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 275e6e9852SChristoph Hellwigconfig SET_FS 285e6e9852SChristoph Hellwig bool 295e6e9852SChristoph Hellwig 3005736e4aSThomas Gleixnerconfig HOTPLUG_SMT 3105736e4aSThomas Gleixner bool 3205736e4aSThomas Gleixner 33142781e1SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_ENTRY 34142781e1SThomas Gleixner bool 35142781e1SThomas Gleixner 36125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig KPROBES 37125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers bool "Kprobes" 3805ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu depends on MODULES 39125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_KPROBES 4005ed160eSMasami Hiramatsu select KALLSYMS 41125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 42125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and 43125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes 44125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful 45125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. 46125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers If in doubt, say "N". 47125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 4845f81b1cSSteven Rostedtconfig JUMP_LABEL 49c5905afbSIngo Molnar bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" 5045f81b1cSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 51e9666d10SMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 5245f81b1cSSteven Rostedt help 53c5905afbSIngo Molnar This option enables a transparent branch optimization that 54c5905afbSIngo Molnar makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch 55c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. 5645f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 57c5905afbSIngo Molnar Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, 58c5905afbSIngo Molnar scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such 59c5905afbSIngo Molnar branches and include support for this optimization technique. 60c5905afbSIngo Molnar 61c5905afbSIngo Molnar If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", 62c5905afbSIngo Molnar the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop 63c5905afbSIngo Molnar instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the 64c5905afbSIngo Molnar nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the 65c5905afbSIngo Molnar conditional block of instructions. 66c5905afbSIngo Molnar 67c5905afbSIngo Molnar This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction 68c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update 69c5905afbSIngo Molnar of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. 70c5905afbSIngo Molnar 71c5905afbSIngo Molnar ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler 72c5905afbSIngo Molnar flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) 7345f81b1cSSteven Rostedt 741987c947SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST 751987c947SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static key selftest" 761987c947SPeter Zijlstra depends on JUMP_LABEL 771987c947SPeter Zijlstra help 781987c947SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. 791987c947SPeter Zijlstra 80f03c4129SPeter Zijlstraconfig STATIC_CALL_SELFTEST 81f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra bool "Static call selftest" 82f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 83f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra help 84f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra Boot time self-test of the call patching code. 85f03c4129SPeter Zijlstra 86afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig OPTPROBES 875cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 885cc718b9SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES 8901b1d88bSThomas Gleixner select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 90afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu 91e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 92e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu def_bool y 93e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 94e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 95e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu help 96e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full 97e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can 98e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu optimize on top of function tracing. 99e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 1002b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig UPROBES 10109294e31SDavid A. Long def_bool n 102e8f4aa60SAllen Pais depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 1032b144498SSrikar Dronamraju help 1047b2d81d4SIngo Molnar Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they 1057b2d81d4SIngo Molnar enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') 1067b2d81d4SIngo Molnar to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and 1077b2d81d4SIngo Molnar libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes 1087b2d81d4SIngo Molnar are hit by user-space applications. 1097b2d81d4SIngo Molnar 1107b2d81d4SIngo Molnar ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, 1117b2d81d4SIngo Molnar managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed 1127b2d81d4SIngo Molnar application. ) 1132b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 114adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS 115adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 116adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 117adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit 118adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values 119adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit 120adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit 121adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) architectures without unaligned access. 122adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 123adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit 124adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even 125adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) though it is not a 64 bit architecture. 126adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 127ba1a297dSLukas Bulwahn See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for 128ba1a297dSLukas Bulwahn more information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 129adab66b7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 13058340a07SJohannes Bergconfig HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 1319ba16087SJan Beulich bool 13258340a07SJohannes Berg help 13358340a07SJohannes Berg Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses 13458340a07SJohannes Berg without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are 13558340a07SJohannes Berg unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on 13658340a07SJohannes Berg unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception 13758340a07SJohannes Berg handler.) 13858340a07SJohannes Berg 13958340a07SJohannes Berg This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can 14058340a07SJohannes Berg perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different 14158340a07SJohannes Berg code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network 14258340a07SJohannes Berg drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment 14358340a07SJohannes Berg problems with received packets if doing so would not help 14458340a07SJohannes Berg much. 14558340a07SJohannes Berg 146c9b54d6fSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for more 14758340a07SJohannes Berg information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 14858340a07SJohannes Berg 149cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouseconfig ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 150cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse bool 151cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse help 152cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions 153cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old 154cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the 155cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's 156cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In 157cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap 158cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or 159cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It 160cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the 161cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it 162cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse does, the use of the builtins is optional. 163cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 164cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap 165cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it 166cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse on architectures that don't have such instructions. 167cf66bb93SDavid Woodhouse 1689edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig KRETPROBES 1699edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli def_bool y 1709edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES 1719edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1727c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1737c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 1747c68af6eSAvi Kivity depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 1757c68af6eSAvi Kivity help 1767c68af6eSAvi Kivity Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to 1777c68af6eSAvi Kivity switch to user mode. 1787c68af6eSAvi Kivity 17928b2ee20SRik van Rielconfig HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 1809ba16087SJan Beulich bool 18128b2ee20SRik van Riel 182125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_KPROBES 1839ba16087SJan Beulich bool 1849edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli 1859edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalliconfig HAVE_KRETPROBES 1869ba16087SJan Beulich bool 18774bc7ceeSArthur Kepner 188afd66255SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_OPTPROBES 189afd66255SMasami Hiramatsu bool 190d314d74cSCong Wang 191e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 192e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu bool 193e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu 194540adea3SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1959802d865SJosef Bacik bool 1969802d865SJosef Bacik 19742a0bb3fSPetr Mladekconfig HAVE_NMI 19842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek bool 19942a0bb3fSPetr Mladek 2001f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2011f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 2021f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2031f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 2041f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 2051f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 2061f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 2071f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 2081f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 2091f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 2101f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume() 2111f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler() 2121f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath# 2131f5a4ad9SRoland McGrathconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2149ba16087SJan Beulich bool 2151f5a4ad9SRoland McGrath 216c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowskiconfig HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 217c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski bool 218c64be2bbSMarek Szyprowski 21929d5e047SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 22029d5e047SThomas Gleixner bool 22129d5e047SThomas Gleixner 222485cf5daSKevin Hilmanconfig GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 223485cf5daSKevin Hilman bool 224485cf5daSKevin Hilman 2256974f0c4SDaniel Micayconfig ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 2266974f0c4SDaniel Micay bool 2276974f0c4SDaniel Micay help 2286974f0c4SDaniel Micay An architecture should select this when it can successfully 2296974f0c4SDaniel Micay build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. 2306974f0c4SDaniel Micay 231d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 232d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd 233d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# command line option 234d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig# 235d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD 236d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig bool 237d8ae8a37SChristoph Hellwig 238d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h 239d2852a22SDaniel Borkmannconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 240d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann bool 241d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann 242d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe# Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions 243d253ca0cSRick Edgecombeconfig ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 244d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe bool 245d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe 246c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 247fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architecture provides the arch_dma_set_uncached symbol to 248a86ecfa6SColin Ian King# either provide an uncached segment alias for a DMA allocation, or 249fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwig# to remap the page tables in place. 250c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig# 251fa7e2247SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED 252c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig bool 253c30700dbSChristoph Hellwig 254999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 255999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# Select if the architectures provides the arch_dma_clear_uncached symbol 256999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# to undo an in-place page table remap for uncached access. 257999a5d12SChristoph Hellwig# 258999a5d12SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED 259f5e10287SThomas Gleixner bool 260f5e10287SThomas Gleixner 2615905429aSKees Cook# Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section 2625905429aSKees Cookconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK 2635905429aSKees Cook bool 2645905429aSKees Cook 2655905429aSKees Cook# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function 2665905429aSKees Cookconfig ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 2675905429aSKees Cook bool 2685905429aSKees Cook 2695905429aSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST 2705905429aSKees Cook bool 2715905429aSKees Cook depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 272b235beeaSLinus Torvalds help 273b235beeaSLinus Torvalds An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy 274f5e10287SThomas Gleixner knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be 275f5e10287SThomas Gleixner whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the 2765aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist() 2775aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct 2785aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar field in task_struct will be left whitelisted. 2795aaeb5c0SIngo Molnar 280942fa985SYury Norov# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function 281942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR 282942fa985SYury Norov bool 283942fa985SYury Norov 284942fa985SYury Norov# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 285942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 286942fa985SYury Norov bool 287942fa985SYury Norov 288942fa985SYury Norovconfig ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T 289942fa985SYury Norov bool 290f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on !64BIT 291f850c30cSHeiko Carstens help 292e01292b1SHeiko Carstens All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on 293e01292b1SHeiko Carstens userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This 294e01292b1SHeiko Carstens is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures 295e01292b1SHeiko Carstens still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such 296e01292b1SHeiko Carstens architectures explicitly. 297f850c30cSHeiko Carstens 29896c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens# Selected by 64 bit architectures which have a 32 bit f_tinode in struct ustat 29996c0a6a7SHeiko Carstensconfig ARCH_32BIT_USTAT_F_TINODE 30096c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens bool 30196c0a6a7SHeiko Carstens 3022ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS 3032ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada bool 3042ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada help 305a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it provides 3062ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols 3072ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada exported from assembly code. 3082ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada 3099483a578SDavid Brownellconfig HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 3109ba16087SJan Beulich bool 3119483a578SDavid Brownell help 312a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports 3139483a578SDavid Brownell the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 3149483a578SDavid Brownell declared in asm/ptrace.h 3155ee00bd4SJoerg Roedel For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 3165ee00bd4SJoerg Roedel 317d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig HAVE_RSEQ 318d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers bool 319d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 320d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers help 321d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it 322d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers supports an implementation of restartable sequences. 323d7822b1eSMathieu Desnoyers 3243c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 3253c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu bool 3263c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu help 327a86ecfa6SColin Ian King This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports 3283c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs, 3293c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu declared in asm/ptrace.h 3303c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu 33162a038d3SK.Prasadconfig HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 33262a038d3SK.Prasad bool 33399e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker depends on PERF_EVENTS 33462a038d3SK.Prasad 3350102752eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 3360102752eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 3370102752eSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 3380102752eSFrederic Weisbecker help 3390102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 3400102752eSFrederic Weisbecker some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 3410102752eSFrederic Weisbecker breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 3420102752eSFrederic Weisbecker them but define the access type in a control register. 3430102752eSFrederic Weisbecker Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 3440102752eSFrederic Weisbecker latter fashion. 3450102752eSFrederic Weisbecker 3467c68af6eSAvi Kivityconfig HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 3477c68af6eSAvi Kivity bool 348a1922ed6SIngo Molnar 349c01d4323SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 350c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker bool 35123637d47SFrederic Weisbecker help 35223637d47SFrederic Weisbecker System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 35323637d47SFrederic Weisbecker subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 35423637d47SFrederic Weisbecker to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 355c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker 35605a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 35705a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 35805a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 35905a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 36005a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup 36105a4a952SNicholas Piggin detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. 36205a4a952SNicholas Piggin 36305a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 36405a4a952SNicholas Piggin depends on HAVE_NMI 36505a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 36605a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 36705a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides 36805a4a952SNicholas Piggin asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(). 36905a4a952SNicholas Piggin 37005a4a952SNicholas Pigginconfig HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 37105a4a952SNicholas Piggin bool 37205a4a952SNicholas Piggin select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 37305a4a952SNicholas Piggin help 37405a4a952SNicholas Piggin The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is 37505a4a952SNicholas Piggin a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config 37605a4a952SNicholas Piggin interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem. 37705a4a952SNicholas Piggin 378c5e63197SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_REGS 379c5e63197SJiri Olsa bool 380c5e63197SJiri Olsa help 381c5e63197SJiri Olsa Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 382c5e63197SJiri Olsa bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 383c5e63197SJiri Olsa 384c5ebcedbSJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 385c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa bool 386c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa help 387c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 388c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 389c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa architectures. 390c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa 391bf5438fcSJason Baronconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 392bf5438fcSJason Baron bool 393bf5438fcSJason Baron 39450ff18abSArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE 39550ff18abSArd Biesheuvel bool 39650ff18abSArd Biesheuvel 3970d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 3980d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra bool 3990d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra 400ff2e6d72SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 40126723911SPeter Zijlstra bool 4020d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 40326723911SPeter Zijlstra 4043af4bd03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE 405ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra bool 406ed6a7935SPeter Zijlstra 40727796d03SPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE 40827796d03SPeter Zijlstra bool 40927796d03SPeter Zijlstra 410580a586cSPeter Zijlstraconfig MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER 411952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky bool 4120d6e24d4SPeter Zijlstra depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE 413952a31c9SMartin Schwidefsky 414d53c3dfbSNicholas Pigginconfig ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM 415d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin bool 416d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin help 417d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin Temporary select until all architectures can be converted to have 418d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin irqs disabled over activate_mm. Architectures that do IPI based TLB 419d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin shootdowns should enable this. 420d53c3dfbSNicholas Piggin 421df013ffbSHuang Yingconfig ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 422df013ffbSHuang Ying bool 423df013ffbSHuang Ying 42443570fd2SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 42543570fd2SHeiko Carstens bool 42643570fd2SHeiko Carstens help 42743570fd2SHeiko Carstens This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 42843570fd2SHeiko Carstens e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 42943570fd2SHeiko Carstens on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 43043570fd2SHeiko Carstens might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 43143570fd2SHeiko Carstens 4324156153cSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 4334156153cSHeiko Carstens bool 4344156153cSHeiko Carstens 4352565409fSHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 4362565409fSHeiko Carstens bool 4372565409fSHeiko Carstens 43877e58496SPaul E. McKenneyconfig ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 43977e58496SPaul E. McKenney bool 44077e58496SPaul E. McKenney 441c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 442c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 443c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 444c1d7e01dSWill Deaconconfig ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 445c1d7e01dSWill Deacon bool 446c1d7e01dSWill Deacon 44748b25c43SChris Metcalfconfig ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 448c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 44948b25c43SChris Metcalf bool 45048b25c43SChris Metcalf 451282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 452e2cfabdfSWill Drewry bool 453e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 454282a181bSYiFei Zhu An arch should select this symbol to support seccomp mode 1 (the fixed 455282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscall policy), and must provide an overrides for __NR_seccomp_sigreturn, 456282a181bSYiFei Zhu and compat syscalls if the asm-generic/seccomp.h defaults need adjustment: 457282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_read_32 458282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_write_32 459282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_exit_32 460282a181bSYiFei Zhu - __NR_seccomp_sigreturn_32 461282a181bSYiFei Zhu 462282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 463282a181bSYiFei Zhu bool 464282a181bSYiFei Zhu select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 465282a181bSYiFei Zhu help 466fb0fadf9SWill Drewry An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 467282a181bSYiFei Zhu - all the requirements for HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 468bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arch() 469bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_get_arguments() 470bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_rollback() 471bb6ea430SWill Drewry - syscall_set_return_value() 472fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 473fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 474fb0fadf9SWill Drewry - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 475fb0fadf9SWill Drewry results in the system call being skipped immediately. 47648dc92b9SKees Cook - seccomp syscall wired up 4770d8315ddSYiFei Zhu - if !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR, have SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE, 4780d8315ddSYiFei Zhu SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NR, SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NAME defined. If 4790d8315ddSYiFei Zhu COMPAT is supported, have the SECCOMP_ARCH_COMPAT* defines too. 480e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 481282a181bSYiFei Zhuconfig SECCOMP 482282a181bSYiFei Zhu prompt "Enable seccomp to safely execute untrusted bytecode" 483282a181bSYiFei Zhu def_bool y 484282a181bSYiFei Zhu depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP 485282a181bSYiFei Zhu help 486282a181bSYiFei Zhu This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 487282a181bSYiFei Zhu that may need to handle untrusted bytecode during their 488282a181bSYiFei Zhu execution. By using pipes or other transports made available 489282a181bSYiFei Zhu to the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 490282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in their 491282a181bSYiFei Zhu own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is enabled via 492282a181bSYiFei Zhu prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) or the seccomp() syscall, it cannot be 493282a181bSYiFei Zhu disabled and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe 494282a181bSYiFei Zhu syscalls defined by each seccomp mode. 495282a181bSYiFei Zhu 496282a181bSYiFei Zhu If unsure, say Y. 497282a181bSYiFei Zhu 498e2cfabdfSWill Drewryconfig SECCOMP_FILTER 499e2cfabdfSWill Drewry def_bool y 500e2cfabdfSWill Drewry depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 501e2cfabdfSWill Drewry help 502e2cfabdfSWill Drewry Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 503e2cfabdfSWill Drewry in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 504e2cfabdfSWill Drewry task-defined system call filtering polices. 505e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 5065fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details. 507e2cfabdfSWill Drewry 5080d8315ddSYiFei Zhuconfig SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG 5090d8315ddSYiFei Zhu bool "Show seccomp filter cache status in /proc/pid/seccomp_cache" 5100d8315ddSYiFei Zhu depends on SECCOMP_FILTER && !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR 5110d8315ddSYiFei Zhu depends on PROC_FS 5120d8315ddSYiFei Zhu help 5130d8315ddSYiFei Zhu This enables the /proc/pid/seccomp_cache interface to monitor 5140d8315ddSYiFei Zhu seccomp cache data. The file format is subject to change. Reading 5150d8315ddSYiFei Zhu the file requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. 5160d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 5170d8315ddSYiFei Zhu This option is for debugging only. Enabling presents the risk that 5180d8315ddSYiFei Zhu an adversary may be able to infer the seccomp filter logic. 5190d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 5200d8315ddSYiFei Zhu If unsure, say N. 5210d8315ddSYiFei Zhu 522afaef01cSAlexander Popovconfig HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK 523afaef01cSAlexander Popov bool 524afaef01cSAlexander Popov help 525afaef01cSAlexander Popov An architecture should select this if it has the code which 526afaef01cSAlexander Popov fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON 527afaef01cSAlexander Popov value before returning from system calls. 528afaef01cSAlexander Popov 529d148eac0SMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 53019952a92SKees Cook bool 53119952a92SKees Cook help 53219952a92SKees Cook An arch should select this symbol if: 53319952a92SKees Cook - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 53419952a92SKees Cook 535050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR 5362a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 537d148eac0SMasahiro Yamada depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 5382a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector) 5392a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 5408779657dSKees Cook help 5418779657dSKees Cook This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 54219952a92SKees Cook feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 54319952a92SKees Cook the stack just before the return address, and validates 54419952a92SKees Cook the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 54519952a92SKees Cook overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 54619952a92SKees Cook overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 54719952a92SKees Cook neutralized via a kernel panic. 54819952a92SKees Cook 5498779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 5508779657dSKees Cook have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 5518779657dSKees Cook 55219952a92SKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 5538779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 5548779657dSKees Cook 5558779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5568779657dSKees Cook about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 5578779657dSKees Cook by about 0.3%. 5588779657dSKees Cook 559050e9baaSLinus Torvaldsconfig STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 5602a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool "Strong Stack Protector" 561050e9baaSLinus Torvalds depends on STACKPROTECTOR 5622a61f474SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong) 5632a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default y 5648779657dSKees Cook help 5658779657dSKees Cook Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 5668779657dSKees Cook of the following conditions: 5678779657dSKees Cook 5688779657dSKees Cook - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 5698779657dSKees Cook assignment or function argument 5708779657dSKees Cook - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 5718779657dSKees Cook regardless of array type or length 5728779657dSKees Cook - uses register local variables 5738779657dSKees Cook 5748779657dSKees Cook This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 5758779657dSKees Cook gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 5768779657dSKees Cook 5778779657dSKees Cook On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 5788779657dSKees Cook about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 5798779657dSKees Cook size by about 2%. 5808779657dSKees Cook 581d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 582d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen bool 583d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 584d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this if it supports Clang's Shadow 585aa7a65aeSWill Deacon Call Stack and implements runtime support for shadow stack 586aa7a65aeSWill Deacon switching. 587d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 588d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanenconfig SHADOW_CALL_STACK 589d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen bool "Clang Shadow Call Stack" 590d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen depends on CC_IS_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK 591ddc9863eSSami Tolvanen depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || !FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 592d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen help 593d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's Shadow Call Stack, which uses a 594d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen shadow stack to protect function return addresses from being 595d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found in 596d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen Clang's documentation: 597d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 598d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html 599d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 600d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the 601d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses 602d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable of 603d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them 604d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks. 605d08b9f0cSSami Tolvanen 606dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO 607dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 608dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 609dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Selected if the kernel will be built using the compiler's LTO feature. 610dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 611dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG 612dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 613dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO 614dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 615dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Selected if the kernel will be built using Clang's LTO feature. 616dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 617dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 618dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 619dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 620dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it supports: 621dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - compiling with Clang, 622dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - compiling inline assembly with Clang's integrated assembler, 623dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen - and linking with LLD. 624dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 625dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 626dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool 627dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 628dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen An architecture should select this option if it can support Clang's 629dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen ThinLTO mode. 630dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 631dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig HAS_LTO_CLANG 632dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 633dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen # Clang >= 11: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/510 634*ba64beb1SMasahiro Yamada depends on CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 110000 && LD_IS_LLD && AS_IS_LLVM 635dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on $(success,$(NM) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) 636dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on $(success,$(AR) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) 637dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 638dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 639bf3c2551SSami Tolvanen depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS 640dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !GCOV_KERNEL 641dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 642dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen The compiler and Kconfig options support building with Clang's 643dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen LTO. 644dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 645dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenchoice 646dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen prompt "Link Time Optimization (LTO)" 647dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen default LTO_NONE 648dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 649dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Link Time Optimization (LTO), which allows the 650dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen compiler to optimize binaries globally. 651dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 652dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen If unsure, select LTO_NONE. Note that LTO is very resource-intensive 653dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen so it's disabled by default. 654dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 655dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_NONE 656dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "None" 657dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 658dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen Build the kernel normally, without Link Time Optimization (LTO). 659dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 660dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG_FULL 661dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "Clang Full LTO (EXPERIMENTAL)" 662dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG 663dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on !COMPILE_TEST 664dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO_CLANG 665dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 666dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's full Link Time Optimization (LTO), which 667dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen allows the compiler to optimize the kernel globally. If you enable 668dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen this option, the compiler generates LLVM bitcode instead of ELF 669dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen object files, and the actual compilation from bitcode happens at 670dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen the LTO link step, which may take several minutes depending on the 671dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen kernel configuration. More information can be found from LLVM's 672dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen documentation: 673dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 674dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html 675dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 676dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen During link time, this option can use a large amount of RAM, and 677dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen may take much longer than the ThinLTO option. 678dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 679dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenconfig LTO_CLANG_THIN 680dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen bool "Clang ThinLTO (EXPERIMENTAL)" 681dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 682dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen select LTO_CLANG 683dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen help 684dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen This option enables Clang's ThinLTO, which allows for parallel 685dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen optimization and faster incremental compiles compared to the 686dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL option. More information can be found 687dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen from Clang's documentation: 688dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 689dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html 690dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 691dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen If unsure, say Y. 692dc5723b0SSami Tolvanenendchoice 693dc5723b0SSami Tolvanen 6940f60a8efSKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 6950f60a8efSKees Cook bool 6960f60a8efSKees Cook help 6970f60a8efSKees Cook An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 6980f60a8efSKees Cook frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 6990f60a8efSKees Cook or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 7000f60a8efSKees Cook and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 7010f60a8efSKees Cook which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 7020f60a8efSKees Cook 70391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 7042b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker bool 7052b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker help 70691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 70791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 708490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter(), either 709490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker optimized behind static key or through the slow path using TIF_NOHZ 710490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs are already 711490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker protected inside rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal 712490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker handling on irq exit still need to be protected. 713490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker 71483c2da2eSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK 71583c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker bool 71683c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker help 71783c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker Architecture neither relies on exception_enter()/exception_exit() 71883c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker nor on schedule_user(). Also preempt_schedule_notrace() and 71983c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker preempt_schedule_irq() can't be called in a preemptible section 72083c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker while context tracking is CONTEXT_USER. This feature reflects a sane 72183c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker entry implementation where the following requirements are met on 72283c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker critical entry code, ie: before user_exit() or after user_enter(): 72383c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker 72483c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - Critical entry code isn't preemptible (or better yet: 72583c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker not interruptible). 72683c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - No use of RCU read side critical sections, unless rcu_nmi_enter() 72783c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker got called. 72883c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker - No use of instrumentation, unless instrumentation_begin() got 72983c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker called. 73083c2da2eSFrederic Weisbecker 731490f561bSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_TIF_NOHZ 732490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker bool 733490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker help 734490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall slow path to implement context 735490f561bSFrederic Weisbecker tracking calls to user_enter()/user_exit(). 7362b1d5024SFrederic Weisbecker 737b952741cSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 738b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker bool 739b952741cSFrederic Weisbecker 7402b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_IDLE 7412b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker bool 7422b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker help 7432b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker Architecture has its own way to account idle CPU time and therefore 7442b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker doesn't implement vtime_account_idle(). 7452b91ec9fSFrederic Weisbecker 74640565b5aSStanislaw Gruszkaconfig ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 74740565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka bool 74840565b5aSStanislaw Gruszka 749554b0004SKevin Hilmanconfig HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 750554b0004SKevin Hilman bool 751554b0004SKevin Hilman default y if 64BIT 752554b0004SKevin Hilman help 753554b0004SKevin Hilman With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 754554b0004SKevin Hilman Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 755554b0004SKevin Hilman to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 756554b0004SKevin Hilman cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 757554b0004SKevin Hilman some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 758554b0004SKevin Hilman locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 759554b0004SKevin Hilman 760fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 761fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker bool 762fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker help 763fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 764fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 765fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker 766c49dd340SKalesh Singhconfig HAVE_MOVE_PUD 767c49dd340SKalesh Singh bool 768c49dd340SKalesh Singh help 769c49dd340SKalesh Singh Architectures that select this are able to move page tables at the 770c49dd340SKalesh Singh PUD level. If there are only 3 page table levels, the move effectively 771c49dd340SKalesh Singh happens at the PGD level. 772c49dd340SKalesh Singh 7732c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google)config HAVE_MOVE_PMD 7742c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 7752c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) help 7762c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level. 7772c91bd4aSJoel Fernandes (Google) 77815626062SGerald Schaeferconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 77915626062SGerald Schaefer bool 78015626062SGerald Schaefer 781a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcoxconfig HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 782a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox bool 783a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox 7840ddab1d2SToshi Kaniconfig HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 7850ddab1d2SToshi Kani bool 7860ddab1d2SToshi Kani 7873876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 7883876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti bool 7893876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti 7900f8975ecSPavel Emelyanovconfig HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 7910f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov bool 7920f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov 793786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 794786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 795786d35d4SDavid Howells help 796786d35d4SDavid Howells The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 797786d35d4SDavid Howells just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 798786d35d4SDavid Howells should not enable this. 799786d35d4SDavid Howells 800786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 801786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 802786d35d4SDavid Howells help 803786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 804786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 805786d35d4SDavid Howells 806786d35d4SDavid Howellsconfig MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 807786d35d4SDavid Howells bool 808786d35d4SDavid Howells help 809786d35d4SDavid Howells Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 810786d35d4SDavid Howells relocations will give an error. 811786d35d4SDavid Howells 812cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 813cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker bool 814cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker help 815cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 816cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 817cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 818cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker in the end of an hardirq. 819cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 820cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker processing. 821cc1f0274SFrederic Weisbecker 822cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixnerconfig HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK 823cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner bool 824cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner help 825cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner Architecture provides a function to run __do_softirq() on a 826cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner seperate stack. 827cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner 828235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 829235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov int 830235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 831235a8f02SKirill A. Shutemov 8322b68f6caSKees Cookconfig ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 8332b68f6caSKees Cook bool 8342b68f6caSKees Cook help 8352b68f6caSKees Cook An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 8362b68f6caSKees Cook stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 8372b68f6caSKees Cook - arch_mmap_rnd() 838204db6edSKees Cook - arch_randomize_brk() 8392b68f6caSKees Cook 840d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 841d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 842d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 843d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 844d07e2259SDaniel Cashman number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 845d07e2259SDaniel Cashman allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 846d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 847d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 848d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 8495f56a5dfSJiri Slabyconfig HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 8505f56a5dfSJiri Slaby bool 8515f56a5dfSJiri Slaby help 8525f56a5dfSJiri Slaby An architecture implements exit_thread. 8535f56a5dfSJiri Slaby 854d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 855d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 856d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 857d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 858d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 859d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 860d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 861d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 862d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 863d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 864d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 865d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 866d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 867d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 868d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 869d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 870d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 871d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 872d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 873d07e2259SDaniel Cashman by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 874d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 875d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 876d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 877d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 878d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 879d07e2259SDaniel Cashman bool 880d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 881d07e2259SDaniel Cashman An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 882d07e2259SDaniel Cashman in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 883d07e2259SDaniel Cashman use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 884d07e2259SDaniel Cashman enabled and provides values for both: 885d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 886d07e2259SDaniel Cashman - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 887d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 888d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 889d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 890d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 891d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 892d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 893d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 894d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 895d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int 896d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 897d07e2259SDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 898d07e2259SDaniel Cashman int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 899d07e2259SDaniel Cashman range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 900d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 901d07e2259SDaniel Cashman default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 902d07e2259SDaniel Cashman depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 903d07e2259SDaniel Cashman help 904d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 905d07e2259SDaniel Cashman determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 906d07e2259SDaniel Cashman resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 907d07e2259SDaniel Cashman value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 908d07e2259SDaniel Cashman supported values. 909d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 910d07e2259SDaniel Cashman This value can be changed after boot using the 911d07e2259SDaniel Cashman /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 912d07e2259SDaniel Cashman 9131b028f78SDmitry Safonovconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 9141b028f78SDmitry Safonov bool 9151b028f78SDmitry Safonov help 9161b028f78SDmitry Safonov This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 9171b028f78SDmitry Safonov and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 9181b028f78SDmitry Safonov Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 9191b028f78SDmitry Safonov 92067f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base 92167f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process 92267f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or 92367f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# sysctl_legacy_va_layout). 92467f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of: 92567f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti# - STACK_RND_MASK 92667f3977fSAlexandre Ghiticonfig ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT 92767f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti bool 92867f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti depends on MMU 929e7142bf5SAlexandre Ghiti select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 93067f3977fSAlexandre Ghiti 931b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 932b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf bool 933b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf help 934b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which 935b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf performs compile-time stack metadata validation. 936b9ab5ebbSJosh Poimboeuf 937af085d90SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 938af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf bool 939af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf help 940140d7e88SMiroslav Benes Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or 941140d7e88SMiroslav Benes arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace 942140d7e88SMiroslav Benes if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 943af085d90SJosh Poimboeuf 944468a9428SGeorge Spelvinconfig HAVE_ARCH_HASH 945468a9428SGeorge Spelvin bool 946468a9428SGeorge Spelvin default n 947468a9428SGeorge Spelvin help 948468a9428SGeorge Spelvin If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 949468a9428SGeorge Spelvin file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 950468a9428SGeorge Spelvin functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 951468a9428SGeorge Spelvin 952666047feSFinn Thainconfig HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS 953666047feSFinn Thain bool 954666047feSFinn Thain 9553a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS_API 9563a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray def_bool ISA 9573a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 958d2125043SAl Viro# 959d2125043SAl Viro# ABI hall of shame 960d2125043SAl Viro# 961d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS 962d2125043SAl Viro bool 963d2125043SAl Viro help 964d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 965d2125043SAl Viro not the 5th one. 966d2125043SAl Viro 967d2125043SAl Viroconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS2 968d2125043SAl Viro bool 969d2125043SAl Viro help 970d2125043SAl Viro Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 971d2125043SAl Viro 972dfa9771aSMichal Simekconfig CLONE_BACKWARDS3 973dfa9771aSMichal Simek bool 974dfa9771aSMichal Simek help 975dfa9771aSMichal Simek Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 976dfa9771aSMichal Simek not the 5th one. 977dfa9771aSMichal Simek 978eaca6eaeSAl Viroconfig ODD_RT_SIGACTION 979eaca6eaeSAl Viro bool 980eaca6eaeSAl Viro help 981eaca6eaeSAl Viro Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 982eaca6eaeSAl Viro 9830a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND 9840a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 9850a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 9860a0e8cdfSAl Viro Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 9870a0e8cdfSAl Viro 9880a0e8cdfSAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 9890a0e8cdfSAl Viro bool 9900a0e8cdfSAl Viro help 9910a0e8cdfSAl Viro Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 9920a0e8cdfSAl Viro 993495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig OLD_SIGACTION 994495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 995495dfbf7SAl Viro help 996495dfbf7SAl Viro Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 997495dfbf7SAl Viro as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 998495dfbf7SAl Viro but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 999495dfbf7SAl Viro compatibility... 1000495dfbf7SAl Viro 1001495dfbf7SAl Viroconfig COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 1002495dfbf7SAl Viro bool 1003495dfbf7SAl Viro 100417435e5fSDeepa Dinamaniconfig COMPAT_32BIT_TIME 1005942437c9SArnd Bergmann bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t" 1006942437c9SArnd Bergmann default !64BIT || COMPAT 100717435e5fSDeepa Dinamani help 100817435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support. 100917435e5fSDeepa Dinamani This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures 101017435e5fSDeepa Dinamani as part of compat syscall handling. 101117435e5fSDeepa Dinamani 101287a4c375SChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 101387a4c375SChristoph Hellwig bool 101487a4c375SChristoph Hellwig 1015a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixnerconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT 1016a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner bool 1017a50a3f4bSThomas Gleixner 1018fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zengconfig CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 1019fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng def_bool n 1020fff7fb0bSZhaoxiu Zeng 1021ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 1022ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 1023ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski help 1024ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 1025ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski in vmalloc space. This means: 1026ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1027ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 1028ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 1029ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1030ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 1031ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 1032ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 1033ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 1034ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 1035ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 1036ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1037ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 1038ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 1039ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 1040ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1041ba14a194SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VMAP_STACK 1042ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski default y 1043ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 1044eafb149eSDaniel Axtens depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 104538dd767dSAndrey Konovalov depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || KASAN_VMALLOC 1046a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1047ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 1048ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 1049ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 1050ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski corruption. 1051ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 105238dd767dSAndrey Konovalov To use this with software KASAN modes, the architecture must support 105338dd767dSAndrey Konovalov backing virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC 105438dd767dSAndrey Konovalov must be enabled. 1055ba14a194SAndy Lutomirski 1056ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1057ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1058ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1059ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1060ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1061ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1062ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1063ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1064ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 10650f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1066ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1067ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 1068ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1069ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 1070ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 1071ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 1072ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 1073ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott or modifying text) 1074ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1075ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott These features are considered standard security practice these days. 1076ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott You should say Y here in almost all cases. 1077ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1078ad21fc4fSLaura Abbottconfig ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1079ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott def_bool n 1080ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 10810f5bf6d0SLaura Abbottconfig STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1082ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1083ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 1084ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1085ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott help 1086ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 1087ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 1088ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 1089ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott 1090ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig# select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header 1091ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwigconfig ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA 1092ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig bool 1093ea8c64acSChristoph Hellwig 109404f264d3SPaul Burtonconfig HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H 109504f264d3SPaul Burton bool 109604f264d3SPaul Burton help 109704f264d3SPaul Burton An architecture can select this if it provides an 109804f264d3SPaul Burton asm/compiler.h header that should be included after 109904f264d3SPaul Burton linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those 110004f264d3SPaul Burton headers generally provide. 110104f264d3SPaul Burton 1102271ca788SArd Biesheuvelconfig HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS 1103271ca788SArd Biesheuvel bool 1104271ca788SArd Biesheuvel help 1105271ca788SArd Biesheuvel May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative 1106271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader, 1107271ca788SArd Biesheuvel in which case relative references can be used in special sections 1108271ca788SArd Biesheuvel for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit 1109271ca788SArd Biesheuvel architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable 1110271ca788SArd Biesheuvel kernels. 1111271ca788SArd Biesheuvel 1112ce9084baSArd Biesheuvelconfig ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT 1113ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel bool 1114ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel 1115fb346fd9SWaiman Longconfig LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS 1116fb346fd9SWaiman Long bool "Locking event counts collection" 1117fb346fd9SWaiman Long depends on DEBUG_FS 1118a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1119fb346fd9SWaiman Long Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events 1120fb346fd9SWaiman Long in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces 1121fb346fd9SWaiman Long the chance of application behavior change because of timing 1122fb346fd9SWaiman Long differences. The counts are reported via debugfs. 1123fb346fd9SWaiman Long 11245cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne# Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations. 11255cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig ARCH_HAS_RELR 11265cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool 11275cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 11285cf896fbSPeter Collingbourneconfig RELR 11295cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne bool "Use RELR relocation packing" 11305cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR 11315cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne default y 11325cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne help 11335cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing 11345cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as 11355cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy 11365cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne are compatible). 11375cf896fbSPeter Collingbourne 11380c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermannconfig ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT 11390c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann bool 11400c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann 11410e242208SHassan Naveedconfig HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR 11420e242208SHassan Naveed bool 11430e242208SHassan Naveed help 11440e242208SHassan Naveed An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse 11450e242208SHassan Naveed to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with 11460e242208SHassan Naveed entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall 11470e242208SHassan Naveed related optimizations for a given architecture. 11480e242208SHassan Naveed 1149d60d7de3SSven Schnelleconfig ARCH_HAS_VDSO_DATA 1150d60d7de3SSven Schnelle bool 1151d60d7de3SSven Schnelle 1152115284d8SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL 1153115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf bool 1154115284d8SJosh Poimboeuf 11559183c3f9SJosh Poimboeufconfig HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE 11569183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf bool 11579183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 11589183c3f9SJosh Poimboeuf 11596ef869e0SMichal Hockoconfig HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 11606ef869e0SMichal Hocko bool 11616ef869e0SMichal Hocko depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 11626ef869e0SMichal Hocko depends on GENERIC_ENTRY 11636ef869e0SMichal Hocko help 11646ef869e0SMichal Hocko Select this if the architecture support boot time preempt setting 11656ef869e0SMichal Hocko on top of static calls. It is strongly advised to support inline 11666ef869e0SMichal Hocko static call to avoid any overhead. 11676ef869e0SMichal Hocko 116859612b24SNathan Chancellorconfig ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 116959612b24SNathan Chancellor bool 117059612b24SNathan Chancellor help 117159612b24SNathan Chancellor An arch should select this symbol once all linker sections are explicitly 117259612b24SNathan Chancellor included, size-asserted, or discarded in the linker scripts. This is 117359612b24SNathan Chancellor important because we never want expected sections to be placed heuristically 117459612b24SNathan Chancellor by the linker, since the locations of such sections can change between linker 117559612b24SNathan Chancellor versions. 117659612b24SNathan Chancellor 11774f5b0c17SMike Rapoportconfig HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID 11784f5b0c17SMike Rapoport bool 11794f5b0c17SMike Rapoport 11805d6ad668SMike Rapoportconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 11815d6ad668SMike Rapoport bool 11825d6ad668SMike Rapoport 11832ca408d9SBrian Gerstconfig ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64 11842ca408d9SBrian Gerst bool 11852ca408d9SBrian Gerst help 11862ca408d9SBrian Gerst If a 32-bit architecture requires 64-bit arguments to be split into 11872ca408d9SBrian Gerst pairs of 32-bit arguments, select this option. 11882ca408d9SBrian Gerst 11897facdc42SAl Viroconfig ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT 11907facdc42SAl Viro bool 11917facdc42SAl Viro 11922521f2c2SPeter Oberparleitersource "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 119345332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 119445332b1bSMasahiro Yamadasource "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig" 1195fa1b5d09SLinus Torvalds 119622471e13SRandy Dunlapendmenu 1197