| # | |
| # General architecture dependent options | |
| # | |
| config CRASH_CORE | |
| bool | |
| config KEXEC_CORE | |
| select CRASH_CORE | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_IMA_KEXEC | |
| bool | |
| config OPROFILE | |
| tristate "OProfile system profiling" | |
| depends on PROFILING | |
| depends on HAVE_OPROFILE | |
| select RING_BUFFER | |
| select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP | |
| help | |
| OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the | |
| whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, | |
| and applications. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX | |
| bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
| default n | |
| depends on OPROFILE && X86 | |
| help | |
| The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing | |
| feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters | |
| are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching | |
| between events at a user specified time interval. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config HAVE_OPROFILE | |
| bool | |
| config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER | |
| def_bool y | |
| depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64 | |
| config KPROBES | |
| bool "Kprobes" | |
| depends on MODULES | |
| depends on HAVE_KPROBES | |
| select KALLSYMS | |
| help | |
| Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and | |
| execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes | |
| a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful | |
| for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. | |
| If in doubt, say "N". | |
| config JUMP_LABEL | |
| bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" | |
| depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL | |
| help | |
| This option enables a transparent branch optimization that | |
| makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch | |
| conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. | |
| Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, | |
| scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such | |
| branches and include support for this optimization technique. | |
| If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", | |
| the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop | |
| instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the | |
| nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the | |
| conditional block of instructions. | |
| This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction | |
| of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update | |
| of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. | |
| ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler | |
| flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) | |
| config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST | |
| bool "Static key selftest" | |
| depends on JUMP_LABEL | |
| help | |
| Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. | |
| config OPTPROBES | |
| def_bool y | |
| depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES | |
| depends on !PREEMPT | |
| config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | |
| def_bool y | |
| depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | |
| depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS | |
| help | |
| If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full | |
| passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can | |
| optimize on top of function tracing. | |
| config UPROBES | |
| def_bool n | |
| depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES | |
| help | |
| Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they | |
| enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') | |
| to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and | |
| libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes | |
| are hit by user-space applications. | |
| ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, | |
| managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed | |
| application. ) | |
| config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS | |
| def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS | |
| help | |
| Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit | |
| aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values | |
| to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit | |
| architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit | |
| architectures without unaligned access. | |
| This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit | |
| accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even | |
| though it is not a 64 bit architecture. | |
| See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | |
| information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | |
| config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses | |
| without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are | |
| unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on | |
| unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception | |
| handler.) | |
| This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can | |
| perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different | |
| code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network | |
| drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment | |
| problems with received packets if doing so would not help | |
| much. | |
| See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | |
| information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | |
| config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions | |
| for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old | |
| inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the | |
| __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's | |
| happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In | |
| particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap | |
| with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or | |
| store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It | |
| should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the | |
| hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it | |
| does, the use of the builtins is optional. | |
| Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap | |
| instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it | |
| on architectures that don't have such instructions. | |
| config KRETPROBES | |
| def_bool y | |
| depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES | |
| config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | |
| bool | |
| depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | |
| help | |
| Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to | |
| switch to user mode. | |
| config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_KPROBES | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_KRETPROBES | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_OPTPROBES | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_NMI | |
| bool | |
| # | |
| # An arch should select this if it provides all these things: | |
| # | |
| # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h | |
| # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support | |
| # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support | |
| # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface | |
| # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces | |
| # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h | |
| # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} | |
| # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume() | |
| # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler() | |
| # | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS | |
| bool | |
| config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD | |
| bool | |
| config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP | |
| bool | |
| config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| An architecture should select this when it can successfully | |
| build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. | |
| # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h | |
| config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY | |
| bool | |
| # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c | |
| config ARCH_INIT_TASK | |
| bool | |
| # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function | |
| config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR | |
| bool | |
| # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function | |
| config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR | |
| bool | |
| # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: | |
| config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports | |
| the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, | |
| declared in asm/ptrace.h | |
| For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. | |
| config HAVE_CLK | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and | |
| thus are a key power management tool on many systems. | |
| config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | |
| bool | |
| depends on PERF_EVENTS | |
| config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS | |
| bool | |
| depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | |
| help | |
| Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, | |
| some of them have separate registers for data and instruction | |
| breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store | |
| them but define the access type in a control register. | |
| Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the | |
| latter fashion. | |
| config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event | |
| subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events | |
| to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. | |
| config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF | |
| bool | |
| depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI | |
| help | |
| The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup | |
| detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. | |
| config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG | |
| depends on HAVE_NMI | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides | |
| asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(). | |
| config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH | |
| bool | |
| select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG | |
| help | |
| The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is | |
| a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config | |
| interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem. | |
| config HAVE_PERF_REGS | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes | |
| bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. | |
| config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs | |
| access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across | |
| architectures. | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE | |
| bool | |
| config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that | |
| e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations | |
| on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this | |
| might increase the size of a struct page by a word. | |
| config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE | |
| bool | |
| config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE | |
| bool | |
| config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION | |
| bool | |
| config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION | |
| bool | |
| config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC | |
| select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: | |
| - syscall_get_arch() | |
| - syscall_get_arguments() | |
| - syscall_rollback() | |
| - syscall_set_return_value() | |
| - SIGSYS siginfo_t support | |
| - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context | |
| - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 | |
| results in the system call being skipped immediately. | |
| - seccomp syscall wired up | |
| config SECCOMP_FILTER | |
| def_bool y | |
| depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET | |
| help | |
| Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined | |
| in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement | |
| task-defined system call filtering polices. | |
| See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. | |
| config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with | |
| GCC plugins. | |
| menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS | |
| bool "GCC plugins" | |
| depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS | |
| depends on !COMPILE_TEST | |
| help | |
| GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the | |
| compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. | |
| See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details. | |
| config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY | |
| bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT | |
| depends on GCC_PLUGINS | |
| depends on !COMPILE_TEST | |
| help | |
| The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as: | |
| M = E - N + 2P | |
| where | |
| E = the number of edges | |
| N = the number of nodes | |
| P = the number of connected components (exit nodes). | |
| Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the | |
| build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a | |
| gcc plugin for the kernel. | |
| config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV | |
| bool | |
| depends on GCC_PLUGINS | |
| help | |
| This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of | |
| basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from | |
| gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support" | |
| by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>. | |
| config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY | |
| bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime" | |
| depends on GCC_PLUGINS | |
| help | |
| By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to | |
| extract some entropy from both original and artificially created | |
| program state. This will help especially embedded systems where | |
| there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost | |
| is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and | |
| irq processing. | |
| Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically | |
| secure! | |
| This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: | |
| * https://grsecurity.net/ | |
| * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ | |
| config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK | |
| bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses" | |
| depends on GCC_PLUGINS | |
| help | |
| This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a | |
| __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information | |
| exposures. | |
| This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: | |
| * https://grsecurity.net/ | |
| * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ | |
| config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL | |
| bool "Force initialize all struct type variables passed by reference" | |
| depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK | |
| help | |
| Zero initialize any struct type local variable that may be passed by | |
| reference without having been initialized. | |
| config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE | |
| bool "Report forcefully initialized variables" | |
| depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK | |
| depends on !COMPILE_TEST | |
| help | |
| This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the | |
| structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be | |
| initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected | |
| by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings. | |
| config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT | |
| bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures" | |
| depends on GCC_PLUGINS | |
| select MODVERSIONS if MODULES | |
| help | |
| If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely | |
| function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with | |
| __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly | |
| marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time. | |
| This can introduce the requirement of an additional information | |
| exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure | |
| types. | |
| Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact, | |
| slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic | |
| tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel | |
| source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation). | |
| The seed used for compilation is located at | |
| scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after | |
| a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with | |
| the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or | |
| make distclean. | |
| Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer. | |
| This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: | |
| * https://grsecurity.net/ | |
| * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ | |
| config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE | |
| bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization" | |
| depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT | |
| depends on !COMPILE_TEST | |
| help | |
| If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a | |
| best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized | |
| groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields | |
| in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT | |
| at the cost of weakened randomization. | |
| config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| An arch should select this symbol if: | |
| - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option | |
| - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) | |
| config CC_STACKPROTECTOR | |
| def_bool n | |
| help | |
| Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build | |
| can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature. | |
| choice | |
| prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" | |
| depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR | |
| default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE | |
| help | |
| This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This | |
| feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on | |
| the stack just before the return address, and validates | |
| the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer | |
| overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also | |
| overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then | |
| neutralized via a kernel panic. | |
| config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE | |
| bool "None" | |
| help | |
| Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature. | |
| config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR | |
| bool "Regular" | |
| select CC_STACKPROTECTOR | |
| help | |
| Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they | |
| have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. | |
| This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution | |
| gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). | |
| On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to | |
| about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size | |
| by about 0.3%. | |
| config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG | |
| bool "Strong" | |
| select CC_STACKPROTECTOR | |
| help | |
| Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any | |
| of the following conditions: | |
| - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an | |
| assignment or function argument | |
| - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), | |
| regardless of array type or length | |
| - uses register local variables | |
| This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution | |
| gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). | |
| On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to | |
| about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code | |
| size by about 2%. | |
| endchoice | |
| config THIN_ARCHIVES | |
| def_bool y | |
| help | |
| Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives | |
| instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files. | |
| config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and | |
| data elimination with the linker by compiling with | |
| -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with | |
| --gc-sections. | |
| This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects | |
| its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts | |
| must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into | |
| output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated | |
| sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names | |
| is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack | |
| frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments | |
| or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, | |
| and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), | |
| which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. | |
| config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems | |
| that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. | |
| Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through | |
| the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be | |
| wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside | |
| rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on | |
| irq exit still need to be protected. | |
| config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING | |
| bool | |
| config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN | |
| bool | |
| default y if 64BIT | |
| help | |
| With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. | |
| Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited | |
| to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of | |
| cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on | |
| some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper | |
| locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. | |
| config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to | |
| support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY | |
| bool | |
| config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches | |
| just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those | |
| should not enable this. | |
| config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL | |
| relocations will give an error. | |
| config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA | |
| relocations will give an error. | |
| config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like | |
| module loading and assembly files need to know about this. | |
| config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack | |
| but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq | |
| stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() | |
| in the end of an hardirq. | |
| This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq | |
| processing. | |
| config PGTABLE_LEVELS | |
| int | |
| default 2 | |
| config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for | |
| stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: | |
| - arch_mmap_rnd() | |
| - arch_randomize_brk() | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable | |
| number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap | |
| allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: | |
| - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN | |
| - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX | |
| config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| An architecture implements exit_thread. | |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN | |
| int | |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX | |
| int | |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT | |
| int | |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS | |
| int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT | |
| range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX | |
| default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT | |
| default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN | |
| depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS | |
| help | |
| This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to | |
| determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions | |
| resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded | |
| by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. | |
| This value can be changed after boot using the | |
| /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications | |
| in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for | |
| use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU | |
| enabled and provides values for both: | |
| - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN | |
| - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX | |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN | |
| int | |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX | |
| int | |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT | |
| int | |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS | |
| int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT | |
| range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX | |
| default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT | |
| default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN | |
| depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS | |
| help | |
| This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to | |
| determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions | |
| resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This | |
| value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum | |
| supported values. | |
| This value can be changed after boot using the | |
| /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall | |
| and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap(). | |
| Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls. | |
| config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via | |
| normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall | |
| argument from pt_regs. | |
| config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which | |
| performs compile-time stack metadata validation. | |
| config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which | |
| only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_HASH | |
| bool | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> | |
| file which provides platform-specific implementations of some | |
| functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. | |
| config ISA_BUS_API | |
| def_bool ISA | |
| # | |
| # ABI hall of shame | |
| # | |
| config CLONE_BACKWARDS | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), | |
| not the 5th one. | |
| config CLONE_BACKWARDS2 | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. | |
| config CLONE_BACKWARDS3 | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), | |
| not the 5th one. | |
| config ODD_RT_SIGACTION | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments | |
| config OLD_SIGSUSPEND | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety | |
| config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) | |
| config OLD_SIGACTION | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same | |
| as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), | |
| but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 | |
| compatibility... | |
| config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION | |
| bool | |
| config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP | |
| bool | |
| config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS | |
| def_bool n | |
| config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK | |
| def_bool n | |
| help | |
| An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks | |
| in vmalloc space. This means: | |
| - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. | |
| This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. | |
| - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if | |
| vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism | |
| needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with | |
| unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), | |
| most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries | |
| are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. | |
| - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable | |
| should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but | |
| instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. | |
| config VMAP_STACK | |
| default y | |
| bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" | |
| depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN | |
| ---help--- | |
| Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks | |
| with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be | |
| caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose | |
| corruption. | |
| This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects | |
| the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula | |
| that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space. | |
| config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX | |
| def_bool n | |
| config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT | |
| def_bool n | |
| config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX | |
| def_bool n | |
| config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX | |
| bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX | |
| depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX | |
| default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT | |
| help | |
| If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, | |
| and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides | |
| protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap | |
| or modifying text) | |
| These features are considered standard security practice these days. | |
| You should say Y here in almost all cases. | |
| config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX | |
| def_bool n | |
| config STRICT_MODULE_RWX | |
| bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX | |
| depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES | |
| default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT | |
| help | |
| If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, | |
| and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides | |
| protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text) | |
| config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t | |
| using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized | |
| refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full | |
| refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y. | |
| The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained. | |
| Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting | |
| against bugs in reference counts. | |
| config REFCOUNT_FULL | |
| bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed" | |
| help | |
| Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast | |
| unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked | |
| implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections | |
| against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in | |
| security flaw exploits. | |
| source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" |