diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 1599629..ef86cde 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -424,6 +424,15 @@
 
 endchoice
 
+config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
+	bool
+	help
+	  An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
+	  frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
+	  or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
+	  and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
+	  which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
+
 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
 	bool
 	help