2 # General architecture dependent options
16 tristate "OProfile system profiling"
18 depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
20 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
22 OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
23 whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
28 config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
29 bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
31 depends on OPROFILE && X86
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
36 between events at a user specified time interval.
43 config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
45 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
50 depends on HAVE_KPROBES
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.
60 bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
61 depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
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.
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.
71 If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
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.
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.
81 ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
82 flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
84 config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
85 bool "Static key selftest"
88 Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
92 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
95 config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
97 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
98 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
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.
106 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
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.
114 ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
115 managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
118 config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
119 def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
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.
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.
131 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
132 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
134 config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
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
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
150 See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
151 information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
153 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
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.
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.
174 depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
176 config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
178 depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
180 Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
183 config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
189 config HAVE_KRETPROBES
192 config HAVE_OPTPROBES
195 config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
201 config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
205 # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
207 # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
208 # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
209 # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
210 # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
211 # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
212 # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
213 # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
214 # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
215 # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
217 config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
220 config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
223 config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
226 config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
229 # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
230 config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
233 # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
234 config ARCH_INIT_TASK
237 # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
238 config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
241 # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
242 config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
245 # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
246 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
249 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
252 This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
253 the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
254 declared in asm/ptrace.h
255 For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
260 The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
261 thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
263 config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
266 config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
268 depends on PERF_EVENTS
270 config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
272 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
274 Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
275 some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
276 breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
277 them but define the access type in a control register.
278 Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
281 config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
284 config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
287 System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
288 subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
289 to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
291 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
294 Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
295 bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
297 config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
300 Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
301 access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
304 config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
307 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
310 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
313 config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
316 This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
317 e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
318 on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
319 might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
321 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
324 config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
327 config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
330 config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
333 config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
336 config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
337 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
340 config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
343 An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
345 - syscall_get_arguments()
347 - syscall_set_return_value()
348 - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
349 - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
350 - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
351 results in the system call being skipped immediately.
352 - seccomp syscall wired up
354 config SECCOMP_FILTER
356 depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
358 Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
359 in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
360 task-defined system call filtering polices.
362 See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
364 config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
367 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
370 menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
372 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
373 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
375 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
376 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
378 See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
380 config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
381 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT
382 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
383 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
385 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
389 E = the number of edges
390 N = the number of nodes
391 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
393 Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the
394 build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a
395 gcc plugin for the kernel.
397 config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
399 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
401 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
402 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
403 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
404 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
406 config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
407 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
408 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
410 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
411 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
412 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
413 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
414 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
417 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
420 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
421 * https://grsecurity.net/
422 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
424 config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
425 bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses"
426 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
428 This plugin zero-initializes any structures that containing a
429 __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information
432 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
433 * https://grsecurity.net/
434 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
436 config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
437 bool "Report forcefully initialized variables"
438 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
439 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
441 This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the
442 structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be
443 initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected
444 by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings.
446 config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
449 An arch should select this symbol if:
450 - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
451 - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
453 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
456 Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
457 can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
460 prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
461 depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
462 default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
464 This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
465 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
466 the stack just before the return address, and validates
467 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
468 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
469 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
470 neutralized via a kernel panic.
472 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
475 Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
477 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
479 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
481 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
482 have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
484 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
485 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
487 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
488 about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
491 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
493 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
495 Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
496 of the following conditions:
498 - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
499 assignment or function argument
500 - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
501 regardless of array type or length
502 - uses register local variables
504 This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
505 gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
507 On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
508 about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
516 Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
517 instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
519 config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
522 Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
523 data elimination with the linker by compiling with
524 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
527 This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
528 its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
529 must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
530 output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
531 sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
532 is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
534 config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
537 An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
538 frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
539 or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
540 and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
541 which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
543 config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
546 Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
547 that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
548 Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
549 the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
550 wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
551 rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
552 irq exit still need to be protected.
554 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
557 config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
560 config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
564 With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
565 Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
566 to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
567 cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
568 some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
569 locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
572 config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
575 Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
576 support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
578 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
581 config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
584 config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
587 config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
590 config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
593 The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
594 just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
595 should not enable this.
597 config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
600 Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
601 relocations will give an error.
603 config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
606 Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
607 relocations will give an error.
609 config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
612 Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
613 module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
615 config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
618 Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
619 but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
620 stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
621 in the end of an hardirq.
622 This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
625 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
629 config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
632 An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
633 stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
635 - arch_randomize_brk()
637 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
640 An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
641 number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
642 allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
643 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
644 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
646 config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
649 An architecture implements exit_thread.
651 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
654 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
657 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
660 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
661 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
662 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
663 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
664 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
665 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
667 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
668 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
669 resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
670 by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
672 This value can be changed after boot using the
673 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
675 config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
678 An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
679 in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
680 use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
681 enabled and provides values for both:
682 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
683 - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
685 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
688 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
691 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
694 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
695 int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
696 range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
697 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
698 default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
699 depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
701 This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
702 determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
703 resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
704 value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
707 This value can be changed after boot using the
708 /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
710 config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
713 This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
714 and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
715 Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
717 config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
720 Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
721 normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
722 argument from pt_regs.
724 config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
727 Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
728 performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
730 config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
733 Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
734 only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
736 config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
740 If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
741 file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
742 functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
750 config CLONE_BACKWARDS
753 Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
756 config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
759 Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
761 config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
764 Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
767 config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
770 Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
772 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
775 Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
777 config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
780 Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
785 Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
786 as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
787 but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
790 config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
793 config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
796 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
799 config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
802 An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
803 in vmalloc space. This means:
805 - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
806 This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
808 - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
809 vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
810 needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
811 unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
812 most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
813 are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
815 - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
816 should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
817 instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
821 bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
822 depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
824 Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
825 with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
826 caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
829 This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
830 the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
831 that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
833 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
836 config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
839 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
842 config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
843 bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
844 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
845 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
847 If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
848 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
849 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
852 These features are considered standard security practice these days.
853 You should say Y here in almost all cases.
855 config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
858 config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
859 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
860 depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
861 default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
863 If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
864 and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
865 protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
867 config ARCH_WANT_RELAX_ORDER
870 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"