1b2441318SGreg Kroah-Hartman# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 3fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# General architecture dependent options 4fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 5125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 6692f66f2SHari Bathiniconfig CRASH_CORE 7692f66f2SHari Bathini bool 8692f66f2SHari Bathini 92965faa5SDave Youngconfig KEXEC_CORE 10692f66f2SHari Bathini select CRASH_CORE 112965faa5SDave Young bool 122965faa5SDave Young 13467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig HAVE_IMA_KEXEC 14467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermann bool 15467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermann 16125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig OPROFILE 17b309a294SRobert Richter tristate "OProfile system profiling" 18125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on PROFILING 19125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_OPROFILE 20d69d59f4SIngo Molnar select RING_BUFFER 219a5963ebSChristian Borntraeger select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 22125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 23125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the 24125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, 25125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers and applications. 26125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 27125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 28125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 294d4036e0SJason Yehconfig OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX 304d4036e0SJason Yeh bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 314d4036e0SJason Yeh default n 324d4036e0SJason Yeh depends on OPROFILE && X86 334d4036e0SJason Yeh help 344d4036e0SJason Yeh The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing 354d4036e0SJason Yeh feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters 364d4036e0SJason Yeh are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching 379332ef9dSMasahiro Yamada between events at a user specified time interval. 384d4036e0SJason Yeh 394d4036e0SJason Yeh If unsure, say N. 404d4036e0SJason Yeh 41125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_OPROFILE 429ba16087SJan Beulich bool 43125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 44dcfce4a0SRobert Richterconfig OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER 45dcfce4a0SRobert Richter def_bool y 46af9feebeSAnton Blanchard depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64 47dcfce4a0SRobert Richter 48125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig KPROBES 49125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Kprobes" 5005ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu depends on MODULES 51125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_KPROBES 5205ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu select KALLSYMS 53125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 54125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and 55125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes 56125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful 57125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. 58125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If in doubt, say "N". 59125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 6045f81b1cSSteven Rostedtconfig JUMP_LABEL 61c5905afbSIngo Molnar bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" 6245f81b1cSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 6345f81b1cSSteven Rostedt help 64c5905afbSIngo Molnar This option enables a transparent branch optimization that 65c5905afbSIngo Molnar makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch 66c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. 6745f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 68c5905afbSIngo Molnar Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, 69c5905afbSIngo Molnar scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such 70c5905afbSIngo Molnar branches and include support for this optimization technique. 71c5905afbSIngo Molnar 72c5905afbSIngo Molnar If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", 73c5905afbSIngo Molnar the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop 74c5905afbSIngo Molnar instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the 75c5905afbSIngo Molnar nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the 76c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditional block of instructions. 77c5905afbSIngo Molnar 78c5905afbSIngo Molnar This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction 79c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update 80c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. 81c5905afbSIngo Molnar 82c5905afbSIngo Molnar ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler 83c5905afbSIngo Molnar flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) 8445f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 851987c947SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST 861987c947SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static key selftest" 871987c947SPeter Zijlstra depends on JUMP_LABEL 881987c947SPeter Zijlstra help 891987c947SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. 901987c947SPeter Zijlstra 91afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig OPTPROBES 925cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 935cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES 94a30b85dfSMasami Hiramatsu select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPT 95afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu 96e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 97e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 98e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 99e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 100e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu help 101e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full 102e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can 103e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu optimize on top of function tracing. 104e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 1052b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig UPROBES 10609294e31SDavid A. Long def_bool n 107e8f4aa60SAllen Pais depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 1082b144498SSrikar Dronamraju help 1097b2d81d4SIngo Molnar Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they 1107b2d81d4SIngo Molnar enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') 1117b2d81d4SIngo Molnar to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and 1127b2d81d4SIngo Molnar libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes 1137b2d81d4SIngo Molnar are hit by user-space applications. 1147b2d81d4SIngo Molnar 1157b2d81d4SIngo Molnar ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, 1167b2d81d4SIngo Molnar managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed 1177b2d81d4SIngo Molnar application. ) 1182b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 119c19fa94aSJames Hoganconfig HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS 120c19fa94aSJames Hogan def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 121c19fa94aSJames Hogan help 122c19fa94aSJames Hogan Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit 123c19fa94aSJames Hogan aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values 124c19fa94aSJames Hogan to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit 125c19fa94aSJames Hogan architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit 126c19fa94aSJames Hogan architectures without unaligned access. 127c19fa94aSJames Hogan 128c19fa94aSJames Hogan This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit 129c19fa94aSJames Hogan accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even 130c19fa94aSJames Hogan though it is not a 64 bit architecture. 131c19fa94aSJames Hogan 132c19fa94aSJames Hogan See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more 133c19fa94aSJames Hogan information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 134c19fa94aSJames Hogan 13558340a07SJohannes Bergconfig HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 1369ba16087SJan Beulich bool 13758340a07SJohannes Berg help 13858340a07SJohannes Berg Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses 13958340a07SJohannes Berg without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are 14058340a07SJohannes Berg unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on 14158340a07SJohannes Berg unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception 14258340a07SJohannes Berg handler.) 14358340a07SJohannes Berg 14458340a07SJohannes Berg This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can 14558340a07SJohannes Berg perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different 14658340a07SJohannes Berg code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network 14758340a07SJohannes Berg drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment 14858340a07SJohannes Berg problems with received packets if doing so would not help 14958340a07SJohannes Berg much. 15058340a07SJohannes Berg 15158340a07SJohannes Berg See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more 15258340a07SJohannes Berg information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 15358340a07SJohannes Berg 154cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouseconfig ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 155cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse bool 156cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse help 157cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions 158cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old 159cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the 160cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's 161cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In 162cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap 163cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or 164cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It 165cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the 166cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it 167cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse does, the use of the builtins is optional. 168cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 169cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap 170cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it 171cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse on architectures that don't have such instructions. 172cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 1739edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig KRETPROBES 1749edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli def_bool y 1759edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES 1769edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1777c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1787c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 1797c68af6eSAvi Kivity depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1807c68af6eSAvi Kivity help 1817c68af6eSAvi Kivity Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to 1827c68af6eSAvi Kivity switch to user mode. 1837c68af6eSAvi Kivity 18428b2ee20SRik van Rielconfig HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 1859ba16087SJan Beulich bool 18628b2ee20SRik van Riel 187125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_KPROBES 1889ba16087SJan Beulich bool 1899edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1909edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig HAVE_KRETPROBES 1919ba16087SJan Beulich bool 19274bc7ceeSArthur Kepner 193afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_OPTPROBES 194afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu bool 195d314d74cSCong Wang 196e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 197e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu bool 198e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 199*540adea3SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 2009802d865SJosef Bacik bool 2019802d865SJosef Bacik 20242a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig HAVE_NMI 20342a0bb3fSPetr Mladek bool 20442a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 2051f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2061f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 2071f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2081f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 2091f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 2101f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 2111f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 2121f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 2131f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 2141f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 2151f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume() 2161f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler() 2171f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2181f5a4ad9SRoland McGrathconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2199ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2201f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath 221c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 222c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool 223c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 22429d5e047SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 22529d5e047SThomas Gleixner bool 22629d5e047SThomas Gleixner 227485cf5daSKevin Hilmanconfig GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 228485cf5daSKevin Hilman bool 229485cf5daSKevin Hilman 2306974f0c4SDaniel Micayconfig ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 2316974f0c4SDaniel Micay bool 2326974f0c4SDaniel Micay help 2336974f0c4SDaniel Micay An architecture should select this when it can successfully 2346974f0c4SDaniel Micay build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. 2356974f0c4SDaniel Micay 236d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h 237d2852a22SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 238d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann bool 239d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann 240a6359d1eSThomas Gleixner# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c 241a6359d1eSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_INIT_TASK 242a4a2eb49SThomas Gleixner bool 243a4a2eb49SThomas Gleixner 244f5e10287SThomas Gleixner# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function 245f5e10287SThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 246f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 247f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 248b235beeaSLinus Torvalds# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function 249b235beeaSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR 250f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 251f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 2525aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 2535aaeb5c0SIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 2545aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar bool 2555aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 256f850c30cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 257f850c30cSHeiko Carstens bool 258e01292b1SHeiko Carstens help 259e01292b1SHeiko Carstens This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports 260e01292b1SHeiko Carstens the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 261e01292b1SHeiko Carstens declared in asm/ptrace.h 262e01292b1SHeiko Carstens For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 263f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 2649483a578SDavid Brownellconfig HAVE_CLK 2659ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2669483a578SDavid Brownell help 2679483a578SDavid Brownell The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and 2689483a578SDavid Brownell thus are a key power management tool on many systems. 2699483a578SDavid Brownell 2705ee00bd4SJoerg Roedelconfig HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 2715ee00bd4SJoerg Roedel bool 27236cd3c9fSHeiko Carstens 27362a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 27462a038d3SK.Prasad bool 27599e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 27662a038d3SK.Prasad 2770102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 2780102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 2790102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2800102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 2810102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 2820102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 2830102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 2840102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 2850102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 2860102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 2870102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 2887c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 2897c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 290a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 291c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 292c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 29323637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 29423637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 29523637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 29623637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 297c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 29805a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 29905a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 30005a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 30105a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 30205a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup 30305a4a952SNicholas Piggin detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. 30405a4a952SNicholas Piggin 30505a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 30605a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_NMI 30705a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 30805a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 30905a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides 31005a4a952SNicholas Piggin asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(). 31105a4a952SNicholas Piggin 31205a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 31305a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 31405a4a952SNicholas Piggin select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 31505a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 31605a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is 31705a4a952SNicholas Piggin a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config 31805a4a952SNicholas Piggin interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem. 31905a4a952SNicholas Piggin 320c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 321c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 322c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 323c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 324c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 325c5e63197SJiri Olsa 326c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 327c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 328c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 329c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 330c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 331c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 332c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 333bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 334bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 335bf5438fcSJason Baron 33626723911SPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE 33726723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 33826723911SPeter Zijlstra 339df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 340df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 341df013ffbSHuang Ying 34243570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 34343570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 34443570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 34543570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 34643570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 34743570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 34843570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 34943570fd2SHeiko Carstens 3504156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 3514156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 3524156153cSHeiko Carstens 3532565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 3542565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 3552565409fSHeiko Carstens 35677e58496SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 35777e58496SPaul E. McKenney bool 35877e58496SPaul E. McKenney 359c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 360c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 361c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 362c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 363c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 364c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 36548b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 366c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 36748b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 36848b25c43SChris Metcalf 369e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 370e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 371e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 372fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 373bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 374bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 375bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 376bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 377fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 378fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 379fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 380fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 38148dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 382e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 383e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 384e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 385e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 386e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 387e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 388e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 389e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 390e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 391e2cfabdfSWill Drewry See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. 392e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 3936b90bd4bSEmese Revfyconfig HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 3946b90bd4bSEmese Revfy bool 3956b90bd4bSEmese Revfy help 3966b90bd4bSEmese Revfy An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with 3976b90bd4bSEmese Revfy GCC plugins. 3986b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 3996b90bd4bSEmese Revfymenuconfig GCC_PLUGINS 4006b90bd4bSEmese Revfy bool "GCC plugins" 4016b90bd4bSEmese Revfy depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 402a519167eSKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 4036b90bd4bSEmese Revfy help 4046b90bd4bSEmese Revfy GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the 4056b90bd4bSEmese Revfy compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. 4066b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 4076b90bd4bSEmese Revfy See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details. 4086b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 4090dae776cSEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY 410215e2aa6SKees Cook bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT 4110dae776cSEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 412215e2aa6SKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 4130dae776cSEmese Revfy help 4140dae776cSEmese Revfy The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as: 4150dae776cSEmese Revfy M = E - N + 2P 4160dae776cSEmese Revfy where 4170dae776cSEmese Revfy 4180dae776cSEmese Revfy E = the number of edges 4190dae776cSEmese Revfy N = the number of nodes 4200dae776cSEmese Revfy P = the number of connected components (exit nodes). 4210dae776cSEmese Revfy 422215e2aa6SKees Cook Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the 423215e2aa6SKees Cook build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a 424215e2aa6SKees Cook gcc plugin for the kernel. 425215e2aa6SKees Cook 426543c37cbSEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV 427543c37cbSEmese Revfy bool 428543c37cbSEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 429543c37cbSEmese Revfy help 430543c37cbSEmese Revfy This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of 431543c37cbSEmese Revfy basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from 432543c37cbSEmese Revfy gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support" 433543c37cbSEmese Revfy by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>. 434543c37cbSEmese Revfy 43538addce8SEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 43638addce8SEmese Revfy bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime" 43738addce8SEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 43838addce8SEmese Revfy help 43938addce8SEmese Revfy By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to 44038addce8SEmese Revfy extract some entropy from both original and artificially created 44138addce8SEmese Revfy program state. This will help especially embedded systems where 44238addce8SEmese Revfy there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost 44338addce8SEmese Revfy is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and 44438addce8SEmese Revfy irq processing. 44538addce8SEmese Revfy 44638addce8SEmese Revfy Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically 44738addce8SEmese Revfy secure! 44838addce8SEmese Revfy 44938addce8SEmese Revfy This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 45038addce8SEmese Revfy * https://grsecurity.net/ 45138addce8SEmese Revfy * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 45238addce8SEmese Revfy 453c61f13eaSKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 454c61f13eaSKees Cook bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses" 455c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGINS 456c61f13eaSKees Cook help 457f136e090SJean Delvare This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a 458c61f13eaSKees Cook __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information 459c61f13eaSKees Cook exposures. 460c61f13eaSKees Cook 461c61f13eaSKees Cook This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 462c61f13eaSKees Cook * https://grsecurity.net/ 463c61f13eaSKees Cook * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 464c61f13eaSKees Cook 465f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvelconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL 466f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel bool "Force initialize all struct type variables passed by reference" 467f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 468f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel help 469f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel Zero initialize any struct type local variable that may be passed by 470f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel reference without having been initialized. 471f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel 472c61f13eaSKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE 473c61f13eaSKees Cook bool "Report forcefully initialized variables" 474c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 475c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 476c61f13eaSKees Cook help 477c61f13eaSKees Cook This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the 478c61f13eaSKees Cook structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be 479c61f13eaSKees Cook initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected 480c61f13eaSKees Cook by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings. 481c61f13eaSKees Cook 482313dd1b6SKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 483313dd1b6SKees Cook bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures" 484313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGINS 485313dd1b6SKees Cook select MODVERSIONS if MODULES 486313dd1b6SKees Cook help 4879225331bSKees Cook If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely 4889225331bSKees Cook function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with 4899225331bSKees Cook __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly 4909225331bSKees Cook marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time. 4919225331bSKees Cook This can introduce the requirement of an additional information 4929225331bSKees Cook exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure 4939225331bSKees Cook types. 494313dd1b6SKees Cook 495313dd1b6SKees Cook Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact, 496313dd1b6SKees Cook slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic 497313dd1b6SKees Cook tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel 498313dd1b6SKees Cook source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation). 499313dd1b6SKees Cook 500313dd1b6SKees Cook The seed used for compilation is located at 501313dd1b6SKees Cook scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after 502313dd1b6SKees Cook a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with 503313dd1b6SKees Cook the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or 504313dd1b6SKees Cook make distclean. 505313dd1b6SKees Cook 506313dd1b6SKees Cook Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer. 507313dd1b6SKees Cook 508313dd1b6SKees Cook This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 509313dd1b6SKees Cook * https://grsecurity.net/ 510313dd1b6SKees Cook * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 511313dd1b6SKees Cook 512313dd1b6SKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE 513313dd1b6SKees Cook bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization" 514313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 515313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on !COMPILE_TEST 516313dd1b6SKees Cook help 517313dd1b6SKees Cook If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a 518313dd1b6SKees Cook best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized 519313dd1b6SKees Cook groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields 520313dd1b6SKees Cook in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT 521313dd1b6SKees Cook at the cost of weakened randomization. 522313dd1b6SKees Cook 52319952a92SKees Cookconfig HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 52419952a92SKees Cook bool 52519952a92SKees Cook help 52619952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 52719952a92SKees Cook - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option 52819952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 52919952a92SKees Cook 53019952a92SKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 5318779657dSKees Cook def_bool n 53219952a92SKees Cook help 5338779657dSKees Cook Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build 5348779657dSKees Cook can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature. 5358779657dSKees Cook 5368779657dSKees Cookchoice 5378779657dSKees Cook prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 5388779657dSKees Cook depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 5398779657dSKees Cook default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 5408779657dSKees Cook help 5418779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 54219952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 54319952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 54419952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 54519952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 54619952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 54719952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 54819952a92SKees Cook 5498779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 5508779657dSKees Cook bool "None" 5518779657dSKees Cook help 5528779657dSKees Cook Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature. 5538779657dSKees Cook 5548779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR 5558779657dSKees Cook bool "Regular" 5568779657dSKees Cook select CC_STACKPROTECTOR 5578779657dSKees Cook help 5588779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 5598779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 5608779657dSKees Cook 56119952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 5628779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 5638779657dSKees Cook 5648779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5658779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 5668779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 5678779657dSKees Cook 5688779657dSKees Cookconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 5698779657dSKees Cook bool "Strong" 5708779657dSKees Cook select CC_STACKPROTECTOR 5718779657dSKees Cook help 5728779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 5738779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 5748779657dSKees Cook 5758779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 5768779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 5778779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 5788779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 5798779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 5808779657dSKees Cook 5818779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 5828779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 5838779657dSKees Cook 5848779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5858779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 5868779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 5878779657dSKees Cook 5888779657dSKees Cookendchoice 58919952a92SKees Cook 590a5967db9SStephen Rothwellconfig THIN_ARCHIVES 591799c4341SNicholas Piggin def_bool y 592a5967db9SStephen Rothwell help 593a5967db9SStephen Rothwell Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives 594a5967db9SStephen Rothwell instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files. 595a5967db9SStephen Rothwell 596b67067f1SNicholas Pigginconfig LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 597b67067f1SNicholas Piggin bool 598b67067f1SNicholas Piggin help 599b67067f1SNicholas Piggin Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and 600b67067f1SNicholas Piggin data elimination with the linker by compiling with 601b67067f1SNicholas Piggin -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with 602b67067f1SNicholas Piggin --gc-sections. 603b67067f1SNicholas Piggin 604b67067f1SNicholas Piggin This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 605b67067f1SNicholas Piggin its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 606b67067f1SNicholas Piggin must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 6070f4c4af0SNicholas Piggin output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 6080f4c4af0SNicholas Piggin sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 6090f4c4af0SNicholas Piggin is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 610b67067f1SNicholas Piggin 6110f60a8efSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 6120f60a8efSKees Cook bool 6130f60a8efSKees Cook help 6140f60a8efSKees Cook An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 6150f60a8efSKees Cook frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 6160f60a8efSKees Cook or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 6170f60a8efSKees Cook and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 6180f60a8efSKees Cook which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 6190f60a8efSKees Cook 62091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 6212b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 6222b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 62391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 62491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 62591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through 62691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be 62791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside 62891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on 62991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker irq exit still need to be protected. 6302b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 631b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 632b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 633b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 63440565b5aSStanislaw Gruszkaconfig ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 63540565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka bool 63640565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka 637554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 638554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 639554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 640554b0004SKevin Hilman help 641554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 642554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 643554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 644554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 645554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 646554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 647554b0004SKevin Hilman 648554b0004SKevin Hilman 649fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 650fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 651fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 652fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 653fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 654fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 65515626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 65615626062SGerald Schaefer bool 65715626062SGerald Schaefer 658a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcoxconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 659a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox bool 660a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox 6610ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 6620ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 6630ddab1d2SToshi Kani 6640f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 6650f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 6660f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 667786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 668786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 669786d35d4SDavid Howells help 670786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 671786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 672786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 673786d35d4SDavid Howells 674786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 675786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 676786d35d4SDavid Howells help 677786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 678786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 679786d35d4SDavid Howells 680786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 681786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 682786d35d4SDavid Howells help 683786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 684786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 685786d35d4SDavid Howells 686b92021b0SRusty Russellconfig HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX 687b92021b0SRusty Russell bool 688b92021b0SRusty Russell help 689b92021b0SRusty Russell Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like 690b92021b0SRusty Russell module loading and assembly files need to know about this. 691b92021b0SRusty Russell 692cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 693cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 694cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 695cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 696cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 697cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 698cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 699cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 700cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 701cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 702235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 703235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 704235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 705235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 7062b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 7072b68f6caSKees Cook bool 7082b68f6caSKees Cook help 7092b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 7102b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 7112b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 712204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 7132b68f6caSKees Cook 714d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 715d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 716d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 717d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 718d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 719d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 720d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 721d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 722d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 7235f56a5dfSJiri Slabyconfig HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 7245f56a5dfSJiri Slaby bool 7255f56a5dfSJiri Slaby help 7265f56a5dfSJiri Slaby An architecture implements exit_thread. 7275f56a5dfSJiri Slaby 728d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 729d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 730d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 731d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 732d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 733d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 734d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 735d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 736d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 737d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 738d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 739d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 740d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 741d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 742d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 743d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 744d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 745d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 746d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 747d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 748d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 749d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 750d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 751d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 752d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 753d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 754d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 755d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 756d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 757d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 758d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 759d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 760d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 761d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 762d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 763d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 764d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 765d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 766d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 767d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 768d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 769d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 770d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 771d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 772d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 773d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 774d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 775d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 776d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 777d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 778d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 779d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 780d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 781d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 782d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 783d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 784d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 785d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 786d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 7871b028f78SDmitry Safonovconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 7881b028f78SDmitry Safonov bool 7891b028f78SDmitry Safonov help 7901b028f78SDmitry Safonov This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 7911b028f78SDmitry Safonov and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 7921b028f78SDmitry Safonov Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 7931b028f78SDmitry Safonov 7943033f14aSJosh Triplettconfig HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS 7953033f14aSJosh Triplett bool 7963033f14aSJosh Triplett help 7973033f14aSJosh Triplett Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via 7983033f14aSJosh Triplett normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall 7993033f14aSJosh Triplett argument from pt_regs. 8003033f14aSJosh Triplett 801b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 802b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 803b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 804b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which 805b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf performs compile-time stack metadata validation. 806b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 807af085d90SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 808af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf bool 809af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf help 810af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which 811af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 812af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf 813468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 814468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 815468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 816468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 817468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 818468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 819468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 820468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 8213a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS_API 8223a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray def_bool ISA 8233a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 824d2125043SAl Viro# 825d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 826d2125043SAl Viro# 827d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 828d2125043SAl Viro bool 829d2125043SAl Viro help 830d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 831d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 832d2125043SAl Viro 833d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 834d2125043SAl Viro bool 835d2125043SAl Viro help 836d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 837d2125043SAl Viro 838dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 839dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 840dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 841dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 842dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 843dfa9771aSMichal Simek 844eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 845eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 846eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 847eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 848eaca6eaeSAl Viro 8490a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 8500a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8510a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8520a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 8530a0e8cdfSAl Viro 8540a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 8550a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8560a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8570a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 8580a0e8cdfSAl Viro 859495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 860495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 861495dfbf7SAl Viro help 862495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 863495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 864495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 865495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 866495dfbf7SAl Viro 867495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 868495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 869495dfbf7SAl Viro 8700d4a619bSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP 8710d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig bool 8720d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig 873fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zengconfig CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 874fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng def_bool n 875fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng 876ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 877ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 878ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski help 879ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 880ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski in vmalloc space. This means: 881ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 882ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 883ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 884ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 885ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 886ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 887ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 888ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 889ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 890ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 891ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 892ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 893ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 894ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 895ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 896ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VMAP_STACK 897ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski default y 898ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 899ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN 900ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski ---help--- 901ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 902ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 903ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 904ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski corruption. 905ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 906ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects 907ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula 908ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space. 909ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 910ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 911ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 912ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 913ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 914ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 915ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 916ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 917ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 918ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9190f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 920ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 921ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 922ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 923ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 924ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 925ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 926ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 927ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott or modifying text) 928ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 929ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott These features are considered standard security practice these days. 930ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott You should say Y here in almost all cases. 931ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 932ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 933ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 934ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9350f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_MODULE_RWX 936ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 937ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 938ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 939ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 940ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 941ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 942ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 943ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9447a46ec0eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT 9457a46ec0eSKees Cook bool 9467a46ec0eSKees Cook help 9477a46ec0eSKees Cook An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t 9487a46ec0eSKees Cook using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized 9497a46ec0eSKees Cook refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full 9507a46ec0eSKees Cook refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y. 9517a46ec0eSKees Cook 9527a46ec0eSKees Cook The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained. 9537a46ec0eSKees Cook Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting 9547a46ec0eSKees Cook against bugs in reference counts. 9557a46ec0eSKees Cook 956fd25d19fSKees Cookconfig REFCOUNT_FULL 957fd25d19fSKees Cook bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed" 958fd25d19fSKees Cook help 959fd25d19fSKees Cook Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast 960fd25d19fSKees Cook unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked 961fd25d19fSKees Cook implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections 962fd25d19fSKees Cook against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in 963fd25d19fSKees Cook security flaw exploits. 964fd25d19fSKees Cook 9652521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 966