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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 Micay6974f0c2017-07-12 14:36:10 -0700226config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
227 bool
228 help
229 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
230 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
231
Daniel Borkmannd2852a22017-02-21 16:09:33 +0100232# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
233config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
234 bool
235
Thomas Gleixnera6359d12012-05-03 09:03:02 +0000236# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
237config ARCH_INIT_TASK
Thomas Gleixnera4a2eb42012-05-03 09:02:48 +0000238 bool
239
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000240# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
241config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
242 bool
243
Linus Torvaldsb235bee2016-06-24 15:09:37 -0700244# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
245config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
Thomas Gleixnerf5e10282012-05-05 15:05:48 +0000246 bool
247
Ingo Molnar5aaeb5c2015-07-17 12:28:12 +0200248# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
249config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
250 bool
251
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100252config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
253 bool
Heiko Carstense01292b2010-02-18 14:25:21 +0100254 help
255 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
256 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
257 declared in asm/ptrace.h
258 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100259
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700260config HAVE_CLK
Jan Beulich9ba16082008-10-15 22:01:38 -0700261 bool
David Brownell9483a572008-07-23 21:26:48 -0700262 help
263 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
264 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
265
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100266config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
267 bool
Heiko Carstens36cd3c92009-04-09 18:48:34 +0200268
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530269config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
270 bool
Frederic Weisbecker99e8c5a2009-12-17 01:33:54 +0100271 depends on PERF_EVENTS
K.Prasad62a038d2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530272
Frederic Weisbecker01027522010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200273config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
274 bool
275 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
276 help
277 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
278 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
279 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
280 them but define the access type in a control register.
281 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
282 latter fashion.
283
Avi Kivity7c68af62009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300284config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
285 bool
Ingo Molnara1922ed2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200286
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200287config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
288 bool
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200289 help
290 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
291 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
292 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
Frederic Weisbeckerc01d4322010-05-15 22:57:48 +0200293
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700294config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
295 bool
296 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
297 help
298 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
299 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
300
301config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
302 depends on HAVE_NMI
303 bool
304 help
305 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
306 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
307
308config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
309 bool
310 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
311 help
312 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
313 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
314 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
315
Jiri Olsac5e63192012-08-07 15:20:36 +0200316config HAVE_PERF_REGS
317 bool
318 help
319 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
320 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
321
Jiri Olsac5ebced2012-08-07 15:20:40 +0200322config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
323 bool
324 help
325 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
326 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
327 architectures.
328
Jason Baronbf5438fc2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400329config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
330 bool
331
Peter Zijlstra26723912011-05-24 17:12:00 -0700332config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
333 bool
334
Huang Yingdf013ff2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800335config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
336 bool
337
Heiko Carstens43570fd2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800338config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
339 bool
340 help
341 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
342 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
343 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
344 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
345
Heiko Carstens41561532012-01-12 17:17:30 -0800346config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
347 bool
348
Heiko Carstens25654092012-01-12 17:17:33 -0800349config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
350 bool
351
Paul E. McKenney77e58492017-01-14 13:32:50 -0800352config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
353 bool
354
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700355config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
356 bool
357
358config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
359 bool
360
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400361config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
Will Deaconc1d7e012012-07-30 14:42:46 -0700362 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
Chris Metcalf48b25c42012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400363 bool
364
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500365config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
366 bool
367 help
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500368 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
Will Drewrybb6ea432012-04-12 16:48:01 -0500369 - syscall_get_arch()
370 - syscall_get_arguments()
371 - syscall_rollback()
372 - syscall_set_return_value()
Will Drewryfb0fadf2012-04-12 16:48:02 -0500373 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
374 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
375 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
376 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
Kees Cook48dc92b2014-06-25 16:08:24 -0700377 - seccomp syscall wired up
Will Drewrye2cfabdf2012-04-12 16:47:57 -0500378
379config SECCOMP_FILTER
380 def_bool y
381 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
382 help
383 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
384 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
385 task-defined system call filtering polices.
386
387 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
388
Emese Revfy6b90bd42016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200389config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
390 bool
391 help
392 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
393 GCC plugins.
394
395menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
396 bool "GCC plugins"
397 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
Kees Cooka519167e2016-06-11 09:09:28 -0700398 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
Emese Revfy6b90bd42016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200399 help
400 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
401 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
402
403 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
404
Emese Revfy0dae7762016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200405config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
Kees Cook215e2aa2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800406 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT
Emese Revfy0dae7762016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200407 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
Kees Cook215e2aa2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800408 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
Emese Revfy0dae7762016-05-24 00:10:35 +0200409 help
410 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
411 M = E - N + 2P
412 where
413
414 E = the number of edges
415 N = the number of nodes
416 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
417
Kees Cook215e2aa2016-11-08 16:27:03 -0800418 Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the
419 build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a
420 gcc plugin for the kernel.
421
Emese Revfy543c37c2016-05-24 00:11:37 +0200422config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
423 bool
424 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
425 help
426 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
427 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
428 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
429 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
430
Emese Revfy38addce2016-06-20 20:41:19 +0200431config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
432 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
433 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
434 help
435 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
436 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
437 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
438 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
439 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
440 irq processing.
441
442 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
443 secure!
444
445 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
446 * https://grsecurity.net/
447 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
448
Kees Cookc61f13e2017-01-13 11:14:39 -0800449config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
450 bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses"
451 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
452 help
Jean Delvaref136e092017-04-24 08:52:37 +0200453 This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a
Kees Cookc61f13e2017-01-13 11:14:39 -0800454 __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information
455 exposures.
456
457 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
458 * https://grsecurity.net/
459 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
460
461config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
462 bool "Report forcefully initialized variables"
463 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
464 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
465 help
466 This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the
467 structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be
468 initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected
469 by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings.
470
Kees Cook313dd1b62017-05-05 23:37:45 -0700471config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
472 bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures"
473 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
474 select MODVERSIONS if MODULES
475 help
476 If you say Y here, the layouts of structures explicitly
477 marked by __randomize_layout will be randomized at
478 compile-time. This can introduce the requirement of an
479 additional information exposure vulnerability for exploits
480 targeting these structure types.
481
482 Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact,
483 slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic
484 tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel
485 source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation).
486
487 The seed used for compilation is located at
488 scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after
489 a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with
490 the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or
491 make distclean.
492
493 Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer.
494
495 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
496 * https://grsecurity.net/
497 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
498
499config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE
500 bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization"
501 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
502 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
503 help
504 If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a
505 best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized
506 groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields
507 in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT
508 at the cost of weakened randomization.
509
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800510config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
511 bool
512 help
513 An arch should select this symbol if:
514 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
515 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
516
517config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800518 def_bool n
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800519 help
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800520 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
521 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
522
523choice
524 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
525 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
526 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
527 help
528 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800529 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
530 the stack just before the return address, and validates
531 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
532 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
533 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
534 neutralized via a kernel panic.
535
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800536config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
537 bool "None"
538 help
539 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
540
541config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
542 bool "Regular"
543 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
544 help
545 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
546 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
547
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800548 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
Kees Cook87796572013-12-19 11:35:59 -0800549 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
550
551 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
552 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
553 by about 0.3%.
554
555config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
556 bool "Strong"
557 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
558 help
559 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
560 of the following conditions:
561
562 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
563 assignment or function argument
564 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
565 regardless of array type or length
566 - uses register local variables
567
568 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
569 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
570
571 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
572 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
573 size by about 2%.
574
575endchoice
Kees Cook19952a92013-12-19 11:35:58 -0800576
Stephen Rothwella5967db2016-08-24 22:29:19 +1000577config THIN_ARCHIVES
Nicholas Piggin799c4342017-06-09 15:24:17 +1000578 def_bool y
Stephen Rothwella5967db2016-08-24 22:29:19 +1000579 help
580 Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
581 instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
582
Nicholas Pigginb67067f2016-08-24 22:29:20 +1000583config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
584 bool
585 help
586 Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
587 data elimination with the linker by compiling with
588 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
589 --gc-sections.
590
591 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
592 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
593 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
Nicholas Piggin0f4c4af2016-09-14 12:24:03 +1000594 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
595 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
596 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
Nicholas Pigginb67067f2016-08-24 22:29:20 +1000597
Kees Cook0f60a8e2016-07-12 16:19:48 -0700598config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
599 bool
600 help
601 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
602 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
603 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
604 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
605 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
606
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100607config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200608 bool
609 help
Frederic Weisbecker91d1aa432012-11-27 19:33:25 +0100610 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
611 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
612 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
613 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
614 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
615 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
616 irq exit still need to be protected.
Frederic Weisbecker2b1d5022012-07-11 20:26:30 +0200617
Frederic Weisbeckerb9527412012-06-16 15:39:34 +0200618config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
619 bool
620
Stanislaw Gruszka40565b52016-11-15 03:06:51 +0100621config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
622 bool
623
Kevin Hilman554b0002013-09-16 15:28:21 -0700624config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
625 bool
626 default y if 64BIT
627 help
628 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
629 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
630 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
631 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
632 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
633 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
634
635
Frederic Weisbeckerfdf9c352012-09-09 14:56:31 +0200636config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
637 bool
638 help
639 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
640 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
641
Gerald Schaefer15626062012-10-08 16:30:04 -0700642config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
643 bool
644
Matthew Wilcoxa00cc7d2017-02-24 14:57:02 -0800645config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
646 bool
647
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -0700648config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
649 bool
650
Pavel Emelyanov0f8975e2013-07-03 15:01:20 -0700651config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
652 bool
653
David Howells786d35d2012-09-28 14:31:03 +0930654config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
655 bool
656 help
657 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
658 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
659 should not enable this.
660
661config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
662 bool
663 help
664 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
665 relocations will give an error.
666
667config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
668 bool
669 help
670 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
671 relocations will give an error.
672
Rusty Russellb92021b2013-03-15 15:04:17 +1030673config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
674 bool
675 help
676 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
677 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
678
Frederic Weisbeckercc1f0272013-09-24 17:17:47 +0200679config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
680 bool
681 help
682 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
683 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
684 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
685 in the end of an hardirq.
686 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
687 processing.
688
Kirill A. Shutemov235a8f02015-04-14 15:46:17 -0700689config PGTABLE_LEVELS
690 int
691 default 2
692
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700693config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
694 bool
695 help
696 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
697 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
698 - arch_mmap_rnd()
Kees Cook204db6e2015-04-14 15:48:12 -0700699 - arch_randomize_brk()
Kees Cook2b68f6c2015-04-14 15:48:00 -0700700
Daniel Cashmand07e2252016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800701config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
702 bool
703 help
704 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
705 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
706 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
707 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
708 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
709
Jiri Slaby5f56a5d2016-05-20 17:00:16 -0700710config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
711 bool
712 help
713 An architecture implements exit_thread.
714
Daniel Cashmand07e2252016-01-14 15:19:53 -0800715config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
716 int
717
718config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
719 int
720
721config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
722 int
723
724config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
725 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
726 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
727 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
728 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
729 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
730 help
731 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
732 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
733 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
734 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
735
736 This value can be changed after boot using the
737 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
738
739config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
740 bool
741 help
742 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
743 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
744 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
745 enabled and provides values for both:
746 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
747 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
748
749config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
750 int
751
752config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
753 int
754
755config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
756 int
757
758config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
759 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
760 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
761 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
762 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
763 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
764 help
765 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
766 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
767 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
768 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
769 supported values.
770
771 This value can be changed after boot using the
772 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
773
Dmitry Safonov1b028f72017-03-06 17:17:19 +0300774config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
775 bool
776 help
777 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
778 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
779 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
780
Josh Triplett3033f14a2015-06-25 15:01:19 -0700781config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
782 bool
783 help
784 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
785 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
786 argument from pt_regs.
787
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600788config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
789 bool
790 help
791 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
792 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
793
Josh Poimboeufaf085d92017-02-13 19:42:28 -0600794config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
795 bool
796 help
797 Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
798 only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
799
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -0400800config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
801 bool
802 default n
803 help
804 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
805 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
806 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
807
William Breathitt Gray3a495512016-05-27 18:08:27 -0400808config ISA_BUS_API
809 def_bool ISA
810
Al Virod2125042012-10-23 13:17:59 -0400811#
812# ABI hall of shame
813#
814config CLONE_BACKWARDS
815 bool
816 help
817 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
818 not the 5th one.
819
820config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
821 bool
822 help
823 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
824
Michal Simekdfa97712013-08-13 16:00:53 -0700825config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
826 bool
827 help
828 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
829 not the 5th one.
830
Al Viroeaca6ea2012-11-25 23:12:10 -0500831config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
832 bool
833 help
834 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
835
Al Viro0a0e8cd2012-12-25 16:04:12 -0500836config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
837 bool
838 help
839 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
840
841config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
842 bool
843 help
844 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
845
Al Viro495dfbf2012-12-25 19:09:45 -0500846config OLD_SIGACTION
847 bool
848 help
849 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
850 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
851 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
852 compatibility...
853
854config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
855 bool
856
Christoph Hellwig0d4a6192016-01-20 15:01:22 -0800857config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
858 bool
859
Zhaoxiu Zengfff7fb02016-05-20 17:03:57 -0700860config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
861 def_bool n
862
Andy Lutomirskiba14a192016-08-11 02:35:21 -0700863config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
864 def_bool n
865 help
866 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
867 in vmalloc space. This means:
868
869 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
870 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
871
872 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
873 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
874 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
875 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
876 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
877 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
878
879 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
880 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
881 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
882
883config VMAP_STACK
884 default y
885 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
886 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
887 ---help---
888 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
889 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
890 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
891 corruption.
892
893 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
894 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
895 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
896
Laura Abbottad21fc42017-02-06 16:31:57 -0800897config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
898 def_bool n
899
900config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
901 def_bool n
902
903config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
904 def_bool n
905
Laura Abbott0f5bf6d2017-02-06 16:31:58 -0800906config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
Laura Abbottad21fc42017-02-06 16:31:57 -0800907 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
908 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
909 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
910 help
911 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
912 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
913 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
914 or modifying text)
915
916 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
917 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
918
919config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
920 def_bool n
921
Laura Abbott0f5bf6d2017-02-06 16:31:58 -0800922config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
Laura Abbottad21fc42017-02-06 16:31:57 -0800923 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
924 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
925 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
926 help
927 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
928 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
929 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
930
Mao Wenan1a8b6d72017-01-18 08:50:05 +0800931config ARCH_WANT_RELAX_ORDER
932 bool
933
Kees Cook7a46ec02017-08-15 09:19:24 -0700934config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
935 bool
936 help
937 An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t
938 using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized
939 refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full
940 refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y.
941
942 The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained.
943 Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting
944 against bugs in reference counts.
945
Kees Cookfd25d19f2017-06-21 13:00:26 -0700946config REFCOUNT_FULL
947 bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed"
948 help
949 Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast
950 unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked
951 implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections
952 against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
953 security flaw exploits.
954
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -0700955source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"