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
190 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
193 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
195 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
196 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
197 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
198 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
199 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
200 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
201 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
202 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
203 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
205 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
208 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
211 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
214 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
217 # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
218 config ARCH_INIT_TASK
221 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
222 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
225 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
226 config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
229 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
230 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
233 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
236 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
237 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
238 declared in asm/ptrace.h
239 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
244 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
245 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
247 config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
250 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
252 depends on PERF_EVENTS
254 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
256 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
258 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
259 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
260 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
261 them but define the access type in a control register.
262 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
265 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
268 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
271 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
272 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
273 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
275 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
278 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
279 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
281 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
284 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
285 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
288 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
291 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
294 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
297 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
300 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
301 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
302 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
303 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
305 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
308 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
311 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
314 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
317 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
318 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
321 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
324 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
326 - syscall_get_arguments()
328 - syscall_set_return_value()
329 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
330 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
331 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
332 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
333 - seccomp syscall wired up
335 For best performance, an arch should use seccomp_phase1 and
336 seccomp_phase2 directly. It should call seccomp_phase1 for all
337 syscalls if TIF_SECCOMP is set, but seccomp_phase1 does not
338 need to be called from a ptrace-safe context. It must then
339 call seccomp_phase2 if seccomp_phase1 returns anything other
340 than SECCOMP_PHASE1_OK or SECCOMP_PHASE1_SKIP.
342 As an additional optimization, an arch may provide seccomp_data
343 directly to seccomp_phase1; this avoids multiple calls
344 to the syscall_xyz helpers for every syscall.
346 config SECCOMP_FILTER
348 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
350 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
351 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
352 task-defined system call filtering polices.
354 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
356 config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
359 An arch should select this symbol if:
360 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
361 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
363 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
366 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
367 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
370 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
371 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
372 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
374 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
375 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
376 the stack just before the return address, and validates
377 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
378 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
379 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
380 neutralized via a kernel panic.
382 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
385 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
387 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
389 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
391 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
392 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
394 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
395 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
397 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
398 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
401 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
403 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
405 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
406 of the following conditions:
408 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
409 assignment or function argument
410 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
411 regardless of array type or length
412 - uses register local variables
414 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
415 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
417 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
418 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
423 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
426 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
427 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
428 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
429 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
430 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
431 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
432 irq exit still need to be protected.
434 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
437 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
441 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
442 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
443 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
444 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
445 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
446 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
449 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
452 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
453 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
455 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
458 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
461 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
464 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
467 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
468 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
469 should not enable this.
471 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
474 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
475 relocations will give an error.
477 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
480 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
481 relocations will give an error.
483 config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
486 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
487 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
489 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
492 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
493 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
494 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
495 in the end of an hardirq.
496 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
499 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
503 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
506 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
507 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
509 - arch_randomize_brk()
511 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
514 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
515 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
516 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
517 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
518 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
520 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
523 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
526 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
529 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
530 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
531 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
532 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
533 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
534 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
536 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
537 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
538 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
539 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
541 This value can be changed after boot using the
542 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
544 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
547 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
548 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
549 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
550 enabled and provides values for both:
551 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
552 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
554 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
557 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
560 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
563 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
564 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
565 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
566 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
567 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
568 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
570 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
571 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
572 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
573 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
576 This value can be changed after boot using the
577 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
579 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
582 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
583 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
584 argument from pt_regs.
586 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
589 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
590 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
595 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
598 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
601 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
604 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
606 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
609 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
612 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
615 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
617 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
620 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
622 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
625 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
630 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
631 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
632 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
635 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
638 config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
641 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"