|  | # | 
|  | # General architecture dependent options | 
|  | # | 
|  |  | 
|  | config OPROFILE | 
|  | tristate "OProfile system profiling" | 
|  | depends on PROFILING | 
|  | depends on HAVE_OPROFILE | 
|  | select RING_BUFFER | 
|  | select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP | 
|  | help | 
|  | OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the | 
|  | whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries, | 
|  | and applications. | 
|  |  | 
|  | If unsure, say N. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX | 
|  | bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | default n | 
|  | depends on OPROFILE && X86 | 
|  | help | 
|  | The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing | 
|  | feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters | 
|  | are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching | 
|  | between events at an user specified time interval. | 
|  |  | 
|  | If unsure, say N. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_OPROFILE | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER | 
|  | def_bool y | 
|  | depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64 | 
|  |  | 
|  | config KPROBES | 
|  | bool "Kprobes" | 
|  | depends on MODULES | 
|  | depends on HAVE_KPROBES | 
|  | select KALLSYMS | 
|  | help | 
|  | Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and | 
|  | execute a callback function.  register_kprobe() establishes | 
|  | a probepoint and specifies the callback.  Kprobes is useful | 
|  | for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. | 
|  | If in doubt, say "N". | 
|  |  | 
|  | config JUMP_LABEL | 
|  | bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches" | 
|  | depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL | 
|  | help | 
|  | This option enables a transparent branch optimization that | 
|  | makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch | 
|  | conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel. | 
|  |  | 
|  | Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points, | 
|  | scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such | 
|  | branches and include support for this optimization technique. | 
|  |  | 
|  | If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto", | 
|  | the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop | 
|  | instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the | 
|  | nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the | 
|  | conditional block of instructions. | 
|  |  | 
|  | This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction | 
|  | of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update | 
|  | of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare. | 
|  |  | 
|  | ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler | 
|  | flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. ) | 
|  |  | 
|  | config OPTPROBES | 
|  | def_bool y | 
|  | depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES | 
|  | depends on !PREEMPT | 
|  |  | 
|  | config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | 
|  | def_bool y | 
|  | depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | 
|  | depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS | 
|  | help | 
|  | If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full | 
|  | passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can | 
|  | optimize on top of function tracing. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config UPROBES | 
|  | def_bool n | 
|  | select PERCPU_RWSEM | 
|  | help | 
|  | Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they | 
|  | enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe') | 
|  | to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and | 
|  | libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes | 
|  | are hit by user-space applications. | 
|  |  | 
|  | ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, | 
|  | managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed | 
|  | application. ) | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS | 
|  | def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS | 
|  | help | 
|  | Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit | 
|  | aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values | 
|  | to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit | 
|  | architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit | 
|  | architectures without unaligned access. | 
|  |  | 
|  | This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit | 
|  | accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even | 
|  | though it is not a 64 bit architecture. | 
|  |  | 
|  | See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | 
|  | information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses | 
|  | without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are | 
|  | unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on | 
|  | unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception | 
|  | handler.) | 
|  |  | 
|  | This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can | 
|  | perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different | 
|  | code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network | 
|  | drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment | 
|  | problems with received packets if doing so would not help | 
|  | much. | 
|  |  | 
|  | See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more | 
|  | information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions | 
|  | for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old | 
|  | inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the | 
|  | __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's | 
|  | happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In | 
|  | particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap | 
|  | with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or | 
|  | store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It | 
|  | should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the | 
|  | hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>.  But just in case it | 
|  | does, the use of the builtins is optional. | 
|  |  | 
|  | Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap | 
|  | instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it | 
|  | on architectures that don't have such instructions. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config KRETPROBES | 
|  | def_bool y | 
|  | depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES | 
|  |  | 
|  | config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
|  | bool | 
|  | depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
|  | help | 
|  | Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to | 
|  | switch to user mode. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_KPROBES | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_KRETPROBES | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_OPTPROBES | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG | 
|  | bool | 
|  | # | 
|  | # An arch should select this if it provides all these things: | 
|  | # | 
|  | #	task_pt_regs()		in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h | 
|  | #	arch_has_single_step()	if there is hardware single-step support | 
|  | #	arch_has_block_step()	if there is hardware block-step support | 
|  | #	asm/syscall.h		supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface | 
|  | #	linux/regset.h		user_regset interfaces | 
|  | #	CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET	#define'd in linux/elf.h | 
|  | #	TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE	calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} | 
|  | #	TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME	calls tracehook_notify_resume() | 
|  | #	signal delivery		calls tracehook_signal_handler() | 
|  | # | 
|  | config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c | 
|  | config ARCH_INIT_TASK | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function | 
|  | config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function | 
|  | config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports | 
|  | the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs, | 
|  | declared in asm/ptrace.h | 
|  | For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_CLK | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and | 
|  | thus are a key power management tool on many systems. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | 
|  | bool | 
|  | depends on PERF_EVENTS | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS | 
|  | bool | 
|  | depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT | 
|  | help | 
|  | Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints, | 
|  | some of them have separate registers for data and instruction | 
|  | breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store | 
|  | them but define the access type in a control register. | 
|  | Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the | 
|  | latter fashion. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event | 
|  | subsystem.  Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events | 
|  | to determine how many clock cycles in a given period. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_PERF_REGS | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes | 
|  | bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs | 
|  | access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across | 
|  | architectures. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that | 
|  | e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations | 
|  | on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this | 
|  | might increase the size of a struct page by a word. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC | 
|  | select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things: | 
|  | - syscall_get_arch() | 
|  | - syscall_get_arguments() | 
|  | - syscall_rollback() | 
|  | - syscall_set_return_value() | 
|  | - SIGSYS siginfo_t support | 
|  | - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context | 
|  | - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1 | 
|  | results in the system call being skipped immediately. | 
|  | - seccomp syscall wired up | 
|  |  | 
|  | For best performance, an arch should use seccomp_phase1 and | 
|  | seccomp_phase2 directly.  It should call seccomp_phase1 for all | 
|  | syscalls if TIF_SECCOMP is set, but seccomp_phase1 does not | 
|  | need to be called from a ptrace-safe context.  It must then | 
|  | call seccomp_phase2 if seccomp_phase1 returns anything other | 
|  | than SECCOMP_PHASE1_OK or SECCOMP_PHASE1_SKIP. | 
|  |  | 
|  | As an additional optimization, an arch may provide seccomp_data | 
|  | directly to seccomp_phase1; this avoids multiple calls | 
|  | to the syscall_xyz helpers for every syscall. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config SECCOMP_FILTER | 
|  | def_bool y | 
|  | depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET | 
|  | help | 
|  | Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined | 
|  | in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement | 
|  | task-defined system call filtering polices. | 
|  |  | 
|  | See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | An arch should select this symbol if: | 
|  | - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option | 
|  | - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard) | 
|  |  | 
|  | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR | 
|  | def_bool n | 
|  | help | 
|  | Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build | 
|  | can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature. | 
|  |  | 
|  | choice | 
|  | prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection" | 
|  | depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR | 
|  | default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE | 
|  | help | 
|  | This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This | 
|  | feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on | 
|  | the stack just before the return address, and validates | 
|  | the value just before actually returning.  Stack based buffer | 
|  | overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also | 
|  | overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then | 
|  | neutralized via a kernel panic. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE | 
|  | bool "None" | 
|  | help | 
|  | Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR | 
|  | bool "Regular" | 
|  | select CC_STACKPROTECTOR | 
|  | help | 
|  | Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they | 
|  | have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack. | 
|  |  | 
|  | This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution | 
|  | gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector"). | 
|  |  | 
|  | On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to | 
|  | about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size | 
|  | by about 0.3%. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG | 
|  | bool "Strong" | 
|  | select CC_STACKPROTECTOR | 
|  | help | 
|  | Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any | 
|  | of the following conditions: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an | 
|  | assignment or function argument | 
|  | - local variable is an array (or union containing an array), | 
|  | regardless of array type or length | 
|  | - uses register local variables | 
|  |  | 
|  | This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution | 
|  | gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong"). | 
|  |  | 
|  | On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to | 
|  | about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code | 
|  | size by about 2%. | 
|  |  | 
|  | endchoice | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems | 
|  | that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. | 
|  | Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through | 
|  | the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be | 
|  | wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside | 
|  | rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on | 
|  | irq exit still need to be protected. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN | 
|  | bool | 
|  | default y if 64BIT | 
|  | help | 
|  | With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. | 
|  | Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited | 
|  | to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of | 
|  | cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on | 
|  | some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper | 
|  | locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. | 
|  |  | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to | 
|  | support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime(). | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data.  Many arches | 
|  | just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those | 
|  | should not enable this. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Modules only use ELF RELA relocations.  Modules with ELF REL | 
|  | relocations will give an error. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Modules only use ELF REL relocations.  Modules with ELF RELA | 
|  | relocations will give an error. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like | 
|  | module loading and assembly files need to know about this. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack | 
|  | but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq | 
|  | stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq() | 
|  | in the end of an hardirq. | 
|  | This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq | 
|  | processing. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config PGTABLE_LEVELS | 
|  | int | 
|  | default 2 | 
|  |  | 
|  | config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for | 
|  | stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions: | 
|  | - arch_mmap_rnd() | 
|  | - arch_randomize_brk() | 
|  |  | 
|  | # | 
|  | # ABI hall of shame | 
|  | # | 
|  | config CLONE_BACKWARDS | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2), | 
|  | not the 5th one. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config CLONE_BACKWARDS2 | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config CLONE_BACKWARDS3 | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2), | 
|  | not the 5th one. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config ODD_RT_SIGACTION | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments | 
|  |  | 
|  | config OLD_SIGSUSPEND | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety | 
|  |  | 
|  | config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2) | 
|  |  | 
|  | config OLD_SIGACTION | 
|  | bool | 
|  | help | 
|  | Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall.  Nope, not the same | 
|  | as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2), | 
|  | but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1 | 
|  | compatibility... | 
|  |  | 
|  | config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION | 
|  | bool | 
|  |  | 
|  | source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" |