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Differences between /arch/Kconfig (Version linux-6.12-rc7) and /arch/Kconfig (Version linux-5.17.15)


  1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0                  1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
  2 #                                                   2 #
  3 # General architecture dependent options            3 # General architecture dependent options
  4 #                                                   4 #
  5                                                     5 
  6 #                                                   6 #
  7 # Note: arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig needs to be in      7 # Note: arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig needs to be included first so that it can
  8 # override the default values in this file.         8 # override the default values in this file.
  9 #                                                   9 #
 10 source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig"                   10 source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig"
 11                                                    11 
 12 config ARCH_CONFIGURES_CPU_MITIGATIONS         << 
 13         bool                                   << 
 14                                                << 
 15 if !ARCH_CONFIGURES_CPU_MITIGATIONS            << 
 16 config CPU_MITIGATIONS                         << 
 17         def_bool y                             << 
 18 endif                                          << 
 19                                                << 
 20 #                                              << 
 21 # Selected by architectures that need custom D << 
 22 # IOMMUs not handled by dma-iommu.  Drivers mu << 
 23 #                                              << 
 24 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_OPS                        << 
 25         depends on HAS_DMA                     << 
 26         select DMA_OPS_HELPERS                 << 
 27         bool                                   << 
 28                                                << 
 29 menu "General architecture-dependent options"      12 menu "General architecture-dependent options"
 30                                                    13 
 31 config ARCH_HAS_SUBPAGE_FAULTS                 !!  14 config CRASH_CORE
 32         bool                                   << 
 33         help                                   << 
 34           Select if the architecture can check << 
 35           granularity (e.g. arm64 MTE). The pr << 
 36           must be implemented.                 << 
 37                                                << 
 38 config HOTPLUG_SMT                             << 
 39         bool                                       15         bool
 40                                                    16 
 41 config SMT_NUM_THREADS_DYNAMIC                 !!  17 config KEXEC_CORE
                                                   >>  18         select CRASH_CORE
 42         bool                                       19         bool
 43                                                    20 
 44 # Selected by HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD or HOTPLU !!  21 config KEXEC_ELF
 45 config HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC                       << 
 46         bool                                       22         bool
 47                                                    23 
 48 # Basic CPU dead synchronization selected by a !!  24 config HAVE_IMA_KEXEC
 49 config HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD                  << 
 50         bool                                       25         bool
 51         select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC               << 
 52                                                    26 
 53 # Full CPU synchronization with alive state se !!  27 config SET_FS
 54 config HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL                  << 
 55         bool                                       28         bool
 56         select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_DEAD if HOTPL << 
 57         select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC               << 
 58                                                    29 
 59 config HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP                   !!  30 config HOTPLUG_SMT
 60         bool                                   << 
 61         select HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL          << 
 62                                                << 
 63 config HOTPLUG_PARALLEL                        << 
 64         bool                                       31         bool
 65         select HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP           << 
 66                                                    32 
 67 config GENERIC_ENTRY                               33 config GENERIC_ENTRY
 68         bool                                   !!  34        bool
 69                                                    35 
 70 config KPROBES                                     36 config KPROBES
 71         bool "Kprobes"                             37         bool "Kprobes"
                                                   >>  38         depends on MODULES
 72         depends on HAVE_KPROBES                    39         depends on HAVE_KPROBES
 73         select KALLSYMS                            40         select KALLSYMS
 74         select EXECMEM                         << 
 75         select NEED_TASKS_RCU                  << 
 76         help                                       41         help
 77           Kprobes allows you to trap at almost     42           Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
 78           execute a callback function.  regist     43           execute a callback function.  register_kprobe() establishes
 79           a probepoint and specifies the callb     44           a probepoint and specifies the callback.  Kprobes is useful
 80           for kernel debugging, non-intrusive      45           for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
 81           If in doubt, say "N".                    46           If in doubt, say "N".
 82                                                    47 
 83 config JUMP_LABEL                                  48 config JUMP_LABEL
 84         bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely br     49         bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
 85         depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL            50         depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 86         select OBJTOOL if HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK !!  51         depends on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
 87         help                                       52         help
 88           This option enables a transparent br !!  53          This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
 89           makes certain almost-always-true or  !!  54          makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
 90           conditions even cheaper to execute w !!  55          conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
 91                                                !!  56 
 92           Certain performance-sensitive kernel !!  57          Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
 93           scheduler functionality, networking  !!  58          scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
 94           branches and include support for thi !!  59          branches and include support for this optimization technique.
 95                                                !!  60 
 96           If it is detected that the compiler  !!  61          If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
 97           the kernel will compile such branche !!  62          the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
 98           instruction. When the condition flag !!  63          instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
 99           nop will be converted to a jump inst !!  64          nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
100           conditional block of instructions.   !!  65          conditional block of instructions.
101                                                !!  66 
102           This technique lowers overhead and s !!  67          This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
103           of the processor and generally makes !!  68          of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
104           of the condition is slower, but thos !!  69          of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
105                                                    70 
106           ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary optio !!  71          ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
107             flags may increase the size of the !!  72            flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
108                                                    73 
109 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST                        74 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
110         bool "Static key selftest"                 75         bool "Static key selftest"
111         depends on JUMP_LABEL                      76         depends on JUMP_LABEL
112         help                                       77         help
113           Boot time self-test of the branch pa     78           Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
114                                                    79 
115 config STATIC_CALL_SELFTEST                        80 config STATIC_CALL_SELFTEST
116         bool "Static call selftest"                81         bool "Static call selftest"
117         depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL                82         depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL
118         help                                       83         help
119           Boot time self-test of the call patc     84           Boot time self-test of the call patching code.
120                                                    85 
121 config OPTPROBES                                   86 config OPTPROBES
122         def_bool y                                 87         def_bool y
123         depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES       88         depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
124         select NEED_TASKS_RCU                  !!  89         select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
125                                                    90 
126 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE                           91 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
127         def_bool y                                 92         def_bool y
128         depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_     93         depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
129         depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS        94         depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
130         help                                       95         help
131           If function tracer is enabled and th !!  96          If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
132           passing of pt_regs to function traci !!  97          passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
133           optimize on top of function tracing. !!  98          optimize on top of function tracing.
134                                                    99 
135 config UPROBES                                    100 config UPROBES
136         def_bool n                                101         def_bool n
137         depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES          102         depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
138         help                                      103         help
139           Uprobes is the user-space counterpar    104           Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
140           enable instrumentation applications     105           enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
141           to establish unintrusive probes in u    106           to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
142           libraries, by executing handler func    107           libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
143           are hit by user-space applications.     108           are hit by user-space applications.
144                                                   109 
145           ( These probes come in the form of s    110           ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
146             managed by the kernel and kept tra    111             managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
147             application. )                        112             application. )
148                                                   113 
149 config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS                  114 config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
150         def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNAL    115         def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
151         help                                      116         help
152           Some architectures require 64 bit ac    117           Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
153           aligned, which also requires structs    118           aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
154           to be 64 bit aligned too. This inclu    119           to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
155           architectures which can do 64 bit ac    120           architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
156           architectures without unaligned acce    121           architectures without unaligned access.
157                                                   122 
158           This symbol should be selected by an    123           This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
159           accesses are required to be 64 bit a    124           accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
160           though it is not a 64 bit architectu    125           though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
161                                                   126 
162           See Documentation/core-api/unaligned    127           See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for
163           more information on the topic of una    128           more information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
164                                                   129 
165 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS            130 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
166         bool                                      131         bool
167         help                                      132         help
168           Some architectures are unable to per    133           Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
169           without the use of get_unaligned/put    134           without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
170           unable to perform such accesses effi    135           unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
171           unaligned access and require fixing     136           unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
172           handler.)                               137           handler.)
173                                                   138 
174           This symbol should be selected by an    139           This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
175           perform unaligned accesses efficient    140           perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
176           code paths to be selected for these     141           code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
177           drivers, for example, could opt to n    142           drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
178           problems with received packets if do    143           problems with received packets if doing so would not help
179           much.                                   144           much.
180                                                   145 
181           See Documentation/core-api/unaligned    146           See Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst for more
182           information on the topic of unaligne    147           information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
183                                                   148 
184 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP                     149 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
185         bool                                      150         bool
186         help                                      151         help
187           Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) h !! 152          Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
188           for handling byte-swapping. Using th !! 153          for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
189           inline assembler that the architectu !! 154          inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
190           __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the  !! 155          __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
191           happening and offers more opportunit !! 156          happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
192           particular, the compiler will be abl !! 157          particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
193           with a nearby load or store and use  !! 158          with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
194           store-and-swap instructions if the a !! 159          store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
195           should almost *never* result in code !! 160          should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
196           hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h> !! 161          hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>.  But just in case it
197           does, the use of the builtins is opt !! 162          does, the use of the builtins is optional.
198                                                !! 163 
199           Any architecture with load-and-swap  !! 164          Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
200           instructions should set this. And it !! 165          instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
201           on architectures that don't have suc !! 166          on architectures that don't have such instructions.
202                                                   167 
203 config KRETPROBES                                 168 config KRETPROBES
204         def_bool y                                169         def_bool y
205         depends on KPROBES && (HAVE_KRETPROBES !! 170         depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
206                                                << 
207 config KRETPROBE_ON_RETHOOK                    << 
208         def_bool y                             << 
209         depends on HAVE_RETHOOK                << 
210         depends on KRETPROBES                  << 
211         select RETHOOK                         << 
212                                                   171 
213 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER                       172 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
214         bool                                      173         bool
215         depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER      174         depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
216         help                                      175         help
217           Provide a kernel-internal notificati    176           Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
218           switch to user mode.                    177           switch to user mode.
219                                                   178 
220 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT                          179 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
221         bool                                      180         bool
222                                                   181 
223 config HAVE_KPROBES                               182 config HAVE_KPROBES
224         bool                                      183         bool
225                                                   184 
226 config HAVE_KRETPROBES                            185 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
227         bool                                      186         bool
228                                                   187 
229 config HAVE_OPTPROBES                             188 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
230         bool                                      189         bool
231                                                   190 
232 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE                     191 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
233         bool                                      192         bool
234                                                   193 
235 config ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE       194 config ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE
236         bool                                      195         bool
237         help                                      196         help
238           Since kretprobes modifies return add    197           Since kretprobes modifies return address on the stack, the
239           stacktrace may see the kretprobe tra    198           stacktrace may see the kretprobe trampoline address instead
240           of correct one. If the architecture     199           of correct one. If the architecture stacktrace code and
241           unwinder can adjust such entries, se    200           unwinder can adjust such entries, select this configuration.
242                                                   201 
243 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION              202 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
244         bool                                      203         bool
245                                                   204 
246 config HAVE_NMI                                   205 config HAVE_NMI
247         bool                                      206         bool
248                                                   207 
249 config HAVE_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS               << 
250         bool                                   << 
251                                                << 
252 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT                     208 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
253         bool                                      209         bool
254                                                   210 
255 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT              << 
256         bool                                   << 
257                                                << 
258 #                                                 211 #
259 # An arch should select this if it provides al    212 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
260 #                                                 213 #
261 #       task_pt_regs()          in asm/process    214 #       task_pt_regs()          in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
262 #       arch_has_single_step()  if there is ha    215 #       arch_has_single_step()  if there is hardware single-step support
263 #       arch_has_block_step()   if there is ha    216 #       arch_has_block_step()   if there is hardware block-step support
264 #       asm/syscall.h           supplying asm-    217 #       asm/syscall.h           supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
265 #       linux/regset.h          user_regset in    218 #       linux/regset.h          user_regset interfaces
266 #       CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET    #define'd in l    219 #       CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET    #define'd in linux/elf.h
267 #       TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE       calls ptrace_r !! 220 #       TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE       calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
268 #       TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME       calls resume_u !! 221 #       TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME       calls tracehook_notify_resume()
                                                   >> 222 #       signal delivery         calls tracehook_signal_handler()
269 #                                                 223 #
270 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK                        224 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
271         bool                                      225         bool
272                                                   226 
273 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS                        227 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
274         bool                                      228         bool
275                                                   229 
276 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD                    230 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
277         bool                                      231         bool
278                                                   232 
279 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP                    233 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
280         bool                                      234         bool
281                                                   235 
282 config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE                    236 config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
283         bool                                      237         bool
284         help                                      238         help
285           An architecture should select this w    239           An architecture should select this when it can successfully
286           build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SO    240           build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
287                                                   241 
288 #                                                 242 #
289 # Select if the arch provides a historic keepi    243 # Select if the arch provides a historic keepinit alias for the retain_initrd
290 # command line option                             244 # command line option
291 #                                                 245 #
292 config ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD                        246 config ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD
293         bool                                      247         bool
294                                                   248 
295 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx    249 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
296 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY                        250 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
297         bool                                      251         bool
298                                                   252 
299 # Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invali    253 # Select if arch has all set_direct_map_invalid/default() functions
300 config ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP                    254 config ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
301         bool                                      255         bool
302                                                   256 
303 #                                                 257 #
304 # Select if the architecture provides the arch    258 # Select if the architecture provides the arch_dma_set_uncached symbol to
305 # either provide an uncached segment alias for    259 # either provide an uncached segment alias for a DMA allocation, or
306 # to remap the page tables in place.              260 # to remap the page tables in place.
307 #                                                 261 #
308 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED                  262 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED
309         bool                                      263         bool
310                                                   264 
311 #                                                 265 #
312 # Select if the architectures provides the arc    266 # Select if the architectures provides the arch_dma_clear_uncached symbol
313 # to undo an in-place page table remap for unc    267 # to undo an in-place page table remap for uncached access.
314 #                                                 268 #
315 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED                269 config ARCH_HAS_DMA_CLEAR_UNCACHED
316         bool                                      270         bool
317                                                   271 
318 config ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT              !! 272 # Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
                                                   >> 273 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
319         bool                                      274         bool
320                                                   275 
321 # The architecture has a per-task state that i !! 276 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
322 config ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID                      !! 277 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
323         bool                                      278         bool
324         select IOMMU_MM_DATA                   << 
325                                                   279 
326 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST          280 config HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
327         bool                                      281         bool
                                                   >> 282         depends on !ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
328         help                                      283         help
329           An architecture should select this t    284           An architecture should select this to provide hardened usercopy
330           knowledge about what region of the t    285           knowledge about what region of the thread_struct should be
331           whitelisted for copying to userspace    286           whitelisted for copying to userspace. Normally this is only the
332           FPU registers. Specifically, arch_th    287           FPU registers. Specifically, arch_thread_struct_whitelist()
333           should be implemented. Without this,    288           should be implemented. Without this, the entire thread_struct
334           field in task_struct will be left wh    289           field in task_struct will be left whitelisted.
335                                                   290 
                                                   >> 291 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
                                                   >> 292 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
                                                   >> 293         bool
                                                   >> 294 
336 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dyn    295 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
337 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT             296 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
338         bool                                      297         bool
339                                                   298 
340 config ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR                        299 config ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
341         bool                                      300         bool
342         help                                      301         help
343           An architecture should select this i    302           An architecture should select this if the noinstr macro is being used on
344           functions to denote that the toolcha    303           functions to denote that the toolchain should avoid instrumenting such
345           functions and is required for correc    304           functions and is required for correctness.
346                                                   305 
347 config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T                           306 config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
348         bool                                      307         bool
349         depends on !64BIT                         308         depends on !64BIT
350         help                                      309         help
351           All new 32-bit architectures should     310           All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on
352           userspace side which corresponds to     311           userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This
353           is the requirement for modern ABIs.     312           is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures
354           still support 32-bit off_t. This opt    313           still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such
355           architectures explicitly.               314           architectures explicitly.
356                                                   315 
357 # Selected by 64 bit architectures which have     316 # Selected by 64 bit architectures which have a 32 bit f_tinode in struct ustat
358 config ARCH_32BIT_USTAT_F_TINODE                  317 config ARCH_32BIT_USTAT_F_TINODE
359         bool                                      318         bool
360                                                   319 
361 config HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS                       320 config HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
362         bool                                      321         bool
363         help                                      322         help
364           This symbol should be selected by an    323           This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it provides
365           <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support th    324           <asm/asm-prototypes.h> to support the module versioning for symbols
366           exported from assembly code.            325           exported from assembly code.
367                                                   326 
368 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API             327 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
369         bool                                      328         bool
370         help                                      329         help
371           This symbol should be selected by an    330           This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports
372           the API needed to access registers a    331           the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
373           declared in asm/ptrace.h                332           declared in asm/ptrace.h
374           For example the kprobes-based event     333           For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
375                                                   334 
376 config HAVE_RSEQ                                  335 config HAVE_RSEQ
377         bool                                      336         bool
378         depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_    337         depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
379         help                                      338         help
380           This symbol should be selected by an    339           This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it
381           supports an implementation of restar    340           supports an implementation of restartable sequences.
382                                                   341 
383 config HAVE_RUST                               << 
384         bool                                   << 
385         help                                   << 
386           This symbol should be selected by an << 
387           supports Rust.                       << 
388                                                << 
389 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API               342 config HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
390         bool                                      343         bool
391         help                                      344         help
392           This symbol should be selected by an    345           This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it supports
393           the API needed to access function ar    346           the API needed to access function arguments from pt_regs,
394           declared in asm/ptrace.h                347           declared in asm/ptrace.h
395                                                   348 
396 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT                         349 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
397         bool                                      350         bool
398         depends on PERF_EVENTS                    351         depends on PERF_EVENTS
399                                                   352 
400 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS                353 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
401         bool                                      354         bool
402         depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT             355         depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
403         help                                      356         help
404           Depending on the arch implementation    357           Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
405           some of them have separate registers    358           some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
406           breakpoints addresses, others have m    359           breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
407           them but define the access type in a    360           them but define the access type in a control register.
408           Select this option if your arch impl    361           Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
409           latter fashion.                         362           latter fashion.
410                                                   363 
411 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER                  364 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
412         bool                                      365         bool
413                                                   366 
414 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI                       367 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
415         bool                                      368         bool
416         help                                      369         help
417           System hardware can generate an NMI     370           System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
418           subsystem.  Also has support for cal    371           subsystem.  Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
419           to determine how many clock cycles i    372           to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
420                                                   373 
421 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF              374 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
422         bool                                      375         bool
423         depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI           376         depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
424         help                                      377         help
425           The arch chooses to use the generic     378           The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
426           detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVEN    379           detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
427                                                   380 
428 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH           !! 381 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
                                                   >> 382         depends on HAVE_NMI
429         bool                                      383         bool
430         help                                      384         help
431           The arch provides its own hardlockup !! 385           The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
432           of the generic ones.                 !! 386           asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
433                                                   387 
434           It uses the same command line parame !! 388 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
435           as the generic hardlockup detectors. !! 389         bool
                                                   >> 390         select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
                                                   >> 391         help
                                                   >> 392           The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
                                                   >> 393           a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
                                                   >> 394           interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
436                                                   395 
437 config HAVE_PERF_REGS                             396 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
438         bool                                      397         bool
439         help                                      398         help
440           Support selective register dumps for    399           Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
441           bit-mapping of each registers and a     400           bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
442                                                   401 
443 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP                  402 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
444         bool                                      403         bool
445         help                                      404         help
446           Support user stack dumps for perf ev    405           Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
447           access to the user stack pointer whi    406           access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
448           architectures.                          407           architectures.
449                                                   408 
450 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL                       409 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
451         bool                                      410         bool
452                                                   411 
453 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE              412 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
454         bool                                      413         bool
455                                                   414 
456 config MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE                      415 config MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
457         bool                                      416         bool
458                                                   417 
459 config MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE                  418 config MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
460         bool                                      419         bool
461         select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE              420         select MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
462                                                   421 
463 config MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE                       422 config MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
464         bool                                      423         bool
465                                                   424 
466 config MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE                        425 config MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE
467         bool                                      426         bool
468         select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS           << 
469                                                << 
470 config MMU_GATHER_NO_FLUSH_CACHE               << 
471         bool                                   << 
472                                                << 
473 config MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS                   << 
474         bool                                   << 
475                                                   427 
476 config MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER                       428 config MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER
477         bool                                      429         bool
478         depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE          430         depends on MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
479                                                   431 
480 config ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM             432 config ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM
481         bool                                      433         bool
482         help                                      434         help
483           Temporary select until all architect    435           Temporary select until all architectures can be converted to have
484           irqs disabled over activate_mm. Arch    436           irqs disabled over activate_mm. Architectures that do IPI based TLB
485           shootdowns should enable this.          437           shootdowns should enable this.
486                                                   438 
487 # Use normal mm refcounting for MMU_LAZY_TLB k << 
488 # MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n can improve the scal << 
489 # to/from kernel threads when the same mm is r << 
490 # multi-threaded application), by reducing con << 
491 #                                              << 
492 # This can be disabled if the architecture ens << 
493 # "lazy tlb" beyond its final refcount (i.e.,  << 
494 # or its kernel page tables). This could be ar << 
495 # final exit(2) TLB flush, for example.        << 
496 #                                              << 
497 # To implement this, an arch *must*:           << 
498 # Ensure the _lazy_tlb variants of mmgrab/mmdr << 
499 # the lazy tlb reference of a kthread's ->acti << 
500 # converted already).                          << 
501 config MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT                   << 
502         def_bool y                             << 
503         depends on !MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN     << 
504                                                << 
505 # This option allows MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n.  << 
506 # mm as a lazy tlb beyond its last reference c << 
507 # users before the mm is deallocated. __mmdrop << 
508 # be using the mm as a lazy tlb, so that they  << 
509 # init_mm for their active mm. mm_cpumask(mm)  << 
510 # may be using mm as a lazy tlb mm.            << 
511 #                                              << 
512 # To implement this, an arch *must*:           << 
513 # - At the time of the final mmdrop of the mm, << 
514 #   at least all possible CPUs in which the mm << 
515 # - It must meet the requirements for MMU_LAZY << 
516 config MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN                  << 
517         bool                                   << 
518                                                << 
519 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG                 439 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
520         bool                                      440         bool
521                                                   441 
522 config ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES               << 
523         bool                                   << 
524         help                                   << 
525           An architecture should select this i << 
526           arch-specific ELF note section to co << 
527           functions: elf_coredump_extra_notes_ << 
528           elf_coredump_extra_notes_write() whi << 
529           dumper.                              << 
530                                                << 
531 config ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS          << 
532         bool                                   << 
533                                                << 
534 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE                   442 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
535         bool                                      443         bool
536         help                                      444         help
537           This makes sure that struct pages ar    445           This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
538           e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform     446           e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
539           on a struct page for better performa    447           on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
540           might increase the size of a struct     448           might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
541                                                   449 
542 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL                         450 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
543         bool                                      451         bool
544                                                   452 
545 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE                        453 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
546         bool                                      454         bool
547                                                   455 
548 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE                  456 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
549         bool                                      457         bool
550                                                   458 
551 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION                459 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
552         bool                                      460         bool
553                                                   461 
554 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION         462 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
555         bool                                      463         bool
556                                                   464 
557 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC                   465 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
558         select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERS    466         select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
559         bool                                      467         bool
560                                                   468 
561 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP                          469 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
562         bool                                      470         bool
563         help                                      471         help
564           An arch should select this symbol to    472           An arch should select this symbol to support seccomp mode 1 (the fixed
565           syscall policy), and must provide an    473           syscall policy), and must provide an overrides for __NR_seccomp_sigreturn,
566           and compat syscalls if the asm-gener    474           and compat syscalls if the asm-generic/seccomp.h defaults need adjustment:
567           - __NR_seccomp_read_32                  475           - __NR_seccomp_read_32
568           - __NR_seccomp_write_32                 476           - __NR_seccomp_write_32
569           - __NR_seccomp_exit_32                  477           - __NR_seccomp_exit_32
570           - __NR_seccomp_sigreturn_32             478           - __NR_seccomp_sigreturn_32
571                                                   479 
572 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER                   480 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
573         bool                                      481         bool
574         select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP                  482         select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
575         help                                      483         help
576           An arch should select this symbol if    484           An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
577           - all the requirements for HAVE_ARCH    485           - all the requirements for HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
578           - syscall_get_arch()                    486           - syscall_get_arch()
579           - syscall_get_arguments()               487           - syscall_get_arguments()
580           - syscall_rollback()                    488           - syscall_rollback()
581           - syscall_set_return_value()            489           - syscall_set_return_value()
582           - SIGSYS siginfo_t support              490           - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
583           - secure_computing is called from a     491           - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
584           - secure_computing return value is c    492           - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
585             results in the system call being s    493             results in the system call being skipped immediately.
586           - seccomp syscall wired up              494           - seccomp syscall wired up
587           - if !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR, have S    495           - if !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR, have SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE,
588             SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NR, SECCOMP_AR    496             SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NR, SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NAME defined. If
589             COMPAT is supported, have the SECC    497             COMPAT is supported, have the SECCOMP_ARCH_COMPAT* defines too.
590                                                   498 
591 config SECCOMP                                    499 config SECCOMP
592         prompt "Enable seccomp to safely execu    500         prompt "Enable seccomp to safely execute untrusted bytecode"
593         def_bool y                                501         def_bool y
594         depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP              502         depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP
595         help                                      503         help
596           This kernel feature is useful for nu    504           This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
597           that may need to handle untrusted by    505           that may need to handle untrusted bytecode during their
598           execution. By using pipes or other t    506           execution. By using pipes or other transports made available
599           to the process as file descriptors s    507           to the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write
600           syscalls, it's possible to isolate t    508           syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in their
601           own address space using seccomp. Onc    509           own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is enabled via
602           prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) or the seccomp    510           prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) or the seccomp() syscall, it cannot be
603           disabled and the task is only allowe    511           disabled and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe
604           syscalls defined by each seccomp mod    512           syscalls defined by each seccomp mode.
605                                                   513 
606           If unsure, say Y.                       514           If unsure, say Y.
607                                                   515 
608 config SECCOMP_FILTER                             516 config SECCOMP_FILTER
609         def_bool y                                517         def_bool y
610         depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER &&    518         depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
611         help                                      519         help
612           Enable tasks to build secure computi    520           Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
613           in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter p    521           in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
614           task-defined system call filtering p    522           task-defined system call filtering polices.
615                                                   523 
616           See Documentation/userspace-api/secc    524           See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst for details.
617                                                   525 
618 config SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG                        526 config SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG
619         bool "Show seccomp filter cache status    527         bool "Show seccomp filter cache status in /proc/pid/seccomp_cache"
620         depends on SECCOMP_FILTER && !HAVE_SPA    528         depends on SECCOMP_FILTER && !HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR
621         depends on PROC_FS                        529         depends on PROC_FS
622         help                                      530         help
623           This enables the /proc/pid/seccomp_c    531           This enables the /proc/pid/seccomp_cache interface to monitor
624           seccomp cache data. The file format     532           seccomp cache data. The file format is subject to change. Reading
625           the file requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN.        533           the file requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
626                                                   534 
627           This option is for debugging only. E    535           This option is for debugging only. Enabling presents the risk that
628           an adversary may be able to infer th    536           an adversary may be able to infer the seccomp filter logic.
629                                                   537 
630           If unsure, say N.                       538           If unsure, say N.
631                                                   539 
632 config HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK                        540 config HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
633         bool                                      541         bool
634         help                                      542         help
635           An architecture should select this i    543           An architecture should select this if it has the code which
636           fills the used part of the kernel st    544           fills the used part of the kernel stack with the STACKLEAK_POISON
637           value before returning from system c    545           value before returning from system calls.
638                                                   546 
639 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR                        547 config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
640         bool                                      548         bool
641         help                                      549         help
642           An arch should select this symbol if    550           An arch should select this symbol if:
643           - it has implemented a stack canary     551           - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
644                                                   552 
645 config STACKPROTECTOR                             553 config STACKPROTECTOR
646         bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow     554         bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
647         depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR            555         depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
648         depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protect    556         depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
649         default y                                 557         default y
650         help                                      558         help
651           This option turns on the "stack-prot    559           This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
652           feature puts, at the beginning of fu    560           feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
653           the stack just before the return add    561           the stack just before the return address, and validates
654           the value just before actually retur    562           the value just before actually returning.  Stack based buffer
655           overflows (that need to overwrite th    563           overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
656           overwrite the canary, which gets det    564           overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
657           neutralized via a kernel panic.         565           neutralized via a kernel panic.
658                                                   566 
659           Functions will have the stack-protec    567           Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
660           have an 8-byte or larger character a    568           have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
661                                                   569 
662           This feature requires gcc version 4.    570           This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
663           gcc with the feature backported ("-f    571           gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
664                                                   572 
665           On an x86 "defconfig" build, this fe    573           On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
666           about 3% of all kernel functions, wh    574           about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
667           by about 0.3%.                          575           by about 0.3%.
668                                                   576 
669 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG                      577 config STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
670         bool "Strong Stack Protector"             578         bool "Strong Stack Protector"
671         depends on STACKPROTECTOR                 579         depends on STACKPROTECTOR
672         depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protect    580         depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector-strong)
673         default y                                 581         default y
674         help                                      582         help
675           Functions will have the stack-protec    583           Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
676           of the following conditions:            584           of the following conditions:
677                                                   585 
678           - local variable's address used as p    586           - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
679             assignment or function argument       587             assignment or function argument
680           - local variable is an array (or uni    588           - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
681             regardless of array type or length    589             regardless of array type or length
682           - uses register local variables         590           - uses register local variables
683                                                   591 
684           This feature requires gcc version 4.    592           This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
685           gcc with the feature backported ("-f    593           gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
686                                                   594 
687           On an x86 "defconfig" build, this fe    595           On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
688           about 20% of all kernel functions, w    596           about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
689           size by about 2%.                       597           size by about 2%.
690                                                   598 
691 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK            599 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
692         bool                                      600         bool
693         help                                      601         help
694           An architecture should select this i !! 602           An architecture should select this if it supports Clang's Shadow
695           Shadow Call Stack and implements run !! 603           Call Stack and implements runtime support for shadow stack
696           switching.                              604           switching.
697                                                   605 
698 config SHADOW_CALL_STACK                          606 config SHADOW_CALL_STACK
699         bool "Shadow Call Stack"               !! 607         bool "Clang Shadow Call Stack"
700         depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_S !! 608         depends on CC_IS_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
701         depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS || !! 609         depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || !FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
702         depends on MMU                         !! 610         help
703         help                                   !! 611           This option enables Clang's Shadow Call Stack, which uses a
704           This option enables the compiler's S !! 612           shadow stack to protect function return addresses from being
705           uses a shadow stack to protect funct !! 613           overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found in
706           being overwritten by an attacker. Mo !! 614           Clang's documentation:
707           in the compiler's documentation:     << 
708                                                   615 
709           - Clang: https://clang.llvm.org/docs !! 616             https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html
710           - GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedoc << 
711                                                   617 
712           Note that security guarantees in the    618           Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the
713           ones documented for user space. The     619           ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses
714           of shadow stacks in memory, which me    620           of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable of
715           reading and writing arbitrary memory    621           reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them
716           and hijack control flow by modifying    622           and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks.
717                                                   623 
718 config DYNAMIC_SCS                             << 
719         bool                                   << 
720         help                                   << 
721           Set by the arch code if it relies on << 
722           shadow call stack push and pop instr << 
723           compiler.                            << 
724                                                << 
725 config LTO                                        624 config LTO
726         bool                                      625         bool
727         help                                      626         help
728           Selected if the kernel will be built    627           Selected if the kernel will be built using the compiler's LTO feature.
729                                                   628 
730 config LTO_CLANG                                  629 config LTO_CLANG
731         bool                                      630         bool
732         select LTO                                631         select LTO
733         help                                      632         help
734           Selected if the kernel will be built    633           Selected if the kernel will be built using Clang's LTO feature.
735                                                   634 
736 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG                    635 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
737         bool                                      636         bool
738         help                                      637         help
739           An architecture should select this o    638           An architecture should select this option if it supports:
740           - compiling with Clang,                 639           - compiling with Clang,
741           - compiling inline assembly with Cla    640           - compiling inline assembly with Clang's integrated assembler,
742           - and linking with LLD.                 641           - and linking with LLD.
743                                                   642 
744 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN               643 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN
745         bool                                      644         bool
746         help                                      645         help
747           An architecture should select this o    646           An architecture should select this option if it can support Clang's
748           ThinLTO mode.                           647           ThinLTO mode.
749                                                   648 
750 config HAS_LTO_CLANG                              649 config HAS_LTO_CLANG
751         def_bool y                                650         def_bool y
752         depends on CC_IS_CLANG && LD_IS_LLD &&    651         depends on CC_IS_CLANG && LD_IS_LLD && AS_IS_LLVM
753         depends on $(success,$(NM) --help | he    652         depends on $(success,$(NM) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm)
754         depends on $(success,$(AR) --help | he    653         depends on $(success,$(AR) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm)
755         depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG        654         depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
756         depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMC    655         depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
757         # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/l !! 656         depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS
758         depends on (!KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || << 
759         depends on (!KCOV || CLANG_VERSION >=  << 
760         depends on !GCOV_KERNEL                   657         depends on !GCOV_KERNEL
761         help                                      658         help
762           The compiler and Kconfig options sup    659           The compiler and Kconfig options support building with Clang's
763           LTO.                                    660           LTO.
764                                                   661 
765 choice                                            662 choice
766         prompt "Link Time Optimization (LTO)"     663         prompt "Link Time Optimization (LTO)"
767         default LTO_NONE                          664         default LTO_NONE
768         help                                      665         help
769           This option enables Link Time Optimi    666           This option enables Link Time Optimization (LTO), which allows the
770           compiler to optimize binaries global    667           compiler to optimize binaries globally.
771                                                   668 
772           If unsure, select LTO_NONE. Note tha    669           If unsure, select LTO_NONE. Note that LTO is very resource-intensive
773           so it's disabled by default.            670           so it's disabled by default.
774                                                   671 
775 config LTO_NONE                                   672 config LTO_NONE
776         bool "None"                               673         bool "None"
777         help                                      674         help
778           Build the kernel normally, without L    675           Build the kernel normally, without Link Time Optimization (LTO).
779                                                   676 
780 config LTO_CLANG_FULL                             677 config LTO_CLANG_FULL
781         bool "Clang Full LTO (EXPERIMENTAL)"      678         bool "Clang Full LTO (EXPERIMENTAL)"
782         depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG                  679         depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG
783         depends on !COMPILE_TEST                  680         depends on !COMPILE_TEST
784         select LTO_CLANG                          681         select LTO_CLANG
785         help                                      682         help
786           This option enables Clang's full Lin !! 683           This option enables Clang's full Link Time Optimization (LTO), which
787           allows the compiler to optimize the  !! 684           allows the compiler to optimize the kernel globally. If you enable
788           this option, the compiler generates  !! 685           this option, the compiler generates LLVM bitcode instead of ELF
789           object files, and the actual compila !! 686           object files, and the actual compilation from bitcode happens at
790           the LTO link step, which may take se !! 687           the LTO link step, which may take several minutes depending on the
791           kernel configuration. More informati !! 688           kernel configuration. More information can be found from LLVM's
792           documentation:                       !! 689           documentation:
793                                                   690 
794             https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOpti    691             https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html
795                                                   692 
796           During link time, this option can us    693           During link time, this option can use a large amount of RAM, and
797           may take much longer than the ThinLT    694           may take much longer than the ThinLTO option.
798                                                   695 
799 config LTO_CLANG_THIN                             696 config LTO_CLANG_THIN
800         bool "Clang ThinLTO (EXPERIMENTAL)"       697         bool "Clang ThinLTO (EXPERIMENTAL)"
801         depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPO    698         depends on HAS_LTO_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN
802         select LTO_CLANG                          699         select LTO_CLANG
803         help                                      700         help
804           This option enables Clang's ThinLTO,    701           This option enables Clang's ThinLTO, which allows for parallel
805           optimization and faster incremental     702           optimization and faster incremental compiles compared to the
806           CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL option. More i    703           CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL option. More information can be found
807           from Clang's documentation:             704           from Clang's documentation:
808                                                   705 
809             https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLT    706             https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html
810                                                   707 
811           If unsure, say Y.                       708           If unsure, say Y.
812 endchoice                                         709 endchoice
813                                                   710 
814 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG                    711 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG
815         bool                                      712         bool
816         help                                      713         help
817           An architecture should select this o    714           An architecture should select this option if it can support Clang's
818           Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) checkin    715           Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) checking.
819                                                   716 
820 config ARCH_USES_CFI_TRAPS                     << 
821         bool                                   << 
822                                                << 
823 config CFI_CLANG                                  717 config CFI_CLANG
824         bool "Use Clang's Control Flow Integri    718         bool "Use Clang's Control Flow Integrity (CFI)"
825         depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG     !! 719         depends on LTO_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG
826         depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kcfi !! 720         # Clang >= 12:
                                                   >> 721         # - https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46258
                                                   >> 722         # - https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47479
                                                   >> 723         depends on CLANG_VERSION >= 120000
                                                   >> 724         select KALLSYMS
827         help                                      725         help
828           This option enables Clang's forward- !! 726           This option enables Clang’s forward-edge Control Flow Integrity
829           (CFI) checking, where the compiler i    727           (CFI) checking, where the compiler injects a runtime check to each
830           indirect function call to ensure the    728           indirect function call to ensure the target is a valid function with
831           the correct static type. This restri    729           the correct static type. This restricts possible call targets and
832           makes it more difficult for an attac    730           makes it more difficult for an attacker to exploit bugs that allow
833           the modification of stored function     731           the modification of stored function pointers. More information can be
834           found from Clang's documentation:       732           found from Clang's documentation:
835                                                   733 
836             https://clang.llvm.org/docs/Contro    734             https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html
837                                                   735 
838 config CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS            !! 736 config CFI_CLANG_SHADOW
839         bool "Normalize CFI tags for integers" !! 737         bool "Use CFI shadow to speed up cross-module checks"
840         depends on CFI_CLANG                   !! 738         default y
841         depends on HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_IN !! 739         depends on CFI_CLANG && MODULES
842         help                                      740         help
843           This option normalizes the CFI tags  !! 741           If you select this option, the kernel builds a fast look-up table of
844           integer types of the same size and s !! 742           CFI check functions in loaded modules to reduce performance overhead.
845           tag.                                 << 
846                                                << 
847           The option is separate from CONFIG_R << 
848           When working with build systems that << 
849           convenient to be able to turn on thi << 
850           turned on.                           << 
851                                                   743 
852           This option is necessary for using C !! 744           If unsure, say Y.
853                                                << 
854 config HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_CLANG << 
855         def_bool y                             << 
856         depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kcfi << 
857         # With GCOV/KASAN we need this fix: ht << 
858         depends on CLANG_VERSION >= 190103 ||  << 
859                                                << 
860 config HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS_RUSTC << 
861         def_bool y                             << 
862         depends on HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_IN << 
863         depends on RUSTC_VERSION >= 107900     << 
864         # With GCOV/KASAN we need this fix: ht << 
865         depends on (RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION >= 1901 << 
866                 (!GCOV_KERNEL && !KASAN_GENERI << 
867                                                   745 
868 config CFI_PERMISSIVE                             746 config CFI_PERMISSIVE
869         bool "Use CFI in permissive mode"         747         bool "Use CFI in permissive mode"
870         depends on CFI_CLANG                      748         depends on CFI_CLANG
871         help                                      749         help
872           When selected, Control Flow Integrit    750           When selected, Control Flow Integrity (CFI) violations result in a
873           warning instead of a kernel panic. T    751           warning instead of a kernel panic. This option should only be used
874           for finding indirect call type misma    752           for finding indirect call type mismatches during development.
875                                                   753 
876           If unsure, say N.                       754           If unsure, say N.
877                                                   755 
878 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES              756 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
879         bool                                      757         bool
880         help                                      758         help
881           An architecture should select this i    759           An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
882           frames to determine if an object is     760           frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
883           or local variables (i.e. that it exc    761           or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
884           and similar) by implementing an inli    762           and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
885           which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USE    763           which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
886                                                   764 
887 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER              !! 765 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
888         bool                                      766         bool
889         help                                      767         help
890           Provide kernel/user boundaries probe    768           Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
891           that need it, such as userspace RCU     769           that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
892           Syscalls need to be wrapped inside u    770           Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter(), either
893           optimized behind static key or throu    771           optimized behind static key or through the slow path using TIF_NOHZ
894           flag. Exceptions handlers must be wr    772           flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs are already
895           protected inside ct_irq_enter/ct_irq !! 773           protected inside rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal
896           handling on irq exit still need to b    774           handling on irq exit still need to be protected.
897                                                   775 
898 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_OFFSTACK     !! 776 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
899         bool                                      777         bool
900         help                                      778         help
901           Architecture neither relies on excep    779           Architecture neither relies on exception_enter()/exception_exit()
902           nor on schedule_user(). Also preempt    780           nor on schedule_user(). Also preempt_schedule_notrace() and
903           preempt_schedule_irq() can't be call    781           preempt_schedule_irq() can't be called in a preemptible section
904           while context tracking is CT_STATE_U !! 782           while context tracking is CONTEXT_USER. This feature reflects a sane
905           entry implementation where the follo    783           entry implementation where the following requirements are met on
906           critical entry code, ie: before user    784           critical entry code, ie: before user_exit() or after user_enter():
907                                                   785 
908           - Critical entry code isn't preempti    786           - Critical entry code isn't preemptible (or better yet:
909             not interruptible).                   787             not interruptible).
910           - No use of RCU read side critical s !! 788           - No use of RCU read side critical sections, unless rcu_nmi_enter()
911             got called.                           789             got called.
912           - No use of instrumentation, unless     790           - No use of instrumentation, unless instrumentation_begin() got
913             called.                               791             called.
914                                                   792 
915 config HAVE_TIF_NOHZ                              793 config HAVE_TIF_NOHZ
916         bool                                      794         bool
917         help                                      795         help
918           Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall     796           Arch relies on TIF_NOHZ and syscall slow path to implement context
919           tracking calls to user_enter()/user_    797           tracking calls to user_enter()/user_exit().
920                                                   798 
921 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING                   799 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
922         bool                                      800         bool
923                                                   801 
924 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_IDLE              802 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_IDLE
925         bool                                      803         bool
926         help                                      804         help
927           Architecture has its own way to acco    805           Architecture has its own way to account idle CPU time and therefore
928           doesn't implement vtime_account_idle    806           doesn't implement vtime_account_idle().
929                                                   807 
930 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME                    808 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
931         bool                                      809         bool
932                                                   810 
933 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN               811 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
934         bool                                      812         bool
935         default y if 64BIT                        813         default y if 64BIT
936         help                                      814         help
937           With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputim    815           With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
938           Before enabling this option, arch co    816           Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
939           to ensure there are no races in conc    817           to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
940           cputime_t. For example, reading/writ    818           cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
941           some 32-bit arches may require multi    819           some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
942           locking is needed to protect against    820           locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
943                                                   821 
944 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING                   822 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
945         bool                                      823         bool
946         help                                      824         help
947           Archs need to ensure they use a high    825           Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
948           support irq time accounting and then    826           support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
949                                                   827 
950 config HAVE_MOVE_PUD                              828 config HAVE_MOVE_PUD
951         bool                                      829         bool
952         help                                      830         help
953           Architectures that select this are a    831           Architectures that select this are able to move page tables at the
954           PUD level. If there are only 3 page     832           PUD level. If there are only 3 page table levels, the move effectively
955           happens at the PGD level.               833           happens at the PGD level.
956                                                   834 
957 config HAVE_MOVE_PMD                              835 config HAVE_MOVE_PMD
958         bool                                      836         bool
959         help                                      837         help
960           Archs that select this are able to m    838           Archs that select this are able to move page tables at the PMD level.
961                                                   839 
962 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE             840 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
963         bool                                      841         bool
964                                                   842 
965 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD         843 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
966         bool                                      844         bool
967                                                   845 
968 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP                        846 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
969         bool                                      847         bool
970                                                   848 
971 #                                                 849 #
972 #  Archs that select this would be capable of     850 #  Archs that select this would be capable of PMD-sized vmaps (i.e.,
973 #  arch_vmap_pmd_supported() returns true). Th !! 851 #  arch_vmap_pmd_supported() returns true), and they must make no assumptions
974 #  must be used to enable allocations to use h !! 852 #  that vmalloc memory is mapped with PAGE_SIZE ptes. The VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP flag
                                                   >> 853 #  can be used to prohibit arch-specific allocations from using hugepages to
                                                   >> 854 #  help with this (e.g., modules may require it).
975 #                                                 855 #
976 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC                     856 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC
977         depends on HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP            857         depends on HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
978         bool                                      858         bool
979                                                   859 
980 config ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE                   860 config ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
981         bool                                      861         bool
982                                                   862 
983 # Archs that want to use pmd_mkwrite on kernel << 
984 # if there are no userspace memory management  << 
985 config ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_PMD_MKWRITE            << 
986         bool                                   << 
987                                                << 
988 config ARCH_WANT_PMD_MKWRITE                   << 
989         def_bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || ARCH_ << 
990                                                << 
991 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY                       863 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
992         bool                                      864         bool
993                                                   865 
994 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC                     866 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
995         bool                                      867         bool
996         help                                      868         help
997           The arch uses struct mod_arch_specif    869           The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data.  Many arches
998           just need a simple module loader wit    870           just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
999           should not enable this.                 871           should not enable this.
1000                                                  872 
1001 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA                      873 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
1002         bool                                     874         bool
1003         help                                     875         help
1004           Modules only use ELF RELA relocatio    876           Modules only use ELF RELA relocations.  Modules with ELF REL
1005           relocations will give an error.        877           relocations will give an error.
1006                                                  878 
1007 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL                       879 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
1008         bool                                     880         bool
1009         help                                     881         help
1010           Modules only use ELF REL relocation    882           Modules only use ELF REL relocations.  Modules with ELF RELA
1011           relocations will give an error.        883           relocations will give an error.
1012                                                  884 
1013 config ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC     << 
1014         bool                                  << 
1015         help                                  << 
1016           For architectures like powerpc/32 w << 
1017           allocation and need to allocate mod << 
1018                                               << 
1019 config ARCH_WANTS_EXECMEM_LATE                << 
1020         bool                                  << 
1021         help                                  << 
1022           For architectures that do not alloc << 
1023           boot, but rather require its initia << 
1024           enough entropy for module space ran << 
1025           arm64.                              << 
1026                                               << 
1027 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK                885 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
1028         bool                                     886         bool
1029         help                                     887         help
1030           Architecture doesn't only execute t    888           Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
1031           but also irq_exit(). This way we ca    889           but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
1032           stack instead of switching to a new    890           stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
1033           in the end of an hardirq.              891           in the end of an hardirq.
1034           This spares a stack switch and impr    892           This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
1035           processing.                            893           processing.
1036                                                  894 
1037 config HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK                 895 config HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK
1038         bool                                     896         bool
1039         help                                     897         help
1040           Architecture provides a function to    898           Architecture provides a function to run __do_softirq() on a
1041           separate stack.                        899           separate stack.
1042                                                  900 
1043 config SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK                   << 
1044         def_bool HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK && << 
1045                                               << 
1046 config ALTERNATE_USER_ADDRESS_SPACE           << 
1047         bool                                  << 
1048         help                                  << 
1049           Architectures set this when the CPU << 
1050           spaces for kernel and user space po << 
1051           access_ok() check on a __user point << 
1052                                               << 
1053 config PGTABLE_LEVELS                            901 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
1054         int                                      902         int
1055         default 2                                903         default 2
1056                                                  904 
1057 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE                    905 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
1058         bool                                     906         bool
1059         help                                     907         help
1060           An architecture supports choosing r    908           An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
1061           stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defin    909           stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
1062           - arch_mmap_rnd()                      910           - arch_mmap_rnd()
1063           - arch_randomize_brk()                 911           - arch_randomize_brk()
1064                                                  912 
1065 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS                   913 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
1066         bool                                     914         bool
1067         help                                     915         help
1068           An arch should select this symbol i    916           An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
1069           number of bits for use in establish    917           number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
1070           allocations, has MMU enabled and pr    918           allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
1071           - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN               919           - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
1072           - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX               920           - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
1073                                                  921 
1074 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD                          922 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
1075         bool                                     923         bool
1076         help                                     924         help
1077           An architecture implements exit_thr    925           An architecture implements exit_thread.
1078                                                  926 
1079 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN                    927 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
1080         int                                      928         int
1081                                                  929 
1082 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX                    930 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
1083         int                                      931         int
1084                                                  932 
1085 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT                933 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
1086         int                                      934         int
1087                                                  935 
1088 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS                        936 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
1089         int "Number of bits to use for ASLR o    937         int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
1090         range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMA    938         range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
1091         default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if    939         default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
1092         default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN           940         default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
1093         depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS       941         depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
1094         help                                     942         help
1095           This value can be used to select th    943           This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
1096           determine the random offset to the     944           determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
1097           resulting from mmap allocations. Th    945           resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
1098           by the architecture's minimum and m    946           by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
1099                                                  947 
1100           This value can be changed after boo    948           This value can be changed after boot using the
1101           /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable     949           /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
1102                                                  950 
1103 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS            951 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
1104         bool                                     952         bool
1105         help                                     953         help
1106           An arch should select this symbol i    954           An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
1107           in compatibility mode, supports set    955           in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
1108           use in establishing the base addres    956           use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
1109           enabled and provides values for bot    957           enabled and provides values for both:
1110           - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN        958           - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
1111           - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX        959           - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
1112                                                  960 
1113 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN             961 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
1114         int                                      962         int
1115                                                  963 
1116 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX             964 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
1117         int                                      965         int
1118                                                  966 
1119 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT         967 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
1120         int                                      968         int
1121                                                  969 
1122 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS                 970 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
1123         int "Number of bits to use for ASLR o    971         int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
1124         range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN A    972         range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
1125         default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEF    973         default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
1126         default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN    974         default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
1127         depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_    975         depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
1128         help                                     976         help
1129           This value can be used to select th    977           This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
1130           determine the random offset to the     978           determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
1131           resulting from mmap allocations for    979           resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
1132           value will be bounded by the archit    980           value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
1133           supported values.                      981           supported values.
1134                                                  982 
1135           This value can be changed after boo    983           This value can be changed after boot using the
1136           /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits t    984           /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
1137                                                  985 
1138 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES               986 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
1139         bool                                     987         bool
1140         help                                     988         help
1141           This allows 64bit applications to i    989           This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
1142           and vice-versa 32-bit applications     990           and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
1143           Required for applications doing dif    991           Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
1144                                                  992 
1145 config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB                     << 
1146         bool                                  << 
1147                                               << 
1148 config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_8KB                     << 
1149         bool                                  << 
1150                                               << 
1151 config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_16KB                    << 
1152         bool                                  << 
1153                                               << 
1154 config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_32KB                    << 
1155         bool                                  << 
1156                                               << 
1157 config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_64KB                    << 
1158         bool                                  << 
1159                                               << 
1160 config HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_256KB                   << 
1161         bool                                  << 
1162                                               << 
1163 choice                                        << 
1164         prompt "MMU page size"                << 
1165                                               << 
1166 config PAGE_SIZE_4KB                          << 
1167         bool "4KiB pages"                     << 
1168         depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB         << 
1169         help                                  << 
1170           This option select the standard 4Ki << 
1171           available option on many architectu << 
1172           minimize memory consumption and is  << 
1173           memory systems.                     << 
1174           Some software that is written for x << 
1175           assumptions about the page size and << 
1176                                               << 
1177 config PAGE_SIZE_8KB                          << 
1178         bool "8KiB pages"                     << 
1179         depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_8KB         << 
1180         help                                  << 
1181           This option is the only supported p << 
1182           processors, and can be slightly fas << 
1183                                               << 
1184 config PAGE_SIZE_16KB                         << 
1185         bool "16KiB pages"                    << 
1186         depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_16KB        << 
1187         help                                  << 
1188           This option is usually a good compr << 
1189           consumption and performance for typ << 
1190           workloads, often saving a level of  << 
1191           to 4KB pages as well as reducing TL << 
1192           per-page operations in the kernel a << 
1193           page cache.                         << 
1194                                               << 
1195 config PAGE_SIZE_32KB                         << 
1196         bool "32KiB pages"                    << 
1197         depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_32KB        << 
1198         help                                  << 
1199           Using 32KiB page size will result i << 
1200           kernel at the price of higher memor << 
1201           16KiB pages.  This option is availa << 
1202           Note that you will need a suitable  << 
1203           support this.                       << 
1204                                               << 
1205 config PAGE_SIZE_64KB                         << 
1206         bool "64KiB pages"                    << 
1207         depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_64KB        << 
1208         help                                  << 
1209           Using 64KiB page size will result i << 
1210           kernel at the price of much higher  << 
1211           4KiB or 16KiB pages.                << 
1212           This is not suitable for general-pu << 
1213           better performance may be worth the << 
1214           supercomputing or database applicat << 
1215           large in-memory data rather than sm << 
1216                                               << 
1217 config PAGE_SIZE_256KB                        << 
1218         bool "256KiB pages"                   << 
1219         depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_256KB       << 
1220         help                                  << 
1221           256KiB pages have little practical  << 
1222           memory usage.  The kernel will only << 
1223           that have been compiled with '-zmax << 
1224           (the default is 64KiB or 4KiB on mo << 
1225                                               << 
1226 endchoice                                     << 
1227                                               << 
1228 config PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB                  993 config PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB
1229         def_bool y                               994         def_bool y
                                                   >> 995         depends on !ARM64_64K_PAGES
                                                   >> 996         depends on !IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB
1230         depends on !PAGE_SIZE_64KB               997         depends on !PAGE_SIZE_64KB
                                                   >> 998         depends on !PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB
                                                   >> 999         depends on !PPC_64K_PAGES
1231         depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB     1000         depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB
1232                                                  1001 
1233 config PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB                 1002 config PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB
1234         def_bool y                               1003         def_bool y
                                                   >> 1004         depends on !PPC_256K_PAGES
1235         depends on !PAGE_SIZE_256KB              1005         depends on !PAGE_SIZE_256KB
1236                                                  1006 
1237 config PAGE_SHIFT                             << 
1238         int                                   << 
1239         default 12 if PAGE_SIZE_4KB           << 
1240         default 13 if PAGE_SIZE_8KB           << 
1241         default 14 if PAGE_SIZE_16KB          << 
1242         default 15 if PAGE_SIZE_32KB          << 
1243         default 16 if PAGE_SIZE_64KB          << 
1244         default 18 if PAGE_SIZE_256KB         << 
1245                                               << 
1246 # This allows to use a set of generic functio    1007 # This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base
1247 # address by giving priority to top-down sche    1008 # address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process
1248 # is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimit    1009 # is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or
1249 # sysctl_legacy_va_layout).                      1010 # sysctl_legacy_va_layout).
1250 # Architecture that selects this option can p    1011 # Architecture that selects this option can provide its own version of:
1251 # - STACK_RND_MASK                               1012 # - STACK_RND_MASK
1252 config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT     1013 config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT
1253         bool                                     1014         bool
1254         depends on MMU                           1015         depends on MMU
1255         select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE            1016         select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
1256                                                  1017 
1257 config HAVE_OBJTOOL                           << 
1258         bool                                  << 
1259                                               << 
1260 config HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK                   << 
1261         bool                                  << 
1262                                               << 
1263 config HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK                      << 
1264         bool                                  << 
1265                                               << 
1266 config HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION                << 
1267         bool                                  << 
1268                                               << 
1269 config HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION                << 
1270         bool                                  << 
1271         select OBJTOOL                        << 
1272                                               << 
1273 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION                     1018 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
1274         bool                                     1019         bool
1275         help                                     1020         help
1276           Architecture supports objtool compi !! 1021           Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
1277           validation.                         !! 1022           performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
1278                                                  1023 
1279 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE                  1024 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
1280         bool                                     1025         bool
1281         help                                     1026         help
1282           Architecture has either save_stack_    1027           Architecture has either save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() or
1283           arch_stack_walk_reliable() function    1028           arch_stack_walk_reliable() function which only returns a stack trace
1284           if it can guarantee the trace is re    1029           if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
1285                                                  1030 
1286 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH                            1031 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
1287         bool                                     1032         bool
1288         default n                                1033         default n
1289         help                                     1034         help
1290           If this is set, the architecture pr    1035           If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
1291           file which provides platform-specif    1036           file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
1292           functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/n    1037           functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
1293                                                  1038 
1294 config HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS                       1039 config HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
1295         bool                                     1040         bool
1296                                                  1041 
1297 config ISA_BUS_API                               1042 config ISA_BUS_API
1298         def_bool ISA                             1043         def_bool ISA
1299                                                  1044 
1300 #                                                1045 #
1301 # ABI hall of shame                              1046 # ABI hall of shame
1302 #                                                1047 #
1303 config CLONE_BACKWARDS                           1048 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
1304         bool                                     1049         bool
1305         help                                     1050         help
1306           Architecture has tls passed as the     1051           Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
1307           not the 5th one.                       1052           not the 5th one.
1308                                                  1053 
1309 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2                          1054 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
1310         bool                                     1055         bool
1311         help                                     1056         help
1312           Architecture has the first two argu    1057           Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
1313                                                  1058 
1314 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3                          1059 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
1315         bool                                     1060         bool
1316         help                                     1061         help
1317           Architecture has tls passed as the     1062           Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
1318           not the 5th one.                       1063           not the 5th one.
1319                                                  1064 
1320 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION                          1065 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
1321         bool                                     1066         bool
1322         help                                     1067         help
1323           Architecture has unusual rt_sigacti    1068           Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
1324                                                  1069 
1325 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND                            1070 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
1326         bool                                     1071         bool
1327         help                                     1072         help
1328           Architecture has old sigsuspend(2)     1073           Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
1329                                                  1074 
1330 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3                           1075 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
1331         bool                                     1076         bool
1332         help                                     1077         help
1333           Even weirder antique ABI - three-ar    1078           Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
1334                                                  1079 
1335 config OLD_SIGACTION                             1080 config OLD_SIGACTION
1336         bool                                     1081         bool
1337         help                                     1082         help
1338           Architecture has old sigaction(2) s    1083           Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall.  Nope, not the same
1339           as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3    1084           as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
1340           but fairly different variant of sig    1085           but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
1341           compatibility...                       1086           compatibility...
1342                                                  1087 
1343 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION                      1088 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
1344         bool                                     1089         bool
1345                                                  1090 
1346 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME                         1091 config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
1347         bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit    1092         bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t"
1348         default !64BIT || COMPAT                 1093         default !64BIT || COMPAT
1349         help                                     1094         help
1350           This enables 32 bit time_t support     1095           This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support.
1351           This is relevant on all 32-bit arch    1096           This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures
1352           as part of compat syscall handling.    1097           as part of compat syscall handling.
1353                                                  1098 
1354 config ARCH_NO_PREEMPT                           1099 config ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
1355         bool                                     1100         bool
1356                                                  1101 
                                                   >> 1102 config ARCH_EPHEMERAL_INODES
                                                   >> 1103         def_bool n
                                                   >> 1104         help
                                                   >> 1105           An arch should select this symbol if it doesn't keep track of inode
                                                   >> 1106           instances on its own, but instead relies on something else (e.g. the
                                                   >> 1107           host kernel for an UML kernel).
                                                   >> 1108 
1357 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT                          1109 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
1358         bool                                     1110         bool
1359                                                  1111 
1360 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS                      1112 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
1361         def_bool n                               1113         def_bool n
1362                                                  1114 
1363 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK                      1115 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
1364         def_bool n                               1116         def_bool n
1365         help                                     1117         help
1366           An arch should select this symbol i    1118           An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
1367           in vmalloc space.  This means:         1119           in vmalloc space.  This means:
1368                                                  1120 
1369           - vmalloc space must be large enoug    1121           - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
1370             This may rule out many 32-bit arc    1122             This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
1371                                                  1123 
1372           - Stacks in vmalloc space need to w    1124           - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably.  For example, if
1373             vmap page tables are created on d    1125             vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
1374             needs to work while the stack poi    1126             needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
1375             unpopulated page tables or arch c    1127             unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
1376             most likely) needs to ensure that    1128             most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
1377             are populated before running on a    1129             are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
1378                                                  1130 
1379           - If the stack overflows into a gua    1131           - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
1380             should happen.  The definition of    1132             should happen.  The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
1381             instantly rebooting without loggi    1133             instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
1382                                                  1134 
1383 config VMAP_STACK                                1135 config VMAP_STACK
1384         default y                                1136         default y
1385         bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"      1137         bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
1386         depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK          1138         depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
1387         depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS ||    1139         depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || KASAN_VMALLOC
1388         help                                     1140         help
1389           Enable this if you want the use vir    1141           Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
1390           with guard pages.  This causes kern    1142           with guard pages.  This causes kernel stack overflows to be
1391           caught immediately rather than caus    1143           caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
1392           corruption.                            1144           corruption.
1393                                                  1145 
1394           To use this with software KASAN mod    1146           To use this with software KASAN modes, the architecture must support
1395           backing virtual mappings with real     1147           backing virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC
1396           must be enabled.                       1148           must be enabled.
1397                                                  1149 
1398 config HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET         1150 config HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET
1399         def_bool n                               1151         def_bool n
1400         help                                     1152         help
1401           An arch should select this symbol i    1153           An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stack
1402           offset randomization with calls to     1154           offset randomization with calls to add_random_kstack_offset()
1403           during syscall entry and choose_ran    1155           during syscall entry and choose_random_kstack_offset() during
1404           syscall exit. Careful removal of -f    1156           syscall exit. Careful removal of -fstack-protector-strong and
1405           -fstack-protector should also be ap    1157           -fstack-protector should also be applied to the entry code and
1406           closely examined, as the artificial    1158           closely examined, as the artificial stack bump looks like an array
1407           to the compiler, so it will attempt    1159           to the compiler, so it will attempt to add canary checks regardless
1408           of the static branch state.            1160           of the static branch state.
1409                                                  1161 
1410 config RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET                !! 1162 config RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT
1411         bool "Support for randomizing kernel  !! 1163         bool "Randomize kernel stack offset on syscall entry"
1412         default y                             << 
1413         depends on HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK    1164         depends on HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET
1414         depends on INIT_STACK_NONE || !CC_IS_    1165         depends on INIT_STACK_NONE || !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 140000
1415         help                                     1166         help
1416           The kernel stack offset can be rand    1167           The kernel stack offset can be randomized (after pt_regs) by
1417           roughly 5 bits of entropy, frustrat    1168           roughly 5 bits of entropy, frustrating memory corruption
1418           attacks that depend on stack addres    1169           attacks that depend on stack address determinism or
1419           cross-syscall address exposures.    !! 1170           cross-syscall address exposures. This feature is controlled
1420                                               !! 1171           by kernel boot param "randomize_kstack_offset=on/off", and this
1421           The feature is controlled via the " !! 1172           config chooses the default boot state.
1422           kernel boot param, and if turned of << 
1423           of static branches (see JUMP_LABEL) << 
1424                                               << 
1425           If unsure, say Y.                   << 
1426                                               << 
1427 config RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT        << 
1428         bool "Default state of kernel stack o << 
1429         depends on RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET    << 
1430         help                                  << 
1431           Kernel stack offset randomization i << 
1432           "randomize_kstack_offset=on/off", a << 
1433           boot state.                         << 
1434                                                  1173 
1435 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX                  1174 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
1436         def_bool n                               1175         def_bool n
1437                                                  1176 
1438 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT          1177 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
1439         def_bool n                               1178         def_bool n
1440                                                  1179 
1441 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX                1180 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
1442         def_bool n                               1181         def_bool n
1443                                                  1182 
1444 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX                         1183 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
1445         bool "Make kernel text and rodata rea    1184         bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
1446         depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX    1185         depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
1447         default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX ||     1186         default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
1448         help                                     1187         help
1449           If this is set, kernel text and rod    1188           If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
1450           and non-text memory will be made no    1189           and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
1451           protection against certain security    1190           protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
1452           or modifying text)                     1191           or modifying text)
1453                                                  1192 
1454           These features are considered stand    1193           These features are considered standard security practice these days.
1455           You should say Y here in almost all    1194           You should say Y here in almost all cases.
1456                                                  1195 
1457 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX                1196 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
1458         def_bool n                               1197         def_bool n
1459                                                  1198 
1460 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX                         1199 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
1461         bool "Set loadable kernel module data    1200         bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
1462         depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX    1201         depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
1463         default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX ||     1202         default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
1464         help                                     1203         help
1465           If this is set, module text and rod    1204           If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
1466           and non-text memory will be made no    1205           and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
1467           protection against certain security    1206           protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
1468                                                  1207 
1469 # select if the architecture provides an asm/    1208 # select if the architecture provides an asm/dma-direct.h header
1470 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA                      1209 config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
1471         bool                                     1210         bool
1472                                                  1211 
1473 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H                      1212 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
1474         bool                                     1213         bool
1475         help                                     1214         help
1476           An architecture can select this if     1215           An architecture can select this if it provides an
1477           asm/compiler.h header that should b    1216           asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
1478           linux/compiler-*.h in order to over    1217           linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
1479           headers generally provide.             1218           headers generally provide.
1480                                                  1219 
1481 config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS              1220 config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
1482         bool                                     1221         bool
1483         help                                     1222         help
1484           May be selected by an architecture     1223           May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative
1485           32-bit relocations, both in the too    1224           32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader,
1486           in which case relative references c    1225           in which case relative references can be used in special sections
1487           for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which     1226           for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit
1488           architectures, and don't require ru    1227           architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
1489           kernels.                               1228           kernels.
1490                                                  1229 
1491 config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT                    1230 config ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
1492         bool                                     1231         bool
1493                                                  1232 
1494 config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS                         1233 config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
1495         bool "Locking event counts collection    1234         bool "Locking event counts collection"
1496         depends on DEBUG_FS                      1235         depends on DEBUG_FS
1497         help                                     1236         help
1498           Enable light-weight counting of var    1237           Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events
1499           in the system with minimal performa    1238           in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces
1500           the chance of application behavior     1239           the chance of application behavior change because of timing
1501           differences. The counts are reporte    1240           differences. The counts are reported via debugfs.
1502                                                  1241 
1503 # Select if the architecture has support for     1242 # Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations.
1504 config ARCH_HAS_RELR                             1243 config ARCH_HAS_RELR
1505         bool                                     1244         bool
1506                                                  1245 
1507 config RELR                                      1246 config RELR
1508         bool "Use RELR relocation packing"       1247         bool "Use RELR relocation packing"
1509         depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUP    1248         depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
1510         default y                                1249         default y
1511         help                                     1250         help
1512           Store the kernel's dynamic relocati    1251           Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing
1513           format. Requires a compatible linke    1252           format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as
1514           well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY u    1253           well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy
1515           are compatible).                       1254           are compatible).
1516                                                  1255 
1517 config ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT                      1256 config ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
1518         bool                                     1257         bool
1519                                                  1258 
1520 config ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM                      1259 config ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM
1521         bool                                     1260         bool
1522                                                  1261 
1523 config HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR                    1262 config HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR
1524         bool                                  !! 1263        bool
1525         help                                  !! 1264        help
1526           An architecture should select this  !! 1265           An architecture should select this if its syscall numbering is sparse
1527           to save space. For example, MIPS ar    1266           to save space. For example, MIPS architecture has a syscall array with
1528           entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 loca    1267           entries at 4000, 5000 and 6000 locations. This option turns on syscall
1529           related optimizations for a given a    1268           related optimizations for a given architecture.
1530                                                  1269 
1531 config ARCH_HAS_VDSO_DATA                        1270 config ARCH_HAS_VDSO_DATA
1532         bool                                     1271         bool
1533                                                  1272 
1534 config HAVE_STATIC_CALL                          1273 config HAVE_STATIC_CALL
1535         bool                                     1274         bool
1536                                                  1275 
1537 config HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE                   1276 config HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE
1538         bool                                     1277         bool
1539         depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL              1278         depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL
1540         select OBJTOOL                        << 
1541                                                  1279 
1542 config HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC                      1280 config HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
1543         bool                                     1281         bool
1544                                               << 
1545 config HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL              << 
1546         bool                                  << 
1547         depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL              1282         depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL
1548         select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC           !! 1283         depends on GENERIC_ENTRY
1549         help                                     1284         help
1550           An architecture should select this  !! 1285            Select this if the architecture support boot time preempt setting
1551           model being selected at boot time u !! 1286            on top of static calls. It is strongly advised to support inline
1552                                               !! 1287            static call to avoid any overhead.
1553           Where an architecture selects HAVE_ << 
1554           preemption function will be patched << 
1555                                               << 
1556           Where an architecture does not sele << 
1557           call to a preemption function will  << 
1558           trampoline will be patched.         << 
1559                                               << 
1560           It is strongly advised to support i << 
1561           overhead.                           << 
1562                                               << 
1563 config HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_KEY               << 
1564         bool                                  << 
1565         depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL       << 
1566         select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC           << 
1567         help                                  << 
1568           An architecture should select this  << 
1569           model being selected at boot time u << 
1570                                               << 
1571           Each preemption function will be gi << 
1572           static key. This should have slight << 
1573           static calls, as this effectively i << 
1574           start of its callee. This may avoid << 
1575           integrate better with CFI schemes.  << 
1576                                               << 
1577           This will have greater overhead tha << 
1578           the call to the preemption function << 
1579                                                  1288 
1580 config ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN                  1289 config ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
1581         bool                                     1290         bool
1582         help                                     1291         help
1583           An arch should select this symbol o    1292           An arch should select this symbol once all linker sections are explicitly
1584           included, size-asserted, or discard    1293           included, size-asserted, or discarded in the linker scripts. This is
1585           important because we never want exp    1294           important because we never want expected sections to be placed heuristically
1586           by the linker, since the locations     1295           by the linker, since the locations of such sections can change between linker
1587           versions.                              1296           versions.
1588                                                  1297 
1589 config HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID                       1298 config HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
1590         bool                                     1299         bool
1591                                                  1300 
1592 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC             1301 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
1593         bool                                     1302         bool
1594                                                  1303 
1595 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK            1304 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
1596         bool                                     1305         bool
1597                                                  1306 
1598 config ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64                          1307 config ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64
1599         bool                                     1308         bool
1600         help                                     1309         help
1601           If a 32-bit architecture requires 6 !! 1310            If a 32-bit architecture requires 64-bit arguments to be split into
1602           pairs of 32-bit arguments, select t !! 1311            pairs of 32-bit arguments, select this option.
1603                                                  1312 
1604 config ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT                   1313 config ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT
1605         bool                                     1314         bool
1606                                                  1315 
1607 config ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH               1316 config ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH
1608         bool                                     1317         bool
1609                                                  1318 
1610 config ARCH_HAVE_TRACE_MMIO_ACCESS            << 
1611         bool                                  << 
1612                                               << 
1613 config DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME                          1319 config DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME
1614         bool                                     1320         bool
1615                                                  1321 
1616 # Select, if arch has a named attribute group    1322 # Select, if arch has a named attribute group bound to NUMA device nodes.
1617 config HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP                  1323 config HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP
1618         bool                                     1324         bool
1619                                                  1325 
1620 config ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG                  << 
1621         bool                                  << 
1622         help                                  << 
1623           Architectures that select this opti << 
1624           accessed bit in PTE entries when us << 
1625           translations. Architectures that re << 
1626           this option and override arch_has_h << 
1627                                               << 
1628 config ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG             << 
1629         bool                                  << 
1630         help                                  << 
1631           Architectures that select this opti << 
1632           accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entrie << 
1633           address translations. Page table wa << 
1634           may use this capability to reduce t << 
1635                                               << 
1636 config ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT            << 
1637         bool                                  << 
1638         help                                  << 
1639           Architectures that select this opti << 
1640           the kernel, as described in Documen << 
1641                                               << 
1642 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"                     1326 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
1643                                                  1327 
1644 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"             1328 source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"
1645                                               << 
1646 config FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B                  << 
1647         bool                                  << 
1648                                               << 
1649 config FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B                  << 
1650         bool                                  << 
1651                                               << 
1652 config FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B                 << 
1653         bool                                  << 
1654                                               << 
1655 config FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B                 << 
1656         bool                                  << 
1657                                               << 
1658 config FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B                 << 
1659         bool                                  << 
1660                                               << 
1661 config FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT                     << 
1662         int                                   << 
1663         default 64 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B  << 
1664         default 32 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B  << 
1665         default 16 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B  << 
1666         default 8 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B    << 
1667         default 4 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B    << 
1668         default 0                             << 
1669                                               << 
1670 config CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT          << 
1671         # Detect availability of the GCC opti << 
1672         # guarantees minimal alignment for al << 
1673         # -falign-functions which the compile << 
1674         def_bool $(cc-option, -fmin-function- << 
1675                                               << 
1676 config CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT         << 
1677         # Set if the guaranteed alignment wit << 
1678         # available or extra care is required << 
1679         # strict alignment always, even with  << 
1680         def_bool CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMEN << 
1681                                               << 
1682 config ARCH_NEED_CMPXCHG_1_EMU                << 
1683         bool                                  << 
1684                                                  1329 
1685 endmenu                                          1330 endmenu
                                                      

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