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 437d8330a5SBalbir Singh 4473531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 45b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 4673531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 4773531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 48b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 563c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 693c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 71aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 72aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 73aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 741f84260cSChristoph Lameterconfig FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 751f84260cSChristoph Lameter bool 761f84260cSChristoph Lameter default y 771f84260cSChristoph Lameter 788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 958d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 96b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 97b93a531eSJan Beulich 98b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 99b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1023c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 104a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1059ba16087SJan Beulich bool 106a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1098d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1101032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 1111032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 1121032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1131032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1141032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 1151032c0baSSam Ravnborg 116a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 117a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 118a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1191032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1201032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1211032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1269a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1279a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 12989cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 13089cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 13189cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1321b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1331b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1341b27d05bSPekka Enberg 135dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 13689c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 137b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 1389f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1399f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1409f0e8d04SMike Travis 141801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 142801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 143801e4062SJohannes Berg 144f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 145f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 146f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1478d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 158765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 159765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 160765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1756cd10f8dSJames Bottomleyconfig USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 1766cd10f8dSJames Bottomley def_bool y 1776cd10f8dSJames Bottomley depends on SMP 1786cd10f8dSJames Bottomley 1796b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 1806b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1816b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 1826b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1836b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 1846b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1856b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 1866b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 1888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 189ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 1908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1918d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 1938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1943e5095d1SIngo Molnar depends on SMP || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 1958d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1968d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 197ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 198ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 19960a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 200ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 2018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 2028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 203506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 204dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2058d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 206506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 208506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 210506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 23203502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 23806cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 23906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 24006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 24106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 24206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 24306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 24406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 24506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 24606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 24706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ( On certain CPU models you may need to enable INTR_REMAP too, 24806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu to get functional x2apic mode. ) 24906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 25006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 25106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 2520b8f1efaSYinghai Luconfig SPARSE_IRQ 2530b8f1efaSYinghai Lu bool "Support sparse irq numbering" 25417483a1fSYinghai Lu depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ 2558f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 256973656feSIngo Molnar This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro 257973656feSIngo Molnar kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still 258973656feSIngo Molnar want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. 2590b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 260973656feSIngo Molnar ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread 261973656feSIngo Molnar out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. ) 262973656feSIngo Molnar 263973656feSIngo Molnar If you don't know what to do here, say N. 2640b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 26548a1b10aSYinghai Luconfig NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC 26648a1b10aSYinghai Lu bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity" 267b9098957SYinghai Lu depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA 26848a1b10aSYinghai Lu default n 2698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 27048a1b10aSYinghai Lu This enables moving irq_desc to cpu/node that irq will use handled. 27148a1b10aSYinghai Lu 27248a1b10aSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 27348a1b10aSYinghai Lu 2746695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 2757a527688SJan Beulich bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 2767a527688SJan Beulich default y 2775ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 2788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2796695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 2806695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 2816695c85bSYinghai Lu 28226f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 28326f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 28426f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 2858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 28626f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 28726f7ef14SYinghai Lu 288c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 289c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 290c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 2918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 29206ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 29306ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 29406ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 29506ac8346SIngo Molnar 29606ac8346SIngo Molnar If you enable this option then you'll be able to select a number 297c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai of non-PC x86 platforms. 29806ac8346SIngo Molnar 29906ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 30006ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 30106ac8346SIngo Molnar 302c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 303c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 30403b48632SNick Piggin 3056a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 306c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3076a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3086a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 309c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3116a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3126a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 3136a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 3146a48565eSIngo Molnar 315c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 316c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 317c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 318c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 319*7d01d32dSIngo Molnar select X86_X2APIC 320c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 321c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 322c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 323c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 324c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 325c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 326c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 3279e111f3eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_ELAN 3289e111f3eSIngo Molnar bool "AMD Elan" 3299e111f3eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 330c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3318f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3329e111f3eSIngo Molnar Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 3339e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3349e111f3eSIngo Molnar Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 3359e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3369e111f3eSIngo Molnar If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 3379e111f3eSIngo Molnar 338c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 339c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 340c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 341c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 342c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 343c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 344c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 345c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 346c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 347c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 348c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 349e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3509c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 3519c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 352c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3549c398017SIngo Molnar This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default 3559c398017SIngo Molnar subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 3569c398017SIngo Molnar if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will 3579c398017SIngo Molnar fallback to default. 3589c398017SIngo Molnar 359c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 360c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 3619c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_NUMAQ 3629c398017SIngo Molnar bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 363e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3649c398017SIngo Molnar select NUMA 3659c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 3668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3679c398017SIngo Molnar This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3689c398017SIngo Molnar NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 3699c398017SIngo Molnar bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 3709c398017SIngo Molnar of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 3719c398017SIngo Molnar firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 3729c398017SIngo Molnar 373c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_VISWS 374c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 375c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 376c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 377c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 378c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 379c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 380c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 381c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 382c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 383c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 384c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 385c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 3869c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 3879c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 388e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3909c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 3919c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 3929c398017SIngo Molnar 3939c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 394c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 39526f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 3968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3979c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3989c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 3999c398017SIngo Molnar 4003769e7b4SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VOYAGER 4013769e7b4SIngo Molnar bool "Voyager (NCR)" 4023769e7b4SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && !PCI && BROKEN 403e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4053769e7b4SIngo Molnar Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary 4063769e7b4SIngo Molnar to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based. 4073769e7b4SIngo Molnar 4083769e7b4SIngo Molnar *** WARNING *** 4093769e7b4SIngo Molnar 4103769e7b4SIngo Molnar If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine, 4113769e7b4SIngo Molnar say N here, otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable. 4129c398017SIngo Molnar 413ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 4143c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 416a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 4178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 425506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 4278f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 433506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 435506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 437506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 44042d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 4418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 447790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 448790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 449790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 450f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 452790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 453790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 454790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 455790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 456790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 457790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 4580cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 4590cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support" 4600cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 4618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4620cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 4630cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. 4640cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 465506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 467e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 468e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 4698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 470e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 471e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 472e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 473e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 474e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 4757af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4767af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 4777af192c9SGerd Hoffmann default n 4787af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 479506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 48197349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 48297349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 48397349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 4848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 48597349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 48697349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 48797349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 48803273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 48903273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 4908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 491c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 49203273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 49303273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 49403273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 49503273184SYinghai Lu ... 49603273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 497aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 499506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 5003c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 501e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 503506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 5043c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 505e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 507506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 509506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 5103c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 511506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 5128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 519506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 520e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 521506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 522506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 523506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 524506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 525506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 526506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 527506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 528506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 5293c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5309d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 531506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 5347ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 5357ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 5367ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED 5378f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5387ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 5397ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 5407ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 5417ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 5427ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 543506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select AGP 548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 5498f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 560506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 5648f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 578506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 5793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5803c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 5828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 588506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5892b188723SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU 5902b188723SJoerg Roedel bool "AMD IOMMU support" 59107c40e8aSIngo Molnar select SWIOTLB 592a80dc3e0SJoerg Roedel select PCI_MSI 59324d2ba0aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 5948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 59518d22200SJoerg Roedel With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in 59618d22200SJoerg Roedel your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides 59718d22200SJoerg Roedel remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you 59818d22200SJoerg Roedel can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the 59918d22200SJoerg Roedel system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. 60018d22200SJoerg Roedel 60118d22200SJoerg Roedel You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into 60218d22200SJoerg Roedel your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI 60318d22200SJoerg Roedel table. 6042b188723SJoerg Roedel 6052e117604SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU_STATS 6062e117604SJoerg Roedel bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" 6072e117604SJoerg Roedel depends on AMD_IOMMU 6082e117604SJoerg Roedel select DEBUG_FS 6098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6102e117604SJoerg Roedel This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various 6112e117604SJoerg Roedel statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that 6122e117604SJoerg Roedel information to userspace via debugfs. 6132e117604SJoerg Roedel If unsure, say N. 6142e117604SJoerg Roedel 615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 616506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 617a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 6188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 620506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 621506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 622506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 623506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 624506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 625a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 62618b743dcSFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU) 627d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 6281aaf1183SJoerg Roedelconfig IOMMU_API 6291aaf1183SJoerg Roedel def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR) 6301aaf1183SJoerg Roedel 6311184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 6321184dc2fSMike Travis bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 63336f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 63436f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 6351184dc2fSMike Travis default n 6368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6371184dc2fSMike Travis Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 6381184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 640506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 64136f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 64236f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 64378637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 644d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 64578637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 64678637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 6478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 649d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 654506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 655506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 657b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 6588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 664506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 6653c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 667b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 6688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 673506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 675506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 677e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 6788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 686506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 688506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 6918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 693506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 694506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 695506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 696506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 697506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 7013c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 702e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 703506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 704506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 7053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 706e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 707506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 708506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 7093c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 711506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 71241b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 71341b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 71441b9eb26SStefan Assmann default n 71541b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 7168f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 71741b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 71841b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 71941b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 72041b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 72141b9eb26SStefan Assmann 72241b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 72341b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 72441b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 72541b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 72641b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 72741b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 72841b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 72941b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 73041b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 73141b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 73241b9eb26SStefan Assmann 73341b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 73441b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 73541b9eb26SStefan Assmann 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Machine Check Exception" 738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 739506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the 740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. 743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" 749506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like 750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. 751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 752506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 7533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7543c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 760506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 7613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7648f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_NONFATAL 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 7718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 772506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. 774506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). 775506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option only does something on certain CPUs. 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_P4THERMAL 782506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." 783efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) 7848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enters thermal throttling. 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 7928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 796506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 824506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 834506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 8359ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 8369ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 838506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 840506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 8455e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 846506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 847506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 848506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 849506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 850506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 8528d86f390SPeter Oruba tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support" 853506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 85680cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 85780cc9f10SPeter Oruba IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, 85880cc9f10SPeter Oruba Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and 85980cc9f10SPeter Oruba 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra. 86080cc9f10SPeter Oruba You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself 86180cc9f10SPeter Oruba which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. 862506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8638d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 8648d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 865506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 866506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 868506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8698d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 87018dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" 8718d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 8728d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 8738d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 8748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 8758d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 8768d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 8778d86f390SPeter Oruba 8788d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 8798d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 8808d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 8818d86f390SPeter Oruba 88280cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 88318dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" 88480cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 88580cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 8868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 88780cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 88880cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 88980cc9f10SPeter Oruba 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 8913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 892506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 893506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 894506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 895506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 8968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 897506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 898506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 900506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 901506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 902506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 903506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 904506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 9058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 906506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 907506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 908506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 909506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 910506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 911506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 912506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 913506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 914506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 916506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 923506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 9578f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 9658f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 10163c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1019506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 10209ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1021506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 10228f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1023506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1024506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1025506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1028600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1029600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE 1030600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 10319e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 10329e899816SNick Piggin bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED 10339e899816SNick Piggin default y 10349e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 10358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10369e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 10379e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 10389e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 10399e899816SNick Piggin 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1042fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 10440699eae1SYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 10450699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 10468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1048fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1053c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1054fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1055fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1056fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1057fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1058fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1059fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1060fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 10663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 10698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 1073506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1076506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 10773c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 10818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10846ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 10856ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 10866ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 10876ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 10886ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 10896ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 10906ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 10916ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 10926ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 10968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1101506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1102d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 1103efac4189SThomas Gleixner range 1 9 if X86_64 1104d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "9" if MAXSMP 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 11098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11101184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 11111184dc2fSMike Travis system. Increases memory reserved to accomodate various tables. 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE 11143c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 11183c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 11223c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 11263c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 113199809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1135b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1139b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1140b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1141b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1142b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 1143b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 11474272ebfbSYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1153b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 11648f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1166506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1168506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1169506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11709f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 11719f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 11728f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11739f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 11749f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 11759f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 11769f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 11779f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 11789f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 11799f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 11809f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 11819f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 11829f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 11839f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 11849f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 11859f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 11869f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 11879f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 11889f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 11899f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 11909f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 11919f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1192c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1193c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1194c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1195c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 11968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1197c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1198c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1199c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1200fc381519SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K 1201fc381519SIngo Molnar bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" 1202fc381519SIngo Molnar default y 12038f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1204fc381519SIngo Molnar Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known 1205fc381519SIngo Molnar to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are 1206fc381519SIngo Molnar known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not 1207fc381519SIngo Molnar be used by the kernel. 1208fc381519SIngo Molnar 1209fc381519SIngo Molnar Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS 1210fc381519SIngo Molnar to get all its memory reservations and usages right. 1211fc381519SIngo Molnar 1212fc381519SIngo Molnar If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not 1213fc381519SIngo Molnar work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug 1214fc381519SIngo Molnar events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable 1215fc381519SIngo Molnar X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical 1216fc381519SIngo Molnar corruption patterns. 1217fc381519SIngo Molnar 1218fc381519SIngo Molnar Say Y if unsure. 1219fc381519SIngo Molnar 1220506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1246506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1270506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1276506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12787225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 128095ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 12812ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 128295ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 128395ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 12848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1285aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1286aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 128795ffa243SYinghai Lu 1288aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1289aba3728cSThomas Gleixner The largest mtrr entry size for a continous block can be set with 1290aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 129195ffa243SYinghai Lu 12922ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 129395ffa243SYinghai Lu 129495ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1295f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1296f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1297f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 129895ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 12998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1300f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 130195ffa243SYinghai Lu 130212031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 130312031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 130412031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 130512031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 130612031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 13078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 130812031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1309aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 1310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13112e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 13122a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 13132e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com prompt "x86 PAT support" 13142a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 13158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13162e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1317042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 13182e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 13192e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 13202e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13212e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1322042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 13232e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13242e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 13252e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 1326506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 13279ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 13285b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1329506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 13308b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1332506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13338b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 13348b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 13358b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 13368b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 13378b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 13388b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1339506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1340506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 13413c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 13423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 13438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1344506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1345506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1346506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1347506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1348506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 13509c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1351506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1353506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1355506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1356113c5413SIngo Molnarconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1357113c5413SIngo Molnar bool 1358113c5413SIngo Molnar 1359506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1360506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1361113c5413SIngo Molnar select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 13628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1363506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1364113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1365113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1366506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1368506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1372506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1373113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1374113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 13808f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 139504b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 13978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14083ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 14093ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14103ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 141189081d17SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION && X86_32 14128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 141389081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 141489081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 14153ab83521SHuang Ying 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" 14218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 14628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" if X86_32 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 0x2000 0x400000 14828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1485506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1501506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 15027c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 15034b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15057c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 15067c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 15077c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 15087c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 15097c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1511506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 15123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15133c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1514af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 15158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1516af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1519506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1521506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1522506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1523506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1524516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1525516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 1526516cbf37STim Bird default n 15278f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1528516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1529516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1530516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1531516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1532516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1533516cbf37STim Bird 1534516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1535516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1536516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1537516cbf37STim Bird 1538516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1539516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1540516cbf37STim Bird 1541516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1542516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1543516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1544516cbf37STim Bird default "" 15458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1546516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1547516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1548516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1549516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1550516cbf37STim Bird 1551516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1552516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1553516cbf37STim Bird 1554516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1555516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1556516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1557516cbf37STim Bird 1558516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1559516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1560516cbf37STim Bird default n 1561516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 15628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1563516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1564516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1565516cbf37STim Bird 1566516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1567516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1568516cbf37STim Bird 1569506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1571506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 157535551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 157635551053SGary Hade def_bool y 157735551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 157835551053SGary Hade 1579506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1582506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1583da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1584e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1585e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 15863c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1587e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1588e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1589e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1590e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1591e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1592e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1593a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1594a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1595a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1596a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1597a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1598e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1599e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1600efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1601e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1602e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1603e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1604e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1605e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1606e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1607e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1608e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1609e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1610e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1611e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1612e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1613e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1614e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1615e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 161653471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1617e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1618e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1619e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1620e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1621e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1622e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1623e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1624e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1625e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1626e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1627e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1628e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1629e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1630e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1631e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1632e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1633e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1634e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1635e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1636e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1637e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1638e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1639e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1640e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1641e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1642e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1643e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1644e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1645e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1646e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1647e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1648e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1649e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1650e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1651e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1652e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1653e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1654e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1655e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1656e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1657e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1658e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1659e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 16618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1662e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1663e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1666e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1667e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1668e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1669e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1670e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1671e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1672e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1673e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1674e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1676e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1677e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1678e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1679e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1680e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1681e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1682e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1683e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1684e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 16858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1686e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1687e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1689e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1690e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1691e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1692e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1693e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1694e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1695e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 16968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1697e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1698e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1699e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1700e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1701e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1702e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1703e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1704e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1705e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1706e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1707e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1708e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 17098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1710e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1711e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1712e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1713e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1714e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1715e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1716e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1717e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1718e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1719e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1720e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1721e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1722e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 172327471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 172427471fdbSAndy Henroid 1725e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1726e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1727e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1728e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 17311ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 17321c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 17348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1738e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1742efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1744e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1746e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1747e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1748e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1749e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1751e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1752e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1753e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1754e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1755e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1756e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1757e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1758e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1759e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1760e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1761e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1762e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1763e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1764e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1765e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1766e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1767e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17683ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 17693ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "OLPC" 17703ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 17713ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 17722bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 17732bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 17742bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 1775e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1776e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1777e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 17783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1779efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1780e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1781e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 17833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1784efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC)) 1785e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1786e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 17873c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1788e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1789e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17903ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 17912bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 17922bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 17933ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1794e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 17953c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1796e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1797e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1798e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1799e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1800e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1801e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1802e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1803e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1804e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 18058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1806e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1807e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1808e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1809e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1810e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1811e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18120cd5c3c8SKyle McMartinconfig DMAR_DEFAULT_ON 18130cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin def_bool n 18140cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default" 18150cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin depends on DMAR 18160cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin help 18170cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if 18180cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can 18190cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is 18200cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains 18210cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin experimental. 18220cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_GFX_WA 18243c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 18253c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Support for Graphics workaround" 1826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18278f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1828e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 1829e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 1830e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 1831e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 1832e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg to use physical addresses for DMA. 1833e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 18353c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18378f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1838e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls 1839e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1840e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1841e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1842e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18439fa8c481SSuresh Siddhaconfig INTR_REMAP 18449fa8c481SSuresh Siddha bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18459fa8c481SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 184606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu select X86_X2APIC 18478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 18489fa8c481SSuresh Siddha Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. 18499fa8c481SSuresh Siddha To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or 18509fa8c481SSuresh Siddha to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. 18519fa8c481SSuresh Siddha 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 18583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1859e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1860e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1862e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1863e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 18648f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1866e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1868e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 189072ee6ebbSIngo Molnar bool "MCA support" 18918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 19018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 19138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 19213c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 19223c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 19248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19303ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 19313ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 19323ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon default n 19338f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 19343ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 19353ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 19363ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1937bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 1938bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1941bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1957a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 19588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 19656b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 19668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 19703c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 19783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1979b8992195SAlexey Dobriyan depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1982e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1984e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 1985e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 1986e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 1987e5beae16SKeith Packard 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2002edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2003edf88417SAvi Kivity 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2005