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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
Andy Lutomirskiff27f382014-07-21 18:49:17 -0700339 For best performance, an arch should use seccomp_phase1 and
340 seccomp_phase2 directly. It should call seccomp_phase1 for all
341 syscalls if TIF_SECCOMP is set, but seccomp_phase1 does not
342 need to be called from a ptrace-safe context. It must then
343 call seccomp_phase2 if seccomp_phase1 returns anything other
344 than SECCOMP_PHASE1_OK or SECCOMP_PHASE1_SKIP.
345
346 As an additional optimization, an arch may provide seccomp_data
347 directly to seccomp_phase1; this avoids multiple calls
348 to the syscall_xyz helpers for every syscall.
349
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500350config SECCOMP_FILTER
351 def_bool y
352 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
353 help
354 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
355 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
356 task-defined system call filtering polices.
357
358 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
359
Emese Revfy6b90bd42016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200360config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
361 bool
362 help
363 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
364 GCC plugins.
365
366menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
367 bool "GCC plugins"
368 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
Kees Cooka519167e2016-06-11 09:09:28 -0700369 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
Emese Revfy6b90bd42016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200370 help
371 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
372 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
373
374 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
375
Emese Revfy0dae7762016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200376config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
377 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function"
378 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
379 help
380 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
381 M = E - N + 2P
382 where
383
384 E = the number of edges
385 N = the number of nodes
386 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
387
Emese Revfy543c37c2016-05-24 00:11:37 +0200388config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
389 bool
390 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
391 help
392 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
393 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
394 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
395 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
396
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800397config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
398 bool
399 help
400 An arch should select this symbol if:
401 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
402 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
403
404config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800405 def_bool n
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800406 help
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800407 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
408 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
409
410choice
411 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
412 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
413 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
414 help
415 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800416 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
417 the stack just before the return address, and validates
418 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
419 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
420 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
421 neutralized via a kernel panic.
422
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800423config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
424 bool "None"
425 help
426 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
427
428config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
429 bool "Regular"
430 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
431 help
432 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
433 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
434
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800435 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800436 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
437
438 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
439 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
440 by about 0.3%.
441
442config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
443 bool "Strong"
444 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
445 help
446 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
447 of the following conditions:
448
449 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
450 assignment or function argument
451 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
452 regardless of array type or length
453 - uses register local variables
454
455 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
456 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
457
458 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
459 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
460 size by about 2%.
461
462endchoice
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800463
Stephen Rothwella5967db2016-08-24 22:29:19 +1000464config THIN_ARCHIVES
465 bool
466 help
467 Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
468 instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
469
Nicholas Pigginb67067f2016-08-24 22:29:20 +1000470config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
471 bool
472 help
473 Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
474 data elimination with the linker by compiling with
475 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
476 --gc-sections.
477
478 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
479 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
480 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
481 output sections.
482
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100483config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200484 bool
485 help
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100486 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
487 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
488 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
489 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
490 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
491 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
492 irq exit still need to be protected.
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200493
Frederic Weisbeckerb9527412012-06-16 15:39:34 +0200494config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
495 bool
496
Kevin Hilman554b0002013-09-16 15:28:21 -0700497config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
498 bool
499 default y if 64BIT
500 help
501 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
502 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
503 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
504 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
505 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
506 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
507
508
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200509config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
510 bool
511 help
512 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
513 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
514
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700515config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
516 bool
517
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -0700518config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
519 bool
520
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700521config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
522 bool
523
David Howells786d35d2012-09-28 14:31:03 +0930524config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
525 bool
526 help
527 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
528 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
529 should not enable this.
530
531config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
532 bool
533 help
534 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
535 relocations will give an error.
536
537config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
538 bool
539 help
540 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
541 relocations will give an error.
542
Rusty Russellb92021b2013-03-15 15:04:17 +1030543config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
544 bool
545 help
546 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
547 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
548
Frederic Weisbeckercc1f0272013-09-24 17:17:47 +0200549config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
550 bool
551 help
552 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
553 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
554 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
555 in the end of an hardirq.
556 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
557 processing.
558
Kirill A. Shutemov235a8f02015-04-14 15:46:17 -0700559config PGTABLE_LEVELS
560 int
561 default 2
562
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700563config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
564 bool
565 help
566 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
567 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
568 - arch_mmap_rnd()
Kees Cook204db6e2015-04-14 15:48:12 -0700569 - arch_randomize_brk()
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700570
Daniel Cashmand07e2252016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800571config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
572 bool
573 help
574 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
575 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
576 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
577 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
578 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
579
Jiri Slaby5f56a5d2016-05-20 17:00:16 -0700580config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
581 bool
582 help
583 An architecture implements exit_thread.
584
Daniel Cashmand07e2252016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800585config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
586 int
587
588config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
589 int
590
591config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
592 int
593
594config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
595 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
596 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
597 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
598 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
599 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
600 help
601 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
602 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
603 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
604 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
605
606 This value can be changed after boot using the
607 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
608
609config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
610 bool
611 help
612 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
613 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
614 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
615 enabled and provides values for both:
616 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
617 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
618
619config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
620 int
621
622config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
623 int
624
625config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
626 int
627
628config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
629 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
630 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
631 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
632 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
633 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
634 help
635 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
636 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
637 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
638 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
639 supported values.
640
641 This value can be changed after boot using the
642 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
643
Josh Triplett3033f14a2015-06-25 15:01:19 -0700644config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
645 bool
646 help
647 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
648 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
649 argument from pt_regs.
650
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600651config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
652 bool
653 help
654 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
655 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
656
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -0400657config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
658 bool
659 default n
660 help
661 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
662 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
663 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
664
William Breathitt Gray3a495512016-05-27 18:08:27 -0400665config ISA_BUS_API
666 def_bool ISA
667
Al Virod2125042012-10-23 13:17:59 -0400668#
669# ABI hall of shame
670#
671config CLONE_BACKWARDS
672 bool
673 help
674 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
675 not the 5th one.
676
677config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
678 bool
679 help
680 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
681
Michal Simekdfa97712013-08-13 16:00:53 -0700682config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
683 bool
684 help
685 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
686 not the 5th one.
687
Al Viroeaca6ea2012-11-25 23:12:10 -0500688config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
689 bool
690 help
691 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
692
Al Viro0a0e8cd2012-12-25 16:04:12 -0500693config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
694 bool
695 help
696 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
697
698config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
699 bool
700 help
701 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
702
Al Viro495dfbf2012-12-25 19:09:45 -0500703config OLD_SIGACTION
704 bool
705 help
706 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
707 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
708 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
709 compatibility...
710
711config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
712 bool
713
Christoph Hellwig0d4a6192016-01-20 15:01:22 -0800714config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
715 bool
716
Zhaoxiu Zengfff7fb02016-05-20 17:03:57 -0700717config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
718 def_bool n
719
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700720source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"