2 # General architecture dependent options
9 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
11 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
13 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
15 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
16 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
21 config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
22 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
24 depends on OPROFILE && X86
26 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
27 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
28 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
29 between events at an user specified time interval.
36 config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
38 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
43 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
46 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
47 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
48 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
49 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
53 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
54 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
56 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
57 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
58 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
60 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
61 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
62 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
64 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
65 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
66 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
67 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
68 conditional block of instructions.
70 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
71 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
72 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
74 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
75 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
77 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
78 bool "Static key selftest"
81 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
85 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
88 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
90 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
91 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
93 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
94 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
95 optimize on top of function tracing.
100 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
101 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
102 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
103 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
104 are hit by user-space applications.
106 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
107 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
110 config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
111 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
113 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
114 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
115 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
116 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
117 architectures without unaligned access.
119 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
120 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
121 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
123 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
124 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
126 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
129 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
130 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
131 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
132 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
135 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
136 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
137 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
138 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
139 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
142 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
143 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
145 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
148 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
149 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
150 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
151 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
152 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
153 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
154 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
155 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
156 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
157 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
158 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
160 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
161 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
162 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
166 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
168 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
170 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
172 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
175 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
181 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
184 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
187 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
193 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
197 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
199 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
200 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
201 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
202 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
203 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
204 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
205 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
206 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
207 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
209 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
212 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
215 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
218 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
221 # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
222 config ARCH_INIT_TASK
225 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
226 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
229 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
230 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
233 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
234 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
237 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
240 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
241 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
242 declared in asm/ptrace.h
243 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
248 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
249 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
251 config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
254 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
256 depends on PERF_EVENTS
258 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
260 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
262 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
263 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
264 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
265 them but define the access type in a control register.
266 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
269 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
272 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
275 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
276 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
277 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
279 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
282 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
283 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
285 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
288 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
289 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
292 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
295 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
298 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
301 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
304 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
305 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
306 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
307 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
309 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
312 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
315 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
318 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
321 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
322 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
325 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
328 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
330 - syscall_get_arguments()
332 - syscall_set_return_value()
333 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
334 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
335 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
336 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
337 - seccomp syscall wired up
339 config SECCOMP_FILTER
341 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
343 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
344 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
345 task-defined system call filtering polices.
347 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
349 config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
352 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
355 menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
357 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
358 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
360 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
361 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
363 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
365 config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
366 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function"
367 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
369 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
373 E = the number of edges
374 N = the number of nodes
375 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
377 config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
379 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
381 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
382 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
383 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
384 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
386 config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
387 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
388 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
390 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
391 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
392 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
393 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
394 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
397 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
400 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
401 * https://grsecurity.net/
402 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
404 config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
407 An arch should select this symbol if:
408 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
409 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
411 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
414 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
415 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
418 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
419 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
420 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
422 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
423 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
424 the stack just before the return address, and validates
425 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
426 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
427 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
428 neutralized via a kernel panic.
430 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
433 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
435 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
437 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
439 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
440 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
442 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
443 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
445 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
446 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
449 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
451 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
453 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
454 of the following conditions:
456 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
457 assignment or function argument
458 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
459 regardless of array type or length
460 - uses register local variables
462 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
463 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
465 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
466 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
474 Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
475 instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
477 config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
480 Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
481 data elimination with the linker by compiling with
482 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
485 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
486 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
487 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
488 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
489 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
490 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
492 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
495 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
496 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
497 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
498 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
499 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
501 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
504 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
505 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
506 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
507 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
508 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
509 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
510 irq exit still need to be protected.
512 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
515 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
519 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
520 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
521 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
522 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
523 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
524 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
527 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
530 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
531 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
533 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
536 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
539 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
542 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
545 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
546 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
547 should not enable this.
549 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
552 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
553 relocations will give an error.
555 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
558 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
559 relocations will give an error.
561 config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
564 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
565 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
567 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
570 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
571 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
572 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
573 in the end of an hardirq.
574 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
577 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
581 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
584 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
585 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
587 - arch_randomize_brk()
589 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
592 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
593 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
594 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
595 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
596 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
598 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
601 An architecture implements exit_thread.
603 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
606 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
609 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
612 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
613 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
614 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
615 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
616 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
617 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
619 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
620 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
621 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
622 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
624 This value can be changed after boot using the
625 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
627 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
630 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
631 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
632 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
633 enabled and provides values for both:
634 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
635 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
637 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
640 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
643 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
646 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
647 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
648 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
649 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
650 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
651 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
653 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
654 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
655 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
656 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
659 This value can be changed after boot using the
660 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
662 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
665 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
666 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
667 argument from pt_regs.
669 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
672 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
673 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
675 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
679 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
680 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
681 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
689 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
692 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
695 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
698 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
700 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
703 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
706 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
709 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
711 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
714 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
716 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
719 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
724 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
725 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
726 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
729 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
732 config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
735 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
738 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
741 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
742 in vmalloc space. This means:
744 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
745 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
747 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
748 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
749 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
750 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
751 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
752 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
754 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
755 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
756 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
760 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
761 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
763 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
764 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
765 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
768 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
769 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
770 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
772 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"