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| author | Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> | 2016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> | 2016-06-07 22:57:10 +0200 |
| commit | 6b90bd4ba40b38dc13c2782469c1c77e4ed79915 (patch) | |
| tree | 02d65b38b76e3543d33088ae9149010bae0290b0 /arch/Kconfig | |
| parent | 24403874316a7180d367e51d7f7e25d5de1f78dd (diff) | |
| download | linux-6b90bd4ba40b38dc13c2782469c1c77e4ed79915.tar.bz2 | |
GCC plugin infrastructure
This patch allows to build the whole kernel with GCC plugins. It was ported from
grsecurity/PaX. The infrastructure supports building out-of-tree modules and
building in a separate directory. Cross-compilation is supported too.
Currently the x86, arm, arm64 and uml architectures enable plugins.
The directory of the gcc plugins is scripts/gcc-plugins. You can use a file or a directory
there. The plugins compile with these options:
* -fno-rtti: gcc is compiled with this option so the plugins must use it too
* -fno-exceptions: this is inherited from gcc too
* -fasynchronous-unwind-tables: this is inherited from gcc too
* -ggdb: it is useful for debugging a plugin (better backtrace on internal
errors)
* -Wno-narrowing: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (ipa-utils.h)
* -Wno-unused-variable: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (gcc_version
variable, plugin-version.h)
The infrastructure introduces a new Makefile target called gcc-plugins. It
supports all gcc versions from 4.5 to 6.0. The scripts/gcc-plugin.sh script
chooses the proper host compiler (gcc-4.7 can be built by either gcc or g++).
This script also checks the availability of the included headers in
scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h.
The gcc-common.h header contains frequently included headers for GCC plugins
and it has a compatibility layer for the supported gcc versions.
The gcc-generate-*-pass.h headers automatically generate the registration
structures for GIMPLE, SIMPLE_IPA, IPA and RTL passes.
Note that 'make clean' keeps the *.so files (only the distclean or mrproper
targets clean all) because they are needed for out-of-tree modules.
Based on work created by the PaX Team.
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index d794384a0404..1b93632198fa 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -357,6 +357,21 @@ config SECCOMP_FILTER See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. +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 + help + GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the + compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. + + See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details. + config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR bool help |