1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 245332b1bSMasahiro Yamadaconfig HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 345332b1bSMasahiro Yamada bool 445332b1bSMasahiro Yamada help 545332b1bSMasahiro Yamada An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with 645332b1bSMasahiro Yamada GCC plugins. 745332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 8a5b0dc5aSArnd Bergmannmenuconfig GCC_PLUGINS 9a5b0dc5aSArnd Bergmann bool "GCC plugins" 1045332b1bSMasahiro Yamada depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 115429ef62SWill Deacon depends on CC_IS_GCC 12*1e860048SMasahiro Yamada depends on $(success,test -e $(shell,$(CC) -print-file-name=plugin)/include/plugin-version.h) 139f671e58SKees Cook default y 1445332b1bSMasahiro Yamada help 1545332b1bSMasahiro Yamada GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the 1645332b1bSMasahiro Yamada compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. 1745332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 182b4cbd5cSJonathan Corbet See Documentation/kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst for details. 1945332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 20a5b0dc5aSArnd Bergmannif GCC_PLUGINS 2145332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 2245332b1bSMasahiro Yamadaconfig GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 2345332b1bSMasahiro Yamada bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime" 2445332b1bSMasahiro Yamada help 2545332b1bSMasahiro Yamada By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to 2645332b1bSMasahiro Yamada extract some entropy from both original and artificially created 2745332b1bSMasahiro Yamada program state. This will help especially embedded systems where 2845332b1bSMasahiro Yamada there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost 2945332b1bSMasahiro Yamada is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and 3045332b1bSMasahiro Yamada irq processing. 3145332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 3245332b1bSMasahiro Yamada Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically 3345332b1bSMasahiro Yamada secure! 3445332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 3545332b1bSMasahiro Yamada This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 3645332b1bSMasahiro Yamada * https://grsecurity.net/ 3745332b1bSMasahiro Yamada * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 3845332b1bSMasahiro Yamada 39a5b0dc5aSArnd Bergmannendif 40