1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 # General architecture dependent options
7 # Note: arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig needs to be included first so that it can
8 # override the default values in this file.
10 source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig"
12 menu "General architecture-dependent options"
31 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
33 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
35 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
37 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
38 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
43 config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
44 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
46 depends on OPROFILE && X86
48 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
49 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
50 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
51 between events at a user specified time interval.
58 config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
60 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
65 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
68 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
69 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
70 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
71 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
75 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
76 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
77 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
79 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
80 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
81 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
83 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
84 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
85 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
87 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
88 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
89 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
90 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
91 conditional block of instructions.
93 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
94 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
95 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
97 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
98 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
100 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
101 bool "Static key selftest"
102 depends on JUMP_LABEL
104 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
108 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
109 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
111 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
113 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
114 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
116 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
117 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
118 optimize on top of function tracing.
122 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
124 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
125 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
126 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
127 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
128 are hit by user-space applications.
130 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
131 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
134 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
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
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
150 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
151 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
153 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
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.
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.
174 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
176 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
178 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
180 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
183 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
189 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
192 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
195 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
198 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
205 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
207 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
208 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
209 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
210 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
211 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
212 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
213 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
214 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
215 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
217 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
220 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
223 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
226 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
229 config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
232 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
233 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
236 # Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd
237 # command line option
239 config ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD
242 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
243 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
246 # Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions
247 config ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
251 # Select if the architecture provides the arch_dma_set_uncached symbol to
252 # either provide an uncached segement alias for a DMA allocation, or
253 # to remap the page tables in place.
255 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED
259 # Select if the architectures provides the arch_dma_clear_uncached symbol
260 # to undo an in-place page table remap for uncached access.
262 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED
265 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
266 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
269 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
270 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
273 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
275 depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
277 An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
278 knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
279 whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
280 FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
281 should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
282 field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
284 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
285 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
288 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
289 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
292 config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
296 All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on
297 userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This
298 is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures
299 still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such
300 architectures explicitly.
302 config HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
305 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it provides
306 <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols
307 exported from assembly code.
309 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
312 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
313 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
314 declared in asm/ptrace.h
315 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
319 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
321 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it
322 supports an implementation of restartable sequences.
324 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
327 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
328 the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs,
329 declared in asm/ptrace.h
334 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
335 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
337 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
339 depends on PERF_EVENTS
341 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
343 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
345 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
346 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
347 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
348 them but define the access type in a control register.
349 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
352 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
355 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
358 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
359 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
360 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
362 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
364 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
366 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
367 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
369 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
373 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
374 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
376 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
378 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
380 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
381 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
382 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
384 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
387 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
388 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
390 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
393 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
394 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
397 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
400 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
403 config MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
406 config MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
408 select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
410 config MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
413 config MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE
416 config MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER
418 depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
420 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
423 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
426 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
427 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
428 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
429 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
431 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
434 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
437 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
440 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
443 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
446 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
447 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
450 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
453 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
455 - syscall_get_arguments()
457 - syscall_set_return_value()
458 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
459 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
460 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
461 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
462 - seccomp syscall wired up
464 config SECCOMP_FILTER
466 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
468 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
469 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
470 task-defined system call filtering polices.
472 See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details.
474 config HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
477 An architecture should select this if it has the code which
478 fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON
479 value before returning from system calls.
481 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
484 An arch should select this symbol if:
485 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
487 config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
488 def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
490 config STACKPROTECTOR
491 bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
492 depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
493 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
496 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
497 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
498 the stack just before the return address, and validates
499 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
500 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
501 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
502 neutralized via a kernel panic.
504 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
505 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
507 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
508 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
510 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
511 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
514 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
515 bool "Strong Stack Protector"
516 depends on STACKPROTECTOR
517 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong)
520 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
521 of the following conditions:
523 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
524 assignment or function argument
525 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
526 regardless of array type or length
527 - uses register local variables
529 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
530 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
532 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
533 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
536 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
539 An architecture should select this if it supports Clang's Shadow
540 Call Stack and implements runtime support for shadow stack
543 config SHADOW_CALL_STACK
544 bool "Clang Shadow Call Stack"
545 depends on CC_IS_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
546 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || !FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
548 This option enables Clang's Shadow Call Stack, which uses a
549 shadow stack to protect function return addresses from being
550 overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found in
551 Clang's documentation:
553 https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html
555 Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the
556 ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses
557 of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable of
558 reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them
559 and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks.
561 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
564 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
565 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
566 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
567 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
568 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
570 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
573 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
574 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
575 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter(), either
576 optimized behind static key or through the slow path using TIF_NOHZ
577 flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs are already
578 protected inside rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal
579 handling on irq exit still need to be protected.
584 Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall slow path to implement context
585 tracking calls to user_enter()/user_exit().
587 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
590 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
593 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
597 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
598 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
599 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
600 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
601 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
602 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
605 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
608 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
609 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
614 Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level.
616 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
619 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
622 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
625 config ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
628 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
631 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
634 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
635 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
636 should not enable this.
638 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
641 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
642 relocations will give an error.
644 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
647 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
648 relocations will give an error.
650 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
653 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
654 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
655 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
656 in the end of an hardirq.
657 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
660 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
664 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
667 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
668 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
670 - arch_randomize_brk()
672 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
675 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
676 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
677 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
678 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
679 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
681 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
684 An architecture implements exit_thread.
686 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
689 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
692 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
695 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
696 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
697 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
698 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
699 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
700 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
702 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
703 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
704 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
705 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
707 This value can be changed after boot using the
708 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
710 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
713 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
714 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
715 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
716 enabled and provides values for both:
717 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
718 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
720 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
723 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
726 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
729 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
730 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
731 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
732 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
733 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
734 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
736 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
737 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
738 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
739 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
742 This value can be changed after boot using the
743 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
745 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
748 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
749 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
750 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
752 # This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base
753 # address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process
754 # is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or
755 # sysctl_legacy_va_layout).
756 # Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of:
758 config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT
761 select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
763 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
766 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
767 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
768 argument from pt_regs.
770 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
773 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
774 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
776 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
779 Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or
780 arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace
781 if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
783 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
787 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
788 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
789 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
791 config HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
800 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
803 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
806 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
809 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
811 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
814 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
817 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
820 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
822 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
825 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
827 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
830 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
835 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
836 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
837 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
840 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
843 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
844 bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t"
845 default !64BIT || COMPAT
847 This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
848 This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures
849 as part of compat syscall handling.
851 config ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
854 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
857 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
860 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
863 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
864 in vmalloc space. This means:
866 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
867 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
869 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
870 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
871 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
872 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
873 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
874 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
876 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
877 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
878 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
882 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
883 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
884 depends on !KASAN || KASAN_VMALLOC
886 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
887 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
888 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
891 To use this with KASAN, the architecture must support backing
892 virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC must
895 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
898 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
901 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
904 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
905 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
906 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
907 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
909 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
910 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
911 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
914 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
915 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
917 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
920 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
921 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
922 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
923 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
925 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
926 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
927 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
929 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
930 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
933 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
936 An architecture can select this if it provides an
937 asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
938 linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
939 headers generally provide.
941 config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
944 May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative
945 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader,
946 in which case relative references can be used in special sections
947 for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit
948 architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
951 config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
954 config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
955 bool "Locking event counts collection"
958 Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events
959 in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces
960 the chance of application behavior change because of timing
961 differences. The counts are reported via debugfs.
963 # Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations.
968 bool "Use RELR relocation packing"
969 depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
972 Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing
973 format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as
974 well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy
977 config ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
980 config HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR
983 An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse
984 to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with
985 entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall
986 related optimizations for a given architecture.
988 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
990 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"