Micay help 2456974f0c4SDaniel Micay An architecture should select this when it can successfully 2466974f0c4SDaniel Micay build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. 2476974f0c4SDaniel Micay 248d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 249d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd 250d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# command line option 251d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 252d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD 253d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig bool 254d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig 255d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h 256d2852a22SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 257d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann bool 258d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann 259d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe# Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions 260d253ca0cSRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 261d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe bool 262d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe 263c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 264fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architecture provides the arch_dma_set_uncached symbol to 265a86ecfa6SColin Ian King# either provide an uncached segment alias for a DMA allocation, or 266fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# to remap the page tables in place. 267c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 268fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED 269c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig bool 270c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig 271999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 272999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architectures provides the arch_dma_clear_uncached symbol 273999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# to undo an in-place page table remap for uncached access. 274999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 275999a5d12SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED 276f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 277f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 2785905429aSKees Cook# Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section 2795905429aSKees Cookconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK 2805905429aSKees Cook bool 2815905429aSKees Cook 2825905429aSKees Cook# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function 2835905429aSKees Cookconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 2845905429aSKees Cook bool 2855905429aSKees Cook 2865905429aSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST 2875905429aSKees Cook bool 2885905429aSKees Cook depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 289b235beeaSLinus Torvalds help 290b235beeaSLinus Torvalds An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy 291f5e10287SThomas Gleixner knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be 292f5e10287SThomas Gleixner whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the 2935aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist() 2945aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct 2955aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar field in task_struct will be left whitelisted. 2965aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 297942fa985SYury Norov# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function 298942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR 299942fa985SYury Norov bool 300942fa985SYury Norov 301942fa985SYury Norov# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 302942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 303942fa985SYury Norov bool 304942fa985SYury Norov 30551c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR 30651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers bool 30751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers help 30851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers An architecture should select this if the noinstr macro is being used on 30951c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers functions to denote that the toolchain should avoid instrumenting such 31051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers functions and is required for correctness. 31151c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 312942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T 313942fa985SYury Norov bool 314942fa985SYury Norov depends on !64BIT 315942fa985SYury Norov help 316942fa985SYury Norov All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on 317942fa985SYury Norov userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This 318942fa985SYury Norov is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures 319942fa985SYury Norov still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such 320942fa985SYury Norov architectures explicitly. 321942fa985SYury Norov 32296c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens# Selected by 64 bit architectures which have a 32 bit f_tinode in struct ustat 32396c0a6a7SHeiko Carstensconfig ARCH_32BIT_USTAT_F_TINODE 32496c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens bool 32596c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens 3262ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS 3272ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 3282ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 329a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it provides 3302ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols 3312ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada exported from assembly code. 3322ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 333f850c30cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 334f850c30cSHeiko Carstens bool 335e01292b1SHeiko Carstens help 336a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports 337e01292b1SHeiko Carstens the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 338e01292b1SHeiko Carstens declared in asm/ptrace.h 339e01292b1SHeiko Carstens For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 340f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 341d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_RSEQ 342d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool 343d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 344d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 345d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it 346d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers supports an implementation of restartable sequences. 347d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 3483c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 3493c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu bool 3503c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu help 351a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports 3523c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs, 3533c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu declared in asm/ptrace.h 3543c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu 35562a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 35662a038d3SK.Prasad bool 35799e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 35862a038d3SK.Prasad 3590102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 3600102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 3610102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 3620102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 3630102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 3640102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 3650102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 3660102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 3670102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 3680102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 3690102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 3707c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 3717c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 372a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 373c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 374c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 37523637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 37623637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 37723637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 37823637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 379c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 38005a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 38105a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 38205a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 38305a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 38405a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup 38505a4a952SNicholas Piggin detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. 38605a4a952SNicholas Piggin 38705a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 38805a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_NMI 38905a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 39005a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 39105a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides 39205a4a952SNicholas Piggin asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(). 39305a4a952SNicholas Piggin 39405a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 39505a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 39605a4a952SNicholas Piggin select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 39705a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 39805a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is 39905a4a952SNicholas Piggin a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config 40005a4a952SNicholas Piggin interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem. 40105a4a952SNicholas Piggin 402c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 403c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 404c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 405c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 406c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 407c5e63197SJiri Olsa 408c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 409c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 410c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 411c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 412c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 413c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 414c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 415bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 416bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 417bf5438fcSJason Baron 41850ff18abSArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE 41950ff18abSArd Biesheuvel bool 42050ff18abSArd Biesheuvel 4210d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 4220d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra bool 4230d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra 424ff2e6d72SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 42526723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 4260d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 42726723911SPeter Zijlstra 4283af4bd03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE 429ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra bool 430ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra 43127796d03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE 43227796d03SPeter Zijlstra bool 43327796d03SPeter Zijlstra 434580a586cSPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER 435952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky bool 4360d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 437952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky 438d53c3dfbSNicholas Pigginconfig ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM 439d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin bool 440d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin help 441d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin Temporary select until all architectures can be converted to have 442d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin irqs disabled over activate_mm. Architectures that do IPI based TLB 443d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin shootdowns should enable this. 444d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin 445df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 446df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 447df013ffbSHuang Ying 44843570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 44943570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 45043570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 45143570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 45243570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 45343570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 45443570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 45543570fd2SHeiko Carstens 4564156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 4574156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 4584156153cSHeiko Carstens 4592565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 4602565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 4612565409fSHeiko Carstens 46277e58496SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 46377e58496SPaul E. McKenney bool 46477e58496SPaul E. McKenney 465c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 466c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 467c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 468c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 469c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 470c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 47148b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 472c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 47348b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 47448b25c43SChris Metcalf 475282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 476e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 477e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 478282a181bSYiFei Zhu An arch should select this symbol to support seccomp mode 1 (the fixed 479282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscall policy), and must provide an overrides for __NR_seccomp_sigreturn, 480282a181bSYiFei Zhu and compat syscalls if the asm-generic/seccomp.h defaults need adjustment: 481282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_read_32 482282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_write_32 483282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_exit_32 484282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_sigreturn_32 485282a181bSYiFei Zhu 486282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 487282a181bSYiFei Zhu bool 488282a181bSYiFei Zhu select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 489282a181bSYiFei Zhu help 490fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 491282a181bSYiFei Zhu - all the requirements for HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 492bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 493bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 494bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 495bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 496fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 497fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 498fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 499fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 50048dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 5010d8315ddSYiFei Zhu - if !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR, have SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE, 5020d8315ddSYiFei Zhu SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NR, SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NAME defined. If 5030d8315ddSYiFei Zhu COMPAT is supported, have the SECCOMP_ARCH_COMPAT* defines too. 504e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 505282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig SECCOMP 506282a181bSYiFei Zhu prompt "Enable seccomp to safely execute untrusted bytecode" 507282a181bSYiFei Zhu def_bool y 508282a181bSYiFei Zhu depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 509282a181bSYiFei Zhu help 510282a181bSYiFei Zhu This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 511282a181bSYiFei Zhu that may need to handle untrusted bytecode during their 512282a181bSYiFei Zhu execution. By using pipes or other transports made available 513282a181bSYiFei Zhu to the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 514282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in their 515282a181bSYiFei Zhu own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is enabled via 516282a181bSYiFei Zhu prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) or the seccomp() syscall, it cannot be 517282a181bSYiFei Zhu disabled and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe 518282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscalls defined by each seccomp mode. 519282a181bSYiFei Zhu 520282a181bSYiFei Zhu If unsure, say Y. 521282a181bSYiFei Zhu 522e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 523e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 524e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 525e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 526e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 527e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 528e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 529e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 5305fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details. 531e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 5320d8315ddSYiFei Zhuconfig SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG 5330d8315ddSYiFei Zhu bool "Show seccomp filter cache status in /proc/pid/seccomp_cache" 5340d8315ddSYiFei Zhu depends on SECCOMP_FILTER && !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR 5350d8315ddSYiFei Zhu depends on PROC_FS 5360d8315ddSYiFei Zhu help 5370d8315ddSYiFei Zhu This enables the /proc/pid/seccomp_cache interface to monitor 5380d8315ddSYiFei Zhu seccomp cache data. The file format is subject to change. Reading 5390d8315ddSYiFei Zhu the file requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. 5400d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 5410d8315ddSYiFei Zhu This option is for debugging only. Enabling presents the risk that 5420d8315ddSYiFei Zhu an adversary may be able to infer the seccomp filter logic. 5430d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 5440d8315ddSYiFei Zhu If unsure, say N. 5450d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 546afaef01cSAlexander Popovconfig HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK 547afaef01cSAlexander Popov bool 548afaef01cSAlexander Popov help 549afaef01cSAlexander Popov An architecture should select this if it has the code which 550afaef01cSAlexander Popov fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON 551afaef01cSAlexander Popov value before returning from system calls. 552afaef01cSAlexander Popov 553d148eac0SMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 55419952a92SKees Cook bool 55519952a92SKees Cook help 55619952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 55719952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 55819952a92SKees Cook 559050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR 5602a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 561d148eac0SMasahiro Yamada depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 5622a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector) 5632a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 5648779657dSKees Cook help 5658779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 56619952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 56719952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 56819952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 56919952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 57019952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 57119952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 57219952a92SKees Cook 5738779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 5748779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 5758779657dSKees Cook 57619952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 5778779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 5788779657dSKees Cook 5798779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5808779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 5818779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 5828779657dSKees Cook 583050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 5842a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Strong Stack Protector" 585050e9baaSLinus Torvalds depends on STACKPROTECTOR 5862a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong) 5872a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 5888779657dSKees Cook help 5898779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 5908779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 5918779657dSKees Cook 5928779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 5938779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 5948779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 5958779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 5968779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 5978779657dSKees Cook 5988779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 5998779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 6008779657dSKees Cook 6018779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 6028779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 6038779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 6048779657dSKees Cook 605d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 606d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen bool 607d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 608afcf5441SDan Li An architecture should select this if it supports the compiler's 609afcf5441SDan Li Shadow Call Stack and implements runtime support for shadow stack 610aa7a65aeSWill Deacon switching. 611d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 612d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig SHADOW_CALL_STACK 613afcf5441SDan Li bool "Shadow Call Stack" 614afcf5441SDan Li depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 615ddc9863eSSami Tolvanen depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || !FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 616d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 617afcf5441SDan Li This option enables the compiler's Shadow Call Stack, which 618afcf5441SDan Li uses a shadow stack to protect function return addresses from 619afcf5441SDan Li being overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found 620afcf5441SDan Li in the compiler's documentation: 621d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 622afcf5441SDan Li - Clang: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html 623afcf5441SDan Li - GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Instrumentation-Options.html#Instrumentation-Options 624d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 625d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the 626d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses 627d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable of 628d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them 629d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks. 630d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 631dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO 632dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 633dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 634dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Selected if the kernel will be built using the compiler's LTO feature. 635dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 636dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG 637dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 638dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO 639dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 640dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Selected if the kernel will be built using Clang's LTO feature. 641dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 642dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 643dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 644dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 645dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it supports: 646dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - compiling with Clang, 647dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - compiling inline assembly with Clang's integrated assembler, 648dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - and linking with LLD. 649dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 650dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 651dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 652dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 653dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it can support Clang's 654dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen ThinLTO mode. 655dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 656dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig HAS_LTO_CLANG 657dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 6581e68a8afSNathan Chancellor depends on CC_IS_CLANG && LD_IS_LLD && AS_IS_LLVM 659dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on $(success,$(NM) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) 660dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on $(success,$(AR) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) 661dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 662dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 663bf3c2551SSami Tolvanen depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS 664dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !GCOV_KERNEL 665dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 666dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen The compiler and Kconfig options support building with Clang's 667dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen LTO. 668dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 669dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenchoice 670dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen prompt "Link Time Optimization (LTO)" 671dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen default LTO_NONE 672dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 673dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Link Time Optimization (LTO), which allows the 674dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen compiler to optimize binaries globally. 675dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 676dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen If unsure, select LTO_NONE. Note that LTO is very resource-intensive 677dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen so it's disabled by default. 678dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 679dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_NONE 680dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "None" 681dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 682dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Build the kernel normally, without Link Time Optimization (LTO). 683dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 684dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG_FULL 685dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "Clang Full LTO (EXPERIMENTAL)" 686dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG 687dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !COMPILE_TEST 688dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO_CLANG 689dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 690dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's full Link Time Optimization (LTO), which 691dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen allows the compiler to optimize the kernel globally. If you enable 692dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen this option, the compiler generates LLVM bitcode instead of ELF 693dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen object files, and the actual compilation from bitcode happens at 694dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen the LTO link step, which may take several minutes depending on the 695dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen kernel configuration. More information can be found from LLVM's 696dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen documentation: 697dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 698dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html 699dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 700dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen During link time, this option can use a large amount of RAM, and 701dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen may take much longer than the ThinLTO option. 702dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 703dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG_THIN 704dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "Clang ThinLTO (EXPERIMENTAL)" 705dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 706dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO_CLANG 707dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 708dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's ThinLTO, which allows for parallel 709dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen optimization and faster incremental compiles compared to the 710dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL option. More information can be found 711dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen from Clang's documentation: 712dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 713dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html 714dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 715dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen If unsure, say Y. 716dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenendchoice 717dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 718cf68fffbSSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG 719cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool 720cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 721cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it can support Clang's 722cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) checking. 723cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 724cf68fffbSSami Tolvanenconfig CFI_CLANG 725cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool "Use Clang's Control Flow Integrity (CFI)" 726cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen depends on LTO_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG 727cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen # Clang >= 12: 728cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen # - https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46258 729cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen # - https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47479 730cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen depends on CLANG_VERSION >= 120000 731cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen select KALLSYMS 732cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 733cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang’s forward-edge Control Flow Integrity 734cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen (CFI) checking, where the compiler injects a runtime check to each 735cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen indirect function call to ensure the target is a valid function with 736cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen the correct static type. This restricts possible call targets and 737cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen makes it more difficult for an attacker to exploit bugs that allow 738cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen the modification of stored function pointers. More information can be 739cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen found from Clang's documentation: 740cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 741cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html 742cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 743cf68fffbSSami Tolvanenconfig CFI_CLANG_SHADOW 744cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool "Use CFI shadow to speed up cross-module checks" 745cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen default y 746cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen depends on CFI_CLANG && MODULES 747cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 748cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen If you select this option, the kernel builds a fast look-up table of 749cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen CFI check functions in loaded modules to reduce performance overhead. 750cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 751cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen If unsure, say Y. 752cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 753cf68fffbSSami Tolvanenconfig CFI_PERMISSIVE 754cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool "Use CFI in permissive mode" 755cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen depends on CFI_CLANG 756cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 757cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen When selected, Control Flow Integrity (CFI) violations result in a 758cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen warning instead of a kernel panic. This option should only be used 759cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen for finding indirect call type mismatches during development. 760cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 761cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen If unsure, say N. 762cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 7630f60a8efSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 7640f60a8efSKees Cook bool 7650f60a8efSKees Cook help 7660f60a8efSKees Cook An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 7670f60a8efSKees Cook frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 7680f60a8efSKees Cook or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 7690f60a8efSKees Cook and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 7700f60a8efSKees Cook which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 7710f60a8efSKees Cook 77291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 7732b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 7742b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 77591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 77691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 777490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter(), either 778490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker optimized behind static key or through the slow path using TIF_NOHZ 779490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs are already 780490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker protected inside rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal 781490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker handling on irq exit still need to be protected. 782490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker 78383c2da2eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK 78483c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 78583c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker help 78683c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker Architecture neither relies on exception_enter()/exception_exit() 78783c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker nor on schedule_user(). Also preempt_schedule_notrace() and 78883c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker preempt_schedule_irq() can't be called in a preemptible section 78983c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker while context tracking is CONTEXT_USER. This feature reflects a sane 79083c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker entry implementation where the following requirements are met on 79183c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker critical entry code, ie: before user_exit() or after user_enter(): 79283c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker 79383c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - Critical entry code isn't preemptible (or better yet: 79483c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker not interruptible). 79583c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - No use of RCU read side critical sections, unless rcu_nmi_enter() 79683c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker got called. 79783c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - No use of instrumentation, unless instrumentation_begin() got 79883c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker called. 79983c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker 800490f561bSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_TIF_NOHZ 801490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker bool 802490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker help 803490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall slow path to implement context 804490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker tracking calls to user_enter()/user_exit(). 8052b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 806b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 807b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 808b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 8092b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_IDLE 8102b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker bool 8112b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker help 8122b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker Architecture has its own way to account idle CPU time and therefore 8132b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker doesn't implement vtime_account_idle(). 8142b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker 81540565b5aSStanislaw Gruszkaconfig ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 81640565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka bool 81740565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka 818554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 819554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 820554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 821554b0004SKevin Hilman help 822554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 823554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 824554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 825554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 826554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 827554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 828554b0004SKevin Hilman 829fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 830fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 831fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 832fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 833fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 834fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 835c49dd340SKalesh Singhconfig HAVE_MOVE_PUD 836c49dd340SKalesh Singh bool 837c49dd340SKalesh Singh help 838c49dd340SKalesh Singh Architectures that select this are able to move page tables at the 839c49dd340SKalesh Singh PUD level. If there are only 3 page table levels, the move effectively 840c49dd340SKalesh Singh happens at the PGD level. 841c49dd340SKalesh Singh 8422c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google)config HAVE_MOVE_PMD 8432c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 8442c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 8452c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level. 8462c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) 84715626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 84815626062SGerald Schaefer bool 84915626062SGerald Schaefer 850a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcoxconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 851a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox bool 852a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox 8530ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 8540ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 8550ddab1d2SToshi Kani 856121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# 857121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# Archs that select this would be capable of PMD-sized vmaps (i.e., 858121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# arch_vmap_pmd_supported() returns true), and they must make no assumptions 859121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# that vmalloc memory is mapped with PAGE_SIZE ptes. The VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP flag 860121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# can be used to prohibit arch-specific allocations from using hugepages to 861121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# help with this (e.g., modules may require it). 862121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# 863121e6f32SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC 864121e6f32SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 865121e6f32SNicholas Piggin bool 866121e6f32SNicholas Piggin 8673876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 8683876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti bool 8693876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti 8700f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 8710f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 8720f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 873786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 874786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 875786d35d4SDavid Howells help 876786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 877786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 878786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 879786d35d4SDavid Howells 880786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 881786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 882786d35d4SDavid Howells help 883786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 884786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 885786d35d4SDavid Howells 886786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 887786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 888786d35d4SDavid Howells help 889786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 890786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 891786d35d4SDavid Howells 892cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 893cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 894cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 895cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 896cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 897cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 898cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 899cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 900cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 901cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 902cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixnerconfig HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK 903cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner bool 904cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner help 905cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner Architecture provides a function to run __do_softirq() on a 906c226bc3cSColin Ian King separate stack. 907cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner 90812700c17SArnd Bergmannconfig ALTERNATE_USER_ADDRESS_SPACE 90912700c17SArnd Bergmann bool 91012700c17SArnd Bergmann help 91112700c17SArnd Bergmann Architectures set this when the CPU uses separate address 91212700c17SArnd Bergmann spaces for kernel and user space pointers. In this case, the 91312700c17SArnd Bergmann access_ok() check on a __user pointer is skipped. 91412700c17SArnd Bergmann 915235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 916235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 917235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 918235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 9192b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 9202b68f6caSKees Cook bool 9212b68f6caSKees Cook help 9222b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 9232b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 9242b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 925204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 9262b68f6caSKees Cook 927d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 928d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 929d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 930d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 931d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 932d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 933d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 934d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 935d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 9365f56a5dfSJiri Slabyconfig HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 9375f56a5dfSJiri Slaby bool 9385f56a5dfSJiri Slaby help 9395f56a5dfSJiri Slaby An architecture implements exit_thread. 9405f56a5dfSJiri Slaby 941d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 942d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 943d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 944d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 945d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 946d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 947d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 948d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 949d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 950d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 951d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 952d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 953d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 954d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 955d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 956d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 957d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 958d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 959d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 960d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 961d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 962d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 963d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 964d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 965d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 966d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 967d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 968d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 969d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 970d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 971d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 972d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 973d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 974d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 975d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 976d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 977d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 978d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 979d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 980d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 981d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 982d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 983d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 984d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 985d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 986d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 987d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 988d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 989d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 990d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 991d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 992d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 993d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 994d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 995d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 996d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 997d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 998d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 999d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 10001b028f78SDmitry Safonovconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 10011b028f78SDmitry Safonov bool 10021b028f78SDmitry Safonov help 10031b028f78SDmitry Safonov This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 10041b028f78SDmitry Safonov and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 10051b028f78SDmitry Safonov Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 10061b028f78SDmitry Safonov 10071f0e290cSGuenter Roeckconfig PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB 10081f0e290cSGuenter Roeck def_bool y 10091f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !ARM64_64K_PAGES 10101f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB 10111f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !PAGE_SIZE_64KB 10121f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB 10131f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !PPC_64K_PAGES 1014e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB 1015e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor 1016e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellorconfig PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB 1017e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor def_bool y 10181f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !PPC_256K_PAGES 10191f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !PAGE_SIZE_256KB 10201f0e290cSGuenter Roeck 102167f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base 102267f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process 102367f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or 102467f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# sysctl_legacy_va_layout). 102567f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of: 102667f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# - STACK_RND_MASK 102767f3977fSAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT 102867f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti bool 102967f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti depends on MMU 1030e7142bf5SAlexandre Ghiti select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 103167f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti 103203f16cd0SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL 103303f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf bool 103403f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf 1035*4ab7674fSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK 1036*4ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf bool 1037*4ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf 1038b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 1039b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 1040b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 104103f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports objtool compile-time frame pointer rule 104203f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf validation. 1043b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 1044af085d90SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 1045af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf bool 1046af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf help 1047140d7e88SMiroslav Benes Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or 1048140d7e88SMiroslav Benes arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace 1049140d7e88SMiroslav Benes if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 1050af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf 1051468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 1052468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 1053468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 1054468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 1055468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 1056468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 1057468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 1058468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 1059666047feSFinn Thainconfig HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS 1060666047feSFinn Thain bool 1061666047feSFinn Thain 10623a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS_API 10633a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray def_bool ISA 10643a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 1065d2125043SAl Viro# 1066d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 1067d2125043SAl Viro# 1068d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 1069d2125043SAl Viro bool 1070d2125043SAl Viro help 1071d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 1072d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 1073d2125043SAl Viro 1074d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 1075d2125043SAl Viro bool 1076d2125043SAl Viro help 1077d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 1078d2125043SAl Viro 1079dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 1080dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 1081dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 1082dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 1083dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 1084dfa9771aSMichal Simek 1085eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 1086eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 1087eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 1088eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 1089eaca6eaeSAl Viro 10900a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 10910a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 10920a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 10930a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 10940a0e8cdfSAl Viro 10950a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 10960a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 10970a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 10980a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 10990a0e8cdfSAl Viro 1100495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 1101495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 1102495dfbf7SAl Viro help 1103495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 1104495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 1105495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 1106495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 1107495dfbf7SAl Viro 1108495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 1109495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 1110495dfbf7SAl Viro 111117435e5fSDeepa Dinamaniconfig COMPAT_32BIT_TIME 1112942437c9SArnd Bergmann bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t" 1113942437c9SArnd Bergmann default !64BIT || COMPAT 111417435e5fSDeepa Dinamani help 111517435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support. 111617435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures 111717435e5fSDeepa Dinamani as part of compat syscall handling. 111817435e5fSDeepa Dinamani 111987a4c375SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 112087a4c375SChristoph Hellwig bool 112187a4c375SChristoph Hellwig 1122cb2c7d1aSMickaël Salaünconfig ARCH_EPHEMERAL_INODES 1123cb2c7d1aSMickaël Salaün def_bool n 1124cb2c7d1aSMickaël Salaün help 1125cb2c7d1aSMickaël Salaün An arch should select this symbol if it doesn't keep track of inode 1126cb2c7d1aSMickaël Salaün instances on its own, but instead relies on something else (e.g. the 1127cb2c7d1aSMickaël Salaün host kernel for an UML kernel). 1128cb2c7d1aSMickaël Salaün 1129a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT 1130a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner bool 1131a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner 1132fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zengconfig CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 1133fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng def_bool n 1134fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng 1135ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 1136ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 1137ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski help 1138ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 1139ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski in vmalloc space. This means: 1140ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1141ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 1142ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 1143ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1144ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 1145ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 1146ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 1147ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 1148ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 1149ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 1150ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1151ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 1152ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 1153ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 1154ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1155ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VMAP_STACK 1156ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski default y 1157ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 1158eafb149eSDaniel Axtens depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 115938dd767dSAndrey Konovalov depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || KASAN_VMALLOC 1160a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1161ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 1162ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 1163ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 1164ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski corruption. 1165ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 116638dd767dSAndrey Konovalov To use this with software KASAN modes, the architecture must support 116738dd767dSAndrey Konovalov backing virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC 116838dd767dSAndrey Konovalov must be enabled. 1169ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 117039218ff4SKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 117139218ff4SKees Cook def_bool n 117239218ff4SKees Cook help 117339218ff4SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stack 117439218ff4SKees Cook offset randomization with calls to add_random_kstack_offset() 117539218ff4SKees Cook during syscall entry and choose_random_kstack_offset() during 117639218ff4SKees Cook syscall exit. Careful removal of -fstack-protector-strong and 117739218ff4SKees Cook -fstack-protector should also be applied to the entry code and 117839218ff4SKees Cook closely examined, as the artificial stack bump looks like an array 117939218ff4SKees Cook to the compiler, so it will attempt to add canary checks regardless 118039218ff4SKees Cook of the static branch state. 118139218ff4SKees Cook 11828cb37a59SMarco Elverconfig RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 11838cb37a59SMarco Elver bool "Support for randomizing kernel stack offset on syscall entry" if EXPERT 11848cb37a59SMarco Elver default y 118539218ff4SKees Cook depends on HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 1186efa90c11SMarco Elver depends on INIT_STACK_NONE || !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 140000 118739218ff4SKees Cook help 118839218ff4SKees Cook The kernel stack offset can be randomized (after pt_regs) by 118939218ff4SKees Cook roughly 5 bits of entropy, frustrating memory corruption 119039218ff4SKees Cook attacks that depend on stack address determinism or 11918cb37a59SMarco Elver cross-syscall address exposures. 11928cb37a59SMarco Elver 11938cb37a59SMarco Elver The feature is controlled via the "randomize_kstack_offset=on/off" 11948cb37a59SMarco Elver kernel boot param, and if turned off has zero overhead due to its use 11958cb37a59SMarco Elver of static branches (see JUMP_LABEL). 11968cb37a59SMarco Elver 11978cb37a59SMarco Elver If unsure, say Y. 11988cb37a59SMarco Elver 11998cb37a59SMarco Elverconfig RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT 12008cb37a59SMarco Elver bool "Default state of kernel stack offset randomization" 12018cb37a59SMarco Elver depends on RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 12028cb37a59SMarco Elver help 12038cb37a59SMarco Elver Kernel stack offset randomization is controlled by kernel boot param 12048cb37a59SMarco Elver "randomize_kstack_offset=on/off", and this config chooses the default 12058cb37a59SMarco Elver boot state. 120639218ff4SKees Cook 1207ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1208ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1209ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1210ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1211ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1212ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1213ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1214ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1215ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 12160f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1217ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1218ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1219ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1220ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 1221ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 1222ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 1223ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 1224ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott or modifying text) 1225ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1226ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott These features are considered standard security practice these days. 1227ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott You should say Y here in almost all cases. 1228ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1229ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1230ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1231ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 12320f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1233ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1234ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 1235ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1236ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 1237ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 1238ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 1239ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 1240ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1241ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig# select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header 1242ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA 1243ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig bool 1244ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig 124504f264d3SPaul Burtonconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H 124604f264d3SPaul Burton bool 124704f264d3SPaul Burton help 124804f264d3SPaul Burton An architecture can select this if it provides an 124904f264d3SPaul Burton asm/compiler.h header that should be included after 125004f264d3SPaul Burton linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those 125104f264d3SPaul Burton headers generally provide. 125204f264d3SPaul Burton 1253271ca788SArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS 1254271ca788SArd Biesheuvel bool 1255271ca788SArd Biesheuvel help 1256271ca788SArd Biesheuvel May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative 1257271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader, 1258271ca788SArd Biesheuvel in which case relative references can be used in special sections 1259271ca788SArd Biesheuvel for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit 1260271ca788SArd Biesheuvel architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable 1261271ca788SArd Biesheuvel kernels. 1262271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 1263ce9084baSArd Biesheuvelconfig ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT 1264ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel bool 1265ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel 1266fb346fd9SWaiman Longconfig LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS 1267fb346fd9SWaiman Long bool "Locking event counts collection" 1268fb346fd9SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_FS 1269a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1270fb346fd9SWaiman Long Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events 1271fb346fd9SWaiman Long in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces 1272fb346fd9SWaiman Long the chance of application behavior change because of timing 1273fb346fd9SWaiman Long differences. The counts are reported via debugfs. 1274fb346fd9SWaiman Long 12755cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne# Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations. 12765cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig ARCH_HAS_RELR 12775cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool 12785cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 12795cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig RELR 12805cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool "Use RELR relocation packing" 12815cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 12825cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne default y 12835cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne help 12845cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing 12855cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as 12865cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy 12875cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne are compatible). 12885cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 12890c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT 12900c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann bool 12910c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann 129246b49b12STom Lendackyconfig ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM 129346b49b12STom Lendacky bool 129446b49b12STom Lendacky 12950e242208SHassan Naveedconfig HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR 12960e242208SHassan Naveed bool 12970e242208SHassan Naveed help 12980e242208SHassan Naveed An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse 12990e242208SHassan Naveed to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with 13000e242208SHassan Naveed entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall 13010e242208SHassan Naveed related optimizations for a given architecture. 13020e242208SHassan Naveed 1303d60d7de3SSven Schnelleconfig ARCH_HAS_VDSO_DATA 1304d60d7de3SSven Schnelle bool 1305d60d7de3SSven Schnelle 1306115284d8SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL 1307115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf bool 1308115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf 13099183c3f9SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE 13109183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf bool 13119183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 131203f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 13139183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf 13146ef869e0SMichal Hockoconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 13156ef869e0SMichal Hocko bool 131699cf983cSMark Rutland 131799cf983cSMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL 131899cf983cSMark Rutland bool 13196ef869e0SMichal Hocko depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 132099cf983cSMark Rutland select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 13216ef869e0SMichal Hocko help 132299cf983cSMark Rutland An architecture should select this if it can handle the preemption 132399cf983cSMark Rutland model being selected at boot time using static calls. 132499cf983cSMark Rutland 132599cf983cSMark Rutland Where an architecture selects HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE, any call to a 132699cf983cSMark Rutland preemption function will be patched directly. 132799cf983cSMark Rutland 132899cf983cSMark Rutland Where an architecture does not select HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE, any 132999cf983cSMark Rutland call to a preemption function will go through a trampoline, and the 133099cf983cSMark Rutland trampoline will be patched. 133199cf983cSMark Rutland 133299cf983cSMark Rutland It is strongly advised to support inline static call to avoid any 133399cf983cSMark Rutland overhead. 133499cf983cSMark Rutland 133599cf983cSMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_KEY 133699cf983cSMark Rutland bool 133799cf983cSMark Rutland depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL && CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 133899cf983cSMark Rutland select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 133999cf983cSMark Rutland help 134099cf983cSMark Rutland An architecture should select this if it can handle the preemption 134199cf983cSMark Rutland model being selected at boot time using static keys. 134299cf983cSMark Rutland 134399cf983cSMark Rutland Each preemption function will be given an early return based on a 134499cf983cSMark Rutland static key. This should have slightly lower overhead than non-inline 134599cf983cSMark Rutland static calls, as this effectively inlines each trampoline into the 134699cf983cSMark Rutland start of its callee. This may avoid redundant work, and may 134799cf983cSMark Rutland integrate better with CFI schemes. 134899cf983cSMark Rutland 134999cf983cSMark Rutland This will have greater overhead than using inline static calls as 135099cf983cSMark Rutland the call to the preemption function cannot be entirely elided. 13516ef869e0SMichal Hocko 135259612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 135359612b24SNathan Chancellor bool 135459612b24SNathan Chancellor help 135559612b24SNathan Chancellor An arch should select this symbol once all linker sections are explicitly 135659612b24SNathan Chancellor included, size-asserted, or discarded in the linker scripts. This is 135759612b24SNathan Chancellor important because we never want expected sections to be placed heuristically 135859612b24SNathan Chancellor by the linker, since the locations of such sections can change between linker 135959612b24SNathan Chancellor versions. 136059612b24SNathan Chancellor 13614f5b0c17SMike Rapoportconfig HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID 13624f5b0c17SMike Rapoport bool 13634f5b0c17SMike Rapoport 13645d6ad668SMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 13655d6ad668SMike Rapoport bool 13665d6ad668SMike Rapoport 1367df4e817bSPasha Tatashinconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK 1368df4e817bSPasha Tatashin bool 1369df4e817bSPasha Tatashin 13702ca408d9SBrian Gerstconfig ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64 13712ca408d9SBrian Gerst bool 13722ca408d9SBrian Gerst help 13732ca408d9SBrian Gerst If a 32-bit architecture requires 64-bit arguments to be split into 13742ca408d9SBrian Gerst pairs of 32-bit arguments, select this option. 13752ca408d9SBrian Gerst 13767facdc42SAl Viroconfig ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT 13777facdc42SAl Viro bool 13787facdc42SAl Viro 137958e106e7SBalbir Singhconfig ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH 138058e106e7SBalbir Singh bool 138158e106e7SBalbir Singh 13821bdda24cSThomas Gleixnerconfig DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME 13831bdda24cSThomas Gleixner bool 13841bdda24cSThomas Gleixner 138550468e43SJarkko Sakkinen# Select, if arch has a named attribute group bound to NUMA device nodes. 138650468e43SJarkko Sakkinenconfig HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP 138750468e43SJarkko Sakkinen bool 138850468e43SJarkko Sakkinen 13892521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 139045332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 139145332b1bSMasahiro Yamadasource "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig" 1392fa1b5d09SLinus Torvalds 139322471e13SRandy Dunlapendmenu 1394