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Differences between /arch/Kconfig (Version linux-6.12-rc7) and /arch/Kconfig (Version linux-6.2.16)


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