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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/Kconfig | 107 |
1 files changed, 96 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 8d2ae24b9f4..97ff872c7ac 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -86,9 +86,7 @@ config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE optimize on top of function tracing. config UPROBES - bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS - default n + def_bool n select PERCPU_RWSEM help Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they @@ -101,8 +99,6 @@ config UPROBES managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed application. ) - If in doubt, say "N". - config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS help @@ -207,9 +203,6 @@ config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS bool -config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS - bool - config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD bool @@ -286,9 +279,6 @@ config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL bool -config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX - bool - config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE bool @@ -342,6 +332,73 @@ config SECCOMP_FILTER 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 @@ -356,6 +413,18 @@ config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING 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 @@ -393,6 +462,16 @@ config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX 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 # @@ -407,6 +486,12 @@ config CLONE_BACKWARDS2 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 |