1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 # General architecture dependent options
7 # Note: arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig needs to be included first so that it can
8 # override the default values in this file.
10 source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig"
12 menu "General architecture-dependent options"
31 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
33 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
35 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
37 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
38 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
43 config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
44 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
46 depends on OPROFILE && X86
48 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
49 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
50 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
51 between events at a user specified time interval.
58 config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
60 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
65 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
68 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
69 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
70 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
71 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
75 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
76 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
77 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
79 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
80 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
81 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
83 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
84 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
85 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
87 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
88 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
89 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
90 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
91 conditional block of instructions.
93 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
94 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
95 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
97 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
98 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
100 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
101 bool "Static key selftest"
102 depends on JUMP_LABEL
104 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
108 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
109 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
111 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
113 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
114 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
116 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
117 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
118 optimize on top of function tracing.
122 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
124 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
125 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
126 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
127 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
128 are hit by user-space applications.
130 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
131 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
134 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
137 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
138 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
139 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
140 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
143 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
144 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
145 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
146 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
147 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
150 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
151 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
153 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
156 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
157 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
158 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
159 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
160 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
161 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
162 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
163 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
164 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
165 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
166 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
168 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
169 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
170 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
174 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
176 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
178 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
180 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
183 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
189 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
192 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
195 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
198 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
205 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
207 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
208 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
209 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
210 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
211 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
212 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
213 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
214 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
215 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
217 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
220 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
223 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
226 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
229 config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
232 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
233 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
236 # Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd
237 # command line option
239 config ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD
242 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
243 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
246 # Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions
247 config ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
251 # Select if arch has an uncached kernel segment and provides the
252 # uncached_kernel_address / cached_kernel_address symbols to use it
254 config ARCH_HAS_UNCACHED_SEGMENT
255 select ARCH_HAS_DMA_PREP_COHERENT
258 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
259 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
262 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
263 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
266 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
268 depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
270 An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
271 knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
272 whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
273 FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
274 should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
275 field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
277 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
278 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
281 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
282 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
285 config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
289 All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on
290 userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This
291 is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures
292 still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such
293 architectures explicitly.
295 config HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
298 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it provides
299 <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols
300 exported from assembly code.
302 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
305 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
306 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
307 declared in asm/ptrace.h
308 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
312 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
314 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it
315 supports an implementation of restartable sequences.
317 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
320 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
321 the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs,
322 declared in asm/ptrace.h
327 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
328 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
330 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
332 depends on PERF_EVENTS
334 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
336 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
338 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
339 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
340 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
341 them but define the access type in a control register.
342 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
345 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
348 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
351 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
352 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
353 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
355 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
357 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
359 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
360 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
362 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
366 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
367 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
369 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
371 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
373 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
374 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
375 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
377 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
380 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
381 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
383 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
386 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
387 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
390 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
393 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
396 config MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
399 config MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
401 select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
403 config MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
406 config MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE
409 config MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER
411 depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
413 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
416 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
419 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
420 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
421 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
422 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
424 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
427 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
430 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
433 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
436 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
439 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
440 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
443 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
446 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
448 - syscall_get_arguments()
450 - syscall_set_return_value()
451 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
452 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
453 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
454 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
455 - seccomp syscall wired up
457 config SECCOMP_FILTER
459 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
461 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
462 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
463 task-defined system call filtering polices.
465 See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details.
467 config HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
470 An architecture should select this if it has the code which
471 fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON
472 value before returning from system calls.
474 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
477 An arch should select this symbol if:
478 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
480 config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
481 def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
483 config STACKPROTECTOR
484 bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
485 depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
486 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
489 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
490 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
491 the stack just before the return address, and validates
492 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
493 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
494 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
495 neutralized via a kernel panic.
497 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
498 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
500 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
501 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
503 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
504 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
507 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
508 bool "Strong Stack Protector"
509 depends on STACKPROTECTOR
510 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong)
513 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
514 of the following conditions:
516 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
517 assignment or function argument
518 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
519 regardless of array type or length
520 - uses register local variables
522 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
523 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
525 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
526 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
529 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
532 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
533 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
534 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
535 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
536 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
538 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
541 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
542 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
543 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
544 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
545 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
546 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
547 irq exit still need to be protected.
549 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
552 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
555 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
559 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
560 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
561 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
562 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
563 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
564 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
567 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
570 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
571 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
576 Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level.
578 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
581 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
584 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
587 config ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
590 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
593 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
596 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
597 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
598 should not enable this.
600 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
603 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
604 relocations will give an error.
606 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
609 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
610 relocations will give an error.
612 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
615 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
616 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
617 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
618 in the end of an hardirq.
619 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
622 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
626 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
629 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
630 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
632 - arch_randomize_brk()
634 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
637 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
638 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
639 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
640 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
641 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
643 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
646 An architecture implements exit_thread.
648 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
651 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
654 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
657 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
658 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
659 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
660 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
661 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
662 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
664 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
665 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
666 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
667 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
669 This value can be changed after boot using the
670 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
672 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
675 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
676 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
677 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
678 enabled and provides values for both:
679 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
680 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
682 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
685 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
688 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
691 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
692 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
693 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
694 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
695 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
696 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
698 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
699 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
700 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
701 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
704 This value can be changed after boot using the
705 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
707 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
710 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
711 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
712 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
714 # This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base
715 # address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process
716 # is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or
717 # sysctl_legacy_va_layout).
718 # Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of:
720 config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT
723 select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
725 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
728 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
729 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
730 argument from pt_regs.
732 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
735 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
736 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
738 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
741 Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or
742 arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace
743 if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
745 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
749 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
750 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
751 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
753 config HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
762 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
765 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
768 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
771 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
773 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
776 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
779 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
782 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
784 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
787 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
789 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
792 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
797 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
798 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
799 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
802 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
805 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
806 bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t"
807 default !64BIT || COMPAT
809 This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
810 This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures
811 as part of compat syscall handling.
813 config ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
816 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
819 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
822 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
825 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
826 in vmalloc space. This means:
828 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
829 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
831 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
832 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
833 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
834 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
835 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
836 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
838 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
839 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
840 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
844 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
845 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
846 depends on !KASAN || KASAN_VMALLOC
848 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
849 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
850 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
853 To use this with KASAN, the architecture must support backing
854 virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC must
857 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
860 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
863 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
866 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
867 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
868 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
869 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
871 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
872 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
873 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
876 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
877 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
879 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
882 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
883 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
884 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
885 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
887 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
888 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
889 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
891 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
892 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
895 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
898 An architecture can select this if it provides an
899 asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
900 linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
901 headers generally provide.
903 config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
906 May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative
907 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader,
908 in which case relative references can be used in special sections
909 for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit
910 architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
913 config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
916 config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
917 bool "Locking event counts collection"
920 Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events
921 in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces
922 the chance of application behavior change because of timing
923 differences. The counts are reported via debugfs.
925 # Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations.
930 bool "Use RELR relocation packing"
931 depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
934 Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing
935 format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as
936 well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy
939 config ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
942 config HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR
945 An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse
946 to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with
947 entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall
948 related optimizations for a given architecture.
950 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
952 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"