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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 31 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 9c39095b33f..97d3bd17b7d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -391,6 +391,13 @@ config X86_RDC321X as R-8610-(G). If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. +config X86_UV + bool "SGI Ultraviolet" + depends on X86_64 + help + This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. + If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. + config SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER def_bool y prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" @@ -685,6 +692,7 @@ config X86_UP_IOAPIC config X86_LOCAL_APIC def_bool y depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && (X86_UP_APIC || (SMP && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_GENERICARCH)) + select HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS if (!M386 && !M486) config X86_IO_APIC def_bool y @@ -1340,13 +1348,17 @@ config SECCOMP If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. +config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL + bool + config CC_STACKPROTECTOR bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on X86_64 && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN + depends on X86_64 + select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL help - This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This - feature puts, at the beginning of critical functions, a canary - value on the stack just before the return address, and validates + This option turns on the -fstack-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 @@ -1354,15 +1366,8 @@ config CC_STACKPROTECTOR This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically - detected and for those versions, this configuration option is ignored. - -config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL - bool "Use stack-protector for all functions" - depends on CC_STACKPROTECTOR - help - Normally, GCC only inserts the canary value protection for - functions that use large-ish on-stack buffers. By enabling - this option, GCC will be asked to do this for ALL functions. + detected and for those versions, this configuration option is + ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) source kernel/Kconfig.hz |