11032c0baSSam Ravnborg# x86 configuration 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgmainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86" 3daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 4daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 5daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 66840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 76840999bSSam Ravnborg default ARCH = "x86_64" 88f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 10daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 11daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 12daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 13daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool !64BIT 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 16daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool 64BIT 171032c0baSSam Ravnborg 181032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 21e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 222c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_READQ 232c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_WRITEQ 24a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 25ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 2642d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 2728b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 283f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 291f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 30da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 319edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 32e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 33677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 34606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 3548d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3660a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 37e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 3849793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 3999bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 40323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 4158340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 428d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 432e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 467d8330a5SBalbir Singh 4773531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 48b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 4973531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 5073531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 51b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 563c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 653c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 693c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 74aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 75aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 76aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 771f84260cSChristoph Lameterconfig FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 781f84260cSChristoph Lameter bool 791f84260cSChristoph Lameter default y 801f84260cSChristoph Lameter 818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 853c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 958d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 968d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 99b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 100b93a531eSJan Beulich 101b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 102b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1068d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 107a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1089ba16087SJan Beulich bool 109a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1113c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1131032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 1141032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 1151032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1161032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1171032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 1181032c0baSSam Ravnborg 119a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 120a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 121a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1221032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1231032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1241032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1268d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1278d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1299a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1309a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1318d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 13289cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 13389cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 13489cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1351b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1361b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1371b27d05bSPekka Enberg 138dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 13989c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 140b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 14111124411STejun Heoconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA 14211124411STejun Heo def_bool y 14311124411STejun Heo 1449f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1459f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1469f0e8d04SMike Travis 147801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 148801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 149801e4062SJohannes Berg 150f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 151f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 152f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 164765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 165765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 166765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 1778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 1798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1816cd10f8dSJames Bottomleyconfig USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 1826cd10f8dSJames Bottomley def_bool y 1836cd10f8dSJames Bottomley depends on SMP 1846cd10f8dSJames Bottomley 1856b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 1866b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1876b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 1886b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1896b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 1906b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1916b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 1926b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 1948d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 195ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 1968d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1978d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 1998d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2003e5095d1SIngo Molnar depends on SMP || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 2018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 203ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 204ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 20560a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 206ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 2078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 2088d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 209506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 210dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 212506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 214506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 216506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 23803502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 24406cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 24506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 24606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 24706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 24806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 24906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 25006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 25106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 25206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 25306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ( On certain CPU models you may need to enable INTR_REMAP too, 25406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu to get functional x2apic mode. ) 25506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 25606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 25706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 2580b8f1efaSYinghai Luconfig SPARSE_IRQ 2590b8f1efaSYinghai Lu bool "Support sparse irq numbering" 26017483a1fSYinghai Lu depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ 2618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 262973656feSIngo Molnar This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro 263973656feSIngo Molnar kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still 264973656feSIngo Molnar want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. 2650b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 266973656feSIngo Molnar ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread 267973656feSIngo Molnar out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. ) 268973656feSIngo Molnar 269973656feSIngo Molnar If you don't know what to do here, say N. 2700b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 27148a1b10aSYinghai Luconfig NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC 27248a1b10aSYinghai Lu bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity" 273b9098957SYinghai Lu depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA 27448a1b10aSYinghai Lu default n 2758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 27648a1b10aSYinghai Lu This enables moving irq_desc to cpu/node that irq will use handled. 27748a1b10aSYinghai Lu 27848a1b10aSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 27948a1b10aSYinghai Lu 2806695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 2817a527688SJan Beulich bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 2827a527688SJan Beulich default y 2835ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 2848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2856695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 2866695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 2876695c85bSYinghai Lu 28826f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 28926f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 29026f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 2918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 29226f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 29326f7ef14SYinghai Lu 2948425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 295c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 296c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 297c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 2988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 29906ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 30006ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 30106ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 30206ac8346SIngo Molnar 3038425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3048425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 3058425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3068425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3078425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3088425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 3098425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Summit/EXA (IBM x440) 3108425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Unisys ES7000 IA32 series 31106ac8346SIngo Molnar 31206ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 31306ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3148425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 31506ac8346SIngo Molnar 3168425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3178425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3188425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3198425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3208425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3218425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3228425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3238425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3248425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3258425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3268425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 3278425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3288425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3298425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3308425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3318425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3328425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 333c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 334c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 33503b48632SNick Piggin 3366a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 337c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3386a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3396a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 340c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3426a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3436a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 3446a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 3456a48565eSIngo Molnar 346c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 347c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 348c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 349c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3507d01d32dSIngo Molnar select X86_X2APIC 351c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 352c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 353c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 354c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 355c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 356c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 357c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 3589e111f3eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_ELAN 3599e111f3eSIngo Molnar bool "AMD Elan" 3609e111f3eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 361c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3639e111f3eSIngo Molnar Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 3649e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3659e111f3eSIngo Molnar Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 3669e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3679e111f3eSIngo Molnar If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 3689e111f3eSIngo Molnar 369c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 370c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 371c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 372c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 373c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 374c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 375c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 376c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 377c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 378c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 379c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 380e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3819c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 3829c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 383c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3859c398017SIngo Molnar This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default 3869c398017SIngo Molnar subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 3879c398017SIngo Molnar if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will 3889c398017SIngo Molnar fallback to default. 3899c398017SIngo Molnar 390c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 391c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 3929c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_NUMAQ 3939c398017SIngo Molnar bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 394e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3959c398017SIngo Molnar select NUMA 3969c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 3978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3989c398017SIngo Molnar This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3999c398017SIngo Molnar NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 4009c398017SIngo Molnar bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 4019c398017SIngo Molnar of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 4029c398017SIngo Molnar firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 4039c398017SIngo Molnar 404c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_VISWS 405c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 406c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 407c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 408c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 409c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 410c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 411c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 412c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 413c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 414c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 415c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 416c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 4179c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 4189c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 419e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4219c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 4229c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 4239c398017SIngo Molnar 4249c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 425c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 42626f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 4278f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4289c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 4299c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 4309c398017SIngo Molnar 431ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 4323c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4333c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 434a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 4358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 443506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 4458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 451506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 453506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 455506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 45842d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 4598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 465790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 466790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 467790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 468f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 470790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 471790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 472790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 473790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 474790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 475790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 4760cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 4770cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support" 4780cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 4798f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4800cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 4810cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. 4820cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 483506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 485e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 486e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 4878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 488e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 489e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 490e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 491e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 492e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 4937af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4947af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 4957af192c9SGerd Hoffmann default n 4967af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 497506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 49997349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 50097349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 50197349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 5028f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 50397349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 50497349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 50597349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 50603273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 50703273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 5088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 509c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 51003273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 51103273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 51203273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 51303273184SYinghai Lu ... 51403273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 515aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 517506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 5183c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 519e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 521506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 5223c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 523e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 524506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 525506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 526506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 527506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 5283c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 529506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 5308f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 531506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 534506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 537506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 538e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 546506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 5473c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5489d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 5527ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 5537ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 5547ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED 5558f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5567ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 5577ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 5587ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 5597ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 5607ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 561506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select AGP 566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 5678f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 578506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 579506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 5828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 588506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 590506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 591506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 592506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 596506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 5973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5983c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 6008f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 602506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 603506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 604506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 605506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6072b188723SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU 6082b188723SJoerg Roedel bool "AMD IOMMU support" 60907c40e8aSIngo Molnar select SWIOTLB 610a80dc3e0SJoerg Roedel select PCI_MSI 61124d2ba0aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 6128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 61318d22200SJoerg Roedel With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in 61418d22200SJoerg Roedel your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides 61518d22200SJoerg Roedel remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you 61618d22200SJoerg Roedel can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the 61718d22200SJoerg Roedel system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. 61818d22200SJoerg Roedel 61918d22200SJoerg Roedel You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into 62018d22200SJoerg Roedel your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI 62118d22200SJoerg Roedel table. 6222b188723SJoerg Roedel 6232e117604SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU_STATS 6242e117604SJoerg Roedel bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" 6252e117604SJoerg Roedel depends on AMD_IOMMU 6262e117604SJoerg Roedel select DEBUG_FS 6278f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6282e117604SJoerg Roedel This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various 6292e117604SJoerg Roedel statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that 6302e117604SJoerg Roedel information to userspace via debugfs. 6312e117604SJoerg Roedel If unsure, say N. 6322e117604SJoerg Roedel 633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 634506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 635a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 6368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 637506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 638506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 640506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 641506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 643a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 64418b743dcSFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU) 645d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 6461aaf1183SJoerg Roedelconfig IOMMU_API 6471aaf1183SJoerg Roedel def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR) 6481aaf1183SJoerg Roedel 6491184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 6501184dc2fSMike Travis bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 65136f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 65236f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 6531184dc2fSMike Travis default n 6548f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6551184dc2fSMike Travis Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 6561184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 658506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 65936f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 66036f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 66178637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 662d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 66378637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 66478637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 6658f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 667d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 668506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 673506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 675b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 6768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 6833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6843c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 685b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 6868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 688506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 691506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 693506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 694506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 695e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 6968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 697506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 701506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 702506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 703506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 704506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 705506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 706506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 707506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 708506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 7098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 711506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 713506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 717506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 7193c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 720e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 7233c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 724e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 7273c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 73041b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 73141b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 73241b9eb26SStefan Assmann default n 73341b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 7348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 73541b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 73641b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 73741b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 73841b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 73941b9eb26SStefan Assmann 74041b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 74141b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 74241b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 74341b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 74441b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 74541b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 74641b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 74741b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 74841b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 74941b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 75041b9eb26SStefan Assmann 75141b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 75241b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 75341b9eb26SStefan Assmann 754506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Machine Check Exception" 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. 761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborg flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is 764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 7713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 775506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 7793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7803c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 786b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 787b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 788b2762686SAndi Kleen bool 789b2762686SAndi Kleen default y 790b2762686SAndi Kleen 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_NONFATAL 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 7948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which 796506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option only does something on certain CPUs. 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_P4THERMAL 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." 806efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) 8078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enters thermal throttling. 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 8158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 824506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 834506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 835506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 838506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 840506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 845506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 846506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 847506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 848506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 849506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 850506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 852506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 853506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 856506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 857506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 8589ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 8599ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 860506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 861506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 862506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 864506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 865506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 866506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 8685e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 869506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 870506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 871506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 872506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 873506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 8758d86f390SPeter Oruba tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support" 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 878506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 87980cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 88080cc9f10SPeter Oruba IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, 88180cc9f10SPeter Oruba Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and 88280cc9f10SPeter Oruba 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra. 88380cc9f10SPeter Oruba You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself 88480cc9f10SPeter Oruba which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8868d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 8878d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 889506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8928d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 89318dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" 8948d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 8958d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 8968d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 8978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 8988d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 8998d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 9008d86f390SPeter Oruba 9018d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 9028d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 9038d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 9048d86f390SPeter Oruba 90580cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 90618dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" 90780cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 90880cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 9098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 91080cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 91180cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 91280cc9f10SPeter Oruba 913506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 9143c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 916506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 9198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 923506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 9288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 9808f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 9888f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1019506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1020506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1021506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1022506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1023506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1024506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1025506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1031506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1033506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 10393c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 10439ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 10458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1051600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1052600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE 1053600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 10549e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 10559e899816SNick Piggin bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED 10569e899816SNick Piggin default y 10579e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 10588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10599e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 10609e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 10619e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 10629e899816SNick Piggin 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1065fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1066506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 10670699eae1SYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 10680699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 10698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1071fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1073506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1076c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1077fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1078fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1079fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1080fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1081fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1082fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1083fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 10893c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10903c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 10928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 1096506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 11003c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11013c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 11048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11076ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 11086ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 11096ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 11106ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 11116ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 11126ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 11136ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 11146ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 11156ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 11198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1125d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 1126*46d50c98SJan Beulich range 1 9 1127d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "9" if MAXSMP 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 11328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11331184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 11341184dc2fSMike Travis system. Increases memory reserved to accomodate various tables. 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1136c1329375STejun Heoconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM 11373c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 11413c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 11453c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 11493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 115499809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1158b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1162b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1163b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1164b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1165b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 1166b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1168506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1169506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 11704272ebfbSYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1171506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1172506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1173506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1174506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1175506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1176b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1177506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1178506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1179506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1180506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1184506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1185506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1186506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 11878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1188506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1191506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11939f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 11949f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 11958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11969f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 11979f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 11989f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 11999f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 12009f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 12019f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 12029f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 12039f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 12049f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 12059f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 12069f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 12079f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 12089f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 12099f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 12109f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 12119f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 12129f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 12139f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 12149f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1215c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1216c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1217c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1218c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 12198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1220c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1221c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1222c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1223fc381519SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K 1224fc381519SIngo Molnar bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" 1225fc381519SIngo Molnar default y 12268f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1227fc381519SIngo Molnar Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known 1228fc381519SIngo Molnar to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are 1229fc381519SIngo Molnar known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not 1230fc381519SIngo Molnar be used by the kernel. 1231fc381519SIngo Molnar 1232fc381519SIngo Molnar Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS 1233fc381519SIngo Molnar to get all its memory reservations and usages right. 1234fc381519SIngo Molnar 1235fc381519SIngo Molnar If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not 1236fc381519SIngo Molnar work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug 1237fc381519SIngo Molnar events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable 1238fc381519SIngo Molnar X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical 1239fc381519SIngo Molnar corruption patterns. 1240fc381519SIngo Molnar 1241fc381519SIngo Molnar Say Y if unsure. 1242fc381519SIngo Molnar 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1270506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 1271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1276506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13017225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 130395ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 13042ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 130595ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 130695ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 13078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1308aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1309aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 131095ffa243SYinghai Lu 1311aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1312aba3728cSThomas Gleixner The largest mtrr entry size for a continous block can be set with 1313aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 131495ffa243SYinghai Lu 13152ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 131695ffa243SYinghai Lu 131795ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1318f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1319f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1320f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 132195ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 13228f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1323f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 132495ffa243SYinghai Lu 132512031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 132612031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 132712031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 132812031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 132912031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 13308f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 133112031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1332aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 1333506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13342e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 13352a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 13362e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com prompt "x86 PAT support" 13372a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 13388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13392e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1340042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 13412e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 13422e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 13432e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13442e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1345042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 13462e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13472e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 13482e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 1349506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 13509ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 13515b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 13538b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1355506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13568b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 13578b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 13588b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 13598b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 13608b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 13618b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1362506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1363506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 13643c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 13653c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 13668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1368506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1372506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 13739c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1374506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1379113c5413SIngo Molnarconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1380113c5413SIngo Molnar bool 1381113c5413SIngo Molnar 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1384113c5413SIngo Molnar select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 13858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1387113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1388113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1396113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1397113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 14038f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 141804b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 14208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14313ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 14323ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14333ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1434fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 14358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 143689081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 143789081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 14383ab83521SHuang Ying 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" 14448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1482506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 1483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 14858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1499506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" if X86_32 1503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 0x2000 0x400000 15058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1511506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1512506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1519506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1521506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1522506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1523506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1524506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 15257c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 15264b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1527506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15287c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 15297c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 15307c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 15317c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 15327c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1534506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 15353c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15363c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1537af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 15388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1539af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1547516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1548516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 1549516cbf37STim Bird default n 15508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1551516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1552516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1553516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1554516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1555516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1556516cbf37STim Bird 1557516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1558516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1559516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1560516cbf37STim Bird 1561516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1562516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1563516cbf37STim Bird 1564516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1565516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1566516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1567516cbf37STim Bird default "" 15688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1569516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1570516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1571516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1572516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1573516cbf37STim Bird 1574516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1575516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1576516cbf37STim Bird 1577516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1578516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1579516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1580516cbf37STim Bird 1581516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1582516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1583516cbf37STim Bird default n 1584516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 15858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1586516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1587516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1588516cbf37STim Bird 1589516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1590516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1591516cbf37STim Bird 1592506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1594506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 159835551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 159935551053SGary Hade def_bool y 160035551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 160135551053SGary Hade 1602506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1603506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1604506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1605506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1606da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1607e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1608e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 16093c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1610e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1611e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1612e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1613e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1614e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1615e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1616a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1617a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1618a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1619a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1620a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1621e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1622e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1623efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1624e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1625e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1626e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1627e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1628e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1629e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1630e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1631e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1632e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1633e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1634e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1635e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1636e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1637e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1638e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 163953471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1640e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1641e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1642e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1643e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1644e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1645e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1646e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1647e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1648e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1649e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1650e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1651e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1652e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1653e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1654e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1655e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1656e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1657e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1658e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1659e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1661e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1662e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1663e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1666e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1667e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1668e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1669e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1670e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1671e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1672e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1673e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1674e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1676e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1677e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1678e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1679e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1680e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1681e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1682e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1683e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 16848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1685e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1686e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1687e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1689e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1690e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1691e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1692e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1693e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1694e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1695e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1696e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1697e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1698e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1699e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1700e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1701e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1702e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1703e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1704e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1705e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1706e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1707e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 17088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1709e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1710e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1711e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1712e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1713e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1714e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1715e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1716e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1717e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1718e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 17198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1720e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1721e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1722e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1723e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1724e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1725e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1726e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1727e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1728e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1731e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 17328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1734e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1738e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1742e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1744e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 174627471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 174727471fdbSAndy Henroid 1748e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1749e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1751e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1752e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1753e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 17541ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 17551c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1756e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 17578f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1758e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1759e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1760e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1761e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1762e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1763e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1764e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1765efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1766e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1767e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1768e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1769e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1770e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1771e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1772e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1773e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1774e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1775e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1776e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1777e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1778e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1779e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1780e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1781e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1783e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1784e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1785e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1786e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1787e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1788e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1789e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1790e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17913ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 17923ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "OLPC" 17933ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 17943ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 17952bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 17962bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 17972bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 1798e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1799e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1800e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 18013c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1802efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1803e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1804e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1805e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 18063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1807efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC)) 1808e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1809e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 18103c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1811e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1812e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18133ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 18142bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 18152bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 18163ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1817e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 18183c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1819e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1820e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1821e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1824e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1825e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1827e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 18288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1829e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1830e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1831e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1832e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1833e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18350cd5c3c8SKyle McMartinconfig DMAR_DEFAULT_ON 1836f6be37fdSKyle McMartin def_bool y 18370cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default" 18380cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin depends on DMAR 18390cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin help 18400cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if 18410cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can 18420cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is 18430cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains 18440cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin experimental. 18450cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin 1846e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_GFX_WA 18473c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 18483c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Support for Graphics workaround" 1849e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1851e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 1855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg to use physical addresses for DMA. 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 18583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1859e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls 1862e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1863e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1864e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18669fa8c481SSuresh Siddhaconfig INTR_REMAP 18679fa8c481SSuresh Siddha bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18689fa8c481SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 186906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu select X86_X2APIC 18708f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 18719fa8c481SSuresh Siddha Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. 18729fa8c481SSuresh Siddha To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or 18739fa8c481SSuresh Siddha to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. 18749fa8c481SSuresh Siddha 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 18813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 18878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 191372ee6ebbSIngo Molnar bool "MCA support" 19148f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 19248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 19368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 19443c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 19453c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 19478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19533ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 19543ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 19553ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon default n 19568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 19573ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 19583ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 19593ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1960bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 1961bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1964bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1966e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1980a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 19818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1982e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 19886b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 19898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 19933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 20013c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2002b8992195SAlexey Dobriyan depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 2003e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2005e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2006e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2007e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2008e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2009e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2010e5beae16SKeith Packard 2011e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2015e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2016e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2021e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2023e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2024e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2025edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2026edf88417SAvi Kivity 2027e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2028