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"
39 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
42 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
43 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
44 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
45 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
49 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
50 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
51 depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
53 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
54 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
55 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
57 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
58 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
59 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
61 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
62 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
63 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
64 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
65 conditional block of instructions.
67 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
68 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
69 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
71 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
72 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
74 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
75 bool "Static key selftest"
78 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
80 config STATIC_CALL_SELFTEST
81 bool "Static call selftest"
82 depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL
84 Boot time self-test of the call patching code.
88 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
89 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
91 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
93 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
94 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
96 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
97 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
98 optimize on top of function tracing.
102 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
104 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
105 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
106 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
107 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
108 are hit by user-space applications.
110 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
111 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
114 config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
115 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
117 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
118 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
119 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
120 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
121 architectures without unaligned access.
123 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
124 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
125 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
127 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
128 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
130 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
133 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
134 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
135 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
136 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
139 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
140 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
141 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
142 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
143 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
146 See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for more
147 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
149 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
152 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
153 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
154 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
155 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
156 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
157 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
158 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
159 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
160 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
161 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
162 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
164 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
165 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
166 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
170 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
172 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
174 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
176 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
179 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
185 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
188 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
191 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
194 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
201 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
203 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
204 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
205 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
206 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
207 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
208 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
209 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
210 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
211 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
213 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
216 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
219 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
222 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
225 config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
228 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
229 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
232 # Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd
233 # command line option
235 config ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD
238 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
239 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
242 # Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions
243 config ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
247 # Select if the architecture provides the arch_dma_set_uncached symbol to
248 # either provide an uncached segment alias for a DMA allocation, or
249 # to remap the page tables in place.
251 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED
255 # Select if the architectures provides the arch_dma_clear_uncached symbol
256 # to undo an in-place page table remap for uncached access.
258 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED
261 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
262 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
265 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
266 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
269 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
271 depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
273 An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
274 knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
275 whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
276 FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
277 should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
278 field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
280 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
281 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
284 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
285 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
288 config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
292 All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on
293 userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This
294 is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures
295 still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such
296 architectures explicitly.
298 # Selected by 64 bit architectures which have a 32 bit f_tinode in struct ustat
299 config ARCH_32BIT_USTAT_F_TINODE
302 config HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
305 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it provides
306 <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols
307 exported from assembly code.
309 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
312 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports
313 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
314 declared in asm/ptrace.h
315 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
319 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
321 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it
322 supports an implementation of restartable sequences.
324 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
327 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports
328 the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs,
329 declared in asm/ptrace.h
331 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
333 depends on PERF_EVENTS
335 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
337 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
339 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
340 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
341 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
342 them but define the access type in a control register.
343 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
346 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
349 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
352 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
353 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
354 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
356 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
358 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
360 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
361 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
363 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
367 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
368 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
370 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
372 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
374 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
375 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
376 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
378 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
381 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
382 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
384 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
387 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
388 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
391 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
394 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
397 config MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
400 config MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
402 select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
404 config MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
407 config MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE
410 config MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER
412 depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
414 config ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM
417 Temporary select until all architectures can be converted to have
418 irqs disabled over activate_mm. Architectures that do IPI based TLB
419 shootdowns should enable this.
421 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
424 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
427 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
428 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
429 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
430 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
432 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
435 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
438 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
441 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
444 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
447 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
448 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
451 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
454 An arch should select this symbol to support seccomp mode 1 (the fixed
455 syscall policy), and must provide an overrides for __NR_seccomp_sigreturn,
456 and compat syscalls if the asm-generic/seccomp.h defaults need adjustment:
457 - __NR_seccomp_read_32
458 - __NR_seccomp_write_32
459 - __NR_seccomp_exit_32
460 - __NR_seccomp_sigreturn_32
462 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
464 select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
466 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
467 - all the requirements for HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
469 - syscall_get_arguments()
471 - syscall_set_return_value()
472 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
473 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
474 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
475 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
476 - seccomp syscall wired up
477 - if !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR, have SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE,
478 SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NR, SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NAME defined. If
479 COMPAT is supported, have the SECCOMP_ARCH_COMPAT* defines too.
482 prompt "Enable seccomp to safely execute untrusted bytecode"
484 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
486 This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
487 that may need to handle untrusted bytecode during their
488 execution. By using pipes or other transports made available
489 to the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write
490 syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in their
491 own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is enabled via
492 prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) or the seccomp() syscall, it cannot be
493 disabled and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe
494 syscalls defined by each seccomp mode.
498 config SECCOMP_FILTER
500 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
502 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
503 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
504 task-defined system call filtering polices.
506 See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details.
508 config SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG
509 bool "Show seccomp filter cache status in /proc/pid/seccomp_cache"
510 depends on SECCOMP_FILTER && !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR
513 This enables the /proc/pid/seccomp_cache interface to monitor
514 seccomp cache data. The file format is subject to change. Reading
515 the file requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
517 This option is for debugging only. Enabling presents the risk that
518 an adversary may be able to infer the seccomp filter logic.
522 config HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
525 An architecture should select this if it has the code which
526 fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON
527 value before returning from system calls.
529 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
532 An arch should select this symbol if:
533 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
535 config STACKPROTECTOR
536 bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
537 depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
538 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
541 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
542 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
543 the stack just before the return address, and validates
544 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
545 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
546 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
547 neutralized via a kernel panic.
549 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
550 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
552 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
553 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
555 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
556 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
559 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
560 bool "Strong Stack Protector"
561 depends on STACKPROTECTOR
562 depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong)
565 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
566 of the following conditions:
568 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
569 assignment or function argument
570 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
571 regardless of array type or length
572 - uses register local variables
574 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
575 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
577 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
578 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
581 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
584 An architecture should select this if it supports Clang's Shadow
585 Call Stack and implements runtime support for shadow stack
588 config SHADOW_CALL_STACK
589 bool "Clang Shadow Call Stack"
590 depends on CC_IS_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
591 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || !FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
593 This option enables Clang's Shadow Call Stack, which uses a
594 shadow stack to protect function return addresses from being
595 overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found in
596 Clang's documentation:
598 https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html
600 Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the
601 ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses
602 of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable of
603 reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them
604 and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks.
606 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
609 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
610 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
611 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
612 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
613 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
615 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
618 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
619 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
620 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter(), either
621 optimized behind static key or through the slow path using TIF_NOHZ
622 flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs are already
623 protected inside rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal
624 handling on irq exit still need to be protected.
626 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
629 Architecture neither relies on exception_enter()/exception_exit()
630 nor on schedule_user(). Also preempt_schedule_notrace() and
631 preempt_schedule_irq() can't be called in a preemptible section
632 while context tracking is CONTEXT_USER. This feature reflects a sane
633 entry implementation where the following requirements are met on
634 critical entry code, ie: before user_exit() or after user_enter():
636 - Critical entry code isn't preemptible (or better yet:
638 - No use of RCU read side critical sections, unless rcu_nmi_enter()
640 - No use of instrumentation, unless instrumentation_begin() got
646 Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall slow path to implement context
647 tracking calls to user_enter()/user_exit().
649 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
652 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_IDLE
655 Architecture has its own way to account idle CPU time and therefore
656 doesn't implement vtime_account_idle().
658 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
661 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
665 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
666 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
667 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
668 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
669 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
670 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
672 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
675 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
676 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
681 Architectures that select this are able to move page tables at the
682 PUD level. If there are only 3 page table levels, the move effectively
683 happens at the PGD level.
688 Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level.
690 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
693 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
696 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
699 config ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
702 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
705 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
708 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
709 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
710 should not enable this.
712 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
715 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
716 relocations will give an error.
718 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
721 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
722 relocations will give an error.
724 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
727 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
728 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
729 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
730 in the end of an hardirq.
731 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
734 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
738 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
741 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
742 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
744 - arch_randomize_brk()
746 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
749 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
750 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
751 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
752 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
753 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
755 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
758 An architecture implements exit_thread.
760 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
763 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
766 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
769 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
770 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
771 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
772 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
773 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
774 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
776 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
777 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
778 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
779 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
781 This value can be changed after boot using the
782 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
784 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
787 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
788 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
789 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
790 enabled and provides values for both:
791 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
792 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
794 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
797 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
800 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
803 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
804 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
805 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
806 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
807 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
808 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
810 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
811 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
812 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
813 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
816 This value can be changed after boot using the
817 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
819 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
822 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
823 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
824 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
826 # This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base
827 # address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process
828 # is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or
829 # sysctl_legacy_va_layout).
830 # Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of:
832 config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT
835 select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
837 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
840 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
841 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
843 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
846 Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or
847 arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace
848 if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
850 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
854 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
855 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
856 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
858 config HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
867 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
870 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
873 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
876 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
878 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
881 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
884 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
887 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
889 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
892 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
894 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
897 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
902 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
903 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
904 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
907 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
910 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
911 bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t"
912 default !64BIT || COMPAT
914 This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
915 This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures
916 as part of compat syscall handling.
918 config ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
921 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
924 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
927 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
930 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
931 in vmalloc space. This means:
933 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
934 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
936 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
937 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
938 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
939 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
940 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
941 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
943 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
944 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
945 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
949 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
950 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
951 depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || KASAN_VMALLOC
953 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
954 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
955 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
958 To use this with software KASAN modes, the architecture must support
959 backing virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC
962 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
965 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
968 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
971 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
972 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
973 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
974 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
976 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
977 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
978 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
981 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
982 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
984 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
987 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
988 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
989 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
990 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
992 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
993 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
994 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
996 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
997 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
1000 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
1003 An architecture can select this if it provides an
1004 asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
1005 linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
1006 headers generally provide.
1008 config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
1011 May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative
1012 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader,
1013 in which case relative references can be used in special sections
1014 for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit
1015 architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
1018 config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
1021 config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
1022 bool "Locking event counts collection"
1025 Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events
1026 in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces
1027 the chance of application behavior change because of timing
1028 differences. The counts are reported via debugfs.
1030 # Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations.
1031 config ARCH_HAS_RELR
1035 bool "Use RELR relocation packing"
1036 depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
1039 Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing
1040 format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as
1041 well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy
1044 config ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
1047 config HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR
1050 An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse
1051 to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with
1052 entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall
1053 related optimizations for a given architecture.
1055 config ARCH_HAS_VDSO_DATA
1058 config HAVE_STATIC_CALL
1061 config HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE
1063 depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL
1065 config HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
1067 depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL
1068 depends on GENERIC_ENTRY
1070 Select this if the architecture support boot time preempt setting
1071 on top of static calls. It is strongly advised to support inline
1072 static call to avoid any overhead.
1074 config ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
1077 An arch should select this symbol once all linker sections are explicitly
1078 included, size-asserted, or discarded in the linker scripts. This is
1079 important because we never want expected sections to be placed heuristically
1080 by the linker, since the locations of such sections can change between linker
1083 config HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
1086 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
1089 config ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64
1092 If a 32-bit architecture requires 64-bit arguments to be split into
1093 pairs of 32-bit arguments, select this option.
1095 config ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT
1098 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
1100 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"