1daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 36840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 4ffee0de4SDavid Woodhouse default ARCH != "i386" 58f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 7daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 8daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 103120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 113120e25eSJan Beulich depends on !64BIT 1282491451SRussell King select CLKSRC_I8253 13af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 163120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 173120e25eSJan Beulich depends on 64BIT 184692d77fSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 19bc08b449SLinus Torvalds select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF 201032c0baSSam Ravnborg 211032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 233c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 24*46ba51eaSHanjun Guo select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC if ACPI 25446f24d1SStephen Boyd select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS 2677fbbc81SMark Salter select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT 275e2c18c0SMark Salter select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO 28e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 29a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 304468dd76SMel Gorman select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING if X86_64 31be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if X86_64 32cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 33ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 3442d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 358761f1abSRalf Baechle select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 36cc2067a5SPeter Zijlstra select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 3728b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 383f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 3972d7c3b3SYinghai Lu select HAVE_MEMBLOCK 400608f70cSTejun Heo select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP 41c378ddd5STejun Heo select ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK 421f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 43da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 447c095e46SFUJITA Tomonori select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS 459c5a3621SAkinobu Mita select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 469edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 475b7c73e0SMark Salter select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 48c0f7ac3aSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_OPTPROBES 49e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 50e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 51d57c5d51SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 52cf4db259SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 53677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 5406aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 55606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 5648d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 5771e308a2SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST 5860a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 5966700001SJosh Stone select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 607ac57a89SCatalin Marinas select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 61e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 6249793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 6399bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 64323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 6558340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 668d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 67f850c30cSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 682118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 712e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 7230314804SLasse Collin select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 7313510997SAlbin Tonnerre select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 74f9b493acSKyungsik Lee select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 750067f129SK.Prasad select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 760102752eSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 7799e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select PERF_EVENTS 78c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 79c5e63197SJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_REGS 80c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 81b69ec42bSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 8299e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select ANON_INODES 83eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB 84eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 852565409fSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 860a4af3b0SPekka Enberg select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK 877c68af6eSAvi Kivity select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 88e39f5602SDavid Daney select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE 8946eb3b64SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 907463449bSCatalin Marinas select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE 91141d55e6SYinghai Lu select SPARSE_IRQ 92c49aa5bdSJan Beulich select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT 933bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 943bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP 95517e4981SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW 96d1748302SMartin Schwidefsky select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST 97c0185808SThomas Gleixner select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING 98e47b65b0SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_BPF_JIT if X86_64 9915626062SGerald Schaefer select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 1000a779c57SThomas Gleixner select CLKEVT_I8253 101df013ffbSHuang Ying select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 1024673ca8eSMichael S. Tsirkin select GENERIC_IOMAP 103e419b4ccSLinus Torvalds select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS 1047eb43a6dSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 105c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if X86_32 106c6cfbeb4SWill Drewry select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 1078b5ad472SDavid Daney select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 108bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 1092bf01f9fSCyrill Gorcunov select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY if X86_64 110bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 111bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 112d2312e33SStefani Seibold select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA 113bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 114d2312e33SStefani Seibold select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 115bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select KTIME_SCALAR if X86_32 1164ae73f2dSLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER 1175723aa99SLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER 11891d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING if X86_64 119fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 1204febd95aSStephen Rothwell select VIRT_TO_BUS 121786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL if X86_32 122786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64 1231d4b4b29SAl Viro select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32 12483a57a4dSDavid Woodhouse select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 125bd01ec1aSWaiman Long select ARCH_USE_QUEUE_RWLOCK 12615ce1f71SAl Viro select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 1275b3eb3adSAl Viro select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32 1285b3eb3adSAl Viro select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION 1293195ef59SPrarit Bhargava select RTC_LIB 130d1a1dc0bSDave Hansen select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 131a2cd11f7SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64 13219952a92SKees Cook select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1332b9c1f03SArd Biesheuvel select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE 1347a017721SAKASHI Takahiro select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 1354badad35SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW 1368a1664beSGraeme Gregory select ACPI_LEGACY_TABLES_LOOKUP if ACPI 1377d8330a5SBalbir Singh 138ba7e4d13SIngo Molnarconfig INSTRUCTION_DECODER 1393120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1403120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES 141ba7e4d13SIngo Molnar 14251b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 14351b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 14451b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 14551b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 14651b26adaSLinus Torvalds 14773531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 148b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 14973531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 15073531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 151b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 1528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1563c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 158aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 159aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 160aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 1618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 1623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1673bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 1683120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1693120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || INTEL_IOMMU || DMA_API_DEBUG 1703bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonori 17118e98307SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH 1724a14d84eSAndrew Morton def_bool y 17318e98307SFUJITA Tomonori 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 1753120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1763120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 1793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 181b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 182b93a531eSJan Beulich 183b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 184b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1873c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1903120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1913120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1931032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1943120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1951032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1961032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1971032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1981032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1999a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 2009a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 2018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2021b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 2031b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 2041b27d05bSPekka Enberg 205dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 20689c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 207b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 20808fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 20908fc4580STejun Heo def_bool y 21008fc4580STejun Heo 21108fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 21211124411STejun Heo def_bool y 21311124411STejun Heo 214801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 215801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 216801e4062SJohannes Berg 217f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 218f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 219f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 220cfe28c5dSSteve Capperconfig ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 221cfe28c5dSSteve Capper def_bool y 222cfe28c5dSSteve Capper 22353313b2cSSteve Capperconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 22453313b2cSSteve Capper def_bool y 22553313b2cSSteve Capper 2268d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 2278d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2298d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2308d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 2318d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2328d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2338d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 234765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 235765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 236765c68bdSIngo Molnar 2376a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 2386a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 2396a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 24069575d38SShane Wangconfig HAVE_INTEL_TXT 24169575d38SShane Wang def_bool y 2426ea30386SKees Cook depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI 24369575d38SShane Wang 2446b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 2456b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2466b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 2476b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2486b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 2496b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2506b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 2516b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 2536fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 254ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 2558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 256ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 257ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 25860a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 259ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 260d61931d8SBorislav Petkovconfig ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS 261d61931d8SBorislav Petkov string 262d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-ecx -fcall-saved-edx" if X86_32 263d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-rdi -fcall-saved-rsi -fcall-saved-rdx -fcall-saved-rcx -fcall-saved-r8 -fcall-saved-r9 -fcall-saved-r10 -fcall-saved-r11" if X86_64 264d61931d8SBorislav Petkov 2652b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 2662b144498SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool y 2672b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 268d20642f0SRob Herringconfig FIX_EARLYCON_MEM 269d20642f0SRob Herring def_bool y 270d20642f0SRob Herring 271506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 272dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 274506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2765ee71535SRandy Dunlapconfig ZONE_DMA 2775ee71535SRandy Dunlap bool "DMA memory allocation support" if EXPERT 2785ee71535SRandy Dunlap default y 2795ee71535SRandy Dunlap help 2805ee71535SRandy Dunlap DMA memory allocation support allows devices with less than 32-bit 2815ee71535SRandy Dunlap addressing to allocate within the first 16MB of address space. 2825ee71535SRandy Dunlap Disable if no such devices will be used. 2835ee71535SRandy Dunlap 2845ee71535SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 2855ee71535SRandy Dunlap 286506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 2904a474157SRobert Graffham a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more 2914a474157SRobert Graffham than one CPU, say Y. 292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2934a474157SRobert Graffham If you say N here, the kernel will run on uni- and multiprocessor 294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 2964a474157SRobert Graffham uniprocessor machines. On a uniprocessor machine, the kernel 297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 307506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 308395cf969SPaul Bolle See also <file:Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 311506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 312506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 31406cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 31506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 316d3f13810SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP 31706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 31806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 31906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 32006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 32106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 32206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 32306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 32406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 3256695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 3266e87f9b7SBin Gao bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI 3277a527688SJan Beulich default y 3285ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 3298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3306695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 3316695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 3326695c85bSYinghai Lu 33326f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 33426f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 33526f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 3368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 33726f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 338506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 339ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig GOLDFISH 340ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima def_bool y 341ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima depends on X86_GOLDFISH 342ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 3438425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 344c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 345c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 346c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 34806ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 34906ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 35006ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 35106ac8346SIngo Molnar 3528425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3538425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 354cb7b8023SBen Hutchings Goldfish (Android emulator) 3558425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3568425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3578425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 35883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11-based (e.g. Northville) 3593f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown MID devices 36006ac8346SIngo Molnar 36106ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 36206ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3638425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 36406ac8346SIngo Molnar 3658425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3668425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3678425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3688425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3698425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3708425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3718425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3728425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3738425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3748425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3758425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 37644b111b5SSteffen Persvold Numascale NumaChip 3778425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3788425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3798425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3808425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3818425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3828425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 383c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 384c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 38544b111b5SSteffen Persvoldconfig X86_NUMACHIP 38644b111b5SSteffen Persvold bool "Numascale NumaChip" 38744b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_64 38844b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 38944b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on NUMA 39044b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on SMP 39144b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_X2APIC 392f9726bfdSDaniel J Blueman depends on PCI_MMCONFIG 39344b111b5SSteffen Persvold ---help--- 39444b111b5SSteffen Persvold Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to 39544b111b5SSteffen Persvold enable more than ~168 cores. 39644b111b5SSteffen Persvold If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 39703b48632SNick Piggin 3986a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 399c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 4006276a074SBorislav Petkov select HYPERVISOR_GUEST 4016a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 4026a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 403c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 404ead91d4bSShai Fultheim depends on SMP 4058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4066a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 4076a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 4086a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 4096a48565eSIngo Molnar 410c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 411c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 412c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 413c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 41454c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 4159d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 416c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 417c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 418c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 419c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 420c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 421c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 423ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig X86_GOLDFISH 424ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)" 425cb7b8023SBen Hutchings depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 426ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima ---help--- 427ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily 428ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android 429ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Goldfish emulator say N here. 430ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 431c751e17bSThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_INTEL_CE 432c751e17bSThomas Gleixner bool "CE4100 TV platform" 433c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI 434c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI_GODIRECT 435c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 436c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 43737bc9f50SDirk Brandewie select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 438da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF 439da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE 440b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 441c751e17bSThomas Gleixner ---help--- 442c751e17bSThomas Gleixner Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC. 443c751e17bSThomas Gleixner This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop 444c751e17bSThomas Gleixner boxes and media devices. 445c751e17bSThomas Gleixner 4464cb9b00fSDavid Cohenconfig X86_INTEL_MID 44743605ef1SAlan Cox bool "Intel MID platform support" 44843605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_32 44943605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 450edc6bc78SDavid Cohen depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 4511ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI 4521ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI_GOANY 4531ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on X86_IO_APIC 4547c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select SFI 4554cb9b00fSDavid Cohen select I2C 4567c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select DW_APB_TIMER 4571ea7c673SAlan Cox select APB_TIMER 4581ea7c673SAlan Cox select INTEL_SCU_IPC 45915a713dfSMika Westerberg select MFD_INTEL_MSIC 4601ea7c673SAlan Cox ---help--- 4614cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID (Mobile 4624cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Internet Device) platform systems which do not have the PCI legacy 4634cb9b00fSDavid Cohen interfaces. If you are building for a PC class system say N here. 4641ea7c673SAlan Cox 4654cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Intel MID platforms are based on an Intel processor and chipset which 4664cb9b00fSDavid Cohen consume less power than most of the x86 derivatives. 46743605ef1SAlan Cox 4683d48aab1SMika Westerbergconfig X86_INTEL_LPSS 4693d48aab1SMika Westerberg bool "Intel Low Power Subsystem Support" 4703d48aab1SMika Westerberg depends on ACPI 4713d48aab1SMika Westerberg select COMMON_CLK 4720f531431SMathias Nyman select PINCTRL 4733d48aab1SMika Westerberg ---help--- 4743d48aab1SMika Westerberg Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as 4753d48aab1SMika Westerberg found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables 4760f531431SMathias Nyman things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol 4770f531431SMathias Nyman which are needed by the LPSS peripheral drivers. 4783d48aab1SMika Westerberg 479c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 480c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 482c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 483c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 484c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 485c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 486c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 487c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 488c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 489c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 490e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4919c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 4929c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 493c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 4948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 495b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin This option compiles in the bigsmp and STA2X11 default 496b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary 497b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it one by 498b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin one and will fallback to default. 499d49c4288SYinghai Lu 500c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 501d49c4288SYinghai Lu 502d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 5036fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 504d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 505d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_MCE 506d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 507d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 508d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 509d949f36fSLinus Torvalds select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 510d949f36fSLinus Torvalds 51183125a3aSAlessandro Rubiniconfig STA2X11 51283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini bool "STA2X11 Companion Chip Support" 51383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && PCI 51483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 51583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DMA_REMAP 51683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select SWIOTLB 51783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select MFD_STA2X11 51883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB 51983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini default n 52083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini ---help--- 52183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub, 52283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard 52383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this 52483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini option is selected the kernel will still be able to boot on 52583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini standard PC machines. 52683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini 52782148d1dSShérabconfig X86_32_IRIS 52882148d1dSShérab tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module" 52982148d1dSShérab depends on X86_32 53082148d1dSShérab ---help--- 53182148d1dSShérab The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support 53282148d1dSShérab to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is 53382148d1dSShérab needed to do so, which is what this module does at 53482148d1dSShérab kernel shutdown. 53582148d1dSShérab 53682148d1dSShérab This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille. 53782148d1dSShérab 53882148d1dSShérab If unused, say N. 53982148d1dSShérab 540ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 5413c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 543a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 5448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5526276a074SBorislav Petkovmenuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST 5536276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Linux guest support" 5548f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5556276a074SBorislav Petkov Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper- 5566276a074SBorislav Petkov visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform 5576276a074SBorislav Petkov setup. 558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5596276a074SBorislav Petkov If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 5606276a074SBorislav Petkov disabled, and Linux guest support won't be built in. 561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5626276a074SBorislav Petkovif HYPERVISOR_GUEST 563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 564e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 565e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 5668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 567e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 568e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 569e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 570e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 571e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 5726276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 5736276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 5746276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 5756276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 5766276a074SBorislav Petkov Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 5776276a074SBorislav Petkov a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 5786276a074SBorislav Petkov 579b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 580b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 5816ea30386SKees Cook depends on PARAVIRT && SMP 5828db73266SRaghavendra K T select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 583b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 584b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 585b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 586b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 587b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5884c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T It has a minimal impact on native kernels and gives a nice performance 5894c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T benefit on paravirtualized KVM / Xen kernels. 590b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5914c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y. 592b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5936276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 5946276a074SBorislav Petkov 5956276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig KVM_GUEST 5966276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)" 5976276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 5986276a074SBorislav Petkov select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 5996276a074SBorislav Petkov default y 6006276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6016276a074SBorislav Petkov This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 6026276a074SBorislav Petkov hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead 6036276a074SBorislav Petkov of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the 6046276a074SBorislav Petkov underlying device model, the host provides the guest with 6056276a074SBorislav Petkov timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time 6066276a074SBorislav Petkov 6071e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig KVM_DEBUG_FS 6081e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Enable debug information for KVM Guests in debugfs" 6091e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on KVM_GUEST && DEBUG_FS 6101e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri default n 6111e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri ---help--- 6121e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option enables collection of various statistics for KVM guest. 6131e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Statistics are displayed in debugfs filesystem. Enabling this option 6141e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri may incur significant overhead. 6151e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 6166276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 6176276a074SBorislav Petkov 6186276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 6196276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" 6206276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 6216276a074SBorislav Petkov default n 6226276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6236276a074SBorislav Petkov Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time 6246276a074SBorislav Petkov accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with 6256276a074SBorislav Petkov the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for 6266276a074SBorislav Petkov that, there can be a small performance impact. 6276276a074SBorislav Petkov 6286276a074SBorislav Petkov If in doubt, say N here. 6296276a074SBorislav Petkov 6307af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 6317af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 6327af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 6336276a074SBorislav Petkovendif #HYPERVISOR_GUEST 63497349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 63508677214SYinghai Luconfig NO_BOOTMEM 636774ea0bcSYinghai Lu def_bool y 63708677214SYinghai Lu 63803273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 63903273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 6408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 641c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 64203273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 64303273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 64403273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 64503273184SYinghai Lu ... 64603273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 647aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 649506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 651506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 6523c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 6548f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 655506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 662e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 665506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 667506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 668506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 670506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 6713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6729d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 674bb24c471SJacob Panconfig APB_TIMER 675933b9463SAlan Cox def_bool y if X86_INTEL_MID 676933b9463SAlan Cox prompt "Intel MID APB Timer Support" if X86_INTEL_MID 67706c3df49SJamie Iles select DW_APB_TIMER 678a0c3832aSAlan Cox depends on X86_INTEL_MID && SFI 679bb24c471SJacob Pan help 680bb24c471SJacob Pan APB timer is the replacement for 8254, HPET on X86 MID platforms. 681bb24c471SJacob Pan The APBT provides a stable time base on SMP 682bb24c471SJacob Pan systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 683bb24c471SJacob Pan as it is off-chip. APB timers are always running regardless of CPU 684bb24c471SJacob Pan C states, they are used as per CPU clockevent device when possible. 685bb24c471SJacob Pan 6866a108a14SDavid Rientjes# Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong. 687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 6887ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 6897ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 690cf074402SArd Biesheuvel select DMI_SCAN_MACHINE_NON_EFI_FALLBACK 6916a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT 6928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6937ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 6947ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 6957ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 6967ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 6977ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 698506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 69938901f1cSAndi Kleen bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support" 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 70123ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmann depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB 7028f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 703ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron 704ced3c42cSIngo Molnar GART based hardware IOMMUs. 705ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 706ced3c42cSIngo Molnar The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access 707ced3c42cSIngo Molnar limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed 708ced3c42cSIngo Molnar for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 709ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 710ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via 711ced3c42cSIngo Molnar the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option. 712ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 713ced3c42cSIngo Molnar In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed: 714ced3c42cSIngo Molnar there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a 715ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 32-bit limited device. 716ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 717ced3c42cSIngo Molnar If unsure, say Y. 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 719506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 7226ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && PCI 7238f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 735506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 7383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7393c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 7418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 749506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 750a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 7518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 7534454d327SJoe Millenbach which don't have a hardware IOMMU. Using this PCI devices 7544454d327SJoe Millenbach which can only access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems 7554454d327SJoe Millenbach with more than 3 GB of memory. 7564454d327SJoe Millenbach If unsure, say Y. 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 758a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 7593120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 7603120e25eSJan Beulich depends on CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU 761d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 7621184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 763ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 7646ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL 76536f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 7668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 767ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 7681184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 77136f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 7722a3313f4SMichael K. Johnson range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP 773bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 774b53b5edaSJosh Boyer range 2 8192 if SMP && !MAXSMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK && X86_64 77578637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 776b53b5edaSJosh Boyer default "8192" if MAXSMP 777b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin default "32" if SMP && X86_BIGSMP 77878637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 7798f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 781bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum 782bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer supported value is 4096, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 790b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 7918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 796506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 7983c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7993c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 800b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 8018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 8100dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD && !PCI_MSI 8118f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 8248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 8343c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8350dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC || PCI_MSI 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 8383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8390dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_IOAPIC || PCI_MSI 840b1ee5441SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_LEGACY_ALLOC_HWIRQ 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 84241b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 84341b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 84441b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 8458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 84641b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 84741b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 84841b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 84941b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 85041b9eb26SStefan Assmann 85141b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 85241b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 85341b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 85441b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 85541b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 85641b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 85741b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 85841b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 85941b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 86041b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 86141b9eb26SStefan Assmann 86241b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 86341b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 86441b9eb26SStefan Assmann 865506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 866bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 867e57dbaf7SBorislav Petkov default y 868506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 869bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 870bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 871506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 872bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 8734efc0670SAndi Kleen 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 8753c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8763c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 877c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 8833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8843c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 885c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 887506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 889506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8904efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 8916fc108a0SJan Beulich bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 892c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 8934efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 8944efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 8955065a706SMasanari Iida systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitly on the command 8964efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 8974efc0670SAndi Kleen 898b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 899b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 9006fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 901b2762686SAndi Kleen 902ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 903c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE 904ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 905ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 906ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 907ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 908ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 909ea149b36SAndi Kleen 9104efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 9114efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 9125bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 9134efc0670SAndi Kleen 914506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 9156a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM86 support" if EXPERT 916506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 91934273f41SH. Peter Anvin This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 92034273f41SH. Peter Anvin 16-bit real mode legacy code on x86 processors. It also may 92134273f41SH. Peter Anvin be needed by software like XFree86 to initialize some video 92234273f41SH. Peter Anvin cards via BIOS. Disabling this option saves about 6K. 92334273f41SH. Peter Anvin 92434273f41SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_16BIT 92534273f41SH. Peter Anvin bool "Enable support for 16-bit segments" if EXPERT 92634273f41SH. Peter Anvin default y 92734273f41SH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 92834273f41SH. Peter Anvin This option is required by programs like Wine to run 16-bit 92934273f41SH. Peter Anvin protected mode legacy code on x86 processors. Disabling 93034273f41SH. Peter Anvin this option saves about 300 bytes on i386, or around 6K text 93134273f41SH. Peter Anvin plus 16K runtime memory on x86-64, 93234273f41SH. Peter Anvin 93334273f41SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_ESPFIX32 93434273f41SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 93534273f41SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_16BIT && X86_32 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 937197725deSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_ESPFIX64 938197725deSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 93934273f41SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_16BIT && X86_64 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 959949a9d70SJean Delvare select HWMON 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 9799ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 9809ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 9895e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 996e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov tristate "CPU microcode loading support" 99780030e3dSBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1000e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 100280cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 1003e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, 1004e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov Xeon etc. The AMD support is for families 0x10 and later. You will 1005e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself which is not 1006e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov shipped with the Linux kernel. 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10088d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 10098d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1011e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1012e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov will be called microcode. 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10148d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 1015e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "Intel microcode loading support" 10168d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 10178d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 10188d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10208d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 10218d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 10228d86f390SPeter Oruba 1023b8989db9SAlan For the current Intel microcode data package go to 1024b8989db9SAlan <https://downloadcenter.intel.com> and search for 1025b8989db9SAlan 'Linux Processor Microcode Data File'. 10268d86f390SPeter Oruba 102780cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 1028e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "AMD microcode loading support" 102980cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 103080cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10318f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 103280cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 103380cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 103480cc9f10SPeter Oruba 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 10363c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1039da76f64eSFenghua Yuconfig MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY 1040757885e9SJacob Shin def_bool n 1041757885e9SJacob Shin 1042757885e9SJacob Shinconfig MICROCODE_AMD_EARLY 1043757885e9SJacob Shin def_bool n 1044757885e9SJacob Shin 1045757885e9SJacob Shinconfig MICROCODE_EARLY 1046da76f64eSFenghua Yu bool "Early load microcode" 10476b3389acSJacob Shin depends on MICROCODE=y && BLK_DEV_INITRD 1048757885e9SJacob Shin select MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY if MICROCODE_INTEL 1049757885e9SJacob Shin select MICROCODE_AMD_EARLY if MICROCODE_AMD 1050da76f64eSFenghua Yu default y 1051da76f64eSFenghua Yu help 1052da76f64eSFenghua Yu This option provides functionality to read additional microcode data 1053da76f64eSFenghua Yu at the beginning of initrd image. The data tells kernel to load 1054da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode to CPU's as early as possible. No functional change if no 1055da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode data is glued to the initrd, therefore it's safe to say Y. 1056da76f64eSFenghua Yu 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 10598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1066506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 1067506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 10688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1069506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1073506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 10766fc108a0SJan Beulich default HIGHMEM4G 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1078506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 1081506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1092506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1096506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1101506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1104506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 11178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1123eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin depends on !M486 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 11258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 11326a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 11358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1166506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1168506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1169506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1170506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1171506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1172506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1173506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1174506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 11753c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1176506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1177506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1178506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 11799ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1180506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 11818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1184506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1185506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1186506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1187600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 11883120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 11893120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 1190600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 119166f2b061SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT 11923120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 11933120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G 119466f2b061SFUJITA Tomonori 11959e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 11966a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EXPERT 11979e899816SNick Piggin default y 11989e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 11998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12009e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 12019e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 12029e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 12039e899816SNick Piggin 1204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1205506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1206fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 1208b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && X86_BIGSMP) 1209b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin default y if X86_BIGSMP 12108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1212fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1217c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1218fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1219fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1220b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin For 32-bit this is only needed if you boot a 32-bit 12217cf6c945SDavid Rientjes kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1222fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1223fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1225eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeldconfig AMD_NUMA 12263c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12273c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 12285da0ef9aSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 12298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1230eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1231eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to 1232eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge 1233eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead, 1234eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12373c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 12418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12446ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 12456ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 12466ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 12476ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 12486ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 12496ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 12506ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 12516ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12526ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 12551b7e03efSTejun Heo depends on NUMA 12568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1262d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 126351591e31SDavid Rientjes range 1 10 126451591e31SDavid Rientjes default "10" if MAXSMP 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 12688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12691184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1270692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1272506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 12733c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1276506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 12773c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1280506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12823b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !NUMA 1283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1284506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1286b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1288506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1290b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1291b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12946ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 || NUMA || X86_32 || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12983b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 12993b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 13003b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 13013b16651fSTejun Heo 1302506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1304b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1306506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1307a0842b70SToshi Kani bool "Enable sysfs memory/probe interface" 13083120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1309a0842b70SToshi Kani help 1310a0842b70SToshi Kani This option enables a sysfs memory/probe interface for testing. 1311a0842b70SToshi Kani See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information. 1312a0842b70SToshi Kani If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13143b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 13153b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 13163b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 13173b16651fSTejun Heo 1318a29815a3SAvi Kivityconfig ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1319a29815a3SAvi Kivity hex 1320a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0 if X86_32 1321a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1322a29815a3SAvi Kivity 1323506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1324506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1325506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1326506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 13276fc108a0SJan Beulich depends on HIGHMEM 13288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1329506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1330506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1332506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1333506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13349f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 13359f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 13368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13379f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 13389f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 13399f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 13409f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 13419f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 13429f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 13439f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 13449f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 13459f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13469f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 13479f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 13489f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 13499f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 13509f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13519f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 13529f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 13539f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 13549f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 13559f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1356c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1357c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1358c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1359c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 13608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1361c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1362c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1363c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13649ea77bdbSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW 1365d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS" 1366d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64 1367d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin range 4 640 13688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1369d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS. 1370fc381519SIngo Molnar 1371d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel 1372d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin must not use, so that page must always be reserved. 1373fc381519SIngo Molnar 1374d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin By default we reserve the first 64K of physical RAM, as a 1375d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin number of BIOSes are known to corrupt that memory range 1376d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin during events such as suspend/resume or monitor cable 1377d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin insertion, so it must not be used by the kernel. 1378fc381519SIngo Molnar 1379d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin You can set this to 4 if you are absolutely sure that you 1380d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin trust the BIOS to get all its memory reservations and usages 1381d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin right. If you know your BIOS have problems beyond the 1382d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64K area, you can set this to 640 to avoid using the 1383d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin entire low memory range. 1384d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1385d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does 1386d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin not work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware 1387d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin hotplug events) then you might want to enable 1388d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check 1389d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin typical corruption patterns. 1390d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1391d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Leave this to the default value of 64 if you are unsure. 1392fc381519SIngo Molnar 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 14206fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 14216a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14527225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 145495ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 14552ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 145695ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 145795ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 14588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1459aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1460aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 146195ffa243SYinghai Lu 1462aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1463692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1464aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 146595ffa243SYinghai Lu 14662ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 146795ffa243SYinghai Lu 146895ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1469f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1470f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1471f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 147295ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1474f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 147595ffa243SYinghai Lu 147612031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 147712031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 147812031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 147912031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 148012031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 148212031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1483aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 148412031a62SYinghai Lu 14852e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 14866fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 14876a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT 14882a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 14898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 14902e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1491042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 14922e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 14932e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 14942e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14952e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1496042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 14972e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14982e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 14992e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 150046cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED 150146cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 150246cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi depends on X86_PAT 150346cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1504628c6246SH. Peter Anvinconfig ARCH_RANDOM 1505628c6246SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1506628c6246SH. Peter Anvin prompt "x86 architectural random number generator" if EXPERT 1507628c6246SH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 1508628c6246SH. Peter Anvin Enable the x86 architectural RDRAND instruction 1509628c6246SH. Peter Anvin (Intel Bull Mountain technology) to generate random numbers. 1510628c6246SH. Peter Anvin If supported, this is a high bandwidth, cryptographically 1511628c6246SH. Peter Anvin secure hardware random number generator. 1512628c6246SH. Peter Anvin 151351ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_SMAP 151451ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 151551ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin prompt "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention" if EXPERT 151651ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 151751ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security 151851ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin feature in newer Intel processors. There is a small 151951ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is 152051ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin also a small increase in the kernel size if this is enabled. 152151ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 152251ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin If unsure, say Y. 152351ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 1524506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 15259ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 15265b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1527f6ce5002SSergey Vlasov select UCS2_STRING 1528506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15298b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1530506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1531506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15328b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 15338b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 15348b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 15358b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 15368b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 15378b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1538506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1539291f3632SMatt Flemingconfig EFI_STUB 1540291f3632SMatt Fleming bool "EFI stub support" 1541291f3632SMatt Fleming depends on EFI 1542291f3632SMatt Fleming ---help--- 1543291f3632SMatt Fleming This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly 1544291f3632SMatt Fleming by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. 1545291f3632SMatt Fleming 15464172fe2fSRoy Franz See Documentation/efi-stub.txt for more information. 15470c759662SMatt Fleming 15487d453eeeSMatt Flemingconfig EFI_MIXED 15497d453eeeSMatt Fleming bool "EFI mixed-mode support" 15507d453eeeSMatt Fleming depends on EFI_STUB && X86_64 15517d453eeeSMatt Fleming ---help--- 15527d453eeeSMatt Fleming Enabling this feature allows a 64-bit kernel to be booted 15537d453eeeSMatt Fleming on a 32-bit firmware, provided that your CPU supports 64-bit 15547d453eeeSMatt Fleming mode. 15557d453eeeSMatt Fleming 15567d453eeeSMatt Fleming Note that it is not possible to boot a mixed-mode enabled 15577d453eeeSMatt Fleming kernel via the EFI boot stub - a bootloader that supports 15587d453eeeSMatt Fleming the EFI handover protocol must be used. 15597d453eeeSMatt Fleming 15607d453eeeSMatt Fleming If unsure, say N. 15617d453eeeSMatt Fleming 1562506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 15633c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15643c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 15658f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 15729c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1578506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1579506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1580506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 15828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1588506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1590506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1591506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1592bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven initially work for you. As of this writing the exact hardware 1593bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven interface is strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be 1594bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven made. 1595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1596506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 159704b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 15998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1600506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1602506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1603506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1604506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1605506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 16103ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 16116ea30386SKees Cook bool "kexec jump" 1612fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 16138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 161489081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 161589081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 16163ab83521SHuang Ying 1617506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 16186a108a14SDavid Rientjes hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP) 1619ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 16208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1621506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1622506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1623506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1624506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1625506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1631506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1632506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1634506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1635506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1636506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1637506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1638ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 1639ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 1640ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 1641ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 1642ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 1643ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 1644ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 1645ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1646ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 1647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1654506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1655506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1658506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 165926717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 166026717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 16618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1665506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1667506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1668506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 16738ab3820fSKees Cook (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is used as the minimum location. 1674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 16758ab3820fSKees Cookconfig RANDOMIZE_BASE 16768ab3820fSKees Cook bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image" 16778ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RELOCATABLE 16788ab3820fSKees Cook default n 16798ab3820fSKees Cook ---help--- 16808ab3820fSKees Cook Randomizes the physical and virtual address at which the 16818ab3820fSKees Cook kernel image is decompressed, as a security feature that 16828ab3820fSKees Cook deters exploit attempts relying on knowledge of the location 16838ab3820fSKees Cook of kernel internals. 16848ab3820fSKees Cook 1685a653f356SKees Cook Entropy is generated using the RDRAND instruction if it is 1686a653f356SKees Cook supported. If RDTSC is supported, it is used as well. If 1687a653f356SKees Cook neither RDRAND nor RDTSC are supported, then randomness is 1688a653f356SKees Cook read from the i8254 timer. 16898ab3820fSKees Cook 16908ab3820fSKees Cook The kernel will be offset by up to RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET, 1691a653f356SKees Cook and aligned according to PHYSICAL_ALIGN. Since the kernel is 1692a653f356SKees Cook built using 2GiB addressing, and PHYSICAL_ALGIN must be at a 1693a653f356SKees Cook minimum of 2MiB, only 10 bits of entropy is theoretically 1694a653f356SKees Cook possible. At best, due to page table layouts, 64-bit can use 1695a653f356SKees Cook 9 bits of entropy and 32-bit uses 8 bits. 16968ab3820fSKees Cook 1697da2b6fb9SKees Cook If unsure, say N. 1698da2b6fb9SKees Cook 16998ab3820fSKees Cookconfig RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET 1700da2b6fb9SKees Cook hex "Maximum kASLR offset allowed" if EXPERT 17018ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE 17026145cfe3SKees Cook range 0x0 0x20000000 if X86_32 17036145cfe3SKees Cook default "0x20000000" if X86_32 17046145cfe3SKees Cook range 0x0 0x40000000 if X86_64 17056145cfe3SKees Cook default "0x40000000" if X86_64 17068ab3820fSKees Cook ---help--- 1707da2b6fb9SKees Cook The lesser of RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET and available physical 1708da2b6fb9SKees Cook memory is used to determine the maximal offset in bytes that will 1709da2b6fb9SKees Cook be applied to the kernel when kernel Address Space Layout 1710da2b6fb9SKees Cook Randomization (kASLR) is active. This must be a multiple of 1711da2b6fb9SKees Cook PHYSICAL_ALIGN. 17126145cfe3SKees Cook 1713da2b6fb9SKees Cook On 32-bit this is limited to 512MiB by page table layouts. The 1714da2b6fb9SKees Cook default is 512MiB. 17156145cfe3SKees Cook 17166145cfe3SKees Cook On 64-bit this is limited by how the kernel fixmap page table is 1717da2b6fb9SKees Cook positioned, so this cannot be larger than 1GiB currently. Without 1718da2b6fb9SKees Cook RANDOMIZE_BASE, there is a 512MiB to 1.5GiB split between kernel 1719da2b6fb9SKees Cook and modules. When RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET is above 512MiB, the 1720da2b6fb9SKees Cook modules area will shrink to compensate, up to the current maximum 1721da2b6fb9SKees Cook 1GiB to 1GiB split. The default is 1GiB. 1722da2b6fb9SKees Cook 1723da2b6fb9SKees Cook If unsure, leave at the default value. 17248ab3820fSKees Cook 17258ab3820fSKees Cook# Relocation on x86 needs some additional build support 1726845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 1727845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 17288ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE || (X86_32 && RELOCATABLE) 1729845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 1730506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1731a0215061SKees Cook hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" 17328ab3820fSKees Cook default "0x200000" 1733a0215061SKees Cook range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32 1734a0215061SKees Cook range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64 17358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1739506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1749506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1752a0215061SKees Cook On 32-bit this value must be a multiple of 0x2000. On 64-bit 1753a0215061SKees Cook this value must be a multiple of 0x200000. 1754a0215061SKees Cook 1755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1757506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 17587c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 175940b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on SMP 1760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 17617c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 17627c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 17637c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 17647c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 17657c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 176780aa1dffSFenghua Yuconfig BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 176880aa1dffSFenghua Yu bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable" 176980aa1dffSFenghua Yu default n 17702c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 177180aa1dffSFenghua Yu ---help--- 177280aa1dffSFenghua Yu Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off. 177380aa1dffSFenghua Yu 177480aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say Y here to enable CPU0 hotplug by default. If this switch 177580aa1dffSFenghua Yu is turned on, there is no need to give cpu0_hotplug kernel 177680aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter and the CPU0 hotplug feature is enabled by default. 177780aa1dffSFenghua Yu 177880aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please note: there are two known CPU0 dependencies if you want 177980aa1dffSFenghua Yu to enable the CPU0 hotplug feature either by this switch or by 178080aa1dffSFenghua Yu cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter. 178180aa1dffSFenghua Yu 178280aa1dffSFenghua Yu First, resume from hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. 178380aa1dffSFenghua Yu So hibernate and suspend are prevented if CPU0 is offline. 178480aa1dffSFenghua Yu 178580aa1dffSFenghua Yu Second dependency is PIC interrupts always go to CPU0. CPU0 can not 178680aa1dffSFenghua Yu offline if any interrupt can not migrate out of CPU0. There may 178780aa1dffSFenghua Yu be other CPU0 dependencies. 178880aa1dffSFenghua Yu 178980aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please make sure the dependencies are under your control before 179080aa1dffSFenghua Yu you enable this feature. 179180aa1dffSFenghua Yu 179280aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say N if you don't want to enable CPU0 hotplug feature by default. 179380aa1dffSFenghua Yu You still can enable the CPU0 hotplug feature at boot by kernel 179480aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter cpu0_hotplug. 179580aa1dffSFenghua Yu 1796a71c8bc5SFenghua Yuconfig DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 1797a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu def_bool n 1798a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug" 17992c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1800a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu ---help--- 1801a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as 1802a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User 1803a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu can online CPU0 back after boot time. 1804a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1805a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu To debug CPU0 hotplug, you need to enable CPU0 offline/online 1806a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu feature by either turning on CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 during 1807a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu compilation or giving cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter at boot. 1808a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1809a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu If unsure, say N. 1810a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1811506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 1812b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 1813b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski prompt "Disable the 32-bit vDSO (needed for glibc 2.3.3)" 1814af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 18158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1816b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are 1817b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski presented with a 32-bit vDSO that is not mapped at the address 1818b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski indicated in its segment table. 1819e84446deSRandy Dunlap 1820b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski The bug was introduced by f866314b89d56845f55e6f365e18b31ec978ec3a 1821b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski and fixed by 3b3ddb4f7db98ec9e912ccdf54d35df4aa30e04a and 1822b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 49ad572a70b8aeb91e57483a11dd1b77e31c4468. Glibc 2.3.3 is 1823b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski the only released version with the bug, but OpenSUSE 9 1824b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski contains a buggy "glibc 2.3.2". 1825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1826b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski The symptom of the bug is that everything crashes on startup, saying: 1827b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 1828b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 1829b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski Saying Y here changes the default value of the vdso32 boot 1830b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski option from 1 to 0, which turns off the 32-bit vDSO entirely. 1831b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski This works around the glibc bug but hurts performance. 1832b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 1833b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski If unsure, say N: if you are compiling your own kernel, you 1834b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski are unlikely to be using a buggy version of glibc. 1835506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1836516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1837516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 18388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1839516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1840516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1841516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1842516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1843516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1844516cbf37STim Bird 1845516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1846516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1847516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1848516cbf37STim Bird 1849516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1850516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1851516cbf37STim Bird 1852516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1853516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1854516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1855516cbf37STim Bird default "" 18568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1857516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1858516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1859516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1860516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1861516cbf37STim Bird 1862516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1863516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1864516cbf37STim Bird 1865516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1866516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1867516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1868516cbf37STim Bird 1869516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1870516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1871516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 18728f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1873516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1874516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1875516cbf37STim Bird 1876516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1877516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1878516cbf37STim Bird 1879506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1881506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1883506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 188535551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 188635551053SGary Hade def_bool y 188735551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 188835551053SGary Hade 1889e534c7c5SLee Schermerhornconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 1890645a7919STejun Heo def_bool y 1891e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn depends on NUMA 1892e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn 18939491846fSKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 18949491846fSKirill A. Shutemov def_bool y 18959491846fSKirill A. Shutemov depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 18969491846fSKirill A. Shutemov 1897c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 1898c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi def_bool y 1899c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi depends on X86_64 && HUGETLB_PAGE && MIGRATION 1900c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 1901da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 19043c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1911efafc8b2SFeng Tangsource "drivers/sfi/Kconfig" 1912efafc8b2SFeng Tang 1913a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 19146fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 1915282e5aabSPaul Bolle depends on APM 1916a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1919efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 19352dc98fd3SMichael Witten and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.txt> 19362dc98fd3SMichael Witten and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1966e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 19808f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1982e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2002e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 2003dd8af076SLen Brown depends on CPU_IDLE 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 20058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2006e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 2007e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 2008e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 2009e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 2010e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 2011e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 2015e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 20168f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 2020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 2021e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 2022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 2023e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 2024e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 2025e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2027e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 2028e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 20298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2030e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 2031e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 2032e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 2033e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 2034e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 2035e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 2036e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2037e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 2038e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2039bb0a56ecSDave Jonessource "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig" 2040e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2041e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 2042e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 204327471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 204427471fdbSAndy Henroid 2045e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2046e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2047e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2048e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 2049e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2050e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 20511ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 20521c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 20538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2054e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 2055e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 2056e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 2057e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 2058e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2059e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 2060e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 2061efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 2062e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 2063e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2064e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 2065e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 2066e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 2067e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 2068e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 2069e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2070e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 2071e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 2072e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 2073e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 2074e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 2075e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 2076e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 2077e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2078e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 2079e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 2080e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2081e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 2082e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 2083e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2084e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 2085e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 2086e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20873ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 208876fb6570SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1" 20893ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 20903ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 20912bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 20922bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 20932bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 2094e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 2095e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2096e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 20973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2098efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 2099e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2100e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 2101e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 21023c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 21030aba496fSShaohua Li depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)) 2104e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2105e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 21063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 21075f0db7a2SFeng Tang depends on X86_32 && PCI && (ACPI || SFI) && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 2108e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21093ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 21102bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 21112bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 21123ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2113b5401a96SAlex Nixonconfig PCI_XEN 2114b5401a96SAlex Nixon def_bool y 2115b5401a96SAlex Nixon depends on PCI && XEN 2116b5401a96SAlex Nixon select SWIOTLB_XEN 2117b5401a96SAlex Nixon 2118e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 21193c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2120e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 2121e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2122e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 2123e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 2124e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 2125e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21263f6ea84aSIra W. Snyderconfig PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 21276a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" if EXPERT 21286ea30386SKees Cook depends on PCI 21293f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder help 21303f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 21313f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 21323f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder not have ACPI. 21333f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder 213464a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality 213564a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas is known to be incomplete. 213664a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 213764a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas You should say N unless you know you need this. 213864a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 2139e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 2140e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2141e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 2142e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21431c00f016SDavid Rientjes# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA. 2144e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 21451c00f016SDavid Rientjes bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT) 21461c00f016SDavid Rientjes default y 21471c00f016SDavid Rientjes help 21481c00f016SDavid Rientjes Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers. 21491c00f016SDavid Rientjes If unsure, say Y. 2150e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2151e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 2152e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2153e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 2154e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 21558f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2156e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2157e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2158e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2159e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 2160e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 2161e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2162e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 2163e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 2164e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 2165e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2166e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 2167e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 2168e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2169e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 2170e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 2171e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 2172e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 2173e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2174e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 2175e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2176e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 2177e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2178e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 2179e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2180e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 2181e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 21828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2183e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 2184e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 2185e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 2186e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 2187e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2188e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 2189e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2190e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 2191e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 2192592913ecSJohn Stultz depends on SCx200 2193e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 21948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2195e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 2196e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 2197e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 2198e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 2199e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 2200e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 22013ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 22023ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 220354008979SThomas Gleixner depends on !X86_PAE 22043c554946SAndres Salomon select GPIOLIB 2205dc3119e7SThomas Gleixner select OF 220645bb1674SDaniel Drake select OF_PROMTREE 2207b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 22088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 22093ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 22103ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 22113ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2212a3128588SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_PM 2213a3128588SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management" 221497c4cb71SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535 && PM_SLEEP 2215a3128588SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 2216bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake ---help--- 221797c4cb71SDaniel Drake Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop. 2218bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake 2219cfee9597SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_RTC 2220cfee9597SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock" 2221cfee9597SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS 2222cfee9597SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2223cfee9597SDaniel Drake Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a 2224cfee9597SDaniel Drake programmable wakeup source. 2225cfee9597SDaniel Drake 22267feda8e9SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_SCI 22277feda8e9SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras" 2228d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM 2229ed8e47feSRandy Dunlap depends on INPUT=y 2230d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 22317feda8e9SDaniel Drake select GPIO_CS5535 22327feda8e9SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 22337feda8e9SDaniel Drake ---help--- 22347feda8e9SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop: 22357bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 22367feda8e9SDaniel Drake - Power button 22377bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - Ebook switch 22382cf2baeaSDaniel Drake - Lid switch 2239e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2240e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 22417feda8e9SDaniel Drake 2242a0f30f59SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO15_SCI 2243a0f30f59SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras" 2244d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && ACPI 2245d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 2246a0f30f59SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2247a0f30f59SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop: 2248a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 2249a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2250a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 2251e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2252d4f3e350SEd Wildgooseconfig ALIX 2253d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)" 2254d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose select GPIOLIB 2255d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ---help--- 2256d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX. 2257d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on 2258d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should 2259d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose get added here. 2260d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2261d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support 2262d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs 2263d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2264d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS. 2265d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2266da4e3302SPhilip Prindevilleconfig NET5501 2267da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 2268da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville select GPIOLIB 2269da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville ---help--- 2270da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501. 2271da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville 22723197059aSPhilip A. Prindevilleconfig GEOS 22733197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 22743197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville select GPIOLIB 22753197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville depends on DMI 22763197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville ---help--- 22773197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS. 22783197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville 22797d029125SVivien Didelotconfig TS5500 22807d029125SVivien Didelot bool "Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform support" 22817d029125SVivien Didelot depends on MELAN 22827d029125SVivien Didelot select CHECK_SIGNATURE 22837d029125SVivien Didelot select NEW_LEDS 22847d029125SVivien Didelot select LEDS_CLASS 22857d029125SVivien Didelot ---help--- 22867d029125SVivien Didelot This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500. 22877d029125SVivien Didelot 2288e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 2289e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 229023ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmannconfig AMD_NB 2291e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 22920e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 2293e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2294e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 2295e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2296e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 2297e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2298388b78adSAlexandre Bounineconfig RAPIDIO 2299fdf90abcSAlexandre Bounine tristate "RapidIO support" 2300388b78adSAlexandre Bounine depends on PCI 2301388b78adSAlexandre Bounine default n 2302388b78adSAlexandre Bounine help 2303fdf90abcSAlexandre Bounine If enabled this option will include drivers and the core 2304388b78adSAlexandre Bounine infrastructure code to support RapidIO interconnect devices. 2305388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2306388b78adSAlexandre Bouninesource "drivers/rapidio/Kconfig" 2307388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2308e3263ab3SDavid Herrmannconfig X86_SYSFB 2309e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer" 2310e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann help 2311e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS, 2312e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for 2313e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann user-guidance and debugging. Historically, x86 used the VESA BIOS 2314e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Extensions and EFI-framebuffers for this, which are mostly limited 2315e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann to x86. 2316e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann This option, if enabled, marks VGA/VBE/EFI framebuffers as generic 2317e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann framebuffers so the new generic system-framebuffer drivers can be 2318e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann used on x86. If the framebuffer is not compatible with the generic 2319e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann modes, it is adverticed as fallback platform framebuffer so legacy 2320e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann drivers like efifb, vesafb and uvesafb can pick it up. 2321e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If this option is not selected, all system framebuffers are always 2322e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann marked as fallback platform framebuffers as usual. 2323e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2324e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Note: Legacy fbdev drivers, including vesafb, efifb, uvesafb, will 2325e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann not be able to pick up generic system framebuffers if this option 2326e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann is selected. You are highly encouraged to enable simplefb as 2327e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann replacement if you select this option. simplefb can correctly deal 2328e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann with generic system framebuffers. But you should still keep vesafb 2329e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann and others enabled as fallback if a system framebuffer is 2330e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann incompatible with simplefb. 2331e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2332e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If unsure, say Y. 2333e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2334e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2335e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2336e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2337e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 2338e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2339e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 2340e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2341e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2342e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2343e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2344d1603990SRandy Dunlap select BINFMT_ELF 2345a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 2346af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 23478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 23485fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 23495fd92e65SH. J. Lu 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 23505fd92e65SH. J. Lu 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. 2351e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2352e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2353e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 23546b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 23558f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2356e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2357e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 23580bf62763SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_X32 23596ea30386SKees Cook bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode" 23606ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION 23615fd92e65SH. J. Lu ---help--- 23625fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI 23635fd92e65SH. J. Lu for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the 23645fd92e65SH. J. Lu full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving 23655fd92e65SH. J. Lu pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint. 23665fd92e65SH. J. Lu 23675fd92e65SH. J. Lu You will need a recent binutils (2.22 or later) with 23685fd92e65SH. J. Lu elf32_x86_64 support enabled to compile a kernel with this 23695fd92e65SH. J. Lu option set. 23705fd92e65SH. J. Lu 2371e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 23723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23730bf62763SH. Peter Anvin depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32 237448b25c43SChris Metcalf select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 2375e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 23763120e25eSJan Beulichif COMPAT 2377e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 23783120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2379e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2380e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 23813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23823120e25eSJan Beulich depends on SYSVIPC 2383e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2384ee009e4aSDavid Howellsconfig KEYS_COMPAT 23853120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 23863120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KEYS 23873120e25eSJan Beulichendif 2388ee009e4aSDavid Howells 2389e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2390e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2391e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2392e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2393e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2394e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2395e5beae16SKeith Packard 23964692d77fSAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 23974692d77fSAlessandro Rubini bool 239883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_64 || STA2X11 23994692d77fSAlessandro Rubini 2400f7219a53SAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DMA_REMAP 2401f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini bool 240283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on STA2X11 2403f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini 240446184415SDavid E. Boxconfig IOSF_MBI 24056b8f0c87SDavid E. Box tristate 24066b8f0c87SDavid E. Box default m 240746184415SDavid E. Box depends on PCI 240846184415SDavid E. Box 2409e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2410e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2411e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2412e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2413e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2414e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2415e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2416e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2417e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2418e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2419e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2420e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2421e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2422e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2423edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2424edf88417SAvi Kivity 2425e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2426