1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2# 3# General architecture dependent options 4# 5 6config CRASH_CORE 7 bool 8 9config KEXEC_CORE 10 select CRASH_CORE 11 bool 12 13config HAVE_IMA_KEXEC 14 bool 15 16config HOTPLUG_SMT 17 bool 18 19config OPROFILE 20 tristate "OProfile system profiling" 21 depends on PROFILING 22 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE 23 select RING_BUFFER 24 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 25 help 26 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the 27 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, 28 and applications. 29 30 If unsure, say N. 31 32config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX 33 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 34 default n 35 depends on OPROFILE && X86 36 help 37 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing 38 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters 39 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching 40 between events at a user specified time interval. 41 42 If unsure, say N. 43 44config HAVE_OPROFILE 45 bool 46 47config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER 48 def_bool y 49 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64 50 51config KPROBES 52 bool "Kprobes" 53 depends on MODULES 54 depends on HAVE_KPROBES 55 select KALLSYMS 56 help 57 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and 58 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes 59 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful 60 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. 61 If in doubt, say "N". 62 63config JUMP_LABEL 64 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" 65 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 66 help 67 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that 68 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch 69 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. 70 71 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, 72 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such 73 branches and include support for this optimization technique. 74 75 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", 76 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop 77 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the 78 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the 79 conditional block of instructions. 80 81 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction 82 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update 83 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. 84 85 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler 86 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) 87 88config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST 89 bool "Static key selftest" 90 depends on JUMP_LABEL 91 help 92 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. 93 94config OPTPROBES 95 def_bool y 96 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES 97 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPT 98 99config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 100 def_bool y 101 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 102 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 103 help 104 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full 105 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can 106 optimize on top of function tracing. 107 108config UPROBES 109 def_bool n 110 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 111 help 112 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they 113 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') 114 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and 115 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes 116 are hit by user-space applications. 117 118 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, 119 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed 120 application. ) 121 122config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS 123 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 124 help 125 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit 126 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values 127 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit 128 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit 129 architectures without unaligned access. 130 131 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit 132 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even 133 though it is not a 64 bit architecture. 134 135 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more 136 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 137 138config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 139 bool 140 help 141 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses 142 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are 143 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on 144 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception 145 handler.) 146 147 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can 148 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different 149 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network 150 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment 151 problems with received packets if doing so would not help 152 much. 153 154 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more 155 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. 156 157config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 158 bool 159 help 160 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions 161 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old 162 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the 163 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's 164 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In 165 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap 166 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or 167 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It 168 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the 169 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it 170 does, the use of the builtins is optional. 171 172 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap 173 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it 174 on architectures that don't have such instructions. 175 176config KRETPROBES 177 def_bool y 178 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES 179 180config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 181 bool 182 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 183 help 184 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to 185 switch to user mode. 186 187config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 188 bool 189 190config HAVE_KPROBES 191 bool 192 193config HAVE_KRETPROBES 194 bool 195 196config HAVE_OPTPROBES 197 bool 198 199config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 200 bool 201 202config HAVE_NMI 203 bool 204 205# 206# An arch should select this if it provides all these things: 207# 208# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h 209# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support 210# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support 211# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface 212# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces 213# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h 214# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} 215# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume() 216# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler() 217# 218config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 219 bool 220 221config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 222 bool 223 224config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 225 bool 226 227config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 228 bool 229 230config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 231 bool 232 help 233 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 234 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. 235 236# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h 237config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 238 bool 239 240# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c 241config ARCH_INIT_TASK 242 bool 243 244# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function 245config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR 246 bool 247 248# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function 249config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR 250 bool 251 252# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: 253config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 254 bool 255 256config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 257 bool 258 help 259 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports 260 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, 261 declared in asm/ptrace.h 262 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. 263 264config HAVE_CLK 265 bool 266 help 267 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and 268 thus are a key power management tool on many systems. 269 270config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 271 bool 272 273config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 274 bool 275 depends on PERF_EVENTS 276 277config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 278 bool 279 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 280 help 281 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, 282 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction 283 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store 284 them but define the access type in a control register. 285 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the 286 latter fashion. 287 288config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 289 bool 290 291config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 292 bool 293 help 294 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event 295 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events 296 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. 297 298config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 299 bool 300 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 301 help 302 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup 303 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. 304 305config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 306 depends on HAVE_NMI 307 bool 308 help 309 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides 310 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(). 311 312config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 313 bool 314 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 315 help 316 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is 317 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config 318 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem. 319 320config HAVE_PERF_REGS 321 bool 322 help 323 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes 324 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. 325 326config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 327 bool 328 help 329 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs 330 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across 331 architectures. 332 333config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 334 bool 335 336config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE 337 bool 338 339config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE 340 bool 341 342config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 343 bool 344 345config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 346 bool 347 help 348 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that 349 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations 350 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this 351 might increase the size of a struct page by a word. 352 353config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 354 bool 355 356config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 357 bool 358 359config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE 360 bool 361 362config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 363 bool 364 365config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 366 bool 367 368config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 369 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 370 bool 371 372config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 373 bool 374 help 375 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: 376 - syscall_get_arch() 377 - syscall_get_arguments() 378 - syscall_rollback() 379 - syscall_set_return_value() 380 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support 381 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context 382 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 383 results in the system call being skipped immediately. 384 - seccomp syscall wired up 385 386config SECCOMP_FILTER 387 def_bool y 388 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET 389 help 390 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined 391 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement 392 task-defined system call filtering polices. 393 394 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. 395 396config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 397 bool 398 help 399 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with 400 GCC plugins. 401 402menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS 403 bool "GCC plugins" 404 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 405 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 406 help 407 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the 408 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. 409 410 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details. 411 412config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY 413 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT 414 depends on GCC_PLUGINS 415 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 416 help 417 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as: 418 M = E - N + 2P 419 where 420 421 E = the number of edges 422 N = the number of nodes 423 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes). 424 425 Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the 426 build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a 427 gcc plugin for the kernel. 428 429config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV 430 bool 431 depends on GCC_PLUGINS 432 help 433 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of 434 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from 435 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support" 436 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>. 437 438config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 439 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime" 440 depends on GCC_PLUGINS 441 help 442 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to 443 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created 444 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where 445 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost 446 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and 447 irq processing. 448 449 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically 450 secure! 451 452 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 453 * https://grsecurity.net/ 454 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 455 456config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 457 bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses" 458 depends on GCC_PLUGINS 459 help 460 This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a 461 __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information 462 exposures. 463 464 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 465 * https://grsecurity.net/ 466 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 467 468config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL 469 bool "Force initialize all struct type variables passed by reference" 470 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 471 help 472 Zero initialize any struct type local variable that may be passed by 473 reference without having been initialized. 474 475config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE 476 bool "Report forcefully initialized variables" 477 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 478 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 479 help 480 This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the 481 structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be 482 initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected 483 by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings. 484 485config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 486 bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures" 487 depends on GCC_PLUGINS 488 select MODVERSIONS if MODULES 489 help 490 If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely 491 function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with 492 __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly 493 marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time. 494 This can introduce the requirement of an additional information 495 exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure 496 types. 497 498 Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact, 499 slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic 500 tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel 501 source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation). 502 503 The seed used for compilation is located at 504 scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after 505 a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with 506 the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or 507 make distclean. 508 509 Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer. 510 511 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: 512 * https://grsecurity.net/ 513 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ 514 515config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE 516 bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization" 517 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT 518 depends on !COMPILE_TEST 519 help 520 If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a 521 best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized 522 groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields 523 in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT 524 at the cost of weakened randomization. 525 526config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 527 bool 528 help 529 An arch should select this symbol if: 530 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option 531 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) 532 533config CC_STACKPROTECTOR 534 def_bool n 535 help 536 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build 537 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature. 538 539choice 540 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" 541 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 542 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 543 help 544 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This 545 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 546 the stack just before the return address, and validates 547 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 548 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 549 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 550 neutralized via a kernel panic. 551 552config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE 553 bool "None" 554 help 555 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature. 556 557config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR 558 bool "Regular" 559 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR 560 help 561 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they 562 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. 563 564 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 565 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). 566 567 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 568 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size 569 by about 0.3%. 570 571config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 572 bool "Strong" 573 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR 574 help 575 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any 576 of the following conditions: 577 578 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an 579 assignment or function argument 580 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), 581 regardless of array type or length 582 - uses register local variables 583 584 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution 585 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). 586 587 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to 588 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code 589 size by about 2%. 590 591endchoice 592 593config THIN_ARCHIVES 594 def_bool y 595 help 596 Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives 597 instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files. 598 599config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 600 bool 601 help 602 Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and 603 data elimination with the linker by compiling with 604 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with 605 --gc-sections. 606 607 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects 608 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts 609 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into 610 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated 611 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names 612 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. 613 614config LTO 615 def_bool n 616 617config ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 618 bool 619 help 620 An architecture should select this option it supports: 621 - compiling with clang, 622 - compiling inline assembly with clang's integrated assembler, 623 - and linking with either lld or GNU gold w/ LLVMgold. 624 625choice 626 prompt "Link-Time Optimization (LTO) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 627 default LTO_NONE 628 help 629 This option turns on Link-Time Optimization (LTO). 630 631config LTO_NONE 632 bool "None" 633 634config LTO_CLANG 635 bool "Use clang Link Time Optimization (LTO) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 636 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 637 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD || HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 638 depends on !KASAN 639 select LTO 640 select THIN_ARCHIVES 641 select LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 642 help 643 This option enables clang's Link Time Optimization (LTO), which allows 644 the compiler to optimize the kernel globally at link time. If you 645 enable this option, the compiler generates LLVM IR instead of object 646 files, and the actual compilation from IR occurs at the LTO link step, 647 which may take several minutes. 648 649 If you select this option, you must compile the kernel with clang >= 650 5.0 (make CC=clang) and GNU gold from binutils >= 2.27, and have the 651 LLVMgold plug-in in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. 652 653endchoice 654 655config CFI 656 bool 657 658config CFI_PERMISSIVE 659 bool "Use CFI in permissive mode" 660 depends on CFI 661 help 662 When selected, Control Flow Integrity (CFI) violations result in a 663 warning instead of a kernel panic. This option is useful for finding 664 CFI violations in drivers during development. 665 666config CFI_CLANG 667 bool "Use clang Control Flow Integrity (CFI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 668 depends on LTO_CLANG 669 depends on KALLSYMS 670 select CFI 671 help 672 This option enables clang Control Flow Integrity (CFI), which adds 673 runtime checking for indirect function calls. 674 675config CFI_CLANG_SHADOW 676 bool "Use CFI shadow to speed up cross-module checks" 677 default y 678 depends on CFI_CLANG 679 help 680 If you select this option, the kernel builds a fast look-up table of 681 CFI check functions in loaded modules to reduce overhead. 682 683config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 684 bool 685 help 686 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack 687 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments 688 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, 689 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), 690 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 691 692config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 693 bool 694 help 695 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems 696 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. 697 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through 698 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be 699 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside 700 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on 701 irq exit still need to be protected. 702 703config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING 704 bool 705 706config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME 707 bool 708 709config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN 710 bool 711 default y if 64BIT 712 help 713 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. 714 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited 715 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of 716 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on 717 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper 718 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. 719 720 721config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 722 bool 723 help 724 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to 725 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). 726 727config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 728 bool 729 730config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 731 bool 732 733config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP 734 bool 735 736config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 737 bool 738 739config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 740 bool 741 help 742 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches 743 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those 744 should not enable this. 745 746config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 747 bool 748 help 749 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL 750 relocations will give an error. 751 752config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 753 bool 754 help 755 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA 756 relocations will give an error. 757 758config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX 759 bool 760 help 761 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like 762 module loading and assembly files need to know about this. 763 764config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK 765 bool 766 help 767 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack 768 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq 769 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() 770 in the end of an hardirq. 771 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq 772 processing. 773 774config PGTABLE_LEVELS 775 int 776 default 2 777 778config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 779 bool 780 help 781 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for 782 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: 783 - arch_mmap_rnd() 784 - arch_randomize_brk() 785 786config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 787 bool 788 help 789 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable 790 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap 791 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: 792 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 793 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 794 795config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 796 bool 797 help 798 An architecture implements exit_thread. 799 800config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 801 int 802 803config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 804 int 805 806config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 807 int 808 809config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 810 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT 811 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 812 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT 813 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 814 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 815 help 816 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 817 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 818 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded 819 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. 820 821 This value can be changed after boot using the 822 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable 823 824config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 825 bool 826 help 827 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications 828 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for 829 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU 830 enabled and provides values for both: 831 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 832 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 833 834config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 835 int 836 837config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 838 int 839 840config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 841 int 842 843config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 844 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT 845 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 846 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT 847 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 848 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS 849 help 850 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to 851 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions 852 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This 853 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum 854 supported values. 855 856 This value can be changed after boot using the 857 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable 858 859config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES 860 bool 861 help 862 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall 863 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). 864 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. 865 866config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS 867 bool 868 help 869 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via 870 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall 871 argument from pt_regs. 872 873config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 874 bool 875 help 876 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which 877 performs compile-time stack metadata validation. 878 879config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE 880 bool 881 help 882 Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which 883 only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. 884 885config HAVE_ARCH_HASH 886 bool 887 default n 888 help 889 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> 890 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some 891 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. 892 893config ISA_BUS_API 894 def_bool ISA 895 896# 897# ABI hall of shame 898# 899config CLONE_BACKWARDS 900 bool 901 help 902 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), 903 not the 5th one. 904 905config CLONE_BACKWARDS2 906 bool 907 help 908 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. 909 910config CLONE_BACKWARDS3 911 bool 912 help 913 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), 914 not the 5th one. 915 916config ODD_RT_SIGACTION 917 bool 918 help 919 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments 920 921config OLD_SIGSUSPEND 922 bool 923 help 924 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety 925 926config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 927 bool 928 help 929 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) 930 931config OLD_SIGACTION 932 bool 933 help 934 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same 935 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), 936 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 937 compatibility... 938 939config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 940 bool 941 942config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP 943 bool 944 945config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS 946 def_bool n 947 948config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK 949 def_bool n 950 help 951 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks 952 in vmalloc space. This means: 953 954 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. 955 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. 956 957 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if 958 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism 959 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with 960 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), 961 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries 962 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. 963 964 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable 965 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but 966 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. 967 968config VMAP_STACK 969 default y 970 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" 971 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN 972 ---help--- 973 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks 974 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be 975 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose 976 corruption. 977 978 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects 979 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula 980 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space. 981 982config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 983 def_bool n 984 985config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 986 def_bool n 987 988config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 989 def_bool n 990 991config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 992 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 993 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 994 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 995 help 996 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 997 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 998 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap 999 or modifying text) 1000 1001 These features are considered standard security practice these days. 1002 You should say Y here in almost all cases. 1003 1004config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1005 def_bool n 1006 1007config STRICT_MODULE_RWX 1008 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX 1009 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES 1010 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT 1011 help 1012 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, 1013 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides 1014 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) 1015 1016config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT 1017 bool 1018 help 1019 An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t 1020 using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized 1021 refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full 1022 refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y. 1023 1024 The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained. 1025 Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting 1026 against bugs in reference counts. 1027 1028config REFCOUNT_FULL 1029 bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed" 1030 help 1031 Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast 1032 unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked 1033 implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections 1034 against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in 1035 security flaw exploits. 1036 1037config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H 1038 bool 1039 help 1040 An architecture can select this if it provides an 1041 asm/compiler.h header that should be included after 1042 linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those 1043 headers generally provide. 1044 1045source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" 1046