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AArch32 EL0, and is deprecated in ARMv8.
Say Y here to enable software emulation of the instruction
for AArch32 userspace code.
Note: All the cpus on the system must have mixed endian support at EL0
for this feature to be enabled. If a new CPU - which doesn't support mixed
endian - is hotplugged in after this feature has been enabled, there could
be unexpected results in the applications.
If unsure, say Y
config ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN
bool "Emulate Privileged Access Never using TTBR0_EL1 switching"
help
Enabling this option prevents the kernel from accessing
user-space memory directly by pointing TTBR0_EL1 to a reserved
zeroed area and reserved ASID. The user access routines
restore the valid TTBR0_EL1 temporarily.
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menu "ARMv8.1 architectural features"
config ARM64_HW_AFDBM
bool "Support for hardware updates of the Access and Dirty page flags"
default y
help
The ARMv8.1 architecture extensions introduce support for
hardware updates of the access and dirty information in page
table entries. When enabled in TCR_EL1 (HA and HD bits) on
capable processors, accesses to pages with PTE_AF cleared will
set this bit instead of raising an access flag fault.
Similarly, writes to read-only pages with the DBM bit set will
clear the read-only bit (AP[2]) instead of raising a
permission fault.
Kernels built with this configuration option enabled continue
to work on pre-ARMv8.1 hardware and the performance impact is
minimal. If unsure, say Y.
config ARM64_PAN
bool "Enable support for Privileged Access Never (PAN)"
default y
help
Privileged Access Never (PAN; part of the ARMv8.1 Extensions)
prevents the kernel or hypervisor from accessing user-space (EL0)
memory directly.
Choosing this option will cause any unprotected (not using
copy_to_user et al) memory access to fail with a permission fault.
The feature is detected at runtime, and will remain as a 'nop'
instruction if the cpu does not implement the feature.
config ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS
bool "Atomic instructions"
help
As part of the Large System Extensions, ARMv8.1 introduces new
atomic instructions that are designed specifically to scale in
very large systems.
Say Y here to make use of these instructions for the in-kernel
atomic routines. This incurs a small overhead on CPUs that do
not support these instructions and requires the kernel to be
built with binutils >= 2.25 in order for the new instructions
to be used.
config ARM64_VHE
bool "Enable support for Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE)"
default y
help
Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE) allow the kernel to run
directly at EL2 (instead of EL1) on processors that support
it. This leads to better performance for KVM, as they reduce
the cost of the world switch.
Selecting this option allows the VHE feature to be detected
at runtime, and does not affect processors that do not
implement this feature.
menu "ARMv8.2 architectural features"
config ARM64_UAO
bool "Enable support for User Access Override (UAO)"
default y
help
User Access Override (UAO; part of the ARMv8.2 Extensions)
causes the 'unprivileged' variant of the load/store instructions to
This option changes get_user() and friends to use the 'unprivileged'
variant of the load/store instructions. This ensures that user-space
really did have access to the supplied memory. When addr_limit is
set to kernel memory the UAO bit will be set, allowing privileged
access to kernel memory.
Choosing this option will cause copy_to_user() et al to use user-space
memory permissions.
The feature is detected at runtime, the kernel will use the
regular load/store instructions if the cpu does not implement the
feature.
config ARM64_PMEM
bool "Enable support for persistent memory"
select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API
select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE
help
Say Y to enable support for the persistent memory API based on the
ARMv8.2 DCPoP feature.
The feature is detected at runtime, and the kernel will use DC CVAC
operations if DC CVAP is not supported (following the behaviour of
DC CVAP itself if the system does not define a point of persistence).
config ARM64_RAS_EXTN
bool "Enable support for RAS CPU Extensions"
default y
help
CPUs that support the Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
(RAS) Extensions, part of ARMv8.2 are able to track faults and
errors, classify them and report them to software.
On CPUs with these extensions system software can use additional
barriers to determine if faults are pending and read the
classification from a new set of registers.
Selecting this feature will allow the kernel to use these barriers
and access the new registers if the system supports the extension.
Platform RAS features may additionally depend on firmware support.
config ARM64_SVE
bool "ARM Scalable Vector Extension support"
default y
depends on !KVM || ARM64_VHE
help
The Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) is an extension to the AArch64
execution state which complements and extends the SIMD functionality
of the base architecture to support much larger vectors and to enable
additional vectorisation opportunities.
To enable use of this extension on CPUs that implement it, say Y.
Note that for architectural reasons, firmware _must_ implement SVE
support when running on SVE capable hardware. The required support
is present in:
* version 1.5 and later of the ARM Trusted Firmware
* the AArch64 boot wrapper since commit 5e1261e08abf
("bootwrapper: SVE: Enable SVE for EL2 and below").
For other firmware implementations, consult the firmware documentation
or vendor.
If you need the kernel to boot on SVE-capable hardware with broken
firmware, you may need to say N here until you get your firmware
fixed. Otherwise, you may experience firmware panics or lockups when
booting the kernel. If unsure and you are not observing these
symptoms, you should assume that it is safe to say Y.
CPUs that support SVE are architecturally required to support the
Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE), so the kernel makes no
provision for supporting SVE alongside KVM without VHE enabled.
Thus, you will need to enable CONFIG_ARM64_VHE if you want to support
KVM in the same kernel image.
config ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
bool
select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
config RELOCATABLE
bool
help
This builds the kernel as a Position Independent Executable (PIE),
which retains all relocation metadata required to relocate the
kernel binary at runtime to a different virtual address than the
address it was linked at.
Since AArch64 uses the RELA relocation format, this requires a
relocation pass at runtime even if the kernel is loaded at the
same address it was linked at.
config RANDOMIZE_BASE
bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image"
select ARM64_MODULE_PLTS if MODULES
select RELOCATABLE
help
Randomizes the virtual address at which the kernel image is
loaded, as a security feature that deters exploit attempts
relying on knowledge of the location of kernel internals.
It is the bootloader's job to provide entropy, by passing a
random u64 value in /chosen/kaslr-seed at kernel entry.
When booting via the UEFI stub, it will invoke the firmware's
EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL implementation (if available) to supply entropy
to the kernel proper. In addition, it will randomise the physical
location of the kernel Image as well.
If unsure, say N.
config RANDOMIZE_MODULE_REGION_FULL
bool "Randomize the module region over a 4 GB range"
depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE
Randomizes the location of the module region inside a 4 GB window
covering the core kernel. This way, it is less likely for modules
to leak information about the location of core kernel data structures
but it does imply that function calls between modules and the core
kernel will need to be resolved via veneers in the module PLT.
When this option is not set, the module region will be randomized over
a limited range that contains the [_stext, _etext] interval of the
core kernel, so branch relocations are always in range.
endmenu
menu "Boot options"
config ARM64_ACPI_PARKING_PROTOCOL
bool "Enable support for the ARM64 ACPI parking protocol"
depends on ACPI
help
Enable support for the ARM64 ACPI parking protocol. If disabled
the kernel will not allow booting through the ARM64 ACPI parking
protocol even if the corresponding data is present in the ACPI
MADT table.
config CMDLINE
string "Default kernel command string"
default ""
help
Provide a set of default command-line options at build time by
entering them here. As a minimum, you should specify the the
root device (e.g. root=/dev/nfs).
config CMDLINE_FORCE
bool "Always use the default kernel command string"
help
Always use the default kernel command string, even if the boot
loader passes other arguments to the kernel.
This is useful if you cannot or don't want to change the
command-line options your boot loader passes to the kernel.
config EFI_STUB
bool
config EFI
bool "UEFI runtime support"
depends on OF && !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
depends on KERNEL_MODE_NEON
select LIBFDT
select UCS2_STRING
select EFI_PARAMS_FROM_FDT
select EFI_RUNTIME_WRAPPERS
select EFI_STUB
select EFI_ARMSTUB
default y
help
This option provides support for runtime services provided
by UEFI firmware (such as non-volatile variables, realtime
clock, and platform reset). A UEFI stub is also provided to
allow the kernel to be booted as an EFI application. This
is only useful on systems that have UEFI firmware.
config DMI
bool "Enable support for SMBIOS (DMI) tables"
depends on EFI
default y
help
This enables SMBIOS/DMI feature for systems.
This option is only useful on systems that have UEFI firmware.
However, even with this option, the resultant kernel should
continue to boot on existing non-UEFI platforms.
endmenu
config COMPAT
bool "Kernel support for 32-bit EL0"
depends on ARM64_4K_PAGES || EXPERT
select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF if BINFMT_ELF
select HAVE_UID16
select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
help
This option enables support for a 32-bit EL0 running under a 64-bit
kernel at EL1. AArch32-specific components such as system calls,
the user helper functions, VFP support and the ptrace interface are
handled appropriately by the kernel.
If you use a page size other than 4KB (i.e, 16KB or 64KB), please be aware
that you will only be able to execute AArch32 binaries that were compiled
with page size aligned segments.
If you want to execute 32-bit userspace applications, say Y.
config SYSVIPC_COMPAT
def_bool y
depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC
menu "Power management options"
source "kernel/power/Kconfig"
config ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE
def_bool y
depends on CPU_PM
config ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER
def_bool y
depends on HIBERNATION
config ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE
def_bool y
endmenu
menu "CPU Power Management"
source "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig"
source "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig"
endmenu
source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig"
if CRYPTO
source "arch/arm64/crypto/Kconfig"
endif