1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 # General architecture dependent options
17 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
19 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
21 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
23 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
24 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
29 config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
30 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
32 depends on OPROFILE && X86
34 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
35 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
36 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
37 between events at a user specified time interval.
44 config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
46 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
51 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
54 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
55 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
56 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
57 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
61 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
62 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
64 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
65 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
66 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
68 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
69 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
70 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
72 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
73 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
74 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
75 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
76 conditional block of instructions.
78 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
79 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
80 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
82 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
83 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
85 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
86 bool "Static key selftest"
89 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
93 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
94 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPT
96 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
98 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
99 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
101 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
102 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
103 optimize on top of function tracing.
107 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
109 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
110 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
111 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
112 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
113 are hit by user-space applications.
115 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
116 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
119 config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
120 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
122 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
123 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
124 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
125 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
126 architectures without unaligned access.
128 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
129 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
130 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
132 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
133 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
135 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
138 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
139 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
140 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
141 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
144 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
145 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
146 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
147 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
148 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
151 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
152 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
154 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
157 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
158 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
159 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
160 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
161 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
162 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
163 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
164 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
165 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
166 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
167 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
169 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
170 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
171 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
175 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
177 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
179 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
181 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
184 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
190 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
193 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
196 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
199 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
206 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
208 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
209 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
210 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
211 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
212 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
213 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
214 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
215 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
216 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
218 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
221 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
224 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
227 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
230 config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
233 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
234 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
236 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
237 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
240 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
241 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
244 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
245 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
248 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
250 depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
252 An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
253 knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
254 whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
255 FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
256 should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
257 field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
259 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
260 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
263 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
264 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
267 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
270 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
271 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
272 declared in asm/ptrace.h
273 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
278 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
279 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
281 config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
284 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
286 depends on PERF_EVENTS
288 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
290 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
292 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
293 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
294 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
295 them but define the access type in a control register.
296 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
299 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
302 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
305 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
306 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
307 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
309 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
311 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
313 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
314 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
316 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
320 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
321 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
323 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
325 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
327 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
328 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
329 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
331 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
334 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
335 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
337 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
340 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
341 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
344 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
347 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
350 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
353 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
356 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
357 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
358 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
359 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
361 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
364 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
367 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
370 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
373 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
376 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
377 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
380 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
383 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
385 - syscall_get_arguments()
387 - syscall_set_return_value()
388 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
389 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
390 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
391 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
392 - seccomp syscall wired up
394 config SECCOMP_FILTER
396 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
398 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
399 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
400 task-defined system call filtering polices.
402 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
404 config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
407 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
410 menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
412 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
413 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
415 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
416 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
418 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
420 config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
421 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT
422 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
423 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
425 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
429 E = the number of edges
430 N = the number of nodes
431 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
433 Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the
434 build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a
435 gcc plugin for the kernel.
437 config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
439 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
441 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
442 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
443 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
444 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
446 config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
447 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
448 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
450 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
451 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
452 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
453 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
454 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
457 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
460 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
461 * https://grsecurity.net/
462 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
464 config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
465 bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses"
466 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
468 This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a
469 __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information
472 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
473 * https://grsecurity.net/
474 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
476 config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL
477 bool "Force initialize all struct type variables passed by reference"
478 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
480 Zero initialize any struct type local variable that may be passed by
481 reference without having been initialized.
483 config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
484 bool "Report forcefully initialized variables"
485 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
486 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
488 This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the
489 structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be
490 initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected
491 by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings.
493 config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
494 bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures"
495 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
496 select MODVERSIONS if MODULES
498 If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely
499 function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with
500 __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly
501 marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time.
502 This can introduce the requirement of an additional information
503 exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure
506 Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact,
507 slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic
508 tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel
509 source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation).
511 The seed used for compilation is located at
512 scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after
513 a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with
514 the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or
517 Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer.
519 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
520 * https://grsecurity.net/
521 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
523 config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE
524 bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization"
525 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
526 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
528 If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a
529 best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized
530 groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields
531 in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT
532 at the cost of weakened randomization.
534 config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
537 An arch should select this symbol if:
538 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
539 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
542 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
543 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
544 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO
546 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
547 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
548 the stack just before the return address, and validates
549 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
550 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
551 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
552 neutralized via a kernel panic.
554 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
557 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
559 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
562 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
563 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
565 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
566 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
568 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
569 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
572 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
575 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
576 of the following conditions:
578 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
579 assignment or function argument
580 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
581 regardless of array type or length
582 - uses register local variables
584 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
585 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
587 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
588 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
591 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO
594 If the compiler supports it, the best available stack-protector
595 option will be chosen.
602 Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
603 instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
605 config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
608 Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
609 data elimination with the linker by compiling with
610 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
613 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
614 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
615 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
616 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
617 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
618 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
620 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
623 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
624 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
625 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
626 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
627 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
629 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
632 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
633 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
634 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
635 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
636 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
637 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
638 irq exit still need to be protected.
640 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
643 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
646 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
650 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
651 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
652 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
653 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
654 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
655 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
658 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
661 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
662 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
664 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
667 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
670 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
673 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
676 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
679 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
680 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
681 should not enable this.
683 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
686 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
687 relocations will give an error.
689 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
692 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
693 relocations will give an error.
695 config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
698 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
699 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
701 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
704 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
705 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
706 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
707 in the end of an hardirq.
708 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
711 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
715 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
718 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
719 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
721 - arch_randomize_brk()
723 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
726 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
727 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
728 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
729 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
730 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
732 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
735 An architecture implements exit_thread.
737 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
740 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
743 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
746 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
747 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
748 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
749 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
750 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
751 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
753 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
754 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
755 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
756 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
758 This value can be changed after boot using the
759 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
761 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
764 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
765 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
766 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
767 enabled and provides values for both:
768 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
769 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
771 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
774 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
777 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
780 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
781 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
782 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
783 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
784 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
785 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
787 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
788 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
789 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
790 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
793 This value can be changed after boot using the
794 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
796 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
799 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
800 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
801 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
803 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
806 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
807 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
808 argument from pt_regs.
810 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
813 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
814 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
816 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
819 Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
820 only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
822 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
826 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
827 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
828 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
836 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
839 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
842 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
845 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
847 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
850 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
853 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
856 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
858 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
861 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
863 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
866 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
871 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
872 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
873 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
876 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
879 config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
882 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
885 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
888 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
889 in vmalloc space. This means:
891 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
892 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
894 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
895 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
896 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
897 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
898 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
899 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
901 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
902 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
903 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
907 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
908 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
910 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
911 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
912 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
915 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
916 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
917 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
919 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
922 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
925 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
928 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
929 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
930 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
931 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
933 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
934 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
935 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
938 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
939 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
941 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
944 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
945 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
946 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
947 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
949 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
950 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
951 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
953 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
954 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
957 config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
960 An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t
961 using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized
962 refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full
963 refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y.
965 The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained.
966 Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting
967 against bugs in reference counts.
970 bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed"
972 Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast
973 unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked
974 implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections
975 against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
976 security flaw exploits.
978 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"