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"
37 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
39 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
41 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
43 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
44 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
49 config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
50 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
52 depends on OPROFILE && X86
54 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
55 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
56 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
57 between events at a user specified time interval.
64 config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
66 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
71 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
74 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
75 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
76 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
77 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
81 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
82 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
83 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
85 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
86 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
87 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
89 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
90 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
91 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
93 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
94 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
95 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
96 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
97 conditional block of instructions.
99 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
100 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
101 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
103 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
104 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
106 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
107 bool "Static key selftest"
108 depends on JUMP_LABEL
110 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
112 config STATIC_CALL_SELFTEST
113 bool "Static call selftest"
114 depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL
116 Boot time self-test of the call patching code.
120 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
121 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
123 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
125 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
126 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
128 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
129 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
130 optimize on top of function tracing.
134 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
136 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
137 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
138 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
139 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
140 are hit by user-space applications.
142 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
143 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
146 config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
147 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
149 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
150 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
151 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
152 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
153 architectures without unaligned access.
155 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
156 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
157 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
159 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
160 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
162 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
165 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
166 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
167 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
168 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
171 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
172 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
173 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
174 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
175 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
178 See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for more
179 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
181 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
184 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
185 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
186 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
187 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
188 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
189 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
190 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
191 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
192 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
193 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
194 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
196 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
197 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
198 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
202 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
204 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
206 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
208 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
211 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
217 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
220 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
223 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
226 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
233 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
235 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
236 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
237 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
238 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
239 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
240 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
241 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
242 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
243 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
245 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
248 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
251 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
254 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
257 config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
260 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
261 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
264 # Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd
265 # command line option
267 config ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD
270 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
271 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
274 # Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions
275 config ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
279 # Select if the architecture provides the arch_dma_set_uncached symbol to
280 # either provide an uncached segment alias for a DMA allocation, or
281 # to remap the page tables in place.
283 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED
287 # Select if the architectures provides the arch_dma_clear_uncached symbol
288 # to undo an in-place page table remap for uncached access.
290 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED
293 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
294 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
297 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
298 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
301 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
303 depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
305 An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
306 knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
307 whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
308 FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
309 should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
310 field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
312 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
313 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
316 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
317 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
320 config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
324 All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on
325 userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This
326 is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures
327 still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such
328 architectures explicitly.
330 config HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
333 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it provides
334 <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols
335 exported from assembly code.
337 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
340 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports
341 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
342 declared in asm/ptrace.h
343 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
347 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
349 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it
350 supports an implementation of restartable sequences.
352 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
355 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports
356 the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs,
357 declared in asm/ptrace.h
359 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
361 depends on PERF_EVENTS
363 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
365 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
367 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
368 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
369 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
370 them but define the access type in a control register.
371 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
374 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
377 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
380 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
381 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
382 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
384 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
386 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
388 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
389 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
391 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
395 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
396 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
398 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
400 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
402 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
403 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
404 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
406 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
409 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
410 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
412 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
415 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
416 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
419 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
422 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
425 config MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
428 config MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
430 select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
432 config MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
435 config MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE
438 config MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER
440 depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
442 config ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM
445 Temporary select until all architectures can be converted to have
446 irqs disabled over activate_mm. Architectures that do IPI based TLB
447 shootdowns should enable this.
449 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
452 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
455 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
456 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
457 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
458 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
460 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
463 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
466 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
469 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
472 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
475 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
476 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
479 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
482 An arch should select this symbol to support seccomp mode 1 (the fixed
483 syscall policy), and must provide an overrides for __NR_seccomp_sigreturn,
484 and compat syscalls if the asm-generic/seccomp.h defaults need adjustment:
485 - __NR_seccomp_read_32
486 - __NR_seccomp_write_32
487 - __NR_seccomp_exit_32
488 - __NR_seccomp_sigreturn_32
490 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
492 select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
494 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
495 - all the requirements for HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
497 - syscall_get_arguments()
499 - syscall_set_return_value()
500 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
501 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
502 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
503 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
504 - seccomp syscall wired up
505 - if !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR, have SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE,
506 SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NR, SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NAME defined. If
507 COMPAT is supported, have the SECCOMP_ARCH_COMPAT* defines too.
510 prompt "Enable seccomp to safely execute untrusted bytecode"
512 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
514 This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
515 that may need to handle untrusted bytecode during their
516 execution. By using pipes or other transports made available
517 to the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write
518 syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in their
519 own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is enabled via
520 prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) or the seccomp() syscall, it cannot be
521 disabled and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe
522 syscalls defined by each seccomp mode.
526 config SECCOMP_FILTER
528 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
530 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
531 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
532 task-defined system call filtering polices.
534 See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details.
536 config SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG
537 bool "Show seccomp filter cache status in /proc/pid/seccomp_cache"
538 depends on SECCOMP_FILTER && !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR
541 This enables the /proc/pid/seccomp_cache interface to monitor
542 seccomp cache data. The file format is subject to change. Reading
543 the file requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
545 This option is for debugging only. Enabling presents the risk that
546 an adversary may be able to infer the seccomp filter logic.
550 config HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
553 An architecture should select this if it has the code which
554 fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON
555 value before returning from system calls.
557 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
560 An arch should select this symbol if:
561 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
563 config STACKPROTECTOR
564 bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
565 depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
566 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
569 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
570 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
571 the stack just before the return address, and validates
572 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
573 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
574 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
575 neutralized via a kernel panic.
577 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
578 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
580 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
581 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
583 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
584 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
587 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
588 bool "Strong Stack Protector"
589 depends on STACKPROTECTOR
590 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong)
593 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
594 of the following conditions:
596 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
597 assignment or function argument
598 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
599 regardless of array type or length
600 - uses register local variables
602 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
603 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
605 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
606 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
609 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
612 An architecture should select this if it supports Clang's Shadow
613 Call Stack and implements runtime support for shadow stack
616 config SHADOW_CALL_STACK
617 bool "Clang Shadow Call Stack"
618 depends on CC_IS_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
619 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || !FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
621 This option enables Clang's Shadow Call Stack, which uses a
622 shadow stack to protect function return addresses from being
623 overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found in
624 Clang's documentation:
626 https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html
628 Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the
629 ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses
630 of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable of
631 reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them
632 and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks.
634 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
637 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
638 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
639 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
640 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
641 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
643 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
646 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
647 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
648 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter(), either
649 optimized behind static key or through the slow path using TIF_NOHZ
650 flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs are already
651 protected inside rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal
652 handling on irq exit still need to be protected.
654 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
657 Architecture neither relies on exception_enter()/exception_exit()
658 nor on schedule_user(). Also preempt_schedule_notrace() and
659 preempt_schedule_irq() can't be called in a preemptible section
660 while context tracking is CONTEXT_USER. This feature reflects a sane
661 entry implementation where the following requirements are met on
662 critical entry code, ie: before user_exit() or after user_enter():
664 - Critical entry code isn't preemptible (or better yet:
666 - No use of RCU read side critical sections, unless rcu_nmi_enter()
668 - No use of instrumentation, unless instrumentation_begin() got
674 Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall slow path to implement context
675 tracking calls to user_enter()/user_exit().
677 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
680 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_IDLE
683 Architecture has its own way to account idle CPU time and therefore
684 doesn't implement vtime_account_idle().
686 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
689 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
693 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
694 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
695 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
696 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
697 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
698 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
700 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
703 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
704 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
709 Architectures that select this are able to move page tables at the
710 PUD level. If there are only 3 page table levels, the move effectively
711 happens at the PGD level.
716 Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level.
718 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
721 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
724 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
727 config ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
730 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
733 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
736 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
737 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
738 should not enable this.
740 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
743 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
744 relocations will give an error.
746 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
749 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
750 relocations will give an error.
752 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
755 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
756 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
757 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
758 in the end of an hardirq.
759 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
762 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
766 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
769 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
770 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
772 - arch_randomize_brk()
774 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
777 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
778 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
779 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
780 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
781 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
783 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
786 An architecture implements exit_thread.
788 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
791 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
794 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
797 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
798 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
799 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
800 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
801 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
802 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
804 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
805 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
806 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
807 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
809 This value can be changed after boot using the
810 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
812 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
815 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
816 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
817 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
818 enabled and provides values for both:
819 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
820 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
822 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
825 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
828 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
831 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
832 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
833 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
834 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
835 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
836 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
838 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
839 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
840 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
841 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
844 This value can be changed after boot using the
845 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
847 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
850 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
851 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
852 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
854 # This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base
855 # address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process
856 # is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or
857 # sysctl_legacy_va_layout).
858 # Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of:
860 config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT
863 select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
865 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
868 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
869 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
871 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
874 Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or
875 arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace
876 if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
878 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
882 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
883 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
884 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
886 config HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
895 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
898 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
901 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
904 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
906 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
909 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
912 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
915 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
917 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
920 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
922 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
925 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
930 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
931 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
932 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
935 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
938 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
939 bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t"
940 default !64BIT || COMPAT
942 This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
943 This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures
944 as part of compat syscall handling.
946 config ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
949 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
952 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
955 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
958 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
959 in vmalloc space. This means:
961 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
962 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
964 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
965 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
966 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
967 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
968 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
969 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
971 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
972 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
973 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
977 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
978 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
979 depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || KASAN_VMALLOC
981 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
982 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
983 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
986 To use this with software KASAN modes, the architecture must support
987 backing virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC
990 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
993 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
996 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
999 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
1000 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
1001 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
1002 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
1004 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
1005 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
1006 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
1009 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
1010 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
1012 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
1015 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
1016 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
1017 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
1018 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
1020 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
1021 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
1022 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
1024 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
1025 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
1028 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
1031 An architecture can select this if it provides an
1032 asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
1033 linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
1034 headers generally provide.
1036 config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
1039 May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative
1040 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader,
1041 in which case relative references can be used in special sections
1042 for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit
1043 architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
1046 config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
1049 config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
1050 bool "Locking event counts collection"
1053 Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events
1054 in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces
1055 the chance of application behavior change because of timing
1056 differences. The counts are reported via debugfs.
1058 # Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations.
1059 config ARCH_HAS_RELR
1063 bool "Use RELR relocation packing"
1064 depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
1067 Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing
1068 format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as
1069 well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy
1072 config ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
1075 config HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR
1078 An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse
1079 to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with
1080 entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall
1081 related optimizations for a given architecture.
1083 config ARCH_HAS_VDSO_DATA
1086 config HAVE_STATIC_CALL
1089 config HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE
1091 depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL
1093 config ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
1096 An arch should select this symbol once all linker sections are explicitly
1097 included, size-asserted, or discarded in the linker scripts. This is
1098 important because we never want expected sections to be placed heuristically
1099 by the linker, since the locations of such sections can change between linker
1102 config HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
1105 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
1108 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
1110 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"