1b2441318SGreg Kroah-Hartman# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 3fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# General architecture dependent options 4fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 5125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 61572497cSChristoph Hellwig# 71572497cSChristoph Hellwig# Note: arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig needs to be included first so that it can 81572497cSChristoph Hellwig# override the default values in this file. 91572497cSChristoph Hellwig# 101572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig" 111572497cSChristoph Hellwig 12fe42754bSSean Christophersonconfig ARCH_CONFIGURES_CPU_MITIGATIONS 13fe42754bSSean Christopherson bool 14fe42754bSSean Christopherson 15fe42754bSSean Christophersonif !ARCH_CONFIGURES_CPU_MITIGATIONS 16fe42754bSSean Christophersonconfig CPU_MITIGATIONS 17fe42754bSSean Christopherson def_bool y 18fe42754bSSean Christophersonendif 19fe42754bSSean Christopherson 20de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig# 21de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig# Selected by architectures that need custom DMA operations for e.g. legacy 22de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig# IOMMUs not handled by dma-iommu. Drivers must never select this symbol. 23de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig# 24de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_OPS 25de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig depends on HAS_DMA 26de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig select DMA_OPS_HELPERS 27de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig bool 28de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig 2922471e13SRandy Dunlapmenu "General architecture-dependent options" 3022471e13SRandy Dunlap 31da32b581SCatalin Marinasconfig ARCH_HAS_SUBPAGE_FAULTS 32da32b581SCatalin Marinas bool 33da32b581SCatalin Marinas help 34da32b581SCatalin Marinas Select if the architecture can check permissions at sub-page 35da32b581SCatalin Marinas granularity (e.g. arm64 MTE). The probe_user_*() functions 36da32b581SCatalin Marinas must be implemented. 37da32b581SCatalin Marinas 3805736e4aSThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_SMT 3905736e4aSThomas Gleixner bool 4005736e4aSThomas Gleixner 4138253464SMichael Ellermanconfig SMT_NUM_THREADS_DYNAMIC 4238253464SMichael Ellerman bool 4338253464SMichael Ellerman 446f062123SThomas Gleixner# Selected by HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD or HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL 456f062123SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC 466f062123SThomas Gleixner bool 476f062123SThomas Gleixner 486f062123SThomas Gleixner# Basic CPU dead synchronization selected by architecture 496f062123SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD 506f062123SThomas Gleixner bool 516f062123SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC 526f062123SThomas Gleixner 536f062123SThomas Gleixner# Full CPU synchronization with alive state selected by architecture 546f062123SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL 556f062123SThomas Gleixner bool 566f062123SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD if HOTPLUG_CPU 576f062123SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC 586f062123SThomas Gleixner 59a631be92SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP 60a631be92SThomas Gleixner bool 61a631be92SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL 62a631be92SThomas Gleixner 6318415f33SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_PARALLEL 6418415f33SThomas Gleixner bool 6518415f33SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP 6618415f33SThomas Gleixner 67142781e1SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_ENTRY 68142781e1SThomas Gleixner bool 69142781e1SThomas Gleixner 70125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig KPROBES 71125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Kprobes" 72125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_KPROBES 7305ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu select KALLSYMS 747582b7beSMike Rapoport (IBM) select EXECMEM 75900da4d2SPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 76125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 77125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and 78125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes 79125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful 80125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. 81125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If in doubt, say "N". 82125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 8345f81b1cSSteven Rostedtconfig JUMP_LABEL 84c5905afbSIngo Molnar bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" 8545f81b1cSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 864ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL if HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK 8745f81b1cSSteven Rostedt help 88c5905afbSIngo Molnar This option enables a transparent branch optimization that 89c5905afbSIngo Molnar makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch 90c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. 9145f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 92c5905afbSIngo Molnar Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, 93c5905afbSIngo Molnar scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such 94c5905afbSIngo Molnar branches and include support for this optimization technique. 95c5905afbSIngo Molnar 96c5905afbSIngo Molnar If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", 97c5905afbSIngo Molnar the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop 98c5905afbSIngo Molnar instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the 99c5905afbSIngo Molnar nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the 100c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditional block of instructions. 101c5905afbSIngo Molnar 102c5905afbSIngo Molnar This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction 103c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update 104c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. 105c5905afbSIngo Molnar 106c5905afbSIngo Molnar ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler 107c5905afbSIngo Molnar flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) 10845f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 1091987c947SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST 1101987c947SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static key selftest" 1111987c947SPeter Zijlstra depends on JUMP_LABEL 1121987c947SPeter Zijlstra help 1131987c947SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. 1141987c947SPeter Zijlstra 115f03c4129SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_CALL_SELFTEST 116f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static call selftest" 117f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 118f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra help 119f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the call patching code. 120f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra 121afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig OPTPROBES 1225cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 1235cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES 124900da4d2SPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 125afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu 126e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 127e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 128e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 129e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 130e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu help 131e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full 132e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can 133e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu optimize on top of function tracing. 134e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 1352b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig UPROBES 13609294e31SDavid A. Long def_bool n 137e8f4aa60SAllen Pais depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 1382b144498SSrikar Dronamraju help 1397b2d81d4SIngo Molnar Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they 1407b2d81d4SIngo Molnar enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') 1417b2d81d4SIngo Molnar to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and 1427b2d81d4SIngo Molnar libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes 1437b2d81d4SIngo Molnar are hit by user-space applications. 1447b2d81d4SIngo Molnar 1457b2d81d4SIngo Molnar ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, 1467b2d81d4SIngo Molnar managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed 1477b2d81d4SIngo Molnar application. ) 1482b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 149adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS 150adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 151adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 152adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit 153adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values 154adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit 155adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit 156adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) architectures without unaligned access. 157adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 158adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit 159adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even 160adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) though it is not a 64 bit architecture. 161adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 162ba1a297dSLukas Bulwahn See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for 163ba1a297dSLukas Bulwahn more information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 164adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 16558340a07SJohannes Bergconfig HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 1669ba16087SJan Beulich bool 16758340a07SJohannes Berg help 16858340a07SJohannes Berg Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses 16958340a07SJohannes Berg without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are 17058340a07SJohannes Berg unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on 17158340a07SJohannes Berg unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception 17258340a07SJohannes Berg handler.) 17358340a07SJohannes Berg 17458340a07SJohannes Berg This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can 17558340a07SJohannes Berg perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different 17658340a07SJohannes Berg code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network 17758340a07SJohannes Berg drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment 17858340a07SJohannes Berg problems with received packets if doing so would not help 17958340a07SJohannes Berg much. 18058340a07SJohannes Berg 181c9b54d6fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for more 18258340a07SJohannes Berg information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 18358340a07SJohannes Berg 184cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouseconfig ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 185cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse bool 186cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse help 187cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions 188cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old 189cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the 190cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's 191cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In 192cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap 193cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or 194cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It 195cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the 196cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it 197cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse does, the use of the builtins is optional. 198cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 199cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap 200cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it 201cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse on architectures that don't have such instructions. 202cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 2039edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig KRETPROBES 2049edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli def_bool y 20573f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && (HAVE_KRETPROBES || HAVE_RETHOOK) 20673f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu 20773f9b911SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KRETPROBE_ON_RETHOOK 20873f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 20973f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 21073f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KRETPROBES 21173f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu select RETHOOK 2129edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 2137c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 2147c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 2157c68af6eSAvi Kivity depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 2167c68af6eSAvi Kivity help 2177c68af6eSAvi Kivity Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to 2187c68af6eSAvi Kivity switch to user mode. 2197c68af6eSAvi Kivity 22028b2ee20SRik van Rielconfig HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 2219ba16087SJan Beulich bool 22228b2ee20SRik van Riel 223125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_KPROBES 2249ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2259edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 2269edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig HAVE_KRETPROBES 2279ba16087SJan Beulich bool 22874bc7ceeSArthur Kepner 229afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_OPTPROBES 230afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu bool 231d314d74cSCong Wang 232e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 233e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu bool 234e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 2351f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE 2361f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 2371f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2381f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu Since kretprobes modifies return address on the stack, the 2391f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu stacktrace may see the kretprobe trampoline address instead 2401f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu of correct one. If the architecture stacktrace code and 2411f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu unwinder can adjust such entries, select this configuration. 2421f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu 243540adea3SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 2449802d865SJosef Bacik bool 2459802d865SJosef Bacik 24642a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig HAVE_NMI 24742a0bb3fSPetr Mladek bool 24842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 249a257caccSChristophe Leroyconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS 250a257caccSChristophe Leroy bool 251a257caccSChristophe Leroy 2524aae683fSMasahiro Yamadaconfig TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 2534aae683fSMasahiro Yamada bool 2544aae683fSMasahiro Yamada 2554510bffbSMark Rutlandconfig TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 2564510bffbSMark Rutland bool 2574510bffbSMark Rutland 2581f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2591f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 2601f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2611f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 2621f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 2631f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 2641f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 2651f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 2661f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 267153474baSEric W. Biederman# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 26803248addSEric W. Biederman# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls resume_user_mode_work() 2691f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2701f5a4ad9SRoland McGrathconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2719ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2721f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath 273c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 274c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool 275c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 27629d5e047SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 27729d5e047SThomas Gleixner bool 27829d5e047SThomas Gleixner 279485cf5daSKevin Hilmanconfig GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 280485cf5daSKevin Hilman bool 281485cf5daSKevin Hilman 2826974f0c4SDaniel Micayconfig ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 2836974f0c4SDaniel Micay bool 2846974f0c4SDaniel Micay help 2856974f0c4SDaniel Micay An architecture should select this when it can successfully 2866974f0c4SDaniel Micay build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. 2876974f0c4SDaniel Micay 288d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 289d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd 290d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# command line option 291d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 292d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD 293d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig bool 294d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig 295d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h 296d2852a22SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 297d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann bool 298d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann 299d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe# Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions 300d253ca0cSRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 301d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe bool 302d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe 303c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 304fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architecture provides the arch_dma_set_uncached symbol to 305a86ecfa6SColin Ian King# either provide an uncached segment alias for a DMA allocation, or 306fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# to remap the page tables in place. 307c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 308fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED 309c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig bool 310c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig 311999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 312999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architectures provides the arch_dma_clear_uncached symbol 313999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# to undo an in-place page table remap for uncached access. 314999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 315999a5d12SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED 316f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 317f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 3187725acaaSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT 3197725acaaSThomas Gleixner bool 3207725acaaSThomas Gleixner 3218f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe# The architecture has a per-task state that includes the mm's PASID 3228f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpeconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID 3238f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe bool 3248f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe select IOMMU_MM_DATA 3258f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe 3265905429aSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST 3275905429aSKees Cook bool 3285905429aSKees Cook help 3295905429aSKees Cook An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy 3305905429aSKees Cook knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be 3315905429aSKees Cook whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the 3325905429aSKees Cook FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist() 3335905429aSKees Cook should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct 3345905429aSKees Cook field in task_struct will be left whitelisted. 3355905429aSKees Cook 3365aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 3375aaeb5c0SIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 3385aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar bool 3395aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 34051c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR 34151c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers bool 34251c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers help 34351c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers An architecture should select this if the noinstr macro is being used on 34451c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers functions to denote that the toolchain should avoid instrumenting such 34551c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers functions and is required for correctness. 34651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 347942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T 348942fa985SYury Norov bool 349942fa985SYury Norov depends on !64BIT 350942fa985SYury Norov help 351942fa985SYury Norov All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on 352942fa985SYury Norov userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This 353942fa985SYury Norov is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures 354942fa985SYury Norov still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such 355942fa985SYury Norov architectures explicitly. 356942fa985SYury Norov 35796c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens# Selected by 64 bit architectures which have a 32 bit f_tinode in struct ustat 35896c0a6a7SHeiko Carstensconfig ARCH_32BIT_USTAT_F_TINODE 35996c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens bool 36096c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens 3612ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS 3622ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 3632ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 364a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it provides 3652ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols 3662ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada exported from assembly code. 3672ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 368f850c30cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 369f850c30cSHeiko Carstens bool 370e01292b1SHeiko Carstens help 371a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports 372e01292b1SHeiko Carstens the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 373e01292b1SHeiko Carstens declared in asm/ptrace.h 374e01292b1SHeiko Carstens For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 375f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 376d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_RSEQ 377d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool 378d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 379d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 380d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it 381d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers supports an implementation of restartable sequences. 382d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 3832f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig HAVE_RUST 3842f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool 3852f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 3862f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it 3872f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda supports Rust. 3882f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 3893c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 3903c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu bool 3913c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu help 392a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports 3933c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs, 3943c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu declared in asm/ptrace.h 3953c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu 39662a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 39762a038d3SK.Prasad bool 39899e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 39962a038d3SK.Prasad 4000102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 4010102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 4020102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 4030102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 4040102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 4050102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 4060102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 4070102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 4080102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 4090102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 4100102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 4117c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 4127c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 413a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 414c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 415c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 41623637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 41723637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 41823637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 41923637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 420c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 42105a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 42205a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 42305a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 42405a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 42505a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup 42605a4a952SNicholas Piggin detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. 42705a4a952SNicholas Piggin 42805a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 42905a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 43005a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 4311356d0b9SPetr Mladek The arch provides its own hardlockup detector implementation instead 4321356d0b9SPetr Mladek of the generic ones. 4331356d0b9SPetr Mladek 4341356d0b9SPetr Mladek It uses the same command line parameters, and sysctl interface, 4351356d0b9SPetr Mladek as the generic hardlockup detectors. 43605a4a952SNicholas Piggin 437c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 438c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 439c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 440c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 441c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 442c5e63197SJiri Olsa 443c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 444c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 445c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 446c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 447c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 448c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 449c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 450bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 451bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 452bf5438fcSJason Baron 45350ff18abSArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE 45450ff18abSArd Biesheuvel bool 45550ff18abSArd Biesheuvel 4560d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 4570d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra bool 4580d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra 459ff2e6d72SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 46026723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 4610d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 46226723911SPeter Zijlstra 4633af4bd03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE 464ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra bool 465ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra 46627796d03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE 46727796d03SPeter Zijlstra bool 4681e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS 4691e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra 4701e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_FLUSH_CACHE 4711e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra bool 4721e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra 4731e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS 4741e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra bool 47527796d03SPeter Zijlstra 476580a586cSPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER 477952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky bool 4780d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 479952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky 480d53c3dfbSNicholas Pigginconfig ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM 481d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin bool 482d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin help 483d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin Temporary select until all architectures can be converted to have 484d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin irqs disabled over activate_mm. Architectures that do IPI based TLB 485d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin shootdowns should enable this. 486d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin 48788e3009bSNicholas Piggin# Use normal mm refcounting for MMU_LAZY_TLB kernel thread references. 48888e3009bSNicholas Piggin# MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n can improve the scalability of context switching 48988e3009bSNicholas Piggin# to/from kernel threads when the same mm is running on a lot of CPUs (a large 49088e3009bSNicholas Piggin# multi-threaded application), by reducing contention on the mm refcount. 49188e3009bSNicholas Piggin# 49288e3009bSNicholas Piggin# This can be disabled if the architecture ensures no CPUs are using an mm as a 49388e3009bSNicholas Piggin# "lazy tlb" beyond its final refcount (i.e., by the time __mmdrop frees the mm 49488e3009bSNicholas Piggin# or its kernel page tables). This could be arranged by arch_exit_mmap(), or 49588e3009bSNicholas Piggin# final exit(2) TLB flush, for example. 49688e3009bSNicholas Piggin# 49788e3009bSNicholas Piggin# To implement this, an arch *must*: 49888e3009bSNicholas Piggin# Ensure the _lazy_tlb variants of mmgrab/mmdrop are used when manipulating 49988e3009bSNicholas Piggin# the lazy tlb reference of a kthread's ->active_mm (non-arch code has been 50088e3009bSNicholas Piggin# converted already). 50188e3009bSNicholas Pigginconfig MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT 50288e3009bSNicholas Piggin def_bool y 5032655421aSNicholas Piggin depends on !MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN 5042655421aSNicholas Piggin 5052655421aSNicholas Piggin# This option allows MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n. It ensures no CPUs are using an 5062655421aSNicholas Piggin# mm as a lazy tlb beyond its last reference count, by shooting down these 5072655421aSNicholas Piggin# users before the mm is deallocated. __mmdrop() first IPIs all CPUs that may 5082655421aSNicholas Piggin# be using the mm as a lazy tlb, so that they may switch themselves to using 5092655421aSNicholas Piggin# init_mm for their active mm. mm_cpumask(mm) is used to determine which CPUs 5102655421aSNicholas Piggin# may be using mm as a lazy tlb mm. 5112655421aSNicholas Piggin# 5122655421aSNicholas Piggin# To implement this, an arch *must*: 5132655421aSNicholas Piggin# - At the time of the final mmdrop of the mm, ensure mm_cpumask(mm) contains 5142655421aSNicholas Piggin# at least all possible CPUs in which the mm is lazy. 5152655421aSNicholas Piggin# - It must meet the requirements for MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n (see above). 5162655421aSNicholas Pigginconfig MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN 5172655421aSNicholas Piggin bool 51888e3009bSNicholas Piggin 519df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 520df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 521df013ffbSHuang Ying 522a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanianconfig ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES 523a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian bool 524a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian help 525a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian An architecture should select this in order to enable adding an 526a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian arch-specific ELF note section to core files. It must provide two 527a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian functions: elf_coredump_extra_notes_size() and 528a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian elf_coredump_extra_notes_write() which are invoked by the ELF core 529a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian dumper. 530a9c3475dSVignesh Balasubramanian 5312e83b879SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS 5322e83b879SPaul E. McKenney bool 5332e83b879SPaul E. McKenney 53443570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 53543570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 53643570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 53743570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 53843570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 53943570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 54043570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 54143570fd2SHeiko Carstens 5424156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 5434156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 5444156153cSHeiko Carstens 5452565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 5462565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 5472565409fSHeiko Carstens 54877e58496SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 54977e58496SPaul E. McKenney bool 55077e58496SPaul E. McKenney 551c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 552c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 553c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 554c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 555c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 556c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 55748b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 558c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 55948b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 56048b25c43SChris Metcalf 561282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 562e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 563e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 564282a181bSYiFei Zhu An arch should select this symbol to support seccomp mode 1 (the fixed 565282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscall policy), and must provide an overrides for __NR_seccomp_sigreturn, 566282a181bSYiFei Zhu and compat syscalls if the asm-generic/seccomp.h defaults need adjustment: 567282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_read_32 568282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_write_32 569282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_exit_32 570282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_sigreturn_32 571282a181bSYiFei Zhu 572282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 573282a181bSYiFei Zhu bool 574282a181bSYiFei Zhu select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 575282a181bSYiFei Zhu help 576fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 577282a181bSYiFei Zhu - all the requirements for HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 578bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 579bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 580bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 581bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 582fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 583fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 584fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 585fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 58648dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 5870d8315ddSYiFei Zhu - if !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR, have SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE, 5880d8315ddSYiFei Zhu SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NR, SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NAME defined. If 5890d8315ddSYiFei Zhu COMPAT is supported, have the SECCOMP_ARCH_COMPAT* defines too. 590e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 591282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig SECCOMP 592282a181bSYiFei Zhu prompt "Enable seccomp to safely execute untrusted bytecode" 593282a181bSYiFei Zhu def_bool y 594282a181bSYiFei Zhu depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 595282a181bSYiFei Zhu help 596282a181bSYiFei Zhu This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 597282a181bSYiFei Zhu that may need to handle untrusted bytecode during their 598282a181bSYiFei Zhu execution. By using pipes or other transports made available 599282a181bSYiFei Zhu to the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 600282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in their 601282a181bSYiFei Zhu own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is enabled via 602282a181bSYiFei Zhu prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) or the seccomp() syscall, it cannot be 603282a181bSYiFei Zhu disabled and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe 604282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscalls defined by each seccomp mode. 605282a181bSYiFei Zhu 606282a181bSYiFei Zhu If unsure, say Y. 607282a181bSYiFei Zhu 608e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 609e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 610e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 611e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 612e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 613e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 614e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 615e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 6165fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details. 617e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 6180d8315ddSYiFei Zhuconfig SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG 6190d8315ddSYiFei Zhu bool "Show seccomp filter cache status in /proc/pid/seccomp_cache" 6200d8315ddSYiFei Zhu depends on SECCOMP_FILTER && !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR 6210d8315ddSYiFei Zhu depends on PROC_FS 6220d8315ddSYiFei Zhu help 6230d8315ddSYiFei Zhu This enables the /proc/pid/seccomp_cache interface to monitor 6240d8315ddSYiFei Zhu seccomp cache data. The file format is subject to change. Reading 6250d8315ddSYiFei Zhu the file requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. 6260d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 6270d8315ddSYiFei Zhu This option is for debugging only. Enabling presents the risk that 6280d8315ddSYiFei Zhu an adversary may be able to infer the seccomp filter logic. 6290d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 6300d8315ddSYiFei Zhu If unsure, say N. 6310d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 632afaef01cSAlexander Popovconfig HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK 633afaef01cSAlexander Popov bool 634afaef01cSAlexander Popov help 635afaef01cSAlexander Popov An architecture should select this if it has the code which 636afaef01cSAlexander Popov fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON 637afaef01cSAlexander Popov value before returning from system calls. 638afaef01cSAlexander Popov 639d148eac0SMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 64019952a92SKees Cook bool 64119952a92SKees Cook help 64219952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 64319952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 64419952a92SKees Cook 645050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR 6462a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 647d148eac0SMasahiro Yamada depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 6482a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector) 6492a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 6508779657dSKees Cook help 6518779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 65219952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 65319952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 65419952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 65519952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 65619952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 65719952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 65819952a92SKees Cook 6598779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 6608779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 6618779657dSKees Cook 66219952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 6638779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 6648779657dSKees Cook 6658779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 6668779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 6678779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 6688779657dSKees Cook 669050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 6702a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Strong Stack Protector" 671050e9baaSLinus Torvalds depends on STACKPROTECTOR 6722a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong) 6732a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 6748779657dSKees Cook help 6758779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 6768779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 6778779657dSKees Cook 6788779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 6798779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 6808779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 6818779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 6828779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 6838779657dSKees Cook 6848779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 6858779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 6868779657dSKees Cook 6878779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 6888779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 6898779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 6908779657dSKees Cook 691d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 692d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen bool 693d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 694afcf5441SDan Li An architecture should select this if it supports the compiler's 695afcf5441SDan Li Shadow Call Stack and implements runtime support for shadow stack 696aa7a65aeSWill Deacon switching. 697d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 698d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig SHADOW_CALL_STACK 699afcf5441SDan Li bool "Shadow Call Stack" 700afcf5441SDan Li depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 70138792972SArd Biesheuvel depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || !FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 7026f9dc684SSamuel Holland depends on MMU 703d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 704afcf5441SDan Li This option enables the compiler's Shadow Call Stack, which 705afcf5441SDan Li uses a shadow stack to protect function return addresses from 706afcf5441SDan Li being overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found 707afcf5441SDan Li in the compiler's documentation: 708d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 709afcf5441SDan Li - Clang: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html 710afcf5441SDan Li - GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Instrumentation-Options.html#Instrumentation-Options 711d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 712d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the 713d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses 714d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable of 715d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them 716d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks. 717d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 7189beccca0SArd Biesheuvelconfig DYNAMIC_SCS 7199beccca0SArd Biesheuvel bool 7209beccca0SArd Biesheuvel help 7219beccca0SArd Biesheuvel Set by the arch code if it relies on code patching to insert the 7229beccca0SArd Biesheuvel shadow call stack push and pop instructions rather than on the 7239beccca0SArd Biesheuvel compiler. 7249beccca0SArd Biesheuvel 725dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO 726dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 727dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 728dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Selected if the kernel will be built using the compiler's LTO feature. 729dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 730dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG 731dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 732dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO 733dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 734dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Selected if the kernel will be built using Clang's LTO feature. 735dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 736dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 737dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 738dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 739dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it supports: 740dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - compiling with Clang, 741dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - compiling inline assembly with Clang's integrated assembler, 742dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - and linking with LLD. 743dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 744dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 745dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 746dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 747dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it can support Clang's 748dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen ThinLTO mode. 749dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 750dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig HAS_LTO_CLANG 751dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7521e68a8afSNathan Chancellor depends on CC_IS_CLANG && LD_IS_LLD && AS_IS_LLVM 753dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on $(success,$(NM) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) 754dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on $(success,$(AR) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) 755dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 756dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 757349fde59SJakob Koschel # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1721 758349fde59SJakob Koschel depends on (!KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || CLANG_VERSION >= 170000) || !DEBUG_INFO 759349fde59SJakob Koschel depends on (!KCOV || CLANG_VERSION >= 170000) || !DEBUG_INFO 760dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !GCOV_KERNEL 761dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 762dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen The compiler and Kconfig options support building with Clang's 763dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen LTO. 764dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 765dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenchoice 766dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen prompt "Link Time Optimization (LTO)" 767dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen default LTO_NONE 768dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 769dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Link Time Optimization (LTO), which allows the 770dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen compiler to optimize binaries globally. 771dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 772dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen If unsure, select LTO_NONE. Note that LTO is very resource-intensive 773dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen so it's disabled by default. 774dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 775dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_NONE 776dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "None" 777dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 778dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Build the kernel normally, without Link Time Optimization (LTO). 779dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 780dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG_FULL 781dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "Clang Full LTO (EXPERIMENTAL)" 782dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG 783dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !COMPILE_TEST 784dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO_CLANG 785dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 786dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's full Link Time Optimization (LTO), which 787dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen allows the compiler to optimize the kernel globally. If you enable 788dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen this option, the compiler generates LLVM bitcode instead of ELF 789dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen object files, and the actual compilation from bitcode happens at 790dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen the LTO link step, which may take several minutes depending on the 791dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen kernel configuration. More information can be found from LLVM's 792dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen documentation: 793dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 794dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html 795dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 796dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen During link time, this option can use a large amount of RAM, and 797dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen may take much longer than the ThinLTO option. 798dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 799dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG_THIN 800dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "Clang ThinLTO (EXPERIMENTAL)" 801dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 802dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO_CLANG 803dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 804dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's ThinLTO, which allows for parallel 805dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen optimization and faster incremental compiles compared to the 806dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL option. More information can be found 807dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen from Clang's documentation: 808dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 809dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html 810dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 811dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen If unsure, say Y. 812dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenendchoice 813dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 814cf68fffbSSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG 815cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool 816cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 817cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it can support Clang's 818cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) checking. 819cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 82089245600SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_USES_CFI_TRAPS 82189245600SSami Tolvanen bool 82289245600SSami Tolvanen 823cf68fffbSSami Tolvanenconfig CFI_CLANG 824cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool "Use Clang's Control Flow Integrity (CFI)" 82589245600SSami Tolvanen depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG 82689245600SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kcfi) 827cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 828c4ca2276SLiu Song This option enables Clang's forward-edge Control Flow Integrity 829cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen (CFI) checking, where the compiler injects a runtime check to each 830cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen indirect function call to ensure the target is a valid function with 831cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen the correct static type. This restricts possible call targets and 832cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen makes it more difficult for an attacker to exploit bugs that allow 833cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen the modification of stored function pointers. More information can be 834cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen found from Clang's documentation: 835cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 836cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html 837cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 838ce4a2620SAlice Ryhlconfig CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS 839ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl bool "Normalize CFI tags for integers" 840ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl depends on CFI_CLANG 841*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_CLANG 842ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl help 843ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl This option normalizes the CFI tags for integer types so that all 844ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl integer types of the same size and signedness receive the same CFI 845ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl tag. 846ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl 847ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl The option is separate from CONFIG_RUST because it affects the ABI. 848ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl When working with build systems that care about the ABI, it is 849ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl convenient to be able to turn on this flag first, before Rust is 850ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl turned on. 851ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl 852ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl This option is necessary for using CFI with Rust. If unsure, say N. 853ce4a2620SAlice Ryhl 854*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhlconfig HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_CLANG 855*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl def_bool y 8564c66f830SAlice Ryhl depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kcfi -fsanitize-cfi-icall-experimental-normalize-integers) 857*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl # With GCOV/KASAN we need this fix: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/104826 858*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on CLANG_VERSION >= 190000 || (!GCOV_KERNEL && !KASAN_GENERIC && !KASAN_SW_TAGS) 8594c66f830SAlice Ryhl 860*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhlconfig HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC 861*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl def_bool y 862*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_CLANG 863*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on RUSTC_VERSION >= 107900 864*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl # With GCOV/KASAN we need this fix: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/129373 865*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl depends on (RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION >= 190000 && RUSTC_VERSION >= 108200) || \ 866*8b8ca9c2SAlice Ryhl (!GCOV_KERNEL && !KASAN_GENERIC && !KASAN_SW_TAGS) 8674c66f830SAlice Ryhl 868cf68fffbSSami Tolvanenconfig CFI_PERMISSIVE 869cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool "Use CFI in permissive mode" 870cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen depends on CFI_CLANG 871cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 872cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen When selected, Control Flow Integrity (CFI) violations result in a 873cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen warning instead of a kernel panic. This option should only be used 874cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen for finding indirect call type mismatches during development. 875cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 876cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen If unsure, say N. 877cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 8780f60a8efSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 8790f60a8efSKees Cook bool 8800f60a8efSKees Cook help 8810f60a8efSKees Cook An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 8820f60a8efSKees Cook frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 8830f60a8efSKees Cook or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 8840f60a8efSKees Cook and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 8850f60a8efSKees Cook which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 8860f60a8efSKees Cook 88724a9c541SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 8882b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 8892b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 89091d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 89191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 892490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter(), either 893490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker optimized behind static key or through the slow path using TIF_NOHZ 894490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs are already 8956f0e6c15SFrederic Weisbecker protected inside ct_irq_enter/ct_irq_exit() but preemption or signal 896490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker handling on irq exit still need to be protected. 897490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker 89824a9c541SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_OFFSTACK 89983c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 90083c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker help 90183c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker Architecture neither relies on exception_enter()/exception_exit() 90283c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker nor on schedule_user(). Also preempt_schedule_notrace() and 90383c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker preempt_schedule_irq() can't be called in a preemptible section 904d65d411cSValentin Schneider while context tracking is CT_STATE_USER. This feature reflects a sane 90583c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker entry implementation where the following requirements are met on 90683c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker critical entry code, ie: before user_exit() or after user_enter(): 90783c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker 90883c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - Critical entry code isn't preemptible (or better yet: 90983c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker not interruptible). 910493c1822SFrederic Weisbecker - No use of RCU read side critical sections, unless ct_nmi_enter() 91183c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker got called. 91283c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - No use of instrumentation, unless instrumentation_begin() got 91383c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker called. 91483c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker 915490f561bSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_TIF_NOHZ 916490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker bool 917490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker help 918490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall slow path to implement context 919490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker tracking calls to user_enter()/user_exit(). 9202b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 921b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 922b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 923b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 9242b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_IDLE 9252b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker bool 9262b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker help 9272b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker Architecture has its own way to account idle CPU time and therefore 9282b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker doesn't implement vtime_account_idle(). 9292b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker 93040565b5aSStanislaw Gruszkaconfig ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 93140565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka bool 93240565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka 933554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 934554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 935554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 936554b0004SKevin Hilman help 937554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 938554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 939554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 940554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 941554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 942554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 943554b0004SKevin Hilman 944fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 945fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 946fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 947fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 948fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 949fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 950c49dd340SKalesh Singhconfig HAVE_MOVE_PUD 951c49dd340SKalesh Singh bool 952c49dd340SKalesh Singh help 953c49dd340SKalesh Singh Architectures that select this are able to move page tables at the 954c49dd340SKalesh Singh PUD level. If there are only 3 page table levels, the move effectively 955c49dd340SKalesh Singh happens at the PGD level. 956c49dd340SKalesh Singh 9572c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google)config HAVE_MOVE_PMD 9582c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 9592c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 9602c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level. 9612c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) 96215626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 96315626062SGerald Schaefer bool 96415626062SGerald Schaefer 965a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcoxconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 966a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox bool 967a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox 9680ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 9690ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 9700ddab1d2SToshi Kani 971121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# 972121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# Archs that select this would be capable of PMD-sized vmaps (i.e., 973559089e0SSong Liu# arch_vmap_pmd_supported() returns true). The VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP flag 974559089e0SSong Liu# must be used to enable allocations to use hugepages. 975121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# 976121e6f32SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC 977121e6f32SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 978121e6f32SNicholas Piggin bool 979121e6f32SNicholas Piggin 9803876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 9813876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti bool 9823876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti 9832f0584f3SRick Edgecombe# Archs that want to use pmd_mkwrite on kernel memory need it defined even 9842f0584f3SRick Edgecombe# if there are no userspace memory management features that use it 9852f0584f3SRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_PMD_MKWRITE 9862f0584f3SRick Edgecombe bool 9872f0584f3SRick Edgecombe 9882f0584f3SRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_WANT_PMD_MKWRITE 9892f0584f3SRick Edgecombe def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_PMD_MKWRITE 9902f0584f3SRick Edgecombe 9910f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 9920f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 9930f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 994786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 995786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 996786d35d4SDavid Howells help 997786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 998786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 999786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 1000786d35d4SDavid Howells 1001786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 1002786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 1003786d35d4SDavid Howells help 1004786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 1005786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 1006786d35d4SDavid Howells 1007786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 1008786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 1009786d35d4SDavid Howells help 1010786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 1011786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 1012786d35d4SDavid Howells 101301dc0386SChristophe Leroyconfig ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC 101401dc0386SChristophe Leroy bool 101501dc0386SChristophe Leroy help 101601dc0386SChristophe Leroy For architectures like powerpc/32 which have constraints on module 101701dc0386SChristophe Leroy allocation and need to allocate module data outside of module area. 101801dc0386SChristophe Leroy 1019223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM)config ARCH_WANTS_EXECMEM_LATE 1020223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) bool 1021223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) help 1022223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) For architectures that do not allocate executable memory early on 1023223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) boot, but rather require its initialization late when there is 1024223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) enough entropy for module space randomization, for instance 1025223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) arm64. 1026223b5e57SMike Rapoport (IBM) 1027cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 1028cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 1029cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 1030cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 1031cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 1032cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 1033cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 1034cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 1035cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 1036cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 1037cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixnerconfig HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK 1038cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner bool 1039cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner help 1040cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner Architecture provides a function to run __do_softirq() on a 1041c226bc3cSColin Ian King separate stack. 1042cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner 10438cbb2b50SSebastian Andrzej Siewiorconfig SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK 10448cbb2b50SSebastian Andrzej Siewior def_bool HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK && !PREEMPT_RT 10458cbb2b50SSebastian Andrzej Siewior 104612700c17SArnd Bergmannconfig ALTERNATE_USER_ADDRESS_SPACE 104712700c17SArnd Bergmann bool 104812700c17SArnd Bergmann help 104912700c17SArnd Bergmann Architectures set this when the CPU uses separate address 105012700c17SArnd Bergmann spaces for kernel and user space pointers. In this case, the 105112700c17SArnd Bergmann access_ok() check on a __user pointer is skipped. 105212700c17SArnd Bergmann 1053235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 1054235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 1055235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 1056235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 10572b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 10582b68f6caSKees Cook bool 10592b68f6caSKees Cook help 10602b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 10612b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 10622b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 1063204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 10642b68f6caSKees Cook 1065d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 1066d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 1067d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1068d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 1069d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 1070d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 1071d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 1072d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 1073d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 10745f56a5dfSJiri Slabyconfig HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 10755f56a5dfSJiri Slaby bool 10765f56a5dfSJiri Slaby help 10775f56a5dfSJiri Slaby An architecture implements exit_thread. 10785f56a5dfSJiri Slaby 1079d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 1080d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1081d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1082d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 1083d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1084d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1085d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 1086d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1087d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1088d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 1089d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 1090d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 1091d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 1092d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 1093d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 1094d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1095d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 1096d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 1097d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 1098d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 1099d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1100d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 1101d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 1102d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1103d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 1104d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 1105d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1106d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 1107d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 1108d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 1109d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 1110d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 1111d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 1112d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1113d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 1114d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1115d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1116d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 1117d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1118d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1119d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 1120d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1121d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1122d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 1123d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 1124d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 1125d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 1126d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 1127d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 1128d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1129d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 1130d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 1131d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 1132d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 1133d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 1134d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1135d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 1136d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 1137d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 11381b028f78SDmitry Safonovconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 11391b028f78SDmitry Safonov bool 11401b028f78SDmitry Safonov help 11411b028f78SDmitry Safonov This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 11421b028f78SDmitry Safonov and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 11431b028f78SDmitry Safonov Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 11441b028f78SDmitry Safonov 1145ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1146ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1147ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1148ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1149ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1150ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1151ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1152ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1153ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1154ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1155ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1156ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1157ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1158ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1159ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1160ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1161ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1162ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1163ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannchoice 1164ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann prompt "MMU page size" 1165ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1166ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1167ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "4KiB pages" 1168ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1169ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1170ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This option select the standard 4KiB Linux page size and the only 1171ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann available option on many architectures. Using 4KiB page size will 1172ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann minimize memory consumption and is therefore recommended for low 1173ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann memory systems. 1174ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Some software that is written for x86 systems makes incorrect 1175ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann assumptions about the page size and only runs on 4KiB pages. 1176ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1177ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1178ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "8KiB pages" 1179ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1180ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1181ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This option is the only supported page size on a few older 1182ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann processors, and can be slightly faster than 4KiB pages. 1183ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1184ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1185ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "16KiB pages" 1186ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1187ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1188ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This option is usually a good compromise between memory 1189ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann consumption and performance for typical desktop and server 1190ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann workloads, often saving a level of page table lookups compared 1191ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann to 4KB pages as well as reducing TLB pressure and overhead of 1192ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann per-page operations in the kernel at the expense of a larger 1193ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann page cache. 1194ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1195ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1196ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "32KiB pages" 1197ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1198ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1199ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Using 32KiB page size will result in slightly higher performance 1200ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann kernel at the price of higher memory consumption compared to 1201ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 16KiB pages. This option is available only on cnMIPS cores. 1202ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Note that you will need a suitable Linux distribution to 1203ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann support this. 1204ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1205ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1206ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "64KiB pages" 1207ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1208ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1209ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Using 64KiB page size will result in slightly higher performance 1210ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann kernel at the price of much higher memory consumption compared to 1211ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 4KiB or 16KiB pages. 1212ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This is not suitable for general-purpose workloads but the 1213ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann better performance may be worth the cost for certain types of 1214ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann supercomputing or database applications that work mostly with 1215ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann large in-memory data rather than small files. 1216ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1217ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1218ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "256KiB pages" 1219ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1220ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1221ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 256KiB pages have little practical value due to their extreme 1222ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann memory usage. The kernel will only be able to run applications 1223ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann that have been compiled with '-zmax-page-size' set to 256KiB 1224ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann (the default is 64KiB or 4KiB on most architectures). 1225ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1226ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1227ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 12281f0e290cSGuenter Roeckconfig PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB 12291f0e290cSGuenter Roeck def_bool y 12301f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1231e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB 1232e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor 1233e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellorconfig PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB 1234e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor def_bool y 12351f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !PAGE_SIZE_256KB 12361f0e290cSGuenter Roeck 1237ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SHIFT 1238ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann int 1239ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 12 if PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1240ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 13 if PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1241ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 14 if PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1242ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 15 if PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1243ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 16 if PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1244ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 18 if PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1245ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 124667f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base 124767f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process 124867f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or 124967f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# sysctl_legacy_va_layout). 125067f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of: 125167f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# - STACK_RND_MASK 125267f3977fSAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT 125367f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti bool 125467f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti depends on MMU 1255e7142bf5SAlexandre Ghiti select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 125667f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti 125703f16cd0SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL 125803f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf bool 125903f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf 12604ab7674fSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK 12614ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf bool 12624ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf 126322102f45SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 126422102f45SJosh Poimboeuf bool 126522102f45SJosh Poimboeuf 1266489e355bSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION 1267489e355bSJosh Poimboeuf bool 1268489e355bSJosh Poimboeuf 12695f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION 12705f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeuf bool 12715f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 12725f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeuf 1273b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 1274b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 1275b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 127603f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports objtool compile-time frame pointer rule 127703f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf validation. 1278b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 1279af085d90SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 1280af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf bool 1281af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf help 1282140d7e88SMiroslav Benes Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or 1283140d7e88SMiroslav Benes arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace 1284140d7e88SMiroslav Benes if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 1285af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf 1286468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 1287468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 1288468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 1289468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 1290468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 1291468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 1292468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 1293468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 1294666047feSFinn Thainconfig HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS 1295666047feSFinn Thain bool 1296666047feSFinn Thain 12973a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS_API 12983a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray def_bool ISA 12993a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 1300d2125043SAl Viro# 1301d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 1302d2125043SAl Viro# 1303d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 1304d2125043SAl Viro bool 1305d2125043SAl Viro help 1306d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 1307d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 1308d2125043SAl Viro 1309d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 1310d2125043SAl Viro bool 1311d2125043SAl Viro help 1312d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 1313d2125043SAl Viro 1314dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 1315dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 1316dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 1317dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 1318dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 1319dfa9771aSMichal Simek 1320eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 1321eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 1322eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 1323eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 1324eaca6eaeSAl Viro 13250a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 13260a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 13270a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 13280a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 13290a0e8cdfSAl Viro 13300a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 13310a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 13320a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 13330a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 13340a0e8cdfSAl Viro 1335495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 1336495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 1337495dfbf7SAl Viro help 1338495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 1339495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 1340495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 1341495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 1342495dfbf7SAl Viro 1343495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 1344495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 1345495dfbf7SAl Viro 134617435e5fSDeepa Dinamaniconfig COMPAT_32BIT_TIME 1347942437c9SArnd Bergmann bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t" 1348942437c9SArnd Bergmann default !64BIT || COMPAT 134917435e5fSDeepa Dinamani help 135017435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support. 135117435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures 135217435e5fSDeepa Dinamani as part of compat syscall handling. 135317435e5fSDeepa Dinamani 135487a4c375SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 135587a4c375SChristoph Hellwig bool 135687a4c375SChristoph Hellwig 1357a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT 1358a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner bool 1359a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner 1360fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zengconfig CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 1361fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng def_bool n 1362fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng 1363ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 1364ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 1365ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski help 1366ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 1367ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski in vmalloc space. This means: 1368ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1369ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 1370ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 1371ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1372ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 1373ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 1374ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 1375ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 1376ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 1377ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 1378ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1379ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 1380ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 1381ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 1382ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1383ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VMAP_STACK 1384ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski default y 1385ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 1386eafb149eSDaniel Axtens depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 138738dd767dSAndrey Konovalov depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || KASAN_VMALLOC 1388a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1389ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 1390ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 1391ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 1392ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski corruption. 1393ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 139438dd767dSAndrey Konovalov To use this with software KASAN modes, the architecture must support 139538dd767dSAndrey Konovalov backing virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC 139638dd767dSAndrey Konovalov must be enabled. 1397ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 139839218ff4SKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 139939218ff4SKees Cook def_bool n 140039218ff4SKees Cook help 140139218ff4SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stack 140239218ff4SKees Cook offset randomization with calls to add_random_kstack_offset() 140339218ff4SKees Cook during syscall entry and choose_random_kstack_offset() during 140439218ff4SKees Cook syscall exit. Careful removal of -fstack-protector-strong and 140539218ff4SKees Cook -fstack-protector should also be applied to the entry code and 140639218ff4SKees Cook closely examined, as the artificial stack bump looks like an array 140739218ff4SKees Cook to the compiler, so it will attempt to add canary checks regardless 140839218ff4SKees Cook of the static branch state. 140939218ff4SKees Cook 14108cb37a59SMarco Elverconfig RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 14118cb37a59SMarco Elver bool "Support for randomizing kernel stack offset on syscall entry" if EXPERT 14128cb37a59SMarco Elver default y 141339218ff4SKees Cook depends on HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 1414efa90c11SMarco Elver depends on INIT_STACK_NONE || !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 140000 141539218ff4SKees Cook help 141639218ff4SKees Cook The kernel stack offset can be randomized (after pt_regs) by 141739218ff4SKees Cook roughly 5 bits of entropy, frustrating memory corruption 141839218ff4SKees Cook attacks that depend on stack address determinism or 14198cb37a59SMarco Elver cross-syscall address exposures. 14208cb37a59SMarco Elver 14218cb37a59SMarco Elver The feature is controlled via the "randomize_kstack_offset=on/off" 14228cb37a59SMarco Elver kernel boot param, and if turned off has zero overhead due to its use 14238cb37a59SMarco Elver of static branches (see JUMP_LABEL). 14248cb37a59SMarco Elver 14258cb37a59SMarco Elver If unsure, say Y. 14268cb37a59SMarco Elver 14278cb37a59SMarco Elverconfig RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT 14288cb37a59SMarco Elver bool "Default state of kernel stack offset randomization" 14298cb37a59SMarco Elver depends on RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 14308cb37a59SMarco Elver help 14318cb37a59SMarco Elver Kernel stack offset randomization is controlled by kernel boot param 14328cb37a59SMarco Elver "randomize_kstack_offset=on/off", and this config chooses the default 14338cb37a59SMarco Elver boot state. 143439218ff4SKees Cook 1435ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1436ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1437ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1438ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1439ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1440ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1441ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1442ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1443ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 14440f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1445ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1446ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1447ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1448ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 1449ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 1450ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 1451ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 1452ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott or modifying text) 1453ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1454ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott These features are considered standard security practice these days. 1455ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott You should say Y here in almost all cases. 1456ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1457ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1458ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1459ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 14600f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1461ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1462ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 1463ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1464ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 1465ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 1466ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 1467ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 1468ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1469ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig# select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header 1470ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA 1471ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig bool 1472ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig 147304f264d3SPaul Burtonconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H 147404f264d3SPaul Burton bool 147504f264d3SPaul Burton help 147604f264d3SPaul Burton An architecture can select this if it provides an 147704f264d3SPaul Burton asm/compiler.h header that should be included after 147804f264d3SPaul Burton linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those 147904f264d3SPaul Burton headers generally provide. 148004f264d3SPaul Burton 1481271ca788SArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS 1482271ca788SArd Biesheuvel bool 1483271ca788SArd Biesheuvel help 1484271ca788SArd Biesheuvel May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative 1485271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader, 1486271ca788SArd Biesheuvel in which case relative references can be used in special sections 1487271ca788SArd Biesheuvel for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit 1488271ca788SArd Biesheuvel architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable 1489271ca788SArd Biesheuvel kernels. 1490271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 1491ce9084baSArd Biesheuvelconfig ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT 1492ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel bool 1493ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel 1494fb346fd9SWaiman Longconfig LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS 1495fb346fd9SWaiman Long bool "Locking event counts collection" 1496fb346fd9SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_FS 1497a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1498fb346fd9SWaiman Long Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events 1499fb346fd9SWaiman Long in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces 1500fb346fd9SWaiman Long the chance of application behavior change because of timing 1501fb346fd9SWaiman Long differences. The counts are reported via debugfs. 1502fb346fd9SWaiman Long 15035cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne# Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations. 15045cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig ARCH_HAS_RELR 15055cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool 15065cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 15075cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig RELR 15085cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool "Use RELR relocation packing" 15095cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 15105cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne default y 15115cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne help 15125cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing 15135cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as 15145cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy 15155cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne are compatible). 15165cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 15170c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT 15180c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann bool 15190c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann 152046b49b12STom Lendackyconfig ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM 152146b49b12STom Lendacky bool 152246b49b12STom Lendacky 15230e242208SHassan Naveedconfig HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR 15240e242208SHassan Naveed bool 15250e242208SHassan Naveed help 15260e242208SHassan Naveed An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse 15270e242208SHassan Naveed to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with 15280e242208SHassan Naveed entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall 15290e242208SHassan Naveed related optimizations for a given architecture. 15300e242208SHassan Naveed 1531d60d7de3SSven Schnelleconfig ARCH_HAS_VDSO_DATA 1532d60d7de3SSven Schnelle bool 1533d60d7de3SSven Schnelle 1534115284d8SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL 1535115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf bool 1536115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf 15379183c3f9SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE 15389183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf bool 15399183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 154003f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 15419183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf 15426ef869e0SMichal Hockoconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 15436ef869e0SMichal Hocko bool 154499cf983cSMark Rutland 154599cf983cSMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL 154699cf983cSMark Rutland bool 15476ef869e0SMichal Hocko depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 154899cf983cSMark Rutland select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 15496ef869e0SMichal Hocko help 155099cf983cSMark Rutland An architecture should select this if it can handle the preemption 155199cf983cSMark Rutland model being selected at boot time using static calls. 155299cf983cSMark Rutland 155399cf983cSMark Rutland Where an architecture selects HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE, any call to a 155499cf983cSMark Rutland preemption function will be patched directly. 155599cf983cSMark Rutland 155699cf983cSMark Rutland Where an architecture does not select HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE, any 155799cf983cSMark Rutland call to a preemption function will go through a trampoline, and the 155899cf983cSMark Rutland trampoline will be patched. 155999cf983cSMark Rutland 156099cf983cSMark Rutland It is strongly advised to support inline static call to avoid any 156199cf983cSMark Rutland overhead. 156299cf983cSMark Rutland 156399cf983cSMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_KEY 156499cf983cSMark Rutland bool 1565a0a12c3eSNick Desaulniers depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 156699cf983cSMark Rutland select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 156799cf983cSMark Rutland help 156899cf983cSMark Rutland An architecture should select this if it can handle the preemption 156999cf983cSMark Rutland model being selected at boot time using static keys. 157099cf983cSMark Rutland 157199cf983cSMark Rutland Each preemption function will be given an early return based on a 157299cf983cSMark Rutland static key. This should have slightly lower overhead than non-inline 157399cf983cSMark Rutland static calls, as this effectively inlines each trampoline into the 157499cf983cSMark Rutland start of its callee. This may avoid redundant work, and may 157599cf983cSMark Rutland integrate better with CFI schemes. 157699cf983cSMark Rutland 157799cf983cSMark Rutland This will have greater overhead than using inline static calls as 157899cf983cSMark Rutland the call to the preemption function cannot be entirely elided. 15796ef869e0SMichal Hocko 158059612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 158159612b24SNathan Chancellor bool 158259612b24SNathan Chancellor help 158359612b24SNathan Chancellor An arch should select this symbol once all linker sections are explicitly 158459612b24SNathan Chancellor included, size-asserted, or discarded in the linker scripts. This is 158559612b24SNathan Chancellor important because we never want expected sections to be placed heuristically 158659612b24SNathan Chancellor by the linker, since the locations of such sections can change between linker 158759612b24SNathan Chancellor versions. 158859612b24SNathan Chancellor 15894f5b0c17SMike Rapoportconfig HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID 15904f5b0c17SMike Rapoport bool 15914f5b0c17SMike Rapoport 15925d6ad668SMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 15935d6ad668SMike Rapoport bool 15945d6ad668SMike Rapoport 1595df4e817bSPasha Tatashinconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK 1596df4e817bSPasha Tatashin bool 1597df4e817bSPasha Tatashin 15982ca408d9SBrian Gerstconfig ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64 15992ca408d9SBrian Gerst bool 16002ca408d9SBrian Gerst help 16012ca408d9SBrian Gerst If a 32-bit architecture requires 64-bit arguments to be split into 16022ca408d9SBrian Gerst pairs of 32-bit arguments, select this option. 16032ca408d9SBrian Gerst 16047facdc42SAl Viroconfig ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT 16057facdc42SAl Viro bool 16067facdc42SAl Viro 160758e106e7SBalbir Singhconfig ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH 160858e106e7SBalbir Singh bool 160958e106e7SBalbir Singh 1610d593d64fSPrasad Sodagudiconfig ARCH_HAVE_TRACE_MMIO_ACCESS 1611d593d64fSPrasad Sodagudi bool 1612d593d64fSPrasad Sodagudi 16131bdda24cSThomas Gleixnerconfig DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME 16141bdda24cSThomas Gleixner bool 16151bdda24cSThomas Gleixner 161650468e43SJarkko Sakkinen# Select, if arch has a named attribute group bound to NUMA device nodes. 161750468e43SJarkko Sakkinenconfig HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP 161850468e43SJarkko Sakkinen bool 161950468e43SJarkko Sakkinen 162071ce1ab5SKinsey Hoconfig ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 162171ce1ab5SKinsey Ho bool 162271ce1ab5SKinsey Ho help 162371ce1ab5SKinsey Ho Architectures that select this option are capable of setting the 162471ce1ab5SKinsey Ho accessed bit in PTE entries when using them as part of linear address 162571ce1ab5SKinsey Ho translations. Architectures that require runtime check should select 162671ce1ab5SKinsey Ho this option and override arch_has_hw_pte_young(). 162771ce1ab5SKinsey Ho 1628eed9a328SYu Zhaoconfig ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG 1629eed9a328SYu Zhao bool 1630eed9a328SYu Zhao help 1631eed9a328SYu Zhao Architectures that select this option are capable of setting the 1632eed9a328SYu Zhao accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries when using them as part of linear 1633eed9a328SYu Zhao address translations. Page table walkers that clear the accessed bit 1634eed9a328SYu Zhao may use this capability to reduce their search space. 1635eed9a328SYu Zhao 16366cbd1d6dSSamuel Hollandconfig ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT 16376cbd1d6dSSamuel Holland bool 16386cbd1d6dSSamuel Holland help 16396cbd1d6dSSamuel Holland Architectures that select this option can run floating-point code in 16406cbd1d6dSSamuel Holland the kernel, as described in Documentation/core-api/floating-point.rst. 16416cbd1d6dSSamuel Holland 16422521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 164345332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 164445332b1bSMasahiro Yamadasource "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig" 1645fa1b5d09SLinus Torvalds 1646d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B 1647d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1648d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1649d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B 1650d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1651d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1652d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B 1653d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1654d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1655d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B 1656d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1657d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1658d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B 1659d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1660d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1661d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 1662d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra int 1663d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 64 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B 1664d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 32 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B 1665d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 16 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B 1666d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 8 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B 1667d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 4 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B 1668d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 0 1669d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 16705270316cSPetr Pavluconfig CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 16715270316cSPetr Pavlu # Detect availability of the GCC option -fmin-function-alignment which 16725270316cSPetr Pavlu # guarantees minimal alignment for all functions, unlike 16735270316cSPetr Pavlu # -falign-functions which the compiler ignores for cold functions. 16745270316cSPetr Pavlu def_bool $(cc-option, -fmin-function-alignment=8) 16755270316cSPetr Pavlu 16765270316cSPetr Pavluconfig CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 16775270316cSPetr Pavlu # Set if the guaranteed alignment with -fmin-function-alignment is 16785270316cSPetr Pavlu # available or extra care is required in the kernel. Clang provides 16795270316cSPetr Pavlu # strict alignment always, even with -falign-functions. 16805270316cSPetr Pavlu def_bool CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT || CC_IS_CLANG 16815270316cSPetr Pavlu 1682a88d970cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_NEED_CMPXCHG_1_EMU 1683a88d970cSPaul E. McKenney bool 1684a88d970cSPaul E. McKenney 168522471e13SRandy Dunlapendmenu 1686