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
264 # Select if arch has an uncached kernel segment and provides the
265 # uncached_kernel_address / cached_kernel_address symbols to use it
267 config ARCH_HAS_UNCACHED_SEGMENT
268 select ARCH_HAS_DMA_PREP_COHERENT
271 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
272 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
275 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
276 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
279 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
281 depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
283 An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
284 knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
285 whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
286 FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
287 should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
288 field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
290 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
291 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
294 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
295 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
298 config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
302 All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on
303 userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This
304 is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures
305 still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such
306 architectures explicitly.
308 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
311 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
312 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
313 declared in asm/ptrace.h
314 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
318 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
320 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it
321 supports an implementation of restartable sequences.
323 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
326 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
327 the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs,
328 declared in asm/ptrace.h
333 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
334 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
336 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
338 depends on PERF_EVENTS
340 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
342 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
344 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
345 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
346 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
347 them but define the access type in a control register.
348 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
351 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
354 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
357 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
358 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
359 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
361 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
363 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
365 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
366 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
368 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
372 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
373 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
375 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
377 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
379 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
380 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
381 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
383 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
386 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
387 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
389 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
392 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
393 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
396 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
399 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
402 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
405 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE
408 config HAVE_MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
411 config HAVE_MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER
414 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
417 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
420 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
421 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
422 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
423 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
425 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
428 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
431 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
434 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
437 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
440 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
441 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
444 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
447 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
449 - syscall_get_arguments()
451 - syscall_set_return_value()
452 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
453 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
454 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
455 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
456 - seccomp syscall wired up
458 config SECCOMP_FILTER
460 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
462 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
463 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
464 task-defined system call filtering polices.
466 See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details.
468 config HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
471 An architecture should select this if it has the code which
472 fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON
473 value before returning from system calls.
475 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
478 An arch should select this symbol if:
479 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
481 config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
482 def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
484 config STACKPROTECTOR
485 bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
486 depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
487 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
490 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
491 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
492 the stack just before the return address, and validates
493 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
494 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
495 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
496 neutralized via a kernel panic.
498 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
499 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
501 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
502 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
504 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
505 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
508 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
509 bool "Strong Stack Protector"
510 depends on STACKPROTECTOR
511 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong)
514 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
515 of the following conditions:
517 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
518 assignment or function argument
519 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
520 regardless of array type or length
521 - uses register local variables
523 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
524 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
526 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
527 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
530 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
533 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
534 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
535 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
536 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
537 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
539 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
542 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
543 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
544 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
545 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
546 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
547 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
548 irq exit still need to be protected.
550 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
553 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
556 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
560 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
561 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
562 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
563 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
564 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
565 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
568 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
571 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
572 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
577 Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level.
579 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
582 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
585 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
588 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
591 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
594 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
595 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
596 should not enable this.
598 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
601 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
602 relocations will give an error.
604 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
607 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
608 relocations will give an error.
610 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
613 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
614 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
615 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
616 in the end of an hardirq.
617 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
620 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
624 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
627 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
628 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
630 - arch_randomize_brk()
632 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
635 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
636 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
637 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
638 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
639 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
641 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
644 An architecture implements exit_thread.
646 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
649 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
652 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
655 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
656 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
657 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
658 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
659 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
660 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_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. This value will be bounded
665 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
667 This value can be changed after boot using the
668 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
670 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
673 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
674 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
675 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
676 enabled and provides values for both:
677 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
678 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
680 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
683 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
686 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
689 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
690 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
691 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
692 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
693 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
694 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
696 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
697 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
698 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
699 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
702 This value can be changed after boot using the
703 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
705 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
708 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
709 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
710 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
712 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
715 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
716 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
717 argument from pt_regs.
719 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
722 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
723 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
725 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
728 Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
729 only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
731 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
735 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
736 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
737 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
739 config HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
748 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
751 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
754 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
757 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
759 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
762 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
765 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
768 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
770 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
773 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
775 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
778 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
783 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
784 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
785 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
788 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
794 This should be selected by all architectures that need to support
795 new system calls with a 64-bit time_t. This is relevant on all 32-bit
796 architectures, and 64-bit architectures as part of compat syscall
799 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
800 def_bool !64BIT || COMPAT
802 This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
803 This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures
804 as part of compat syscall handling.
806 config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
809 config ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
812 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
815 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
818 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
819 in vmalloc space. This means:
821 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
822 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
824 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
825 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
826 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
827 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
828 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
829 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
831 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
832 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
833 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
837 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
838 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
840 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
841 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
842 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
845 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
846 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
847 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
849 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
852 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
855 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
858 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
859 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
860 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
861 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
863 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
864 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
865 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
868 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
869 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
871 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
874 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
875 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
876 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
877 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
879 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
880 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
881 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
883 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
884 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
887 config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
890 An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t
891 using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized
892 refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full
893 refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y.
895 The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained.
896 Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting
897 against bugs in reference counts.
900 bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed"
902 Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast
903 unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked
904 implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections
905 against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
906 security flaw exploits.
908 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
911 An architecture can select this if it provides an
912 asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
913 linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
914 headers generally provide.
916 config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
919 May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative
920 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader,
921 in which case relative references can be used in special sections
922 for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit
923 architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
926 config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
929 config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
930 bool "Locking event counts collection"
933 Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events
934 in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces
935 the chance of application behavior change because of timing
936 differences. The counts are reported via debugfs.
938 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
940 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"