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 14692f66f2SHari Bathiniconfig CRASH_CORE 15692f66f2SHari Bathini bool 16692f66f2SHari Bathini 172965faa5SDave Youngconfig KEXEC_CORE 18692f66f2SHari Bathini select CRASH_CORE 192965faa5SDave Young bool 202965faa5SDave Young 21175fca3bSSven Schnelleconfig KEXEC_ELF 22175fca3bSSven Schnelle bool 23175fca3bSSven Schnelle 24467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig HAVE_IMA_KEXEC 25467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermann bool 26467d2782SThiago Jung Bauermann 2705736e4aSThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_SMT 2805736e4aSThomas Gleixner bool 2905736e4aSThomas Gleixner 30142781e1SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_ENTRY 31142781e1SThomas Gleixner bool 32142781e1SThomas Gleixner 33125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig OPROFILE 34b309a294SRobert Richter tristate "OProfile system profiling" 35125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on PROFILING 36125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_OPROFILE 37d69d59f4SIngo Molnar select RING_BUFFER 389a5963ebSChristian Borntraeger select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 39125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 40125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the 41125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, 42125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers and applications. 43125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 44125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If unsure, say N. 45125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 464d4036e0SJason Yehconfig OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX 474d4036e0SJason Yeh bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 484d4036e0SJason Yeh default n 494d4036e0SJason Yeh depends on OPROFILE && X86 504d4036e0SJason Yeh help 514d4036e0SJason Yeh The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing 524d4036e0SJason Yeh feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters 534d4036e0SJason Yeh are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching 549332ef9dSMasahiro Yamada between events at a user specified time interval. 554d4036e0SJason Yeh 564d4036e0SJason Yeh If unsure, say N. 574d4036e0SJason Yeh 58125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_OPROFILE 599ba16087SJan Beulich bool 60125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 61dcfce4a0SRobert Richterconfig OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER 62dcfce4a0SRobert Richter def_bool y 63af9feebeSAnton Blanchard depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64 64dcfce4a0SRobert Richter 65125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig KPROBES 66125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Kprobes" 6705ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu depends on MODULES 68125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_KPROBES 6905ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu select KALLSYMS 70125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 71125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and 72125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes 73125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful 74125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. 75125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If in doubt, say "N". 76125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 7745f81b1cSSteven Rostedtconfig JUMP_LABEL 78c5905afbSIngo Molnar bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" 7945f81b1cSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 80e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 8145f81b1cSSteven Rostedt help 82c5905afbSIngo Molnar This option enables a transparent branch optimization that 83c5905afbSIngo Molnar makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch 84c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. 8545f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 86c5905afbSIngo Molnar Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, 87c5905afbSIngo Molnar scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such 88c5905afbSIngo Molnar branches and include support for this optimization technique. 89c5905afbSIngo Molnar 90c5905afbSIngo Molnar If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", 91c5905afbSIngo Molnar the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop 92c5905afbSIngo Molnar instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the 93c5905afbSIngo Molnar nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the 94c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditional block of instructions. 95c5905afbSIngo Molnar 96c5905afbSIngo Molnar This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction 97c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update 98c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. 99c5905afbSIngo Molnar 100c5905afbSIngo Molnar ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler 101c5905afbSIngo Molnar flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) 10245f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 1031987c947SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST 1041987c947SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static key selftest" 1051987c947SPeter Zijlstra depends on JUMP_LABEL 1061987c947SPeter Zijlstra help 1071987c947SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. 1081987c947SPeter Zijlstra 109afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig OPTPROBES 1105cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 1115cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES 11201b1d88bSThomas Gleixner select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 113afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu 114e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 115e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 116e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 117e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 118e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu help 119e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full 120e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can 121e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu optimize on top of function tracing. 122e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 1232b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig UPROBES 12409294e31SDavid A. Long def_bool n 125e8f4aa60SAllen Pais depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 1262b144498SSrikar Dronamraju help 1277b2d81d4SIngo Molnar Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they 1287b2d81d4SIngo Molnar enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') 1297b2d81d4SIngo Molnar to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and 1307b2d81d4SIngo Molnar libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes 1317b2d81d4SIngo Molnar are hit by user-space applications. 1327b2d81d4SIngo Molnar 1337b2d81d4SIngo Molnar ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, 1347b2d81d4SIngo Molnar managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed 1357b2d81d4SIngo Molnar application. ) 1362b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 13758340a07SJohannes Bergconfig HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 1389ba16087SJan Beulich bool 13958340a07SJohannes Berg help 14058340a07SJohannes Berg Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses 14158340a07SJohannes Berg without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are 14258340a07SJohannes Berg unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on 14358340a07SJohannes Berg unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception 14458340a07SJohannes Berg handler.) 14558340a07SJohannes Berg 14658340a07SJohannes Berg This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can 14758340a07SJohannes Berg perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different 14858340a07SJohannes Berg code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network 14958340a07SJohannes Berg drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment 15058340a07SJohannes Berg problems with received packets if doing so would not help 15158340a07SJohannes Berg much. 15258340a07SJohannes Berg 153c9b54d6fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for more 15458340a07SJohannes Berg information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 15558340a07SJohannes Berg 156cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouseconfig ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 157cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse bool 158cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse help 159cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions 160cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old 161cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the 162cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's 163cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In 164cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap 165cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or 166cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It 167cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the 168cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it 169cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse does, the use of the builtins is optional. 170cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 171cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap 172cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it 173cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse on architectures that don't have such instructions. 174cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 1759edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig KRETPROBES 1769edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli def_bool y 1779edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES 1789edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1797c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1807c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 1817c68af6eSAvi Kivity depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1827c68af6eSAvi Kivity help 1837c68af6eSAvi Kivity Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to 1847c68af6eSAvi Kivity switch to user mode. 1857c68af6eSAvi Kivity 18628b2ee20SRik van Rielconfig HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 1879ba16087SJan Beulich bool 18828b2ee20SRik van Riel 189125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_KPROBES 1909ba16087SJan Beulich bool 1919edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1929edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig HAVE_KRETPROBES 1939ba16087SJan Beulich bool 19474bc7ceeSArthur Kepner 195afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_OPTPROBES 196afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu bool 197d314d74cSCong Wang 198e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 199e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu bool 200e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 201540adea3SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 2029802d865SJosef Bacik bool 2039802d865SJosef Bacik 20442a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig HAVE_NMI 20542a0bb3fSPetr Mladek bool 20642a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 2071f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2081f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 2091f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2101f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 2111f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 2121f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 2131f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 2141f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 2151f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 2161f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 2171f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume() 2181f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler() 2191f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2201f5a4ad9SRoland McGrathconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2219ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2221f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath 223c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 224c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool 225c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 22629d5e047SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 22729d5e047SThomas Gleixner bool 22829d5e047SThomas Gleixner 229485cf5daSKevin Hilmanconfig GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 230485cf5daSKevin Hilman bool 231485cf5daSKevin Hilman 2326974f0c4SDaniel Micayconfig ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 2336974f0c4SDaniel Micay bool 2346974f0c4SDaniel Micay help 2356974f0c4SDaniel Micay An architecture should select this when it can successfully 2366974f0c4SDaniel Micay build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. 2376974f0c4SDaniel Micay 238d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 239d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd 240d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# command line option 241d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 242d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD 243d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig bool 244d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig 245d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h 246d2852a22SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 247d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann bool 248d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann 249d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe# Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions 250d253ca0cSRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 251d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe bool 252d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe 253c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 254fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architecture provides the arch_dma_set_uncached symbol to 255fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# either provide an uncached segement alias for a DMA allocation, or 256fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# to remap the page tables in place. 257c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 258fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED 259c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig bool 260c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig 261999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 262999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architectures provides the arch_dma_clear_uncached symbol 263999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# to undo an in-place page table remap for uncached access. 264999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 265999a5d12SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED 266f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 267f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 2685905429aSKees Cook# Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section 2695905429aSKees Cookconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK 2705905429aSKees Cook bool 2715905429aSKees Cook 2725905429aSKees Cook# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function 2735905429aSKees Cookconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 2745905429aSKees Cook bool 2755905429aSKees Cook 2765905429aSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST 2775905429aSKees Cook bool 2785905429aSKees Cook depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 279b235beeaSLinus Torvalds help 280b235beeaSLinus Torvalds An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy 281f5e10287SThomas Gleixner knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be 282f5e10287SThomas Gleixner whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the 2835aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist() 2845aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct 2855aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar field in task_struct will be left whitelisted. 2865aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 287942fa985SYury Norov# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function 288942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR 289942fa985SYury Norov bool 290942fa985SYury Norov 291942fa985SYury Norov# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 292942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 293942fa985SYury Norov bool 294942fa985SYury Norov 295942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T 296942fa985SYury Norov bool 297f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on !64BIT 298f850c30cSHeiko Carstens help 299e01292b1SHeiko Carstens All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on 300e01292b1SHeiko Carstens userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This 301e01292b1SHeiko Carstens is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures 302e01292b1SHeiko Carstens still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such 303e01292b1SHeiko Carstens architectures explicitly. 304f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 3052ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS 3062ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 3072ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 3082ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it provides 3092ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols 3102ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada exported from assembly code. 3112ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 3129483a578SDavid Brownellconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 3139ba16087SJan Beulich bool 3149483a578SDavid Brownell help 3159483a578SDavid Brownell This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports 3169483a578SDavid Brownell the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 3179483a578SDavid Brownell declared in asm/ptrace.h 3185ee00bd4SJoerg Roedel For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 3195ee00bd4SJoerg Roedel 320d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_RSEQ 321d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool 322d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 323d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 324d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it 325d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers supports an implementation of restartable sequences. 326d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 3273c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 3283c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu bool 3293c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu help 3303c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports 3313c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs, 3323c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu declared in asm/ptrace.h 3333c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu 33462a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 33562a038d3SK.Prasad bool 33699e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 33762a038d3SK.Prasad 3380102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 3390102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 3400102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 3410102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 3420102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 3430102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 3440102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 3450102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 3460102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 3470102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 3480102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 3497c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 3507c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 351a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 352c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 353c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 35423637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 35523637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 35623637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 35723637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 358c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 35905a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 36005a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 36105a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 36205a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 36305a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup 36405a4a952SNicholas Piggin detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. 36505a4a952SNicholas Piggin 36605a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 36705a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_NMI 36805a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 36905a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 37005a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides 37105a4a952SNicholas Piggin asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(). 37205a4a952SNicholas Piggin 37305a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 37405a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 37505a4a952SNicholas Piggin select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 37605a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 37705a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is 37805a4a952SNicholas Piggin a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config 37905a4a952SNicholas Piggin interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem. 38005a4a952SNicholas Piggin 381c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 382c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 383c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 384c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 385c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 386c5e63197SJiri Olsa 387c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 388c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 389c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 390c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 391c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 392c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 393c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 394bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 395bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 396bf5438fcSJason Baron 39750ff18abSArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE 39850ff18abSArd Biesheuvel bool 39950ff18abSArd Biesheuvel 4000d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 4010d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra bool 4020d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra 403ff2e6d72SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 40426723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 4050d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 40626723911SPeter Zijlstra 4073af4bd03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE 408ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra bool 409ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra 41027796d03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE 41127796d03SPeter Zijlstra bool 41227796d03SPeter Zijlstra 413580a586cSPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER 414952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky bool 4150d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 416952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky 417df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 418df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 419df013ffbSHuang Ying 42043570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 42143570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 42243570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 42343570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 42443570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 42543570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 42643570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 42743570fd2SHeiko Carstens 4284156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 4294156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 4304156153cSHeiko Carstens 4312565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 4322565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 4332565409fSHeiko Carstens 43477e58496SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 43577e58496SPaul E. McKenney bool 43677e58496SPaul E. McKenney 437c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 438c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 439c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 440c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 441c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 442c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 44348b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 444c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 44548b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 44648b25c43SChris Metcalf 447e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 448e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 449e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 450fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 451bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 452bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 453bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 454bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 455fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 456fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 457fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 458fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 45948dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 460e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 461e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 462e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 463e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 464e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 465e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 466e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 467e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 468e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 4695fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details. 470e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 471afaef01cSAlexander Popovconfig HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK 472afaef01cSAlexander Popov bool 473afaef01cSAlexander Popov help 474afaef01cSAlexander Popov An architecture should select this if it has the code which 475afaef01cSAlexander Popov fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON 476afaef01cSAlexander Popov value before returning from system calls. 477afaef01cSAlexander Popov 478d148eac0SMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 47919952a92SKees Cook bool 48019952a92SKees Cook help 48119952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 48219952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 48319952a92SKees Cook 484050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR 4852a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 486d148eac0SMasahiro Yamada depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 4872a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector) 4882a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 4898779657dSKees Cook help 4908779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 49119952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 49219952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 49319952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 49419952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 49519952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 49619952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 49719952a92SKees Cook 4988779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 4998779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 5008779657dSKees Cook 50119952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 5028779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 5038779657dSKees Cook 5048779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5058779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 5068779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 5078779657dSKees Cook 508050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 5092a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Strong Stack Protector" 510050e9baaSLinus Torvalds depends on STACKPROTECTOR 5112a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong) 5122a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 5138779657dSKees Cook help 5148779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 5158779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 5168779657dSKees Cook 5178779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 5188779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 5198779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 5208779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 5218779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 5228779657dSKees Cook 5238779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 5248779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 5258779657dSKees Cook 5268779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5278779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 5288779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 5298779657dSKees Cook 530d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 531d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen bool 532d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 533d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this if it supports Clang's Shadow 534aa7a65aeSWill Deacon Call Stack and implements runtime support for shadow stack 535aa7a65aeSWill Deacon switching. 536d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 537d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig SHADOW_CALL_STACK 538d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen bool "Clang Shadow Call Stack" 539d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen depends on CC_IS_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 540ddc9863eSSami Tolvanen depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || !FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 541d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 542d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's Shadow Call Stack, which uses a 543d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen shadow stack to protect function return addresses from being 544d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found in 545d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen Clang's documentation: 546d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 547d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html 548d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 549d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the 550d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses 551d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable of 552d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them 553d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks. 554d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 5550f60a8efSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 5560f60a8efSKees Cook bool 5570f60a8efSKees Cook help 5580f60a8efSKees Cook An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 5590f60a8efSKees Cook frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 5600f60a8efSKees Cook or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 5610f60a8efSKees Cook and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 5620f60a8efSKees Cook which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 5630f60a8efSKees Cook 56491d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 5652b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 5662b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 56791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 56891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 569490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter(), either 570490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker optimized behind static key or through the slow path using TIF_NOHZ 571490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs are already 572490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker protected inside rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal 573490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker handling on irq exit still need to be protected. 574490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker 575490f561bSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_TIF_NOHZ 576490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker bool 577490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker help 578490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall slow path to implement context 579490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker tracking calls to user_enter()/user_exit(). 5802b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 581b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 582b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 583b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 58440565b5aSStanislaw Gruszkaconfig ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 58540565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka bool 58640565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka 587554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 588554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 589554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 590554b0004SKevin Hilman help 591554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 592554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 593554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 594554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 595554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 596554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 597554b0004SKevin Hilman 598554b0004SKevin Hilman 599fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 600fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 601fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 602fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 603fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 604fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 6052c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google)config HAVE_MOVE_PMD 6062c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 6072c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 6082c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level. 6092c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) 61015626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 61115626062SGerald Schaefer bool 61215626062SGerald Schaefer 613a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcoxconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 614a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox bool 615a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox 6160ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 6170ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 6180ddab1d2SToshi Kani 6193876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 6203876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti bool 6213876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti 6220f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 6230f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 6240f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 625786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 626786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 627786d35d4SDavid Howells help 628786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 629786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 630786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 631786d35d4SDavid Howells 632786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 633786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 634786d35d4SDavid Howells help 635786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 636786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 637786d35d4SDavid Howells 638786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 639786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 640786d35d4SDavid Howells help 641786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 642786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 643786d35d4SDavid Howells 644cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 645cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 646cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 647cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 648cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 649cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 650cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 651cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 652cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 653cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 654235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 655235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 656235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 657235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 6582b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 6592b68f6caSKees Cook bool 6602b68f6caSKees Cook help 6612b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 6622b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 6632b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 664204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 6652b68f6caSKees Cook 666d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 667d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 668d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 669d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 670d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 671d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 672d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 673d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 674d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 6755f56a5dfSJiri Slabyconfig HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 6765f56a5dfSJiri Slaby bool 6775f56a5dfSJiri Slaby help 6785f56a5dfSJiri Slaby An architecture implements exit_thread. 6795f56a5dfSJiri Slaby 680d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 681d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 682d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 683d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 684d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 685d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 686d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 687d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 688d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 689d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 690d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 691d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 692d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 693d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 694d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 695d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 696d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 697d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 698d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 699d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 700d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 701d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 702d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 703d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 704d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 705d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 706d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 707d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 708d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 709d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 710d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 711d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 712d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 713d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 714d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 715d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 716d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 717d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 718d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 719d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 720d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 721d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 722d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 723d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 724d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 725d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 726d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 727d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 728d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 729d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 730d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 731d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 732d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 733d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 734d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 735d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 736d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 737d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 738d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 7391b028f78SDmitry Safonovconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 7401b028f78SDmitry Safonov bool 7411b028f78SDmitry Safonov help 7421b028f78SDmitry Safonov This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 7431b028f78SDmitry Safonov and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 7441b028f78SDmitry Safonov Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 7451b028f78SDmitry Safonov 74667f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base 74767f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process 74867f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or 74967f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# sysctl_legacy_va_layout). 75067f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of: 75167f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# - STACK_RND_MASK 75267f3977fSAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT 75367f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti bool 75467f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti depends on MMU 755e7142bf5SAlexandre Ghiti select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 75667f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti 757b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 758b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 759b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 760b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which 761b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf performs compile-time stack metadata validation. 762b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 763af085d90SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 764af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf bool 765af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf help 766140d7e88SMiroslav Benes Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or 767140d7e88SMiroslav Benes arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace 768140d7e88SMiroslav Benes if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 769af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf 770468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 771468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 772468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 773468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 774468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 775468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 776468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 777468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 778666047feSFinn Thainconfig HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS 779666047feSFinn Thain bool 780666047feSFinn Thain 7813a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS_API 7823a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray def_bool ISA 7833a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 784d2125043SAl Viro# 785d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 786d2125043SAl Viro# 787d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 788d2125043SAl Viro bool 789d2125043SAl Viro help 790d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 791d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 792d2125043SAl Viro 793d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 794d2125043SAl Viro bool 795d2125043SAl Viro help 796d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 797d2125043SAl Viro 798dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 799dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 800dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 801dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 802dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 803dfa9771aSMichal Simek 804eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 805eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 806eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 807eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 808eaca6eaeSAl Viro 8090a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 8100a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8110a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8120a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 8130a0e8cdfSAl Viro 8140a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 8150a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 8160a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 8170a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 8180a0e8cdfSAl Viro 819495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 820495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 821495dfbf7SAl Viro help 822495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 823495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 824495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 825495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 826495dfbf7SAl Viro 827495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 828495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 829495dfbf7SAl Viro 83017435e5fSDeepa Dinamaniconfig COMPAT_32BIT_TIME 831942437c9SArnd Bergmann bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t" 832942437c9SArnd Bergmann default !64BIT || COMPAT 83317435e5fSDeepa Dinamani help 83417435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support. 83517435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures 83617435e5fSDeepa Dinamani as part of compat syscall handling. 83717435e5fSDeepa Dinamani 83887a4c375SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 83987a4c375SChristoph Hellwig bool 84087a4c375SChristoph Hellwig 841a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT 842a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner bool 843a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner 844fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zengconfig CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 845fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng def_bool n 846fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng 847ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 848ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 849ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski help 850ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 851ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski in vmalloc space. This means: 852ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 853ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 854ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 855ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 856ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 857ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 858ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 859ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 860ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 861ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 862ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 863ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 864ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 865ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 866ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 867ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VMAP_STACK 868ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski default y 869ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 870eafb149eSDaniel Axtens depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 871eafb149eSDaniel Axtens depends on !KASAN || KASAN_VMALLOC 872a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 873ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 874ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 875ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 876ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski corruption. 877ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 878eafb149eSDaniel Axtens To use this with KASAN, the architecture must support backing 879eafb149eSDaniel Axtens virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC must 880eafb149eSDaniel Axtens be enabled. 881ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 882ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 883ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 884ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 885ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 886ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 887ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 888ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 889ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 890ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 8910f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 892ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 893ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 894ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 895ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 896ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 897ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 898ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 899ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott or modifying text) 900ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 901ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott These features are considered standard security practice these days. 902ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott You should say Y here in almost all cases. 903ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 904ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 905ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 906ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 9070f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_MODULE_RWX 908ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 909ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 910ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 911ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 912ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 913ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 914ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 915ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 916ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig# select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header 917ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA 918ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig bool 919ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig 92004f264d3SPaul Burtonconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H 92104f264d3SPaul Burton bool 92204f264d3SPaul Burton help 92304f264d3SPaul Burton An architecture can select this if it provides an 92404f264d3SPaul Burton asm/compiler.h header that should be included after 92504f264d3SPaul Burton linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those 92604f264d3SPaul Burton headers generally provide. 92704f264d3SPaul Burton 928271ca788SArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS 929271ca788SArd Biesheuvel bool 930271ca788SArd Biesheuvel help 931271ca788SArd Biesheuvel May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative 932271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader, 933271ca788SArd Biesheuvel in which case relative references can be used in special sections 934271ca788SArd Biesheuvel for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit 935271ca788SArd Biesheuvel architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable 936271ca788SArd Biesheuvel kernels. 937271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 938ce9084baSArd Biesheuvelconfig ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT 939ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel bool 940ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel 941fb346fd9SWaiman Longconfig LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS 942fb346fd9SWaiman Long bool "Locking event counts collection" 943fb346fd9SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_FS 944a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 945fb346fd9SWaiman Long Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events 946fb346fd9SWaiman Long in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces 947fb346fd9SWaiman Long the chance of application behavior change because of timing 948fb346fd9SWaiman Long differences. The counts are reported via debugfs. 949fb346fd9SWaiman Long 9505cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne# Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations. 9515cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig ARCH_HAS_RELR 9525cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool 9535cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 9545cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig RELR 9555cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool "Use RELR relocation packing" 9565cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 9575cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne default y 9585cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne help 9595cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing 9605cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as 9615cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy 9625cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne are compatible). 9635cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 9640c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT 9650c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann bool 9660c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann 9670e242208SHassan Naveedconfig HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR 9680e242208SHassan Naveed bool 9690e242208SHassan Naveed help 9700e242208SHassan Naveed An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse 9710e242208SHassan Naveed to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with 9720e242208SHassan Naveed entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall 9730e242208SHassan Naveed related optimizations for a given architecture. 9740e242208SHassan Naveed 975d60d7de3SSven Schnelleconfig ARCH_HAS_VDSO_DATA 976d60d7de3SSven Schnelle bool 977d60d7de3SSven Schnelle 978115284d8SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL 979115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf bool 980115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf 981*9183c3f9SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE 982*9183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf bool 983*9183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 984*9183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf 9852521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 98645332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 98745332b1bSMasahiro Yamadasource "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig" 988fa1b5d09SLinus Torvalds 98922471e13SRandy Dunlapendmenu 990