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 432118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 442e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 477d8330a5SBalbir Singh 4873531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 49b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 5073531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 5173531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 52b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 543c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 573c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 603c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 633c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 703c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 733c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 75aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 76aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 77aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 781f84260cSChristoph Lameterconfig FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 791f84260cSChristoph Lameter bool 801f84260cSChristoph Lameter default y 811f84260cSChristoph Lameter 828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 863c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 918d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 948d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 953c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 968d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 978d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 983c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 998d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 100b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 101b93a531eSJan Beulich 102b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 103b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1058d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 108a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1099ba16087SJan Beulich bool 110a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1138d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1141032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 1151032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 1161032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1171032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1181032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 1191032c0baSSam Ravnborg 120a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 121a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 122a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1231032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1241032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1251032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1268d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1278d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1298d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1309a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1319a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1328d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 13389cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 13489cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 13589cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1361b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1371b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1381b27d05bSPekka Enberg 139dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 14089c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 141b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 14211124411STejun Heoconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA 14311124411STejun Heo def_bool y 14411124411STejun Heo 1459f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1469f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1479f0e8d04SMike Travis 148801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 149801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 150801e4062SJohannes Berg 151f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 152f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 153f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 165765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 166765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 167765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1686a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 1696a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 1706a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 176f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ 177f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixner def_bool y 178f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixner 1798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 1848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 1868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1886cd10f8dSJames Bottomleyconfig USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 1896cd10f8dSJames Bottomley def_bool y 1906cd10f8dSJames Bottomley depends on SMP 1916cd10f8dSJames Bottomley 1926b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 1936b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1946b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 1956b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1966b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 1976b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1986b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 1996b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 2018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 202ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 2038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2058d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 2068d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2073e5095d1SIngo Molnar depends on SMP || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 2088d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2098d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 210ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 211ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 21260a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 213ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 2148d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 2158d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 216506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 217dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2188d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 219506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 221506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 223506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 24503502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 25106cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 25206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 25306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 25406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 25506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 25606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 25706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 25806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 25906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 26006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ( On certain CPU models you may need to enable INTR_REMAP too, 26106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu to get functional x2apic mode. ) 26206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 26306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 26406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 2650b8f1efaSYinghai Luconfig SPARSE_IRQ 2660b8f1efaSYinghai Lu bool "Support sparse irq numbering" 26717483a1fSYinghai Lu depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ 2688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 269973656feSIngo Molnar This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro 270973656feSIngo Molnar kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still 271973656feSIngo Molnar want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. 2720b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 273973656feSIngo Molnar ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread 274973656feSIngo Molnar out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. ) 275973656feSIngo Molnar 276973656feSIngo Molnar If you don't know what to do here, say N. 2770b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 27848a1b10aSYinghai Luconfig NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC 27948a1b10aSYinghai Lu bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity" 280b9098957SYinghai Lu depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA 28148a1b10aSYinghai Lu default n 2828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 28348a1b10aSYinghai Lu This enables moving irq_desc to cpu/node that irq will use handled. 28448a1b10aSYinghai Lu 28548a1b10aSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 28648a1b10aSYinghai Lu 2876695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 2887a527688SJan Beulich bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 2897a527688SJan Beulich default y 2905ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 2918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2926695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 2936695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 2946695c85bSYinghai Lu 29526f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 29626f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 29726f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 2988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 29926f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 30026f7ef14SYinghai Lu 3018425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 302c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 303c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 304c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 30606ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 30706ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 30806ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 30906ac8346SIngo Molnar 3108425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3118425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 3128425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3138425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3148425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3158425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 3168425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Summit/EXA (IBM x440) 3178425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Unisys ES7000 IA32 series 31806ac8346SIngo Molnar 31906ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 32006ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3218425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 32206ac8346SIngo Molnar 3238425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3248425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3258425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3268425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3278425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3288425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3298425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3308425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3318425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3328425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3338425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 3348425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3358425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3368425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3378425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3388425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3398425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 340c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 341c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 34203b48632SNick Piggin 3436a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 344c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3456a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3466a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 347c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3488f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3496a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3506a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 3516a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 3526a48565eSIngo Molnar 353c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 354c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 355c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 356c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 357*54c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 3587d01d32dSIngo Molnar select X86_X2APIC 359c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 360c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 361c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 362c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 363c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 364c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 365c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 3669e111f3eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_ELAN 3679e111f3eSIngo Molnar bool "AMD Elan" 3689e111f3eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 369c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3708f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3719e111f3eSIngo Molnar Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 3729e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3739e111f3eSIngo Molnar Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 3749e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3759e111f3eSIngo Molnar If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 3769e111f3eSIngo Molnar 377c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 378c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 379c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 380c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 381c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 382c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 383c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 384c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 385c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 386c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 387c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 388e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3899c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 3909c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 391c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3939c398017SIngo Molnar This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default 3949c398017SIngo Molnar subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 3959c398017SIngo Molnar if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will 3969c398017SIngo Molnar fallback to default. 3979c398017SIngo Molnar 398c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 399c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 4009c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_NUMAQ 4019c398017SIngo Molnar bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 402e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4039c398017SIngo Molnar select NUMA 4049c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 4058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4069c398017SIngo Molnar This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 4079c398017SIngo Molnar NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 4089c398017SIngo Molnar bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 4099c398017SIngo Molnar of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 4109c398017SIngo Molnar firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 4119c398017SIngo Molnar 412c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_VISWS 413c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 414c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 415c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 416c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 417c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 418c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 419c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 420c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 421c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 422c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 423c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 424c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 4259c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 4269c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 427e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4299c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 4309c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 4319c398017SIngo Molnar 4329c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 433c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 43426f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 4358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4369c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 4379c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 4389c398017SIngo Molnar 439ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 4403c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4413c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 442a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 4438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 451506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 4538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 459506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 461506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 463506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 46642d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 4678f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 473790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 474790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 475790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 476f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4778f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 478790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 479790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 480790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 481790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 482790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 483790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 4840cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 4850cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support" 4860cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 4878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4880cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 4890cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. 4900cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 491506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 493e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 494e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 4958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 496e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 497e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 498e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 499e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 500e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 5017af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 5027af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 5037af192c9SGerd Hoffmann default n 5047af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 505506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 50797349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 50897349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 50997349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 5108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 51197349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 51297349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 51397349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 51403273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 51503273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 5168f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 517c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 51803273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 51903273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 52003273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 52103273184SYinghai Lu ... 52203273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 523aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 524506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 525506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 5263c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 527e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 528506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 529506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 5303c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 531e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 533506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 534506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 535506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 5363c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 537506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 5388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 546e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 554506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 5553c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5569d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 5607ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 5617ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 5627ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED 5638f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5647ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 5657ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 5667ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 5677ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 5687ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 569506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select AGP 574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 5758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 578506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 579506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 582506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 586506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 588506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 5908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 591506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 592506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 600506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 602506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 603506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 604506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 6053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 6088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6152b188723SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU 6162b188723SJoerg Roedel bool "AMD IOMMU support" 61707c40e8aSIngo Molnar select SWIOTLB 618a80dc3e0SJoerg Roedel select PCI_MSI 61924d2ba0aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 6208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 62118d22200SJoerg Roedel With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in 62218d22200SJoerg Roedel your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides 62318d22200SJoerg Roedel remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you 62418d22200SJoerg Roedel can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the 62518d22200SJoerg Roedel system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. 62618d22200SJoerg Roedel 62718d22200SJoerg Roedel You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into 62818d22200SJoerg Roedel your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI 62918d22200SJoerg Roedel table. 6302b188723SJoerg Roedel 6312e117604SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU_STATS 6322e117604SJoerg Roedel bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" 6332e117604SJoerg Roedel depends on AMD_IOMMU 6342e117604SJoerg Roedel select DEBUG_FS 6358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6362e117604SJoerg Roedel This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various 6372e117604SJoerg Roedel statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that 6382e117604SJoerg Roedel information to userspace via debugfs. 6392e117604SJoerg Roedel If unsure, say N. 6402e117604SJoerg Roedel 641506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 642506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 643a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 6448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 645506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 651a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 65218b743dcSFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU) 653d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 6541aaf1183SJoerg Roedelconfig IOMMU_API 6551aaf1183SJoerg Roedel def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR) 6561aaf1183SJoerg Roedel 6571184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 6581184dc2fSMike Travis bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 65936f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 66036f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 6611184dc2fSMike Travis default n 6628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6631184dc2fSMike Travis Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 6641184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 665506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 666506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 66736f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 66836f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 66978637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 670d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 67178637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 67278637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 6738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 675d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 683b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 6848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 686506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 688506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 690506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 6913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 693b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 6948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 695506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 696506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 697506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 699506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 701506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 702506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 703e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 7048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 705506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 706506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 707506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 708506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 709506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 711506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 713506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 714506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 7178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 7273c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 728e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 7313c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 732e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 7353c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 73841b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 73941b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 74041b9eb26SStefan Assmann default n 74141b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 7428f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 74341b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 74441b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 74541b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 74641b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 74741b9eb26SStefan Assmann 74841b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 74941b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 75041b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 75141b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 75241b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 75341b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 75441b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 75541b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 75641b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 75741b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 75841b9eb26SStefan Assmann 75941b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 76041b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 76141b9eb26SStefan Assmann 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Machine Check Exception" 764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborg flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems 771506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is 772506f1d07SSam Ravnborg disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a 774506f1d07SSam Ravnborg problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" 775506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 7793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7803c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 7873c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 794b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 795b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 796b2762686SAndi Kleen bool 797b2762686SAndi Kleen default y 798b2762686SAndi Kleen 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_NONFATAL 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 8028f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option only does something on certain CPUs. 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_P4THERMAL 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." 814efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) 8158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enters thermal throttling. 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 8238f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 824506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 834506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 835506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 838506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 840506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 845506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 846506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 847506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 848506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 849506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 850506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 852506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 853506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 856506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 857506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 858506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 859506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 860506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 861506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 862506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 864506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 865506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 8669ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 8679ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 868506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 869506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 870506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 871506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 872506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 873506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 8765e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 878506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 8838d86f390SPeter Oruba tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support" 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 886506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 88780cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 88880cc9f10SPeter Oruba IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, 88980cc9f10SPeter Oruba Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and 89080cc9f10SPeter Oruba 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra. 89180cc9f10SPeter Oruba You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself 89280cc9f10SPeter Oruba which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. 893506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8948d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 8958d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 896506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 897506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 898506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9008d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 90118dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" 9028d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 9038d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 9048d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 9058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9068d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 9078d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 9088d86f390SPeter Oruba 9098d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 9108d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 9118d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 9128d86f390SPeter Oruba 91380cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 91418dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" 91580cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 91680cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 9178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 91880cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 91980cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 92080cc9f10SPeter Oruba 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 9223c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 923506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 9278f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 9368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9429b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajputconfig X86_CPU_DEBUG 9439b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput tristate "/sys/kernel/debug/x86/cpu/* - CPU Debug support" 9449b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput ---help--- 9459b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput If you select this option, this will provide various x86 CPUs 9469b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput information through debugfs. 9479b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 9948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 10028f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 10138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1019506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1020506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1021506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1022506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1023506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1024506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1025506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1031506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1033506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 10533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 10579ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 10598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1065600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1066600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE 1067600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 10689e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 10699e899816SNick Piggin bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED 10709e899816SNick Piggin default y 10719e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 10728f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10739e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 10749e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 10759e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 10769e899816SNick Piggin 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1078506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1079fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 10810699eae1SYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 10820699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 10838f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1085fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1090c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1091fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1092fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1093fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1094fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1095fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1096fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1097fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1101506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 11033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11043c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 11068f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 11143c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 11188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11216ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 11226ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 11236ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 11246ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 11256ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 11266ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 11276ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 11286ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 11296ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 11338f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1139d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 114046d50c98SJan Beulich range 1 9 1141d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "9" if MAXSMP 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 11468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11471184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 11481184dc2fSMike Travis system. Increases memory reserved to accomodate various tables. 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1150c1329375STejun Heoconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM 11513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 11553c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 11593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 11633c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1166506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 116899809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA 1169506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1170506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1171506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1172b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1173506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1174506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1175506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1176b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1177b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1178b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1179b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 1180b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 11844272ebfbSYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1185506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1186506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1187506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1188506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1190b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1191506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1193506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1194506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1195506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1196506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1197506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1198506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1199506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1200506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 12018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1203506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1205506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12079f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 12089f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 12098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12109f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 12119f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 12129f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 12139f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 12149f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 12159f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 12169f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 12179f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 12189f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 12199f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 12209f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 12219f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 12229f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 12239f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 12249f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 12259f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 12269f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 12279f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 12289f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1229c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1230c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1231c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1232c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 12338f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1234c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1235c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1236c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1237fc381519SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K 1238fc381519SIngo Molnar bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" 1239fc381519SIngo Molnar default y 12408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1241fc381519SIngo Molnar Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known 1242fc381519SIngo Molnar to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are 1243fc381519SIngo Molnar known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not 1244fc381519SIngo Molnar be used by the kernel. 1245fc381519SIngo Molnar 1246fc381519SIngo Molnar Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS 1247fc381519SIngo Molnar to get all its memory reservations and usages right. 1248fc381519SIngo Molnar 1249fc381519SIngo Molnar If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not 1250fc381519SIngo Molnar work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug 1251fc381519SIngo Molnar events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable 1252fc381519SIngo Molnar X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical 1253fc381519SIngo Molnar corruption patterns. 1254fc381519SIngo Molnar 1255fc381519SIngo Molnar Say Y if unsure. 1256fc381519SIngo Molnar 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1270506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1276506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1283506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 1285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1307506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1311506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1312506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13157225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1316506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 131795ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 13182ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 131995ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 132095ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 13218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1322aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1323aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 132495ffa243SYinghai Lu 1325aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1326aba3728cSThomas Gleixner The largest mtrr entry size for a continous block can be set with 1327aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 132895ffa243SYinghai Lu 13292ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 133095ffa243SYinghai Lu 133195ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1332f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1333f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1334f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 133595ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 13368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1337f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 133895ffa243SYinghai Lu 133912031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 134012031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 134112031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 134212031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 134312031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 13448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 134512031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1346aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 1347506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13482e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 13492a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 13502e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com prompt "x86 PAT support" 13512a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 13528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13532e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1354042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 13552e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 13562e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 13572e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13582e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1359042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 13602e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13612e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 13622e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 1363506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 13649ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 13655b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1366506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 13678b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1368506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13708b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 13718b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 13728b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 13738b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 13748b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 13758b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 13783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 13793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 13808f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 13879c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1393113c5413SIngo Molnarconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1394113c5413SIngo Molnar bool 1395113c5413SIngo Molnar 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1398113c5413SIngo Molnar select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 13998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1401113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1402113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1410113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1411113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 14178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 143204b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 14348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14453ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 14463ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14473ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1448fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 14498f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 145089081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 145189081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 14523ab83521SHuang Ying 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" 14588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave 1477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter 1482506f1d07SSam Ravnborg passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as 1483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at 1484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. 1485506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1496506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 1497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 14998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1511506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1512506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1513506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" if X86_32 1517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 0x2000 0x400000 15198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1521506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1522506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1523506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1524506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1525506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1526506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1527506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1528506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1529506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1530506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1531506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1534506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1537506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1538506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 15397c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 15404b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15427c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 15437c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 15447c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 15457c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 15467c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1548506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 15493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1551af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 15528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1553af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1560506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1561516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1562516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 1563516cbf37STim Bird default n 15648f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1565516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1566516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1567516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1568516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1569516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1570516cbf37STim Bird 1571516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1572516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1573516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1574516cbf37STim Bird 1575516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1576516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1577516cbf37STim Bird 1578516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1579516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1580516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1581516cbf37STim Bird default "" 15828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1583516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1584516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1585516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1586516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1587516cbf37STim Bird 1588516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1589516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1590516cbf37STim Bird 1591516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1592516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1593516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1594516cbf37STim Bird 1595516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1596516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1597516cbf37STim Bird default n 1598516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 15998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1600516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1601516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1602516cbf37STim Bird 1603516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1604516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1605516cbf37STim Bird 1606506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1608506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 161235551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 161335551053SGary Hade def_bool y 161435551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 161535551053SGary Hade 1616506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1617506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1618506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1620da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1621e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1622e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 16233c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1624e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1625e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1626e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1627e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1628e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1629e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1630a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1631a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1632a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1633a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1634a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1635e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1636e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1637efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1638e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1639e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1640e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1641e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1642e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1643e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1644e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1645e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1646e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1647e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1648e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1649e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1650e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1651e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1652e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 165353471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1654e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1655e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1656e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1657e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1658e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1659e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1661e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1662e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1663e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1666e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1667e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1668e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1669e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1670e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1671e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1672e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1673e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1674e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1676e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1677e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1678e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1679e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1680e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1681e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1682e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1683e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1684e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1685e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1686e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1687e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1689e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1690e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1691e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1692e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1693e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1694e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1695e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1696e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1697e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 16988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1699e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1700e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1701e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1702e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1703e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1704e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1705e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1706e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1707e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1708e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1709e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1710e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1711e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1712e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1713e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1714e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1715e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1716e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1717e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1718e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1719e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1720e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1721e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 17228f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1723e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1724e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1725e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1726e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1727e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1728e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1731e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1732e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 17338f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1734e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1738e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1742e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1744e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 17468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1747e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1748e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1749e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1751e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1752e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1753e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1754e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1755e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1756e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1757e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1758e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1759e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 176027471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 176127471fdbSAndy Henroid 1762e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1763e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1764e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1765e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1766e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1767e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 17681ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 17691c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1770e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 17718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1772e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1773e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1774e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1775e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1776e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1777e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1778e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1779efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1780e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1781e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1783e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1784e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1785e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1786e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1787e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1788e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1789e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1790e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1791e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1792e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1793e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1794e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1795e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1796e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1797e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1798e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1799e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1800e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1801e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1802e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1803e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1804e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18053ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 18063ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "OLPC" 18073ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 18083ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 18092bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 18102bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 18112bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 1812e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1813e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1814e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 18153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1816efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1817e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1818e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1819e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 18203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1821efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC)) 1822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 18243c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1825e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18273ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 18282bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 18292bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 18303ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1831e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 18323c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1833e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1837e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1838e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1839e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1840e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1841e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 18428f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1843e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1844e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1845e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1846e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1847e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1848e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18490cd5c3c8SKyle McMartinconfig DMAR_DEFAULT_ON 1850f6be37fdSKyle McMartin def_bool y 18510cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default" 18520cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin depends on DMAR 18530cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin help 18540cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if 18550cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can 18560cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is 18570cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains 18580cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin experimental. 18590cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin 1860e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_GFX_WA 18613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 18623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Support for Graphics workaround" 1863e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18648f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 1866e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 1867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 1868e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg to use physical addresses for DMA. 1870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 18723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18809fa8c481SSuresh Siddhaconfig INTR_REMAP 18819fa8c481SSuresh Siddha bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18829fa8c481SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 188306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu select X86_X2APIC 18848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 18859fa8c481SSuresh Siddha Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. 18869fa8c481SSuresh Siddha To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or 18879fa8c481SSuresh Siddha to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. 18889fa8c481SSuresh Siddha 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 18953c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 19018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 192772ee6ebbSIngo Molnar bool "MCA support" 19288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 19388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 19508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 19583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 19593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 19618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 1966e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19673ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 19683ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 19693ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon default n 19708f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 19713ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 19723ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 19733ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1974bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 1975bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1978bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1982e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1994a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 19958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 20026b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 20038f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2005e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2006e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 20073c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2008e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 2009e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2010e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 2011e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 20153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2016b8992195SAlexey Dobriyan depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2021e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2022e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2023e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2024e5beae16SKeith Packard 2025e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2027e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2028e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2029e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2030e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2031e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2032e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2033e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2034e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2035e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2036e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2037e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2038e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2039edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2040edf88417SAvi Kivity 2041e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2042