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 the architecture provides the arch_dma_set_uncached symbol to
252 # either provide an uncached segement alias for a DMA allocation, or
253 # to remap the page tables in place.
255 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED
259 # Select if the architectures provides the arch_dma_clear_uncached symbol
260 # to undo an in-place page table remap for uncached access.
262 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED
265 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
266 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
269 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
270 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
273 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
275 depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
277 An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
278 knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
279 whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
280 FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
281 should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
282 field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
284 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
285 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
288 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
289 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
292 config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
296 All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on
297 userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This
298 is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures
299 still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such
300 architectures explicitly.
302 config HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
305 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it provides
306 <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols
307 exported from assembly code.
309 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
312 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
313 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
314 declared in asm/ptrace.h
315 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
319 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
321 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it
322 supports an implementation of restartable sequences.
324 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
327 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
328 the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs,
329 declared in asm/ptrace.h
331 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
333 depends on PERF_EVENTS
335 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
337 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
339 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
340 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
341 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
342 them but define the access type in a control register.
343 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
346 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
349 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
352 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
353 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
354 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
356 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
358 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
360 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
361 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
363 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
367 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
368 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
370 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
372 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
374 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
375 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
376 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
378 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
381 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
382 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
384 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
387 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
388 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
391 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
394 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
397 config MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
400 config MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
402 select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
404 config MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
407 config MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE
410 config MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER
412 depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
414 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
417 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
420 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
421 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
422 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
423 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
425 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
428 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
431 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
434 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
437 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
440 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
441 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
444 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
447 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
449 - syscall_get_arguments()
451 - syscall_set_return_value()
452 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
453 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
454 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
455 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
456 - seccomp syscall wired up
458 config SECCOMP_FILTER
460 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
462 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
463 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
464 task-defined system call filtering polices.
466 See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details.
468 config HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
471 An architecture should select this if it has the code which
472 fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON
473 value before returning from system calls.
475 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
478 An arch should select this symbol if:
479 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
481 config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
482 def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
484 config STACKPROTECTOR
485 bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
486 depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
487 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
490 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
491 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
492 the stack just before the return address, and validates
493 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
494 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
495 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
496 neutralized via a kernel panic.
498 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
499 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
501 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
502 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
504 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
505 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
508 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
509 bool "Strong Stack Protector"
510 depends on STACKPROTECTOR
511 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong)
514 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
515 of the following conditions:
517 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
518 assignment or function argument
519 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
520 regardless of array type or length
521 - uses register local variables
523 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
524 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
526 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
527 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
530 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
533 An architecture should select this if it supports Clang's Shadow
534 Call Stack and implements runtime support for shadow stack
537 config SHADOW_CALL_STACK
538 bool "Clang Shadow Call Stack"
539 depends on CC_IS_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
540 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || !FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
542 This option enables Clang's Shadow Call Stack, which uses a
543 shadow stack to protect function return addresses from being
544 overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found in
545 Clang's documentation:
547 https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html
549 Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the
550 ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses
551 of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable of
552 reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them
553 and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks.
555 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
558 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
559 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
560 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
561 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
562 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
564 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
567 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
568 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
569 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter(), either
570 optimized behind static key or through the slow path using TIF_NOHZ
571 flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs are already
572 protected inside rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal
573 handling on irq exit still need to be protected.
578 Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall slow path to implement context
579 tracking calls to user_enter()/user_exit().
581 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
584 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
587 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
591 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
592 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
593 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
594 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
595 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
596 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
599 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
602 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
603 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
608 Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level.
610 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
613 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
616 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
619 config ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
622 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
625 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
628 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
629 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
630 should not enable this.
632 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
635 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
636 relocations will give an error.
638 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
641 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
642 relocations will give an error.
644 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
647 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
648 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
649 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
650 in the end of an hardirq.
651 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
654 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
658 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
661 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
662 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
664 - arch_randomize_brk()
666 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
669 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
670 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
671 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
672 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
673 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
675 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
678 An architecture implements exit_thread.
680 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
683 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
686 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
689 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
690 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
691 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
692 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
693 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
694 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
696 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
697 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
698 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
699 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
701 This value can be changed after boot using the
702 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
704 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
707 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
708 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
709 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
710 enabled and provides values for both:
711 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
712 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
714 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
717 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
720 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
723 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
724 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
725 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
726 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
727 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
728 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
730 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
731 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
732 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
733 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
736 This value can be changed after boot using the
737 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
739 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
742 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
743 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
744 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
746 # This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base
747 # address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process
748 # is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or
749 # sysctl_legacy_va_layout).
750 # Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of:
752 config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT
755 select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
757 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
760 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
761 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
762 argument from pt_regs.
764 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
767 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
768 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
770 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
773 Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or
774 arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace
775 if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
777 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
781 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
782 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
783 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
785 config HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
794 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
797 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
800 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
803 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
805 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
808 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
811 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
814 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
816 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
819 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
821 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
824 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
829 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
830 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
831 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
834 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
837 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
838 bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t"
839 default !64BIT || COMPAT
841 This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
842 This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures
843 as part of compat syscall handling.
845 config ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
848 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
851 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
854 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
857 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
858 in vmalloc space. This means:
860 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
861 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
863 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
864 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
865 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
866 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
867 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
868 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
870 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
871 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
872 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
876 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
877 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
878 depends on !KASAN || KASAN_VMALLOC
880 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
881 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
882 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
885 To use this with KASAN, the architecture must support backing
886 virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC must
889 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
892 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
895 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
898 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
899 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
900 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
901 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
903 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
904 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
905 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
908 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
909 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
911 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
914 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
915 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
916 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
917 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
919 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
920 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
921 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
923 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
924 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
927 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
930 An architecture can select this if it provides an
931 asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
932 linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
933 headers generally provide.
935 config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
938 May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative
939 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader,
940 in which case relative references can be used in special sections
941 for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit
942 architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
945 config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
948 config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
949 bool "Locking event counts collection"
952 Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events
953 in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces
954 the chance of application behavior change because of timing
955 differences. The counts are reported via debugfs.
957 # Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations.
962 bool "Use RELR relocation packing"
963 depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
966 Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing
967 format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as
968 well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy
971 config ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
974 config HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR
977 An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse
978 to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with
979 entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall
980 related optimizations for a given architecture.
982 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
984 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"