1b2441318SGreg Kroah-Hartman# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 3fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# General architecture dependent options 4fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers# 5125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 61572497cSChristoph Hellwig# 71572497cSChristoph Hellwig# Note: arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig needs to be included first so that it can 81572497cSChristoph Hellwig# override the default values in this file. 91572497cSChristoph Hellwig# 101572497cSChristoph Hellwigsource "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig" 111572497cSChristoph Hellwig 1222471e13SRandy Dunlapmenu "General architecture-dependent options" 1322471e13SRandy Dunlap 14da32b581SCatalin Marinasconfig ARCH_HAS_SUBPAGE_FAULTS 15da32b581SCatalin Marinas bool 16da32b581SCatalin Marinas help 17da32b581SCatalin Marinas Select if the architecture can check permissions at sub-page 18da32b581SCatalin Marinas granularity (e.g. arm64 MTE). The probe_user_*() functions 19da32b581SCatalin Marinas must be implemented. 20da32b581SCatalin Marinas 2105736e4aSThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_SMT 2205736e4aSThomas Gleixner bool 2305736e4aSThomas Gleixner 2438253464SMichael Ellermanconfig SMT_NUM_THREADS_DYNAMIC 2538253464SMichael Ellerman bool 2638253464SMichael Ellerman 276f062123SThomas Gleixner# Selected by HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD or HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL 286f062123SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC 296f062123SThomas Gleixner bool 306f062123SThomas Gleixner 316f062123SThomas Gleixner# Basic CPU dead synchronization selected by architecture 326f062123SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD 336f062123SThomas Gleixner bool 346f062123SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC 356f062123SThomas Gleixner 366f062123SThomas Gleixner# Full CPU synchronization with alive state selected by architecture 376f062123SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL 386f062123SThomas Gleixner bool 396f062123SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD if HOTPLUG_CPU 406f062123SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC 416f062123SThomas Gleixner 42a631be92SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP 43a631be92SThomas Gleixner bool 44a631be92SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL 45a631be92SThomas Gleixner 4618415f33SThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_PARALLEL 4718415f33SThomas Gleixner bool 4818415f33SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP 4918415f33SThomas Gleixner 50142781e1SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_ENTRY 51142781e1SThomas Gleixner bool 52142781e1SThomas Gleixner 53125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig KPROBES 54125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Kprobes" 5505ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu depends on MODULES 56125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_KPROBES 5705ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu select KALLSYMS 58*900da4d2SPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 59125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 60125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and 61125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes 62125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful 63125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. 64125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If in doubt, say "N". 65125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 6645f81b1cSSteven Rostedtconfig JUMP_LABEL 67c5905afbSIngo Molnar bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" 6845f81b1cSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 694ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL if HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK 7045f81b1cSSteven Rostedt help 71c5905afbSIngo Molnar This option enables a transparent branch optimization that 72c5905afbSIngo Molnar makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch 73c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. 7445f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 75c5905afbSIngo Molnar Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, 76c5905afbSIngo Molnar scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such 77c5905afbSIngo Molnar branches and include support for this optimization technique. 78c5905afbSIngo Molnar 79c5905afbSIngo Molnar If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", 80c5905afbSIngo Molnar the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop 81c5905afbSIngo Molnar instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the 82c5905afbSIngo Molnar nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the 83c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditional block of instructions. 84c5905afbSIngo Molnar 85c5905afbSIngo Molnar This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction 86c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update 87c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. 88c5905afbSIngo Molnar 89c5905afbSIngo Molnar ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler 90c5905afbSIngo Molnar flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) 9145f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 921987c947SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST 931987c947SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static key selftest" 941987c947SPeter Zijlstra depends on JUMP_LABEL 951987c947SPeter Zijlstra help 961987c947SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. 971987c947SPeter Zijlstra 98f03c4129SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_CALL_SELFTEST 99f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static call selftest" 100f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 101f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra help 102f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the call patching code. 103f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra 104afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig OPTPROBES 1055cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 1065cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES 107*900da4d2SPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 108afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu 109e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 110e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 111e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 112e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 113e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu help 114e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full 115e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can 116e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu optimize on top of function tracing. 117e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 1182b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig UPROBES 11909294e31SDavid A. Long def_bool n 120e8f4aa60SAllen Pais depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 1212b144498SSrikar Dronamraju help 1227b2d81d4SIngo Molnar Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they 1237b2d81d4SIngo Molnar enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') 1247b2d81d4SIngo Molnar to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and 1257b2d81d4SIngo Molnar libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes 1267b2d81d4SIngo Molnar are hit by user-space applications. 1277b2d81d4SIngo Molnar 1287b2d81d4SIngo Molnar ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, 1297b2d81d4SIngo Molnar managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed 1307b2d81d4SIngo Molnar application. ) 1312b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 132adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS 133adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 134adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 135adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit 136adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values 137adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit 138adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit 139adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) architectures without unaligned access. 140adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 141adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit 142adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even 143adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) though it is not a 64 bit architecture. 144adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 145ba1a297dSLukas Bulwahn See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for 146ba1a297dSLukas Bulwahn more information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 147adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 14858340a07SJohannes Bergconfig HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 1499ba16087SJan Beulich bool 15058340a07SJohannes Berg help 15158340a07SJohannes Berg Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses 15258340a07SJohannes Berg without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are 15358340a07SJohannes Berg unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on 15458340a07SJohannes Berg unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception 15558340a07SJohannes Berg handler.) 15658340a07SJohannes Berg 15758340a07SJohannes Berg This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can 15858340a07SJohannes Berg perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different 15958340a07SJohannes Berg code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network 16058340a07SJohannes Berg drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment 16158340a07SJohannes Berg problems with received packets if doing so would not help 16258340a07SJohannes Berg much. 16358340a07SJohannes Berg 164c9b54d6fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for more 16558340a07SJohannes Berg information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 16658340a07SJohannes Berg 167cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouseconfig ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 168cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse bool 169cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse help 170cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions 171cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old 172cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the 173cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's 174cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In 175cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap 176cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or 177cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It 178cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the 179cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it 180cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse does, the use of the builtins is optional. 181cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 182cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap 183cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it 184cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse on architectures that don't have such instructions. 185cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 1869edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig KRETPROBES 1879edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli def_bool y 18873f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && (HAVE_KRETPROBES || HAVE_RETHOOK) 18973f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu 19073f9b911SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KRETPROBE_ON_RETHOOK 19173f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 19273f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 19373f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KRETPROBES 19473f9b911SMasami Hiramatsu select RETHOOK 1959edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1967c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1977c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 1987c68af6eSAvi Kivity depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1997c68af6eSAvi Kivity help 2007c68af6eSAvi Kivity Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to 2017c68af6eSAvi Kivity switch to user mode. 2027c68af6eSAvi Kivity 20328b2ee20SRik van Rielconfig HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 2049ba16087SJan Beulich bool 20528b2ee20SRik van Riel 206125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_KPROBES 2079ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2089edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 2099edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig HAVE_KRETPROBES 2109ba16087SJan Beulich bool 21174bc7ceeSArthur Kepner 212afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_OPTPROBES 213afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu bool 214d314d74cSCong Wang 215e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 216e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu bool 217e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 2181f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE 2191f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 2201f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2211f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu Since kretprobes modifies return address on the stack, the 2221f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu stacktrace may see the kretprobe trampoline address instead 2231f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu of correct one. If the architecture stacktrace code and 2241f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu unwinder can adjust such entries, select this configuration. 2251f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu 226540adea3SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 2279802d865SJosef Bacik bool 2289802d865SJosef Bacik 22942a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig HAVE_NMI 23042a0bb3fSPetr Mladek bool 23142a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 232a257caccSChristophe Leroyconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS 233a257caccSChristophe Leroy bool 234a257caccSChristophe Leroy 2354aae683fSMasahiro Yamadaconfig TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 2364aae683fSMasahiro Yamada bool 2374aae683fSMasahiro Yamada 2384510bffbSMark Rutlandconfig TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 2394510bffbSMark Rutland bool 2404510bffbSMark Rutland 2411f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2421f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 2431f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2441f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 2451f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 2461f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 2471f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 2481f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 2491f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 250153474baSEric W. Biederman# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 25103248addSEric W. Biederman# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls resume_user_mode_work() 2521f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2531f5a4ad9SRoland McGrathconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2549ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2551f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath 256c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 257c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool 258c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 25929d5e047SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 26029d5e047SThomas Gleixner bool 26129d5e047SThomas Gleixner 262485cf5daSKevin Hilmanconfig GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 263485cf5daSKevin Hilman bool 264485cf5daSKevin Hilman 2656974f0c4SDaniel Micayconfig ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 2666974f0c4SDaniel Micay bool 2676974f0c4SDaniel Micay help 2686974f0c4SDaniel Micay An architecture should select this when it can successfully 2696974f0c4SDaniel Micay build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. 2706974f0c4SDaniel Micay 271d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 272d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd 273d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# command line option 274d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 275d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD 276d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig bool 277d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig 278d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h 279d2852a22SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 280d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann bool 281d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann 282d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe# Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions 283d253ca0cSRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 284d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe bool 285d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe 286c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 287fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architecture provides the arch_dma_set_uncached symbol to 288a86ecfa6SColin Ian King# either provide an uncached segment alias for a DMA allocation, or 289fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# to remap the page tables in place. 290c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 291fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED 292c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig bool 293c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig 294999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 295999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architectures provides the arch_dma_clear_uncached symbol 296999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# to undo an in-place page table remap for uncached access. 297999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 298999a5d12SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED 299f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 300f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 3017725acaaSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT 3027725acaaSThomas Gleixner bool 3037725acaaSThomas Gleixner 3048f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe# The architecture has a per-task state that includes the mm's PASID 3058f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpeconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID 3068f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe bool 3078f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe select IOMMU_MM_DATA 3088f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe 3095905429aSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST 3105905429aSKees Cook bool 3115905429aSKees Cook help 3125905429aSKees Cook An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy 3135905429aSKees Cook knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be 3145905429aSKees Cook whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the 3155905429aSKees Cook FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist() 3165905429aSKees Cook should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct 3175905429aSKees Cook field in task_struct will be left whitelisted. 3185905429aSKees Cook 3195aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 3205aaeb5c0SIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 3215aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar bool 3225aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 32351c2ee6dSNick Desaulniersconfig ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR 32451c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers bool 32551c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers help 32651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers An architecture should select this if the noinstr macro is being used on 32751c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers functions to denote that the toolchain should avoid instrumenting such 32851c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers functions and is required for correctness. 32951c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers 330942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T 331942fa985SYury Norov bool 332942fa985SYury Norov depends on !64BIT 333942fa985SYury Norov help 334942fa985SYury Norov All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on 335942fa985SYury Norov userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This 336942fa985SYury Norov is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures 337942fa985SYury Norov still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such 338942fa985SYury Norov architectures explicitly. 339942fa985SYury Norov 34096c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens# Selected by 64 bit architectures which have a 32 bit f_tinode in struct ustat 34196c0a6a7SHeiko Carstensconfig ARCH_32BIT_USTAT_F_TINODE 34296c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens bool 34396c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens 3442ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS 3452ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 3462ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 347a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it provides 3482ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols 3492ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada exported from assembly code. 3502ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 351f850c30cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 352f850c30cSHeiko Carstens bool 353e01292b1SHeiko Carstens help 354a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports 355e01292b1SHeiko Carstens the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 356e01292b1SHeiko Carstens declared in asm/ptrace.h 357e01292b1SHeiko Carstens For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 358f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 359d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_RSEQ 360d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool 361d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 362d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 363d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it 364d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers supports an implementation of restartable sequences. 365d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 3662f7ab126SMiguel Ojedaconfig HAVE_RUST 3672f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda bool 3682f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda help 3692f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it 3702f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda supports Rust. 3712f7ab126SMiguel Ojeda 3723c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 3733c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu bool 3743c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu help 375a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports 3763c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs, 3773c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu declared in asm/ptrace.h 3783c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu 37962a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 38062a038d3SK.Prasad bool 38199e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 38262a038d3SK.Prasad 3830102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 3840102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 3850102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 3860102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 3870102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 3880102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 3890102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 3900102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 3910102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 3920102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 3930102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 3947c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 3957c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 396a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 397c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 398c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 39923637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 40023637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 40123637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 40223637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 403c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 40405a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 40505a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 40605a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 40705a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 40805a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup 40905a4a952SNicholas Piggin detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. 41005a4a952SNicholas Piggin 41105a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 41205a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 41305a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 4141356d0b9SPetr Mladek The arch provides its own hardlockup detector implementation instead 4151356d0b9SPetr Mladek of the generic ones. 4161356d0b9SPetr Mladek 4171356d0b9SPetr Mladek It uses the same command line parameters, and sysctl interface, 4181356d0b9SPetr Mladek as the generic hardlockup detectors. 41905a4a952SNicholas Piggin 420c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 421c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 422c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 423c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 424c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 425c5e63197SJiri Olsa 426c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 427c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 428c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 429c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 430c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 431c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 432c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 433bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 434bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 435bf5438fcSJason Baron 43650ff18abSArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE 43750ff18abSArd Biesheuvel bool 43850ff18abSArd Biesheuvel 4390d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 4400d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra bool 4410d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra 442ff2e6d72SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 44326723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 4440d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 44526723911SPeter Zijlstra 4463af4bd03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE 447ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra bool 448ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra 44927796d03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE 45027796d03SPeter Zijlstra bool 4511e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS 4521e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra 4531e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_FLUSH_CACHE 4541e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra bool 4551e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra 4561e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS 4571e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra bool 45827796d03SPeter Zijlstra 459580a586cSPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER 460952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky bool 4610d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 462952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky 463d53c3dfbSNicholas Pigginconfig ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM 464d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin bool 465d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin help 466d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin Temporary select until all architectures can be converted to have 467d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin irqs disabled over activate_mm. Architectures that do IPI based TLB 468d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin shootdowns should enable this. 469d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin 47088e3009bSNicholas Piggin# Use normal mm refcounting for MMU_LAZY_TLB kernel thread references. 47188e3009bSNicholas Piggin# MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n can improve the scalability of context switching 47288e3009bSNicholas Piggin# to/from kernel threads when the same mm is running on a lot of CPUs (a large 47388e3009bSNicholas Piggin# multi-threaded application), by reducing contention on the mm refcount. 47488e3009bSNicholas Piggin# 47588e3009bSNicholas Piggin# This can be disabled if the architecture ensures no CPUs are using an mm as a 47688e3009bSNicholas Piggin# "lazy tlb" beyond its final refcount (i.e., by the time __mmdrop frees the mm 47788e3009bSNicholas Piggin# or its kernel page tables). This could be arranged by arch_exit_mmap(), or 47888e3009bSNicholas Piggin# final exit(2) TLB flush, for example. 47988e3009bSNicholas Piggin# 48088e3009bSNicholas Piggin# To implement this, an arch *must*: 48188e3009bSNicholas Piggin# Ensure the _lazy_tlb variants of mmgrab/mmdrop are used when manipulating 48288e3009bSNicholas Piggin# the lazy tlb reference of a kthread's ->active_mm (non-arch code has been 48388e3009bSNicholas Piggin# converted already). 48488e3009bSNicholas Pigginconfig MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT 48588e3009bSNicholas Piggin def_bool y 4862655421aSNicholas Piggin depends on !MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN 4872655421aSNicholas Piggin 4882655421aSNicholas Piggin# This option allows MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n. It ensures no CPUs are using an 4892655421aSNicholas Piggin# mm as a lazy tlb beyond its last reference count, by shooting down these 4902655421aSNicholas Piggin# users before the mm is deallocated. __mmdrop() first IPIs all CPUs that may 4912655421aSNicholas Piggin# be using the mm as a lazy tlb, so that they may switch themselves to using 4922655421aSNicholas Piggin# init_mm for their active mm. mm_cpumask(mm) is used to determine which CPUs 4932655421aSNicholas Piggin# may be using mm as a lazy tlb mm. 4942655421aSNicholas Piggin# 4952655421aSNicholas Piggin# To implement this, an arch *must*: 4962655421aSNicholas Piggin# - At the time of the final mmdrop of the mm, ensure mm_cpumask(mm) contains 4972655421aSNicholas Piggin# at least all possible CPUs in which the mm is lazy. 4982655421aSNicholas Piggin# - It must meet the requirements for MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n (see above). 4992655421aSNicholas Pigginconfig MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN 5002655421aSNicholas Piggin bool 50188e3009bSNicholas Piggin 502df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 503df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 504df013ffbSHuang Ying 5052e83b879SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS 5062e83b879SPaul E. McKenney bool 5072e83b879SPaul E. McKenney 50843570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 50943570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 51043570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 51143570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 51243570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 51343570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 51443570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 51543570fd2SHeiko Carstens 5164156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 5174156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 5184156153cSHeiko Carstens 5192565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 5202565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 5212565409fSHeiko Carstens 52277e58496SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 52377e58496SPaul E. McKenney bool 52477e58496SPaul E. McKenney 525c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 526c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 527c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 528c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 529c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 530c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 53148b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 532c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 53348b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 53448b25c43SChris Metcalf 535282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 536e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 537e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 538282a181bSYiFei Zhu An arch should select this symbol to support seccomp mode 1 (the fixed 539282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscall policy), and must provide an overrides for __NR_seccomp_sigreturn, 540282a181bSYiFei Zhu and compat syscalls if the asm-generic/seccomp.h defaults need adjustment: 541282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_read_32 542282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_write_32 543282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_exit_32 544282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_sigreturn_32 545282a181bSYiFei Zhu 546282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 547282a181bSYiFei Zhu bool 548282a181bSYiFei Zhu select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 549282a181bSYiFei Zhu help 550fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 551282a181bSYiFei Zhu - all the requirements for HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 552bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 553bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 554bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 555bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 556fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 557fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 558fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 559fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 56048dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 5610d8315ddSYiFei Zhu - if !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR, have SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE, 5620d8315ddSYiFei Zhu SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NR, SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NAME defined. If 5630d8315ddSYiFei Zhu COMPAT is supported, have the SECCOMP_ARCH_COMPAT* defines too. 564e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 565282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig SECCOMP 566282a181bSYiFei Zhu prompt "Enable seccomp to safely execute untrusted bytecode" 567282a181bSYiFei Zhu def_bool y 568282a181bSYiFei Zhu depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 569282a181bSYiFei Zhu help 570282a181bSYiFei Zhu This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 571282a181bSYiFei Zhu that may need to handle untrusted bytecode during their 572282a181bSYiFei Zhu execution. By using pipes or other transports made available 573282a181bSYiFei Zhu to the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 574282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in their 575282a181bSYiFei Zhu own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is enabled via 576282a181bSYiFei Zhu prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) or the seccomp() syscall, it cannot be 577282a181bSYiFei Zhu disabled and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe 578282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscalls defined by each seccomp mode. 579282a181bSYiFei Zhu 580282a181bSYiFei Zhu If unsure, say Y. 581282a181bSYiFei Zhu 582e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 583e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 584e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 585e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 586e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 587e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 588e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 589e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 5905fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details. 591e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 5920d8315ddSYiFei Zhuconfig SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG 5930d8315ddSYiFei Zhu bool "Show seccomp filter cache status in /proc/pid/seccomp_cache" 5940d8315ddSYiFei Zhu depends on SECCOMP_FILTER && !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR 5950d8315ddSYiFei Zhu depends on PROC_FS 5960d8315ddSYiFei Zhu help 5970d8315ddSYiFei Zhu This enables the /proc/pid/seccomp_cache interface to monitor 5980d8315ddSYiFei Zhu seccomp cache data. The file format is subject to change. Reading 5990d8315ddSYiFei Zhu the file requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. 6000d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 6010d8315ddSYiFei Zhu This option is for debugging only. Enabling presents the risk that 6020d8315ddSYiFei Zhu an adversary may be able to infer the seccomp filter logic. 6030d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 6040d8315ddSYiFei Zhu If unsure, say N. 6050d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 606afaef01cSAlexander Popovconfig HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK 607afaef01cSAlexander Popov bool 608afaef01cSAlexander Popov help 609afaef01cSAlexander Popov An architecture should select this if it has the code which 610afaef01cSAlexander Popov fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON 611afaef01cSAlexander Popov value before returning from system calls. 612afaef01cSAlexander Popov 613d148eac0SMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 61419952a92SKees Cook bool 61519952a92SKees Cook help 61619952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 61719952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 61819952a92SKees Cook 619050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR 6202a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 621d148eac0SMasahiro Yamada depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 6222a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector) 6232a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 6248779657dSKees Cook help 6258779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 62619952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 62719952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 62819952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 62919952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 63019952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 63119952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 63219952a92SKees Cook 6338779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 6348779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 6358779657dSKees Cook 63619952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 6378779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 6388779657dSKees Cook 6398779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 6408779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 6418779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 6428779657dSKees Cook 643050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 6442a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Strong Stack Protector" 645050e9baaSLinus Torvalds depends on STACKPROTECTOR 6462a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong) 6472a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 6488779657dSKees Cook help 6498779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 6508779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 6518779657dSKees Cook 6528779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 6538779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 6548779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 6558779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 6568779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 6578779657dSKees Cook 6588779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 6598779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 6608779657dSKees Cook 6618779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 6628779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 6638779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 6648779657dSKees Cook 665d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 666d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen bool 667d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 668afcf5441SDan Li An architecture should select this if it supports the compiler's 669afcf5441SDan Li Shadow Call Stack and implements runtime support for shadow stack 670aa7a65aeSWill Deacon switching. 671d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 672d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig SHADOW_CALL_STACK 673afcf5441SDan Li bool "Shadow Call Stack" 674afcf5441SDan Li depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 67538792972SArd Biesheuvel depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || !FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 6766f9dc684SSamuel Holland depends on MMU 677d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 678afcf5441SDan Li This option enables the compiler's Shadow Call Stack, which 679afcf5441SDan Li uses a shadow stack to protect function return addresses from 680afcf5441SDan Li being overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found 681afcf5441SDan Li in the compiler's documentation: 682d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 683afcf5441SDan Li - Clang: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html 684afcf5441SDan Li - GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Instrumentation-Options.html#Instrumentation-Options 685d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 686d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the 687d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses 688d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable of 689d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them 690d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks. 691d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 6929beccca0SArd Biesheuvelconfig DYNAMIC_SCS 6939beccca0SArd Biesheuvel bool 6949beccca0SArd Biesheuvel help 6959beccca0SArd Biesheuvel Set by the arch code if it relies on code patching to insert the 6969beccca0SArd Biesheuvel shadow call stack push and pop instructions rather than on the 6979beccca0SArd Biesheuvel compiler. 6989beccca0SArd Biesheuvel 699dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO 700dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 701dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 702dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Selected if the kernel will be built using the compiler's LTO feature. 703dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 704dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG 705dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 706dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO 707dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 708dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Selected if the kernel will be built using Clang's LTO feature. 709dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 710dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 711dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 712dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 713dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it supports: 714dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - compiling with Clang, 715dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - compiling inline assembly with Clang's integrated assembler, 716dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - and linking with LLD. 717dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 718dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 719dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 720dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 721dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it can support Clang's 722dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen ThinLTO mode. 723dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 724dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig HAS_LTO_CLANG 725dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7261e68a8afSNathan Chancellor depends on CC_IS_CLANG && LD_IS_LLD && AS_IS_LLVM 727dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on $(success,$(NM) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) 728dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on $(success,$(AR) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) 729dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 730dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 731349fde59SJakob Koschel # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1721 732349fde59SJakob Koschel depends on (!KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || CLANG_VERSION >= 170000) || !DEBUG_INFO 733349fde59SJakob Koschel depends on (!KCOV || CLANG_VERSION >= 170000) || !DEBUG_INFO 734dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !GCOV_KERNEL 735dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 736dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen The compiler and Kconfig options support building with Clang's 737dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen LTO. 738dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 739dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenchoice 740dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen prompt "Link Time Optimization (LTO)" 741dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen default LTO_NONE 742dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 743dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Link Time Optimization (LTO), which allows the 744dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen compiler to optimize binaries globally. 745dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 746dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen If unsure, select LTO_NONE. Note that LTO is very resource-intensive 747dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen so it's disabled by default. 748dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 749dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_NONE 750dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "None" 751dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 752dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Build the kernel normally, without Link Time Optimization (LTO). 753dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 754dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG_FULL 755dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "Clang Full LTO (EXPERIMENTAL)" 756dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG 757dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !COMPILE_TEST 758dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO_CLANG 759dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 760dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's full Link Time Optimization (LTO), which 761dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen allows the compiler to optimize the kernel globally. If you enable 762dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen this option, the compiler generates LLVM bitcode instead of ELF 763dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen object files, and the actual compilation from bitcode happens at 764dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen the LTO link step, which may take several minutes depending on the 765dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen kernel configuration. More information can be found from LLVM's 766dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen documentation: 767dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 768dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html 769dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 770dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen During link time, this option can use a large amount of RAM, and 771dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen may take much longer than the ThinLTO option. 772dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 773dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG_THIN 774dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "Clang ThinLTO (EXPERIMENTAL)" 775dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 776dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO_CLANG 777dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 778dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's ThinLTO, which allows for parallel 779dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen optimization and faster incremental compiles compared to the 780dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL option. More information can be found 781dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen from Clang's documentation: 782dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 783dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html 784dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 785dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen If unsure, say Y. 786dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenendchoice 787dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 788cf68fffbSSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG 789cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool 790cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 791cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it can support Clang's 792cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) checking. 793cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 79489245600SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_USES_CFI_TRAPS 79589245600SSami Tolvanen bool 79689245600SSami Tolvanen 797cf68fffbSSami Tolvanenconfig CFI_CLANG 798cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool "Use Clang's Control Flow Integrity (CFI)" 79989245600SSami Tolvanen depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG 80089245600SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kcfi) 801cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 802c4ca2276SLiu Song This option enables Clang's forward-edge Control Flow Integrity 803cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen (CFI) checking, where the compiler injects a runtime check to each 804cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen indirect function call to ensure the target is a valid function with 805cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen the correct static type. This restricts possible call targets and 806cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen makes it more difficult for an attacker to exploit bugs that allow 807cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen the modification of stored function pointers. More information can be 808cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen found from Clang's documentation: 809cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 810cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html 811cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 812cf68fffbSSami Tolvanenconfig CFI_PERMISSIVE 813cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen bool "Use CFI in permissive mode" 814cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen depends on CFI_CLANG 815cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen help 816cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen When selected, Control Flow Integrity (CFI) violations result in a 817cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen warning instead of a kernel panic. This option should only be used 818cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen for finding indirect call type mismatches during development. 819cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 820cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen If unsure, say N. 821cf68fffbSSami Tolvanen 8220f60a8efSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 8230f60a8efSKees Cook bool 8240f60a8efSKees Cook help 8250f60a8efSKees Cook An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 8260f60a8efSKees Cook frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 8270f60a8efSKees Cook or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 8280f60a8efSKees Cook and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 8290f60a8efSKees Cook which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 8300f60a8efSKees Cook 83124a9c541SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 8322b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 8332b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 83491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 83591d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 836490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter(), either 837490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker optimized behind static key or through the slow path using TIF_NOHZ 838490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs are already 8396f0e6c15SFrederic Weisbecker protected inside ct_irq_enter/ct_irq_exit() but preemption or signal 840490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker handling on irq exit still need to be protected. 841490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker 84224a9c541SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_OFFSTACK 84383c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 84483c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker help 84583c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker Architecture neither relies on exception_enter()/exception_exit() 84683c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker nor on schedule_user(). Also preempt_schedule_notrace() and 84783c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker preempt_schedule_irq() can't be called in a preemptible section 84883c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker while context tracking is CONTEXT_USER. This feature reflects a sane 84983c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker entry implementation where the following requirements are met on 85083c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker critical entry code, ie: before user_exit() or after user_enter(): 85183c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker 85283c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - Critical entry code isn't preemptible (or better yet: 85383c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker not interruptible). 854493c1822SFrederic Weisbecker - No use of RCU read side critical sections, unless ct_nmi_enter() 85583c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker got called. 85683c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - No use of instrumentation, unless instrumentation_begin() got 85783c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker called. 85883c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker 859490f561bSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_TIF_NOHZ 860490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker bool 861490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker help 862490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall slow path to implement context 863490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker tracking calls to user_enter()/user_exit(). 8642b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 865b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 866b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 867b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 8682b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_IDLE 8692b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker bool 8702b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker help 8712b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker Architecture has its own way to account idle CPU time and therefore 8722b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker doesn't implement vtime_account_idle(). 8732b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker 87440565b5aSStanislaw Gruszkaconfig ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 87540565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka bool 87640565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka 877554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 878554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 879554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 880554b0004SKevin Hilman help 881554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 882554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 883554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 884554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 885554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 886554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 887554b0004SKevin Hilman 888fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 889fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 890fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 891fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 892fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 893fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 894c49dd340SKalesh Singhconfig HAVE_MOVE_PUD 895c49dd340SKalesh Singh bool 896c49dd340SKalesh Singh help 897c49dd340SKalesh Singh Architectures that select this are able to move page tables at the 898c49dd340SKalesh Singh PUD level. If there are only 3 page table levels, the move effectively 899c49dd340SKalesh Singh happens at the PGD level. 900c49dd340SKalesh Singh 9012c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google)config HAVE_MOVE_PMD 9022c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 9032c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 9042c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level. 9052c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) 90615626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 90715626062SGerald Schaefer bool 90815626062SGerald Schaefer 909a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcoxconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 910a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox bool 911a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox 9120ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 9130ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 9140ddab1d2SToshi Kani 915121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# 916121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# Archs that select this would be capable of PMD-sized vmaps (i.e., 917559089e0SSong Liu# arch_vmap_pmd_supported() returns true). The VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP flag 918559089e0SSong Liu# must be used to enable allocations to use hugepages. 919121e6f32SNicholas Piggin# 920121e6f32SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC 921121e6f32SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 922121e6f32SNicholas Piggin bool 923121e6f32SNicholas Piggin 9243876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 9253876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti bool 9263876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti 9272f0584f3SRick Edgecombe# Archs that want to use pmd_mkwrite on kernel memory need it defined even 9282f0584f3SRick Edgecombe# if there are no userspace memory management features that use it 9292f0584f3SRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_PMD_MKWRITE 9302f0584f3SRick Edgecombe bool 9312f0584f3SRick Edgecombe 9322f0584f3SRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_WANT_PMD_MKWRITE 9332f0584f3SRick Edgecombe def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_PMD_MKWRITE 9342f0584f3SRick Edgecombe 9350f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 9360f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 9370f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 938786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 939786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 940786d35d4SDavid Howells help 941786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 942786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 943786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 944786d35d4SDavid Howells 945786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 946786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 947786d35d4SDavid Howells help 948786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 949786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 950786d35d4SDavid Howells 951786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 952786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 953786d35d4SDavid Howells help 954786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 955786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 956786d35d4SDavid Howells 95701dc0386SChristophe Leroyconfig ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC 95801dc0386SChristophe Leroy bool 95901dc0386SChristophe Leroy help 96001dc0386SChristophe Leroy For architectures like powerpc/32 which have constraints on module 96101dc0386SChristophe Leroy allocation and need to allocate module data outside of module area. 96201dc0386SChristophe Leroy 963cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 964cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 965cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 966cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 967cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 968cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 969cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 970cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 971cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 972cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 973cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixnerconfig HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK 974cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner bool 975cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner help 976cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner Architecture provides a function to run __do_softirq() on a 977c226bc3cSColin Ian King separate stack. 978cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner 9798cbb2b50SSebastian Andrzej Siewiorconfig SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK 9808cbb2b50SSebastian Andrzej Siewior def_bool HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK && !PREEMPT_RT 9818cbb2b50SSebastian Andrzej Siewior 98212700c17SArnd Bergmannconfig ALTERNATE_USER_ADDRESS_SPACE 98312700c17SArnd Bergmann bool 98412700c17SArnd Bergmann help 98512700c17SArnd Bergmann Architectures set this when the CPU uses separate address 98612700c17SArnd Bergmann spaces for kernel and user space pointers. In this case, the 98712700c17SArnd Bergmann access_ok() check on a __user pointer is skipped. 98812700c17SArnd Bergmann 989235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 990235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 991235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 992235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 9932b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 9942b68f6caSKees Cook bool 9952b68f6caSKees Cook help 9962b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 9972b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 9982b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 999204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 10002b68f6caSKees Cook 1001d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 1002d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 1003d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1004d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 1005d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 1006d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 1007d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 1008d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 1009d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 10105f56a5dfSJiri Slabyconfig HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 10115f56a5dfSJiri Slaby bool 10125f56a5dfSJiri Slaby help 10135f56a5dfSJiri Slaby An architecture implements exit_thread. 10145f56a5dfSJiri Slaby 1015d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 1016d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1017d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1018d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 1019d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1020d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1021d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 1022d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1023d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1024d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 1025d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 1026d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 1027d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 1028d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 1029d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 1030d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1031d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 1032d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 1033d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 1034d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 1035d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1036d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 1037d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 1038d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1039d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 1040d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 1041d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1042d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 1043d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 1044d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 1045d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 1046d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 1047d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 1048d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1049d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 1050d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1051d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1052d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 1053d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1054d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1055d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 1056d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 1057d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1058d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 1059d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 1060d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 1061d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 1062d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 1063d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 1064d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 1065d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 1066d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 1067d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 1068d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 1069d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 1070d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 1071d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 1072d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 1073d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 10741b028f78SDmitry Safonovconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 10751b028f78SDmitry Safonov bool 10761b028f78SDmitry Safonov help 10771b028f78SDmitry Safonov This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 10781b028f78SDmitry Safonov and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 10791b028f78SDmitry Safonov Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 10801b028f78SDmitry Safonov 1081ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1082ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1083ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1084ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1085ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1086ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1087ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1088ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1089ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1090ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1091ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1092ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1093ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1094ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1095ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1096ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1097ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool 1098ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1099ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannchoice 1100ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann prompt "MMU page size" 1101ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1102ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1103ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "4KiB pages" 1104ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1105ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1106ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This option select the standard 4KiB Linux page size and the only 1107ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann available option on many architectures. Using 4KiB page size will 1108ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann minimize memory consumption and is therefore recommended for low 1109ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann memory systems. 1110ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Some software that is written for x86 systems makes incorrect 1111ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann assumptions about the page size and only runs on 4KiB pages. 1112ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1113ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1114ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "8KiB pages" 1115ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1116ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1117ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This option is the only supported page size on a few older 1118ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann processors, and can be slightly faster than 4KiB pages. 1119ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1120ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1121ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "16KiB pages" 1122ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1123ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1124ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This option is usually a good compromise between memory 1125ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann consumption and performance for typical desktop and server 1126ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann workloads, often saving a level of page table lookups compared 1127ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann to 4KB pages as well as reducing TLB pressure and overhead of 1128ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann per-page operations in the kernel at the expense of a larger 1129ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann page cache. 1130ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1131ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1132ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "32KiB pages" 1133ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1134ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1135ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Using 32KiB page size will result in slightly higher performance 1136ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann kernel at the price of higher memory consumption compared to 1137ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 16KiB pages. This option is available only on cnMIPS cores. 1138ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Note that you will need a suitable Linux distribution to 1139ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann support this. 1140ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1141ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1142ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "64KiB pages" 1143ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1144ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1145ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann Using 64KiB page size will result in slightly higher performance 1146ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann kernel at the price of much higher memory consumption compared to 1147ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 4KiB or 16KiB pages. 1148ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann This is not suitable for general-purpose workloads but the 1149ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann better performance may be worth the cost for certain types of 1150ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann supercomputing or database applications that work mostly with 1151ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann large in-memory data rather than small files. 1152ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1153ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1154ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann bool "256KiB pages" 1155ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1156ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann help 1157ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 256KiB pages have little practical value due to their extreme 1158ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann memory usage. The kernel will only be able to run applications 1159ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann that have been compiled with '-zmax-page-size' set to 256KiB 1160ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann (the default is 64KiB or 4KiB on most architectures). 1161ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 1162ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannendchoice 1163ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 11641f0e290cSGuenter Roeckconfig PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB 11651f0e290cSGuenter Roeck def_bool y 11661f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1167e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB 1168e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor 1169e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellorconfig PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB 1170e4bbd20dSNathan Chancellor def_bool y 11711f0e290cSGuenter Roeck depends on !PAGE_SIZE_256KB 11721f0e290cSGuenter Roeck 1173ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmannconfig PAGE_SHIFT 1174ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann int 1175ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 12 if PAGE_SIZE_4KB 1176ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 13 if PAGE_SIZE_8KB 1177ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 14 if PAGE_SIZE_16KB 1178ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 15 if PAGE_SIZE_32KB 1179ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 16 if PAGE_SIZE_64KB 1180ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann default 18 if PAGE_SIZE_256KB 1181ba89f9c8SArnd Bergmann 118267f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base 118367f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process 118467f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or 118567f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# sysctl_legacy_va_layout). 118667f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of: 118767f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# - STACK_RND_MASK 118867f3977fSAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT 118967f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti bool 119067f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti depends on MMU 1191e7142bf5SAlexandre Ghiti select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 119267f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti 119303f16cd0SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL 119403f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf bool 119503f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf 11964ab7674fSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK 11974ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf bool 11984ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf 119922102f45SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 120022102f45SJosh Poimboeuf bool 120122102f45SJosh Poimboeuf 1202489e355bSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION 1203489e355bSJosh Poimboeuf bool 1204489e355bSJosh Poimboeuf 12055f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION 12065f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeuf bool 12075f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 12085f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeuf 1209b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 1210b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 1211b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 121203f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports objtool compile-time frame pointer rule 121303f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf validation. 1214b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 1215af085d90SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 1216af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf bool 1217af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf help 1218140d7e88SMiroslav Benes Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or 1219140d7e88SMiroslav Benes arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace 1220140d7e88SMiroslav Benes if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 1221af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf 1222468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 1223468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 1224468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 1225468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 1226468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 1227468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 1228468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 1229468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 1230666047feSFinn Thainconfig HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS 1231666047feSFinn Thain bool 1232666047feSFinn Thain 12333a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS_API 12343a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray def_bool ISA 12353a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 1236d2125043SAl Viro# 1237d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 1238d2125043SAl Viro# 1239d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 1240d2125043SAl Viro bool 1241d2125043SAl Viro help 1242d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 1243d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 1244d2125043SAl Viro 1245d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 1246d2125043SAl Viro bool 1247d2125043SAl Viro help 1248d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 1249d2125043SAl Viro 1250dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 1251dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 1252dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 1253dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 1254dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 1255dfa9771aSMichal Simek 1256eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 1257eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 1258eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 1259eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 1260eaca6eaeSAl Viro 12610a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 12620a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 12630a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 12640a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 12650a0e8cdfSAl Viro 12660a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 12670a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 12680a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 12690a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 12700a0e8cdfSAl Viro 1271495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 1272495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 1273495dfbf7SAl Viro help 1274495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 1275495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 1276495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 1277495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 1278495dfbf7SAl Viro 1279495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 1280495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 1281495dfbf7SAl Viro 128217435e5fSDeepa Dinamaniconfig COMPAT_32BIT_TIME 1283942437c9SArnd Bergmann bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t" 1284942437c9SArnd Bergmann default !64BIT || COMPAT 128517435e5fSDeepa Dinamani help 128617435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support. 128717435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures 128817435e5fSDeepa Dinamani as part of compat syscall handling. 128917435e5fSDeepa Dinamani 129087a4c375SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 129187a4c375SChristoph Hellwig bool 129287a4c375SChristoph Hellwig 1293a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT 1294a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner bool 1295a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner 1296fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zengconfig CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 1297fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng def_bool n 1298fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng 1299ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 1300ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 1301ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski help 1302ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 1303ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski in vmalloc space. This means: 1304ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1305ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 1306ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 1307ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1308ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 1309ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 1310ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 1311ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 1312ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 1313ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 1314ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1315ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 1316ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 1317ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 1318ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1319ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VMAP_STACK 1320ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski default y 1321ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 1322eafb149eSDaniel Axtens depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 132338dd767dSAndrey Konovalov depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || KASAN_VMALLOC 1324a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1325ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 1326ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 1327ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 1328ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski corruption. 1329ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 133038dd767dSAndrey Konovalov To use this with software KASAN modes, the architecture must support 133138dd767dSAndrey Konovalov backing virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC 133238dd767dSAndrey Konovalov must be enabled. 1333ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 133439218ff4SKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 133539218ff4SKees Cook def_bool n 133639218ff4SKees Cook help 133739218ff4SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stack 133839218ff4SKees Cook offset randomization with calls to add_random_kstack_offset() 133939218ff4SKees Cook during syscall entry and choose_random_kstack_offset() during 134039218ff4SKees Cook syscall exit. Careful removal of -fstack-protector-strong and 134139218ff4SKees Cook -fstack-protector should also be applied to the entry code and 134239218ff4SKees Cook closely examined, as the artificial stack bump looks like an array 134339218ff4SKees Cook to the compiler, so it will attempt to add canary checks regardless 134439218ff4SKees Cook of the static branch state. 134539218ff4SKees Cook 13468cb37a59SMarco Elverconfig RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 13478cb37a59SMarco Elver bool "Support for randomizing kernel stack offset on syscall entry" if EXPERT 13488cb37a59SMarco Elver default y 134939218ff4SKees Cook depends on HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 1350efa90c11SMarco Elver depends on INIT_STACK_NONE || !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 140000 135139218ff4SKees Cook help 135239218ff4SKees Cook The kernel stack offset can be randomized (after pt_regs) by 135339218ff4SKees Cook roughly 5 bits of entropy, frustrating memory corruption 135439218ff4SKees Cook attacks that depend on stack address determinism or 13558cb37a59SMarco Elver cross-syscall address exposures. 13568cb37a59SMarco Elver 13578cb37a59SMarco Elver The feature is controlled via the "randomize_kstack_offset=on/off" 13588cb37a59SMarco Elver kernel boot param, and if turned off has zero overhead due to its use 13598cb37a59SMarco Elver of static branches (see JUMP_LABEL). 13608cb37a59SMarco Elver 13618cb37a59SMarco Elver If unsure, say Y. 13628cb37a59SMarco Elver 13638cb37a59SMarco Elverconfig RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT 13648cb37a59SMarco Elver bool "Default state of kernel stack offset randomization" 13658cb37a59SMarco Elver depends on RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 13668cb37a59SMarco Elver help 13678cb37a59SMarco Elver Kernel stack offset randomization is controlled by kernel boot param 13688cb37a59SMarco Elver "randomize_kstack_offset=on/off", and this config chooses the default 13698cb37a59SMarco Elver boot state. 137039218ff4SKees Cook 1371ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1372ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1373ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1374ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1375ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1376ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1377ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1378ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1379ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 13800f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1381ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1382ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1383ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1384ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 1385ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 1386ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 1387ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 1388ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott or modifying text) 1389ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1390ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott These features are considered standard security practice these days. 1391ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott You should say Y here in almost all cases. 1392ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1393ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1394ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1395ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 13960f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1397ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1398ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 1399ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1400ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 1401ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 1402ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 1403ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 1404ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1405ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig# select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header 1406ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA 1407ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig bool 1408ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig 140904f264d3SPaul Burtonconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H 141004f264d3SPaul Burton bool 141104f264d3SPaul Burton help 141204f264d3SPaul Burton An architecture can select this if it provides an 141304f264d3SPaul Burton asm/compiler.h header that should be included after 141404f264d3SPaul Burton linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those 141504f264d3SPaul Burton headers generally provide. 141604f264d3SPaul Burton 1417271ca788SArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS 1418271ca788SArd Biesheuvel bool 1419271ca788SArd Biesheuvel help 1420271ca788SArd Biesheuvel May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative 1421271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader, 1422271ca788SArd Biesheuvel in which case relative references can be used in special sections 1423271ca788SArd Biesheuvel for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit 1424271ca788SArd Biesheuvel architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable 1425271ca788SArd Biesheuvel kernels. 1426271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 1427ce9084baSArd Biesheuvelconfig ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT 1428ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel bool 1429ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel 1430fb346fd9SWaiman Longconfig LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS 1431fb346fd9SWaiman Long bool "Locking event counts collection" 1432fb346fd9SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_FS 1433a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1434fb346fd9SWaiman Long Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events 1435fb346fd9SWaiman Long in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces 1436fb346fd9SWaiman Long the chance of application behavior change because of timing 1437fb346fd9SWaiman Long differences. The counts are reported via debugfs. 1438fb346fd9SWaiman Long 14395cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne# Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations. 14405cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig ARCH_HAS_RELR 14415cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool 14425cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 14435cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig RELR 14445cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool "Use RELR relocation packing" 14455cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 14465cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne default y 14475cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne help 14485cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing 14495cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as 14505cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy 14515cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne are compatible). 14525cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 14530c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT 14540c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann bool 14550c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann 145646b49b12STom Lendackyconfig ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM 145746b49b12STom Lendacky bool 145846b49b12STom Lendacky 14590e242208SHassan Naveedconfig HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR 14600e242208SHassan Naveed bool 14610e242208SHassan Naveed help 14620e242208SHassan Naveed An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse 14630e242208SHassan Naveed to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with 14640e242208SHassan Naveed entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall 14650e242208SHassan Naveed related optimizations for a given architecture. 14660e242208SHassan Naveed 1467d60d7de3SSven Schnelleconfig ARCH_HAS_VDSO_DATA 1468d60d7de3SSven Schnelle bool 1469d60d7de3SSven Schnelle 1470115284d8SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL 1471115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf bool 1472115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf 14739183c3f9SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE 14749183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf bool 14759183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 147603f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 14779183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf 14786ef869e0SMichal Hockoconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 14796ef869e0SMichal Hocko bool 148099cf983cSMark Rutland 148199cf983cSMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL 148299cf983cSMark Rutland bool 14836ef869e0SMichal Hocko depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 148499cf983cSMark Rutland select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 14856ef869e0SMichal Hocko help 148699cf983cSMark Rutland An architecture should select this if it can handle the preemption 148799cf983cSMark Rutland model being selected at boot time using static calls. 148899cf983cSMark Rutland 148999cf983cSMark Rutland Where an architecture selects HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE, any call to a 149099cf983cSMark Rutland preemption function will be patched directly. 149199cf983cSMark Rutland 149299cf983cSMark Rutland Where an architecture does not select HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE, any 149399cf983cSMark Rutland call to a preemption function will go through a trampoline, and the 149499cf983cSMark Rutland trampoline will be patched. 149599cf983cSMark Rutland 149699cf983cSMark Rutland It is strongly advised to support inline static call to avoid any 149799cf983cSMark Rutland overhead. 149899cf983cSMark Rutland 149999cf983cSMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_KEY 150099cf983cSMark Rutland bool 1501a0a12c3eSNick Desaulniers depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 150299cf983cSMark Rutland select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 150399cf983cSMark Rutland help 150499cf983cSMark Rutland An architecture should select this if it can handle the preemption 150599cf983cSMark Rutland model being selected at boot time using static keys. 150699cf983cSMark Rutland 150799cf983cSMark Rutland Each preemption function will be given an early return based on a 150899cf983cSMark Rutland static key. This should have slightly lower overhead than non-inline 150999cf983cSMark Rutland static calls, as this effectively inlines each trampoline into the 151099cf983cSMark Rutland start of its callee. This may avoid redundant work, and may 151199cf983cSMark Rutland integrate better with CFI schemes. 151299cf983cSMark Rutland 151399cf983cSMark Rutland This will have greater overhead than using inline static calls as 151499cf983cSMark Rutland the call to the preemption function cannot be entirely elided. 15156ef869e0SMichal Hocko 151659612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 151759612b24SNathan Chancellor bool 151859612b24SNathan Chancellor help 151959612b24SNathan Chancellor An arch should select this symbol once all linker sections are explicitly 152059612b24SNathan Chancellor included, size-asserted, or discarded in the linker scripts. This is 152159612b24SNathan Chancellor important because we never want expected sections to be placed heuristically 152259612b24SNathan Chancellor by the linker, since the locations of such sections can change between linker 152359612b24SNathan Chancellor versions. 152459612b24SNathan Chancellor 15254f5b0c17SMike Rapoportconfig HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID 15264f5b0c17SMike Rapoport bool 15274f5b0c17SMike Rapoport 15285d6ad668SMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 15295d6ad668SMike Rapoport bool 15305d6ad668SMike Rapoport 1531df4e817bSPasha Tatashinconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK 1532df4e817bSPasha Tatashin bool 1533df4e817bSPasha Tatashin 15342ca408d9SBrian Gerstconfig ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64 15352ca408d9SBrian Gerst bool 15362ca408d9SBrian Gerst help 15372ca408d9SBrian Gerst If a 32-bit architecture requires 64-bit arguments to be split into 15382ca408d9SBrian Gerst pairs of 32-bit arguments, select this option. 15392ca408d9SBrian Gerst 15407facdc42SAl Viroconfig ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT 15417facdc42SAl Viro bool 15427facdc42SAl Viro 154358e106e7SBalbir Singhconfig ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH 154458e106e7SBalbir Singh bool 154558e106e7SBalbir Singh 1546d593d64fSPrasad Sodagudiconfig ARCH_HAVE_TRACE_MMIO_ACCESS 1547d593d64fSPrasad Sodagudi bool 1548d593d64fSPrasad Sodagudi 15491bdda24cSThomas Gleixnerconfig DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME 15501bdda24cSThomas Gleixner bool 15511bdda24cSThomas Gleixner 155250468e43SJarkko Sakkinen# Select, if arch has a named attribute group bound to NUMA device nodes. 155350468e43SJarkko Sakkinenconfig HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP 155450468e43SJarkko Sakkinen bool 155550468e43SJarkko Sakkinen 155671ce1ab5SKinsey Hoconfig ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 155771ce1ab5SKinsey Ho bool 155871ce1ab5SKinsey Ho help 155971ce1ab5SKinsey Ho Architectures that select this option are capable of setting the 156071ce1ab5SKinsey Ho accessed bit in PTE entries when using them as part of linear address 156171ce1ab5SKinsey Ho translations. Architectures that require runtime check should select 156271ce1ab5SKinsey Ho this option and override arch_has_hw_pte_young(). 156371ce1ab5SKinsey Ho 1564eed9a328SYu Zhaoconfig ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG 1565eed9a328SYu Zhao bool 1566eed9a328SYu Zhao help 1567eed9a328SYu Zhao Architectures that select this option are capable of setting the 1568eed9a328SYu Zhao accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries when using them as part of linear 1569eed9a328SYu Zhao address translations. Page table walkers that clear the accessed bit 1570eed9a328SYu Zhao may use this capability to reduce their search space. 1571eed9a328SYu Zhao 15722521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 157345332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 157445332b1bSMasahiro Yamadasource "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig" 1575fa1b5d09SLinus Torvalds 1576d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B 1577d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1578d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1579d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B 1580d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1581d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1582d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B 1583d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1584d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1585d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B 1586d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1587d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1588d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B 1589d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra bool 1590d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 1591d49a0626SPeter Zijlstraconfig FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 1592d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra int 1593d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 64 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B 1594d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 32 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B 1595d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 16 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B 1596d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 8 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B 1597d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 4 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B 1598d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra default 0 1599d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra 16005270316cSPetr Pavluconfig CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 16015270316cSPetr Pavlu # Detect availability of the GCC option -fmin-function-alignment which 16025270316cSPetr Pavlu # guarantees minimal alignment for all functions, unlike 16035270316cSPetr Pavlu # -falign-functions which the compiler ignores for cold functions. 16045270316cSPetr Pavlu def_bool $(cc-option, -fmin-function-alignment=8) 16055270316cSPetr Pavlu 16065270316cSPetr Pavluconfig CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 16075270316cSPetr Pavlu # Set if the guaranteed alignment with -fmin-function-alignment is 16085270316cSPetr Pavlu # available or extra care is required in the kernel. Clang provides 16095270316cSPetr Pavlu # strict alignment always, even with -falign-functions. 16105270316cSPetr Pavlu def_bool CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT || CC_IS_CLANG 16115270316cSPetr Pavlu 161222471e13SRandy Dunlapendmenu 1613