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" 8daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 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 371a4e3f89SRandy Dunlap select HAVE_KVM if ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER && !X86_VISWS && !X86_NUMAQ) || X86_64) 38fcbc04c0SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !X86_VOYAGER 3999bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 40323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 4158340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 428d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 43*2118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 447d8330a5SBalbir Singh 4573531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 46b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 4773531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 4873531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 49b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 543c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 573c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 603c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 633c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 703c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 72aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 73aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 74aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 751f84260cSChristoph Lameterconfig FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 761f84260cSChristoph Lameter bool 771f84260cSChristoph Lameter default y 781f84260cSChristoph Lameter 798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 803c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 893c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 918d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 948d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 953c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 968d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 97b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 98b93a531eSJan Beulich 99b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 100b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 105a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1069ba16087SJan Beulich bool 107a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1088d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1093c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1111032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 1121032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 1131032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1141032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1151032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 1161032c0baSSam Ravnborg 117a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 118a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 119a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1201032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1211032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1221032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1268d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1279a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1289a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1298d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 13089cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 13189cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 13289cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1331b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1341b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1351b27d05bSPekka Enberg 136dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 13723ca4bbaSMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP || (X86_SMP && !X86_VOYAGER) 138b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 1399f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1409f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1419f0e8d04SMike Travis 142801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 143801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 144801e4062SJohannes Berg depends on !SMP || !X86_VOYAGER 145801e4062SJohannes Berg 146f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 147f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 148f4cb5700SJohannes Berg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 149f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 161765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 162765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 163765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 1768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SMP 1798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1806b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP && ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_64) 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 198efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on (X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_64 1998d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_BIOS_REBOOT 2028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 20331ac409aSIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 2048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2058d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2068d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 2078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 208e44b7b75SPavel Machek depends on X86_SMP || (X86_VOYAGER && SMP) || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 2098d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 2128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 213506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 214dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2158d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 216506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 218506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 220506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 24203502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 248b3572e36SJames Bottomleyconfig X86_HAS_BOOT_CPU_ID 249b3572e36SJames Bottomley def_bool y 250b3572e36SJames Bottomley depends on X86_VOYAGER 251b3572e36SJames Bottomley 2520b8f1efaSYinghai Luconfig SPARSE_IRQ 2530b8f1efaSYinghai Lu bool "Support sparse irq numbering" 25417483a1fSYinghai Lu depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ 2550b8f1efaSYinghai Lu help 256973656feSIngo Molnar This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro 257973656feSIngo Molnar kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still 258973656feSIngo Molnar want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. 2590b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 260973656feSIngo Molnar ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread 261973656feSIngo Molnar out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. ) 262973656feSIngo Molnar 263973656feSIngo Molnar If you don't know what to do here, say N. 2640b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 26548a1b10aSYinghai Luconfig NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC 26648a1b10aSYinghai Lu bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity" 267b9098957SYinghai Lu depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA 26848a1b10aSYinghai Lu default n 26948a1b10aSYinghai Lu help 27048a1b10aSYinghai Lu This enables moving irq_desc to cpu/node that irq will use handled. 27148a1b10aSYinghai Lu 27248a1b10aSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 27348a1b10aSYinghai Lu 2746695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG 2756695c85bSYinghai Lu def_bool y 2761b84e1c8SIngo Molnar depends on X86_MPPARSE || X86_VOYAGER 2776695c85bSYinghai Lu 2786695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 2797a527688SJan Beulich bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 2807a527688SJan Beulich default y 2815ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 2826695c85bSYinghai Lu help 2836695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 2846695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 2856695c85bSYinghai Lu 286506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Subarchitecture Type" 288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default X86_PC 289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 290506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PC 291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "PC-compatible" 292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose this option if your computer is a standard PC or compatible. 294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_ELAN 296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "AMD Elan" 297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 305506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VOYAGER 306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Voyager (NCR)" 3071ac97018SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && (SMP || BROKEN) && !PCI 308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary 310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based. 311506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 312506f1d07SSam Ravnborg *** WARNING *** 313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine, 315506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say N here, otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable. 316506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 317506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_GENERICARCH 318d49c4288SYinghai Lu bool "Generic architecture" 319506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 320506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 321d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default 322d49c4288SYinghai Lu subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 323d49c4288SYinghai Lu if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will 324d49c4288SYinghai Lu fallback to default. 325d49c4288SYinghai Lu 326d49c4288SYinghai Luif X86_GENERICARCH 327d49c4288SYinghai Lu 328506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 329506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 3303de352bbSIngo Molnar depends on SMP && X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE 331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 332506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 333d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 334d49c4288SYinghai Lu NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 335d49c4288SYinghai Lu bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 336d49c4288SYinghai Lu of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 337d49c4288SYinghai Lu firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 338506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 339506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT 340506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 341506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 342506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 343506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 344506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In particular, it is needed for the x440. 345506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 346506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_ES7000 347506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 348506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 350506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 351506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 352d49c4288SYinghai Lu 353d49c4288SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 354d49c4288SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 355d49c4288SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 356d49c4288SYinghai Lu help 357d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 358d49c4288SYinghai Lu and if the system is not of any sub-arch type above. 359d49c4288SYinghai Lu 360d49c4288SYinghai Luendif 361506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 362506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VSMP 363506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for ScaleMP vSMP" 36496597fd2SGlauber Costa select PARAVIRT 365a6784ad7SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 366506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 368506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg if you have one of these machines. 370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 371506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 372506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3731b84e1c8SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VISWS 3741b84e1c8SIngo Molnar bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 37539415a44SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && !X86_VOYAGER && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 3761b84e1c8SIngo Molnar help 3771b84e1c8SIngo Molnar The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 3781b84e1c8SIngo Molnar based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 3791b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 3801b84e1c8SIngo Molnar Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 3811b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 3821b84e1c8SIngo Molnar A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 3831b84e1c8SIngo Molnar PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 3841b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 3851f972768SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RDC321X 3861f972768SIngo Molnar bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 3871f972768SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 3881f972768SIngo Molnar select M486 3891f972768SIngo Molnar select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 3901f972768SIngo Molnar help 3911f972768SIngo Molnar This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 3921f972768SIngo Molnar as R-8610-(G). 3931f972768SIngo Molnar If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 3941f972768SIngo Molnar 395ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 3963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 3973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 398a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 407506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 415506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 417506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 419506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 42242d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 423efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 430790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 431790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 432790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 433f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 434efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 435790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa help 436790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 437790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 438790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 439790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 440790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 441790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 4420cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 4430cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support" 4440cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 445efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 4460cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti help 4470cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 4480cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. 4490cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 450506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 452e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 453e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 454efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 455e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost help 456e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 457e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 458e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 459e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 460e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 4617af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4627af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 4637af192c9SGerd Hoffmann default n 4647af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 465506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 46797349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 46897349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 46997349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 47097349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 47197349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 47297349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 47397349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 47403273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 47503273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 476c64df707SYinghai Lu help 477c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 47803273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 47903273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 48003273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 48103273184SYinghai Lu ... 48203273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 483aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 485506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 4863c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4870699eae1SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_GENERICARCH 488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 489506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 4903c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4910699eae1SYinghai Lu depends on X86_GENERICARCH 492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 493506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 495506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 4963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 506e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 511506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 512506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 514506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 5153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5169d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 519506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 5207ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 5217ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 5227ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED 5237ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni help 5247ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 5257ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 5267ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 5277ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 5287ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 529506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 530506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 531506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select AGP 534506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 537506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 538506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 546506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 560506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 564506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 5653c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5752b188723SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU 5762b188723SJoerg Roedel bool "AMD IOMMU support" 57707c40e8aSIngo Molnar select SWIOTLB 578a80dc3e0SJoerg Roedel select PCI_MSI 57924d2ba0aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 5802b188723SJoerg Roedel help 58118d22200SJoerg Roedel With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in 58218d22200SJoerg Roedel your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides 58318d22200SJoerg Roedel remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you 58418d22200SJoerg Roedel can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the 58518d22200SJoerg Roedel system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. 58618d22200SJoerg Roedel 58718d22200SJoerg Roedel You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into 58818d22200SJoerg Roedel your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI 58918d22200SJoerg Roedel table. 5902b188723SJoerg Roedel 5912e117604SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU_STATS 5922e117604SJoerg Roedel bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" 5932e117604SJoerg Roedel depends on AMD_IOMMU 5942e117604SJoerg Roedel select DEBUG_FS 5952e117604SJoerg Roedel help 5962e117604SJoerg Roedel This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various 5972e117604SJoerg Roedel statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that 5982e117604SJoerg Roedel information to userspace via debugfs. 5992e117604SJoerg Roedel If unsure, say N. 6002e117604SJoerg Roedel 601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 602506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 603a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 604506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 605506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 611a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 61218b743dcSFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU) 613d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 6141aaf1183SJoerg Roedelconfig IOMMU_API 6151aaf1183SJoerg Roedel def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR) 6161aaf1183SJoerg Roedel 6171184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 6181184dc2fSMike Travis bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 61936f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 62036f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 6211184dc2fSMike Travis default n 6221184dc2fSMike Travis help 6231184dc2fSMike Travis Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 6241184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 625506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 626506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 62736f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 62836f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 62978637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 630d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 63178637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 63278637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 634506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 635d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 636506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 637506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 638506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 640506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 641506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 643b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 645506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 650506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 6513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6523c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 653b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 654506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 655506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 659506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 663efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !(X86_VOYAGER || X86_GENERICARCH) 664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 665506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 667506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 668506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 674506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 686506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 6873c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 688efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && (X86_UP_APIC || (SMP && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_GENERICARCH)) 689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 690506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 6913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 692efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && (X86_UP_IOAPIC || (SMP && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_GENERICARCH)) 693506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 694506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 6953c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 696506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 697506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 69841b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 69941b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 70041b9eb26SStefan Assmann default n 70141b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 70241b9eb26SStefan Assmann help 70341b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 70441b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 70541b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 70641b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 70741b9eb26SStefan Assmann 70841b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 70941b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 71041b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 71141b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 71241b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 71341b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 71441b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 71541b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 71641b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 71741b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 71841b9eb26SStefan Assmann 71941b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 72041b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 72141b9eb26SStefan Assmann 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Machine Check Exception" 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a 735506f1d07SSam Ravnborg problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. 738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 739506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 7403c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7413c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 7483c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 753506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 754506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 755506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_NONFATAL 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which 760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. 761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying 764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option only does something on certain CPUs. 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_P4THERMAL 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." 770efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) 771506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 772506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enters thermal throttling. 774506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 775506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 782506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 796506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 8229ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 8239ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 824506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 8325e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 834506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 835506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 838506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 8398d86f390SPeter Oruba tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support" 840506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 84380cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 84480cc9f10SPeter Oruba IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, 84580cc9f10SPeter Oruba Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and 84680cc9f10SPeter Oruba 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra. 84780cc9f10SPeter Oruba You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself 84880cc9f10SPeter Oruba which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. 849506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8508d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 8518d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 852506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 853506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8568d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 85718dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" 8588d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 8598d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 8608d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 8618d86f390SPeter Oruba --help--- 8628d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 8638d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 8648d86f390SPeter Oruba 8658d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 8668d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 8678d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 8688d86f390SPeter Oruba 86980cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 87018dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" 87180cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 87280cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 87380cc9f10SPeter Oruba --help--- 87480cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 87580cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 87680cc9f10SPeter Oruba 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 8783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 883506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 886506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 887506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 889506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 892506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 893506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 894506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 895506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 896506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 897506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 898506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 900506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 901506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 902506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 903506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 904506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 905506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 906506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 907506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 908506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 909506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 910506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 911506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 912506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 913506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 914506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 916506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 923506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 10033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 10079ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1015600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1016600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE 1017600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 10189e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 10199e899816SNick Piggin bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED 10209e899816SNick Piggin default y 10219e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 10229e899816SNick Piggin help 10239e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 10249e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 10259e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 10269e899816SNick Piggin 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1029fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 1031604d2055SRafael J. Wysocki depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default n if X86_PC 10330699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1036fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1041c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1042fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1043fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1044fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1045fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1046fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1047fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1048fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 10543c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10553c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 10653c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1067506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 1069506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10726ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 10736ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 10746ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 10756ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 10766ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 10776ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 10786ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 10796ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 10806ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1081506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1090d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 1091efac4189SThomas Gleixner range 1 9 if X86_64 1092d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "9" if MAXSMP 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1096506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 10971184dc2fSMike Travis help 10981184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 10991184dc2fSMike Travis system. Increases memory reserved to accomodate various tables. 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1101506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE 11023c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1104506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 11063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 11103c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 11143c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 111999809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1123b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1127b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1128b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1129b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1130b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 1131b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 113599809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_PC) || X86_GENERICARCH 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1141b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11589f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 11599f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 11609f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 11619f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 11629f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 11639f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 11649f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 11659f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 11669f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 11679f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 11689f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 11699f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 11709f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 11719f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 11729f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 11739f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 11749f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 11759f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 11769f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 11779f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 11789f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 11799f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1180c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1181c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1182c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1183c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 1184c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 1185c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1186c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1187c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1188fc381519SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K 1189fc381519SIngo Molnar bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" 1190fc381519SIngo Molnar default y 1191fc381519SIngo Molnar help 1192fc381519SIngo Molnar Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known 1193fc381519SIngo Molnar to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are 1194fc381519SIngo Molnar known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not 1195fc381519SIngo Molnar be used by the kernel. 1196fc381519SIngo Molnar 1197fc381519SIngo Molnar Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS 1198fc381519SIngo Molnar to get all its memory reservations and usages right. 1199fc381519SIngo Molnar 1200fc381519SIngo Molnar If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not 1201fc381519SIngo Molnar work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug 1202fc381519SIngo Molnar events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable 1203fc381519SIngo Molnar X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical 1204fc381519SIngo Molnar corruption patterns. 1205fc381519SIngo Molnar 1206fc381519SIngo Molnar Say Y if unsure. 1207fc381519SIngo Molnar 1208506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1234506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12667225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 126895ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 12692ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 127095ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 127195ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 127295ffa243SYinghai Lu help 1273aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1274aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 127595ffa243SYinghai Lu 1276aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1277aba3728cSThomas Gleixner The largest mtrr entry size for a continous block can be set with 1278aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 127995ffa243SYinghai Lu 12802ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 128195ffa243SYinghai Lu 128295ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1283f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1284f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1285f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 128695ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 128795ffa243SYinghai Lu help 1288f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 128995ffa243SYinghai Lu 129012031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 129112031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 129212031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 129312031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 129412031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 129512031a62SYinghai Lu help 129612031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1297aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 129812031a62SYinghai Lu 12992e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 13002a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 13012e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com prompt "x86 PAT support" 13022a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 13032e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com help 13042e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1305042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 13062e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 13072e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 13082e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13092e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1310042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 13112e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13122e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 13132e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 1314506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 13159ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 13165b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1317506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 13188b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1319506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1320506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13218b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 13228b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 13238b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 13248b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 13258b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 13268b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1327506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1328506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 13293c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 13303c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 1331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1332506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1333506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1334506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1335506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1336506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1337506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 13389c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1339506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1340506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1341506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1342506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1343506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1344506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1345506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13462c020a99SLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 1347506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1348506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg feature puts, at the beginning of critical functions, a canary 1350506f1d07SSam Ravnborg value on the stack just before the return address, and validates 1351506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1353506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1355506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1356506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1357506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1358506f1d07SSam Ravnborg detected and for those versions, this configuration option is ignored. 1359506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1360506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1361506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Use stack-protector for all functions" 1362506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1363506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1364506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally, GCC only inserts the canary value protection for 1365506f1d07SSam Ravnborg functions that use large-ish on-stack buffers. By enabling 1366506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this option, GCC will be asked to do this for ALL functions. 1367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1368506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1370506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 13723e8f7e35SIngo Molnar depends on X86_BIOS_REBOOT 1373506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1374506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 138804b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14013ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 14023ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14033ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 140489081d17SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION && X86_32 14053ab83521SHuang Ying help 140689081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 140789081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 14083ab83521SHuang Ying 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" if X86_32 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 0x2000 0x400000 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1482506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1485506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 14957c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 14967c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && !X86_VOYAGER 1497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 14987c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 14997c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 15007c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 15017c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 15027c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1504506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 15053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1507af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 1508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1509af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1511506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1512506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1517516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1518516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 1519516cbf37STim Bird default n 1520516cbf37STim Bird help 1521516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1522516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1523516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1524516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1525516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1526516cbf37STim Bird 1527516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1528516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1529516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1530516cbf37STim Bird 1531516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1532516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1533516cbf37STim Bird 1534516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1535516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1536516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1537516cbf37STim Bird default "" 1538516cbf37STim Bird help 1539516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1540516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1541516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1542516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1543516cbf37STim Bird 1544516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1545516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1546516cbf37STim Bird 1547516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1548516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1549516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1550516cbf37STim Bird 1551516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1552516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1553516cbf37STim Bird default n 1554516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1555516cbf37STim Bird help 1556516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1557516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1558516cbf37STim Bird 1559516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1560516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1561516cbf37STim Bird 1562506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1564506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 156835551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 156935551053SGary Hade def_bool y 157035551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 157135551053SGary Hade 1572506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1576da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1577e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 1578e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1579e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 15803c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1581e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1582e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1583e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1584e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1585e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1586e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1587a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1588a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1589a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1590a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1591a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1592e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1593e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1594efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1595e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1596e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1597e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1598e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1599e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1600e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1601e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1602e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1603e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1604e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1605e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1606e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1607e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1608e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1609e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 161053471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1611e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1612e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1613e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1614e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1615e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1616e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1617e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1618e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1619e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1620e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1621e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1622e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1623e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1624e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1625e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1626e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1627e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1628e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1629e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1630e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1631e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1632e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1633e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1634e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1635e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1636e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1637e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1638e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1639e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1640e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1641e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1642e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1643e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1644e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1645e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1646e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1647e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1648e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1649e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1650e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1651e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1652e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1653e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1654e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 1655e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1656e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1657e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1658e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1659e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1661e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1662e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1663e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1666e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1667e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1668e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1669e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1670e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1671e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1672e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1673e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1674e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1676e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1677e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1678e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 1679e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1680e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1681e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1682e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1683e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1684e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1685e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1686e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1687e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1689e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 1690e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1691e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1692e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1693e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1694e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1695e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1696e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1697e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1698e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1699e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1700e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1701e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1702e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 1703e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1704e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1705e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1706e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1707e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1708e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1709e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1710e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1711e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1712e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1713e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1714e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1715e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1716e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 171727471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 171827471fdbSAndy Henroid 1719e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1720e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1721e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1722e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1723e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1724e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 17251ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 17261c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1727e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 1728e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1731e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1732e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1734e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1736efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1738e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1742e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1744e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1746e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1747e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1748e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1749e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1751e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1752e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1753e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1754e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1755e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1756e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1757e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1758e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1759e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1760e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1761e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17623ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 17633ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "OLPC" 17643ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 17653ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 17662bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 17672bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 17682bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 1769e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1770e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1771e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 17723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1773efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1774e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1775e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1776e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 17773c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1778efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC)) 1779e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1780e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 17813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1783e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17843ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 17852bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 17862bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 17873ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1788e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 17893c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1790e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1791e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1792e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1793e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1794e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1795e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1796e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1797e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1798e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 1799e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1800e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1801e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1802e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1803e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1804e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1805e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18060cd5c3c8SKyle McMartinconfig DMAR_DEFAULT_ON 1807f6be37fdSKyle McMartin def_bool y 18080cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default" 18090cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin depends on DMAR 18100cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin help 18110cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if 18120cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can 18130cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is 18140cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains 18150cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin experimental. 18160cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin 1817e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_GFX_WA 18183c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 18193c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Support for Graphics workaround" 1820e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 1821e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 1824e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 1825e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 1826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg to use physical addresses for DMA. 1827e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1828e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 18293c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1830e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 1831e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1832e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls 1833e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18379fa8c481SSuresh Siddhaconfig INTR_REMAP 18389fa8c481SSuresh Siddha bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18399fa8c481SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 18409fa8c481SSuresh Siddha help 18419fa8c481SSuresh Siddha Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. 18429fa8c481SSuresh Siddha To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or 18439fa8c481SSuresh Siddha to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. 18449fa8c481SSuresh Siddha 1845e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1846e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1847e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1848e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1849e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1850e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 18513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 1857efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 1858e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1859e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1860e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1862e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1863e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1864e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1866e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1868e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 1884efefa6f6SIngo Molnar bool "MCA support" if !X86_VOYAGER 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y if X86_VOYAGER 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 19173c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 19183c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19263ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 19273ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 19283ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon default n 19293ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon help 19303ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 19313ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 19323ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1933bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 1934bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1937bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1953a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 19616b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 19663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 19743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1975b8992195SAlexey Dobriyan depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1980e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 1981e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 1982e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 1983e5beae16SKeith Packard 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1998edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 1999edf88417SAvi Kivity 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2001