| # |
| # General architecture dependent options |
| # |
| |
| config KEXEC_CORE |
| bool |
| |
| 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 STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST |
| bool "Static key selftest" |
| depends on JUMP_LABEL |
| help |
| Boot time self-test of the branch patching code. |
| |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| bool |
| |
| config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG |
| depends on HAVE_NMI |
| 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_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_stack() function |
| config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR |
| bool |
| |
| # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size: |
| config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT |
| 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 |
| |
| 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_GCC_PLUGINS |
| bool |
| help |
| An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with |
| GCC plugins. |
| |
| menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS |
| bool "GCC plugins" |
| depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS |
| depends on !COMPILE_TEST |
| help |
| GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the |
| compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. |
| |
| See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details. |
| |
| config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY |
| bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" |
| depends on GCC_PLUGINS |
| help |
| The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as: |
| M = E - N + 2P |
| where |
| |
| E = the number of edges |
| N = the number of nodes |
| P = the number of connected components (exit nodes). |
| |
| config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV |
| bool |
| depends on GCC_PLUGINS |
| help |
| This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of |
| basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from |
| gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support" |
| by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>. |
| |
| 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 THIN_ARCHIVES |
| bool |
| help |
| Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives |
| instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files. |
| |
| config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION |
| bool |
| help |
| Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and |
| data elimination with the linker by compiling with |
| -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with |
| --gc-sections. |
| |
| This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects |
| its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts |
| must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into |
| output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated |
| sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names |
| is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers. |
| |
| config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES |
| bool |
| help |
| An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack |
| frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments |
| or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses, |
| and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(), |
| which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. |
| |
| 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() |
| |
| config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS |
| bool |
| help |
| An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable |
| number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap |
| allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both: |
| - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN |
| - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX |
| |
| config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD |
| bool |
| help |
| An architecture implements exit_thread. |
| |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN |
| int |
| |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX |
| int |
| |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT |
| int |
| |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS |
| int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT |
| range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX |
| default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT |
| default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN |
| depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS |
| help |
| This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to |
| determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions |
| resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded |
| by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values. |
| |
| This value can be changed after boot using the |
| /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable |
| |
| config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS |
| bool |
| help |
| An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications |
| in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for |
| use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU |
| enabled and provides values for both: |
| - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN |
| - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX |
| |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN |
| int |
| |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX |
| int |
| |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT |
| int |
| |
| config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS |
| int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT |
| range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX |
| default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT |
| default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN |
| depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS |
| help |
| This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to |
| determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions |
| resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This |
| value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum |
| supported values. |
| |
| This value can be changed after boot using the |
| /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable |
| |
| config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS |
| bool |
| help |
| Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via |
| normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall |
| argument from pt_regs. |
| |
| config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION |
| bool |
| help |
| Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which |
| performs compile-time stack metadata validation. |
| |
| config HAVE_ARCH_HASH |
| bool |
| default n |
| help |
| If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h> |
| file which provides platform-specific implementations of some |
| functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c. |
| |
| config ISA_BUS_API |
| def_bool ISA |
| |
| # |
| # 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 |
| |
| config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP |
| bool |
| |
| config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS |
| def_bool n |
| |
| config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK |
| def_bool n |
| help |
| An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks |
| in vmalloc space. This means: |
| |
| - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. |
| This may rule out many 32-bit architectures. |
| |
| - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if |
| vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism |
| needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with |
| unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), |
| most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries |
| are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. |
| |
| - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable |
| should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but |
| instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. |
| |
| config VMAP_STACK |
| default y |
| bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack" |
| depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN |
| ---help--- |
| Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks |
| with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be |
| caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose |
| corruption. |
| |
| This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects |
| the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula |
| that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space. |
| |
| source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" |