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"
28 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
30 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
32 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
34 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
35 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
40 config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
41 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
43 depends on OPROFILE && X86
45 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
46 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
47 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
48 between events at a user specified time interval.
55 config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
57 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
62 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
65 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
66 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
67 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
68 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
72 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
73 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
74 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
76 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
77 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
78 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
80 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
81 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
82 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
84 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
85 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
86 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
87 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
88 conditional block of instructions.
90 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
91 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
92 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
94 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
95 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
97 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
98 bool "Static key selftest"
101 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
105 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
106 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPT
108 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
110 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
111 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
113 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
114 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
115 optimize on top of function tracing.
119 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
121 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
122 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
123 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
124 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
125 are hit by user-space applications.
127 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
128 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
131 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
134 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
135 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
136 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
137 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
140 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
141 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
142 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
143 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
144 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
147 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
148 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
150 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
153 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
154 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
155 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
156 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
157 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
158 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
159 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
160 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
161 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
162 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
163 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
165 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
166 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
167 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
171 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
173 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
175 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
177 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
180 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
186 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
189 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
192 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
195 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
202 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
204 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
205 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
206 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
207 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
208 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
209 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
210 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
211 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
212 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
214 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
217 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
220 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
223 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
226 config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
229 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
230 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
233 # Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd
234 # command line option
236 config ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD
239 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
240 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
243 # Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions
244 config ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
248 # Select if arch has an uncached kernel segment and provides the
249 # uncached_kernel_address / cached_kernel_address symbols to use it
251 config ARCH_HAS_UNCACHED_SEGMENT
252 select ARCH_HAS_DMA_PREP_COHERENT
255 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
256 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
259 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
260 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
263 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
265 depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
267 An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
268 knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
269 whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
270 FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
271 should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
272 field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
274 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
275 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
278 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
279 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
282 config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
286 All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on
287 userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This
288 is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures
289 still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such
290 architectures explicitly.
292 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
295 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
296 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
297 declared in asm/ptrace.h
298 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
302 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
304 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it
305 supports an implementation of restartable sequences.
307 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
310 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
311 the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs,
312 declared in asm/ptrace.h
317 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
318 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
320 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
322 depends on PERF_EVENTS
324 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
326 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
328 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
329 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
330 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
331 them but define the access type in a control register.
332 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
335 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
338 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
341 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
342 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
343 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
345 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
347 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
349 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
350 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
352 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
356 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
357 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
359 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
361 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
363 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
364 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
365 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
367 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
370 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
371 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
373 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
376 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
377 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
380 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
383 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
386 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
389 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE
392 config HAVE_MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
395 config HAVE_MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER
398 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
401 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
404 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
405 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
406 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
407 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
409 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
412 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
415 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
418 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
421 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
424 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
425 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
428 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
431 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
433 - syscall_get_arguments()
435 - syscall_set_return_value()
436 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
437 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
438 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
439 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
440 - seccomp syscall wired up
442 config SECCOMP_FILTER
444 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
446 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
447 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
448 task-defined system call filtering polices.
450 See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details.
452 config HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
455 An architecture should select this if it has the code which
456 fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON
457 value before returning from system calls.
459 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
462 An arch should select this symbol if:
463 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
465 config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
466 def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
468 config STACKPROTECTOR
469 bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
470 depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
471 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
474 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
475 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
476 the stack just before the return address, and validates
477 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
478 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
479 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
480 neutralized via a kernel panic.
482 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
483 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
485 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
486 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
488 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
489 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
492 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
493 bool "Strong Stack Protector"
494 depends on STACKPROTECTOR
495 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong)
498 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
499 of the following conditions:
501 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
502 assignment or function argument
503 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
504 regardless of array type or length
505 - uses register local variables
507 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
508 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
510 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
511 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
514 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
517 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
518 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
519 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
520 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
521 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
523 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
526 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
527 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
528 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
529 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
530 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
531 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
532 irq exit still need to be protected.
534 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
537 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
540 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
544 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
545 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
546 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
547 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
548 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
549 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
552 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
555 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
556 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
561 Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level.
563 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
566 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
569 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
572 config ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
575 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
578 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
581 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
582 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
583 should not enable this.
585 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
588 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
589 relocations will give an error.
591 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
594 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
595 relocations will give an error.
597 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
600 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
601 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
602 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
603 in the end of an hardirq.
604 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
607 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
611 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
614 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
615 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
617 - arch_randomize_brk()
619 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
622 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
623 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
624 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
625 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
626 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
628 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
631 An architecture implements exit_thread.
633 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
636 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
639 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
642 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
643 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
644 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
645 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
646 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
647 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
649 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
650 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
651 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
652 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
654 This value can be changed after boot using the
655 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
657 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
660 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
661 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
662 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
663 enabled and provides values for both:
664 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
665 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
667 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
670 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
673 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
676 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
677 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
678 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
679 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
680 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
681 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
683 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
684 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
685 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
686 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
689 This value can be changed after boot using the
690 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
692 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
695 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
696 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
697 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
699 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
702 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
703 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
704 argument from pt_regs.
706 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
709 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
710 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
712 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
715 Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
716 only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
718 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
722 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
723 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
724 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
726 config HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
735 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
738 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
741 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
744 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
746 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
749 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
752 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
755 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
757 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
760 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
762 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
765 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
770 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
771 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
772 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
775 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
781 This should be selected by all architectures that need to support
782 new system calls with a 64-bit time_t. This is relevant on all 32-bit
783 architectures, and 64-bit architectures as part of compat syscall
786 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
787 def_bool !64BIT || COMPAT
789 This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
790 This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures
791 as part of compat syscall handling.
793 config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
796 config ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
799 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
802 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
805 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
808 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
809 in vmalloc space. This means:
811 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
812 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
814 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
815 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
816 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
817 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
818 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
819 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
821 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
822 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
823 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
827 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
828 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
830 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
831 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
832 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
835 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
836 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
837 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
839 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
842 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
845 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
848 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
849 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
850 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
851 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
853 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
854 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
855 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
858 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
859 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
861 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
864 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
865 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
866 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
867 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
869 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
870 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
871 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
873 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
874 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
877 config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
880 An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t
881 using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized
882 refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full
883 refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y.
885 The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained.
886 Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting
887 against bugs in reference counts.
890 bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed"
892 Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast
893 unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked
894 implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections
895 against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
896 security flaw exploits.
898 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
901 An architecture can select this if it provides an
902 asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
903 linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
904 headers generally provide.
906 config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
909 May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative
910 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader,
911 in which case relative references can be used in special sections
912 for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit
913 architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
916 config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
919 config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
920 bool "Locking event counts collection"
923 Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events
924 in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces
925 the chance of application behavior change because of timing
926 differences. The counts are reported via debugfs.
928 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
930 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"