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Mathieu Desnoyersfb32e032008-02-02 15:10:33 -05001#
2# General architecture dependent options
3#
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05004
5config OPROFILE
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +01006 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05007 depends on PROFILING
8 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
Ingo Molnard69d59f2008-12-12 09:38:57 +01009 select RING_BUFFER
Christian Borntraeger9a5963e2009-09-16 21:56:49 +020010 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050011 help
12 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
13 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
14 and applications.
15
16 If unsure, say N.
17
Jason Yeh4d4036e2009-07-08 13:49:38 +020018config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
19 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
20 default n
21 depends on OPROFILE && X86
22 help
23 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
24 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
25 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
26 between events at an user specified time interval.
27
28 If unsure, say N.
29
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050030config HAVE_OPROFILE
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -070031 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050032
Robert Richterdcfce4a2011-10-11 17:11:08 +020033config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
34 def_bool y
Anton Blanchardaf9feeb2015-04-09 12:52:55 +100035 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
Robert Richterdcfce4a2011-10-11 17:11:08 +020036
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050037config KPROBES
38 bool "Kprobes"
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090039 depends on MODULES
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050040 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090041 select KALLSYMS
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050042 help
43 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
44 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
45 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
46 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
47 If in doubt, say "N".
48
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040049config JUMP_LABEL
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010050 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040051 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
52 help
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010053 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
54 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
55 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040056
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010057 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
58 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
59 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
60
61 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
62 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
63 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
64 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
65 conditional block of instructions.
66
67 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
68 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
69 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
70
71 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
72 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040073
Peter Zijlstra1987c942015-07-27 18:32:09 +020074config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
75 bool "Static key selftest"
76 depends on JUMP_LABEL
77 help
78 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
79
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050080config OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu5cc718b2010-03-15 13:00:54 -040081 def_bool y
82 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050083 depends on !PREEMPT
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050084
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +090085config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
86 def_bool y
87 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
88 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
89 help
90 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
91 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
92 optimize on top of function tracing.
93
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053094config UPROBES
David A. Long09294e32014-03-07 10:32:22 -050095 def_bool n
Oleg Nesterov22b361d2012-12-17 16:01:39 -080096 select PERCPU_RWSEM
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053097 help
Ingo Molnar7b2d81d2012-02-17 09:27:41 +010098 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
99 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
100 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
101 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
102 are hit by user-space applications.
103
104 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
105 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
106 application. )
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +0530107
James Hoganc19fa942012-05-30 11:23:23 +0100108config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
109 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
110 help
111 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
112 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
113 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
114 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
115 architectures without unaligned access.
116
117 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
118 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
119 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
120
121 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
122 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
123
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700124config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700125 bool
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700126 help
127 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
128 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
129 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
130 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
131 handler.)
132
133 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
134 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
135 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
136 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
137 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
138 much.
139
140 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
141 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
142
David Woodhousecf66bb92012-12-03 16:25:40 +0000143config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
144 bool
145 help
146 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
147 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
148 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
149 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
150 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
151 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
152 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
153 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
154 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
155 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
156 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
157
158 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
159 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
160 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
161
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800162config KRETPROBES
163 def_bool y
164 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
165
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300166config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
167 bool
168 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
169 help
170 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
171 switch to user mode.
172
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700173config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700174 bool
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700175
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500176config HAVE_KPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700177 bool
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800178
179config HAVE_KRETPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700180 bool
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700181
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500182config HAVE_OPTPROBES
183 bool
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700184
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +0900185config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
186 bool
187
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700188config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
189 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700190#
191# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
192#
193# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
194# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
195# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700196# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
197# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
198# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
199# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
200# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
201# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
202#
203config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700204 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700205
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700206config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700207 bool
Jens Axboe3d442232008-06-26 11:21:34 +0200208
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100209config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
210 bool
211
Thomas Gleixner29d5e042012-04-20 13:05:45 +0000212config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
213 bool
214
Kevin Hilman485cf5d2013-04-24 17:19:13 -0700215config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
216 bool
217
Thomas Gleixnera6359d12012-05-03 09:03:02 +0000218# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
219config ARCH_INIT_TASK
Thomas Gleixnera4a2eb42012-05-03 09:02:48 +0000220 bool
221
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000222# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
223config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
224 bool
225
226# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
227config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
228 bool
229
Ingo Molnar5aaeb5c2015-07-17 12:28:12 +0200230# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
231config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
232 bool
233
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100234config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
235 bool
Heiko Carstense01292b2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100236 help
237 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
238 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
239 declared in asm/ptrace.h
240 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100241
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700242config HAVE_CLK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700243 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700244 help
245 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
246 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
247
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100248config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
249 bool
Heiko Carstens36cd3c92009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200250
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530251config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
252 bool
Frederic Weisbecker99e8c5a2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100253 depends on PERF_EVENTS
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530254
Frederic Weisbecker01027522010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200255config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
256 bool
257 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
258 help
259 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
260 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
261 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
262 them but define the access type in a control register.
263 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
264 latter fashion.
265
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300266config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
267 bool
Ingo Molnara1922ed2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200268
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200269config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
270 bool
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200271 help
272 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
273 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
274 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200275
Jiri Olsac5e63192012-08-07 15:20:36 +0200276config HAVE_PERF_REGS
277 bool
278 help
279 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
280 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
281
Jiri Olsac5ebced2012-08-07 15:20:40 +0200282config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
283 bool
284 help
285 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
286 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
287 architectures.
288
Jason Baronbf5438fc2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400289config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
290 bool
291
Peter Zijlstra26723912011-05-24 17:12:00 -0700292config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
293 bool
294
Huang Yingdf013ff2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800295config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
296 bool
297
Heiko Carstens43570fd2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800298config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
299 bool
300 help
301 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
302 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
303 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
304 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
305
Heiko Carstens41561532012-01-12 17:17:30 -0800306config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
307 bool
308
Heiko Carstens25654092012-01-12 17:17:33 -0800309config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
310 bool
311
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700312config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
313 bool
314
315config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
316 bool
317
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400318config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700319 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400320 bool
321
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500322config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
323 bool
324 help
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500325 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
Will Drewrybb6ea432012-04-12 16:48:01 -0500326 - syscall_get_arch()
327 - syscall_get_arguments()
328 - syscall_rollback()
329 - syscall_set_return_value()
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500330 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
331 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
332 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
333 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
Kees Cook48dc92b2014-06-25 16:08:24 -0700334 - seccomp syscall wired up
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500335
Andy Lutomirskiff27f382014-07-21 18:49:17 -0700336 For best performance, an arch should use seccomp_phase1 and
337 seccomp_phase2 directly. It should call seccomp_phase1 for all
338 syscalls if TIF_SECCOMP is set, but seccomp_phase1 does not
339 need to be called from a ptrace-safe context. It must then
340 call seccomp_phase2 if seccomp_phase1 returns anything other
341 than SECCOMP_PHASE1_OK or SECCOMP_PHASE1_SKIP.
342
343 As an additional optimization, an arch may provide seccomp_data
344 directly to seccomp_phase1; this avoids multiple calls
345 to the syscall_xyz helpers for every syscall.
346
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500347config SECCOMP_FILTER
348 def_bool y
349 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
350 help
351 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
352 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
353 task-defined system call filtering polices.
354
355 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
356
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800357config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
358 bool
359 help
360 An arch should select this symbol if:
361 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
362 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
363
364config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800365 def_bool n
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800366 help
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800367 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
368 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
369
370choice
371 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
372 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
373 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
374 help
375 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800376 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
377 the stack just before the return address, and validates
378 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
379 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
380 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
381 neutralized via a kernel panic.
382
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800383config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
384 bool "None"
385 help
386 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
387
388config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
389 bool "Regular"
390 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
391 help
392 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
393 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
394
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800395 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800396 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
397
398 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
399 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
400 by about 0.3%.
401
402config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
403 bool "Strong"
404 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
405 help
406 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
407 of the following conditions:
408
409 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
410 assignment or function argument
411 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
412 regardless of array type or length
413 - uses register local variables
414
415 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
416 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
417
418 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
419 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
420 size by about 2%.
421
422endchoice
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800423
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100424config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200425 bool
426 help
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100427 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
428 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
429 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
430 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
431 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
432 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
433 irq exit still need to be protected.
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200434
Frederic Weisbeckerb9527412012-06-16 15:39:34 +0200435config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
436 bool
437
Kevin Hilman554b0002013-09-16 15:28:21 -0700438config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
439 bool
440 default y if 64BIT
441 help
442 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
443 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
444 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
445 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
446 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
447 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
448
449
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200450config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
451 bool
452 help
453 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
454 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
455
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700456config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
457 bool
458
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -0700459config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
460 bool
461
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700462config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
463 bool
464
David Howells786d35d2012-09-28 14:31:03 +0930465config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
466 bool
467 help
468 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
469 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
470 should not enable this.
471
472config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
473 bool
474 help
475 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
476 relocations will give an error.
477
478config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
479 bool
480 help
481 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
482 relocations will give an error.
483
Rusty Russellb92021b2013-03-15 15:04:17 +1030484config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
485 bool
486 help
487 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
488 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
489
Frederic Weisbeckercc1f0272013-09-24 17:17:47 +0200490config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
491 bool
492 help
493 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
494 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
495 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
496 in the end of an hardirq.
497 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
498 processing.
499
Kirill A. Shutemov235a8f02015-04-14 15:46:17 -0700500config PGTABLE_LEVELS
501 int
502 default 2
503
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700504config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
505 bool
506 help
507 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
508 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
509 - arch_mmap_rnd()
Kees Cook204db6e2015-04-14 15:48:12 -0700510 - arch_randomize_brk()
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700511
Josh Triplett3033f14a2015-06-25 15:01:19 -0700512config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
513 bool
514 help
515 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
516 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
517 argument from pt_regs.
518
Al Virod2125042012-10-23 13:17:59 -0400519#
520# ABI hall of shame
521#
522config CLONE_BACKWARDS
523 bool
524 help
525 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
526 not the 5th one.
527
528config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
529 bool
530 help
531 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
532
Michal Simekdfa97712013-08-13 16:00:53 -0700533config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
534 bool
535 help
536 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
537 not the 5th one.
538
Al Viroeaca6ea2012-11-25 23:12:10 -0500539config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
540 bool
541 help
542 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
543
Al Viro0a0e8cd2012-12-25 16:04:12 -0500544config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
545 bool
546 help
547 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
548
549config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
550 bool
551 help
552 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
553
Al Viro495dfbf2012-12-25 19:09:45 -0500554config OLD_SIGACTION
555 bool
556 help
557 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
558 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
559 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
560 compatibility...
561
562config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
563 bool
564
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700565source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"