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   2# General architecture dependent options
   3#
   4
   5config CRASH_CORE
   6        bool
   7
   8config KEXEC_CORE
   9        select CRASH_CORE
  10        bool
  11
  12config OPROFILE
  13        tristate "OProfile system profiling"
  14        depends on PROFILING
  15        depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
  16        select RING_BUFFER
  17        select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
  18        help
  19          OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
  20          whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
  21          and applications.
  22
  23          If unsure, say N.
  24
  25config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
  26        bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  27        default n
  28        depends on OPROFILE && X86
  29        help
  30          The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
  31          feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
  32          are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
  33          between events at an user specified time interval.
  34
  35          If unsure, say N.
  36
  37config HAVE_OPROFILE
  38        bool
  39
  40config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
  41        def_bool y
  42        depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
  43
  44config KPROBES
  45        bool "Kprobes"
  46        depends on MODULES
  47        depends on HAVE_KPROBES
  48        select KALLSYMS
  49        help
  50          Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
  51          execute a callback function.  register_kprobe() establishes
  52          a probepoint and specifies the callback.  Kprobes is useful
  53          for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
  54          If in doubt, say "N".
  55
  56config JUMP_LABEL
  57       bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
  58       depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
  59       help
  60         This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
  61         makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
  62         conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
  63
  64         Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
  65         scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
  66         branches and include support for this optimization technique.
  67
  68         If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
  69         the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
  70         instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
  71         nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
  72         conditional block of instructions.
  73
  74         This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
  75         of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
  76         of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
  77
  78         ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
  79           flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
  80
  81config OPTPROBES
  82        def_bool y
  83        depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
  84        depends on !PREEMPT
  85
  86config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
  87        def_bool y
  88        depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
  89        depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
  90        help
  91         If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
  92         passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
  93         optimize on top of function tracing.
  94
  95config UPROBES
  96        bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  97        depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS
  98        default n
  99        select PERCPU_RWSEM
 100        help
 101          Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
 102          enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
 103          to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
 104          libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
 105          are hit by user-space applications.
 106
 107          ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
 108            managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
 109            application. )
 110
 111          If in doubt, say "N".
 112
 113config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
 114        def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
 115        help
 116          Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
 117          aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
 118          to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
 119          architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
 120          architectures without unaligned access.
 121
 122          This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
 123          accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
 124          though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
 125
 126          See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
 127          information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
 128
 129config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
 130        bool
 131        help
 132          Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
 133          without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
 134          unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
 135          unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
 136          handler.)
 137
 138          This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
 139          perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
 140          code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
 141          drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
 142          problems with received packets if doing so would not help
 143          much.
 144
 145          See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
 146          information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
 147
 148config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
 149       bool
 150       help
 151         Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
 152         for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
 153         inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
 154         __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
 155         happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
 156         particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
 157         with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
 158         store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
 159         should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
 160         hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>.  But just in case it
 161         does, the use of the builtins is optional.
 162
 163         Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
 164         instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
 165         on architectures that don't have such instructions.
 166
 167config KRETPROBES
 168        def_bool y
 169        depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
 170
 171config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
 172        bool
 173        depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
 174        help
 175          Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
 176          switch to user mode.
 177
 178config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
 179        bool
 180
 181config HAVE_KPROBES
 182        bool
 183
 184config HAVE_KRETPROBES
 185        bool
 186
 187config HAVE_OPTPROBES
 188        bool
 189
 190config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
 191        bool
 192
 193config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
 194        bool
 195#
 196# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
 197#
 198#       task_pt_regs()          in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
 199#       arch_has_single_step()  if there is hardware single-step support
 200#       arch_has_block_step()   if there is hardware block-step support
 201#       asm/syscall.h           supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
 202#       linux/regset.h          user_regset interfaces
 203#       CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET    #define'd in linux/elf.h
 204#       TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE       calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
 205#       TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME       calls tracehook_notify_resume()
 206#       signal delivery         calls tracehook_signal_handler()
 207#
 208config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
 209        bool
 210
 211config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
 212        bool
 213
 214config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
 215        bool
 216
 217config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
 218        bool
 219
 220config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
 221       bool
 222
 223config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
 224       bool
 225
 226# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
 227config ARCH_INIT_TASK
 228       bool
 229
 230# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
 231config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
 232        bool
 233
 234# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
 235config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
 236        bool
 237
 238config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
 239        bool
 240        help
 241          This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
 242          the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
 243          declared in asm/ptrace.h
 244          For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
 245
 246config HAVE_CLK
 247        bool
 248        help
 249          The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
 250          thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
 251
 252config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
 253        bool
 254
 255config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
 256        bool
 257        depends on PERF_EVENTS
 258
 259config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
 260        bool
 261        depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
 262        help
 263          Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
 264          some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
 265          breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
 266          them but define the access type in a control register.
 267          Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
 268          latter fashion.
 269
 270config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
 271        bool
 272
 273config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
 274        bool
 275        help
 276          System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
 277          subsystem.  Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
 278          to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
 279
 280config HAVE_PERF_REGS
 281        bool
 282        help
 283          Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
 284          bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
 285
 286config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
 287        bool
 288        help
 289          Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
 290          access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
 291          architectures.
 292
 293config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 294        bool
 295
 296config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
 297        bool
 298
 299config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
 300        bool
 301
 302config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
 303        bool
 304        help
 305          This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
 306          e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
 307          on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
 308          might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
 309
 310config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
 311        bool
 312
 313config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
 314        bool
 315
 316config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 317        bool
 318
 319config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 320        bool
 321
 322config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
 323        select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 324        bool
 325
 326config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
 327        bool
 328        help
 329          An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
 330          - syscall_get_arch()
 331          - syscall_get_arguments()
 332          - syscall_rollback()
 333          - syscall_set_return_value()
 334          - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
 335          - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
 336          - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
 337            results in the system call being skipped immediately.
 338
 339config SECCOMP_FILTER
 340        def_bool y
 341        depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
 342        help
 343          Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
 344          in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
 345          task-defined system call filtering polices.
 346
 347          See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
 348
 349config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 350        bool
 351        help
 352          An arch should select this symbol if:
 353          - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
 354          - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
 355
 356config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 357        def_bool n
 358        help
 359          Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
 360          can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
 361
 362choice
 363        prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
 364        depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 365        default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
 366        help
 367          This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
 368          feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
 369          the stack just before the return address, and validates
 370          the value just before actually returning.  Stack based buffer
 371          overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
 372          overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
 373          neutralized via a kernel panic.
 374
 375config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
 376        bool "None"
 377        help
 378          Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
 379
 380config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
 381        bool "Regular"
 382        select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 383        help
 384          Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
 385          have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
 386
 387          This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
 388          gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
 389
 390          On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
 391          about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
 392          by about 0.3%.
 393
 394config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
 395        bool "Strong"
 396        select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 397        help
 398          Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
 399          of the following conditions:
 400
 401          - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
 402            assignment or function argument
 403          - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
 404            regardless of array type or length
 405          - uses register local variables
 406
 407          This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
 408          gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
 409
 410          On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
 411          about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
 412          size by about 2%.
 413
 414endchoice
 415
 416config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
 417        bool
 418        help
 419          Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
 420          that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
 421          Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
 422          the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
 423          wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
 424          rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
 425          irq exit still need to be protected.
 426
 427config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
 428        bool
 429
 430config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
 431        bool
 432        help
 433          Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
 434          support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
 435
 436config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 437        bool
 438
 439config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
 440        bool
 441
 442config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
 443        bool
 444
 445config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
 446        bool
 447        help
 448          The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data.  Many arches
 449          just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
 450          should not enable this.
 451
 452config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
 453        bool
 454        help
 455          Modules only use ELF RELA relocations.  Modules with ELF REL
 456          relocations will give an error.
 457
 458config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
 459        bool
 460        help
 461          Modules only use ELF REL relocations.  Modules with ELF RELA
 462          relocations will give an error.
 463
 464config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
 465        bool
 466        help
 467          Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
 468          module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
 469
 470config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
 471        bool
 472        help
 473          Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
 474          performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
 475
 476config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
 477        bool
 478        help
 479          An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
 480          stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
 481          - arch_mmap_rnd()
 482          - arch_randomize_brk()
 483
 484config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
 485        bool
 486        help
 487          An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
 488          number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
 489          allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
 490          - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
 491          - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
 492
 493config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
 494        int
 495
 496config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
 497        int
 498
 499config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
 500        int
 501
 502config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
 503        int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
 504        range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
 505        default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
 506        default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
 507        depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
 508        help
 509          This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
 510          determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
 511          resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
 512          by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
 513
 514          This value can be changed after boot using the
 515          /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
 516
 517config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
 518        bool
 519        help
 520          An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
 521          in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
 522          use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
 523          enabled and provides values for both:
 524          - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
 525          - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
 526
 527config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
 528        int
 529
 530config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
 531        int
 532
 533config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
 534        int
 535
 536config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
 537        int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
 538        range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
 539        default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
 540        default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
 541        depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
 542        help
 543          This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
 544          determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
 545          resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
 546          value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
 547          supported values.
 548
 549          This value can be changed after boot using the
 550          /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
 551
 552#
 553# ABI hall of shame
 554#
 555config CLONE_BACKWARDS
 556        bool
 557        help
 558          Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
 559          not the 5th one.
 560
 561config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
 562        bool
 563        help
 564          Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
 565
 566config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
 567        bool
 568        help
 569          Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
 570          not the 5th one.
 571
 572config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
 573        bool
 574        help
 575          Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
 576
 577config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
 578        bool
 579        help
 580          Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
 581
 582config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
 583        bool
 584        help
 585          Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
 586
 587config OLD_SIGACTION
 588        bool
 589        help
 590          Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall.  Nope, not the same
 591          as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
 592          but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
 593          compatibility...
 594
 595config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
 596        bool
 597
 598source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
 599