ARCv2: perf: optimize given that num counters <= 32
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1#
2# General architecture dependent options
3#
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5config CRASH_CORE
6 bool
7
2965faa5 8config KEXEC_CORE
692f66f2 9 select CRASH_CORE
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10 bool
11
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12config HAVE_IMA_KEXEC
13 bool
14
125e5645 15config OPROFILE
b309a294 16 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
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17 depends on PROFILING
18 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
d69d59f4 19 select RING_BUFFER
9a5963eb 20 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
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21 help
22 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
23 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
24 and applications.
25
26 If unsure, say N.
27
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28config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
29 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
30 default n
31 depends on OPROFILE && X86
32 help
33 The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
34 feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
35 are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
9332ef9d 36 between events at a user specified time interval.
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37
38 If unsure, say N.
39
125e5645 40config HAVE_OPROFILE
9ba16087 41 bool
125e5645 42
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43config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
44 def_bool y
af9feebe 45 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
dcfce4a0 46
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47config KPROBES
48 bool "Kprobes"
05ed160e 49 depends on MODULES
125e5645 50 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
05ed160e 51 select KALLSYMS
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52 help
53 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
54 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
55 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
56 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
57 If in doubt, say "N".
58
45f81b1c 59config JUMP_LABEL
c5905afb 60 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
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61 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
62 help
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63 This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
64 makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
65 conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
66
67 Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
68 scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
69 branches and include support for this optimization technique.
70
45f81b1c 71 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
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72 the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
73 instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
74 nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
75 conditional block of instructions.
76
77 This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
78 of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
79 of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
45f81b1c 80
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81 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
82 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
45f81b1c 83
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84config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
85 bool "Static key selftest"
86 depends on JUMP_LABEL
87 help
88 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
89
afd66255 90config OPTPROBES
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91 def_bool y
92 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
afd66255 93 depends on !PREEMPT
afd66255 94
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95config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
96 def_bool y
97 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
98 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
99 help
100 If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
101 passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
102 optimize on top of function tracing.
103
2b144498 104config UPROBES
09294e31 105 def_bool n
e8f4aa60 106 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
2b144498 107 help
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108 Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
109 enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
110 to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
111 libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
112 are hit by user-space applications.
113
114 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
115 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
116 application. )
2b144498 117
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118config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
119 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
120 help
121 Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
122 aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
123 to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
124 architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
125 architectures without unaligned access.
126
127 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
128 accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
129 though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
130
131 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
132 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
133
58340a07 134config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
9ba16087 135 bool
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136 help
137 Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
138 without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
139 unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
140 unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
141 handler.)
142
143 This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
144 perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
145 code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
146 drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
147 problems with received packets if doing so would not help
148 much.
149
150 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
151 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
152
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153config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
154 bool
155 help
156 Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
157 for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
158 inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
159 __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
160 happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
161 particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
162 with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
163 store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
164 should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
165 hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
166 does, the use of the builtins is optional.
167
168 Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
169 instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
170 on architectures that don't have such instructions.
171
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172config KRETPROBES
173 def_bool y
174 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
175
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176config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
177 bool
178 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
179 help
180 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
181 switch to user mode.
182
28b2ee20 183config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
9ba16087 184 bool
28b2ee20 185
125e5645 186config HAVE_KPROBES
9ba16087 187 bool
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188
189config HAVE_KRETPROBES
9ba16087 190 bool
74bc7cee 191
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192config HAVE_OPTPROBES
193 bool
d314d74c 194
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195config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
196 bool
197
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198config HAVE_NMI
199 bool
200
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201#
202# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
203#
204# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
205# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
206# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
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207# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
208# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
209# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
210# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
211# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
212# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
213#
214config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
9ba16087 215 bool
1f5a4ad9 216
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217config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
218 bool
219
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220config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
221 bool
222
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223config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
224 bool
225
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226config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
227 bool
228 help
229 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
230 build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
231
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232# Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
233config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
234 bool
235
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236# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
237config ARCH_INIT_TASK
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238 bool
239
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240# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
241config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
242 bool
243
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244# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
245config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
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246 bool
247
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248# Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
249config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
250 bool
251
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252config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
253 bool
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254 help
255 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
256 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
257 declared in asm/ptrace.h
258 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
f850c30c 259
9483a578 260config HAVE_CLK
9ba16087 261 bool
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262 help
263 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
264 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
265
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266config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
267 bool
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269config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
270 bool
99e8c5a3 271 depends on PERF_EVENTS
62a038d3 272
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273config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
274 bool
275 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
276 help
277 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
278 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
279 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
280 them but define the access type in a control register.
281 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
282 latter fashion.
283
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284config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
285 bool
a1922ed6 286
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287config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
288 bool
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289 help
290 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
291 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
292 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
c01d4323 293
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294config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
295 bool
296 depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
297 help
298 The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
299 detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
300
301config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
302 depends on HAVE_NMI
303 bool
304 help
305 The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
306 asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
307
308config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
309 bool
310 select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
311 help
312 The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
313 a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
314 interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
315
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316config HAVE_PERF_REGS
317 bool
318 help
319 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
320 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
321
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322config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
323 bool
324 help
325 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
326 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
327 architectures.
328
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329config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
330 bool
331
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332config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
333 bool
334
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335config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
336 bool
337
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338config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
339 bool
340 help
341 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
342 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
343 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
344 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
345
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346config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
347 bool
348
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349config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
350 bool
351
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352config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
353 bool
354
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355config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
356 bool
357
358config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
359 bool
360
48b25c43 361config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
c1d7e01d 362 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
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363 bool
364
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365config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
366 bool
367 help
fb0fadf9 368 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
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369 - syscall_get_arch()
370 - syscall_get_arguments()
371 - syscall_rollback()
372 - syscall_set_return_value()
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373 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
374 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
375 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
376 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
48dc92b9 377 - seccomp syscall wired up
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378
379config SECCOMP_FILTER
380 def_bool y
381 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
382 help
383 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
384 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
385 task-defined system call filtering polices.
386
387 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
388
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389config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
390 bool
391 help
392 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
393 GCC plugins.
394
395menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
396 bool "GCC plugins"
397 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
a519167e 398 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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399 help
400 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
401 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
402
403 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
404
0dae776c 405config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
215e2aa6 406 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT
0dae776c 407 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
215e2aa6 408 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
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409 help
410 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
411 M = E - N + 2P
412 where
413
414 E = the number of edges
415 N = the number of nodes
416 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
417
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418 Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the
419 build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a
420 gcc plugin for the kernel.
421
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422config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
423 bool
424 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
425 help
426 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
427 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
428 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
429 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
430
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431config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
432 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
433 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
434 help
435 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
436 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
437 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
438 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
439 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
440 irq processing.
441
442 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
443 secure!
444
445 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
446 * https://grsecurity.net/
447 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
448
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449config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
450 bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses"
451 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
452 help
f136e090 453 This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a
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454 __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information
455 exposures.
456
457 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
458 * https://grsecurity.net/
459 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
460
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461config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL
462 bool "Force initialize all struct type variables passed by reference"
463 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
464 help
465 Zero initialize any struct type local variable that may be passed by
466 reference without having been initialized.
467
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468config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
469 bool "Report forcefully initialized variables"
470 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
471 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
472 help
473 This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the
474 structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be
475 initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected
476 by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings.
477
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478config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
479 bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures"
480 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
481 select MODVERSIONS if MODULES
482 help
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483 If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely
484 function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with
485 __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly
486 marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time.
487 This can introduce the requirement of an additional information
488 exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure
489 types.
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490
491 Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact,
492 slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic
493 tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel
494 source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation).
495
496 The seed used for compilation is located at
497 scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after
498 a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with
499 the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or
500 make distclean.
501
502 Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer.
503
504 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
505 * https://grsecurity.net/
506 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
507
508config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE
509 bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization"
510 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
511 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
512 help
513 If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a
514 best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized
515 groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields
516 in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT
517 at the cost of weakened randomization.
518
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519config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
520 bool
521 help
522 An arch should select this symbol if:
523 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
524 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
525
526config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
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527 def_bool n
528 help
529 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
530 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
531
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533 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
19952a92 534 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
8779657d 535 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
19952a92 536 help
8779657d 537 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
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538 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
539 the stack just before the return address, and validates
540 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
541 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
542 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
543 neutralized via a kernel panic.
544
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545config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
546 bool "None"
547 help
548 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
549
550config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
551 bool "Regular"
552 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
553 help
554 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
555 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
556
19952a92 557 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
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558 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
559
560 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
561 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
562 by about 0.3%.
563
564config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
565 bool "Strong"
566 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
567 help
568 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
569 of the following conditions:
570
571 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
572 assignment or function argument
573 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
574 regardless of array type or length
575 - uses register local variables
576
577 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
578 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
579
580 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
581 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
582 size by about 2%.
583
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19952a92 585
a5967db9 586config THIN_ARCHIVES
799c4341 587 def_bool y
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588 help
589 Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
590 instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
591
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592config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
593 bool
594 help
595 Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
596 data elimination with the linker by compiling with
597 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
598 --gc-sections.
599
600 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
601 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
602 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
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603 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
604 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
605 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
b67067f1 606
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607config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
608 bool
609 help
610 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
611 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
612 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
613 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
614 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
615
91d1aa43 616config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
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617 bool
618 help
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619 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
620 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
621 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
622 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
623 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
624 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
625 irq exit still need to be protected.
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627config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
628 bool
629
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630config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
631 bool
632
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633config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
634 bool
635 default y if 64BIT
636 help
637 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
638 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
639 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
640 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
641 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
642 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
643
644
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645config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
646 bool
647 help
648 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
649 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
650
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651config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
652 bool
653
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654config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
655 bool
656
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657config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
658 bool
659
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660config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
661 bool
662
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663config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
664 bool
665 help
666 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
667 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
668 should not enable this.
669
670config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
671 bool
672 help
673 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
674 relocations will give an error.
675
676config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
677 bool
678 help
679 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
680 relocations will give an error.
681
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682config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
683 bool
684 help
685 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
686 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
687
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688config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
689 bool
690 help
691 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
692 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
693 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
694 in the end of an hardirq.
695 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
696 processing.
697
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698config PGTABLE_LEVELS
699 int
700 default 2
701
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702config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
703 bool
704 help
705 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
706 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
707 - arch_mmap_rnd()
204db6ed 708 - arch_randomize_brk()
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710config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
711 bool
712 help
713 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
714 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
715 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
716 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
717 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
718
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719config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
720 bool
721 help
722 An architecture implements exit_thread.
723
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724config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
725 int
726
727config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
728 int
729
730config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
731 int
732
733config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
734 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
735 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
736 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
737 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
738 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
739 help
740 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
741 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
742 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
743 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
744
745 This value can be changed after boot using the
746 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
747
748config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
749 bool
750 help
751 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
752 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
753 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
754 enabled and provides values for both:
755 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
756 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
757
758config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
759 int
760
761config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
762 int
763
764config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
765 int
766
767config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
768 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
769 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
770 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
771 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
772 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
773 help
774 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
775 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
776 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
777 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
778 supported values.
779
780 This value can be changed after boot using the
781 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
782
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783config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
784 bool
785 help
786 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
787 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
788 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
789
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790config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
791 bool
792 help
793 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
794 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
795 argument from pt_regs.
796
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797config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
798 bool
799 help
800 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
801 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
802
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803config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
804 bool
805 help
806 Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
807 only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
808
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809config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
810 bool
811 default n
812 help
813 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
814 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
815 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
816
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817config ISA_BUS_API
818 def_bool ISA
819
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820#
821# ABI hall of shame
822#
823config CLONE_BACKWARDS
824 bool
825 help
826 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
827 not the 5th one.
828
829config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
830 bool
831 help
832 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
833
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834config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
835 bool
836 help
837 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
838 not the 5th one.
839
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840config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
841 bool
842 help
843 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
844
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845config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
846 bool
847 help
848 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
849
850config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
851 bool
852 help
853 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
854
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855config OLD_SIGACTION
856 bool
857 help
858 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
859 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
860 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
861 compatibility...
862
863config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
864 bool
865
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866config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
867 bool
868
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869config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
870 def_bool n
871
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872config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
873 def_bool n
874 help
875 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
876 in vmalloc space. This means:
877
878 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
879 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
880
881 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
882 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
883 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
884 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
885 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
886 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
887
888 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
889 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
890 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
891
892config VMAP_STACK
893 default y
894 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
895 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
896 ---help---
897 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
898 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
899 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
900 corruption.
901
902 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
903 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
904 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
905
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906config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
907 def_bool n
908
909config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
910 def_bool n
911
912config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
913 def_bool n
914
0f5bf6d0 915config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
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916 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
917 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
918 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
919 help
920 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
921 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
922 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
923 or modifying text)
924
925 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
926 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
927
928config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
929 def_bool n
930
0f5bf6d0 931config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
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932 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
933 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
934 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
935 help
936 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
937 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
938 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
939
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940config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
941 bool
942 help
943 An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t
944 using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized
945 refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full
946 refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y.
947
948 The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained.
949 Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting
950 against bugs in reference counts.
951
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952config REFCOUNT_FULL
953 bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed"
954 help
955 Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast
956 unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked
957 implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections
958 against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
959 security flaw exploits.
960
2521f2c2 961source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"