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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
Dave Young2965faa2015-09-09 15:38:55 -07005config KEXEC_CORE
6 bool
7
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -05008config OPROFILE
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +01009 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050010 depends on PROFILING
11 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
Ingo Molnard69d59f2008-12-12 09:38:57 +010012 select RING_BUFFER
Christian Borntraeger9a5963eb2009-09-16 21:56:49 +020013 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050014 help
15 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
16 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
17 and applications.
18
19 If unsure, say N.
20
Jason Yeh4d4036e2009-07-08 13:49:38 +020021config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
22 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
23 default n
24 depends on OPROFILE && X86
25 help
26 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
27 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
28 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
29 between events at an user specified time interval.
30
31 If unsure, say N.
32
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050033config HAVE_OPROFILE
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -070034 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050035
Robert Richterdcfce4a2011-10-11 17:11:08 +020036config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
37 def_bool y
Anton Blanchardaf9feeb2015-04-09 12:52:55 +100038 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
Robert Richterdcfce4a2011-10-11 17:11:08 +020039
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050040config KPROBES
41 bool "Kprobes"
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090042 depends on MODULES
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050043 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090044 select KALLSYMS
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050045 help
46 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
47 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
48 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
49 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
50 If in doubt, say "N".
51
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040052config JUMP_LABEL
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010053 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040054 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
55 help
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010056 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
57 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
58 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040059
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010060 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
61 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
62 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
63
64 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
65 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
66 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
67 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
68 conditional block of instructions.
69
70 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
71 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
72 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
73
74 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
75 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040076
Peter Zijlstra1987c942015-07-27 18:32:09 +020077config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
78 bool "Static key selftest"
79 depends on JUMP_LABEL
80 help
81 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
82
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050083config OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu5cc718b2010-03-15 13:00:54 -040084 def_bool y
85 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050086 depends on !PREEMPT
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050087
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +090088config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
89 def_bool y
90 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
91 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
92 help
93 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
94 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
95 optimize on top of function tracing.
96
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053097config UPROBES
David A. Long09294e32014-03-07 10:32:22 -050098 def_bool n
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +053099 help
Ingo Molnar7b2d81d2012-02-17 09:27:41 +0100100 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
101 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
102 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
103 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
104 are hit by user-space applications.
105
106 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
107 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
108 application. )
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +0530109
James Hoganc19fa942012-05-30 11:23:23 +0100110config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
111 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
112 help
113 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
114 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
115 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
116 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
117 architectures without unaligned access.
118
119 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
120 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
121 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
122
123 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
124 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
125
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700126config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700127 bool
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700128 help
129 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
130 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
131 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
132 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
133 handler.)
134
135 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
136 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
137 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
138 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
139 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
140 much.
141
142 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
143 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
144
David Woodhousecf66bb92012-12-03 16:25:40 +0000145config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
146 bool
147 help
148 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
149 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
150 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
151 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
152 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
153 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
154 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
155 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
156 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
157 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
158 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
159
160 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
161 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
162 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
163
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800164config KRETPROBES
165 def_bool y
166 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
167
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300168config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
169 bool
170 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
171 help
172 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
173 switch to user mode.
174
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700175config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700176 bool
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700177
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500178config HAVE_KPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700179 bool
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800180
181config HAVE_KRETPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700182 bool
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700183
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500184config HAVE_OPTPROBES
185 bool
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700186
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +0900187config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
188 bool
189
Petr Mladek42a0bb32016-05-20 17:00:33 -0700190config HAVE_NMI
191 bool
192
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700193config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
Petr Mladek42a0bb32016-05-20 17:00:33 -0700194 depends on HAVE_NMI
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700195 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700196#
197# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
198#
199# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
200# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
201# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700202# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
203# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
204# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
205# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
206# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
207# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
208#
209config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700210 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700211
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100212config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
213 bool
214
Thomas Gleixner29d5e042012-04-20 13:05:45 +0000215config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
216 bool
217
Kevin Hilman485cf5d2013-04-24 17:19:13 -0700218config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
219 bool
220
Thomas Gleixnera6359d12012-05-03 09:03:02 +0000221# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
222config ARCH_INIT_TASK
Thomas Gleixnera4a2eb42012-05-03 09:02:48 +0000223 bool
224
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000225# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
226config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
227 bool
228
Linus Torvaldsb235bee2016-06-24 15:09:37 -0700229# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
230config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000231 bool
232
Ingo Molnar5aaeb5c2015-07-17 12:28:12 +0200233# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
234config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
235 bool
236
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100237config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
238 bool
Heiko Carstense01292b2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100239 help
240 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
241 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
242 declared in asm/ptrace.h
243 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100244
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700245config HAVE_CLK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700246 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700247 help
248 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
249 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
250
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100251config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
252 bool
Heiko Carstens36cd3c92009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200253
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530254config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
255 bool
Frederic Weisbecker99e8c5a2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100256 depends on PERF_EVENTS
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530257
Frederic Weisbecker01027522010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200258config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
259 bool
260 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
261 help
262 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
263 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
264 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
265 them but define the access type in a control register.
266 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
267 latter fashion.
268
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300269config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
270 bool
Ingo Molnara1922ed2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200271
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200272config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
273 bool
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200274 help
275 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
276 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
277 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200278
Jiri Olsac5e63192012-08-07 15:20:36 +0200279config HAVE_PERF_REGS
280 bool
281 help
282 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
283 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
284
Jiri Olsac5ebced2012-08-07 15:20:40 +0200285config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
286 bool
287 help
288 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
289 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
290 architectures.
291
Jason Baronbf5438fc2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400292config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
293 bool
294
Peter Zijlstra26723912011-05-24 17:12:00 -0700295config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
296 bool
297
Huang Yingdf013ff2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800298config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
299 bool
300
Heiko Carstens43570fd2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800301config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
302 bool
303 help
304 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
305 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
306 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
307 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
308
Heiko Carstens41561532012-01-12 17:17:30 -0800309config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
310 bool
311
Heiko Carstens25654092012-01-12 17:17:33 -0800312config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
313 bool
314
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700315config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
316 bool
317
318config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
319 bool
320
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400321config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700322 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400323 bool
324
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500325config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
326 bool
327 help
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500328 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
Will Drewrybb6ea432012-04-12 16:48:01 -0500329 - syscall_get_arch()
330 - syscall_get_arguments()
331 - syscall_rollback()
332 - syscall_set_return_value()
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500333 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
334 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
335 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
336 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
Kees Cook48dc92b2014-06-25 16:08:24 -0700337 - seccomp syscall wired up
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500338
339config SECCOMP_FILTER
340 def_bool y
341 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
342 help
343 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
344 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
345 task-defined system call filtering polices.
346
347 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
348
Emese Revfy6b90bd42016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200349config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
350 bool
351 help
352 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
353 GCC plugins.
354
355menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
356 bool "GCC plugins"
357 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
Kees Cooka519167e2016-06-11 09:09:28 -0700358 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
Emese Revfy6b90bd42016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200359 help
360 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
361 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
362
363 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
364
Emese Revfy0dae7762016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200365config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
Kees Cook215e2aa2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800366 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT
Emese Revfy0dae7762016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200367 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
Kees Cook215e2aa2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800368 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
Emese Revfy0dae7762016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200369 help
370 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
371 M = E - N + 2P
372 where
373
374 E = the number of edges
375 N = the number of nodes
376 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
377
Kees Cook215e2aa2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800378 Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the
379 build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a
380 gcc plugin for the kernel.
381
Emese Revfy543c37c2016-05-24 00:11:37 +0200382config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
383 bool
384 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
385 help
386 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
387 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
388 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
389 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
390
Emese Revfy38addce2016-06-20 20:41:19 +0200391config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
392 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
393 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
394 help
395 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
396 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
397 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
398 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
399 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
400 irq processing.
401
402 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
403 secure!
404
405 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
406 * https://grsecurity.net/
407 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
408
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800409config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
410 bool
411 help
412 An arch should select this symbol if:
413 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
414 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
415
416config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800417 def_bool n
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800418 help
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800419 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
420 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
421
422choice
423 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
424 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
425 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
426 help
427 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800428 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
429 the stack just before the return address, and validates
430 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
431 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
432 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
433 neutralized via a kernel panic.
434
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800435config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
436 bool "None"
437 help
438 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
439
440config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
441 bool "Regular"
442 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
443 help
444 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
445 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
446
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800447 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800448 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
449
450 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
451 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
452 by about 0.3%.
453
454config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
455 bool "Strong"
456 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
457 help
458 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
459 of the following conditions:
460
461 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
462 assignment or function argument
463 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
464 regardless of array type or length
465 - uses register local variables
466
467 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
468 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
469
470 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
471 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
472 size by about 2%.
473
474endchoice
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800475
Stephen Rothwella5967db2016-08-24 22:29:19 +1000476config THIN_ARCHIVES
477 bool
478 help
479 Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
480 instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
481
Nicholas Pigginb67067f2016-08-24 22:29:20 +1000482config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
483 bool
484 help
485 Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
486 data elimination with the linker by compiling with
487 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
488 --gc-sections.
489
490 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
491 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
492 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
Nicholas Piggin0f4c4af2016-09-14 12:24:03 +1000493 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
494 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
495 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
Nicholas Pigginb67067f2016-08-24 22:29:20 +1000496
Kees Cook0f60a8e2016-07-12 16:19:48 -0700497config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
498 bool
499 help
500 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
501 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
502 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
503 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
504 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
505
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100506config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200507 bool
508 help
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100509 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
510 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
511 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
512 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
513 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
514 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
515 irq exit still need to be protected.
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200516
Frederic Weisbeckerb9527412012-06-16 15:39:34 +0200517config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
518 bool
519
Kevin Hilman554b0002013-09-16 15:28:21 -0700520config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
521 bool
522 default y if 64BIT
523 help
524 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
525 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
526 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
527 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
528 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
529 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
530
531
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200532config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
533 bool
534 help
535 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
536 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
537
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700538config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
539 bool
540
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -0700541config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
542 bool
543
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700544config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
545 bool
546
David Howells786d35d2012-09-28 14:31:03 +0930547config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
548 bool
549 help
550 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
551 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
552 should not enable this.
553
554config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
555 bool
556 help
557 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
558 relocations will give an error.
559
560config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
561 bool
562 help
563 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
564 relocations will give an error.
565
Rusty Russellb92021b2013-03-15 15:04:17 +1030566config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
567 bool
568 help
569 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
570 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
571
Frederic Weisbeckercc1f0272013-09-24 17:17:47 +0200572config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
573 bool
574 help
575 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
576 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
577 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
578 in the end of an hardirq.
579 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
580 processing.
581
Kirill A. Shutemov235a8f02015-04-14 15:46:17 -0700582config PGTABLE_LEVELS
583 int
584 default 2
585
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700586config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
587 bool
588 help
589 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
590 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
591 - arch_mmap_rnd()
Kees Cook204db6e2015-04-14 15:48:12 -0700592 - arch_randomize_brk()
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700593
Daniel Cashmand07e2252016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800594config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
595 bool
596 help
597 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
598 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
599 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
600 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
601 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
602
Jiri Slaby5f56a5d2016-05-20 17:00:16 -0700603config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
604 bool
605 help
606 An architecture implements exit_thread.
607
Daniel Cashmand07e2252016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800608config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
609 int
610
611config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
612 int
613
614config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
615 int
616
617config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
618 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
619 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
620 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
621 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
622 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
623 help
624 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
625 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
626 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
627 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
628
629 This value can be changed after boot using the
630 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
631
632config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
633 bool
634 help
635 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
636 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
637 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
638 enabled and provides values for both:
639 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
640 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
641
642config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
643 int
644
645config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
646 int
647
648config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
649 int
650
651config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
652 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
653 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
654 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
655 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
656 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
657 help
658 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
659 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
660 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
661 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
662 supported values.
663
664 This value can be changed after boot using the
665 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
666
Josh Triplett3033f14a2015-06-25 15:01:19 -0700667config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
668 bool
669 help
670 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
671 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
672 argument from pt_regs.
673
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600674config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
675 bool
676 help
677 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
678 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
679
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -0400680config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
681 bool
682 default n
683 help
684 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
685 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
686 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
687
William Breathitt Gray3a495512016-05-27 18:08:27 -0400688config ISA_BUS_API
689 def_bool ISA
690
Al Virod2125042012-10-23 13:17:59 -0400691#
692# ABI hall of shame
693#
694config CLONE_BACKWARDS
695 bool
696 help
697 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
698 not the 5th one.
699
700config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
701 bool
702 help
703 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
704
Michal Simekdfa97712013-08-13 16:00:53 -0700705config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
706 bool
707 help
708 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
709 not the 5th one.
710
Al Viroeaca6ea2012-11-25 23:12:10 -0500711config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
712 bool
713 help
714 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
715
Al Viro0a0e8cd2012-12-25 16:04:12 -0500716config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
717 bool
718 help
719 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
720
721config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
722 bool
723 help
724 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
725
Al Viro495dfbf2012-12-25 19:09:45 -0500726config OLD_SIGACTION
727 bool
728 help
729 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
730 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
731 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
732 compatibility...
733
734config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
735 bool
736
Christoph Hellwig0d4a6192016-01-20 15:01:22 -0800737config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
738 bool
739
Zhaoxiu Zengfff7fb02016-05-20 17:03:57 -0700740config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
741 def_bool n
742
Andy Lutomirskiba14a192016-08-11 02:35:21 -0700743config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
744 def_bool n
745 help
746 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
747 in vmalloc space. This means:
748
749 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
750 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
751
752 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
753 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
754 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
755 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
756 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
757 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
758
759 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
760 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
761 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
762
763config VMAP_STACK
764 default y
765 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
766 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
767 ---help---
768 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
769 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
770 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
771 corruption.
772
773 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
774 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
775 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
776
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700777source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"