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.
99 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
101 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
102 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
103 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
104 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
105 are hit by user-space applications.
107 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
108 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
111 config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
112 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
114 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
115 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
116 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
117 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
118 architectures without unaligned access.
120 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
121 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
122 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
124 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
125 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
127 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
130 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
131 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
132 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
133 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
136 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
137 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
138 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
139 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
140 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
143 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
144 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
146 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
149 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
150 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
151 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
152 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
153 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
154 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
155 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
156 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
157 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
158 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
159 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
161 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
162 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
163 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
167 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
169 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
171 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
173 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
176 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
182 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
185 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
188 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
194 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
198 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
200 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
201 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
202 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
203 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
204 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
205 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
206 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
207 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
208 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
210 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
213 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
216 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
219 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
222 # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
223 config ARCH_INIT_TASK
226 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
227 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
230 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
231 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
234 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
235 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
238 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
241 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
242 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
243 declared in asm/ptrace.h
244 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
249 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
250 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
252 config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
255 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
257 depends on PERF_EVENTS
259 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
261 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
263 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
264 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
265 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
266 them but define the access type in a control register.
267 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
270 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
273 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
276 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
277 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
278 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
280 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
283 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
284 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
286 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
289 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
290 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
293 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
296 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
299 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
302 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
305 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
306 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
307 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
308 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
310 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
313 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
316 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
319 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
322 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
323 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
326 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
329 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
331 - syscall_get_arguments()
333 - syscall_set_return_value()
334 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
335 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
336 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
337 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
338 - seccomp syscall wired up
340 config SECCOMP_FILTER
342 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
344 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
345 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
346 task-defined system call filtering polices.
348 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
350 config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
353 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
356 menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
358 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
359 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
361 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
362 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
364 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
366 config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
367 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT
368 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
369 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
371 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
375 E = the number of edges
376 N = the number of nodes
377 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
379 Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the
380 build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a
381 gcc plugin for the kernel.
383 config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
385 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
387 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
388 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
389 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
390 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
392 config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
393 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
394 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
396 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
397 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
398 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
399 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
400 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
403 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
406 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
407 * https://grsecurity.net/
408 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
410 config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
413 An arch should select this symbol if:
414 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
415 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
417 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
420 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
421 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
424 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
425 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
426 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
428 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
429 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
430 the stack just before the return address, and validates
431 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
432 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
433 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
434 neutralized via a kernel panic.
436 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
439 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
441 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
443 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
445 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
446 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
448 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
449 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
451 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
452 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
455 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
457 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
459 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
460 of the following conditions:
462 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
463 assignment or function argument
464 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
465 regardless of array type or length
466 - uses register local variables
468 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
469 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
471 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
472 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
480 Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
481 instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
483 config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
486 Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
487 data elimination with the linker by compiling with
488 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
491 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
492 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
493 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
494 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
495 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
496 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
498 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
501 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
502 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
503 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
504 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
505 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
507 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
510 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
511 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
512 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
513 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
514 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
515 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
516 irq exit still need to be protected.
518 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
521 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
524 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
528 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
529 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
530 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
531 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
532 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
533 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
536 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
539 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
540 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
542 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
545 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
548 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
551 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
554 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
555 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
556 should not enable this.
558 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
561 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
562 relocations will give an error.
564 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
567 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
568 relocations will give an error.
570 config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
573 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
574 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
576 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
579 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
580 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
581 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
582 in the end of an hardirq.
583 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
586 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
590 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
593 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
594 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
596 - arch_randomize_brk()
598 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
601 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
602 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
603 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
604 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
605 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
607 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
610 An architecture implements exit_thread.
612 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
615 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
618 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
621 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
622 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
623 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
624 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
625 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
626 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
628 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
629 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
630 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
631 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
633 This value can be changed after boot using the
634 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
636 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
639 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
640 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
641 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
642 enabled and provides values for both:
643 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
644 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
646 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
649 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
652 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
655 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
656 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
657 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
658 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
659 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
660 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
662 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
663 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
664 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
665 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
668 This value can be changed after boot using the
669 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
671 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
674 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
675 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
676 argument from pt_regs.
678 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
681 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
682 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
684 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
688 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
689 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
690 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
698 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
701 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
704 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
707 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
709 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
712 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
715 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
718 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
720 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
723 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
725 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
728 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
733 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
734 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
735 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
738 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
741 config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
744 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
747 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
750 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
751 in vmalloc space. This means:
753 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
754 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
756 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
757 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
758 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
759 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
760 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
761 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
763 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
764 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
765 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
769 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
770 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
772 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
773 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
774 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
777 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
778 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
779 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
781 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"