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Differences between /arch/Kconfig (Version linux-6.12-rc7) and /arch/Kconfig (Version linux-6.5.13)


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