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| author | Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org> | 2026-06-30 18:05:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> | 2026-08-05 16:48:11 +0100 |
| commit | bb3b2cfeb206f5b10b859e134651b54120e3f530 (patch) | |
| tree | 6717fcea088ba5c5f15002a48101fa2537135bf2 /scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig | |
| download | linux-stable-bb3b2cfeb206f5b10b859e134651b54120e3f530.tar.gz linux-stable-bb3b2cfeb206f5b10b859e134651b54120e3f530.zip | |
ARM: 9480/1: entry: expand comment in __switch_tografted
As per discussion between the developers in the mail thread
linked, expand the comment in __switch_to so that readers
of the code understand what is going on.
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig | 39 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6b34ba193 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only +config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS + bool + help + An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with + GCC plugins. + +menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS + bool "GCC plugins" + depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS + depends on CC_IS_GCC + depends on $(success,test -e $(shell,$(CC) -print-file-name=plugin)/include/plugin-version.h) + default y + help + GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the + compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. + + See Documentation/kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst for details. + +if GCC_PLUGINS + +config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY + bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime" + help + By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to + extract some entropy from both original and artificially created + program state. This will help especially embedded systems where + there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost + is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and + irq processing. + + Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically + secure! + + This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: + * https://grsecurity.net/ + * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ + +endif |
