11032c0baSSam Ravnborg# x86 configuration 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgmainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86" 3daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 4daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 5daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 66840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 76840999bSSam Ravnborg default ARCH = "x86_64" 88f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 10daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 11daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 12daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 13daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool !64BIT 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 16daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool 64BIT 171032c0baSSam Ravnborg 181032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 21e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 222c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_READQ 232c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_WRITEQ 24a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 25ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 2642d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 27cdd6c482SIngo Molnar select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS if (!M386 && !M486) 2828b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 293f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 301f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 31da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 327c095e46SFUJITA Tomonori select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS 339edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 34e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 35677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 36606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 3748d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3871e308a2SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST 3960a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 409a5fd902SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER if DYNAMIC_FTRACE 4166700001SJosh Stone select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 42e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 4349793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 4499bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 45323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 4658340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 478d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 482118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 492e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 502e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 512e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 520a4af3b0SPekka Enberg select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK 537d8330a5SBalbir Singh 5451b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 5551b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 5651b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 5751b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 5851b26adaSLinus Torvalds 5973531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 60b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 6173531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 6273531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 63b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 653c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 683c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 773c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 843c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 86aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 87aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 88aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 891f84260cSChristoph Lameterconfig FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 901f84260cSChristoph Lameter bool 911f84260cSChristoph Lameter default y 921f84260cSChristoph Lameter 938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 958d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 968d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 998d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 1008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 1033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1058d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 1063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1088d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 1093c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 111b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 112b93a531eSJan Beulich 113b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 114b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1158d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1168d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1173c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1188d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 119a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1209ba16087SJan Beulich bool 121a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1233c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1251032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 1261032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 1271032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1281032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1291032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 1301032c0baSSam Ravnborg 131a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 132a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 133a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1341032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1351032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1361032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1378d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1388d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1398d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1408d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1419a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1429a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1438d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 14489cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 14589cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 14689cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1471b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1481b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1491b27d05bSPekka Enberg 150dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 15189c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 152b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 15308fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 15408fc4580STejun Heo def_bool y 15508fc4580STejun Heo 15608fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 15711124411STejun Heo def_bool y 15811124411STejun Heo 1599f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1609f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1619f0e8d04SMike Travis 162801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 163801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 164801e4062SJohannes Berg 165f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 166f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 167f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 179765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 180765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 181765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1826a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 1836a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 1846a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 18569575d38SShane Wangconfig HAVE_INTEL_TXT 18669575d38SShane Wang def_bool y 18769575d38SShane Wang depends on EXPERIMENTAL && DMAR && ACPI 18869575d38SShane Wang 1898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1918d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 194f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ 195f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixner def_bool y 196f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixner 1978d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1998d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 2028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 2048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2058d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2066cd10f8dSJames Bottomleyconfig USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 2076cd10f8dSJames Bottomley def_bool y 2086cd10f8dSJames Bottomley depends on SMP 2096cd10f8dSJames Bottomley 2106b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 2116b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2126b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 2136b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2146b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 2156b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2166b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 2176b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2188d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 2198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 220ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 2218d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 2248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2253e5095d1SIngo Molnar depends on SMP || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 2268d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2278d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 228ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 229ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 23060a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 231ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 2328d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 2338d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 234506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 235dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2368d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 237506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 239506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 241506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 26303502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 26906cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 27006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 271f7d7f866SDavid Woodhouse depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && INTR_REMAP 27206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 27306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 27406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 27506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 27606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 27706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 27806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 27906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 2800b8f1efaSYinghai Luconfig SPARSE_IRQ 2810b8f1efaSYinghai Lu bool "Support sparse irq numbering" 28217483a1fSYinghai Lu depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ 2838f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 284973656feSIngo Molnar This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro 285973656feSIngo Molnar kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still 286973656feSIngo Molnar want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. 2870b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 288973656feSIngo Molnar ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread 289973656feSIngo Molnar out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. ) 290973656feSIngo Molnar 291973656feSIngo Molnar If you don't know what to do here, say N. 2920b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 29315e957d0SYinghai Luconfig NUMA_IRQ_DESC 29415e957d0SYinghai Lu def_bool y 295b9098957SYinghai Lu depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA 29648a1b10aSYinghai Lu 2976695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 2987a527688SJan Beulich bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 2997a527688SJan Beulich default y 3005ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 3018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3026695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 3036695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 3046695c85bSYinghai Lu 30526f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 30626f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 30726f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 3088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 30926f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3118425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 312c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 313c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 314c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 31606ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 31706ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 31806ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 31906ac8346SIngo Molnar 3208425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3218425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 3228425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3238425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3248425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3258425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 3268425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Summit/EXA (IBM x440) 3278425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Unisys ES7000 IA32 series 3283f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown MID devices 32906ac8346SIngo Molnar 33006ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 33106ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3328425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 33306ac8346SIngo Molnar 3348425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3358425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3368425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3378425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3388425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3398425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3408425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3418425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3428425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3438425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3448425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 3458425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3468425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3478425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3488425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3498425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3508425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 351c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 352c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 35303b48632SNick Piggin 3546a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 355c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3566a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3576a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 358c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3606a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3616a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 3626a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 3636a48565eSIngo Molnar 364c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 365c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 366c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 367c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 36854c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 3699d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 370c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 371c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 372c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 373c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 374c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 375c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 377506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_ELAN 378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "AMD Elan" 379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 380c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3883f4110a4SThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_MRST 3893f4110a4SThomas Gleixner bool "Moorestown MID platform" 3903f4110a4SThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 3913f4110a4SThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3923f4110a4SThomas Gleixner ---help--- 3933f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown is Intel's Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) based Moblin 3943f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Internet Device(MID) platform. Moorestown consists of two chips: 3953f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Lincroft (CPU core, graphics, and memory controller) and Langwell IOH. 3963f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Unlike standard x86 PCs, Moorestown does not have many legacy devices 3973f4110a4SThomas Gleixner nor standard legacy replacement devices/features. e.g. Moorestown does 3983f4110a4SThomas Gleixner not contain i8259, i8254, HPET, legacy BIOS, most of the io ports. 3993f4110a4SThomas Gleixner 400c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 401c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 403c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 404c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 405c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 406c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 407c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 408c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 409c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 410c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 411e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4129c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 4139c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 414c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 4158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 416d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default 417d49c4288SYinghai Lu subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 418d49c4288SYinghai Lu if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will 419d49c4288SYinghai Lu fallback to default. 420d49c4288SYinghai Lu 421c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 422d49c4288SYinghai Lu 423506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 425e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 4279c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 4288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 429d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 430d49c4288SYinghai Lu NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 431d49c4288SYinghai Lu bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 432d49c4288SYinghai Lu of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 433d49c4288SYinghai Lu firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 4351b84e1c8SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VISWS 4361b84e1c8SIngo Molnar bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 437c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 438c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 439c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 4401b84e1c8SIngo Molnar The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 4411b84e1c8SIngo Molnar based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 4421b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 4431b84e1c8SIngo Molnar Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 4441b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 4451b84e1c8SIngo Molnar A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 4461b84e1c8SIngo Molnar PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 4471b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 4489c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 4499c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 450e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4529c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 4539c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 4541f972768SIngo Molnar 4559c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 456c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 45726f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 4588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4599c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 4609c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 4619c398017SIngo Molnar 462ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 4633c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4643c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 465a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 4668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 474506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 4768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 482506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 484506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 485506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 486506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 48942d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 4908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 496790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 497790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 498790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 499f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 5008f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 501790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 502790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 503790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 504790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 505790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 506790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 5070cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 5080cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support" 5090cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 5108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5110cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 5120cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. 5130cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 514506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 516e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 517e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 5188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 519e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 520e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 521e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 522e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 523e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 524b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 525b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 526b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && SMP && EXPERIMENTAL 527b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 528b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 529b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 530b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 531b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 532b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Unfortunately the downside is an up to 5% performance hit on 533b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge native kernels, with various workloads. 534b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 535b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 536b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5377af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 5387af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 5397af192c9SGerd Hoffmann default n 5407af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 54397349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 54497349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 54597349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 5468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 54797349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 54897349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 54997349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 55003273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 55103273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 5528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 553c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 55403273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 55503273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 55603273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 55703273184SYinghai Lu ... 55803273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 559aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 560506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 561506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 5623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 563e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 565506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 5663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 567e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 569506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 571506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 5723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 5748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 578506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 579506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 582e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 588506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 590506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 5913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5929d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 5967ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 5977ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 5987ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED 5998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6007ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 6017ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 6027ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 6037ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 6047ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 605506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 6108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 617506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 618506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 620506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 621506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 622506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 623506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 624506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 6258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 631506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 632506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 634506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 635506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 636506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 637506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 638506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 639506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 6403c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6413c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 6438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 645506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6502b188723SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU 6512b188723SJoerg Roedel bool "AMD IOMMU support" 65207c40e8aSIngo Molnar select SWIOTLB 653a80dc3e0SJoerg Roedel select PCI_MSI 65424d2ba0aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 6558f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 65618d22200SJoerg Roedel With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in 65718d22200SJoerg Roedel your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides 65818d22200SJoerg Roedel remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you 65918d22200SJoerg Roedel can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the 66018d22200SJoerg Roedel system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. 66118d22200SJoerg Roedel 66218d22200SJoerg Roedel You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into 66318d22200SJoerg Roedel your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI 66418d22200SJoerg Roedel table. 6652b188723SJoerg Roedel 6662e117604SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU_STATS 6672e117604SJoerg Roedel bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" 6682e117604SJoerg Roedel depends on AMD_IOMMU 6692e117604SJoerg Roedel select DEBUG_FS 6708f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6712e117604SJoerg Roedel This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various 6722e117604SJoerg Roedel statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that 6732e117604SJoerg Roedel information to userspace via debugfs. 6742e117604SJoerg Roedel If unsure, say N. 6752e117604SJoerg Roedel 676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 678a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 6798f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 686a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 68718b743dcSFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU) 688d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 6891aaf1183SJoerg Roedelconfig IOMMU_API 6901aaf1183SJoerg Roedel def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR) 6911aaf1183SJoerg Roedel 6921184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 6931184dc2fSMike Travis bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 69436f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 69536f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 6961184dc2fSMike Travis default n 6978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6981184dc2fSMike Travis Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 6991184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 701506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 70236f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 7032a3313f4SMichael K. Johnson range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP 70436f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 70578637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 706d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 70778637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 70878637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 7098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 711d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 713506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 717506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 719b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 7208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 7273c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7283c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 729b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 7308f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 735506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 739e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 7408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 749506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 750506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 7538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 754506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 7633c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 764e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 7673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 768e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 7713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 772506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 77441b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 77541b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 77641b9eb26SStefan Assmann default n 77741b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 7788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 77941b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 78041b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 78141b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 78241b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 78341b9eb26SStefan Assmann 78441b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 78541b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 78641b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 78741b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 78841b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 78941b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 79041b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 79141b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 79241b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 79341b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 79441b9eb26SStefan Assmann 79541b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 79641b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 79741b9eb26SStefan Assmann 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 799bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 801bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 802bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 804bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 8054efc0670SAndi Kleen 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 8073c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 809c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 8153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8163c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 817c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8224efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 8234efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool n 824c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 8254efc0670SAndi Kleen prompt "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 8264efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 8274efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 8284efc0670SAndi Kleen systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitely on the command 8294efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 8304efc0670SAndi Kleen 831b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 832b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 833b2762686SAndi Kleen bool 834b2762686SAndi Kleen default y 835b2762686SAndi Kleen 836ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 837c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE 838ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 839ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 840ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 841ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 842ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 843ea149b36SAndi Kleen 8444efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 8454efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 8465bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 8474efc0670SAndi Kleen 848506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 849506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 850506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 8528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 853506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 856506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 857506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 858506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 859506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 860506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 861506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 862506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 864506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 865506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 866506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 868506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 869506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 870506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 871506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 872506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 873506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 878506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 883506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 886506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 887506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 889506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 892506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 893506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 894506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 8959ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 8969ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 897506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 898506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 900506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 901506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 902506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 903506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 904506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 9055e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 906506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 907506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 908506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 909506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 910506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 911506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 9128d86f390SPeter Oruba tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support" 913506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 914506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 91680cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 91780cc9f10SPeter Oruba IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, 91880cc9f10SPeter Oruba Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and 91980cc9f10SPeter Oruba 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra. 92080cc9f10SPeter Oruba You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself 92180cc9f10SPeter Oruba which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9238d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 9248d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9298d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 93018dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" 9318d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 9328d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 9338d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 9348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9358d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 9368d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 9378d86f390SPeter Oruba 9388d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 9398d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 9408d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 9418d86f390SPeter Oruba 94280cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 94318dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" 94480cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 94580cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 9468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 94780cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 94880cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 94980cc9f10SPeter Oruba 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 9513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 9568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 9658f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9719b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajputconfig X86_CPU_DEBUG 9729b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput tristate "/sys/kernel/debug/x86/cpu/* - CPU Debug support" 9739b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput ---help--- 9749b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput If you select this option, this will provide various x86 CPUs 9759b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput information through debugfs. 9769b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 1019506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1020506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 1021506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 1022506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 10238f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1024506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1025506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 10318f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1033506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 10428f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1066506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1067506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1069506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1073506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1076506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1078506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1081506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 10823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 10869ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 10888f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1092506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1094600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1095600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE 1096600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 10979e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 10989e899816SNick Piggin bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED 10999e899816SNick Piggin default y 11009e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 11018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11029e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 11039e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 11049e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 11059e899816SNick Piggin 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1108fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 1110604d2055SRafael J. Wysocki depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 11110699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 11128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1114fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1119c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1120fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1121fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1122fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1123fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1124fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1125fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1126fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 11323c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11333c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 11358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 11433c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11443c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 11478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11506ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 11516ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 11526ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 11536ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 11546ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 11556ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 11566ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 11576ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 11586ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 11628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1166506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1168d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 116946d50c98SJan Beulich range 1 9 1170d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "9" if MAXSMP 1171506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1172506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1173506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1174506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 11758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11761184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1177692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1178506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1179c1329375STejun Heoconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM 11803c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 11843c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1185506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1186506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1187506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 11883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1191506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 11923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1193506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1194506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1195506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1196506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 119799809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA 1198506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1199506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1200506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1201b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1203506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1205b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1206b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1207*9492587cSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 1208*9492587cSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki def_bool y 1209*9492587cSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 1210*9492587cSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 1211b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1212b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 1213b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 1214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12174272ebfbSYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1221506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1223b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1225506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1231506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 12348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12409f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 12419f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 12428f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12439f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 12449f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 12459f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 12469f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 12479f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 12489f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 12499f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 12509f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 12519f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 12529f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 12539f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 12549f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 12559f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 12569f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 12579f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 12589f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 12599f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 12609f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 12619f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1262c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1263c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1264c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1265c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 12668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1267c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1268c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1269c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1270fc381519SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K 1271fc381519SIngo Molnar bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" 1272fc381519SIngo Molnar default y 12738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1274fc381519SIngo Molnar Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known 1275fc381519SIngo Molnar to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are 1276fc381519SIngo Molnar known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not 1277fc381519SIngo Molnar be used by the kernel. 1278fc381519SIngo Molnar 1279fc381519SIngo Molnar Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS 1280fc381519SIngo Molnar to get all its memory reservations and usages right. 1281fc381519SIngo Molnar 1282fc381519SIngo Molnar If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not 1283fc381519SIngo Molnar work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug 1284fc381519SIngo Molnar events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable 1285fc381519SIngo Molnar X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical 1286fc381519SIngo Molnar corruption patterns. 1287fc381519SIngo Molnar 1288fc381519SIngo Molnar Say Y if unsure. 1289fc381519SIngo Molnar 1290506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1307506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1311506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1312506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1315506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1316506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1317506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 1318506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1319506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1320506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1321506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1322506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1323506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1324506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1325506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1326506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1327506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1328506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1329506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1330506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1332506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1333506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1334506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1335506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1336506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1337506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1338506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1339506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1340506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1341506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1342506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1343506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1344506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1345506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1346506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1347506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13487225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 135095ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 13512ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 135295ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 135395ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 13548f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1355aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1356aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 135795ffa243SYinghai Lu 1358aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1359692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1360aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 136195ffa243SYinghai Lu 13622ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 136395ffa243SYinghai Lu 136495ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1365f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1366f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1367f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 136895ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 13698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1370f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 137195ffa243SYinghai Lu 137212031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 137312031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 137412031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 137512031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 137612031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 13778f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 137812031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1379aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 138012031a62SYinghai Lu 13812e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 13822a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 13832e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com prompt "x86 PAT support" 13842a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 13858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13862e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1387042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 13882e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 13892e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 13902e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13912e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1392042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 13932e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13942e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 13952e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 139646cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED 139746cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 139846cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi depends on X86_PAT 139946cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 14019ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 14025b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 14048b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14078b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 14088b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 14098b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 14108b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 14118b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 14128b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 14153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 14163c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 14178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 14249c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1430113c5413SIngo Molnarconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1431113c5413SIngo Molnar bool 1432113c5413SIngo Molnar 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1435113c5413SIngo Molnar select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 14368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1438113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1439113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1447113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1448113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 14548f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 146904b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 14718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14823ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 14833ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14843ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1485fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 14868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 148789081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 148889081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 14893ab83521SHuang Ying 1490506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1492ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 14938f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1511ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 1512ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 1513ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 1514ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 1515ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 1516ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 1517ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 1518ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1519ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 1520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1521506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1522506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1523506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1524506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1525506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1526506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1527506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1528506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1529506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1530506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1531506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 153226717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 153326717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 15348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1537506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1538506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1548845adf72SH. Peter Anvin# Relocation on x86-32 needs some additional build support 1549845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 1550845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1551845adf72SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_32 && RELOCATABLE 1552845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 1553506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1556ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 1557ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin range 0x2000 0x1000000 15588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1560506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1577506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 15787c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 15794b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15817c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 15827c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 15837c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 15847c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 15857c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1587506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 15883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15893c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1590af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 15918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1592af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1600516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1601516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 1602516cbf37STim Bird default n 16038f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1604516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1605516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1606516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1607516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1608516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1609516cbf37STim Bird 1610516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1611516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1612516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1613516cbf37STim Bird 1614516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1615516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1616516cbf37STim Bird 1617516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1618516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1619516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1620516cbf37STim Bird default "" 16218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1622516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1623516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1624516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1625516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1626516cbf37STim Bird 1627516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1628516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1629516cbf37STim Bird 1630516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1631516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1632516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1633516cbf37STim Bird 1634516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1635516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1636516cbf37STim Bird default n 1637516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 16388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1639516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1640516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1641516cbf37STim Bird 1642516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1643516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1644516cbf37STim Bird 1645506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1647506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 165135551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 165235551053SGary Hade def_bool y 165335551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 165435551053SGary Hade 1655506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1659da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1661e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 16623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1663e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1666e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1667e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1668e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1669a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1670a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1671a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1672a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1673a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1674e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1676efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1677e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1678e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1679e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1680e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1681e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1682e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1683e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1684e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1685e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1686e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1687e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1689e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1690e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1691e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 169253471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1693e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1694e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1695e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1696e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1697e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1698e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1699e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1700e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1701e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1702e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1703e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1704e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1705e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1706e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1707e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1708e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1709e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1710e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1711e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1712e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1713e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1714e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1715e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1716e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1717e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1718e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1719e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1720e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1721e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1722e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1723e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1724e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1725e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1726e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1727e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1728e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1731e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1732e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1734e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 17378f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1738e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1742e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1744e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1746e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1747e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1748e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1749e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1751e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1752e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1753e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1754e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1755e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1756e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1757e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1758e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1759e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1760e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 17618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1762e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1763e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1764e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1765e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1766e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1767e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1768e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1769e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1770e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1771e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 17728f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1773e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1774e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1775e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1776e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1777e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1778e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1779e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1780e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1781e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1783e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1784e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 17858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1786e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1787e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1788e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1789e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1790e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1791e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1792e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1793e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1794e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1795e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1796e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1797e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1798e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 179927471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 180027471fdbSAndy Henroid 1801e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1802e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1803e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1804e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1805e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1806e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 18071ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 18081c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1809e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 18108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1811e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1812e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1813e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1814e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1815e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1816e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1817e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1818efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1819e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1820e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1821e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1824e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1825e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1827e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1828e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1829e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1830e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1831e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1832e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1833e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1837e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1838e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1839e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1840e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1841e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1842e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1843e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18443ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 18453ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "OLPC" 18463ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 18473ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 18482bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 18492bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 18502bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 1851e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 18543c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1855efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1858e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 18593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1860efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC)) 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1862e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 18633c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1864e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18663ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 18672bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 18682bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 18693ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 18713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18804cf2e75dSDavid Woodhouse depends on PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18880cd5c3c8SKyle McMartinconfig DMAR_DEFAULT_ON 1889f6be37fdSKyle McMartin def_bool y 18900cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default" 18910cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin depends on DMAR 18920cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin help 18930cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if 18940cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can 18950cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is 18960cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains 18970cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin experimental. 18980cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin 189962edf5dcSDavid Woodhouseconfig DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA 190062edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse def_bool n 190162edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse prompt "Workaround broken graphics drivers (going away soon)" 190262edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse depends on DMAR 190362edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse ---help--- 190462edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 190562edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 190662edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 190762edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 190862edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse to use physical addresses for DMA, at least until this 190962edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse option is removed in the 2.6.32 kernel. 191062edf5dcSDavid Woodhouse 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 19123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 19148f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1915c7ab48d2SDavid Woodhouse Floppy disk drivers are known to bypass DMA API calls 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1918c7ab48d2SDavid Woodhouse 16MiB to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19209fa8c481SSuresh Siddhaconfig INTR_REMAP 19219fa8c481SSuresh Siddha bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" 19229fa8c481SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 19238f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 19249fa8c481SSuresh Siddha Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. 19259fa8c481SSuresh Siddha To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or 19269fa8c481SSuresh Siddha to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. 19279fa8c481SSuresh Siddha 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 19343c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 19408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 196672ee6ebbSIngo Molnar bool "MCA support" 19678f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 19778f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1982e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 19898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 19973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 19983c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 20008f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 2002e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 2003e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 2005e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20063ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 20073ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 20083ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon default n 20098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 20103ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 20113ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 20123ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2013bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 2014bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 2015e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 2016e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2017bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 2020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2021e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 2022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2023e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2024e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2025e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 2027e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2028e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 2029e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2030e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2031e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2032e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2033a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 20348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2035e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 2036e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 2037e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 2038e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2039e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2040e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 20416b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 20428f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2043e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2044e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2045e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 20463c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2047e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 2048e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2049e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 2050e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 2051e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2052e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2053e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 20543c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2055b8992195SAlexey Dobriyan depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 2056e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2057e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2058e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2059e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2060e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2061e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2062e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2063e5beae16SKeith Packard 2064e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2065e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2066e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2067e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2068e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2069e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2070e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2071e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2072e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2073e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2074e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2075e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2076e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2077e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2078edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2079edf88417SAvi Kivity 2080e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2081