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"
28 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
30 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
32 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
34 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
35 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
40 config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
41 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
43 depends on OPROFILE && X86
45 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
46 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
47 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
48 between events at a user specified time interval.
55 config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
57 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
62 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
65 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
66 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
67 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
68 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
72 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
73 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
74 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
76 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
77 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
78 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
80 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
81 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
82 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
84 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
85 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
86 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
87 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
88 conditional block of instructions.
90 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
91 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
92 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
94 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
95 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
97 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
98 bool "Static key selftest"
101 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
105 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
106 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPT
108 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
110 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
111 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
113 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
114 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
115 optimize on top of function tracing.
119 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
121 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
122 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
123 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
124 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
125 are hit by user-space applications.
127 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
128 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
131 config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
132 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
134 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
135 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
136 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
137 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
138 architectures without unaligned access.
140 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
141 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
142 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
144 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
145 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
147 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
150 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
151 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
152 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
153 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
156 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
157 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
158 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
159 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
160 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
163 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
164 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
166 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
169 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
170 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
171 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
172 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
173 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
174 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
175 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
176 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
177 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
178 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
179 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
181 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
182 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
183 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
187 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
189 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
191 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
193 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
196 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
202 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
205 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
208 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
211 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
218 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
220 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
221 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
222 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
223 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
224 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
225 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
226 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
227 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
228 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
230 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
233 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
236 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
239 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
242 config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
245 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
246 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
248 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
249 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
252 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
253 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
256 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
257 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
260 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
262 depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
264 An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
265 knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
266 whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
267 FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
268 should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
269 field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
271 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
272 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
275 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
276 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
279 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
282 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
283 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
284 declared in asm/ptrace.h
285 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
289 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
291 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it
292 supports an implementation of restartable sequences.
294 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
297 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
298 the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs,
299 declared in asm/ptrace.h
304 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
305 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
307 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
309 depends on PERF_EVENTS
311 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
313 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
315 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
316 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
317 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
318 them but define the access type in a control register.
319 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
322 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
325 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
328 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
329 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
330 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
332 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
334 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
336 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
337 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
339 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
343 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
344 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
346 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
348 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
350 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
351 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
352 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
354 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
357 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
358 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
360 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
363 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
364 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
367 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
370 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
373 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
376 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE
379 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
382 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
385 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
386 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
387 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
388 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
390 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
393 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
396 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
399 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
402 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
405 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
406 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
409 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
412 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
414 - syscall_get_arguments()
416 - syscall_set_return_value()
417 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
418 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
419 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
420 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
421 - seccomp syscall wired up
423 config SECCOMP_FILTER
425 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
427 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
428 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
429 task-defined system call filtering polices.
431 See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details.
433 config HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
436 An architecture should select this if it has the code which
437 fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON
438 value before returning from system calls.
440 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
443 An arch should select this symbol if:
444 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
446 config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
447 def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
449 config STACKPROTECTOR
450 bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
451 depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
452 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
455 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
456 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
457 the stack just before the return address, and validates
458 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
459 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
460 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
461 neutralized via a kernel panic.
463 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
464 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
466 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
467 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
469 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
470 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
473 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
474 bool "Strong Stack Protector"
475 depends on STACKPROTECTOR
476 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong)
479 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
480 of the following conditions:
482 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
483 assignment or function argument
484 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
485 regardless of array type or length
486 - uses register local variables
488 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
489 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
491 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
492 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
495 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
498 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
499 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
500 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
501 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
502 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
504 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
507 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
508 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
509 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
510 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
511 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
512 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
513 irq exit still need to be protected.
515 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
518 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
521 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
525 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
526 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
527 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
528 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
529 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
530 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
533 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
536 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
537 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
542 Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level.
544 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
547 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
550 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
553 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
556 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
559 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
560 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
561 should not enable this.
563 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
566 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
567 relocations will give an error.
569 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
572 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
573 relocations will give an error.
575 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
578 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
579 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
580 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
581 in the end of an hardirq.
582 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
585 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
589 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
592 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
593 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
595 - arch_randomize_brk()
597 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
600 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
601 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
602 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
603 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
604 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
606 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
609 An architecture implements exit_thread.
611 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
614 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
617 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
620 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
621 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
622 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
623 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
624 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
625 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
627 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
628 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
629 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
630 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
632 This value can be changed after boot using the
633 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
635 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
638 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
639 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
640 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
641 enabled and provides values for both:
642 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
643 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
645 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
648 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
651 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
654 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
655 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
656 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
657 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
658 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
659 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
661 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
662 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
663 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
664 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
667 This value can be changed after boot using the
668 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
670 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
673 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
674 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
675 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
677 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
680 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
681 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
682 argument from pt_regs.
684 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
687 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
688 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
690 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
693 Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
694 only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
696 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
700 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
701 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
702 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
710 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
713 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
716 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
719 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
721 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
724 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
727 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
730 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
732 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
735 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
737 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
740 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
745 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
746 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
747 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
750 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
754 def_bool ARCH_HAS_64BIT_TIME
756 This should be selected by all architectures that need to support
757 new system calls with a 64-bit time_t. This is relevant on all 32-bit
758 architectures, and 64-bit architectures as part of compat syscall
761 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
762 def_bool (!64BIT && 64BIT_TIME) || COMPAT
764 This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
765 This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures
766 as part of compat syscall handling.
768 config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
771 config ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
774 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
777 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
780 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
781 in vmalloc space. This means:
783 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
784 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
786 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
787 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
788 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
789 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
790 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
791 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
793 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
794 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
795 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
799 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
800 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
802 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
803 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
804 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
807 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
808 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
809 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
811 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
814 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
817 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
820 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
821 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
822 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
823 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
825 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
826 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
827 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
830 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
831 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
833 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
836 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
837 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
838 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
839 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
841 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
842 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
843 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
845 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
846 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
849 config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
852 An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t
853 using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized
854 refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full
855 refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y.
857 The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained.
858 Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting
859 against bugs in reference counts.
862 bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed"
864 Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast
865 unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked
866 implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections
867 against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
868 security flaw exploits.
870 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
873 An architecture can select this if it provides an
874 asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
875 linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
876 headers generally provide.
878 config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
881 May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative
882 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader,
883 in which case relative references can be used in special sections
884 for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit
885 architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
888 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
890 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"