linux_kernel/arch/Kconfig

#
# 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

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.

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_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.

#
# 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"