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 199540adea3SMasami 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 2400500871fSDavid Howells# Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section 2410500871fSDavid Howellsconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK 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 2485905429aSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST 2495905429aSKees Cook bool 2505905429aSKees Cook depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 2515905429aSKees Cook help 2525905429aSKees Cook An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy 2535905429aSKees Cook knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be 2545905429aSKees Cook whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the 2555905429aSKees Cook FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist() 2565905429aSKees Cook should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct 2575905429aSKees Cook field in task_struct will be left whitelisted. 2585905429aSKees Cook 259b235beeaSLinus Torvalds# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function 260b235beeaSLinus Torvaldsconfig ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR 261f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 262f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 2635aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 2645aaeb5c0SIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 2655aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar bool 2665aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 267f850c30cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 268f850c30cSHeiko Carstens bool 269e01292b1SHeiko Carstens help 270e01292b1SHeiko Carstens This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports 271e01292b1SHeiko Carstens the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 272e01292b1SHeiko Carstens declared in asm/ptrace.h 273e01292b1SHeiko Carstens For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 274f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 275d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_RSEQ 276d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool 277d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 278d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 279d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it 280d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers supports an implementation of restartable sequences. 281d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 2829483a578SDavid Brownellconfig HAVE_CLK 2839ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2849483a578SDavid Brownell help 2859483a578SDavid Brownell The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and 2869483a578SDavid Brownell thus are a key power management tool on many systems. 2879483a578SDavid Brownell 28862a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 28962a038d3SK.Prasad bool 29099e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 29162a038d3SK.Prasad 2920102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 2930102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 2940102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2950102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 2960102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 2970102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 2980102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 2990102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 3000102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 3010102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 3020102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 3037c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 3047c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 305a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 306c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 307c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 30823637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 30923637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 31023637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 31123637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 312c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 31305a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 31405a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 31505a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 31605a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 31705a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup 31805a4a952SNicholas Piggin detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. 31905a4a952SNicholas Piggin 32005a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 32105a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_NMI 32205a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 32305a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 32405a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides 32505a4a952SNicholas Piggin asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(). 32605a4a952SNicholas Piggin 32705a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 32805a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 32905a4a952SNicholas Piggin select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 33005a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 33105a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is 33205a4a952SNicholas Piggin a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config 33305a4a952SNicholas Piggin interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem. 33405a4a952SNicholas Piggin 335c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 336c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 337c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 338c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 339c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 340c5e63197SJiri Olsa 341c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 342c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 343c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 344c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 345c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 346c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 347c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 348bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 349bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 350bf5438fcSJason Baron 35126723911SPeter Zijlstraconfig HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE 35226723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 35326723911SPeter Zijlstra 354df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 355df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 356df013ffbSHuang Ying 35743570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 35843570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 35943570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 36043570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 36143570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 36243570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 36343570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 36443570fd2SHeiko Carstens 3654156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 3664156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 3674156153cSHeiko Carstens 3682565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 3692565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 3702565409fSHeiko Carstens 37177e58496SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 37277e58496SPaul E. McKenney bool 37377e58496SPaul E. McKenney 374c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 375c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 376c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 377c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 378c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 379c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 38048b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 381c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 38248b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 38348b25c43SChris Metcalf 384e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 385e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 386e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 387fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 388bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 389bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 390bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 391bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 392fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 393fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 394fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 395fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 39648dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 397e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 398e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 399e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 400e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 401e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 402e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 403e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 404e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 405e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 406*5fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details. 407e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 40859f53855SMasahiro Yamadapreferred-plugin-hostcc := $(if-success,[ $(gcc-version) -ge 40800 ],$(HOSTCXX),$(HOSTCC)) 40959f53855SMasahiro Yamada 41059f53855SMasahiro Yamadaconfig PLUGIN_HOSTCC 41159f53855SMasahiro Yamada string 41259f53855SMasahiro Yamada default "$(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-plugin.sh "$(preferred-plugin-hostcc)" "$(HOSTCXX)" "$(CC)")" 41359f53855SMasahiro Yamada help 41459f53855SMasahiro Yamada Host compiler used to build GCC plugins. This can be $(HOSTCXX), 41559f53855SMasahiro Yamada $(HOSTCC), or a null string if GCC plugin is unsupported. 41659f53855SMasahiro Yamada 4176b90bd4bSEmese Revfyconfig HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 4186b90bd4bSEmese Revfy bool 4196b90bd4bSEmese Revfy help 4206b90bd4bSEmese Revfy An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with 4216b90bd4bSEmese Revfy GCC plugins. 4226b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 4236b90bd4bSEmese Revfymenuconfig GCC_PLUGINS 4246b90bd4bSEmese Revfy bool "GCC plugins" 4256b90bd4bSEmese Revfy depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 42659f53855SMasahiro Yamada depends on PLUGIN_HOSTCC != "" 4276b90bd4bSEmese Revfy help 4286b90bd4bSEmese Revfy GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the 4296b90bd4bSEmese Revfy compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. 4306b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 4316b90bd4bSEmese Revfy See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details. 4326b90bd4bSEmese Revfy 4330dae776cSEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY 434215e2aa6SKees Cook bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT 4350dae776cSEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 4361658dceeSMasahiro Yamada depends on !COMPILE_TEST # too noisy 4370dae776cSEmese Revfy help 4380dae776cSEmese Revfy The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as: 4390dae776cSEmese Revfy M = E - N + 2P 4400dae776cSEmese Revfy where 4410dae776cSEmese Revfy 4420dae776cSEmese Revfy E = the number of edges 4430dae776cSEmese Revfy N = the number of nodes 4440dae776cSEmese Revfy P = the number of connected components (exit nodes). 4450dae776cSEmese Revfy 446215e2aa6SKees Cook Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the 447215e2aa6SKees Cook build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a 448215e2aa6SKees Cook gcc plugin for the kernel. 449215e2aa6SKees Cook 450543c37cbSEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV 451543c37cbSEmese Revfy bool 452543c37cbSEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 453543c37cbSEmese Revfy help 454543c37cbSEmese Revfy This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of 455543c37cbSEmese Revfy basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from 456543c37cbSEmese Revfy gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support" 457543c37cbSEmese Revfy by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>. 458543c37cbSEmese Revfy 45938addce8SEmese Revfyconfig GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 46038addce8SEmese Revfy bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime" 46138addce8SEmese Revfy depends on GCC_PLUGINS 46238addce8SEmese Revfy help 46338addce8SEmese Revfy By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to 46438addce8SEmese Revfy extract some entropy from both original and artificially created 46538addce8SEmese Revfy program state. This will help especially embedded systems where 46638addce8SEmese Revfy there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost 46738addce8SEmese Revfy is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and 46838addce8SEmese Revfy irq processing. 46938addce8SEmese Revfy 47038addce8SEmese Revfy Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically 47138addce8SEmese Revfy secure! 47238addce8SEmese Revfy 47338addce8SEmese Revfy This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 47438addce8SEmese Revfy * https://grsecurity.net/ 47538addce8SEmese Revfy * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 47638addce8SEmese Revfy 477c61f13eaSKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 478c61f13eaSKees Cook bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses" 479c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGINS 480c9cf87eaSDmitry Vyukov # Currently STRUCTLEAK inserts initialization out of live scope of 481c9cf87eaSDmitry Vyukov # variables from KASAN point of view. This leads to KASAN false 482c9cf87eaSDmitry Vyukov # positive reports. Prohibit this combination for now. 483c9cf87eaSDmitry Vyukov depends on !KASAN_EXTRA 484c61f13eaSKees Cook help 485f136e090SJean Delvare This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a 486c61f13eaSKees Cook __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information 487c61f13eaSKees Cook exposures. 488c61f13eaSKees Cook 489c61f13eaSKees Cook This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 490c61f13eaSKees Cook * https://grsecurity.net/ 491c61f13eaSKees Cook * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 492c61f13eaSKees Cook 493f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvelconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL 494f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel bool "Force initialize all struct type variables passed by reference" 495f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 496caa91ba5SMasahiro Yamada depends on !COMPILE_TEST 497f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel help 498f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel Zero initialize any struct type local variable that may be passed by 499f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel reference without having been initialized. 500f7dd2507SArd Biesheuvel 501c61f13eaSKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE 502c61f13eaSKees Cook bool "Report forcefully initialized variables" 503c61f13eaSKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 5041658dceeSMasahiro Yamada depends on !COMPILE_TEST # too noisy 505c61f13eaSKees Cook help 506c61f13eaSKees Cook This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the 507c61f13eaSKees Cook structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be 508c61f13eaSKees Cook initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected 509c61f13eaSKees Cook by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings. 510c61f13eaSKees Cook 511313dd1b6SKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 512313dd1b6SKees Cook bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures" 513313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGINS 514313dd1b6SKees Cook select MODVERSIONS if MODULES 515313dd1b6SKees Cook help 5169225331bSKees Cook If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely 5179225331bSKees Cook function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with 5189225331bSKees Cook __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly 5199225331bSKees Cook marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time. 5209225331bSKees Cook This can introduce the requirement of an additional information 5219225331bSKees Cook exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure 5229225331bSKees Cook types. 523313dd1b6SKees Cook 524313dd1b6SKees Cook Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact, 525313dd1b6SKees Cook slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic 526313dd1b6SKees Cook tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel 527313dd1b6SKees Cook source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation). 528313dd1b6SKees Cook 529313dd1b6SKees Cook The seed used for compilation is located at 530313dd1b6SKees Cook scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after 531313dd1b6SKees Cook a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with 532313dd1b6SKees Cook the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or 533313dd1b6SKees Cook make distclean. 534313dd1b6SKees Cook 535313dd1b6SKees Cook Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer. 536313dd1b6SKees Cook 537313dd1b6SKees Cook This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 538313dd1b6SKees Cook * https://grsecurity.net/ 539313dd1b6SKees Cook * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 540313dd1b6SKees Cook 541313dd1b6SKees Cookconfig GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE 542313dd1b6SKees Cook bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization" 543313dd1b6SKees Cook depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 5441658dceeSMasahiro Yamada depends on !COMPILE_TEST # do not reduce test coverage 545313dd1b6SKees Cook help 546313dd1b6SKees Cook If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a 547313dd1b6SKees Cook best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized 548313dd1b6SKees Cook groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields 549313dd1b6SKees Cook in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT 550313dd1b6SKees Cook at the cost of weakened randomization. 551313dd1b6SKees Cook 552d148eac0SMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 55319952a92SKees Cook bool 55419952a92SKees Cook help 55519952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 55619952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 55719952a92SKees Cook 5582a61f474SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 5592a61f474SMasahiro Yamada def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector) 5602a61f474SMasahiro Yamada 561050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR 5622a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 563d148eac0SMasahiro Yamada depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 5642a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector) 5652a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 5668779657dSKees Cook help 5678779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 56819952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 56919952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 57019952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 57119952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 57219952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 57319952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 57419952a92SKees Cook 5758779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 5768779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 5778779657dSKees Cook 57819952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 5798779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 5808779657dSKees Cook 5818779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5828779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 5838779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 5848779657dSKees Cook 585050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 5862a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Strong Stack Protector" 587050e9baaSLinus Torvalds depends on STACKPROTECTOR 5882a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong) 5892a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 5908779657dSKees Cook help 5918779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 5928779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 5938779657dSKees Cook 5948779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 5958779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 5968779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 5978779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 5988779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 5998779657dSKees Cook 6008779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 6018779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 6028779657dSKees Cook 6038779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 6048779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 6058779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 6068779657dSKees Cook 6070f60a8efSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 6080f60a8efSKees Cook bool 6090f60a8efSKees Cook help 6100f60a8efSKees Cook An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 6110f60a8efSKees Cook frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 6120f60a8efSKees Cook or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 6130f60a8efSKees Cook and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 6140f60a8efSKees Cook which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 6150f60a8efSKees Cook 61691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 6172b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 6182b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 61991d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 62091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 62191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through 62291d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be 62391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside 62491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on 62591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker irq exit still need to be protected. 6262b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 627b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 628b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 629b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 63040565b5aSStanislaw Gruszkaconfig ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 63140565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka bool 63240565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka 633554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 634554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 635554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 636554b0004SKevin Hilman help 637554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 638554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 639554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 640554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 641554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 642554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 643554b0004SKevin Hilman 644554b0004SKevin Hilman 645fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 646fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 647fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 648fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 649fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 650fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 65115626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 65215626062SGerald Schaefer bool 65315626062SGerald Schaefer 654a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcoxconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 655a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox bool 656a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox 6570ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 6580ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 6590ddab1d2SToshi Kani 6600f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 6610f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 6620f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 663786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 664786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 665786d35d4SDavid Howells help 666786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 667786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 668786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 669786d35d4SDavid Howells 670786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 671786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 672786d35d4SDavid Howells help 673786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 674786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 675786d35d4SDavid Howells 676786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 677786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 678786d35d4SDavid Howells help 679786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 680786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 681786d35d4SDavid Howells 682cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 683cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 684cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 685cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 686cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 687cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 688cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 689cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 690cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 691cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 692235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 693235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 694235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 695235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 6962b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 6972b68f6caSKees Cook bool 6982b68f6caSKees Cook help 6992b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 7002b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 7012b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 702204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 7032b68f6caSKees Cook 704d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 705d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 706d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 707d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 708d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 709d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 710d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 711d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 712d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 7135f56a5dfSJiri Slabyconfig HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 7145f56a5dfSJiri Slaby bool 7155f56a5dfSJiri Slaby help 7165f56a5dfSJiri Slaby An architecture implements exit_thread. 7175f56a5dfSJiri Slaby 718d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 719d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 720d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 721d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 722d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 723d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 724d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 725d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 726d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 727d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 728d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 729d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 730d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 731d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 732d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 733d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 734d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 735d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 736d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 737d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 738d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 739d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 740d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 741d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 742d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 743d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 744d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 745d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 746d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 747d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 748d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 749d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 750d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 751d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 752d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 753d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 754d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 755d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 756d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 757d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 758d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 759d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 760d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 761d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 762d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 763d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 764d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 765d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 766d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 767d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 768d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 769d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 770d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 771d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 772d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 773d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 774d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 775d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 776d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 7771b028f78SDmitry Safonovconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 7781b028f78SDmitry Safonov bool 7791b028f78SDmitry Safonov help 7801b028f78SDmitry Safonov This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 7811b028f78SDmitry Safonov and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 7821b028f78SDmitry Safonov Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 7831b028f78SDmitry Safonov 7843033f14aSJosh Triplettconfig HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS 7853033f14aSJosh Triplett bool 7863033f14aSJosh Triplett help 7873033f14aSJosh Triplett Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via 7883033f14aSJosh Triplett normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall 7893033f14aSJosh Triplett argument from pt_regs. 7903033f14aSJosh Triplett 791b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 792b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 793b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 794b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which 795b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf performs compile-time stack metadata validation. 796b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 797af085d90SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 798af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf bool 799af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf help 800af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which 801af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 802af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf 803468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 804468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 805468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 806468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 807468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 808468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 809468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 810468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 8113a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS_API 8123a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray def_bool ISA 8133a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 814d2125043SAl Viro# 815d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 816d2125043SAl Viro# 817d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 818d2125043SAl Viro bool 819d2125043SAl Viro help 820d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 821d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 822d2125043SAl Viro 823d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 824d2125043SAl Viro bool 825d2125043SAl Viro help 826d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 827d2125043SAl Viro 828dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 829dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 830dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 831dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 832dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 833dfa9771aSMichal Simek 834eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 835eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 836eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 837eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 838eaca6eaeSAl Viro 8390a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 8400a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8410a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8420a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 8430a0e8cdfSAl Viro 8440a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 8450a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8460a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8470a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 8480a0e8cdfSAl Viro 849495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 850495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 851495dfbf7SAl Viro help 852495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 853495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 854495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 855495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 856495dfbf7SAl Viro 857495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 858495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 859495dfbf7SAl Viro 860d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamaniconfig 64BIT_TIME 861d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani def_bool ARCH_HAS_64BIT_TIME 862d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani help 863d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani This should be selected by all architectures that need to support 864d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani new system calls with a 64-bit time_t. This is relevant on all 32-bit 865d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani architectures, and 64-bit architectures as part of compat syscall 866d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani handling. 867d4703ddaSDeepa Dinamani 86817435e5fSDeepa Dinamaniconfig COMPAT_32BIT_TIME 86917435e5fSDeepa Dinamani def_bool (!64BIT && 64BIT_TIME) || COMPAT 87017435e5fSDeepa Dinamani help 87117435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support. 87217435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures 87317435e5fSDeepa Dinamani as part of compat syscall handling. 87417435e5fSDeepa Dinamani 8750d4a619bSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP 8760d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig bool 8770d4a619bSChristoph Hellwig 878fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zengconfig CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 879fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng def_bool n 880fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng 881ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 882ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 883ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski help 884ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 885ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski in vmalloc space. This means: 886ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 887ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 888ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 889ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 890ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 891ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 892ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 893ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 894ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 895ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 896ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 897ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 898ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 899ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 900ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 901ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VMAP_STACK 902ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski default y 903ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 904ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN 905ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski ---help--- 906ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 907ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 908ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 909ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski corruption. 910ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 911ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects 912ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula 913ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space. 914ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 915ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 916ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 917ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 918ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 919ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 920ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 921ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 922ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 923ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9240f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 925ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 926ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 927ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 928ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 929ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 930ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 931ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 932ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott or modifying text) 933ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 934ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott These features are considered standard security practice these days. 935ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott You should say Y here in almost all cases. 936ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 937ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 938ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 939ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9400f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_MODULE_RWX 941ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 942ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 943ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 944ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 945ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 946ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 947ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 948ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 949ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig# select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header 950ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA 951ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig bool 952ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig 9537a46ec0eSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT 9547a46ec0eSKees Cook bool 9557a46ec0eSKees Cook help 9567a46ec0eSKees Cook An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t 9577a46ec0eSKees Cook using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized 9587a46ec0eSKees Cook refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full 9597a46ec0eSKees Cook refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y. 9607a46ec0eSKees Cook 9617a46ec0eSKees Cook The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained. 9627a46ec0eSKees Cook Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting 9637a46ec0eSKees Cook against bugs in reference counts. 9647a46ec0eSKees Cook 965fd25d19fSKees Cookconfig REFCOUNT_FULL 966fd25d19fSKees Cook bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed" 967fd25d19fSKees Cook help 968fd25d19fSKees Cook Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast 969fd25d19fSKees Cook unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked 970fd25d19fSKees Cook implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections 971fd25d19fSKees Cook against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in 972fd25d19fSKees Cook security flaw exploits. 973fd25d19fSKees Cook 9742521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 975