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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 a 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_CONTIGUOUS
 212        bool
 213
 214config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
 215        bool
 216
 217config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
 218       bool
 219
 220config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
 221       bool
 222
 223# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
 224config ARCH_INIT_TASK
 225       bool
 226
 227# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
 228config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
 229        bool
 230
 231# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
 232config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
 233        bool
 234
 235config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
 236        bool
 237        help
 238          This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
 239          the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
 240          declared in asm/ptrace.h
 241          For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
 242
 243config HAVE_CLK
 244        bool
 245        help
 246          The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
 247          thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
 248
 249config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
 250        bool
 251
 252config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
 253        bool
 254        depends on PERF_EVENTS
 255
 256config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
 257        bool
 258        depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
 259        help
 260          Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
 261          some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
 262          breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
 263          them but define the access type in a control register.
 264          Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
 265          latter fashion.
 266
 267config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
 268        bool
 269
 270config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
 271        bool
 272        help
 273          System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
 274          subsystem.  Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
 275          to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
 276
 277config HAVE_PERF_REGS
 278        bool
 279        help
 280          Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
 281          bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
 282
 283config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
 284        bool
 285        help
 286          Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
 287          access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
 288          architectures.
 289
 290config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 291        bool
 292
 293config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
 294        bool
 295
 296config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
 297        bool
 298
 299config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
 300        bool
 301        help
 302          This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
 303          e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
 304          on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
 305          might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
 306
 307config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
 308        bool
 309
 310config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
 311        bool
 312
 313config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 314        bool
 315
 316config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 317        bool
 318
 319config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
 320        select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 321        bool
 322
 323config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
 324        bool
 325        help
 326          An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
 327          - syscall_get_arch()
 328          - syscall_get_arguments()
 329          - syscall_rollback()
 330          - syscall_set_return_value()
 331          - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
 332          - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
 333          - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
 334            results in the system call being skipped immediately.
 335          - seccomp syscall wired up
 336
 337config SECCOMP_FILTER
 338        def_bool y
 339        depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
 340        help
 341          Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
 342          in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
 343          task-defined system call filtering polices.
 344
 345          See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
 346
 347config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 348        bool
 349        help
 350          An arch should select this symbol if:
 351          - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
 352          - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
 353
 354config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 355        def_bool n
 356        help
 357          Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
 358          can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
 359
 360choice
 361        prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
 362        depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 363        default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
 364        help
 365          This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
 366          feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
 367          the stack just before the return address, and validates
 368          the value just before actually returning.  Stack based buffer
 369          overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
 370          overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
 371          neutralized via a kernel panic.
 372
 373config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
 374        bool "None"
 375        help
 376          Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
 377
 378config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
 379        bool "Regular"
 380        select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 381        help
 382          Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
 383          have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
 384
 385          This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
 386          gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
 387
 388          On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
 389          about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
 390          by about 0.3%.
 391
 392config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
 393        bool "Strong"
 394        select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 395        help
 396          Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
 397          of the following conditions:
 398
 399          - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
 400            assignment or function argument
 401          - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
 402            regardless of array type or length
 403          - uses register local variables
 404
 405          This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
 406          gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
 407
 408          On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
 409          about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
 410          size by about 2%.
 411
 412endchoice
 413
 414config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
 415        bool
 416        help
 417          Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
 418          that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
 419          Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
 420          the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
 421          wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
 422          rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
 423          irq exit still need to be protected.
 424
 425config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
 426        bool
 427
 428config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
 429        bool
 430        help
 431          Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
 432          support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
 433
 434config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 435        bool
 436
 437config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
 438        bool
 439
 440config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
 441        bool
 442
 443config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
 444        bool
 445
 446config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
 447        bool
 448        help
 449          The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data.  Many arches
 450          just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
 451          should not enable this.
 452
 453config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
 454        bool
 455        help
 456          Modules only use ELF RELA relocations.  Modules with ELF REL
 457          relocations will give an error.
 458
 459config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
 460        bool
 461        help
 462          Modules only use ELF REL relocations.  Modules with ELF RELA
 463          relocations will give an error.
 464
 465config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
 466        bool
 467        help
 468          Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
 469          module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
 470
 471config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
 472        bool
 473        help
 474          Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
 475          performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
 476
 477config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
 478        bool
 479        help
 480          An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
 481          stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
 482          - arch_mmap_rnd()
 483          - arch_randomize_brk()
 484
 485config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
 486        bool
 487        help
 488          An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
 489          number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
 490          allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
 491          - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
 492          - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
 493
 494config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
 495        int
 496
 497config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
 498        int
 499
 500config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
 501        int
 502
 503config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
 504        int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
 505        range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
 506        default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
 507        default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
 508        depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
 509        help
 510          This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
 511          determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
 512          resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
 513          by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
 514
 515          This value can be changed after boot using the
 516          /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
 517
 518config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
 519        bool
 520        help
 521          An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
 522          in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
 523          use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
 524          enabled and provides values for both:
 525          - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
 526          - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
 527
 528config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
 529        int
 530
 531config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
 532        int
 533
 534config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
 535        int
 536
 537config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
 538        int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
 539        range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
 540        default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
 541        default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
 542        depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
 543        help
 544          This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
 545          determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
 546          resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
 547          value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
 548          supported values.
 549
 550          This value can be changed after boot using the
 551          /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
 552
 553config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
 554        bool
 555        help
 556          Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
 557          only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
 558
 559#
 560# ABI hall of shame
 561#
 562config CLONE_BACKWARDS
 563        bool
 564        help
 565          Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
 566          not the 5th one.
 567
 568config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
 569        bool
 570        help
 571          Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
 572
 573config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
 574        bool
 575        help
 576          Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
 577          not the 5th one.
 578
 579config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
 580        bool
 581        help
 582          Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
 583
 584config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
 585        bool
 586        help
 587          Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
 588
 589config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
 590        bool
 591        help
 592          Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
 593
 594config OLD_SIGACTION
 595        bool
 596        help
 597          Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall.  Nope, not the same
 598          as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
 599          but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
 600          compatibility...
 601
 602config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
 603        bool
 604
 605config REFCOUNT_FULL
 606        bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed"
 607        help
 608          Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast
 609          unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked
 610          implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections
 611          against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
 612          security flaw exploits.
 613
 614source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
 615