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 12fe42754bSSean Christophersonconfig ARCH_CONFIGURES_CPU_MITIGATIONS 13fe42754bSSean Christopherson bool 14fe42754bSSean Christopherson 15fe42754bSSean Christophersonif !ARCH_CONFIGURES_CPU_MITIGATIONS 16fe42754bSSean Christophersonconfig CPU_MITIGATIONS 17fe42754bSSean Christopherson def_bool y 18fe42754bSSean Christophersonendif 19fe42754bSSean Christopherson 20de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig# 21de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig# Selected by architectures that need custom DMA operations for e.g. legacy 22de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig# IOMMUs not handled by dma-iommu. Drivers must never select this symbol. 23de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig# 24de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_OPS 25de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig depends on HAS_DMA 26de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig select DMA_OPS_HELPERS 27de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig bool 28de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig 2922471e13SRandy Dunlapmenu "General architecture-dependent options" 3022471e13SRandy Dunlap 31da32b581SCatalin Marinasconfig ARCH_HAS_SUBPAGE_FAULTS 32da32b581SCatalin Marinas bool 33da32b581SCatalin Marinas help 34da32b581SCatalin Marinas Select if the architecture can check permissions at sub-page 35da32b581SCatalin Marinas granularity (e.g. arm64 MTE). The probe_user_*() functions 36da32b581SCatalin Marinas must be implemented. 37da32b581SCatalin Marinas 3805736e4aSThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_SMT 3905736e4aSThomas Gleixner bool 4005736e4aSThomas Gleixner 4138253464SMichael Ellermanconfig SMT_NUM_THREADS_DYNAMIC 4238253464SMichael Ellerman bool 4338253464SMichael Ellerman 447bd291abSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_SCHED_SMT 457bd291abSPeter Zijlstra bool 467bd291abSPeter Zijlstra 477bd291abSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_SCHED_CLUSTER 487bd291abSPeter Zijlstra bool 497bd291abSPeter Zijlstra 507bd291abSPeter Zijlstraconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_SCHED_MC 517bd291abSPeter Zijlstra bool 527bd291abSPeter Zijlstra 537bd291abSPeter Zijlstraconfig SCHED_SMT 547bd291abSPeter Zijlstra bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 557bd291abSPeter Zijlstra depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SCHED_SMT 567bd291abSPeter Zijlstra default y 577bd291abSPeter Zijlstra help 587bd291abSPeter Zijlstra Improves the CPU scheduler's decision making when dealing with 597bd291abSPeter Zijlstra MultiThreading at a cost of slightly increased overhead in some 607bd291abSPeter Zijlstra places. If unsure say N here. 617bd291abSPeter Zijlstra 627bd291abSPeter Zijlstraconfig SCHED_CLUSTER 637bd291abSPeter Zijlstra bool "Cluster scheduler support" 647bd291abSPeter Zijlstra depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SCHED_CLUSTER 657bd291abSPeter Zijlstra default y 667bd291abSPeter Zijlstra help 677bd291abSPeter Zijlstra Cluster scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 687bd291abSPeter Zijlstra making when dealing with machines that have clusters of CPUs. 697bd291abSPeter Zijlstra Cluster usually means a couple of CPUs which are placed closely 707bd291abSPeter Zijlstra by sharing mid-level caches, last-level cache tags or internal 717bd291abSPeter Zijlstra busses. 727bd291abSPeter Zijlstra 737bd291abSPeter Zijlstraconfig SCHED_MC 747bd291abSPeter Zijlstra bool "Multi-Core Cache (MC) scheduler support" 757bd291abSPeter Zijlstra depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SCHED_MC 767bd291abSPeter Zijlstra default y 777bd291abSPeter Zijlstra help 787bd291abSPeter Zijlstra Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 797bd291abSPeter Zijlstra making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 807bd291abSPeter Zijlstra increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 817bd291abSPeter Zijlstra 826f062123SThomas Gleixner# Selected by HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD or HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL 836f062123SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC 846f062123SThomas Gleixner bool 856f062123SThomas Gleixner 866f062123SThomas Gleixner# Basic CPU dead synchronization selected by architecture 876f062123SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD 886f062123SThomas Gleixner bool 896f062123SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC 906f062123SThomas Gleixner 916f062123SThomas Gleixner# Full CPU synchronization with alive state selected by architecture 926f062123SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL 936f062123SThomas Gleixner bool 946f062123SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD if HOTPLUG_CPU 956f062123SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC 966f062123SThomas Gleixner 97a631be92SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP 98a631be92SThomas Gleixner bool 99a631be92SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL 100a631be92SThomas Gleixner 10118415f33SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_PARALLEL 10218415f33SThomas Gleixner bool 10318415f33SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP 10418415f33SThomas Gleixner 105a70e9f64SJinjie Ruanconfig GENERIC_IRQ_ENTRY 106a70e9f64SJinjie Ruan bool 107a70e9f64SJinjie Ruan 108a70e9f64SJinjie Ruanconfig GENERIC_SYSCALL 109a70e9f64SJinjie Ruan bool 110a70e9f64SJinjie Ruan depends on GENERIC_IRQ_ENTRY 111a70e9f64SJinjie Ruan 112142781e1SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_ENTRY 113142781e1SThomas Gleixner bool 114a70e9f64SJinjie Ruan select GENERIC_IRQ_ENTRY 115a70e9f64SJinjie Ruan select GENERIC_SYSCALL 116142781e1SThomas Gleixner 117125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig KPROBES 118125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Kprobes" 119125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_KPROBES 12005ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu select KALLSYMS 1217582b7beSMike Rapoport (IBM) select EXECMEM 122900da4d2SPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 123125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 124125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and 125125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes 126125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful 127125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. 128125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If in doubt, say "N". 129125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 13045f81b1cSSteven Rostedtconfig JUMP_LABEL 131c5905afbSIngo Molnar bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" 13245f81b1cSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 1334ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL if HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK 13445f81b1cSSteven Rostedt help 135c5905afbSIngo Molnar This option enables a transparent branch optimization that 136c5905afbSIngo Molnar makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch 137c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. 13845f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 139c5905afbSIngo Molnar Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, 140c5905afbSIngo Molnar scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such 141c5905afbSIngo Molnar branches and include support for this optimization technique. 142c5905afbSIngo Molnar 143c5905afbSIngo Molnar If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", 144c5905afbSIngo Molnar the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop 145c5905afbSIngo Molnar instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the 146c5905afbSIngo Molnar nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the 147c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditional block of instructions. 148c5905afbSIngo Molnar 149c5905afbSIngo Molnar This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction 150c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update 151c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. 152c5905afbSIngo Molnar 153c5905afbSIngo Molnar ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler 154c5905afbSIngo Molnar flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) 15545f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 1561987c947SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST 1571987c947SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static key selftest" 1581987c947SPeter Zijlstra depends on JUMP_LABEL 1591987c947SPeter Zijlstra help 1601987c947SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. 1611987c947SPeter Zijlstra 162f03c4129SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_CALL_SELFTEST 163f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static call selftest" 164f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 165f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra help 166f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the call patching code. 167f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra 168afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig OPTPROBES 1695cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 1705cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES 171900da4d2SPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 172afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu 173e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 174e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 175e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 176e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 177e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu help 178e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full 179e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can 180e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu optimize on top of function tracing. 181e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 1822b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig UPROBES 18309294e31SDavid A. Long def_bool n 184e8f4aa60SAllen Pais depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 18587195a1eSAndrii Nakryiko select TASKS_TRACE_RCU 1862b144498SSrikar Dronamraju help 1877b2d81d4SIngo Molnar Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they 1887b2d81d4SIngo Molnar enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') 1897b2d81d4SIngo Molnar to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and 1907b2d81d4SIngo Molnar libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes 1917b2d81d4SIngo Molnar are hit by user-space applications. 1927b2d81d4SIngo Molnar 1937b2d81d4SIngo Molnar ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, 1947b2d81d4SIngo Molnar managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed 1957b2d81d4SIngo Molnar application. ) 1962b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 197adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS 198adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 199adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 200adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit 201adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values 202adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit 203adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit 204adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) architectures without unaligned access. 205adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 206adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit 207adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even 208adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) though it is not a 64 bit architecture. 209adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 210ba1a297dSLukas Bulwahn See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for 211ba1a297dSLukas Bulwahn more information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 212adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 21358340a07SJohannes Bergconfig HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 2149ba16087SJan Beulich bool 21558340a07SJohannes Berg help 21658340a07SJohannes Berg Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses 21758340a07SJohannes Berg without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are 21858340a07SJohannes Berg unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on 21958340a07SJohannes Berg unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception 22058340a07SJohannes Berg handler.) 22158340a07SJohannes Berg 22258340a07SJohannes Berg This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can 22358340a07SJohannes Berg perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different 22458340a07SJohannes Berg code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network 22558340a07SJohannes Berg drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment 22658340a07SJohannes Berg problems with received packets if doing so would not help 22758340a07SJohannes Berg much. 22858340a07SJohannes Berg 229c9b54d6fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for more 23058340a07SJohannes Berg information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 23158340a07SJohannes Berg 232cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouseconfig ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 233cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse bool 234cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse help 235*cd4eacccSLukas Bulwahn GCC and Clang have builtin functions for handling byte-swapping. 236*cd4eacccSLukas Bulwahn Using these allows the compiler to see what's happening and 237*cd4eacccSLukas Bulwahn offers more opportunity for optimisation. In particular, the 238*cd4eacccSLukas Bulwahn compiler will be able to combine the byteswap with a nearby load 239*cd4eacccSLukas Bulwahn or store and use load-and-swap or store-and-swap instructions if 240*cd4eacccSLukas Bulwahn the architecture has them. It should almost *never* result in code 241*cd4eacccSLukas Bulwahn which is worse than the hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. 242*cd4eacccSLukas Bulwahn But just in case it does, the use of the builtins is optional. 243cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 244cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap 245cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it 246cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse on architectures that don't have such instructions. 247cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 2489edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig KRETPROBES 2499edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli def_bool y 25073f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && (HAVE_KRETPROBES || HAVE_RETHOOK) 25173f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu 25273f9b911SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KRETPROBE_ON_RETHOOK 25373f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 25473f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 25573f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KRETPROBES 25673f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu select RETHOOK 2579edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 2587c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 2597c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 2607c68af6eSAvi Kivity depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 2617c68af6eSAvi Kivity help 2627c68af6eSAvi Kivity Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to 2637c68af6eSAvi Kivity switch to user mode. 2647c68af6eSAvi Kivity 26528b2ee20SRik van Rielconfig HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 2669ba16087SJan Beulich bool 26728b2ee20SRik van Riel 268125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_KPROBES 2699ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2709edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 2719edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig HAVE_KRETPROBES 2729ba16087SJan Beulich bool 27374bc7ceeSArthur Kepner 274afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_OPTPROBES 275afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu bool 276d314d74cSCong Wang 277e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 278e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu bool 279e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 2801f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE 2811f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 2821f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2831f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu Since kretprobes modifies return address on the stack, the 2841f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu stacktrace may see the kretprobe trampoline address instead 2851f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu of correct one. If the architecture stacktrace code and 2861f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu unwinder can adjust such entries, select this configuration. 2871f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu 288540adea3SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 2899802d865SJosef Bacik bool 2909802d865SJosef Bacik 29142a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig HAVE_NMI 29242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek bool 29342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 294a257caccSChristophe Leroyconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS 295a257caccSChristophe Leroy bool 296a257caccSChristophe Leroy 2974aae683fSMasahiro Yamadaconfig TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 2984aae683fSMasahiro Yamada bool 2994aae683fSMasahiro Yamada 3004510bffbSMark Rutlandconfig TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 3014510bffbSMark Rutland bool 3024510bffbSMark Rutland 3031f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 3041f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 3051f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 3061f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 3071f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 3081f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 3091f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 3101f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 3111f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 312153474baSEric W. Biederman# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 31303248addSEric W. Biederman# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls resume_user_mode_work() 3141f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 3151f5a4ad9SRoland McGrathconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 3169ba16087SJan Beulich bool 3171f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath 318c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 319c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool 320c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 32129d5e047SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 32229d5e047SThomas Gleixner bool 32329d5e047SThomas Gleixner 324485cf5daSKevin Hilmanconfig GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 325485cf5daSKevin Hilman bool 326485cf5daSKevin Hilman 3276974f0c4SDaniel Micayconfig ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 3286974f0c4SDaniel Micay bool 3296974f0c4SDaniel Micay help 3306974f0c4SDaniel Micay An architecture should select this when it can successfully 3316974f0c4SDaniel Micay build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. 3326974f0c4SDaniel Micay 333d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 334d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd 335d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# command line option 336d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 337d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD 338d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig bool 339d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig 340d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h 341d2852a22SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 342d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann bool 343d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann 344d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe# Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions 345d253ca0cSRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 346d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe bool 347d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe 348c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 349fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architecture provides the arch_dma_set_uncached symbol to 350a86ecfa6SColin Ian King# either provide an uncached segment alias for a DMA allocation, or 351fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# to remap the page tables in place. 352c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 353fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED 354c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig bool 355c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig 356999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 357999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architectures provides the arch_dma_clear_uncached symbol 358999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# to undo an in-place page table remap for uncached access. 359999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 360999a5d12SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED 361f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 362f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 3637725acaaSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT 3647725acaaSThomas Gleixner bool 3657725acaaSThomas Gleixner 3668f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe# The architecture has a per-task state that includes the mm's PASID 3678f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpeconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID 3688f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe bool 3698f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe select IOMMU_MM_DATA 3708f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe 3715905429aSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST 3725905429aSKees Cook bool 3735905429aSKees Cook help 3745905429aSKees Cook An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy 3755905429aSKees Cook knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be 3765905429aSKees Cook whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the 3775905429aSKees Cook FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist() 3785905429aSKees Cook should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct 3795905429aSKees Cook field in task_struct will be left whitelisted. 3805905429aSKees Cook 3815aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 3825aaeb5c0SIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 3835aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar bool 3845aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 38551c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR 38651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers bool 38751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers help 38851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers An architecture should select this if the noinstr macro is being used on 38951c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers functions to denote that the toolchain should avoid instrumenting such 39051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers functions and is required for correctness. 39151c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 392942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T 393942fa985SYury Norov bool 394942fa985SYury Norov depends on !64BIT 395942fa985SYury Norov help 396942fa985SYury Norov All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on 397942fa985SYury Norov userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This 398942fa985SYury Norov is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures 399942fa985SYury Norov still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such 400942fa985SYury Norov architectures explicitly. 401942fa985SYury Norov 40296c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens# Selected by 64 bit architectures which have a 32 bit f_tinode in struct ustat 40396c0a6a7SHeiko Carstensconfig ARCH_32BIT_USTAT_F_TINODE 40496c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens bool 40596c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens 4062ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS 4072ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 4082ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 409a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it provides 4102ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols 4112ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada exported from assembly code. 4122ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 413f850c30cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 414f850c30cSHeiko Carstens bool 415e01292b1SHeiko Carstens help 416a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports 417e01292b1SHeiko Carstens the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 418e01292b1SHeiko Carstens declared in asm/ptrace.h 419e01292b1SHeiko Carstens For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 420f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 421d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_RSEQ 422d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool 423d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 424d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 425d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it 426d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers supports an implementation of restartable sequences. 427d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 4282f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig HAVE_RUST 4292f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool 4302f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 4312f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it 4322f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda supports Rust. 4332f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 4343c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 4353c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu bool 4363c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu help 437a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports 4383c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs, 4393c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu declared in asm/ptrace.h 4403c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu 44162a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 44262a038d3SK.Prasad bool 44399e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 44462a038d3SK.Prasad 4450102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 4460102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 4470102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 4480102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 4490102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 4500102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 4510102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 4520102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 4530102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 4540102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 4550102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 4567c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 4577c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 458a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 459c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 460c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 46123637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 46223637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 46323637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 46423637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 465c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 46605a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 46705a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 46805a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 46905a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 47005a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup 47105a4a952SNicholas Piggin detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. 47205a4a952SNicholas Piggin 47305a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 47405a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 47505a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 4761356d0b9SPetr Mladek The arch provides its own hardlockup detector implementation instead 4771356d0b9SPetr Mladek of the generic ones. 4781356d0b9SPetr Mladek 4791356d0b9SPetr Mladek It uses the same command line parameters, and sysctl interface, 4801356d0b9SPetr Mladek as the generic hardlockup detectors. 48105a4a952SNicholas Piggin 48271753c6eSJosh Poimboeufconfig UNWIND_USER 48371753c6eSJosh Poimboeuf bool 48471753c6eSJosh Poimboeuf 48571753c6eSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP 48671753c6eSJosh Poimboeuf bool 48771753c6eSJosh Poimboeuf select UNWIND_USER 48871753c6eSJosh Poimboeuf 489c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 490c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 491c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 492c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 493c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 494c5e63197SJiri Olsa 495c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 496c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 497c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 498c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 499c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 500c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 501c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 502bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 503bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 504bf5438fcSJason Baron 50550ff18abSArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE 50650ff18abSArd Biesheuvel bool 50750ff18abSArd Biesheuvel 5080d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 5090d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra bool 5100d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra 511ff2e6d72SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 51226723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 5130d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 51426723911SPeter Zijlstra 5153af4bd03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE 516ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra bool 517ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra 51827796d03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE 51927796d03SPeter Zijlstra bool 5201e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS 5211e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra 5221e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_FLUSH_CACHE 5231e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra bool 5241e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra 5251e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS 5261e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra bool 52727796d03SPeter Zijlstra 528580a586cSPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER 529952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky bool 5300d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 531952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky 532d53c3dfbSNicholas Pigginconfig ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM 533d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin bool 534d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin help 535d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin Temporary select until all architectures can be converted to have 536d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin irqs disabled over activate_mm. Architectures that do IPI based TLB 537d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin shootdowns should enable this. 538d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin 53988e3009bSNicholas Piggin# Use normal mm refcounting for MMU_LAZY_TLB kernel thread references. 54088e3009bSNicholas Piggin# MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n can improve the scalability of context switching 54188e3009bSNicholas Piggin# to/from kernel threads when the same mm is running on a lot of CPUs (a large 54288e3009bSNicholas Piggin# multi-threaded application), by reducing contention on the mm refcount. 54388e3009bSNicholas Piggin# 54488e3009bSNicholas Piggin# This can be disabled if the architecture ensures no CPUs are using an mm as a 54588e3009bSNicholas Piggin# "lazy tlb" beyond its final refcount (i.e., by the time __mmdrop frees the mm 54688e3009bSNicholas Piggin# or its kernel page tables). This could be arranged by arch_exit_mmap(), or 54788e3009bSNicholas Piggin# final exit(2) TLB flush, for example. 54888e3009bSNicholas Piggin# 54988e3009bSNicholas Piggin# To implement this, an arch *must*: 55088e3009bSNicholas Piggin# Ensure the _lazy_tlb variants of mmgrab/mmdrop are used when manipulating 55188e3009bSNicholas Piggin# the lazy tlb reference of a kthread's ->active_mm (non-arch code has been 55288e3009bSNicholas Piggin# converted already). 55388e3009bSNicholas Pigginconfig MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT 55488e3009bSNicholas Piggin def_bool y 5552655421aSNicholas Piggin depends on !MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN 5562655421aSNicholas Piggin 5572655421aSNicholas Piggin# This option allows MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n. It ensures no CPUs are using an 5582655421aSNicholas Piggin# mm as a lazy tlb beyond its last reference count, by shooting down these 5592655421aSNicholas Piggin# users before the mm is deallocated. __mmdrop() first IPIs all CPUs that may 5602655421aSNicholas Piggin# be using the mm as a lazy tlb, so that they may switch themselves to using 5612655421aSNicholas Piggin# init_mm for their active mm. mm_cpumask(mm) is used to determine which CPUs 5622655421aSNicholas Piggin# may be using mm as a lazy tlb mm. 5632655421aSNicholas Piggin# 5642655421aSNicholas Piggin# To implement this, an arch *must*: 5652655421aSNicholas Piggin# - At the time of the final mmdrop of the mm, ensure mm_cpumask(mm) contains 5662655421aSNicholas Piggin# at least all possible CPUs in which the mm is lazy. 5672655421aSNicholas Piggin# - It must meet the requirements for MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n (see above). 5682655421aSNicholas Pigginconfig MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN 5692655421aSNicholas Piggin bool 57088e3009bSNicholas Piggin 571df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 572df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 573df013ffbSHuang Ying 574a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanianconfig ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES 575a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian bool 576a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian help 577a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian An architecture should select this in order to enable adding an 578a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian arch-specific ELF note section to core files. It must provide two 579a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian functions: elf_coredump_extra_notes_size() and 580a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian elf_coredump_extra_notes_write() which are invoked by the ELF core 581a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian dumper. 582a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian 5832e83b879SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS 5842e83b879SPaul E. McKenney bool 5852e83b879SPaul E. McKenney 58643570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 58743570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 58843570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 58943570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 59043570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 59143570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 59243570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 59343570fd2SHeiko Carstens 5944156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 5954156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 5964156153cSHeiko Carstens 5972565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 5982565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 5992565409fSHeiko Carstens 60077e58496SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 60177e58496SPaul E. McKenney bool 60277e58496SPaul E. McKenney 603c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 604c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 605c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 606c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 607c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 608c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 60948b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 610c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 61148b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 61248b25c43SChris Metcalf 613282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 614e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 615e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 616282a181bSYiFei Zhu An arch should select this symbol to support seccomp mode 1 (the fixed 617282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscall policy), and must provide an overrides for __NR_seccomp_sigreturn, 618282a181bSYiFei Zhu and compat syscalls if the asm-generic/seccomp.h defaults need adjustment: 619282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_read_32 620282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_write_32 621282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_exit_32 622282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_sigreturn_32 623282a181bSYiFei Zhu 624282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 625282a181bSYiFei Zhu bool 626282a181bSYiFei Zhu select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 627282a181bSYiFei Zhu help 628fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 629282a181bSYiFei Zhu - all the requirements for HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 630bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 631bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 632bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 633bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 634fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 635fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 636fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 637fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 63848dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 6390d8315ddSYiFei Zhu - if !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR, have SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE, 6400d8315ddSYiFei Zhu SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NR, SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NAME defined. If 6410d8315ddSYiFei Zhu COMPAT is supported, have the SECCOMP_ARCH_COMPAT* defines too. 642e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 643282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig SECCOMP 644282a181bSYiFei Zhu prompt "Enable seccomp to safely execute untrusted bytecode" 645282a181bSYiFei Zhu def_bool y 646282a181bSYiFei Zhu depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 647282a181bSYiFei Zhu help 648282a181bSYiFei Zhu This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 649282a181bSYiFei Zhu that may need to handle untrusted bytecode during their 650282a181bSYiFei Zhu execution. By using pipes or other transports made available 651282a181bSYiFei Zhu to the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 652282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in their 653282a181bSYiFei Zhu own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is enabled via 654282a181bSYiFei Zhu prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) or the seccomp() syscall, it cannot be 655282a181bSYiFei Zhu disabled and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe 656282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscalls defined by each seccomp mode. 657282a181bSYiFei Zhu 658282a181bSYiFei Zhu If unsure, say Y. 659282a181bSYiFei Zhu 660e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 661e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 662e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 663e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 664e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 665e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 666e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 667e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 6685fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details. 669e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 6700d8315ddSYiFei Zhuconfig SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG 6710d8315ddSYiFei Zhu bool "Show seccomp filter cache status in /proc/pid/seccomp_cache" 6720d8315ddSYiFei Zhu depends on SECCOMP_FILTER && !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR 6730d8315ddSYiFei Zhu depends on PROC_FS 6740d8315ddSYiFei Zhu help 6750d8315ddSYiFei Zhu This enables the /proc/pid/seccomp_cache interface to monitor 6760d8315ddSYiFei Zhu seccomp cache data. The file format is subject to change. Reading 6770d8315ddSYiFei Zhu the file requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. 6780d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 6790d8315ddSYiFei Zhu This option is for debugging only. Enabling presents the risk that 6800d8315ddSYiFei Zhu an adversary may be able to infer the seccomp filter logic. 6810d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 6820d8315ddSYiFei Zhu If unsure, say N. 6830d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 68457fbad15SKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_KSTACK_ERASE 685afaef01cSAlexander Popov bool 686afaef01cSAlexander Popov help 687afaef01cSAlexander Popov An architecture should select this if it has the code which 68857fbad15SKees Cook fills the used part of the kernel stack with the KSTACK_ERASE_POISON 689afaef01cSAlexander Popov value before returning from system calls. 690afaef01cSAlexander Popov 691d148eac0SMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 69219952a92SKees Cook bool 69319952a92SKees Cook help 69419952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 69519952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 69619952a92SKees Cook 697050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR 6982a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 699d148eac0SMasahiro Yamada depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 7002a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector) 7012a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 7028779657dSKees Cook help 7038779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 70419952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 70519952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 70619952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 70719952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 70819952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 70919952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 71019952a92SKees Cook 7118779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 7128779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 7138779657dSKees Cook 71419952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 7158779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 7168779657dSKees Cook 7178779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 7188779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 7198779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 7208779657dSKees Cook 721050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 7222a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Strong Stack Protector" 723050e9baaSLinus Torvalds depends on STACKPROTECTOR 7242a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong) 7252a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 7268779657dSKees Cook help 7278779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 7288779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 7298779657dSKees Cook 7308779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 7318779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 7328779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 7338779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 7348779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 7358779657dSKees Cook 7368779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 7378779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 7388779657dSKees Cook 7398779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 7408779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 7418779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 7428779657dSKees Cook 743d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 744d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen bool 745d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 746afcf5441SDan Li An architecture should select this if it supports the compiler's 747afcf5441SDan Li Shadow Call Stack and implements runtime support for shadow stack 748aa7a65aeSWill Deacon switching. 749d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 750d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig SHADOW_CALL_STACK 751afcf5441SDan Li bool "Shadow Call Stack" 752afcf5441SDan Li depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 75338792972SArd Biesheuvel depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || !FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 7546f9dc684SSamuel Holland depends on MMU 755d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 756afcf5441SDan Li This option enables the compiler's Shadow Call Stack, which 757afcf5441SDan Li uses a shadow stack to protect function return addresses from 758afcf5441SDan Li being overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found 759afcf5441SDan Li in the compiler's documentation: 760d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 761afcf5441SDan Li - Clang: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html 762afcf5441SDan Li - GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Instrumentation-Options.html#Instrumentation-Options 763d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 764d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the 765d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses 766d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable of 767d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them 768d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks. 769d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 7709beccca0SArd Biesheuvelconfig DYNAMIC_SCS 7719beccca0SArd Biesheuvel bool 7729beccca0SArd Biesheuvel help 7739beccca0SArd Biesheuvel Set by the arch code if it relies on code patching to insert the 7749beccca0SArd Biesheuvel shadow call stack push and pop instructions rather than on the 7759beccca0SArd Biesheuvel compiler. 7769beccca0SArd Biesheuvel 777dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO 778dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 779dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 780dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Selected if the kernel will be built using the compiler's LTO feature. 781dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 782dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG 783dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 784dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO 785dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 786dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Selected if the kernel will be built using Clang's LTO feature. 787dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 788dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 789dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 790dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 791dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it supports: 792dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - compiling with Clang, 793dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - compiling inline assembly with Clang's integrated assembler, 794dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - and linking with LLD. 795dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 796dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 797dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 798dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 799dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it can support Clang's 800dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen ThinLTO mode. 801dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 802dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig HAS_LTO_CLANG 803dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8041e68a8afSNathan Chancellor depends on CC_IS_CLANG && LD_IS_LLD && AS_IS_LLVM 805dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on $(success,$(NM) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) 806dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on $(success,$(AR) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) 807dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 808dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 809349fde59SJakob Koschel # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1721 810349fde59SJakob Koschel depends on (!KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || CLANG_VERSION >= 170000) || !DEBUG_INFO 811349fde59SJakob Koschel depends on (!KCOV || CLANG_VERSION >= 170000) || !DEBUG_INFO 812dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !GCOV_KERNEL 813dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 814dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen The compiler and Kconfig options support building with Clang's 815dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen LTO. 816dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 817dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenchoice 818dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen prompt "Link Time Optimization (LTO)" 819dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen default LTO_NONE 820dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 821dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Link Time Optimization (LTO), which allows the 822dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen compiler to optimize binaries globally. 823dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 824dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen If unsure, select LTO_NONE. Note that LTO is very resource-intensive 825dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen so it's disabled by default. 826dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 827dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_NONE 828dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "None" 829dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 830dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Build the kernel normally, without Link Time Optimization (LTO). 831dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 832dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG_FULL 833dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "Clang Full LTO (EXPERIMENTAL)" 834dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG 835dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !COMPILE_TEST 836dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO_CLANG 837dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 838dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's full Link Time Optimization (LTO), which 839dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen allows the compiler to optimize the kernel globally. If you enable 840dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen this option, the compiler generates LLVM bitcode instead of ELF 841dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen object files, and the actual compilation from bitcode happens at 842dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen the LTO link step, which may take several minutes depending on the 843dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen kernel configuration. More information can be found from LLVM's 844dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen documentation: 845dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 846dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html 847dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 848dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen During link time, this option can use a large amount of RAM, and 849dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen may take much longer than the ThinLTO option. 850dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 851dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG_THIN 852dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "Clang ThinLTO (EXPERIMENTAL)" 853dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 854dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO_CLANG 855dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 856dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's ThinLTO, which allows for parallel 857dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen optimization and faster incremental compiles compared to the 858dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL option. More information can be found 859dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen from Clang's documentation: 860dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 861dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html 862dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 863dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen If unsure, say Y. 864dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenendchoice 865dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 866315ad878SRong Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_AUTOFDO_CLANG 867315ad878SRong Xu bool 868315ad878SRong Xu 869315ad878SRong Xuconfig AUTOFDO_CLANG 870315ad878SRong Xu bool "Enable Clang's AutoFDO build (EXPERIMENTAL)" 871315ad878SRong Xu depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_AUTOFDO_CLANG 872315ad878SRong Xu depends on CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 170000 873315ad878SRong Xu help 874315ad878SRong Xu This option enables Clang’s AutoFDO build. When 875315ad878SRong Xu an AutoFDO profile is specified in variable 876315ad878SRong Xu CLANG_AUTOFDO_PROFILE during the build process, 877315ad878SRong Xu Clang uses the profile to optimize the kernel. 878315ad878SRong Xu 879315ad878SRong Xu If no profile is specified, AutoFDO options are 880315ad878SRong Xu still passed to Clang to facilitate the collection 881315ad878SRong Xu of perf data for creating an AutoFDO profile in 882315ad878SRong Xu subsequent builds. 883315ad878SRong Xu 884315ad878SRong Xu If unsure, say N. 885315ad878SRong Xu 886d5dc9583SRong Xuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PROPELLER_CLANG 887d5dc9583SRong Xu bool 888d5dc9583SRong Xu 889d5dc9583SRong Xuconfig PROPELLER_CLANG 890d5dc9583SRong Xu bool "Enable Clang's Propeller build" 891d5dc9583SRong Xu depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PROPELLER_CLANG 892d5dc9583SRong Xu depends on CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 190000 893d5dc9583SRong Xu help 894d5dc9583SRong Xu This option enables Clang’s Propeller build. When the Propeller 895d5dc9583SRong Xu profiles is specified in variable CLANG_PROPELLER_PROFILE_PREFIX 896d5dc9583SRong Xu during the build process, Clang uses the profiles to optimize 897d5dc9583SRong Xu the kernel. 898d5dc9583SRong Xu 899d5dc9583SRong Xu If no profile is specified, Propeller options are still passed 900d5dc9583SRong Xu to Clang to facilitate the collection of perf data for creating 901d5dc9583SRong Xu the Propeller profiles in subsequent builds. 902d5dc9583SRong Xu 903d5dc9583SRong Xu If unsure, say N. 904d5dc9583SRong Xu 90523ef9d43SKees Cookconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI 906cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool 907cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 90823ef9d43SKees Cook An architecture should select this option if it can support Kernel 90923ef9d43SKees Cook Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) checking (-fsanitize=kcfi). 910cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 91189245600SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_USES_CFI_TRAPS 91289245600SSami Tolvanen bool 91323ef9d43SKees Cook help 91423ef9d43SKees Cook An architecture should select this option if it requires the 91523ef9d43SKees Cook .kcfi_traps section for KCFI trap handling. 91689245600SSami Tolvanen 91739c89ee6SNathan Chancellorconfig ARCH_USES_CFI_GENERIC_LLVM_PASS 91839c89ee6SNathan Chancellor bool 91939c89ee6SNathan Chancellor help 92039c89ee6SNathan Chancellor An architecture should select this option if it uses the generic 92139c89ee6SNathan Chancellor KCFIPass in LLVM to expand kCFI bundles instead of architecture-specific 92239c89ee6SNathan Chancellor lowering. 92339c89ee6SNathan Chancellor 92423ef9d43SKees Cookconfig CFI 92523ef9d43SKees Cook bool "Use Kernel Control Flow Integrity (kCFI)" 92623ef9d43SKees Cook default CFI_CLANG 92723ef9d43SKees Cook depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI 92889245600SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kcfi) 929cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 93023ef9d43SKees Cook This option enables forward-edge Control Flow Integrity (CFI) 93123ef9d43SKees Cook checking, where the compiler injects a runtime check to each 932cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen indirect function call to ensure the target is a valid function with 933cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen the correct static type. This restricts possible call targets and 934cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen makes it more difficult for an attacker to exploit bugs that allow 935cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen the modification of stored function pointers. More information can be 936cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen found from Clang's documentation: 937cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 938cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html 939cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 94023ef9d43SKees Cookconfig CFI_CLANG 94123ef9d43SKees Cook bool 94223ef9d43SKees Cook transitional 94323ef9d43SKees Cook help 94423ef9d43SKees Cook Transitional config for CFI_CLANG to CFI migration. 94523ef9d43SKees Cook 946ce4a2620SAlice Ryhlconfig CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS 947ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl bool "Normalize CFI tags for integers" 94823ef9d43SKees Cook depends on CFI 94923ef9d43SKees Cook depends on HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS 950ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl help 951ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl This option normalizes the CFI tags for integer types so that all 952ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl integer types of the same size and signedness receive the same CFI 953ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl tag. 954ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl 955ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl The option is separate from CONFIG_RUST because it affects the ABI. 956ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl When working with build systems that care about the ABI, it is 957ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl convenient to be able to turn on this flag first, before Rust is 958ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl turned on. 959ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl 960ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl This option is necessary for using CFI with Rust. If unsure, say N. 961ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl 96223ef9d43SKees Cookconfig HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS 9638b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl def_bool y 9644c66f830SAlice Ryhl depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kcfi -fsanitize-cfi-icall-experimental-normalize-integers) 9658b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl # With GCOV/KASAN we need this fix: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/104826 9662313ab74SAlice Ryhl depends on CLANG_VERSION >= 190103 || (!GCOV_KERNEL && !KASAN_GENERIC && !KASAN_SW_TAGS) 9674c66f830SAlice Ryhl 9688b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhlconfig HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 9698b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl def_bool y 97023ef9d43SKees Cook depends on HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS 9718b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on RUSTC_VERSION >= 107900 972812258ffSConor Dooley depends on ARM64 || X86_64 9738b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl # With GCOV/KASAN we need this fix: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/129373 9742313ab74SAlice Ryhl depends on (RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION >= 190103 && RUSTC_VERSION >= 108200) || \ 9758b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl (!GCOV_KERNEL && !KASAN_GENERIC && !KASAN_SW_TAGS) 9764c66f830SAlice Ryhl 977cf68fffbSSami Tolvanenconfig CFI_PERMISSIVE 978cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool "Use CFI in permissive mode" 97923ef9d43SKees Cook depends on CFI 980cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 981cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen When selected, Control Flow Integrity (CFI) violations result in a 982cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen warning instead of a kernel panic. This option should only be used 983cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen for finding indirect call type mismatches during development. 984cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 985cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen If unsure, say N. 986cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 9870f60a8efSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 9880f60a8efSKees Cook bool 9890f60a8efSKees Cook help 9900f60a8efSKees Cook An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 9910f60a8efSKees Cook frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 9920f60a8efSKees Cook or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 9930f60a8efSKees Cook and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 9940f60a8efSKees Cook which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 9950f60a8efSKees Cook 99624a9c541SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 9972b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 9982b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 99991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 100091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 1001490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter(), either 1002490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker optimized behind static key or through the slow path using TIF_NOHZ 1003490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs are already 10046f0e6c15SFrederic Weisbecker protected inside ct_irq_enter/ct_irq_exit() but preemption or signal 1005490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker handling on irq exit still need to be protected. 1006490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker 100724a9c541SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_OFFSTACK 100883c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 100983c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker help 101083c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker Architecture neither relies on exception_enter()/exception_exit() 101183c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker nor on schedule_user(). Also preempt_schedule_notrace() and 101283c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker preempt_schedule_irq() can't be called in a preemptible section 1013d65d411cSValentin Schneider while context tracking is CT_STATE_USER. This feature reflects a sane 101483c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker entry implementation where the following requirements are met on 101583c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker critical entry code, ie: before user_exit() or after user_enter(): 101683c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker 101783c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - Critical entry code isn't preemptible (or better yet: 101883c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker not interruptible). 1019493c1822SFrederic Weisbecker - No use of RCU read side critical sections, unless ct_nmi_enter() 102083c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker got called. 102183c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - No use of instrumentation, unless instrumentation_begin() got 102283c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker called. 102383c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker 1024490f561bSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_TIF_NOHZ 1025490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker bool 1026490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker help 1027490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall slow path to implement context 1028490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker tracking calls to user_enter()/user_exit(). 10292b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 1030b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 1031b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 1032b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 10332b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_IDLE 10342b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker bool 10352b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker help 10362b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker Architecture has its own way to account idle CPU time and therefore 10372b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker doesn't implement vtime_account_idle(). 10382b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker 103940565b5aSStanislaw Gruszkaconfig ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 104040565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka bool 104140565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka 1042554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 1043554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 1044554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 1045554b0004SKevin Hilman help 1046554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 1047554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 1048554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 1049554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 1050554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 1051554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 1052554b0004SKevin Hilman 1053fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 1054fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 1055fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 1056fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 1057fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 1058fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 1059c49dd340SKalesh Singhconfig HAVE_MOVE_PUD 1060c49dd340SKalesh Singh bool 1061c49dd340SKalesh Singh help 1062c49dd340SKalesh Singh Architectures that select this are able to move page tables at the 1063c49dd340SKalesh Singh PUD level. If there are only 3 page table levels, the move effectively 1064c49dd340SKalesh Singh happens at the PGD level. 1065c49dd340SKalesh Singh 10662c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google)config HAVE_MOVE_PMD 10672c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 10682c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 10692c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level. 10702c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) 107115626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 107215626062SGerald Schaefer bool 107315626062SGerald Schaefer 1074a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcoxconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 1075a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox bool 1076a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox 10770ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 10780ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 10790ddab1d2SToshi Kani 1080121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# 1081121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# Archs that select this would be capable of PMD-sized vmaps (i.e., 1082559089e0SSong Liu# arch_vmap_pmd_supported() returns true). The VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP flag 1083559089e0SSong Liu# must be used to enable allocations to use hugepages. 1084121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# 1085121e6f32SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC 1086121e6f32SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 1087121e6f32SNicholas Piggin bool 1088121e6f32SNicholas Piggin 10893876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 10903876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti bool 10913876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti 10922f0584f3SRick Edgecombe# Archs that want to use pmd_mkwrite on kernel memory need it defined even 10932f0584f3SRick Edgecombe# if there are no userspace memory management features that use it 10942f0584f3SRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_PMD_MKWRITE 10952f0584f3SRick Edgecombe bool 10962f0584f3SRick Edgecombe 10972f0584f3SRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_WANT_PMD_MKWRITE 10982f0584f3SRick Edgecombe def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_PMD_MKWRITE 10992f0584f3SRick Edgecombe 11000f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 11010f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 11020f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 1103786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 1104786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 1105786d35d4SDavid Howells help 1106786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 1107786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 1108786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 1109786d35d4SDavid Howells 1110786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 1111786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 1112786d35d4SDavid Howells help 1113786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 1114786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 1115786d35d4SDavid Howells 1116786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 1117786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 1118786d35d4SDavid Howells help 1119786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 1120786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 1121786d35d4SDavid Howells 112201dc0386SChristophe Leroyconfig ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC 112301dc0386SChristophe Leroy bool 112401dc0386SChristophe Leroy help 112501dc0386SChristophe Leroy For architectures like powerpc/32 which have constraints on module 112601dc0386SChristophe Leroy allocation and need to allocate module data outside of module area. 112701dc0386SChristophe Leroy 1128223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM)config ARCH_WANTS_EXECMEM_LATE 1129223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) bool 1130223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) help 1131223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) For architectures that do not allocate executable memory early on 1132223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) boot, but rather require its initialization late when there is 1133223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) enough entropy for module space randomization, for instance 1134223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) arm64. 1135223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) 11362e45474aSMike Rapoport (Microsoft)config ARCH_HAS_EXECMEM_ROX 11372e45474aSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) bool 11382e45474aSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) depends on MMU && !HIGHMEM 11392e45474aSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) help 11402e45474aSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) For architectures that support allocations of executable memory 11412e45474aSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) with read-only execute permissions. Architecture must implement 11422e45474aSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) execmem_fill_trapping_insns() callback to enable this. 11432e45474aSMike Rapoport (Microsoft) 1144cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 1145cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 1146cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 1147cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 1148cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 1149cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 1150cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 1151cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 1152cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 1153cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 1154cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixnerconfig HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK 1155cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner bool 1156cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner help 1157cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner Architecture provides a function to run __do_softirq() on a 1158c226bc3cSColin Ian King separate stack. 1159cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner 11608cbb2b50SSebastian Andrzej Siewiorconfig SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK 11618cbb2b50SSebastian Andrzej Siewior def_bool HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK && !PREEMPT_RT 11628cbb2b50SSebastian Andrzej Siewior 116312700c17SArnd Bergmannconfig ALTERNATE_USER_ADDRESS_SPACE 116412700c17SArnd Bergmann bool 116512700c17SArnd Bergmann help 116612700c17SArnd Bergmann Architectures set this when the CPU uses separate address 116712700c17SArnd Bergmann spaces for kernel and user space pointers. In this case, the 116812700c17SArnd Bergmann access_ok() check on a __user pointer is skipped. 116912700c17SArnd Bergmann 1170235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 1171235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 1172235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 1173235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 11742b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 11752b68f6caSKees Cook bool 11762b68f6caSKees Cook help 11772b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 11782b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 11792b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 1180204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 11812b68f6caSKees Cook 1182d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 1183d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 1184d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1185d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 1186d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 1187d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 1188d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 1189d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 1190d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 11915f56a5dfSJiri Slabyconfig HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 11925f56a5dfSJiri Slaby bool 11935f56a5dfSJiri Slaby help 11945f56a5dfSJiri Slaby An architecture implements exit_thread. 11955f56a5dfSJiri Slaby 1196d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 1197d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1198d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1199d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 1200d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1201d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1202d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 1203d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1204d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1205d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 1206d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 1207d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 1208d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 1209d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 1210d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 1211d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1212d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 1213d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 1214d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 1215d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 1216d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1217d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 1218d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 1219d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1220d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 1221d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 1222d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1223d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 1224d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 1225d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 1226d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 1227d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 1228d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 1229d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1230d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 1231d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1232d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1233d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 1234d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1235d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1236d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 1237d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1238d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1239d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 1240d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 1241d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 1242d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 1243d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 1244d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 1245d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1246d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 1247d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 1248d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 1249d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 1250d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 1251d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1252d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 1253d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 1254d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 12551b028f78SDmitry Safonovconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 12561b028f78SDmitry Safonov bool 12571b028f78SDmitry Safonov help 12581b028f78SDmitry Safonov This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 12591b028f78SDmitry Safonov and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 12601b028f78SDmitry Safonov Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 12611b028f78SDmitry Safonov 1262ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1263ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1264ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1265ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1266ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1267ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1268ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1269ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1270ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1271ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1272ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1273ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1274ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1275ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1276ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1277ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1278ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1279ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1280ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannchoice 1281ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann prompt "MMU page size" 1282ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1283ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1284ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "4KiB pages" 1285ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1286ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1287ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This option select the standard 4KiB Linux page size and the only 1288ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann available option on many architectures. Using 4KiB page size will 1289ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann minimize memory consumption and is therefore recommended for low 1290ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann memory systems. 1291ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Some software that is written for x86 systems makes incorrect 1292ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann assumptions about the page size and only runs on 4KiB pages. 1293ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1294ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1295ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "8KiB pages" 1296ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1297ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1298ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This option is the only supported page size on a few older 1299ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann processors, and can be slightly faster than 4KiB pages. 1300ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1301ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1302ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "16KiB pages" 1303ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1304ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1305ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This option is usually a good compromise between memory 1306ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann consumption and performance for typical desktop and server 1307ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann workloads, often saving a level of page table lookups compared 1308ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann to 4KB pages as well as reducing TLB pressure and overhead of 1309ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann per-page operations in the kernel at the expense of a larger 1310ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann page cache. 1311ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1312ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1313ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "32KiB pages" 1314ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1315ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1316ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Using 32KiB page size will result in slightly higher performance 1317ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann kernel at the price of higher memory consumption compared to 1318ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 16KiB pages. This option is available only on cnMIPS cores. 1319ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Note that you will need a suitable Linux distribution to 1320ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann support this. 1321ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1322ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1323ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "64KiB pages" 1324ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1325ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1326ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Using 64KiB page size will result in slightly higher performance 1327ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann kernel at the price of much higher memory consumption compared to 1328ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 4KiB or 16KiB pages. 1329ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This is not suitable for general-purpose workloads but the 1330ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann better performance may be worth the cost for certain types of 1331ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann supercomputing or database applications that work mostly with 1332ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann large in-memory data rather than small files. 1333ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1334ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1335ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "256KiB pages" 1336ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1337ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1338ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 256KiB pages have little practical value due to their extreme 1339ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann memory usage. The kernel will only be able to run applications 1340ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann that have been compiled with '-zmax-page-size' set to 256KiB 1341ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann (the default is 64KiB or 4KiB on most architectures). 1342ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1343ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1344ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 13451f0e290cSGuenter Roeckconfig PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB 13461f0e290cSGuenter Roeck def_bool y 13471f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1348e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB 1349e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor 1350e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellorconfig PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB 1351e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor def_bool y 13521f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !PAGE_SIZE_256KB 13531f0e290cSGuenter Roeck 1354ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SHIFT 1355ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann int 1356ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 12 if PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1357ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 13 if PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1358ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 14 if PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1359ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 15 if PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1360ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 16 if PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1361ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 18 if PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1362ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 136367f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base 136467f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process 136567f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or 136667f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# sysctl_legacy_va_layout). 136767f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of: 136867f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# - STACK_RND_MASK 136967f3977fSAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT 137067f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti bool 137167f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti depends on MMU 1372e7142bf5SAlexandre Ghiti select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 137367f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti 137403f16cd0SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL 137503f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf bool 137603f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf 13774ab7674fSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK 13784ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf bool 13794ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf 138022102f45SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 138122102f45SJosh Poimboeuf bool 138222102f45SJosh Poimboeuf 1383489e355bSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION 1384489e355bSJosh Poimboeuf bool 1385489e355bSJosh Poimboeuf 13865f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION 13875f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeuf bool 13885f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 13895f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeuf 1390b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 1391b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 1392b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 139303f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports objtool compile-time frame pointer rule 139403f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf validation. 1395b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 1396af085d90SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 1397af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf bool 1398af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf help 1399140d7e88SMiroslav Benes Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or 1400140d7e88SMiroslav Benes arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace 1401140d7e88SMiroslav Benes if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 1402af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf 1403468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 1404468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 1405468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 1406468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 1407468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 1408468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 1409468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 1410468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 1411666047feSFinn Thainconfig HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS 1412666047feSFinn Thain bool 1413666047feSFinn Thain 14143a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS_API 14153a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray def_bool ISA 14163a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 1417d2125043SAl Viro# 1418d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 1419d2125043SAl Viro# 1420d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 1421d2125043SAl Viro bool 1422d2125043SAl Viro help 1423d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 1424d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 1425d2125043SAl Viro 1426d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 1427d2125043SAl Viro bool 1428d2125043SAl Viro help 1429d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 1430d2125043SAl Viro 1431dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 1432dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 1433dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 1434dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 1435dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 1436dfa9771aSMichal Simek 1437eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 1438eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 1439eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 1440eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 1441eaca6eaeSAl Viro 14420a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 14430a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 14440a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 14450a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 14460a0e8cdfSAl Viro 14470a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 14480a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 14490a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 14500a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 14510a0e8cdfSAl Viro 1452495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 1453495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 1454495dfbf7SAl Viro help 1455495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 1456495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 1457495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 1458495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 1459495dfbf7SAl Viro 1460495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 1461495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 1462495dfbf7SAl Viro 146317435e5fSDeepa Dinamaniconfig COMPAT_32BIT_TIME 1464942437c9SArnd Bergmann bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t" 1465942437c9SArnd Bergmann default !64BIT || COMPAT 146617435e5fSDeepa Dinamani help 146717435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support. 146817435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures 146917435e5fSDeepa Dinamani as part of compat syscall handling. 147017435e5fSDeepa Dinamani 147187a4c375SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 147287a4c375SChristoph Hellwig bool 147387a4c375SChristoph Hellwig 1474a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT 1475a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner bool 1476a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner 1477fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zengconfig CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 1478fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng def_bool n 1479fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng 1480ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 1481ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 1482ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski help 1483ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 1484ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski in vmalloc space. This means: 1485ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1486ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 1487ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 1488ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1489ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 1490ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 1491ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 1492ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 1493ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 1494ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 1495ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1496ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 1497ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 1498ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 1499ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1500ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VMAP_STACK 1501ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski default y 1502ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 1503eafb149eSDaniel Axtens depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 150438dd767dSAndrey Konovalov depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || KASAN_VMALLOC 1505a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1506ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 1507ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 1508ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 1509ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski corruption. 1510ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 151138dd767dSAndrey Konovalov To use this with software KASAN modes, the architecture must support 151238dd767dSAndrey Konovalov backing virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC 151338dd767dSAndrey Konovalov must be enabled. 1514ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 151539218ff4SKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 151639218ff4SKees Cook def_bool n 151739218ff4SKees Cook help 151839218ff4SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stack 151939218ff4SKees Cook offset randomization with calls to add_random_kstack_offset() 152039218ff4SKees Cook during syscall entry and choose_random_kstack_offset() during 152139218ff4SKees Cook syscall exit. Careful removal of -fstack-protector-strong and 152239218ff4SKees Cook -fstack-protector should also be applied to the entry code and 152339218ff4SKees Cook closely examined, as the artificial stack bump looks like an array 152439218ff4SKees Cook to the compiler, so it will attempt to add canary checks regardless 152539218ff4SKees Cook of the static branch state. 152639218ff4SKees Cook 15278cb37a59SMarco Elverconfig RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 15288cb37a59SMarco Elver bool "Support for randomizing kernel stack offset on syscall entry" if EXPERT 15298cb37a59SMarco Elver default y 153039218ff4SKees Cook depends on HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 153139218ff4SKees Cook help 153239218ff4SKees Cook The kernel stack offset can be randomized (after pt_regs) by 153339218ff4SKees Cook roughly 5 bits of entropy, frustrating memory corruption 153439218ff4SKees Cook attacks that depend on stack address determinism or 15358cb37a59SMarco Elver cross-syscall address exposures. 15368cb37a59SMarco Elver 15378cb37a59SMarco Elver The feature is controlled via the "randomize_kstack_offset=on/off" 15388cb37a59SMarco Elver kernel boot param, and if turned off has zero overhead due to its use 15398cb37a59SMarco Elver of static branches (see JUMP_LABEL). 15408cb37a59SMarco Elver 15418cb37a59SMarco Elver If unsure, say Y. 15428cb37a59SMarco Elver 15438cb37a59SMarco Elverconfig RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT 15448cb37a59SMarco Elver bool "Default state of kernel stack offset randomization" 15458cb37a59SMarco Elver depends on RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 15468cb37a59SMarco Elver help 15478cb37a59SMarco Elver Kernel stack offset randomization is controlled by kernel boot param 15488cb37a59SMarco Elver "randomize_kstack_offset=on/off", and this config chooses the default 15498cb37a59SMarco Elver boot state. 155039218ff4SKees Cook 1551ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1552ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1553ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1554ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1555ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1556ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1557ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1558ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1559ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 15600f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1561ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1562ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1563ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1564ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 1565ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 1566ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 1567ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 1568ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott or modifying text) 1569ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1570ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott These features are considered standard security practice these days. 1571ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott You should say Y here in almost all cases. 1572ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1573ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1574ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1575ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 15760f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1577ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1578ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 1579ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1580ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 1581ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 1582ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 1583ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 1584ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1585ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig# select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header 1586ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA 1587ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig bool 1588ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig 1589bff70402SJames Morseconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RESCTRL 1590bff70402SJames Morse bool 1591bff70402SJames Morse help 1592bff70402SJames Morse An architecture selects this option to indicate that the necessary 1593bff70402SJames Morse hooks are provided to support the common memory system usage 1594bff70402SJames Morse monitoring and control interfaces provided by the 'resctrl' 1595bff70402SJames Morse filesystem (see RESCTRL_FS). 1596bff70402SJames Morse 159704f264d3SPaul Burtonconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H 159804f264d3SPaul Burton bool 159904f264d3SPaul Burton help 160004f264d3SPaul Burton An architecture can select this if it provides an 160104f264d3SPaul Burton asm/compiler.h header that should be included after 160204f264d3SPaul Burton linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those 160304f264d3SPaul Burton headers generally provide. 160404f264d3SPaul Burton 1605e419ddeaSGreg Ungererconfig HAVE_ARCH_LIBGCC_H 1606e419ddeaSGreg Ungerer bool 1607e419ddeaSGreg Ungerer help 1608e419ddeaSGreg Ungerer An architecture can select this if it provides an 1609e419ddeaSGreg Ungerer asm/libgcc.h header that should be included after 1610e419ddeaSGreg Ungerer linux/libgcc.h in order to override macro definitions that 1611e419ddeaSGreg Ungerer header generally provides. 1612e419ddeaSGreg Ungerer 1613271ca788SArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS 1614271ca788SArd Biesheuvel bool 1615271ca788SArd Biesheuvel help 1616271ca788SArd Biesheuvel May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative 1617271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader, 1618271ca788SArd Biesheuvel in which case relative references can be used in special sections 1619271ca788SArd Biesheuvel for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit 1620271ca788SArd Biesheuvel architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable 1621271ca788SArd Biesheuvel kernels. 1622271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 1623ce9084baSArd Biesheuvelconfig ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT 1624ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel bool 1625ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel 1626fb346fd9SWaiman Longconfig LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS 1627fb346fd9SWaiman Long bool "Locking event counts collection" 1628fb346fd9SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_FS 1629a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1630fb346fd9SWaiman Long Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events 1631fb346fd9SWaiman Long in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces 1632fb346fd9SWaiman Long the chance of application behavior change because of timing 1633fb346fd9SWaiman Long differences. The counts are reported via debugfs. 1634fb346fd9SWaiman Long 16355cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne# Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations. 16365cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig ARCH_HAS_RELR 16375cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool 16385cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 16395cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig RELR 16405cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool "Use RELR relocation packing" 16415cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 16425cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne default y 16435cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne help 16445cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing 16455cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as 16465cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy 16475cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne are compatible). 16485cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 16490c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT 16500c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann bool 16510c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann 165246b49b12STom Lendackyconfig ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM 165346b49b12STom Lendacky bool 165446b49b12STom Lendacky 16550e242208SHassan Naveedconfig HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR 16560e242208SHassan Naveed bool 16570e242208SHassan Naveed help 16580e242208SHassan Naveed An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse 16590e242208SHassan Naveed to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with 16600e242208SHassan Naveed entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall 16610e242208SHassan Naveed related optimizations for a given architecture. 16620e242208SHassan Naveed 1663365841e1SThomas Weißschuhconfig ARCH_HAS_VDSO_ARCH_DATA 16647b338f6dSThomas Weißschuh depends on HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO 1665365841e1SThomas Weißschuh bool 1666365841e1SThomas Weißschuh 1667a812eee0SNam Caoconfig ARCH_HAS_VDSO_TIME_DATA 1668d60d7de3SSven Schnelle bool 1669d60d7de3SSven Schnelle 1670115284d8SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL 1671115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf bool 1672115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf 16739183c3f9SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE 16749183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf bool 16759183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 167603f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 16779183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf 16786ef869e0SMichal Hockoconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 16796ef869e0SMichal Hocko bool 168099cf983cSMark Rutland 168199cf983cSMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL 168299cf983cSMark Rutland bool 16836ef869e0SMichal Hocko depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 168499cf983cSMark Rutland select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 16856ef869e0SMichal Hocko help 168699cf983cSMark Rutland An architecture should select this if it can handle the preemption 168799cf983cSMark Rutland model being selected at boot time using static calls. 168899cf983cSMark Rutland 168999cf983cSMark Rutland Where an architecture selects HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE, any call to a 169099cf983cSMark Rutland preemption function will be patched directly. 169199cf983cSMark Rutland 169299cf983cSMark Rutland Where an architecture does not select HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE, any 169399cf983cSMark Rutland call to a preemption function will go through a trampoline, and the 169499cf983cSMark Rutland trampoline will be patched. 169599cf983cSMark Rutland 169699cf983cSMark Rutland It is strongly advised to support inline static call to avoid any 169799cf983cSMark Rutland overhead. 169899cf983cSMark Rutland 169999cf983cSMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_KEY 170099cf983cSMark Rutland bool 1701a0a12c3eSNick Desaulniers depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 170299cf983cSMark Rutland select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 170399cf983cSMark Rutland help 170499cf983cSMark Rutland An architecture should select this if it can handle the preemption 170599cf983cSMark Rutland model being selected at boot time using static keys. 170699cf983cSMark Rutland 170799cf983cSMark Rutland Each preemption function will be given an early return based on a 170899cf983cSMark Rutland static key. This should have slightly lower overhead than non-inline 170999cf983cSMark Rutland static calls, as this effectively inlines each trampoline into the 171099cf983cSMark Rutland start of its callee. This may avoid redundant work, and may 171199cf983cSMark Rutland integrate better with CFI schemes. 171299cf983cSMark Rutland 171399cf983cSMark Rutland This will have greater overhead than using inline static calls as 171499cf983cSMark Rutland the call to the preemption function cannot be entirely elided. 17156ef869e0SMichal Hocko 171659612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 171759612b24SNathan Chancellor bool 171859612b24SNathan Chancellor help 171959612b24SNathan Chancellor An arch should select this symbol once all linker sections are explicitly 172059612b24SNathan Chancellor included, size-asserted, or discarded in the linker scripts. This is 172159612b24SNathan Chancellor important because we never want expected sections to be placed heuristically 172259612b24SNathan Chancellor by the linker, since the locations of such sections can change between linker 172359612b24SNathan Chancellor versions. 172459612b24SNathan Chancellor 17254f5b0c17SMike Rapoportconfig HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID 17264f5b0c17SMike Rapoport bool 17274f5b0c17SMike Rapoport 17285d6ad668SMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 17295d6ad668SMike Rapoport bool 17305d6ad668SMike Rapoport 1731df4e817bSPasha Tatashinconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK 1732df4e817bSPasha Tatashin bool 1733df4e817bSPasha Tatashin 17342ca408d9SBrian Gerstconfig ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64 17352ca408d9SBrian Gerst bool 17362ca408d9SBrian Gerst help 17372ca408d9SBrian Gerst If a 32-bit architecture requires 64-bit arguments to be split into 17382ca408d9SBrian Gerst pairs of 32-bit arguments, select this option. 17392ca408d9SBrian Gerst 17407facdc42SAl Viroconfig ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT 17417facdc42SAl Viro bool 17427facdc42SAl Viro 174358e106e7SBalbir Singhconfig ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH 174458e106e7SBalbir Singh bool 174558e106e7SBalbir Singh 1746d593d64fSPrasad Sodagudiconfig ARCH_HAVE_TRACE_MMIO_ACCESS 1747d593d64fSPrasad Sodagudi bool 1748d593d64fSPrasad Sodagudi 17491bdda24cSThomas Gleixnerconfig DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME 17501bdda24cSThomas Gleixner bool 17511bdda24cSThomas Gleixner 175250468e43SJarkko Sakkinen# Select, if arch has a named attribute group bound to NUMA device nodes. 175350468e43SJarkko Sakkinenconfig HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP 175450468e43SJarkko Sakkinen bool 175550468e43SJarkko Sakkinen 175671ce1ab5SKinsey Hoconfig ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 175771ce1ab5SKinsey Ho bool 175871ce1ab5SKinsey Ho help 175971ce1ab5SKinsey Ho Architectures that select this option are capable of setting the 176071ce1ab5SKinsey Ho accessed bit in PTE entries when using them as part of linear address 176171ce1ab5SKinsey Ho translations. Architectures that require runtime check should select 176271ce1ab5SKinsey Ho this option and override arch_has_hw_pte_young(). 176371ce1ab5SKinsey Ho 1764eed9a328SYu Zhaoconfig ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG 1765eed9a328SYu Zhao bool 1766eed9a328SYu Zhao help 1767eed9a328SYu Zhao Architectures that select this option are capable of setting the 1768eed9a328SYu Zhao accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries when using them as part of linear 1769eed9a328SYu Zhao address translations. Page table walkers that clear the accessed bit 1770eed9a328SYu Zhao may use this capability to reduce their search space. 1771eed9a328SYu Zhao 17726cbd1d6dSSamuel Hollandconfig ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT 17736cbd1d6dSSamuel Holland bool 17746cbd1d6dSSamuel Holland help 17756cbd1d6dSSamuel Holland Architectures that select this option can run floating-point code in 17766cbd1d6dSSamuel Holland the kernel, as described in Documentation/core-api/floating-point.rst. 17776cbd1d6dSSamuel Holland 17789b400d17SArd Biesheuvelconfig ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS 17799b400d17SArd Biesheuvel bool 17809b400d17SArd Biesheuvel help 17819b400d17SArd Biesheuvel Whether the architecture needs vmlinux to be built with static 17829b400d17SArd Biesheuvel relocations preserved. This is used by some architectures to 17839b400d17SArd Biesheuvel construct bespoke relocation tables for KASLR. 17849b400d17SArd Biesheuvel 178529589343SThomas Gleixner# Select if architecture uses the common generic TIF bits 178629589343SThomas Gleixnerconfig HAVE_GENERIC_TIF_BITS 178729589343SThomas Gleixner bool 178829589343SThomas Gleixner 17892521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 179045332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 179145332b1bSMasahiro Yamadasource "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig" 1792fa1b5d09SLinus Torvalds 1793d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B 1794d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1795d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1796d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B 1797d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1798d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1799d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B 1800d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1801d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1802d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B 1803d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1804d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1805d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B 1806d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1807d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1808d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 1809d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra int 1810d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 64 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B 1811d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 32 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B 1812d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 16 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B 1813d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 8 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B 1814d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 4 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B 1815d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 0 1816d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 18175270316cSPetr Pavluconfig CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 18185270316cSPetr Pavlu # Detect availability of the GCC option -fmin-function-alignment which 18195270316cSPetr Pavlu # guarantees minimal alignment for all functions, unlike 18205270316cSPetr Pavlu # -falign-functions which the compiler ignores for cold functions. 18215270316cSPetr Pavlu def_bool $(cc-option, -fmin-function-alignment=8) 18225270316cSPetr Pavlu 18235270316cSPetr Pavluconfig CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 18245270316cSPetr Pavlu # Set if the guaranteed alignment with -fmin-function-alignment is 18255270316cSPetr Pavlu # available or extra care is required in the kernel. Clang provides 18265270316cSPetr Pavlu # strict alignment always, even with -falign-functions. 18275270316cSPetr Pavlu def_bool CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT || CC_IS_CLANG 18285270316cSPetr Pavlu 1829a88d970cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_NEED_CMPXCHG_1_EMU 1830a88d970cSPaul E. McKenney bool 1831a88d970cSPaul E. McKenney 18321198c9c6SNaveen N Raoconfig ARCH_WANTS_PRE_LINK_VMLINUX 18331198c9c6SNaveen N Rao bool 18341198c9c6SNaveen N Rao help 18351198c9c6SNaveen N Rao An architecture can select this if it provides arch/<arch>/tools/Makefile 18361198c9c6SNaveen N Rao with .arch.vmlinux.o target to be linked into vmlinux. 18371198c9c6SNaveen N Rao 1838735e5920SDavid Kaplanconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_ATTACK_VECTORS 1839735e5920SDavid Kaplan bool 1840735e5920SDavid Kaplan 184122471e13SRandy Dunlapendmenu 1842