11032c0baSSam Ravnborg# x86 configuration 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgmainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86" 3daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 4daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 5daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 66840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 76840999bSSam Ravnborg default ARCH = "x86_64" 88f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 10daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 11daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 12daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 13daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool !64BIT 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 16daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool 64BIT 171032c0baSSam Ravnborg 181032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 21e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 222c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_READQ 232c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_WRITEQ 24a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 25ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 2642d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 27cdd6c482SIngo Molnar select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS if (!M386 && !M486) 2828b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 293f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 301f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 31da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 327c095e46SFUJITA Tomonori select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS 339edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 34c0f7ac3aSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_OPTPROBES 35e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 36677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 37606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 3848d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3971e308a2SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST 4060a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 419a5fd902SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER if DYNAMIC_FTRACE 4266700001SJosh Stone select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 43e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 4449793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 4599bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 46323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 4758340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 488d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 49f850c30cSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 502118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 532e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 5413510997SAlbin Tonnerre select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 550067f129SK.Prasad select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 5699e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select PERF_EVENTS 5799e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select ANON_INODES 580a4af3b0SPekka Enberg select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK 597c68af6eSAvi Kivity select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 607d8330a5SBalbir Singh 6151b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 6251b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 6351b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 6451b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 6551b26adaSLinus Torvalds 6673531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 67b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 6873531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 6973531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 70b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 753c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 843c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 93aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 94aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 95aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 968d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 998d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 1003c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 1038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1053bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 1063bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (X86_64 || DMAR || DMA_API_DEBUG) 1073bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonori 1088d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 1093c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 1123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1138d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1148d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 1153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1168d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 117b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 118b93a531eSJan Beulich 119b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 120b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1218d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1233c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 125a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1269ba16087SJan Beulich bool 127a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1293c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1308d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1311032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 1321032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 1331032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1341032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1351032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 1361032c0baSSam Ravnborg 137a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 138a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 139a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1401032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1411032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1421032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1438d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1448d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1458d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1468d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1479a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1489a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 15089cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 15189cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 15289cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1531b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1541b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1551b27d05bSPekka Enberg 156dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 15789c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 158b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 15908fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 16008fc4580STejun Heo def_bool y 16108fc4580STejun Heo 16208fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 16311124411STejun Heo def_bool y 16411124411STejun Heo 1659f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1669f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1679f0e8d04SMike Travis 168801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 169801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 170801e4062SJohannes Berg 171f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 172f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 173f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 185765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 186765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 187765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1886a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 1896a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 1906a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 191580e0ad2SYinghai Luconfig HAVE_EARLY_RES 192580e0ad2SYinghai Lu def_bool y 193580e0ad2SYinghai Lu 19469575d38SShane Wangconfig HAVE_INTEL_TXT 19569575d38SShane Wang def_bool y 19669575d38SShane Wang depends on EXPERIMENTAL && DMAR && ACPI 19769575d38SShane Wang 1988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1998d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 2008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 203f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ 204f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixner def_bool y 205f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixner 2068d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 2078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2088d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2098d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 2118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 2138d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2148d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2156cd10f8dSJames Bottomleyconfig USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 2166cd10f8dSJames Bottomley def_bool y 2176cd10f8dSJames Bottomley depends on SMP 2186cd10f8dSJames Bottomley 2196b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 2206b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2216b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 2226b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2236b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 2246b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2256b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 2266b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2278d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 2288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 229ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 2308d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2318d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2328d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 2338d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2343e5095d1SIngo Molnar depends on SMP || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 2358d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2368d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 237ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 238ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 23960a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 240ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 2418d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 2428d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 243506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 244dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2458d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 246506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 248506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 250506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 270506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 27203502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 276506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 27806cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 27906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 280f7d7f866SDavid Woodhouse depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && INTR_REMAP 28106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 28206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 28306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 28406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 28506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 28606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 28706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 28806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 2890b8f1efaSYinghai Luconfig SPARSE_IRQ 2900b8f1efaSYinghai Lu bool "Support sparse irq numbering" 29117483a1fSYinghai Lu depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ 2928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 293973656feSIngo Molnar This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro 294973656feSIngo Molnar kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still 295973656feSIngo Molnar want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. 2960b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 297973656feSIngo Molnar ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread 298973656feSIngo Molnar out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. ) 299973656feSIngo Molnar 300973656feSIngo Molnar If you don't know what to do here, say N. 3010b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 30215e957d0SYinghai Luconfig NUMA_IRQ_DESC 30315e957d0SYinghai Lu def_bool y 304b9098957SYinghai Lu depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA 30548a1b10aSYinghai Lu 3066695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 3077a527688SJan Beulich bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 3087a527688SJan Beulich default y 3095ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 3108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3116695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 3126695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 3136695c85bSYinghai Lu 31426f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 31526f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 31626f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 3178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 31826f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 319506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3208425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 321c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 322c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 323c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 32506ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 32606ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 32706ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 32806ac8346SIngo Molnar 3298425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3308425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 3318425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3328425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3338425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3348425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 3358425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Summit/EXA (IBM x440) 3368425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Unisys ES7000 IA32 series 3373f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown MID devices 33806ac8346SIngo Molnar 33906ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 34006ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3418425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 34206ac8346SIngo Molnar 3438425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3448425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3458425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3468425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3478425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3488425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3498425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3508425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3518425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3528425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3538425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 3548425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3558425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3568425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3578425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3588425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3598425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 360c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 361c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 36203b48632SNick Piggin 3636a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 364c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3656a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3666a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 367c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3696a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3706a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 3716a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 3726a48565eSIngo Molnar 373c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 374c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 375c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 376c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 37754c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 3789d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 379c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 380c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 381c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 382c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 383c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 384c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 386506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_ELAN 387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "AMD Elan" 388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 389c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3973f4110a4SThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_MRST 3983f4110a4SThomas Gleixner bool "Moorestown MID platform" 3994b2f3f7dSJacob Pan depends on PCI 4004b2f3f7dSJacob Pan depends on PCI_GOANY 4013f4110a4SThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 4023f4110a4SThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 4034b2f3f7dSJacob Pan depends on X86_IO_APIC 404bb24c471SJacob Pan select APB_TIMER 4053f4110a4SThomas Gleixner ---help--- 4063f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown is Intel's Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) based Moblin 4073f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Internet Device(MID) platform. Moorestown consists of two chips: 4083f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Lincroft (CPU core, graphics, and memory controller) and Langwell IOH. 4093f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Unlike standard x86 PCs, Moorestown does not have many legacy devices 4103f4110a4SThomas Gleixner nor standard legacy replacement devices/features. e.g. Moorestown does 4113f4110a4SThomas Gleixner not contain i8259, i8254, HPET, legacy BIOS, most of the io ports. 4123f4110a4SThomas Gleixner 413c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 414c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 416c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 417c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 418c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 419c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 420c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 421c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 422c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 423c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 424e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4259c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 4269c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 427c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 4288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 429d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default 430d49c4288SYinghai Lu subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 431d49c4288SYinghai Lu if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will 432d49c4288SYinghai Lu fallback to default. 433d49c4288SYinghai Lu 434c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 435d49c4288SYinghai Lu 436506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 438e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 439a92d152eSPan, Jacob jun depends on PCI 440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 4419c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 4428f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 443d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 444d49c4288SYinghai Lu NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 445d49c4288SYinghai Lu bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 446d49c4288SYinghai Lu of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 447d49c4288SYinghai Lu firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 449d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 450d949f36fSLinus Torvalds bool 451d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 452d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_MCE 453d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 454d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on !X86_NUMAQ 455d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 456d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 457d949f36fSLinus Torvalds select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 458d949f36fSLinus Torvalds default y 459d949f36fSLinus Torvalds 4601b84e1c8SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VISWS 4611b84e1c8SIngo Molnar bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 462c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 463c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 464c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 4651b84e1c8SIngo Molnar The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 4661b84e1c8SIngo Molnar based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 4671b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 4681b84e1c8SIngo Molnar Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 4691b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 4701b84e1c8SIngo Molnar A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 4711b84e1c8SIngo Molnar PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 4721b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 4739c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 4749c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 475e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4779c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 4789c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 4791f972768SIngo Molnar 4809c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 481c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 48226f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 4838f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4849c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 4859c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 4869c398017SIngo Molnar 487ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 4883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4893c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 490a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 4918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 499506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 5018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 507506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 509506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 511506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 512d0153ca3SAlok Kataria bool "VMI Guest support (DEPRECATED)" 513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 51442d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 5158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 519506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 521d0153ca3SAlok Kataria As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement 522d0153ca3SAlok Kataria of this feature from VMware's products. Please see 523d0153ca3SAlok Kataria feature-removal-schedule.txt for details. If you are 524d0153ca3SAlok Kataria planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot 525d0153ca3SAlok Kataria live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product, 526d0153ca3SAlok Kataria which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to 527d0153ca3SAlok Kataria seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this 528d0153ca3SAlok Kataria disabled. 529d0153ca3SAlok Kataria 530790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 531790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 532790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 533f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 5348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 535790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 536790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 537790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 538790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 539790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 540790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 5410cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 5420cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support" 5430cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 5448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5450cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 5460cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. 5470cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 548506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 550e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 551e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 5528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 553e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 554e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 555e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 556e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 557e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 558b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 559b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 560b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && SMP && EXPERIMENTAL 561b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 562b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 563b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 564b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 565b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 566b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Unfortunately the downside is an up to 5% performance hit on 567b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge native kernels, with various workloads. 568b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 569b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 570b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5717af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 5727af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 5737af192c9SGerd Hoffmann default n 5747af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 575506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 57797349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 57897349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 57997349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 5808f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 58197349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 58297349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 58397349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 58408677214SYinghai Luconfig NO_BOOTMEM 58508677214SYinghai Lu default y 58608677214SYinghai Lu bool "Disable Bootmem code" 58708677214SYinghai Lu ---help--- 58808677214SYinghai Lu Use early_res directly instead of bootmem before slab is ready. 58908677214SYinghai Lu - allocator (buddy) [generic] 59008677214SYinghai Lu - early allocator (bootmem) [generic] 59108677214SYinghai Lu - very early allocator (reserve_early*()) [x86] 59208677214SYinghai Lu - very very early allocator (early brk model) [x86] 59308677214SYinghai Lu So reduce one layer between early allocator to final allocator 59408677214SYinghai Lu 59508677214SYinghai Lu 59603273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 59703273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 5988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 599c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 60003273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 60103273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 60203273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 60303273184SYinghai Lu ... 60403273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 605aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 607506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 6083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 609e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 611506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 6123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 613e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 615506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 617506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 6183c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 6208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 621506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 622506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 623506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 624506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 625506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 628e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 631506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 632506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 634506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 635506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 636506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 6373c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6389d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 640bb24c471SJacob Panconfig APB_TIMER 641bb24c471SJacob Pan def_bool y if MRST 642bb24c471SJacob Pan prompt "Langwell APB Timer Support" if X86_MRST 643bb24c471SJacob Pan help 644bb24c471SJacob Pan APB timer is the replacement for 8254, HPET on X86 MID platforms. 645bb24c471SJacob Pan The APBT provides a stable time base on SMP 646bb24c471SJacob Pan systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 647bb24c471SJacob Pan as it is off-chip. APB timers are always running regardless of CPU 648bb24c471SJacob Pan C states, they are used as per CPU clockevent device when possible. 649bb24c471SJacob Pan 650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 6527ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 6537ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 6547ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED 6558f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6567ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 6577ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 6587ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 6597ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 6607ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 6650e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on X86_64 && PCI && K8_NB 6668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 667506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 668506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 6818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 686506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 688506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 691506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 693506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 694506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 695506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 6963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 6998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 701506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 702506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 703506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 704506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 705506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 7062b188723SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU 7072b188723SJoerg Roedel bool "AMD IOMMU support" 70807c40e8aSIngo Molnar select SWIOTLB 709a80dc3e0SJoerg Roedel select PCI_MSI 71024d2ba0aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 7118f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 71218d22200SJoerg Roedel With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in 71318d22200SJoerg Roedel your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides 71418d22200SJoerg Roedel remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you 71518d22200SJoerg Roedel can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the 71618d22200SJoerg Roedel system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. 71718d22200SJoerg Roedel 71818d22200SJoerg Roedel You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into 71918d22200SJoerg Roedel your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI 72018d22200SJoerg Roedel table. 7212b188723SJoerg Roedel 7222e117604SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU_STATS 7232e117604SJoerg Roedel bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" 7242e117604SJoerg Roedel depends on AMD_IOMMU 7252e117604SJoerg Roedel select DEBUG_FS 7268f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 7272e117604SJoerg Roedel This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various 7282e117604SJoerg Roedel statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that 7292e117604SJoerg Roedel information to userspace via debugfs. 7302e117604SJoerg Roedel If unsure, say N. 7312e117604SJoerg Roedel 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 734a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 7358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 739506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 742a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 74318b743dcSFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU) 744d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 7451aaf1183SJoerg Roedelconfig IOMMU_API 7461aaf1183SJoerg Roedel def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR) 7471aaf1183SJoerg Roedel 7481184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 7491184dc2fSMike Travis bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 75036f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 75136f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 7521184dc2fSMike Travis default n 7538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 7541184dc2fSMike Travis Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 7551184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 75836f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 7592a3313f4SMichael K. Johnson range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP 76036f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 76178637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 762d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 76378637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 76478637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 7658f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 767d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 771506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 772506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 774506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 775b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 7768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 782506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 7833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7843c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 785b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 7868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 795e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 7968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 8098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 8193c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 820e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 8233c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 824e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 8273c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 83041b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 83141b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 83241b9eb26SStefan Assmann default n 83341b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 8348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 83541b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 83641b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 83741b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 83841b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 83941b9eb26SStefan Assmann 84041b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 84141b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 84241b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 84341b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 84441b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 84541b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 84641b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 84741b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 84841b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 84941b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 85041b9eb26SStefan Assmann 85141b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 85241b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 85341b9eb26SStefan Assmann 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 855bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 856506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 857bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 858bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 859506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 860bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 8614efc0670SAndi Kleen 862506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 8633c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8643c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 865c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 868506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 869506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 870506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 8713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 873c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8784efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 8794efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool n 880c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 8814efc0670SAndi Kleen prompt "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 8824efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 8834efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 8844efc0670SAndi Kleen systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitely on the command 8854efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 8864efc0670SAndi Kleen 887b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 888b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 889b2762686SAndi Kleen bool 890b2762686SAndi Kleen default y 891b2762686SAndi Kleen 892ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 893c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE 894ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 895ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 896ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 897ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 898ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 899ea149b36SAndi Kleen 9004efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 9014efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 9025bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 9034efc0670SAndi Kleen 904506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 905506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 906506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 907506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 909506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 910506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 911506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 912506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 913506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 914506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 916506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 923506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 9519ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 9529ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 9615e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 9688d86f390SPeter Oruba tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support" 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 97280cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 97380cc9f10SPeter Oruba IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, 97480cc9f10SPeter Oruba Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and 97580cc9f10SPeter Oruba 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra. 97680cc9f10SPeter Oruba You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself 97780cc9f10SPeter Oruba which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9798d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 9808d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9858d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 98618dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" 9878d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 9888d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 9898d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 9908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9918d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 9928d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 9938d86f390SPeter Oruba 9948d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 9958d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 9968d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 9978d86f390SPeter Oruba 99880cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 99918dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" 100080cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 100180cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10028f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 100380cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 100480cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 100580cc9f10SPeter Oruba 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 10073c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 10128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1019506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 1020506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 10218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1022506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1023506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1024506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1025506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 1031506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1033506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1066506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 1067506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 1069506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 10738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1076506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1078506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 10818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 10928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1096506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1101506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1104506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 11323c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 11369ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 11388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1144600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1145600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE 1146600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 11479e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 11489e899816SNick Piggin bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED 11499e899816SNick Piggin default y 11509e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 11518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11529e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 11539e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 11549e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 11559e899816SNick Piggin 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1158fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 1160604d2055SRafael J. Wysocki depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 11610699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 11628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1164fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1166506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1168506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1169c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1170fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1171fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1172fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1173fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1174fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1175fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1176fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1177506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1178506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1179506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1180506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 11823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1184506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 11858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1186506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1187506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 1188506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1191506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 11933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1195506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1196506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 11978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1198506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1199506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12006ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 12016ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 12026ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 12036ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 12046ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 12056ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 12066ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 12076ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12086ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1209506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 12128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1217506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1218d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 121951591e31SDavid Rientjes range 1 10 122051591e31SDavid Rientjes default "10" if MAXSMP 1221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 12258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12261184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1227692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1229c1329375STejun Heoconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM 12303c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1233506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 12343c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 12383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1241506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 12423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1245506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 124799809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1251b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1255b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1256b263295dSChristoph Lameter 12579492587cSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 12589492587cSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki def_bool y 12599492587cSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 12609492587cSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1261b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1262b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 1263b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12674272ebfbSYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1270506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1271506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1273b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1275506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1276506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1279a29815a3SAvi Kivityconfig ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1280a29815a3SAvi Kivity hex 1281a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0 if X86_32 1282a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1283a29815a3SAvi Kivity 1284506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1286506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 12898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12959f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 12969f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 12978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12989f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 12999f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 13009f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 13019f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 13029f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 13039f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 13049f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 13059f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 13069f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13079f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 13089f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 13099f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 13109f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 13119f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13129f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 13139f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 13149f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 13159f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 13169f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1317c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1318c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1319c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1320c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 13218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1322c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1323c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1324c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1325fc381519SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K 1326fc381519SIngo Molnar bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" 1327fc381519SIngo Molnar default y 13288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1329fc381519SIngo Molnar Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known 1330fc381519SIngo Molnar to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are 1331fc381519SIngo Molnar known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not 1332fc381519SIngo Molnar be used by the kernel. 1333fc381519SIngo Molnar 1334fc381519SIngo Molnar Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS 1335fc381519SIngo Molnar to get all its memory reservations and usages right. 1336fc381519SIngo Molnar 1337fc381519SIngo Molnar If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not 1338fc381519SIngo Molnar work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug 1339fc381519SIngo Molnar events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable 1340fc381519SIngo Molnar X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical 1341fc381519SIngo Molnar corruption patterns. 1342fc381519SIngo Molnar 1343fc381519SIngo Molnar Say Y if unsure. 1344fc381519SIngo Molnar 1345506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1346506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1347506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1348506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1350506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1351506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1353506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1355506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1356506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1357506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1358506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1359506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1360506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1361506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1362506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1363506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1364506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1365506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1366506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1368506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1372c03cb314SArjan van de Ven bool 1373c03cb314SArjan van de Ven default y 1374c03cb314SArjan van de Ven prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EMBEDDED 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14057225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 140795ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 14082ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 140995ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 141095ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 14118f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1412aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1413aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 141495ffa243SYinghai Lu 1415aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1416692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1417aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 141895ffa243SYinghai Lu 14192ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 142095ffa243SYinghai Lu 142195ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1422f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1423f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1424f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 142595ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14268f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1427f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 142895ffa243SYinghai Lu 142912031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 143012031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 143112031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 143212031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 143312031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 143512031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1436aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 143712031a62SYinghai Lu 14382e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 14392a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 1440c03cb314SArjan van de Ven default y 1441c03cb314SArjan van de Ven prompt "x86 PAT support" if EMBEDDED 14422a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 14438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 14442e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1445042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 14462e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 14472e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 14482e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14492e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1450042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 14512e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14522e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 14532e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 145446cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED 145546cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 145646cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi depends on X86_PAT 145746cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 14599ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 14605b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 14628b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14658b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 14668b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 14678b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 14688b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 14698b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 14708b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 14733c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 14743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 14758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 14829c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1485506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1488506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1492113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1493113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1501113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1502113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1504506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 15088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1511506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1512506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1519506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1521506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1522506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 152304b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1524506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 15258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1526506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1527506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1528506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1529506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1530506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1531506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1534506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15363ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 15373ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15383ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1539fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 15408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 154189081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 154289081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 15433ab83521SHuang Ying 1544506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1546ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 15478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1560506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1565ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 1566ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 1567ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 1568ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 1569ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 1570ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 1571ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 1572ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1573ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 1574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1578506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1579506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1582506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1585506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 158626717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 158726717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 15888f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1590506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1591506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1592506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1600506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1602845adf72SH. Peter Anvin# Relocation on x86-32 needs some additional build support 1603845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 1604845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1605845adf72SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_32 && RELOCATABLE 1606845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 1607506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1610ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 1611ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin range 0x2000 0x1000000 16128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1617506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1618506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1620506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1621506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1622506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1623506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1624506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1625506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1631506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 16327c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 16334b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1634506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 16357c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 16367c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 16377c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 16387c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 16397c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1640506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1641506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 16423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 16433c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1644af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 16458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1646af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1647e84446deSRandy Dunlap 1648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1654516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1655516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 1656516cbf37STim Bird default n 16578f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1658516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1659516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1660516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1661516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1662516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1663516cbf37STim Bird 1664516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1665516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1666516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1667516cbf37STim Bird 1668516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1669516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1670516cbf37STim Bird 1671516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1672516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1673516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1674516cbf37STim Bird default "" 16758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1676516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1677516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1678516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1679516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1680516cbf37STim Bird 1681516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1682516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1683516cbf37STim Bird 1684516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1685516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1686516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1687516cbf37STim Bird 1688516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1689516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1690516cbf37STim Bird default n 1691516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 16928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1693516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1694516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1695516cbf37STim Bird 1696516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1697516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1698516cbf37STim Bird 1699506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1701506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1702506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1703506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1704506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 170535551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 170635551053SGary Hade def_bool y 170735551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 170835551053SGary Hade 1709506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1711506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1713da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1714e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1715e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 17163c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1717e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1718e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1719e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1720e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1721e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1722e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1723efafc8b2SFeng Tangsource "drivers/sfi/Kconfig" 1724efafc8b2SFeng Tang 1725a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1726a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1727a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1728a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1729a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1731e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1732efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1734e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1738e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1742e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1744e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1746e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1747e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 174853471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1749e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1751e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1752e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1753e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1754e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1755e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1756e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1757e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1758e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1759e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1760e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1761e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1762e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1763e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1764e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1765e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1766e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1767e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1768e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1769e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1770e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1771e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1772e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1773e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1774e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1775e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1776e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1777e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1778e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1779e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1780e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1781e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1783e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1784e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1785e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1786e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1787e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1788e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1789e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1790e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1791e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1792e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 17938f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1794e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1795e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1796e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1797e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1798e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1799e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1800e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1801e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1802e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1803e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1804e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1805e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1806e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1807e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1808e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1809e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1810e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1811e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1812e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1813e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1814e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1815e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1816e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 18178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1818e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1819e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1820e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1821e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1824e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1825e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1827e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 18288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1829e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1830e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1831e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1832e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1833e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1837e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1838e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1839e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1840e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 18418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1842e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1843e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1844e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1845e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1846e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1847e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1848e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1849e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1850e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1851e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 185527471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 185627471fdbSAndy Henroid 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1858e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1859e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1860e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1862e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 18631ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 18641c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 18668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1868e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1874efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19003ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 19013ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "OLPC" 19023ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 19033ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 19042bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 19052bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 19062bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 19103c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1911efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 19153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1916efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC)) 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 19193c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 19205f0db7a2SFeng Tang depends on X86_32 && PCI && (ACPI || SFI) && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19223ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 19232bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 19242bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 19253ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 19273c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1934*3f6ea84aSIra W. Snyderconfig PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 1935*3f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" 1936*3f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder depends on PCI 1937*3f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder help 1938*3f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 1939*3f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 1940*3f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder not have ACPI. 1941*3f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 19444cf2e75dSDavid Woodhouse depends on PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19520cd5c3c8SKyle McMartinconfig DMAR_DEFAULT_ON 1953f6be37fdSKyle McMartin def_bool y 19540cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default" 19550cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin depends on DMAR 19560cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin help 19570cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if 19580cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can 19590cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is 19600cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains 19610cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin experimental. 19620cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin 196362edf5dcSDavid Woodhouseconfig DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA 196462edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse def_bool n 196562edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse prompt "Workaround broken graphics drivers (going away soon)" 19660c02a20fSDavid Woodhouse depends on DMAR && BROKEN 196762edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse ---help--- 196862edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 196962edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 197062edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 197162edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 197262edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse to use physical addresses for DMA, at least until this 197362edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse option is removed in the 2.6.32 kernel. 197462edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 19763c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 19788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1979c7ab48d2SDavid Woodhouse Floppy disk drivers are known to bypass DMA API calls 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1982c7ab48d2SDavid Woodhouse 16MiB to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19849fa8c481SSuresh Siddhaconfig INTR_REMAP 19859fa8c481SSuresh Siddha bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" 19869fa8c481SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 19878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 19889fa8c481SSuresh Siddha Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. 19899fa8c481SSuresh Siddha To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or 19909fa8c481SSuresh Siddha to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. 19919fa8c481SSuresh Siddha 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 19983c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2002e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 2003e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 20048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2005e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2006e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2007e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2008e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 2009e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 2010e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2011e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2015e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 2016e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 2020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 2021e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 2022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2023e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 2024e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2025e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2027e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 2028e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2029e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 203072ee6ebbSIngo Molnar bool "MCA support" 20318f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2032e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 2033e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 2034e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 2035e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 2036e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2037e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 2038e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2039e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 2040e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 20418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2042e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 2043e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 2044e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 2045e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 2046e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2047e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 2048e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2049e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 2050e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 2051e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 2052e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 20538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2054e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 2055e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 2056e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 2057e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 2058e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 2059e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20603ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 20613ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 20623c554946SAndres Salomon select GPIOLIB 20633ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon default n 20648f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 20653ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 20663ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 20673ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2068bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 2069bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 2070e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 2071e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 20720e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 2073e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2074e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 2075e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2076e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 2077e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2078e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2079e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2080e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2081e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 2082e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2083e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 2084e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2085e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2086e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2087e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2088a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 20898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2090e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 2091e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 2092e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 2093e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2094e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2095e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 20966b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 20978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2098e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2099e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2100e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 21013c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2102e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 2103e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2104e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 2105e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 2106e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2107e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2108e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 21093c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2110b8992195SAlexey Dobriyan depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 2111e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2112e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2113e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2114e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2115e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2116e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2117e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2118e5beae16SKeith Packard 2119e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2120e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2121e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2122e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2123e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2124e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2125e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2126e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2127e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2128e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2129e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2130e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2131e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2132e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2133edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2134edf88417SAvi Kivity 2135e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2136