1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 # General architecture dependent options
17 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
19 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
21 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
23 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
24 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
29 config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
30 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
32 depends on OPROFILE && X86
34 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
35 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
36 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
37 between events at a user specified time interval.
44 config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
46 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
51 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
54 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
55 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
56 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
57 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
61 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
62 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
64 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
65 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
66 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
68 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
69 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
70 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
72 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
73 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
74 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
75 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
76 conditional block of instructions.
78 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
79 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
80 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
82 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
83 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
85 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
86 bool "Static key selftest"
89 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
93 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
94 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPT
96 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
98 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
99 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
101 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
102 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
103 optimize on top of function tracing.
107 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
109 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
110 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
111 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
112 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
113 are hit by user-space applications.
115 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
116 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
119 config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
120 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
122 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
123 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
124 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
125 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
126 architectures without unaligned access.
128 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
129 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
130 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
132 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
133 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
135 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
138 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
139 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
140 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
141 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
144 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
145 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
146 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
147 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
148 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
151 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
152 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
154 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
157 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
158 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
159 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
160 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
161 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
162 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
163 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
164 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
165 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
166 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
167 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
169 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
170 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
171 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
175 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
177 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
179 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
181 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
184 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
190 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
193 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
196 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
199 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
206 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
208 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
209 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
210 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
211 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
212 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
213 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
214 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
215 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
216 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
218 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
221 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
224 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
227 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
230 config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
233 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
234 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
236 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
237 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
240 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
241 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
244 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
245 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
248 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
250 depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
252 An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
253 knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
254 whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
255 FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
256 should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
257 field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
259 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
260 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
263 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
264 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
267 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
270 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
271 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
272 declared in asm/ptrace.h
273 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
277 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
279 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it
280 supports an implementation of restartable sequences.
285 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
286 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
288 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
290 depends on PERF_EVENTS
292 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
294 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
296 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
297 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
298 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
299 them but define the access type in a control register.
300 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
303 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
306 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
309 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
310 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
311 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
313 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
315 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
317 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
318 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
320 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
324 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
325 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
327 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
329 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
331 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
332 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
333 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
335 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
338 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
339 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
341 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
344 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
345 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
348 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
351 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
354 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
357 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
360 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
361 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
362 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
363 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
365 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
368 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
371 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
374 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
377 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
380 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
381 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
384 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
387 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
389 - syscall_get_arguments()
391 - syscall_set_return_value()
392 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
393 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
394 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
395 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
396 - seccomp syscall wired up
398 config SECCOMP_FILTER
400 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
402 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
403 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
404 task-defined system call filtering polices.
406 See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details.
408 preferred-plugin-hostcc := $(if-success,[ $(gcc-version) -ge 40800 ],$(HOSTCXX),$(HOSTCC))
412 default "$(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-plugin.sh "$(preferred-plugin-hostcc)" "$(HOSTCXX)" "$(CC)")"
414 Host compiler used to build GCC plugins. This can be $(HOSTCXX),
415 $(HOSTCC), or a null string if GCC plugin is unsupported.
417 config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
420 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
423 menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
425 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
426 depends on PLUGIN_HOSTCC != ""
428 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
429 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
431 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
433 config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
434 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT
435 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
436 depends on !COMPILE_TEST # too noisy
438 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
442 E = the number of edges
443 N = the number of nodes
444 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
446 Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the
447 build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a
448 gcc plugin for the kernel.
450 config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
452 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
454 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
455 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
456 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
457 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
459 config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
460 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
461 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
463 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
464 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
465 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
466 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
467 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
470 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
473 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
474 * https://grsecurity.net/
475 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
477 config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
478 bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses"
479 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
480 # Currently STRUCTLEAK inserts initialization out of live scope of
481 # variables from KASAN point of view. This leads to KASAN false
482 # positive reports. Prohibit this combination for now.
483 depends on !KASAN_EXTRA
485 This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a
486 __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information
489 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
490 * https://grsecurity.net/
491 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
493 config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL
494 bool "Force initialize all struct type variables passed by reference"
495 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
496 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
498 Zero initialize any struct type local variable that may be passed by
499 reference without having been initialized.
501 config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
502 bool "Report forcefully initialized variables"
503 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
504 depends on !COMPILE_TEST # too noisy
506 This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the
507 structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be
508 initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected
509 by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings.
511 config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
512 bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures"
513 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
514 select MODVERSIONS if MODULES
516 If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely
517 function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with
518 __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly
519 marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time.
520 This can introduce the requirement of an additional information
521 exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure
524 Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact,
525 slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic
526 tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel
527 source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation).
529 The seed used for compilation is located at
530 scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after
531 a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with
532 the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or
535 Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer.
537 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
538 * https://grsecurity.net/
539 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
541 config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE
542 bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization"
543 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
544 depends on !COMPILE_TEST # do not reduce test coverage
546 If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a
547 best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized
548 groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields
549 in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT
550 at the cost of weakened randomization.
552 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
555 An arch should select this symbol if:
556 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
558 config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
559 def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
561 config STACKPROTECTOR
562 bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
563 depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
564 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
567 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
568 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
569 the stack just before the return address, and validates
570 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
571 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
572 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
573 neutralized via a kernel panic.
575 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
576 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
578 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
579 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
581 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
582 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
585 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
586 bool "Strong Stack Protector"
587 depends on STACKPROTECTOR
588 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong)
591 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
592 of the following conditions:
594 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
595 assignment or function argument
596 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
597 regardless of array type or length
598 - uses register local variables
600 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
601 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
603 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
604 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
607 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
610 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
611 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
612 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
613 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
614 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
616 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
619 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
620 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
621 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
622 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
623 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
624 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
625 irq exit still need to be protected.
627 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
630 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
633 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
637 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
638 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
639 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
640 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
641 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
642 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
645 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
648 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
649 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
651 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
654 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
657 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
660 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
663 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
666 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
667 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
668 should not enable this.
670 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
673 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
674 relocations will give an error.
676 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
679 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
680 relocations will give an error.
682 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
685 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
686 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
687 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
688 in the end of an hardirq.
689 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
692 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
696 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
699 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
700 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
702 - arch_randomize_brk()
704 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
707 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
708 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
709 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
710 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
711 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
713 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
716 An architecture implements exit_thread.
718 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
721 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
724 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
727 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
728 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
729 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
730 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
731 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
732 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
734 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
735 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
736 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
737 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
739 This value can be changed after boot using the
740 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
742 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
745 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
746 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
747 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
748 enabled and provides values for both:
749 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
750 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
752 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
755 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
758 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
761 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
762 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
763 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
764 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
765 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
766 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
768 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
769 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
770 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
771 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
774 This value can be changed after boot using the
775 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
777 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
780 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
781 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
782 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
784 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
787 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
788 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
789 argument from pt_regs.
791 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
794 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
795 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
797 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
800 Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
801 only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
803 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
807 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
808 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
809 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
817 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
820 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
823 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
826 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
828 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
831 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
834 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
837 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
839 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
842 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
844 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
847 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
852 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
853 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
854 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
857 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
861 def_bool ARCH_HAS_64BIT_TIME
863 This should be selected by all architectures that need to support
864 new system calls with a 64-bit time_t. This is relevant on all 32-bit
865 architectures, and 64-bit architectures as part of compat syscall
868 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
869 def_bool (!64BIT && 64BIT_TIME) || COMPAT
871 This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
872 This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures
873 as part of compat syscall handling.
875 config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
878 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
881 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
884 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
885 in vmalloc space. This means:
887 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
888 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
890 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
891 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
892 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
893 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
894 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
895 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
897 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
898 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
899 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
903 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
904 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
906 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
907 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
908 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
911 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
912 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
913 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
915 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
918 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
921 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
924 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
925 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
926 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
927 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
929 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
930 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
931 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
934 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
935 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
937 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
940 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
941 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
942 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
943 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
945 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
946 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
947 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
949 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
950 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
953 config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
956 An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t
957 using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized
958 refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full
959 refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y.
961 The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained.
962 Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting
963 against bugs in reference counts.
966 bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed"
968 Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast
969 unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked
970 implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections
971 against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
972 security flaw exploits.
974 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"