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clone has some of the quirkiest syscall handling in the kernel, with a pile of special cases, historical curiosities, and architecture-specific calling conventions. In particular, clone with CLONE_SETTLS accepts a parameter "tls" that the C entry point completely ignores and some assembly entry points overwrite; instead, the low-level arch-specific code pulls the tls parameter out of the arch-specific register captured as part of pt_regs on entry to the kernel. That's a massive hack, and it makes the arch-specific code only work when called via the specific existing syscall entry points; because of this hack, any new clone-like system call would have to accept an identical tls argument in exactly the same arch-specific position, rather than providing a unified system call entry point across architectures. The first patch allows architectures to handle the tls argument via normal C parameter passing, if they opt in by selecting HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS. The second patch makes 32-bit and 64-bit x86 opt into this. These two patches came out of the clone4 series, which isn't ready for this merge window, but these first two cleanup patches were entirely uncontroversial and have acks. I'd like to go ahead and submit these two so that other architectures can begin building on top of this and opting into HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS. However, I'm also happy to wait and send these through the next merge window (along with v3 of clone4) if anyone would prefer that. This patch (of 2): clone with CLONE_SETTLS accepts an argument to set the thread-local storage area for the new thread. sys_clone declares an int argument tls_val in the appropriate point in the argument list (based on the various CLONE_BACKWARDS variants), but doesn't actually use or pass along that argument. Instead, sys_clone calls do_fork, which calls copy_process, which calls the arch-specific copy_thread, and copy_thread pulls the corresponding syscall argument out of the pt_regs captured at kernel entry (knowing what argument of clone that architecture passes tls in). Apart from being awful and inscrutable, that also only works because only one code path into copy_thread can pass the CLONE_SETTLS flag, and that code path comes from sys_clone with its architecture-specific argument-passing order. This prevents introducing a new version of the clone system call without propagating the same architecture-specific position of the tls argument. However, there's no reason to pull the argument out of pt_regs when sys_clone could just pass it down via C function call arguments. Introduce a new CONFIG_HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS for architectures to opt into, and a new copy_thread_tls that accepts the tls parameter as an additional unsigned long (syscall-argument-sized) argument. Change sys_clone's tls argument to an unsigned long (which does not change the ABI), and pass that down to copy_thread_tls. Architectures that don't opt into copy_thread_tls will continue to ignore the C argument to sys_clone in favor of the pt_regs captured at kernel entry, and thus will be unable to introduce new versions of the clone syscall. Patch co-authored by Josh Triplett and Thiago Macieira. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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#
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# General architecture dependent options
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#
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config OPROFILE
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tristate "OProfile system profiling"
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depends on PROFILING
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depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
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select RING_BUFFER
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select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
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help
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OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
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whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
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and applications.
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If unsure, say N.
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config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
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bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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default n
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depends on OPROFILE && X86
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help
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The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
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feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
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are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
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between events at an user specified time interval.
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If unsure, say N.
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config HAVE_OPROFILE
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bool
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config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
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def_bool y
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depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
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config KPROBES
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bool "Kprobes"
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depends on MODULES
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depends on HAVE_KPROBES
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select KALLSYMS
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help
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Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
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execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
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a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
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for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
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If in doubt, say "N".
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config JUMP_LABEL
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bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
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depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
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help
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This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
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makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
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conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
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Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
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scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
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branches and include support for this optimization technique.
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If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
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the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
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instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
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nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
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conditional block of instructions.
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This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
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of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
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of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
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( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
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flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
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config OPTPROBES
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def_bool y
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depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
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depends on !PREEMPT
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config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
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def_bool y
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depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
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depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
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help
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If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
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passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
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optimize on top of function tracing.
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config UPROBES
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def_bool n
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select PERCPU_RWSEM
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help
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Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
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enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
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to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
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libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
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are hit by user-space applications.
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( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
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managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
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application. )
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config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
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def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
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help
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Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
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aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
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to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
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architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
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architectures without unaligned access.
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This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
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accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
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though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
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See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
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information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
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config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
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bool
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help
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Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
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without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
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unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
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unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
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handler.)
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This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
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perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
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code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
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drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
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problems with received packets if doing so would not help
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much.
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See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
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information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
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config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
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bool
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help
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Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
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for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
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inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
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__arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
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happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
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particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
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with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
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store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
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should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
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hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
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does, the use of the builtins is optional.
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Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
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instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
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on architectures that don't have such instructions.
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config KRETPROBES
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def_bool y
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depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
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config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
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bool
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depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
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help
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Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
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switch to user mode.
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config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
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bool
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config HAVE_KPROBES
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bool
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config HAVE_KRETPROBES
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bool
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config HAVE_OPTPROBES
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bool
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config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
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bool
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config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
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bool
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#
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# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
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#
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# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
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# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
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# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
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# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
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# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
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# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
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# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
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# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
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# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
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#
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config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
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bool
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config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
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bool
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config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
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bool
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config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
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bool
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config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
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bool
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# Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
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config ARCH_INIT_TASK
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bool
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# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
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config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
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bool
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# Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_info() function
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config ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
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bool
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config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
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bool
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help
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This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
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the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
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declared in asm/ptrace.h
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For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
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config HAVE_CLK
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bool
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help
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The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
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thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
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config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
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bool
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config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
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bool
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depends on PERF_EVENTS
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config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
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bool
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depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
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help
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Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
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some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
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breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
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them but define the access type in a control register.
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Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
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latter fashion.
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config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
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bool
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config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
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bool
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help
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System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
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subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
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to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
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config HAVE_PERF_REGS
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bool
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help
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Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
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bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
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config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
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bool
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help
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Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
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access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
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architectures.
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config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
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bool
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config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
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bool
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config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
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bool
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config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
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bool
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help
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This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
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e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
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on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
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might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
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config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
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bool
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config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
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bool
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config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
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bool
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config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
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bool
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config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
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select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
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bool
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config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
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bool
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help
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An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
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- syscall_get_arch()
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- syscall_get_arguments()
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- syscall_rollback()
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- syscall_set_return_value()
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- SIGSYS siginfo_t support
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- secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
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- secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
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results in the system call being skipped immediately.
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- seccomp syscall wired up
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For best performance, an arch should use seccomp_phase1 and
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seccomp_phase2 directly. It should call seccomp_phase1 for all
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syscalls if TIF_SECCOMP is set, but seccomp_phase1 does not
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need to be called from a ptrace-safe context. It must then
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call seccomp_phase2 if seccomp_phase1 returns anything other
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than SECCOMP_PHASE1_OK or SECCOMP_PHASE1_SKIP.
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As an additional optimization, an arch may provide seccomp_data
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directly to seccomp_phase1; this avoids multiple calls
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to the syscall_xyz helpers for every syscall.
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config SECCOMP_FILTER
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def_bool y
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depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
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help
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Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
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in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
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task-defined system call filtering polices.
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See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
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config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
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bool
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help
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An arch should select this symbol if:
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- its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
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- it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
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config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
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def_bool n
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help
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Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
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can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
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choice
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prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
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depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
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default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
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help
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This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
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feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
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the stack just before the return address, and validates
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the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
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overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
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overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
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neutralized via a kernel panic.
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config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
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bool "None"
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help
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Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
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config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
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bool "Regular"
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select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
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help
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Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
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have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
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This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
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gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
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On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
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about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
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by about 0.3%.
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config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
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bool "Strong"
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select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
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help
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Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
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of the following conditions:
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- local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
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assignment or function argument
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- local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
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regardless of array type or length
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- uses register local variables
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This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
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gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
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On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
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about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
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size by about 2%.
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endchoice
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config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
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bool
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help
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Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
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that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
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Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
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the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
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wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
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rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
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irq exit still need to be protected.
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config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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bool
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config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
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bool
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default y if 64BIT
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help
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With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
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Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
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to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
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cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
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some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
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locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
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config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
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bool
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help
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Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
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support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
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config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
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bool
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config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
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bool
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config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
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bool
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config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
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bool
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help
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The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
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just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
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should not enable this.
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config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
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bool
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help
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Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
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relocations will give an error.
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config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
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bool
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help
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Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
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relocations will give an error.
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config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
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bool
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help
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Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
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module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
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config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
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bool
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help
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Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
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but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
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stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
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in the end of an hardirq.
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This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
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processing.
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config PGTABLE_LEVELS
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int
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default 2
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config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
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bool
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help
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An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
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stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
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- arch_mmap_rnd()
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- arch_randomize_brk()
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config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
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bool
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help
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Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
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normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
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argument from pt_regs.
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#
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# ABI hall of shame
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#
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config CLONE_BACKWARDS
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bool
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help
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Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
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not the 5th one.
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config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
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bool
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help
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Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
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config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
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bool
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help
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Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
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not the 5th one.
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config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
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|
bool
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|
help
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|
Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
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config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
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|
bool
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|
help
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|
Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
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|
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config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
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|
bool
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|
help
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|
Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
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|
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config OLD_SIGACTION
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|
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...
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config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
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|
bool
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source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
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