# 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