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
193 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
197 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
199 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
200 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
201 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
202 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
203 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
204 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
205 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
206 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
207 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
209 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
212 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
215 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
218 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
221 # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
222 config ARCH_INIT_TASK
225 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
226 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
229 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
230 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
233 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
234 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
237 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
240 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
241 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
242 declared in asm/ptrace.h
243 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
248 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
249 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
251 config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
254 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
256 depends on PERF_EVENTS
258 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
260 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
262 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
263 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
264 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
265 them but define the access type in a control register.
266 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
269 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
272 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
275 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
276 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
277 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
279 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
282 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
283 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
285 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
288 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
289 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
292 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
295 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
298 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
301 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
304 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
305 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
306 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
307 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
309 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
312 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
315 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
318 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
321 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
322 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
325 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
328 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
330 - syscall_get_arguments()
332 - syscall_set_return_value()
333 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
334 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
335 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
336 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
337 - seccomp syscall wired up
339 config SECCOMP_FILTER
341 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
343 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
344 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
345 task-defined system call filtering polices.
347 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
349 config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
352 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
355 menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
357 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
358 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
360 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
361 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
363 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
365 config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
366 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function"
367 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
369 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
373 E = the number of edges
374 N = the number of nodes
375 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
377 config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
379 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
381 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
382 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
383 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
384 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
386 config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
389 An arch should select this symbol if:
390 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
391 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
393 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
396 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
397 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
400 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
401 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
402 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
404 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
405 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
406 the stack just before the return address, and validates
407 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
408 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
409 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
410 neutralized via a kernel panic.
412 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
415 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
417 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
419 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
421 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
422 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
424 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
425 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
427 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
428 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
431 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
433 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
435 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
436 of the following conditions:
438 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
439 assignment or function argument
440 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
441 regardless of array type or length
442 - uses register local variables
444 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
445 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
447 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
448 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
453 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
456 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
457 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
458 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
459 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
460 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
462 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
465 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
466 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
467 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
468 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
469 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
470 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
471 irq exit still need to be protected.
473 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
476 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
480 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
481 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
482 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
483 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
484 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
485 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
488 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
491 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
492 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
494 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
497 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
500 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
503 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
506 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
507 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
508 should not enable this.
510 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
513 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
514 relocations will give an error.
516 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
519 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
520 relocations will give an error.
522 config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
525 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
526 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
528 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
531 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
532 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
533 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
534 in the end of an hardirq.
535 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
538 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
542 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
545 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
546 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
548 - arch_randomize_brk()
550 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
553 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
554 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
555 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
556 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
557 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
559 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
562 An architecture implements exit_thread.
564 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
567 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
570 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
573 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
574 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
575 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
576 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
577 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
578 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
580 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
581 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
582 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
583 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
585 This value can be changed after boot using the
586 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
588 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
591 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
592 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
593 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
594 enabled and provides values for both:
595 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
596 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
598 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
601 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
604 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
607 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
608 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
609 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
610 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
611 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
612 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
614 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
615 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
616 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
617 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
620 This value can be changed after boot using the
621 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
623 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
626 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
627 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
628 argument from pt_regs.
630 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
633 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
634 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
636 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
640 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
641 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
642 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
650 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
653 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
656 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
659 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
661 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
664 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
667 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
670 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
672 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
675 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
677 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
680 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
685 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
686 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
687 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
690 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
693 config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
696 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
699 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
702 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
703 in vmalloc space. This means:
705 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
706 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
708 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
709 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
710 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
711 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
712 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
713 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
715 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
716 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
717 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
721 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
722 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
724 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
725 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
726 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
729 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
730 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
731 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
733 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"