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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
Hari Bathini692f66f2017-05-08 15:56:18 -07005config CRASH_CORE
6 bool
7
Dave Young2965faa2015-09-09 15:38:55 -07008config KEXEC_CORE
Hari Bathini692f66f2017-05-08 15:56:18 -07009 select CRASH_CORE
Dave Young2965faa2015-09-09 15:38:55 -070010 bool
11
Thiago Jung Bauermann467d2782016-12-19 16:22:32 -080012config HAVE_IMA_KEXEC
13 bool
14
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050015config OPROFILE
Robert Richterb309a292010-02-26 15:01:23 +010016 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050017 depends on PROFILING
18 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
Ingo Molnard69d59f2008-12-12 09:38:57 +010019 select RING_BUFFER
Christian Borntraeger9a5963eb2009-09-16 21:56:49 +020020 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050021 help
22 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
23 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
24 and applications.
25
26 If unsure, say N.
27
Jason Yeh4d4036e2009-07-08 13:49:38 +020028config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
29 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
30 default n
31 depends on OPROFILE && X86
32 help
33 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
34 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
35 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
Masahiro Yamada9332ef92017-02-27 14:28:47 -080036 between events at a user specified time interval.
Jason Yeh4d4036e2009-07-08 13:49:38 +020037
38 If unsure, say N.
39
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050040config HAVE_OPROFILE
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -070041 bool
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050042
Robert Richterdcfce4a2011-10-11 17:11:08 +020043config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
44 def_bool y
Anton Blanchardaf9feeb2015-04-09 12:52:55 +100045 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
Robert Richterdcfce4a2011-10-11 17:11:08 +020046
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050047config KPROBES
48 bool "Kprobes"
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090049 depends on MODULES
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050050 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu05ed1602010-09-13 19:25:41 +090051 select KALLSYMS
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -050052 help
53 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
54 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
55 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
56 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
57 If in doubt, say "N".
58
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040059config JUMP_LABEL
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010060 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040061 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
62 help
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010063 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
64 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
65 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040066
Ingo Molnarc5905af2012-02-24 08:31:31 +010067 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
68 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
69 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
70
71 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
72 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
73 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
74 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
75 conditional block of instructions.
76
77 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
78 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
79 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
80
81 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
82 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
Steven Rostedt45f81b12010-10-29 12:33:43 -040083
Peter Zijlstra1987c942015-07-27 18:32:09 +020084config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
85 bool "Static key selftest"
86 depends on JUMP_LABEL
87 help
88 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
89
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050090config OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsu5cc718b2010-03-15 13:00:54 -040091 def_bool y
92 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050093 depends on !PREEMPT
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -050094
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +090095config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
96 def_bool y
97 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
98 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
99 help
100 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
101 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
102 optimize on top of function tracing.
103
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +0530104config UPROBES
David A. Long09294e32014-03-07 10:32:22 -0500105 def_bool n
Allen Paise8f4aa62016-10-13 10:06:13 +0530106 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +0530107 help
Ingo Molnar7b2d81d2012-02-17 09:27:41 +0100108 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
109 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
110 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
111 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
112 are hit by user-space applications.
113
114 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
115 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
116 application. )
Srikar Dronamraju2b144492012-02-09 14:56:42 +0530117
James Hoganc19fa942012-05-30 11:23:23 +0100118config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
119 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
120 help
121 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
122 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
123 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
124 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
125 architectures without unaligned access.
126
127 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
128 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
129 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
130
131 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
132 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
133
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700134config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700135 bool
Johannes Berg58340a02008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700136 help
137 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
138 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
139 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
140 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
141 handler.)
142
143 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
144 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
145 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
146 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
147 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
148 much.
149
150 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
151 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
152
David Woodhousecf66bb92012-12-03 16:25:40 +0000153config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
154 bool
155 help
156 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
157 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
158 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
159 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
160 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
161 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
162 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
163 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
164 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
165 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
166 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
167
168 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
169 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
170 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
171
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800172config KRETPROBES
173 def_bool y
174 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
175
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300176config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
177 bool
178 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
179 help
180 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
181 switch to user mode.
182
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700183config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700184 bool
Rik van Riel28b2ee22008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700185
Mathieu Desnoyers125e5642008-02-02 15:10:36 -0500186config HAVE_KPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700187 bool
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli9edddaa2008-03-04 14:28:37 -0800188
189config HAVE_KRETPROBES
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700190 bool
Arthur Kepner74bc7ce2008-04-29 01:00:30 -0700191
Masami Hiramatsuafd66252010-02-25 08:34:07 -0500192config HAVE_OPTPROBES
193 bool
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700194
Masami Hiramatsue7dbfe32012-09-28 17:15:20 +0900195config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
196 bool
197
Petr Mladek42a0bb32016-05-20 17:00:33 -0700198config HAVE_NMI
199 bool
200
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700201#
202# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
203#
204# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
205# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
206# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700207# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
208# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
209# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
210# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
211# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
212# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
213#
214config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700215 bool
Roland McGrath1f5a4ad2008-07-25 19:45:57 -0700216
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100217config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
218 bool
219
Thomas Gleixner29d5e042012-04-20 13:05:45 +0000220config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
221 bool
222
Kevin Hilman485cf5d2013-04-24 17:19:13 -0700223config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
224 bool
225
Daniel Borkmannd2852a22017-02-21 16:09:33 +0100226# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
227config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
228 bool
229
Thomas Gleixnera6359d12012-05-03 09:03:02 +0000230# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
231config ARCH_INIT_TASK
Thomas Gleixnera4a2eb42012-05-03 09:02:48 +0000232 bool
233
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000234# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
235config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
236 bool
237
Linus Torvaldsb235bee2016-06-24 15:09:37 -0700238# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
239config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000240 bool
241
Ingo Molnar5aaeb5c2015-07-17 12:28:12 +0200242# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
243config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
244 bool
245
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100246config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
247 bool
Heiko Carstense01292b2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100248 help
249 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
250 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
251 declared in asm/ptrace.h
252 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100253
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700254config HAVE_CLK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700255 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700256 help
257 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
258 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
259
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100260config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
261 bool
Heiko Carstens36cd3c92009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200262
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530263config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
264 bool
Frederic Weisbecker99e8c5a2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100265 depends on PERF_EVENTS
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530266
Frederic Weisbecker01027522010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200267config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
268 bool
269 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
270 help
271 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
272 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
273 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
274 them but define the access type in a control register.
275 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
276 latter fashion.
277
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300278config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
279 bool
Ingo Molnara1922ed2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200280
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200281config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
282 bool
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200283 help
284 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
285 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
286 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200287
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700288config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
289 bool
290 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
291 help
292 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
293 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
294
295config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
296 depends on HAVE_NMI
297 bool
298 help
299 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
300 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
301
302config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
303 bool
304 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
305 help
306 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
307 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
308 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
309
Jiri Olsac5e63192012-08-07 15:20:36 +0200310config HAVE_PERF_REGS
311 bool
312 help
313 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
314 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
315
Jiri Olsac5ebced2012-08-07 15:20:40 +0200316config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
317 bool
318 help
319 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
320 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
321 architectures.
322
Jason Baronbf5438fc2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400323config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
324 bool
325
Peter Zijlstra26723912011-05-24 17:12:00 -0700326config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
327 bool
328
Huang Yingdf013ff2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800329config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
330 bool
331
Heiko Carstens43570fd2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800332config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
333 bool
334 help
335 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
336 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
337 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
338 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
339
Heiko Carstens41561532012-01-12 17:17:30 -0800340config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
341 bool
342
Heiko Carstens25654092012-01-12 17:17:33 -0800343config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
344 bool
345
Paul E. McKenney77e58492017-01-14 13:32:50 -0800346config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
347 bool
348
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700349config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
350 bool
351
352config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
353 bool
354
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400355config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700356 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400357 bool
358
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500359config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
360 bool
361 help
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500362 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
Will Drewrybb6ea432012-04-12 16:48:01 -0500363 - syscall_get_arch()
364 - syscall_get_arguments()
365 - syscall_rollback()
366 - syscall_set_return_value()
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500367 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
368 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
369 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
370 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
Kees Cook48dc92b2014-06-25 16:08:24 -0700371 - seccomp syscall wired up
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500372
373config SECCOMP_FILTER
374 def_bool y
375 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
376 help
377 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
378 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
379 task-defined system call filtering polices.
380
381 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
382
Emese Revfy6b90bd42016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200383config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
384 bool
385 help
386 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
387 GCC plugins.
388
389menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
390 bool "GCC plugins"
391 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
Kees Cooka519167e2016-06-11 09:09:28 -0700392 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
Emese Revfy6b90bd42016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200393 help
394 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
395 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
396
397 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
398
Emese Revfy0dae7762016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200399config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
Kees Cook215e2aa2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800400 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT
Emese Revfy0dae7762016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200401 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
Kees Cook215e2aa2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800402 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
Emese Revfy0dae7762016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200403 help
404 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
405 M = E - N + 2P
406 where
407
408 E = the number of edges
409 N = the number of nodes
410 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
411
Kees Cook215e2aa2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800412 Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the
413 build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a
414 gcc plugin for the kernel.
415
Emese Revfy543c37c2016-05-24 00:11:37 +0200416config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
417 bool
418 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
419 help
420 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
421 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
422 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
423 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
424
Emese Revfy38addce2016-06-20 20:41:19 +0200425config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
426 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
427 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
428 help
429 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
430 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
431 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
432 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
433 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
434 irq processing.
435
436 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
437 secure!
438
439 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
440 * https://grsecurity.net/
441 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
442
Kees Cookc61f13e2017-01-13 11:14:39 -0800443config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
444 bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses"
445 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
446 help
Jean Delvaref136e092017-04-24 08:52:37 +0200447 This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a
Kees Cookc61f13e2017-01-13 11:14:39 -0800448 __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information
449 exposures.
450
451 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
452 * https://grsecurity.net/
453 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
454
455config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
456 bool "Report forcefully initialized variables"
457 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
458 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
459 help
460 This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the
461 structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be
462 initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected
463 by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings.
464
Kees Cook313dd1b62017-05-05 23:37:45 -0700465config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
466 bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures"
467 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
468 select MODVERSIONS if MODULES
469 help
470 If you say Y here, the layouts of structures explicitly
471 marked by __randomize_layout will be randomized at
472 compile-time. This can introduce the requirement of an
473 additional information exposure vulnerability for exploits
474 targeting these structure types.
475
476 Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact,
477 slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic
478 tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel
479 source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation).
480
481 The seed used for compilation is located at
482 scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after
483 a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with
484 the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or
485 make distclean.
486
487 Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer.
488
489 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
490 * https://grsecurity.net/
491 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
492
493config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE
494 bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization"
495 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
496 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
497 help
498 If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a
499 best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized
500 groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields
501 in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT
502 at the cost of weakened randomization.
503
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800504config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
505 bool
506 help
507 An arch should select this symbol if:
508 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
509 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
510
511config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800512 def_bool n
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800513 help
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800514 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
515 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
516
517choice
518 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
519 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
520 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
521 help
522 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800523 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
524 the stack just before the return address, and validates
525 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
526 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
527 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
528 neutralized via a kernel panic.
529
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800530config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
531 bool "None"
532 help
533 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
534
535config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
536 bool "Regular"
537 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
538 help
539 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
540 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
541
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800542 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800543 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
544
545 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
546 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
547 by about 0.3%.
548
549config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
550 bool "Strong"
551 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
552 help
553 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
554 of the following conditions:
555
556 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
557 assignment or function argument
558 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
559 regardless of array type or length
560 - uses register local variables
561
562 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
563 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
564
565 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
566 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
567 size by about 2%.
568
569endchoice
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800570
Stephen Rothwella5967db2016-08-24 22:29:19 +1000571config THIN_ARCHIVES
Nicholas Piggin799c4342017-06-09 15:24:17 +1000572 def_bool y
Stephen Rothwella5967db2016-08-24 22:29:19 +1000573 help
574 Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
575 instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
576
Nicholas Pigginb67067f2016-08-24 22:29:20 +1000577config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
578 bool
579 help
580 Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
581 data elimination with the linker by compiling with
582 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
583 --gc-sections.
584
585 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
586 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
587 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
Nicholas Piggin0f4c4af2016-09-14 12:24:03 +1000588 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
589 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
590 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
Nicholas Pigginb67067f2016-08-24 22:29:20 +1000591
Kees Cook0f60a8e2016-07-12 16:19:48 -0700592config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
593 bool
594 help
595 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
596 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
597 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
598 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
599 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
600
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100601config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200602 bool
603 help
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100604 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
605 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
606 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
607 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
608 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
609 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
610 irq exit still need to be protected.
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200611
Frederic Weisbeckerb9527412012-06-16 15:39:34 +0200612config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
613 bool
614
Stanislaw Gruszka40565b52016-11-15 03:06:51 +0100615config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
616 bool
617
Kevin Hilman554b0002013-09-16 15:28:21 -0700618config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
619 bool
620 default y if 64BIT
621 help
622 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
623 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
624 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
625 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
626 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
627 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
628
629
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200630config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
631 bool
632 help
633 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
634 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
635
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700636config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
637 bool
638
Matthew Wilcoxa00cc7d2017-02-24 14:57:02 -0800639config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
640 bool
641
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -0700642config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
643 bool
644
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700645config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
646 bool
647
David Howells786d35d2012-09-28 14:31:03 +0930648config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
649 bool
650 help
651 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
652 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
653 should not enable this.
654
655config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
656 bool
657 help
658 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
659 relocations will give an error.
660
661config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
662 bool
663 help
664 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
665 relocations will give an error.
666
Rusty Russellb92021b2013-03-15 15:04:17 +1030667config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
668 bool
669 help
670 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
671 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
672
Frederic Weisbeckercc1f0272013-09-24 17:17:47 +0200673config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
674 bool
675 help
676 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
677 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
678 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
679 in the end of an hardirq.
680 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
681 processing.
682
Kirill A. Shutemov235a8f02015-04-14 15:46:17 -0700683config PGTABLE_LEVELS
684 int
685 default 2
686
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700687config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
688 bool
689 help
690 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
691 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
692 - arch_mmap_rnd()
Kees Cook204db6e2015-04-14 15:48:12 -0700693 - arch_randomize_brk()
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700694
Daniel Cashmand07e2252016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800695config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
696 bool
697 help
698 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
699 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
700 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
701 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
702 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
703
Jiri Slaby5f56a5d2016-05-20 17:00:16 -0700704config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
705 bool
706 help
707 An architecture implements exit_thread.
708
Daniel Cashmand07e2252016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800709config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
710 int
711
712config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
713 int
714
715config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
716 int
717
718config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
719 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
720 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
721 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
722 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
723 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
724 help
725 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
726 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
727 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
728 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
729
730 This value can be changed after boot using the
731 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
732
733config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
734 bool
735 help
736 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
737 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
738 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
739 enabled and provides values for both:
740 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
741 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
742
743config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
744 int
745
746config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
747 int
748
749config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
750 int
751
752config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
753 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
754 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
755 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
756 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
757 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
758 help
759 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
760 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
761 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
762 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
763 supported values.
764
765 This value can be changed after boot using the
766 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
767
Dmitry Safonov1b028f72017-03-06 17:17:19 +0300768config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
769 bool
770 help
771 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
772 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
773 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
774
Josh Triplett3033f14a2015-06-25 15:01:19 -0700775config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
776 bool
777 help
778 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
779 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
780 argument from pt_regs.
781
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600782config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
783 bool
784 help
785 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
786 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
787
Josh Poimboeufaf085d92017-02-13 19:42:28 -0600788config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
789 bool
790 help
791 Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
792 only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
793
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -0400794config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
795 bool
796 default n
797 help
798 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
799 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
800 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
801
William Breathitt Gray3a495512016-05-27 18:08:27 -0400802config ISA_BUS_API
803 def_bool ISA
804
Al Virod2125042012-10-23 13:17:59 -0400805#
806# ABI hall of shame
807#
808config CLONE_BACKWARDS
809 bool
810 help
811 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
812 not the 5th one.
813
814config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
815 bool
816 help
817 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
818
Michal Simekdfa97712013-08-13 16:00:53 -0700819config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
820 bool
821 help
822 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
823 not the 5th one.
824
Al Viroeaca6ea2012-11-25 23:12:10 -0500825config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
826 bool
827 help
828 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
829
Al Viro0a0e8cd2012-12-25 16:04:12 -0500830config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
831 bool
832 help
833 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
834
835config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
836 bool
837 help
838 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
839
Al Viro495dfbf2012-12-25 19:09:45 -0500840config OLD_SIGACTION
841 bool
842 help
843 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
844 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
845 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
846 compatibility...
847
848config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
849 bool
850
Christoph Hellwig0d4a6192016-01-20 15:01:22 -0800851config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
852 bool
853
Zhaoxiu Zengfff7fb02016-05-20 17:03:57 -0700854config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
855 def_bool n
856
Andy Lutomirskiba14a192016-08-11 02:35:21 -0700857config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
858 def_bool n
859 help
860 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
861 in vmalloc space. This means:
862
863 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
864 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
865
866 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
867 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
868 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
869 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
870 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
871 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
872
873 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
874 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
875 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
876
877config VMAP_STACK
878 default y
879 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
880 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
881 ---help---
882 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
883 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
884 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
885 corruption.
886
887 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
888 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
889 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
890
Laura Abbottad21fc42017-02-06 16:31:57 -0800891config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
892 def_bool n
893
894config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
895 def_bool n
896
897config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
898 def_bool n
899
Laura Abbott0f5bf6d2017-02-06 16:31:58 -0800900config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
Laura Abbottad21fc42017-02-06 16:31:57 -0800901 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
902 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
903 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
904 help
905 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
906 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
907 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
908 or modifying text)
909
910 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
911 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
912
913config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
914 def_bool n
915
Laura Abbott0f5bf6d2017-02-06 16:31:58 -0800916config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
Laura Abbottad21fc42017-02-06 16:31:57 -0800917 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
918 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
919 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
920 help
921 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
922 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
923 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
924
Mao Wenan1a8b6d72017-01-18 08:50:05 +0800925config ARCH_WANT_RELAX_ORDER
926 bool
927
Kees Cookfd25d19f2017-06-21 13:00:26 -0700928config REFCOUNT_FULL
929 bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed"
930 help
931 Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast
932 unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked
933 implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections
934 against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
935 security flaw exploits.
936
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700937source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"