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Anas Nashif
85ca9bb992 kernel: move smp code into smp/
Isolate SMP code into own folder.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2026-04-14 22:31:16 -04:00
Anas Nashif
974dbbf2c0 kernel: move userspace kconfigs into own file
Move userspace Kconfig under userspace/.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2026-04-14 22:31:16 -04:00
Anas Nashif
d8a1960c8b kernel: reorg mem domain kconfig
Reorganize memory domain Kconfig and move it under userspace/.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2026-04-14 22:31:16 -04:00
Joel Holdsworth
76def70bed arch: Added initial OpenRISC architecture port
This patch adds support for the OpenRISC 1000 (or1k) architecture: a
MIPS-like open hardware ISA which was first introduced in 2000.

The thread switching implementation uses the modern Zephyr thread "switch"
architecture.

Signed-off-by: Joel Holdsworth <jholdsworth@nvidia.com>
2026-03-21 07:50:57 -05:00
Anas Nashif
b84319c460 kernel: drop deprecated options SCHED_DUMB and WAITQ_DUMB
Those kconfig options were deprecated in 4.2. Now they are removed.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2026-03-09 15:09:04 -05:00
Peter Mitsis
ec2e20530c kernel: Disable k_mutex priority inheritance
There is no need to include the k_mutex priority inheritance code
when CONFIG_PRIORITY_CEILING is set to a priority level that is at
or below that of the idle thread.

Signed-off-by: Peter Mitsis <peter.mitsis@intel.com>
2026-02-16 00:13:23 +00:00
Peter Mitsis
73cf293de6 kernel: Add NONZERO_SPINLOCK_SIZE Kconfig option
Embeds both an anonymous union and an anonymous structure within the
k_spinlock structure to ensure that the structure can easily have a
non-zero size.

This new option provides a cleaner way to specify that the
spinlock structure must have a non-zero size. A non-zero size
is necessary when C++ support is enabled, or when a library
or application wants to create an array of spinlocks.

Fixes #59922

Signed-off-by: Peter Mitsis <peter.mitsis@intel.com>
2026-02-09 11:16:03 +01:00
Tim Lin
2edece9d58 kernel: Add Kconfig option to disable LTO for kernel sources
Some SoCs require kernel code to be placed in RAM, which makes
link-time optimization (LTO) unsuitable for these files.
Disabling LTO allows the affected code to be linked as separate
objects and placed in specific memory regions.

Running kernel code from RAM can improve execution performance,
especially for timing-critical routines or context switch paths.

Signed-off-by: Tim Lin <tim2.lin@ite.corp-partner.google.com>
2026-01-21 17:04:50 +01:00
Vijay Sharma
83f1b8ba49 kernel: timer: Add timer observer hooks for extensibility
Introduce lifecycle observer callbacks (init, start, stop, expiry)
for k_timer using Zephyr's iterable sections pattern. This enables
external modules to extend timer functionality without modifying
kernel internals.

Signed-off-by: Vijay Sharma <vijshar@qti.qualcomm.com>
2026-01-09 14:25:31 -06:00
Peter Mitsis
c08905ecc9 kernel: Add thread runtime stack safety
Adds support for thread runtime stack safety. This kernel feature
allows a developer to run enhanced stack usage checks on threads
such that if the amount of unused stack space drops below a thread's
configured threshold, it will invoke a custom handler/callback.

This can be used by monitoring software to log warnings, suspend
or abort threads, or even reboot the system.

Signed-off-by: Peter Mitsis <peter.mitsis@intel.com>
2025-11-25 19:25:44 +00:00
Carles Cufi
cd8e773b32 kernel: events: Depend on multithreading
Kernel events depend on multithreading being enabled, and mixing them
with a non-multithreaded build gives linker failures internal to
events.c. To avoid this, make events depend on multithreading.

```
libkernel.a(events.c.obj): in function `k_event_post_internal':
175: undefined reference to `z_sched_waitq_walk'
events.c:183: undefined reference to `z_sched_wake_thread'
events.c:191: undefined reference to `z_reschedule'
libkernel.a(events.c.obj): in function `k_sched_current_thread_query':
kernel.h:216: undefined reference to `z_impl_k_sched_current_thread_query'
libkernel.a(events.c.obj): in function `k_event_wait_internal':
events.c:312: undefined reference to `z_pend_curr'
```

Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
2025-10-30 15:13:38 +02:00
Anas Nashif
6240b0ddb9 kernel: set DYNAMIC_THREAD_STACK_SIZE to 4096 for coverage
Increase stack sizes to allow coverage to complete.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2025-10-14 17:32:46 -04:00
Anas Nashif
7aa3269a3f kernel: boot args kconfig cleanup
Cleanup kconfig of bootargs and put everything in one menuconfig.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2025-09-08 15:51:07 -04:00
Anas Nashif
cf6db903e1 kernel: move xip into arch/common
Not really a kernel feature, more for architecture, which is reflected
in how XIP is enabled and tested. Move it to architecture code to keep
which much of the 'implementation' and usage is.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2025-09-08 15:51:07 -04:00
Anas Nashif
0c84cc5bc6 kernel: drop deprecated pipe API
This API was deprecated in 4.1, so drop it for the 4.3 release. Use new
PIPE API instead.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2025-09-05 17:13:05 +02:00
Ederson de Souza
cdaca274a5 kernel: Automatically set up HW shadow stack for thread stacks
This patch modifies thread stack macros (such as K_KERNEL_STACK_DECLARE
or K_KERNEL_STACK_ARRAY_DECLARE) to also create a HW shadow stack (when
CONFIG_HW_SHADOW_STACK=y), as well as define a pairing between the
thread stack (or thread stack array) and the shadow stack (or shadow
stack array).

This pairing, which currently is simply an array of pairs (stack,
shadow_stack) is searched during thread setup to find the corresponding
shadow stack and attach it to the thread. If linear search on this array
proves to be a performance issue, the actual structure can be revisited.

To define the size of the shadow stack for a given stack, the stack size
is used. A new Kconfig, CONFIG_HW_SHADOW_STACK_PERCENTAGE_SIZE is used
to define how big the shadow stack is compared to the stack. Note that
this size is in *addition* to the stack size. To avoid some shadow
stacks becoming too small, CONFIG_HW_SHADOW_STACK_MIN_SIZE is used to
define a minimum size. Note that after this size is defined, platform
restrictions on the size of the shadow stack are still applied.

Signed-off-by: Ederson de Souza <ederson.desouza@intel.com>
2025-09-02 07:56:48 +02:00
Ederson de Souza
10d6ef0ea5 kernel: Option to allow shadow stack to be reused
It seems that, at least on tests, it's common to call k_thread_create()
on a thread multiple times. This trips a check for the CET shadow stack
- namely, set a shadow stack on a thread which already has a shadow
stack.

This patch adds a Kconfig option to allow that, iff the base address and
size of the new shadow stack are the same as before. This will trigger a
reset of the shadow stack, so it can be reused.

It may be the case that this behaviour (reusing threads) is more common
than only for tests, in which case it could make sense to change the
default - in this patch, is only true if ZTEST.

Even if being enabled by default becomes the reality, it would still
make sense to keep this option - more conscious apps could avoid the
need for the shadow stack reset code altogether.

Signed-off-by: Ederson de Souza <ederson.desouza@intel.com>
2025-09-02 07:56:48 +02:00
Ederson de Souza
016eaf2959 kernel: Add interface for hardware shadow stack usage
In order to allow kernel created threads (such as main and idle threads)
to make use of hardware shadow stack implementation, add an interface
for them.

This patch basically provides an infra that architectures need to
implement to provide hardware shadow stack.

Also, main and idle threads are updated to make use of this interface
(if hardware shadow stacks are enabled).

Signed-off-by: Ederson de Souza <ederson.desouza@intel.com>
2025-09-02 07:56:48 +02:00
Jamie McCrae
db8f991c77 kconfig: Use $(...) instead of ${...} for getting variables
Updates this to comply with the Zephyr Kconfig recommendations

Signed-off-by: Jamie McCrae <jamie.mccrae@nordicsemi.no>
2025-08-20 12:05:41 +02:00
Chaitanya Tata
4bd1d39c67 wifi: nrf70: Fix system work queue stack size override
Defaults cannot be overidden (even with configdefault extension), they
only work if the original symbol is defined after the override e.g.,
"drivers and then subsys/net" but for kernel symbols,the default value
overrides don't work due "kernel and drivers" order, the kernel defines
the original symbol with the default and then it cannot be overridden.

Move the kernel symbol override to the original definition to make it
affect. Else any sample that uses nRF70 but doesn't enable WPA
supplicant ends up with 1024 and crashes.

Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Tata <Chaitanya.Tata@nordicsemi.no>
2025-07-01 19:04:00 -05:00
Pisit Sawangvonganan
a163f9db61 kconfig: fix typo in (arch, boards, kernel, modules, samples, share)
Utilize a code spell-checking tool to scan for and correct spelling errors
in `Kconfig` files within the `arch`, `boards`, `kernel`, `modules`,
`samples`, and `share` directory.
Additionally, incorporates a fix recommended by the reviewer.

Signed-off-by: Pisit Sawangvonganan <pisit@ndrsolution.com>
2025-07-01 10:58:54 -10:00
Carles Cufi
61cdcb3383 kernel: Guard SYS_CLOCK_HW_CYCLES_PER_SEC to avoid spurious empty macro
If SYS_CLOCK_EXISTS is not enabled, then the SYS_CLOCK_HW_CYCLES_PER_SEC
still gets created, but with no value. This causes the code generation
in misc/generated/CMakeLists.txt to create an empty assembly macro:

`.equ  CONFIG_SYS_CLOCK_HW_CYCLES_PER_SEC,`

which then causes a build error.

Disable SYS_CLOCK_HW_CYCLES_PER_SEC entirely when SYS_CLOCK_EXISTS is
disabled to fix this.

This is a follow-up to 03f46db859.

Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
2025-06-06 15:01:34 +01:00
Bjarki Arge Andreasen
8f9eae25c9 kernel: workq: introduce work timeout:
Introduce work timeout, which is an optional workqueue configuration
which enables monitoring for work items which take longer than
expected. This could be due to long running or deadlocked handlers.

Signed-off-by: Bjarki Arge Andreasen <bjarki.andreasen@nordicsemi.no>
2025-06-06 08:42:53 +02:00
Daniel Mangum
e337b7b65d kernel: sched: default TIMESLICE_SIZE to 20
Sets the default for CONFIG_TIMESLICE_SIZE to 20 to approximate the
historical clamping behavior that was removed in 405611d.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mangum <georgedanielmangum@gmail.com>
2025-05-16 22:55:49 +02:00
Anas Nashif
5fe84d5b69 arch: nios2: remove arch
Remove architecture and dependencies.
Remove altera HAL supporting nios2

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2025-05-15 20:01:05 -04:00
Keith Packard
9398174340 kernel: Unify .ctors and .init_array handling
Handle both of these sections in a single chunk of code instead of
separately. We don't need to use the legacy .ctors ABI as both
the constructors array and startup logic are managed within a single
link result.

This can now also be used with ARC MWDT which had been using the .ctors
sections but with .init_array semantics. For ARC MWDT, we now always
discard .dtors and .fini sections as Zephyr will never cause global
destructors to execute. Stop discarding .eh_frame sections so that
exception handling works as expected.

When building a NATIVE_APPLICATION, we ask the native C library to run all
of the constructors to ensure any non-Zephyr constructors are run before
main is invoked. It might be "nice" to split the constructors so that the
Zephyr constructors were executed by the Zephyr code while the non-Zephyr
ones were executed by the native C library. I think that could be done if
we knew the pathnames of either the Zephyr or non-Zephyr files. That might
make a good future enhancement.

Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
2025-04-16 20:36:27 +02:00
Peter Mitsis
4bc5498399 kconfig: Remove stale references to _Swap()
_Swap() is obsolete and has since been replaced with z_swap().

Signed-off-by: Peter Mitsis <peter.mitsis@intel.com>
2025-04-16 01:10:15 +02:00
Anas Nashif
f29ae72d79 kernel: rename 'dumb' scheduler and simply call it 'simple'
Improve naming of the scheduler and call it what it is: simple. Using
'dumb' for the default scheduler algorithm in Zephyr is a bad idea.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2025-03-15 00:34:58 +01:00
William Tambe
15fa9a8ed8 arch: x86: remove arch specific dependencies from DYNAMIC_BOOTARGS
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_BOOTARGS currently depends on CONFIG_MULTIBOOT_INFO
and CONFIG_BUILD_OUTPUT_EFI which are x86 specific.

This change removes those dependencies so that another architecture
can use CONFIG_DYNAMIC_BOOTARGS without the x86 specifc features.

Signed-off-by: William Tambe <williamt@cadence.com>
2025-03-13 07:22:53 +01:00
Henrik Brix Andersen
110cd6b806 kernel: fix compilation with CONFIG_TIMER_READS_ITS_FREQUENCY_AT_RUNTIME
Fix compilation with CONFIG_TIMER_READS_ITS_FREQUENCY_AT_RUNTIME=y and
CONFIG_SYS_CLOCK_HW_CYCLES_PER_SEC unset at the board/SoC level.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk>
2025-03-11 18:53:40 +01:00
Jonas Spinner
e3897f0322 kernel: thread: fix thread priority off-by-one error
Setting CONFIG_NUM_PREEMPT_PRIORITIES to 128 causes the idle thread to be
assigned priority 128, which exceeds the int8_t range. This results in the
idle thread being assigned the highest priority (-128) instead of the
lowest, causing threads to not wake up from k_sleep.

Restrict the range of CONFIG_NUM_PREEMPT_PRIORITIES to 0 to 127 to ensure
the idle thread always has the lowest priority.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Spinner <jonas.spinner@burkert.com>
2025-02-16 13:27:03 +01:00
Måns Ansgariusson
c8a2a080ac kernel: Rewrite k_pipe_* API
The `k_pipe_*` API has been reworked to provide a more consistent and
intuitive interface. The new API aims to provide a simple to use byte
stream interface that is more in line with the POSIX pipe API.
The previous API has been deprecated and will be removed in a future
release.

Signed-off-by: Måns Ansgariusson <Mansgariusson@gmail.com>
2025-01-17 19:43:44 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
46aa6717ff Revert "arch: deprecate _current"
Mostly a revert of commit b1def7145f ("arch: deprecate `_current`").

This commit was part of PR #80716 whose initial purpose was about providing
an architecture specific optimization for _current. The actual deprecation
was sneaked in later on without proper discussion.

The Zephyr core always used _current before and that was fine. It is quite
prevalent as well and the alternative is proving rather verbose.
Furthermore, as a concept, the "current thread" is not something that is
necessarily architecture specific. Therefore the primary abstraction
should not carry the arch_ prefix.

Hence this revert.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
2025-01-10 07:49:08 +01:00
Flavio Ceolin
3e75c03cb2 security: Add default stack protection level
STACK_CANARIES was enabling canaries in all functions using the compiler
flag -fstack-protector-all. This became confuse with the addition of the
options STRONG and EXPLICIT.

This commit adds the missing option (default level) and disambiguous the
options mapping them close to the compiler flags.

Now we have the following options:

STACK_CANARIES            -> fstack-protector
STACK_CANARIES_STRONG     -> fstack-protector-strong
STACK_CANARIES_ALL        -> fstack-protector-all
STACK_CANARIES_EXPLICIT   -> fstack-protector-explicit

Note that from now on STACK_CANARIES_ALL is the symbol that adds canaries
for all functions.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Ceolin <flavio.ceolin@gmail.com>
2024-12-20 12:37:20 +01:00
Flavio Ceolin
0236f7c9aa security: Add option for explicit stack canaries
Add option to enable stack canaries only when explicitely
declared. It adds a new function attribute, __stack_protect, that
can be used to enable stack protection in a function.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Ceolin <flavio.ceolin@gmail.com>
2024-12-20 12:37:20 +01:00
Flavio Ceolin
82ace41da4 security: Additional option for stack canaries
Previously, when stack canaries were enabled, Zephyr applied this
protection to all functions. This commit introduces a new option that
allows stack canary protection to be applied selectively to specific
functions based on certain criteria.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Ceolin <flavio.ceolin@gmail.com>
2024-12-20 12:37:20 +01:00
Peter Mitsis
869acdbbab kernel: Add CONFIG_MEM_SLAB_POINTER_VALIDATE
Makes the validation of both allocated memory slab pointer and the
memory slab pointer to free configurable.

Signed-off-by: Peter Mitsis <peter.mitsis@intel.com>
2024-12-14 01:03:28 +01:00
Yong Cong Sin
b1def7145f arch: deprecate _current
`_current` is now functionally equals to `arch_curr_thread()`, remove
its usage in-tree and deprecate it instead of removing it outright,
as it has been with us since forever.

Signed-off-by: Yong Cong Sin <ycsin@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Yong Cong Sin <yongcong.sin@gmail.com>
2024-11-23 20:12:24 -05:00
Anas Nashif
6261e2a673 Revert "kernel: banner: Expose tainted builds"
This reverts commit 6d4031f96c.

Those makes majority of builds og platforms with blobs tainted although
the blob were not used or compiled in. So it is very misleading.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2024-10-29 14:17:21 -05:00
Reto Schneider
6d4031f96c kernel: banner: Expose tainted builds
Due to the (potentially) hard to understand effects of blobs, it seems
prudent to make their presence more noticeable.

With this change, whenever blobs are present in the Zephyr work space,
the hello world sample output looks like this:

> *** Booting Zephyr OS build (tainted) v3.7.0-4569-gd4f8765ef20e ***
> Hello World! esp32c3_devkitm/esp32c3

Before, it looked like this:

> *** Booting Zephyr OS build v3.7.0-4568-g69c47471d187 ***
> Hello World! esp32c3_devkitm/esp32c3

Signed-off-by: Reto Schneider <reto.schneider@husqvarnagroup.com>
2024-10-21 15:58:27 +02:00
Chris Friedt
b6aed5c505 kernel: dynamic: use 4k stack size for x86
x86 architectures require a dynamic stack size that is a multiple
of 4096 bytes due to mmu restrictions.

For example, this test would previously fail when using the
default dynamic stack size of 1024 bytes for 32-bit
platforms.

```
west build -p auto -b qemu_x86/atom/nopae -t run \
  tests/posix/common/ -- -DCONFIG_USERSPACE=y
```

It would pass with an additional argument
```
west build -p auto -b qemu_x86/atom/nopae -t run \
  tests/posix/common/ -- -DCONFIG_USERSPACE=y \
  -DCONFIG_DYNAMIC_THREAD_STACK_SIZE=4096
```

Add a special default for x86 when using dynamic thread stacks.

The x86 default removes the need for `boards/qemu_x86*.conf`,
with the exception of `qemu_x86_tiny`.

qemu_x86_tiny did not have sufficient memory (or configuration)
to run the non-userspace tests, so bump up the available ram
from 256k to 512k for this test and clone the .conf from the
demand paging tests.

Eventually, the common posix test should be split into more
concise functional categories.

Signed-off-by: Chris Friedt <cfriedt@tenstorrent.com>
2024-10-05 14:13:18 -04:00
Anas Nashif
e260d03686 init: introduce soc and board hooks
Introduce soc and board hooks to replace arch specific code
and replace usages of SYS_INIT for platform initialization.

include/zephyr/platform/hooks.h introduces the hooks to be implemented
by boards and SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2024-09-09 10:07:33 +02:00
Jakub Michalski
f568e2d3ca zefi: add bootargs support
Add bootargs support to zefi. This implements
get_bootargs() when both efi and bootargs are
selected in config.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Michalski <jmichalski@internships.antmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Filip Kokosinski <fkokosinski@antmicro.com>
2024-09-05 12:30:39 -05:00
Jakub Michalski
0cf726b8ef arch/x86: multiboot: add bootargs support
Add bootargs support for multiboot. This
implements get_bootargs() when multiboot and
bootargs are selected in config.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Michalski <jmichalski@internships.antmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Filip Kokosinski <fkokosinski@antmicro.com>
2024-09-05 12:30:39 -05:00
Jakub Michalski
49fc106c60 kernel: add bootargs support
Add support for passing args to main(). The
content of bootargs is taken from get_bootargs()
which should be implemented for each loader and
then its split into args and passed to main.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Michalski <jmichalski@internships.antmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Filip Kokosinski <fkokosinski@antmicro.com>
2024-09-05 12:30:39 -05:00
Rubin Gerritsen
98a16b424a kernel: Define optional arch_thread_name_set()
The intention of this API is to allow setting the posix thread
name equal to the zephyr thread name.
By defining it as an arch interface, the implementation becomes
generic.

Signed-off-by: Rubin Gerritsen <rubin.gerritsen@nordicsemi.no>
2024-08-23 08:01:33 -04:00
Anas Nashif
f53d5d5712 arch: move custom arch call Kconfigs
Move from kernel/ to arch/ and have all those Kconfigs in one place.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2024-08-12 12:43:36 +02:00
Pieter De Gendt
ad63ca284e kconfig: replace known integer constants with variables
Make the intent of the value clear and avoid invalid ranges with typos.

Signed-off-by: Pieter De Gendt <pieter.degendt@basalte.be>
2024-07-27 20:49:15 +03:00
Pisit Sawangvonganan
5ed3cd4bc9 kernel: fix typo
Utilize a code spell-checking tool to scan for and correct spelling errors
in all files within the `kernel` directory.

Signed-off-by: Pisit Sawangvonganan <pisit@ndrsolution.com>
2024-07-08 15:51:37 +02:00
Alberto Escolar Piedras
3da87b9779 kernel kconfig: Do not enable STATIC_INIT_GNU w the old native_posix
native_posix (unlike native_sim) or its breathen (NATIVE_APPLICATION)
link together the "runner" code and the embedded code.
This means that when CONFIG_STATIC_INIT_GNU is set,
any host library code (like the llvm fuzzer) constructors will get
postponed to the Zephyr initialization.
These libraries are unlikely to work if we do this.
(the llvm fuzzer does not)

So let's instead not enable STATIC_INIT_GNU for these targets.
This means possible embedded library constructors will continue to be
picked during the link and be still called during the native runner
initialization instead of during the Zephyr OS initialization as they
were just before we introduced STATIC_INIT_GNU in
6e977ae2d5

Note that native_posix will be deprecated shortly and its users
are strongly encouraged to move to native_sim.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Escolar Piedras <alberto.escolar.piedras@nordicsemi.no>
2024-07-06 17:03:18 +02:00