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_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
132 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
134 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
135 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
136 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
137 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
138 architectures without unaligned access.
140 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
141 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
142 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
144 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
145 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
147 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
150 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
151 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
152 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
153 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
156 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
157 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
158 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
159 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
160 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
163 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
164 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
166 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
169 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
170 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
171 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
172 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
173 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
174 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
175 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
176 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
177 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
178 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
179 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
181 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
182 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
183 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
187 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
189 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
191 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
193 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
196 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
202 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
205 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
208 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
211 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
218 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
220 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
221 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
222 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
223 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
224 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
225 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
226 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
227 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
228 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
230 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
233 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
236 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
239 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
242 config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
245 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
246 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
249 # Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd
250 # command line option
252 config ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD
255 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
256 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
259 # Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions
260 config ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
263 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
264 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
267 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
268 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
271 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
273 depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
275 An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
276 knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
277 whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
278 FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
279 should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
280 field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
282 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
283 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
286 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
287 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
290 config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
294 All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on
295 userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This
296 is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures
297 still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such
298 architectures explicitly.
300 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
303 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
304 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
305 declared in asm/ptrace.h
306 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
310 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
312 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it
313 supports an implementation of restartable sequences.
315 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
318 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
319 the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs,
320 declared in asm/ptrace.h
325 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
326 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
328 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
330 depends on PERF_EVENTS
332 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
334 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
336 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
337 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
338 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
339 them but define the access type in a control register.
340 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
343 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
346 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
349 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
350 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
351 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
353 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
355 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
357 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
358 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
360 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
364 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
365 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
367 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
369 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
371 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
372 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
373 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
375 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
378 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
379 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
381 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
384 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
385 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
388 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
391 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
394 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
397 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE
400 config HAVE_MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
403 config HAVE_MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER
406 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
409 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
412 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
413 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
414 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
415 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
417 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
420 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
423 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
426 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
429 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
432 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
433 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
436 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
439 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
441 - syscall_get_arguments()
443 - syscall_set_return_value()
444 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
445 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
446 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
447 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
448 - seccomp syscall wired up
450 config SECCOMP_FILTER
452 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
454 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
455 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
456 task-defined system call filtering polices.
458 See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details.
460 config HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
463 An architecture should select this if it has the code which
464 fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON
465 value before returning from system calls.
467 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
470 An arch should select this symbol if:
471 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
473 config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
474 def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
476 config STACKPROTECTOR
477 bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
478 depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
479 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
482 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
483 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
484 the stack just before the return address, and validates
485 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
486 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
487 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
488 neutralized via a kernel panic.
490 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
491 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
493 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
494 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
496 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
497 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
500 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
501 bool "Strong Stack Protector"
502 depends on STACKPROTECTOR
503 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong)
506 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
507 of the following conditions:
509 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
510 assignment or function argument
511 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
512 regardless of array type or length
513 - uses register local variables
515 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
516 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
518 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
519 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
522 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
525 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
526 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
527 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
528 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
529 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
531 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
534 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
535 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
536 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
537 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
538 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
539 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
540 irq exit still need to be protected.
542 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
545 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
548 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
552 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
553 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
554 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
555 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
556 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
557 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
560 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
563 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
564 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
569 Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level.
571 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
574 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
577 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
580 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
583 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
586 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
587 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
588 should not enable this.
590 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
593 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
594 relocations will give an error.
596 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
599 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
600 relocations will give an error.
602 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
605 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
606 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
607 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
608 in the end of an hardirq.
609 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
612 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
616 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
619 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
620 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
622 - arch_randomize_brk()
624 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
627 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
628 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
629 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
630 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
631 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
633 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
636 An architecture implements exit_thread.
638 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
641 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
644 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
647 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
648 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
649 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
650 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
651 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
652 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
654 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
655 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
656 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
657 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
659 This value can be changed after boot using the
660 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
662 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
665 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
666 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
667 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
668 enabled and provides values for both:
669 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
670 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
672 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
675 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
678 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
681 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
682 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
683 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
684 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
685 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
686 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
688 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
689 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
690 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
691 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
694 This value can be changed after boot using the
695 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
697 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
700 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
701 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
702 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
704 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
707 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
708 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
709 argument from pt_regs.
711 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
714 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
715 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
717 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
720 Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
721 only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
723 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
727 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
728 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
729 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
731 config HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
740 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
743 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
746 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
749 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
751 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
754 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
757 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
760 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
762 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
765 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
767 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
770 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
775 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
776 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
777 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
780 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
786 This should be selected by all architectures that need to support
787 new system calls with a 64-bit time_t. This is relevant on all 32-bit
788 architectures, and 64-bit architectures as part of compat syscall
791 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
792 def_bool !64BIT || COMPAT
794 This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
795 This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures
796 as part of compat syscall handling.
798 config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
801 config ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
804 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
807 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
810 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
811 in vmalloc space. This means:
813 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
814 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
816 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
817 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
818 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
819 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
820 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
821 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
823 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
824 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
825 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
829 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
830 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
832 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
833 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
834 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
837 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
838 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
839 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
841 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
844 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
847 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
850 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
851 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
852 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
853 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
855 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
856 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
857 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
860 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
861 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
863 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
866 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
867 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
868 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
869 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
871 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
872 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
873 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
875 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
876 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
879 config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
882 An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t
883 using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized
884 refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full
885 refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y.
887 The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained.
888 Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting
889 against bugs in reference counts.
892 bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed"
894 Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast
895 unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked
896 implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections
897 against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
898 security flaw exploits.
900 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
903 An architecture can select this if it provides an
904 asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
905 linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
906 headers generally provide.
908 config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
911 May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative
912 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader,
913 in which case relative references can be used in special sections
914 for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit
915 architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
918 config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
921 config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
922 bool "Locking event counts collection"
925 Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events
926 in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces
927 the chance of application behavior change because of timing
928 differences. The counts are reported via debugfs.
930 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
932 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"