| Mathieu Desnoyers | fb32e03 | 2008-02-02 15:10:33 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # | 
 | 2 | # General architecture dependent options | 
 | 3 | # | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 4 |  | 
| Dave Young | 2965faa | 2015-09-09 15:38:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | config KEXEC_CORE | 
 | 6 | 	bool | 
 | 7 |  | 
| Thiago Jung Bauermann | 467d278 | 2016-12-19 16:22:32 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | config HAVE_IMA_KEXEC | 
 | 9 | 	bool | 
 | 10 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | config OPROFILE | 
| Robert Richter | b309a29 | 2010-02-26 15:01:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | 	tristate "OProfile system profiling" | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | 	depends on PROFILING | 
 | 14 | 	depends on HAVE_OPROFILE | 
| Ingo Molnar | d69d59f | 2008-12-12 09:38:57 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | 	select RING_BUFFER | 
| Christian Borntraeger | 9a5963e | 2009-09-16 21:56:49 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | 	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | 	help | 
 | 18 | 	  OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the | 
 | 19 | 	  whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, | 
 | 20 | 	  and applications. | 
 | 21 |  | 
 | 22 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 23 |  | 
| Jason Yeh | 4d4036e | 2009-07-08 13:49:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX | 
 | 25 | 	bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
 | 26 | 	default n | 
 | 27 | 	depends on OPROFILE && X86 | 
 | 28 | 	help | 
 | 29 | 	  The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing | 
 | 30 | 	  feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters | 
 | 31 | 	  are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching | 
 | 32 | 	  between events at an user specified time interval. | 
 | 33 |  | 
 | 34 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 35 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | config HAVE_OPROFILE | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | 	bool | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 38 |  | 
| Robert Richter | dcfce4a | 2011-10-11 17:11:08 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER | 
 | 40 | 	def_bool y | 
| Anton Blanchard | af9feeb | 2015-04-09 12:52:55 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | 	depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64 | 
| Robert Richter | dcfce4a | 2011-10-11 17:11:08 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 42 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | config KPROBES | 
 | 44 | 	bool "Kprobes" | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | 05ed160 | 2010-09-13 19:25:41 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | 	depends on MODULES | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | 	depends on HAVE_KPROBES | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | 05ed160 | 2010-09-13 19:25:41 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | 	select KALLSYMS | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | 	help | 
 | 49 | 	  Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and | 
 | 50 | 	  execute a callback function.  register_kprobe() establishes | 
 | 51 | 	  a probepoint and specifies the callback.  Kprobes is useful | 
 | 52 | 	  for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. | 
 | 53 | 	  If in doubt, say "N". | 
 | 54 |  | 
| Steven Rostedt | 45f81b1 | 2010-10-29 12:33:43 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | config JUMP_LABEL | 
| Ingo Molnar | c5905af | 2012-02-24 08:31:31 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 56 |        bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" | 
| Steven Rostedt | 45f81b1 | 2010-10-29 12:33:43 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 57 |        depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL | 
 | 58 |        help | 
| Ingo Molnar | c5905af | 2012-02-24 08:31:31 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 59 |          This option enables a transparent branch optimization that | 
 | 60 | 	 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch | 
 | 61 | 	 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. | 
| Steven Rostedt | 45f81b1 | 2010-10-29 12:33:43 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 62 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | c5905af | 2012-02-24 08:31:31 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | 	 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, | 
 | 64 | 	 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such | 
 | 65 | 	 branches and include support for this optimization technique. | 
 | 66 |  | 
 | 67 |          If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", | 
 | 68 | 	 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop | 
 | 69 | 	 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the | 
 | 70 | 	 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the | 
 | 71 | 	 conditional block of instructions. | 
 | 72 |  | 
 | 73 | 	 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction | 
 | 74 | 	 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update | 
 | 75 | 	 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. | 
 | 76 |  | 
 | 77 | 	 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler | 
 | 78 | 	   flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) | 
| Steven Rostedt | 45f81b1 | 2010-10-29 12:33:43 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 79 |  | 
| Peter Zijlstra | 1987c94 | 2015-07-27 18:32:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST | 
 | 81 | 	bool "Static key selftest" | 
 | 82 | 	depends on JUMP_LABEL | 
 | 83 | 	help | 
 | 84 | 	  Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. | 
 | 85 |  | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | config OPTPROBES | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | 5cc718b | 2010-03-15 13:00:54 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 88 | 	depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | 	depends on !PREEMPT | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 90 |  | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | e7dbfe3 | 2012-09-28 17:15:20 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | 
 | 92 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 93 | 	depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | 
 | 94 | 	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS | 
 | 95 | 	help | 
 | 96 | 	 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full | 
 | 97 | 	 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can | 
 | 98 | 	 optimize on top of function tracing. | 
 | 99 |  | 
| Srikar Dronamraju | 2b14449 | 2012-02-09 14:56:42 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | config UPROBES | 
| David A. Long | 09294e3 | 2014-03-07 10:32:22 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | 	def_bool n | 
| Allen Pais | e8f4aa6 | 2016-10-13 10:06:13 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | 	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES | 
| Srikar Dronamraju | 2b14449 | 2012-02-09 14:56:42 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | 	help | 
| Ingo Molnar | 7b2d81d | 2012-02-17 09:27:41 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | 	  Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they | 
 | 105 | 	  enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') | 
 | 106 | 	  to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and | 
 | 107 | 	  libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes | 
 | 108 | 	  are hit by user-space applications. | 
 | 109 |  | 
 | 110 | 	  ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, | 
 | 111 | 	    managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed | 
 | 112 | 	    application. ) | 
| Srikar Dronamraju | 2b14449 | 2012-02-09 14:56:42 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 113 |  | 
| James Hogan | c19fa94 | 2012-05-30 11:23:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS | 
 | 115 | 	def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS | 
 | 116 | 	help | 
 | 117 | 	  Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit | 
 | 118 | 	  aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values | 
 | 119 | 	  to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit | 
 | 120 | 	  architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit | 
 | 121 | 	  architectures without unaligned access. | 
 | 122 |  | 
 | 123 | 	  This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit | 
 | 124 | 	  accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even | 
 | 125 | 	  though it is not a 64 bit architecture. | 
 | 126 |  | 
 | 127 | 	  See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | 
 | 128 | 	  information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | 
 | 129 |  | 
| Johannes Berg | 58340a0 | 2008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | 	bool | 
| Johannes Berg | 58340a0 | 2008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | 	help | 
 | 133 | 	  Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses | 
 | 134 | 	  without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are | 
 | 135 | 	  unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on | 
 | 136 | 	  unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception | 
 | 137 | 	  handler.) | 
 | 138 |  | 
 | 139 | 	  This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can | 
 | 140 | 	  perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different | 
 | 141 | 	  code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network | 
 | 142 | 	  drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment | 
 | 143 | 	  problems with received packets if doing so would not help | 
 | 144 | 	  much. | 
 | 145 |  | 
 | 146 | 	  See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | 
 | 147 | 	  information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | 
 | 148 |  | 
| David Woodhouse | cf66bb9 | 2012-12-03 16:25:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 149 | config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP | 
 | 150 |        bool | 
 | 151 |        help | 
 | 152 | 	 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions | 
 | 153 | 	 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old | 
 | 154 | 	 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the | 
 | 155 | 	 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's | 
 | 156 | 	 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In | 
 | 157 | 	 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap | 
 | 158 | 	 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or | 
 | 159 | 	 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It | 
 | 160 | 	 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the | 
 | 161 | 	 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>.  But just in case it | 
 | 162 | 	 does, the use of the builtins is optional. | 
 | 163 |  | 
 | 164 | 	 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap | 
 | 165 | 	 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it | 
 | 166 | 	 on architectures that don't have such instructions. | 
 | 167 |  | 
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli | 9edddaa | 2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | config KRETPROBES | 
 | 169 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 170 | 	depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES | 
 | 171 |  | 
| Avi Kivity | 7c68af6 | 2009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
 | 173 | 	bool | 
 | 174 | 	depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
 | 175 | 	help | 
 | 176 | 	  Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to | 
 | 177 | 	  switch to user mode. | 
 | 178 |  | 
| Rik van Riel | 28b2ee2 | 2008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 179 | config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 180 | 	bool | 
| Rik van Riel | 28b2ee2 | 2008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 181 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 125e564 | 2008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 182 | config HAVE_KPROBES | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 183 | 	bool | 
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli | 9edddaa | 2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 184 |  | 
 | 185 | config HAVE_KRETPROBES | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 186 | 	bool | 
| Arthur Kepner | 74bc7ce | 2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 187 |  | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | afd6625 | 2010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 188 | config HAVE_OPTPROBES | 
 | 189 | 	bool | 
| Cong Wang | d314d74 | 2012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 190 |  | 
| Masami Hiramatsu | e7dbfe3 | 2012-09-28 17:15:20 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | 
 | 192 | 	bool | 
 | 193 |  | 
| Petr Mladek | 42a0bb3 | 2016-05-20 17:00:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | config HAVE_NMI | 
 | 195 | 	bool | 
 | 196 |  | 
| Cong Wang | d314d74 | 2012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG | 
| Petr Mladek | 42a0bb3 | 2016-05-20 17:00:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | 	depends on HAVE_NMI | 
| Cong Wang | d314d74 | 2012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | 	bool | 
| Roland McGrath | 1f5a4ad | 2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | # | 
 | 201 | # An arch should select this if it provides all these things: | 
 | 202 | # | 
 | 203 | #	task_pt_regs()		in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h | 
 | 204 | #	arch_has_single_step()	if there is hardware single-step support | 
 | 205 | #	arch_has_block_step()	if there is hardware block-step support | 
| Roland McGrath | 1f5a4ad | 2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 206 | #	asm/syscall.h		supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface | 
 | 207 | #	linux/regset.h		user_regset interfaces | 
 | 208 | #	CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET	#define'd in linux/elf.h | 
 | 209 | #	TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE	calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} | 
 | 210 | #	TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME	calls tracehook_notify_resume() | 
 | 211 | #	signal delivery		calls tracehook_signal_handler() | 
 | 212 | # | 
 | 213 | config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 214 | 	bool | 
| Roland McGrath | 1f5a4ad | 2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 215 |  | 
| Marek Szyprowski | c64be2b | 2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS | 
 | 217 | 	bool | 
 | 218 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 29d5e04 | 2012-04-20 13:05:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 219 | config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD | 
 | 220 |        bool | 
 | 221 |  | 
| Kevin Hilman | 485cf5d | 2013-04-24 17:19:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP | 
 | 223 |        bool | 
 | 224 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | a6359d1 | 2012-05-03 09:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 225 | # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c | 
 | 226 | config ARCH_INIT_TASK | 
| Thomas Gleixner | a4a2eb4 | 2012-05-03 09:02:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 227 |        bool | 
 | 228 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | f5e1028 | 2012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function | 
 | 230 | config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR | 
 | 231 | 	bool | 
 | 232 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | b235bee | 2016-06-24 15:09:37 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 233 | # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function | 
 | 234 | config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR | 
| Thomas Gleixner | f5e1028 | 2012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 235 | 	bool | 
 | 236 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 5aaeb5c | 2015-07-17 12:28:12 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 237 | # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: | 
 | 238 | config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT | 
 | 239 | 	bool | 
 | 240 |  | 
| Heiko Carstens | f850c30c | 2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 241 | config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API | 
 | 242 | 	bool | 
| Heiko Carstens | e01292b | 2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 243 | 	help | 
 | 244 | 	  This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports | 
 | 245 | 	  the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, | 
 | 246 | 	  declared in asm/ptrace.h | 
 | 247 | 	  For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. | 
| Heiko Carstens | f850c30c | 2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 248 |  | 
| David Brownell | 9483a57 | 2008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | config HAVE_CLK | 
| Jan Beulich | 9ba1608 | 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 250 | 	bool | 
| David Brownell | 9483a57 | 2008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 251 | 	help | 
 | 252 | 	  The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and | 
 | 253 | 	  thus are a key power management tool on many systems. | 
 | 254 |  | 
| Joerg Roedel | 5ee00bd | 2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 255 | config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG | 
 | 256 | 	bool | 
| Heiko Carstens | 36cd3c9 | 2009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 257 |  | 
| K.Prasad | 62a038d | 2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 258 | config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | 
 | 259 | 	bool | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 99e8c5a | 2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 260 | 	depends on PERF_EVENTS | 
| K.Prasad | 62a038d | 2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 261 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 0102752 | 2010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 262 | config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS | 
 | 263 | 	bool | 
 | 264 | 	depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | 
 | 265 | 	help | 
 | 266 | 	  Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, | 
 | 267 | 	  some of them have separate registers for data and instruction | 
 | 268 | 	  breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store | 
 | 269 | 	  them but define the access type in a control register. | 
 | 270 | 	  Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the | 
 | 271 | 	  latter fashion. | 
 | 272 |  | 
| Avi Kivity | 7c68af6 | 2009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 273 | config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
 | 274 | 	bool | 
| Ingo Molnar | a1922ed | 2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 275 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | c01d432 | 2010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 276 | config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI | 
 | 277 | 	bool | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 23637d4 | 2010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 278 | 	help | 
 | 279 | 	  System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event | 
 | 280 | 	  subsystem.  Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events | 
 | 281 | 	  to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | c01d432 | 2010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 282 |  | 
| Jiri Olsa | c5e6319 | 2012-08-07 15:20:36 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | config HAVE_PERF_REGS | 
 | 284 | 	bool | 
 | 285 | 	help | 
 | 286 | 	  Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes | 
 | 287 | 	  bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. | 
 | 288 |  | 
| Jiri Olsa | c5ebced | 2012-08-07 15:20:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 289 | config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP | 
 | 290 | 	bool | 
 | 291 | 	help | 
 | 292 | 	  Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs | 
 | 293 | 	  access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across | 
 | 294 | 	  architectures. | 
 | 295 |  | 
| Jason Baron | bf5438fc | 2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 296 | config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL | 
 | 297 | 	bool | 
 | 298 |  | 
| Peter Zijlstra | 2672391 | 2011-05-24 17:12:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 299 | config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE | 
 | 300 | 	bool | 
 | 301 |  | 
| Huang Ying | df013ff | 2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG | 
 | 303 | 	bool | 
 | 304 |  | 
| Heiko Carstens | 43570fd | 2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 305 | config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE | 
 | 306 | 	bool | 
 | 307 | 	help | 
 | 308 | 	  This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that | 
 | 309 | 	  e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations | 
 | 310 | 	  on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this | 
 | 311 | 	  might increase the size of a struct page by a word. | 
 | 312 |  | 
| Heiko Carstens | 4156153 | 2012-01-12 17:17:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 313 | config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL | 
 | 314 | 	bool | 
 | 315 |  | 
| Heiko Carstens | 2565409 | 2012-01-12 17:17:33 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 316 | config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE | 
 | 317 | 	bool | 
 | 318 |  | 
| Will Deacon | c1d7e01 | 2012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 319 | config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION | 
 | 320 | 	bool | 
 | 321 |  | 
 | 322 | config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION | 
 | 323 | 	bool | 
 | 324 |  | 
| Chris Metcalf | 48b25c4 | 2012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 325 | config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC | 
| Will Deacon | c1d7e01 | 2012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | 	select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION | 
| Chris Metcalf | 48b25c4 | 2012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 327 | 	bool | 
 | 328 |  | 
| Will Drewry | e2cfabdf | 2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 329 | config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER | 
 | 330 | 	bool | 
 | 331 | 	help | 
| Will Drewry | fb0fadf | 2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | 	  An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: | 
| Will Drewry | bb6ea43 | 2012-04-12 16:48:01 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 333 | 	  - syscall_get_arch() | 
 | 334 | 	  - syscall_get_arguments() | 
 | 335 | 	  - syscall_rollback() | 
 | 336 | 	  - syscall_set_return_value() | 
| Will Drewry | fb0fadf | 2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | 	  - SIGSYS siginfo_t support | 
 | 338 | 	  - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context | 
 | 339 | 	  - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 | 
 | 340 | 	    results in the system call being skipped immediately. | 
| Kees Cook | 48dc92b | 2014-06-25 16:08:24 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | 	  - seccomp syscall wired up | 
| Will Drewry | e2cfabdf | 2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 342 |  | 
 | 343 | config SECCOMP_FILTER | 
 | 344 | 	def_bool y | 
 | 345 | 	depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET | 
 | 346 | 	help | 
 | 347 | 	  Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined | 
 | 348 | 	  in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement | 
 | 349 | 	  task-defined system call filtering polices. | 
 | 350 |  | 
 | 351 | 	  See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. | 
 | 352 |  | 
| Emese Revfy | 6b90bd4 | 2016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 353 | config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS | 
 | 354 | 	bool | 
 | 355 | 	help | 
 | 356 | 	  An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with | 
 | 357 | 	  GCC plugins. | 
 | 358 |  | 
 | 359 | menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS | 
 | 360 | 	bool "GCC plugins" | 
 | 361 | 	depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS | 
| Kees Cook | a519167e | 2016-06-11 09:09:28 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | 	depends on !COMPILE_TEST | 
| Emese Revfy | 6b90bd4 | 2016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 363 | 	help | 
 | 364 | 	  GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the | 
 | 365 | 	  compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. | 
 | 366 |  | 
 | 367 | 	  See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details. | 
 | 368 |  | 
| Emese Revfy | 0dae776 | 2016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 369 | config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY | 
| Kees Cook | 215e2aa | 2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 370 | 	bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT | 
| Emese Revfy | 0dae776 | 2016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 371 | 	depends on GCC_PLUGINS | 
| Kees Cook | 215e2aa | 2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 372 | 	depends on !COMPILE_TEST | 
| Emese Revfy | 0dae776 | 2016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 373 | 	help | 
 | 374 | 	  The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as: | 
 | 375 | 	   M = E - N + 2P | 
 | 376 | 	  where | 
 | 377 |  | 
 | 378 | 	  E = the number of edges | 
 | 379 | 	  N = the number of nodes | 
 | 380 | 	  P = the number of connected components (exit nodes). | 
 | 381 |  | 
| Kees Cook | 215e2aa | 2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | 	  Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the | 
 | 383 | 	  build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a | 
 | 384 | 	  gcc plugin for the kernel. | 
 | 385 |  | 
| Emese Revfy | 543c37c | 2016-05-24 00:11:37 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 386 | config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV | 
 | 387 | 	bool | 
 | 388 | 	depends on GCC_PLUGINS | 
 | 389 | 	help | 
 | 390 | 	  This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of | 
 | 391 | 	  basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from | 
 | 392 | 	  gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support" | 
 | 393 | 	  by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>. | 
 | 394 |  | 
| Emese Revfy | 38addce | 2016-06-20 20:41:19 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 395 | config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY | 
 | 396 | 	bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime" | 
 | 397 | 	depends on GCC_PLUGINS | 
 | 398 | 	help | 
 | 399 | 	  By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to | 
 | 400 | 	  extract some entropy from both original and artificially created | 
 | 401 | 	  program state.  This will help especially embedded systems where | 
 | 402 | 	  there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally.  The cost | 
 | 403 | 	  is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and | 
 | 404 | 	  irq processing. | 
 | 405 |  | 
 | 406 | 	  Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically | 
 | 407 | 	  secure! | 
 | 408 |  | 
 | 409 | 	  This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: | 
 | 410 | 	   * https://grsecurity.net/ | 
 | 411 | 	   * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ | 
 | 412 |  | 
| Kees Cook | 19952a9 | 2013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 413 | config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR | 
 | 414 | 	bool | 
 | 415 | 	help | 
 | 416 | 	  An arch should select this symbol if: | 
 | 417 | 	  - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option | 
 | 418 | 	  - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) | 
 | 419 |  | 
 | 420 | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR | 
| Kees Cook | 8779657 | 2013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 421 | 	def_bool n | 
| Kees Cook | 19952a9 | 2013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 422 | 	help | 
| Kees Cook | 8779657 | 2013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 423 | 	  Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build | 
 | 424 | 	  can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature. | 
 | 425 |  | 
 | 426 | choice | 
 | 427 | 	prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" | 
 | 428 | 	depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR | 
 | 429 | 	default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE | 
 | 430 | 	help | 
 | 431 | 	  This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This | 
| Kees Cook | 19952a9 | 2013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 432 | 	  feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on | 
 | 433 | 	  the stack just before the return address, and validates | 
 | 434 | 	  the value just before actually returning.  Stack based buffer | 
 | 435 | 	  overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also | 
 | 436 | 	  overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then | 
 | 437 | 	  neutralized via a kernel panic. | 
 | 438 |  | 
| Kees Cook | 8779657 | 2013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 439 | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE | 
 | 440 | 	bool "None" | 
 | 441 | 	help | 
 | 442 | 	  Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature. | 
 | 443 |  | 
 | 444 | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR | 
 | 445 | 	bool "Regular" | 
 | 446 | 	select CC_STACKPROTECTOR | 
 | 447 | 	help | 
 | 448 | 	  Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they | 
 | 449 | 	  have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. | 
 | 450 |  | 
| Kees Cook | 19952a9 | 2013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 451 | 	  This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution | 
| Kees Cook | 8779657 | 2013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 452 | 	  gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). | 
 | 453 |  | 
 | 454 | 	  On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to | 
 | 455 | 	  about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size | 
 | 456 | 	  by about 0.3%. | 
 | 457 |  | 
 | 458 | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG | 
 | 459 | 	bool "Strong" | 
 | 460 | 	select CC_STACKPROTECTOR | 
 | 461 | 	help | 
 | 462 | 	  Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any | 
 | 463 | 	  of the following conditions: | 
 | 464 |  | 
 | 465 | 	  - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an | 
 | 466 | 	    assignment or function argument | 
 | 467 | 	  - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), | 
 | 468 | 	    regardless of array type or length | 
 | 469 | 	  - uses register local variables | 
 | 470 |  | 
 | 471 | 	  This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution | 
 | 472 | 	  gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). | 
 | 473 |  | 
 | 474 | 	  On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to | 
 | 475 | 	  about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code | 
 | 476 | 	  size by about 2%. | 
 | 477 |  | 
 | 478 | endchoice | 
| Kees Cook | 19952a9 | 2013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 479 |  | 
| Stephen Rothwell | a5967db | 2016-08-24 22:29:19 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 480 | config THIN_ARCHIVES | 
 | 481 | 	bool | 
 | 482 | 	help | 
 | 483 | 	  Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives | 
 | 484 | 	  instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files. | 
 | 485 |  | 
| Nicholas Piggin | b67067f | 2016-08-24 22:29:20 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 486 | config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION | 
 | 487 | 	bool | 
 | 488 | 	help | 
 | 489 | 	  Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and | 
 | 490 | 	  data elimination with the linker by compiling with | 
 | 491 | 	  -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with | 
 | 492 | 	  --gc-sections. | 
 | 493 |  | 
 | 494 | 	  This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects | 
 | 495 | 	  its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts | 
 | 496 | 	  must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into | 
| Nicholas Piggin | 0f4c4af | 2016-09-14 12:24:03 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | 	  output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated | 
 | 498 | 	  sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names | 
 | 499 | 	  is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. | 
| Nicholas Piggin | b67067f | 2016-08-24 22:29:20 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 500 |  | 
| Kees Cook | 0f60a8e | 2016-07-12 16:19:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 501 | config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES | 
 | 502 | 	bool | 
 | 503 | 	help | 
 | 504 | 	  An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack | 
 | 505 | 	  frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments | 
 | 506 | 	  or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, | 
 | 507 | 	  and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), | 
 | 508 | 	  which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. | 
 | 509 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 91d1aa43 | 2012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 510 | config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 2b1d502 | 2012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 511 | 	bool | 
 | 512 | 	help | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 91d1aa43 | 2012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 513 | 	  Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems | 
 | 514 | 	  that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. | 
 | 515 | 	  Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through | 
 | 516 | 	  the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be | 
 | 517 | 	  wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside | 
 | 518 | 	  rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on | 
 | 519 | 	  irq exit still need to be protected. | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 2b1d502 | 2012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 520 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | b952741 | 2012-06-16 15:39:34 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 521 | config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING | 
 | 522 | 	bool | 
 | 523 |  | 
| Stanislaw Gruszka | 40565b5 | 2016-11-15 03:06:51 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 524 | config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME | 
 | 525 | 	bool | 
 | 526 |  | 
| Kevin Hilman | 554b000 | 2013-09-16 15:28:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 527 | config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN | 
 | 528 | 	bool | 
 | 529 | 	default y if 64BIT | 
 | 530 | 	help | 
 | 531 | 	  With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. | 
 | 532 | 	  Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited | 
 | 533 | 	  to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of | 
 | 534 | 	  cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on | 
 | 535 | 	  some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper | 
 | 536 | 	  locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. | 
 | 537 |  | 
 | 538 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | fdf9c35 | 2012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 539 | config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING | 
 | 540 | 	bool | 
 | 541 | 	help | 
 | 542 | 	  Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to | 
 | 543 | 	  support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). | 
 | 544 |  | 
| Gerald Schaefer | 1562606 | 2012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 545 | config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE | 
 | 546 | 	bool | 
 | 547 |  | 
| Toshi Kani | 0ddab1d | 2015-04-14 15:47:20 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 548 | config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP | 
 | 549 | 	bool | 
 | 550 |  | 
| Pavel Emelyanov | 0f8975e | 2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 551 | config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY | 
 | 552 | 	bool | 
 | 553 |  | 
| David Howells | 786d35d | 2012-09-28 14:31:03 +0930 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC | 
 | 555 | 	bool | 
 | 556 | 	help | 
 | 557 | 	  The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data.  Many arches | 
 | 558 | 	  just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those | 
 | 559 | 	  should not enable this. | 
 | 560 |  | 
 | 561 | config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA | 
 | 562 | 	bool | 
 | 563 | 	help | 
 | 564 | 	  Modules only use ELF RELA relocations.  Modules with ELF REL | 
 | 565 | 	  relocations will give an error. | 
 | 566 |  | 
 | 567 | config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL | 
 | 568 | 	bool | 
 | 569 | 	help | 
 | 570 | 	  Modules only use ELF REL relocations.  Modules with ELF RELA | 
 | 571 | 	  relocations will give an error. | 
 | 572 |  | 
| Rusty Russell | b92021b | 2013-03-15 15:04:17 +1030 | [diff] [blame] | 573 | config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX | 
 | 574 | 	bool | 
 | 575 | 	help | 
 | 576 | 	  Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like | 
 | 577 | 	  module loading and assembly files need to know about this. | 
 | 578 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | cc1f027 | 2013-09-24 17:17:47 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 579 | config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK | 
 | 580 | 	bool | 
 | 581 | 	help | 
 | 582 | 	  Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack | 
 | 583 | 	  but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq | 
 | 584 | 	  stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() | 
 | 585 | 	  in the end of an hardirq. | 
 | 586 | 	  This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq | 
 | 587 | 	  processing. | 
 | 588 |  | 
| Kirill A. Shutemov | 235a8f0 | 2015-04-14 15:46:17 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 589 | config PGTABLE_LEVELS | 
 | 590 | 	int | 
 | 591 | 	default 2 | 
 | 592 |  | 
| Kees Cook | 2b68f6c | 2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 593 | config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE | 
 | 594 | 	bool | 
 | 595 | 	help | 
 | 596 | 	  An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for | 
 | 597 | 	  stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: | 
 | 598 | 	  - arch_mmap_rnd() | 
| Kees Cook | 204db6e | 2015-04-14 15:48:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 599 | 	  - arch_randomize_brk() | 
| Kees Cook | 2b68f6c | 2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 600 |  | 
| Daniel Cashman | d07e225 | 2016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 601 | config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS | 
 | 602 | 	bool | 
 | 603 | 	help | 
 | 604 | 	  An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable | 
 | 605 | 	  number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap | 
 | 606 | 	  allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: | 
 | 607 | 	  - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN | 
 | 608 | 	  - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX | 
 | 609 |  | 
| Jiri Slaby | 5f56a5d | 2016-05-20 17:00:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 610 | config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD | 
 | 611 | 	bool | 
 | 612 | 	help | 
 | 613 | 	  An architecture implements exit_thread. | 
 | 614 |  | 
| Daniel Cashman | d07e225 | 2016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 615 | config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN | 
 | 616 | 	int | 
 | 617 |  | 
 | 618 | config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX | 
 | 619 | 	int | 
 | 620 |  | 
 | 621 | config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT | 
 | 622 | 	int | 
 | 623 |  | 
 | 624 | config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS | 
 | 625 | 	int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT | 
 | 626 | 	range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX | 
 | 627 | 	default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT | 
 | 628 | 	default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN | 
 | 629 | 	depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS | 
 | 630 | 	help | 
 | 631 | 	  This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to | 
 | 632 | 	  determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions | 
 | 633 | 	  resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded | 
 | 634 | 	  by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. | 
 | 635 |  | 
 | 636 | 	  This value can be changed after boot using the | 
 | 637 | 	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable | 
 | 638 |  | 
 | 639 | config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS | 
 | 640 | 	bool | 
 | 641 | 	help | 
 | 642 | 	  An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications | 
 | 643 | 	  in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for | 
 | 644 | 	  use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU | 
 | 645 | 	  enabled and provides values for both: | 
 | 646 | 	  - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN | 
 | 647 | 	  - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX | 
 | 648 |  | 
 | 649 | config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN | 
 | 650 | 	int | 
 | 651 |  | 
 | 652 | config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX | 
 | 653 | 	int | 
 | 654 |  | 
 | 655 | config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT | 
 | 656 | 	int | 
 | 657 |  | 
 | 658 | config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS | 
 | 659 | 	int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT | 
 | 660 | 	range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX | 
 | 661 | 	default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT | 
 | 662 | 	default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN | 
 | 663 | 	depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS | 
 | 664 | 	help | 
 | 665 | 	  This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to | 
 | 666 | 	  determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions | 
 | 667 | 	  resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This | 
 | 668 | 	  value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum | 
 | 669 | 	  supported values. | 
 | 670 |  | 
 | 671 | 	  This value can be changed after boot using the | 
 | 672 | 	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable | 
 | 673 |  | 
| Josh Triplett | 3033f14a | 2015-06-25 15:01:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 674 | config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS | 
 | 675 | 	bool | 
 | 676 | 	help | 
 | 677 | 	  Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via | 
 | 678 | 	  normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall | 
 | 679 | 	  argument from pt_regs. | 
 | 680 |  | 
| Josh Poimboeuf | b9ab5eb | 2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 681 | config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION | 
 | 682 | 	bool | 
 | 683 | 	help | 
 | 684 | 	  Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which | 
 | 685 | 	  performs compile-time stack metadata validation. | 
 | 686 |  | 
| George Spelvin | 468a942 | 2016-05-26 22:11:51 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 687 | config HAVE_ARCH_HASH | 
 | 688 | 	bool | 
 | 689 | 	default n | 
 | 690 | 	help | 
 | 691 | 	  If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> | 
 | 692 | 	  file which provides platform-specific implementations of some | 
 | 693 | 	  functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. | 
 | 694 |  | 
| William Breathitt Gray | 3a49551 | 2016-05-27 18:08:27 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 695 | config ISA_BUS_API | 
 | 696 | 	def_bool ISA | 
 | 697 |  | 
| Al Viro | d212504 | 2012-10-23 13:17:59 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 698 | # | 
 | 699 | # ABI hall of shame | 
 | 700 | # | 
 | 701 | config CLONE_BACKWARDS | 
 | 702 | 	bool | 
 | 703 | 	help | 
 | 704 | 	  Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), | 
 | 705 | 	  not the 5th one. | 
 | 706 |  | 
 | 707 | config CLONE_BACKWARDS2 | 
 | 708 | 	bool | 
 | 709 | 	help | 
 | 710 | 	  Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. | 
 | 711 |  | 
| Michal Simek | dfa9771 | 2013-08-13 16:00:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 712 | config CLONE_BACKWARDS3 | 
 | 713 | 	bool | 
 | 714 | 	help | 
 | 715 | 	  Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), | 
 | 716 | 	  not the 5th one. | 
 | 717 |  | 
| Al Viro | eaca6ea | 2012-11-25 23:12:10 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 718 | config ODD_RT_SIGACTION | 
 | 719 | 	bool | 
 | 720 | 	help | 
 | 721 | 	  Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments | 
 | 722 |  | 
| Al Viro | 0a0e8cd | 2012-12-25 16:04:12 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 723 | config OLD_SIGSUSPEND | 
 | 724 | 	bool | 
 | 725 | 	help | 
 | 726 | 	  Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety | 
 | 727 |  | 
 | 728 | config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 | 
 | 729 | 	bool | 
 | 730 | 	help | 
 | 731 | 	  Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) | 
 | 732 |  | 
| Al Viro | 495dfbf | 2012-12-25 19:09:45 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 733 | config OLD_SIGACTION | 
 | 734 | 	bool | 
 | 735 | 	help | 
 | 736 | 	  Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall.  Nope, not the same | 
 | 737 | 	  as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), | 
 | 738 | 	  but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 | 
 | 739 | 	  compatibility... | 
 | 740 |  | 
 | 741 | config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION | 
 | 742 | 	bool | 
 | 743 |  | 
| Christoph Hellwig | 0d4a619 | 2016-01-20 15:01:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 744 | config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP | 
 | 745 | 	bool | 
 | 746 |  | 
| Zhaoxiu Zeng | fff7fb0 | 2016-05-20 17:03:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 747 | config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS | 
 | 748 | 	def_bool n | 
 | 749 |  | 
| Andy Lutomirski | ba14a19 | 2016-08-11 02:35:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 750 | config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK | 
 | 751 | 	def_bool n | 
 | 752 | 	help | 
 | 753 | 	  An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks | 
 | 754 | 	  in vmalloc space.  This means: | 
 | 755 |  | 
 | 756 | 	  - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. | 
 | 757 | 	    This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. | 
 | 758 |  | 
 | 759 | 	  - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably.  For example, if | 
 | 760 | 	    vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism | 
 | 761 | 	    needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with | 
 | 762 | 	    unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), | 
 | 763 | 	    most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries | 
 | 764 | 	    are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. | 
 | 765 |  | 
 | 766 | 	  - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable | 
 | 767 | 	    should happen.  The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but | 
 | 768 | 	    instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. | 
 | 769 |  | 
 | 770 | config VMAP_STACK | 
 | 771 | 	default y | 
 | 772 | 	bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" | 
 | 773 | 	depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN | 
 | 774 | 	---help--- | 
 | 775 | 	  Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks | 
 | 776 | 	  with guard pages.  This causes kernel stack overflows to be | 
 | 777 | 	  caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose | 
 | 778 | 	  corruption. | 
 | 779 |  | 
 | 780 | 	  This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects | 
 | 781 | 	  the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula | 
 | 782 | 	  that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space. | 
 | 783 |  | 
| Peter Oberparleiter | 2521f2c | 2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 784 | source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" |