11032c0baSSam Ravnborg# x86 configuration 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgmainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86" 3daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 4daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 5daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 66840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 76840999bSSam Ravnborg default ARCH = "x86_64" 88f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 10daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 11daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 12daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 13daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool !64BIT 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 16daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool 64BIT 171032c0baSSam Ravnborg 181032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 21e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 222c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_READQ 232c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_WRITEQ 24a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 25ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 2642d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 2728b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 283f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 291f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 30da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 319edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 32e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 33677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 34606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 3548d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3660a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 379a5fd902SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER if DYNAMIC_FTRACE 38*1b3fa2ceSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS 39e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 4049793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 4199bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 42323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 4358340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 448d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 472e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 487d8330a5SBalbir Singh 4973531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 50b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 5173531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 5273531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 53b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 553c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 643c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 76aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 77aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 78aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 791f84260cSChristoph Lameterconfig FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 801f84260cSChristoph Lameter bool 811f84260cSChristoph Lameter default y 821f84260cSChristoph Lameter 838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 843c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 873c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 918d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 948d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 958d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 978d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 993c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 101b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 102b93a531eSJan Beulich 103b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 104b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1058d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1068d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1073c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1088d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 109a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1109ba16087SJan Beulich bool 111a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1133c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1148d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1151032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 1161032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 1171032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1181032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1191032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 1201032c0baSSam Ravnborg 121a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 122a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 123a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1241032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1251032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1261032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1278d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1298d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1308d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1319a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1329a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1338d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 13489cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 13589cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 13689cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1371b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1381b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1391b27d05bSPekka Enberg 140dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 14189c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 142b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 14311124411STejun Heoconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA 14411124411STejun Heo def_bool y 1453743d33eSLinus Torvalds 1469f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1479f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1489f0e8d04SMike Travis 149801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 150801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 151801e4062SJohannes Berg 152f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 153f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 154f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 166765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 167765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 168765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 1798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 1818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1836cd10f8dSJames Bottomleyconfig USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 1846cd10f8dSJames Bottomley def_bool y 1856cd10f8dSJames Bottomley depends on SMP 1866cd10f8dSJames Bottomley 1876b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 1886b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1896b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 1906b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1916b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 1926b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1936b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 1946b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1958d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 1968d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 197ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 1988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1998d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 2018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2023e5095d1SIngo Molnar depends on SMP || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 2038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 205ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 206ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 20760a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 208ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 2098d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 2108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 211506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 212dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2138d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 214506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 216506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 218506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 24003502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 24606cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 24706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 24806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 24906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 25006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 25106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 25206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 25306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 25406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 25506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ( On certain CPU models you may need to enable INTR_REMAP too, 25606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu to get functional x2apic mode. ) 25706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 25806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 259b3572e36SJames Bottomley 2600b8f1efaSYinghai Luconfig SPARSE_IRQ 2610b8f1efaSYinghai Lu bool "Support sparse irq numbering" 26217483a1fSYinghai Lu depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ 2638f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 264973656feSIngo Molnar This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro 265973656feSIngo Molnar kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still 266973656feSIngo Molnar want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. 2670b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 268973656feSIngo Molnar ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread 269973656feSIngo Molnar out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. ) 270973656feSIngo Molnar 271973656feSIngo Molnar If you don't know what to do here, say N. 2720b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 27348a1b10aSYinghai Luconfig NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC 27448a1b10aSYinghai Lu bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity" 275b9098957SYinghai Lu depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA 27648a1b10aSYinghai Lu default n 2778f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 27848a1b10aSYinghai Lu This enables moving irq_desc to cpu/node that irq will use handled. 27948a1b10aSYinghai Lu 28048a1b10aSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 28148a1b10aSYinghai Lu 2826695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 2837a527688SJan Beulich bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 2847a527688SJan Beulich default y 2855ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 2868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2876695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 2886695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 2896695c85bSYinghai Lu 29026f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 29126f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 29226f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 2938f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 29426f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2968425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 297c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 298c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 299c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3008f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 30106ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 30206ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 30306ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 30406ac8346SIngo Molnar 3058425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3068425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 3078425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3088425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3098425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3108425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 3118425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Summit/EXA (IBM x440) 3128425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Unisys ES7000 IA32 series 31306ac8346SIngo Molnar 31406ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 31506ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3168425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 31706ac8346SIngo Molnar 3188425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3198425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3208425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3218425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3228425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3238425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3248425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3258425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3268425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3278425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3288425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 3298425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3308425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3318425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3328425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3338425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3348425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 335c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 336c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 33703b48632SNick Piggin 3386a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 339c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3406a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3416a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 342c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3446a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3456a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 3466a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 3476a48565eSIngo Molnar 348c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 349c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 350c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 351c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3527d01d32dSIngo Molnar select X86_X2APIC 353c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 354c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 355c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 356c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 357c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 358c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 359506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 360506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_ELAN 361506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "AMD Elan" 362506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 363c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3648f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 365506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 366506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 368506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 371c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 372c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 373506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 374c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 375c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 376c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 377c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 378c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 379c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 380c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 381c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 382e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3839c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 3849c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 385c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 387d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default 388d49c4288SYinghai Lu subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 389d49c4288SYinghai Lu if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will 390d49c4288SYinghai Lu fallback to default. 391d49c4288SYinghai Lu 392c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 393d49c4288SYinghai Lu 394506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 396e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 3989c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 3998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 400d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 401d49c4288SYinghai Lu NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 402d49c4288SYinghai Lu bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 403d49c4288SYinghai Lu of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 404d49c4288SYinghai Lu firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 4061b84e1c8SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VISWS 4071b84e1c8SIngo Molnar bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 408c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 409c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 410c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 4111b84e1c8SIngo Molnar The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 4121b84e1c8SIngo Molnar based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 4131b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 4141b84e1c8SIngo Molnar Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 4151b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 4161b84e1c8SIngo Molnar A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 4171b84e1c8SIngo Molnar PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 4181b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 4199c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 4209c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 421e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4228f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4239c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 4249c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 4259c398017SIngo Molnar 4269c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 427c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 42826f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 4298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4309c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 4319c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 4321f972768SIngo Molnar 433ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 4343c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4353c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 436a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 4378f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 445506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 4478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 453506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 455506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 457506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 46042d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 4618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 467790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 468790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 469790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 470f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 472790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 473790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 474790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 475790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 476790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 477790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 4780cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 4790cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support" 4800cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 4818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4820cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 4830cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. 4840cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 485506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 487e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 488e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 4898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 490e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 491e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 492e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 493e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 494e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 4957af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4967af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 4977af192c9SGerd Hoffmann default n 4987af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 499506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 50197349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 50297349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 50397349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 5048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 50597349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 50697349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 50797349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 50803273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 50903273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 5108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 511c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 51203273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 51303273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 51403273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 51503273184SYinghai Lu ... 51603273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 517aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 519506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 5203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 521e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 522506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 523506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 5243c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 525e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 526506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 527506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 528506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 529506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 5303c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 531506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 5328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 534506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 537506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 538506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 540e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 548506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 5493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5509d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 5547ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 5557ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 5567ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED 5578f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5587ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 5597ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 5607ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 5617ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 5627ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 563506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select AGP 568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 5698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 578506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 579506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 580506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 582506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 5848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 588506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 590506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 591506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 592506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 598506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 5993c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6003c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 6028f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 603506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 604506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 605506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6092b188723SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU 6102b188723SJoerg Roedel bool "AMD IOMMU support" 61107c40e8aSIngo Molnar select SWIOTLB 612a80dc3e0SJoerg Roedel select PCI_MSI 61324d2ba0aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 6148f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 61518d22200SJoerg Roedel With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in 61618d22200SJoerg Roedel your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides 61718d22200SJoerg Roedel remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you 61818d22200SJoerg Roedel can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the 61918d22200SJoerg Roedel system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. 62018d22200SJoerg Roedel 62118d22200SJoerg Roedel You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into 62218d22200SJoerg Roedel your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI 62318d22200SJoerg Roedel table. 6242b188723SJoerg Roedel 6252e117604SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU_STATS 6262e117604SJoerg Roedel bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" 6272e117604SJoerg Roedel depends on AMD_IOMMU 6282e117604SJoerg Roedel select DEBUG_FS 6298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6302e117604SJoerg Roedel This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various 6312e117604SJoerg Roedel statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that 6322e117604SJoerg Roedel information to userspace via debugfs. 6332e117604SJoerg Roedel If unsure, say N. 6342e117604SJoerg Roedel 635506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 636506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 637a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 6388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 640506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 641506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 643506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 645a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 64618b743dcSFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU) 647d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 6481aaf1183SJoerg Roedelconfig IOMMU_API 6491aaf1183SJoerg Roedel def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR) 6501aaf1183SJoerg Roedel 6511184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 6521184dc2fSMike Travis bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 65336f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 65436f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 6551184dc2fSMike Travis default n 6568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6571184dc2fSMike Travis Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 6581184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 660506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 66136f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 66236f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 66378637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 664d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 66578637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 66678637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 6678f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 668506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 669d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 675506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 677b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 6788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 684506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 6853c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6863c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 687b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 6888f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 691506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 693506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 694506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 695506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 696506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 697e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 6988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 701506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 702506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 703506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 704506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 705506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 706506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 707506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 708506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 709506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 7118f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 713506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 717506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 7213c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 722e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 7253c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 726e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 7293c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 73241b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 73341b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 73441b9eb26SStefan Assmann default n 73541b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 7368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 73741b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 73841b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 73941b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 74041b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 74141b9eb26SStefan Assmann 74241b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 74341b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 74441b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 74541b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 74641b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 74741b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 74841b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 74941b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 75041b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 75141b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 75241b9eb26SStefan Assmann 75341b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 75441b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 75541b9eb26SStefan Assmann 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Machine Check Exception" 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the 760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). 761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the 764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. 771506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 772506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 7733c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 775506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 7813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 788b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 789b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 790b2762686SAndi Kleen bool 791b2762686SAndi Kleen default y 792b2762686SAndi Kleen 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_NONFATAL 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 7968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option only does something on certain CPUs. 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_P4THERMAL 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." 808efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) 8098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enters thermal throttling. 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 8178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 824506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 834506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 835506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 838506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 840506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 845506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 846506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 847506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 848506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 849506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 850506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 852506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 853506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 856506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 857506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 858506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 859506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 8609ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 8619ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 862506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 864506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 865506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 866506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 868506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 869506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 8705e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 871506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 872506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 873506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 8778d86f390SPeter Oruba tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support" 878506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 88180cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 88280cc9f10SPeter Oruba IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, 88380cc9f10SPeter Oruba Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and 88480cc9f10SPeter Oruba 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra. 88580cc9f10SPeter Oruba You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself 88680cc9f10SPeter Oruba which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. 887506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8888d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 8898d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 892506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 893506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8948d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 89518dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" 8968d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 8978d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 8988d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 8998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9008d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 9018d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 9028d86f390SPeter Oruba 9038d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 9048d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 9058d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 9068d86f390SPeter Oruba 90780cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 90818dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" 90980cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 91080cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 9118f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 91280cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 91380cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 91480cc9f10SPeter Oruba 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 9163c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 9218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 923506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 9308f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 9828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 9908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 10018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1019506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1020506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1021506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1022506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1023506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1024506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1025506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1031506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1033506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 10413c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 10459ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 10478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1053600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1054600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE 1055600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 10569e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 10579e899816SNick Piggin bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED 10589e899816SNick Piggin default y 10599e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 10608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10619e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 10629e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 10639e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 10649e899816SNick Piggin 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1066506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1067fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 1069604d2055SRafael J. Wysocki depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 10700699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 10718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1073fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1076506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1078c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1079fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1080fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1081fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1082fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1083fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1084fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1085fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 10913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 10948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1096506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1101506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 11023c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1104506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 11068f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11096ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 11106ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 11116ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 11126ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 11136ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 11146ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 11156ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 11166ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 11176ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 11218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1127d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 1128efac4189SThomas Gleixner range 1 9 if X86_64 1129d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "9" if MAXSMP 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 11348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11351184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 11361184dc2fSMike Travis system. Increases memory reserved to accomodate various tables. 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1138c1329375STejun Heoconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM 11393c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 11433c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 11473c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 11513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 115699809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1160b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1164b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1165b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1166b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1167b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 1168b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 1169506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1170506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1171506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 11724272ebfbSYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1173506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1174506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1175506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1176506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1177506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1178b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1179506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1180506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1184506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1185506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1186506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1187506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1188506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 11898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1191506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1193506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1194506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11959f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 11969f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 11978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11989f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 11999f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 12009f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 12019f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 12029f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 12039f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 12049f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 12059f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 12069f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 12079f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 12089f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 12099f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 12109f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 12119f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 12129f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 12139f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 12149f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 12159f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 12169f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1217c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1218c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1219c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1220c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 12218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1222c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1223c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1224c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1225fc381519SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K 1226fc381519SIngo Molnar bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" 1227fc381519SIngo Molnar default y 12288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1229fc381519SIngo Molnar Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known 1230fc381519SIngo Molnar to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are 1231fc381519SIngo Molnar known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not 1232fc381519SIngo Molnar be used by the kernel. 1233fc381519SIngo Molnar 1234fc381519SIngo Molnar Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS 1235fc381519SIngo Molnar to get all its memory reservations and usages right. 1236fc381519SIngo Molnar 1237fc381519SIngo Molnar If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not 1238fc381519SIngo Molnar work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug 1239fc381519SIngo Molnar events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable 1240fc381519SIngo Molnar X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical 1241fc381519SIngo Molnar corruption patterns. 1242fc381519SIngo Molnar 1243fc381519SIngo Molnar Say Y if unsure. 1244fc381519SIngo Molnar 1245506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1270506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1271506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 1273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1276506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13037225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 130595ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 13062ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 130795ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 130895ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 13098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1310aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1311aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 131295ffa243SYinghai Lu 1313aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1314aba3728cSThomas Gleixner The largest mtrr entry size for a continous block can be set with 1315aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 131695ffa243SYinghai Lu 13172ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 131895ffa243SYinghai Lu 131995ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1320f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1321f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1322f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 132395ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 13248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1325f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 132695ffa243SYinghai Lu 132712031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 132812031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 132912031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 133012031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 133112031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 13328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 133312031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1334aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 133512031a62SYinghai Lu 13362e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 13372a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 13382e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com prompt "x86 PAT support" 13392a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 13408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13412e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1342042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 13432e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 13442e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 13452e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13462e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1347042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 13482e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13492e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 13502e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 1351506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 13529ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 13535b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 13558b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1356506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1357506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13588b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 13598b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 13608b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 13618b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 13628b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 13638b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1364506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1365506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 13663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 13673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 13688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1372506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1373506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1374506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 13759c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1381113c5413SIngo Molnarconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1382113c5413SIngo Molnar bool 1383113c5413SIngo Molnar 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1386113c5413SIngo Molnar select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 13878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1389113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1390113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1398113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1399113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 14058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 142004b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 14228f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14333ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 14343ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14353ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 143689081d17SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION && X86_32 14378f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 143889081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 143989081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 14403ab83521SHuang Ying 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" 14468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1482506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1484506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 1485506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 14878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1501506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" if X86_32 1505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 0x2000 0x400000 15078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1511506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1512506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1519506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1521506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1522506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1523506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1524506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1525506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1526506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 15277c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 15284b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1529506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15307c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 15317c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 15327c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 15337c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 15347c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1536506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 15373c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1539af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 15408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1541af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1549516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1550516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 1551516cbf37STim Bird default n 15528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1553516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1554516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1555516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1556516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1557516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1558516cbf37STim Bird 1559516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1560516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1561516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1562516cbf37STim Bird 1563516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1564516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1565516cbf37STim Bird 1566516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1567516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1568516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1569516cbf37STim Bird default "" 15708f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1571516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1572516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1573516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1574516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1575516cbf37STim Bird 1576516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1577516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1578516cbf37STim Bird 1579516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1580516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1581516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1582516cbf37STim Bird 1583516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1584516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1585516cbf37STim Bird default n 1586516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 15878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1588516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1589516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1590516cbf37STim Bird 1591516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1592516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1593516cbf37STim Bird 1594506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1596506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 160035551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 160135551053SGary Hade def_bool y 160235551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 160335551053SGary Hade 1604506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1605506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1608da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1609e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1610e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 16113c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1612e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1613e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1614e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1615e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1616e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1617e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1618a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1619a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1620a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1621a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1622a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1623e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1624e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1625efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1626e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1627e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1628e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1629e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1630e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1631e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1632e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1633e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1634e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1635e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1636e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1637e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1638e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1639e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1640e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 164153471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1642e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1643e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1644e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1645e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1646e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1647e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1648e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1649e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1650e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1651e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1652e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1653e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1654e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1655e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1656e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1657e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1658e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1659e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1661e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1662e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1663e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1666e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1667e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1668e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1669e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1670e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1671e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1672e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1673e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1674e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1676e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1677e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1678e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1679e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1680e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1681e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1682e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1683e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1684e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1685e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 16868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1687e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1689e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1690e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1691e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1692e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1693e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1694e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1695e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1696e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1697e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1698e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1699e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1700e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1701e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1702e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1703e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1704e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1705e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1706e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1707e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1708e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1709e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 17108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1711e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1712e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1713e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1714e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1715e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1716e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1717e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1718e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1719e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1720e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 17218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1722e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1723e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1724e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1725e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1726e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1727e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1728e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1731e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1732e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 17348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1738e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1742e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1744e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1746e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1747e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 174827471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 174927471fdbSAndy Henroid 1750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1751e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1752e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1753e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1754e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1755e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 17561ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 17571c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1758e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 17598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1760e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1761e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1762e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1763e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1764e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1765e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1766e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1767efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1768e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1769e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1770e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1771e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1772e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1773e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1774e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1775e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1776e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1777e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1778e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1779e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1780e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1781e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1783e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1784e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1785e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1786e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1787e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1788e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1789e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1790e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1791e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1792e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17933ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 17943ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "OLPC" 17953ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 17963ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 17972bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 17982bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 17992bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 1800e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1801e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1802e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 18033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1804efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1805e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1806e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1807e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 18083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1809efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC)) 1810e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1811e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 18123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1813e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1814e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18153ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 18162bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 18172bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 18183ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1819e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 18203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1821e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1824e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1825e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1827e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1828e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1829e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 18308f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1831e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1832e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1833e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18370cd5c3c8SKyle McMartinconfig DMAR_DEFAULT_ON 1838f6be37fdSKyle McMartin def_bool y 18390cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default" 18400cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin depends on DMAR 18410cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin help 18420cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if 18430cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can 18440cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is 18450cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains 18460cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin experimental. 18470cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin 1848e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_GFX_WA 18493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 18503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Support for Graphics workaround" 1851e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 1855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg to use physical addresses for DMA. 1858e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1859e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 18603c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1863e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls 1864e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1866e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18689fa8c481SSuresh Siddhaconfig INTR_REMAP 18699fa8c481SSuresh Siddha bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18709fa8c481SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 187106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu select X86_X2APIC 18728f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 18739fa8c481SSuresh Siddha Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. 18749fa8c481SSuresh Siddha To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or 18759fa8c481SSuresh Siddha to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. 18769fa8c481SSuresh Siddha 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 18833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 18898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 191572ee6ebbSIngo Molnar bool "MCA support" 19168f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 19268f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 19388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 19463c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 19473c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 19498f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19553ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 19563ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 19573ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon default n 19588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 19593ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 19603ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 19613ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1962bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 1963bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1966bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1982a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 19838f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 19906b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 19918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 19953c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2002e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 20033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2004b8992195SAlexey Dobriyan depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 2005e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2006e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2007e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2008e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2009e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2010e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2011e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2012e5beae16SKeith Packard 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2015e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2016e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2021e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2023e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2024e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2025e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2027edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2028edf88417SAvi Kivity 2029e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2030