1b2441318SGreg Kroah-Hartman# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 3daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 4104daea1SMasahiro Yamada bool "64-bit kernel" if "$(ARCH)" = "x86" 5104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "$(ARCH)" != "i386" 68f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 7daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 8daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 10daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 113120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 123120e25eSJan Beulich depends on !64BIT 13341c787eSIngo Molnar # Options that are inherently 32-bit kernel only: 14341c787eSIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 15341c787eSIngo Molnar select CLKSRC_I8253 16341c787eSIngo Molnar select CLONE_BACKWARDS 17117ed454SThomas Gleixner select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 18341c787eSIngo Molnar select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 19341c787eSIngo Molnar select OLD_SIGACTION 207ac87074SVincenzo Frascino select GENERIC_VDSO_32 21daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 22daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 233120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 243120e25eSJan Beulich depends on 64BIT 25d94e0685SIngo Molnar # Options that are inherently 64-bit kernel only: 264eb0716eSAlexandre Ghiti select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE 27c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if CC_HAS_INT128 28d94e0685SIngo Molnar select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF 29d94e0685SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 30d94e0685SIngo Molnar select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 31f616ab59SChristoph Hellwig select NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 3209230cbcSChristoph Hellwig select SWIOTLB 331032c0baSSam Ravnborg 34518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FORCE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 35518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 36518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on X86_32 37518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 38518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select DYNAMIC_FTRACE 39518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 40518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) We keep the static function tracing (!DYNAMIC_FTRACE) around 41518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in order to test the non static function tracing in the 42518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) generic code, as other architectures still use it. But we 43518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) only need to keep it around for x86_64. No need to keep it 44518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) for x86_32. For x86_32, force DYNAMIC_FTRACE. 45d94e0685SIngo Molnar# 46d94e0685SIngo Molnar# Arch settings 47d94e0685SIngo Molnar# 48d94e0685SIngo Molnar# ( Note that options that are marked 'if X86_64' could in principle be 49d94e0685SIngo Molnar# ported to 32-bit as well. ) 50d94e0685SIngo Molnar# 518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 523c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 53c763ea26SIngo Molnar # 54c763ea26SIngo Molnar # Note: keep this list sorted alphabetically 55c763ea26SIngo Molnar # 566471b825SIngo Molnar select ACPI_LEGACY_TABLES_LOOKUP if ACPI 576e0a0ea1SGraeme Gregory select ACPI_SYSTEM_POWER_STATES_SUPPORT if ACPI 58942fa985SYury Norov select ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T if X86_32 592a21ad57SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_INIT 6091dda51aSAleksey Makarov select ARCH_HAS_ACPI_TABLE_UPGRADE if ACPI 61fa5b6ec9SLaura Abbott select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 6221266be9SDan Williams select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 63*b1a57bbfSDouglas Anderson select ARCH_HAS_EARLY_DEBUG if KGDB 646471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 6572d93104SLinus Torvalds select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER 66316d097cSDave Hansen select ARCH_HAS_FILTER_PGPROT 676974f0c4SDaniel Micay select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 68957e3facSRiku Voipio select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL 695c9a8750SDmitry Vyukov select ARCH_HAS_KCOV if X86_64 700c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann select ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT 7110bcc80eSMathieu Desnoyers select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 72c763ea26SIngo Molnar select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API if X86_64 7317596731SRobin Murphy select ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP if X86_64 743010a5eaSLaurent Dufour select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 750aed55afSDan Williams select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE if X86_64 76092b31aaSDan Williams select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE if X86_64 && X86_MCE 77d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 78d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe select ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 79ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 80ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 81ac1ab12aSMathieu Desnoyers select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 8225c619e5SBrian Gerst select ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 83c6d30853SAndrey Ryabinin select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL 846471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 856471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC if ACPI 8677fbbc81SMark Salter select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT 875e2c18c0SMark Salter select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO 883599fe12SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_STACKWALK 892c870e61SArnd Bergmann select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ACPI 906471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW 916471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING if X86_64 926471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 936471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS 946471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS 95ce4a4e56SAndy Lutomirski select ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 9681c22041SDaniel Borkmann select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT if X86_64 97c763ea26SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 983876d4a3SAlexandre Ghiti select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 9938d8b4e6SHuang Ying select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if X86_64 10010916706SShile Zhang select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1016471b825SIngo Molnar select CLKEVT_I8253 1026471b825SIngo Molnar select CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE 1036471b825SIngo Molnar select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 1046471b825SIngo Molnar select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS 10545471cd9SLinus Torvalds select EDAC_ATOMIC_SCRUB 10645471cd9SLinus Torvalds select EDAC_SUPPORT 1076471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 1086471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 1096471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST 1106471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 1116471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE 11261dc0f55SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES 1136471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 1146471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT 1156471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_IOMAP 116c7d6c9ddSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK if SMP 1170fa115daSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_MATRIX_ALLOCATOR if X86_LOCAL_APIC 118ad7a929fSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_MIGRATION if SMP 1196471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 120c201c917SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_RESERVATION_MODE 1216471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW 1226471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP 1232ae27137SSteven Price select GENERIC_PTDUMP 1246471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 1256471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER 1266471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER 1276471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1287ac87074SVincenzo Frascino select GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY 129550a77a7SDmitry Safonov select GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 13039656e83SChristoph Hellwig select GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH if X86_PAE 13117e5888eSHans de Goede select HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND 1327edaeb68SThomas Gleixner select HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP if X86_64 1336471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ACPI_APEI if ACPI 1346471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI if ACPI 1356471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB 1366471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 1376471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP if X86_64 || X86_PAE 1386471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 139b34006c4SArd Biesheuvel select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE 140d17a1d97SAndrey Ryabinin select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if X86_64 1410609ae01SDaniel Axtens select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC if X86_64 1426471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 1439e08f57dSDaniel Cashman select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS if MMU 1449e08f57dSDaniel Cashman select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if MMU && COMPAT 1451b028f78SDmitry Safonov select HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES if MMU && COMPAT 146271ca788SArd Biesheuvel select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS 1476471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 148f7d83c1cSKees Cook select HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST 149afaef01cSAlexander Popov select HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK 1506471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 1516471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 152a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD if X86_64 153b64d8d1eSPeter Xu select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP if X86_64 && USERFAULTFD 154e37e43a4SAndy Lutomirski select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK if X86_64 155c763ea26SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 1562ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS 1576471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 1586471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 1596471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING if X86_64 160c1bd55f9SJosh Triplett select HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS 1616471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 1626471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 1639c5a3621SAkinobu Mita select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 164677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 16506aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 166562955feSSteven Rostedt (VMware) select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 16703f5781bSWang YanQing select HAVE_EBPF_JIT 16858340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 1696630a8e5SChristoph Hellwig select HAVE_EISA 1705f56a5dfSJiri Slaby select HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 17167a929e0SChristoph Hellwig select HAVE_FAST_GUP 172644e0e8dSSteven Rostedt (VMware) select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 || DYNAMIC_FTRACE 1736471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 1746471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 1756471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 1766b90bd4bSEmese Revfy select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 1770067f129SK.Prasad select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 1786471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_IDE 1796471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 1806471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64 1816471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 1826471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1836471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1846471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 1856471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1866471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1876471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 1886471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KPROBES 1896471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 190540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1916471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KRETPROBES 1926471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 1936471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_LIVEPATCH if X86_64 1946471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP 1950102752eSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 196ee9f8fceSJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 1979f132f7eSJoel Fernandes (Google) select HAVE_MOVE_PMD 19842a0bb3fSPetr Mladek select HAVE_NMI 1996471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_OPROFILE 2006471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_OPTPROBES 2016471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 2026471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 203c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 20492e5aae4SNicholas Piggin select HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 205eb01d42aSChristoph Hellwig select HAVE_PCI 206c5e63197SJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_REGS 207c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 208ff2e6d72SPeter Zijlstra select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE if PARAVIRT 2096471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 2106415b38bSJiri Slaby select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE if X86_64 && (UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER || UNWINDER_ORC) && STACK_VALIDATION 2113c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 212d148eac0SMasahiro Yamada select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR if CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR 213c763ea26SIngo Molnar select HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION if X86_64 214d6761b8fSMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_RSEQ 2156471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 2166471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 2177c68af6eSAvi Kivity select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 2187ac87074SVincenzo Frascino select HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO 21905736e4aSThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_SMT if SMP 220c0185808SThomas Gleixner select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING 22186596f0aSChristoph Hellwig select NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH 2222eac9c2dSChristoph Hellwig select PCI_DOMAINS if PCI 223625210cfSSinan Kaya select PCI_LOCKLESS_CONFIG if PCI 2246471b825SIngo Molnar select PERF_EVENTS 2253195ef59SPrarit Bhargava select RTC_LIB 226d6faca40SArnd Bergmann select RTC_MC146818_LIB 2276471b825SIngo Molnar select SPARSE_IRQ 22883fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 2296471b825SIngo Molnar select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 23015f4eae7SAndy Lutomirski select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 2316471b825SIngo Molnar select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2326471b825SIngo Molnar select VIRT_TO_BUS 2336471b825SIngo Molnar select X86_FEATURE_NAMES if PROC_FS 2340c608dadSAubrey Li select PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS if PROC_FS 2359e2b4be3SNayna Jain imply IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT if EFI 2367d8330a5SBalbir Singh 237ba7e4d13SIngo Molnarconfig INSTRUCTION_DECODER 2383120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2393120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES 240ba7e4d13SIngo Molnar 24151b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 24251b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 24351b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 24451b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 24551b26adaSLinus Torvalds 2468d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 2473c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 2533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2559e08f57dSDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 2569e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 28 if 64BIT 2579e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 8 2589e08f57dSDaniel Cashman 2599e08f57dSDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 2609e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 32 if 64BIT 2619e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 16 2629e08f57dSDaniel Cashman 2639e08f57dSDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 2649e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 8 2659e08f57dSDaniel Cashman 2669e08f57dSDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 2679e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 16 2689e08f57dSDaniel Cashman 2698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 2708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 2733120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2743120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 2758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 2773c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 279b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 280b93a531eSJan Beulich 281b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 282b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 2838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 2853120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2863120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 2878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2881032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 2891032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2901032c0baSSam Ravnborg 2919a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 2929a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 2938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2941b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 2951b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 2961b27d05bSPekka Enberg 297316d097cSDave Hansenconfig ARCH_HAS_FILTER_PGPROT 298316d097cSDave Hansen def_bool y 299316d097cSDave Hansen 300dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 30189c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 302b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 30308fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 30408fc4580STejun Heo def_bool y 30508fc4580STejun Heo 30608fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 30711124411STejun Heo def_bool y 30811124411STejun Heo 309801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 310801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 311801e4062SJohannes Berg 312f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 313f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 314f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 31553313b2cSSteve Capperconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 31653313b2cSSteve Capper def_bool y 31753313b2cSSteve Capper 3188d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 319e0fd24a3SJan Beulich def_bool y if X86_64 3208d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 3218d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 322e0fd24a3SJan Beulich def_bool y if X86_64 3238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 3246a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 3256a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 3266a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 327d6f2d75aSAndrey Ryabininconfig KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET 328d6f2d75aSAndrey Ryabinin hex 329d6f2d75aSAndrey Ryabinin depends on KASAN 330d6f2d75aSAndrey Ryabinin default 0xdffffc0000000000 331d6f2d75aSAndrey Ryabinin 33269575d38SShane Wangconfig HAVE_INTEL_TXT 33369575d38SShane Wang def_bool y 3346ea30386SKees Cook depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI 33569575d38SShane Wang 3366b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 3376b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 3386b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 3396b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 3406b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 3416b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 3426b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 3436b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 344ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 345ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 3468458f8c2SMasahiro Yamada depends on X86_32 && !STACKPROTECTOR 347ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 3482b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 3492b144498SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool y 3502b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 351d20642f0SRob Herringconfig FIX_EARLYCON_MEM 352d20642f0SRob Herring def_bool y 353d20642f0SRob Herring 35494d49eb3SKirill A. Shutemovconfig DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK 35594d49eb3SKirill A. Shutemov bool 35694d49eb3SKirill A. Shutemov 35798233368SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 35898233368SKirill A. Shutemov int 35977ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov default 5 if X86_5LEVEL 36098233368SKirill A. Shutemov default 4 if X86_64 36198233368SKirill A. Shutemov default 3 if X86_PAE 36298233368SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 36398233368SKirill A. Shutemov 3642a61f474SMasahiro Yamadaconfig CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR 3652a61f474SMasahiro Yamada bool 3662a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh $(CC)) if 64BIT 3672a61f474SMasahiro Yamada default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-x86_32-has-stack-protector.sh $(CC)) 3682a61f474SMasahiro Yamada help 3692a61f474SMasahiro Yamada We have to make sure stack protector is unconditionally disabled if 3702a61f474SMasahiro Yamada the compiler produces broken code. 3712a61f474SMasahiro Yamada 372506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 373506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3745ee71535SRandy Dunlapconfig ZONE_DMA 3755ee71535SRandy Dunlap bool "DMA memory allocation support" if EXPERT 3765ee71535SRandy Dunlap default y 3775ee71535SRandy Dunlap help 3785ee71535SRandy Dunlap DMA memory allocation support allows devices with less than 32-bit 3795ee71535SRandy Dunlap addressing to allocate within the first 16MB of address space. 3805ee71535SRandy Dunlap Disable if no such devices will be used. 3815ee71535SRandy Dunlap 3825ee71535SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 3835ee71535SRandy Dunlap 384506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 3884a474157SRobert Graffham a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more 3894a474157SRobert Graffham than one CPU, say Y. 390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3914a474157SRobert Graffham If you say N here, the kernel will run on uni- and multiprocessor 392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 3944a474157SRobert Graffham uniprocessor machines. On a uniprocessor machine, the kernel 395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 406cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See also <file:Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst>, 4074f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab <file:Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 4129def39beSJosh Triplettconfig X86_FEATURE_NAMES 4139def39beSJosh Triplett bool "Processor feature human-readable names" if EMBEDDED 4149def39beSJosh Triplett default y 4159def39beSJosh Triplett ---help--- 4169def39beSJosh Triplett This option compiles in a table of x86 feature bits and corresponding 4179def39beSJosh Triplett names. This is required to support /proc/cpuinfo and a few kernel 4189def39beSJosh Triplett messages. You can disable this to save space, at the expense of 4199def39beSJosh Triplett making those few kernel messages show numeric feature bits instead. 4209def39beSJosh Triplett 4219def39beSJosh Triplett If in doubt, say Y. 4229def39beSJosh Triplett 42306cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 42406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 42519e3d60dSJan Kiszka depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && (IRQ_REMAP || HYPERVISOR_GUEST) 42606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 42706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 42806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 42906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 43006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 43106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 43206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 43306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 4346695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 4356e87f9b7SBin Gao bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI 4367a527688SJan Beulich default y 4375ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 4388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4396695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 4406695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 4416695c85bSYinghai Lu 442ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig GOLDFISH 443ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima def_bool y 444ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima depends on X86_GOLDFISH 445ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 44676b04384SDavid Woodhouseconfig RETPOLINE 44776b04384SDavid Woodhouse bool "Avoid speculative indirect branches in kernel" 44876b04384SDavid Woodhouse default y 449d5028ba8SPeter Zijlstra select STACK_VALIDATION if HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 45076b04384SDavid Woodhouse help 45176b04384SDavid Woodhouse Compile kernel with the retpoline compiler options to guard against 45276b04384SDavid Woodhouse kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding speculative indirect 45376b04384SDavid Woodhouse branches. Requires a compiler with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern 45476b04384SDavid Woodhouse support for full protection. The kernel may run slower. 45576b04384SDavid Woodhouse 456e6d42931SJohannes Weinerconfig X86_CPU_RESCTRL 457e6d42931SJohannes Weiner bool "x86 CPU resource control support" 4586fe07ce3SBabu Moger depends on X86 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD) 45959fe5a77SThomas Gleixner select KERNFS 460e79f15a4SChen Yu select PROC_CPU_RESCTRL if PROC_FS 46178e99b4aSFenghua Yu help 462e6d42931SJohannes Weiner Enable x86 CPU resource control support. 4636fe07ce3SBabu Moger 4646fe07ce3SBabu Moger Provide support for the allocation and monitoring of system resources 4656fe07ce3SBabu Moger usage by the CPU. 4666fe07ce3SBabu Moger 4676fe07ce3SBabu Moger Intel calls this Intel Resource Director Technology 4686fe07ce3SBabu Moger (Intel(R) RDT). More information about RDT can be found in the 4696fe07ce3SBabu Moger Intel x86 Architecture Software Developer Manual. 4706fe07ce3SBabu Moger 4716fe07ce3SBabu Moger AMD calls this AMD Platform Quality of Service (AMD QoS). 4726fe07ce3SBabu Moger More information about AMD QoS can be found in the AMD64 Technology 4736fe07ce3SBabu Moger Platform Quality of Service Extensions manual. 47478e99b4aSFenghua Yu 47578e99b4aSFenghua Yu Say N if unsure. 47678e99b4aSFenghua Yu 4778425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 478a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlapconfig X86_BIGSMP 479a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 480a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap depends on SMP 481a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap ---help--- 482e133f6eaSRandy Dunlap This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs. 483a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap 484c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 485c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 486c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 4878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 48806ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 48906ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 49006ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 49106ac8346SIngo Molnar 4928425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 4938425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 494cb7b8023SBen Hutchings Goldfish (Android emulator) 4958425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 4968425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 4978425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 49883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11-based (e.g. Northville) 4993f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown MID devices 50006ac8346SIngo Molnar 50106ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 50206ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 5038425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 50406ac8346SIngo Molnar 5058425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 5068425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 5078425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 5088425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 5098425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 5108425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 5118425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 5128425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 5138425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 5148425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 5158425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 51644b111b5SSteffen Persvold Numascale NumaChip 5178425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 5188425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 5198425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 5208425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 5218425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 5228425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 523c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 524c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 52544b111b5SSteffen Persvoldconfig X86_NUMACHIP 52644b111b5SSteffen Persvold bool "Numascale NumaChip" 52744b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_64 52844b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 52944b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on NUMA 53044b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on SMP 53144b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_X2APIC 532f9726bfdSDaniel J Blueman depends on PCI_MMCONFIG 53344b111b5SSteffen Persvold ---help--- 53444b111b5SSteffen Persvold Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to 53544b111b5SSteffen Persvold enable more than ~168 cores. 53644b111b5SSteffen Persvold If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 53703b48632SNick Piggin 5386a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 539c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 5406276a074SBorislav Petkov select HYPERVISOR_GUEST 5416a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 5426a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 543c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 544ead91d4bSShai Fultheim depends on SMP 5458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5466a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 5476a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 5486a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 5496a48565eSIngo Molnar 550c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 551c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 552c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 553c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 55454c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 5551ecb4ae5SAndrew Morton depends on EFI 5569d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 5571222e564SIngo Molnar depends on PCI 558c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 559c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 560c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 561c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 562c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 563c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 565ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig X86_GOLDFISH 566ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)" 567cb7b8023SBen Hutchings depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 568ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima ---help--- 569ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily 570ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android 571ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Goldfish emulator say N here. 572ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 573c751e17bSThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_INTEL_CE 574c751e17bSThomas Gleixner bool "CE4100 TV platform" 575c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI 576c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI_GODIRECT 5776084a6e2SJiang Liu depends on X86_IO_APIC 578c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 579c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 58037bc9f50SDirk Brandewie select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 581da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF 582da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE 583c751e17bSThomas Gleixner ---help--- 584c751e17bSThomas Gleixner Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC. 585c751e17bSThomas Gleixner This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop 586c751e17bSThomas Gleixner boxes and media devices. 587c751e17bSThomas Gleixner 5884cb9b00fSDavid Cohenconfig X86_INTEL_MID 58943605ef1SAlan Cox bool "Intel MID platform support" 59043605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 591edc6bc78SDavid Cohen depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 5921ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI 5933fda5bb4SAndy Shevchenko depends on X86_64 || (PCI_GOANY && X86_32) 5941ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on X86_IO_APIC 5957c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select SFI 5964cb9b00fSDavid Cohen select I2C 5977c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select DW_APB_TIMER 5981ea7c673SAlan Cox select APB_TIMER 5991ea7c673SAlan Cox select INTEL_SCU_IPC 60015a713dfSMika Westerberg select MFD_INTEL_MSIC 6011ea7c673SAlan Cox ---help--- 6024cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID (Mobile 6034cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Internet Device) platform systems which do not have the PCI legacy 6044cb9b00fSDavid Cohen interfaces. If you are building for a PC class system say N here. 6051ea7c673SAlan Cox 6064cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Intel MID platforms are based on an Intel processor and chipset which 6074cb9b00fSDavid Cohen consume less power than most of the x86 derivatives. 60843605ef1SAlan Cox 6098bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghueconfig X86_INTEL_QUARK 6108bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue bool "Intel Quark platform support" 6118bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on X86_32 6128bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 6138bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 6148bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on X86_TSC 6158bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on PCI 6168bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on PCI_GOANY 6178bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on X86_IO_APIC 6188bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue select IOSF_MBI 6198bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue select INTEL_IMR 6209ab6eb51SAndy Shevchenko select COMMON_CLK 6218bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue ---help--- 6228bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue Select to include support for Quark X1000 SoC. 6238bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue Say Y here if you have a Quark based system such as the Arduino 6248bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue compatible Intel Galileo. 6258bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue 6263d48aab1SMika Westerbergconfig X86_INTEL_LPSS 6273d48aab1SMika Westerberg bool "Intel Low Power Subsystem Support" 6285962dd22SSinan Kaya depends on X86 && ACPI && PCI 6293d48aab1SMika Westerberg select COMMON_CLK 6300f531431SMathias Nyman select PINCTRL 631eebb3e8dSAndy Shevchenko select IOSF_MBI 6323d48aab1SMika Westerberg ---help--- 6333d48aab1SMika Westerberg Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as 6343d48aab1SMika Westerberg found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables 6350f531431SMathias Nyman things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol 6360f531431SMathias Nyman which are needed by the LPSS peripheral drivers. 6373d48aab1SMika Westerberg 63892082a88SKen Xueconfig X86_AMD_PLATFORM_DEVICE 63992082a88SKen Xue bool "AMD ACPI2Platform devices support" 64092082a88SKen Xue depends on ACPI 64192082a88SKen Xue select COMMON_CLK 64292082a88SKen Xue select PINCTRL 64392082a88SKen Xue ---help--- 64492082a88SKen Xue Select to interpret AMD specific ACPI device to platform device 64592082a88SKen Xue such as I2C, UART, GPIO found on AMD Carrizo and later chipsets. 64692082a88SKen Xue I2C and UART depend on COMMON_CLK to set clock. GPIO driver is 64792082a88SKen Xue implemented under PINCTRL subsystem. 64892082a88SKen Xue 649ced3ce76SDavid E. Boxconfig IOSF_MBI 650ced3ce76SDavid E. Box tristate "Intel SoC IOSF Sideband support for SoC platforms" 651ced3ce76SDavid E. Box depends on PCI 652ced3ce76SDavid E. Box ---help--- 653ced3ce76SDavid E. Box This option enables sideband register access support for Intel SoC 654ced3ce76SDavid E. Box platforms. On these platforms the IOSF sideband is used in lieu of 655ced3ce76SDavid E. Box MSR's for some register accesses, mostly but not limited to thermal 656ced3ce76SDavid E. Box and power. Drivers may query the availability of this device to 657ced3ce76SDavid E. Box determine if they need the sideband in order to work on these 658ced3ce76SDavid E. Box platforms. The sideband is available on the following SoC products. 659ced3ce76SDavid E. Box This list is not meant to be exclusive. 660ced3ce76SDavid E. Box - BayTrail 661ced3ce76SDavid E. Box - Braswell 662ced3ce76SDavid E. Box - Quark 663ced3ce76SDavid E. Box 664ced3ce76SDavid E. Box You should say Y if you are running a kernel on one of these SoC's. 665ced3ce76SDavid E. Box 666ed2226bdSDavid E. Boxconfig IOSF_MBI_DEBUG 667ed2226bdSDavid E. Box bool "Enable IOSF sideband access through debugfs" 668ed2226bdSDavid E. Box depends on IOSF_MBI && DEBUG_FS 669ed2226bdSDavid E. Box ---help--- 670ed2226bdSDavid E. Box Select this option to expose the IOSF sideband access registers (MCR, 671ed2226bdSDavid E. Box MDR, MCRX) through debugfs to write and read register information from 672ed2226bdSDavid E. Box different units on the SoC. This is most useful for obtaining device 673ed2226bdSDavid E. Box state information for debug and analysis. As this is a general access 674ed2226bdSDavid E. Box mechanism, users of this option would have specific knowledge of the 675ed2226bdSDavid E. Box device they want to access. 676ed2226bdSDavid E. Box 677ed2226bdSDavid E. Box If you don't require the option or are in doubt, say N. 678ed2226bdSDavid E. Box 679c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 680c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 682c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 683c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 684c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 685c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 686c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 687c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 688c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 689c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 690e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 6919c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 6929c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 693c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 6948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 695b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin This option compiles in the bigsmp and STA2X11 default 696b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary 697b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it one by 698b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin one and will fallback to default. 699d49c4288SYinghai Lu 700c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 701d49c4288SYinghai Lu 702d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 7036fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 704d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 705d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_MCE 706d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 707d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 708d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 709d949f36fSLinus Torvalds select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 710d949f36fSLinus Torvalds 71183125a3aSAlessandro Rubiniconfig STA2X11 71283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini bool "STA2X11 Companion Chip Support" 71383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && PCI 71483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select SWIOTLB 71583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select MFD_STA2X11 7160145071bSLinus Walleij select GPIOLIB 71783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini ---help--- 71883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub, 71983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard 72083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this 72183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini option is selected the kernel will still be able to boot on 72283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini standard PC machines. 72383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini 72482148d1dSShérabconfig X86_32_IRIS 72582148d1dSShérab tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module" 72682148d1dSShérab depends on X86_32 72782148d1dSShérab ---help--- 72882148d1dSShérab The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support 72982148d1dSShérab to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is 73082148d1dSShérab needed to do so, which is what this module does at 73182148d1dSShérab kernel shutdown. 73282148d1dSShérab 73382148d1dSShérab This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille. 73482148d1dSShérab 73582148d1dSShérab If unused, say N. 73682148d1dSShérab 737ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 7383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7393c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 740a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 7418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 7496276a074SBorislav Petkovmenuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST 7506276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Linux guest support" 7518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 7526276a074SBorislav Petkov Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper- 7536276a074SBorislav Petkov visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform 7546276a074SBorislav Petkov setup. 755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 7566276a074SBorislav Petkov If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 7576276a074SBorislav Petkov disabled, and Linux guest support won't be built in. 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 7596276a074SBorislav Petkovif HYPERVISOR_GUEST 760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 761e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 762e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 7638f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 764e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 765e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 766e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 767e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 768e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 769c00a280aSJuergen Grossconfig PARAVIRT_XXL 770c00a280aSJuergen Gross bool 771c00a280aSJuergen Gross 7726276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 7736276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 7746276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 7756276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 7766276a074SBorislav Petkov Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 7776276a074SBorislav Petkov a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 7786276a074SBorislav Petkov 779b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 780b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 7816ea30386SKees Cook depends on PARAVIRT && SMP 782b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 783b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 784b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 785b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 786b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 7874c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T It has a minimal impact on native kernels and gives a nice performance 7884c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T benefit on paravirtualized KVM / Xen kernels. 789b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 7904c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y. 791b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 792ecca2502SZhao Yakuiconfig X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR 793ecca2502SZhao Yakui def_bool n 794ecca2502SZhao Yakui 7956276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 7966276a074SBorislav Petkov 7976276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig KVM_GUEST 7986276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)" 7996276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 8006276a074SBorislav Petkov select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 801a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti select ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL 8026276a074SBorislav Petkov default y 8036276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 8046276a074SBorislav Petkov This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 8056276a074SBorislav Petkov hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead 8066276a074SBorislav Petkov of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the 8076276a074SBorislav Petkov underlying device model, the host provides the guest with 8086276a074SBorislav Petkov timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time 8096276a074SBorislav Petkov 810a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatticonfig ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL 811a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti def_bool n 812a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti prompt "Disable host haltpoll when loading haltpoll driver" 813a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti help 814a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti If virtualized under KVM, disable host haltpoll. 815a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti 8167733607fSMaran Wilsonconfig PVH 8177733607fSMaran Wilson bool "Support for running PVH guests" 8187733607fSMaran Wilson ---help--- 8197733607fSMaran Wilson This option enables the PVH entry point for guest virtual machines 8207733607fSMaran Wilson as specified in the x86/HVM direct boot ABI. 8217733607fSMaran Wilson 8221e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig KVM_DEBUG_FS 8231e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Enable debug information for KVM Guests in debugfs" 8241e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on KVM_GUEST && DEBUG_FS 8251e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri ---help--- 8261e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option enables collection of various statistics for KVM guest. 8271e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Statistics are displayed in debugfs filesystem. Enabling this option 8281e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri may incur significant overhead. 8291e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 8306276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 8316276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" 8326276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 8336276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 8346276a074SBorislav Petkov Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time 8356276a074SBorislav Petkov accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with 8366276a074SBorislav Petkov the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for 8376276a074SBorislav Petkov that, there can be a small performance impact. 8386276a074SBorislav Petkov 8396276a074SBorislav Petkov If in doubt, say N here. 8406276a074SBorislav Petkov 8417af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 8427af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 8437af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 8444a362601SJan Kiszkaconfig JAILHOUSE_GUEST 8454a362601SJan Kiszka bool "Jailhouse non-root cell support" 846abde587bSArnd Bergmann depends on X86_64 && PCI 84787e65d05SJan Kiszka select X86_PM_TIMER 8484a362601SJan Kiszka ---help--- 8494a362601SJan Kiszka This option allows to run Linux as guest in a Jailhouse non-root 8504a362601SJan Kiszka cell. You can leave this option disabled if you only want to start 8514a362601SJan Kiszka Jailhouse and run Linux afterwards in the root cell. 8524a362601SJan Kiszka 853ec7972c9SZhao Yakuiconfig ACRN_GUEST 854ec7972c9SZhao Yakui bool "ACRN Guest support" 855ec7972c9SZhao Yakui depends on X86_64 856498ad393SZhao Yakui select X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR 857ec7972c9SZhao Yakui help 858ec7972c9SZhao Yakui This option allows to run Linux as guest in the ACRN hypervisor. ACRN is 859ec7972c9SZhao Yakui a flexible, lightweight reference open-source hypervisor, built with 860ec7972c9SZhao Yakui real-time and safety-criticality in mind. It is built for embedded 861ec7972c9SZhao Yakui IOT with small footprint and real-time features. More details can be 862ec7972c9SZhao Yakui found in https://projectacrn.org/. 863ec7972c9SZhao Yakui 8646276a074SBorislav Petkovendif #HYPERVISOR_GUEST 86597349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 866506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 868506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 8693c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 870506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 8718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 872506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 873506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 8784e7f9df2SMichael S. Tsirkin as it is off-chip. The interface used is documented 8794e7f9df2SMichael S. Tsirkin in the HPET spec, revision 1. 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 883506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 886506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 887506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 8883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8899d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 891bb24c471SJacob Panconfig APB_TIMER 892933b9463SAlan Cox def_bool y if X86_INTEL_MID 893933b9463SAlan Cox prompt "Intel MID APB Timer Support" if X86_INTEL_MID 89406c3df49SJamie Iles select DW_APB_TIMER 895a0c3832aSAlan Cox depends on X86_INTEL_MID && SFI 896bb24c471SJacob Pan help 897bb24c471SJacob Pan APB timer is the replacement for 8254, HPET on X86 MID platforms. 898bb24c471SJacob Pan The APBT provides a stable time base on SMP 899bb24c471SJacob Pan systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 900bb24c471SJacob Pan as it is off-chip. APB timers are always running regardless of CPU 901bb24c471SJacob Pan C states, they are used as per CPU clockevent device when possible. 902bb24c471SJacob Pan 9036a108a14SDavid Rientjes# Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong. 904506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 9057ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 9067ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 907cf074402SArd Biesheuvel select DMI_SCAN_MACHINE_NON_EFI_FALLBACK 9086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT 9098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9107ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 9117ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 9127ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 9137ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 9147ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 91638901f1cSAndi Kleen bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support" 917a4ce5a48SChristoph Hellwig select IOMMU_HELPER 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 91923ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmann depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB 9208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 921ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron 922ced3c42cSIngo Molnar GART based hardware IOMMUs. 923ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 924ced3c42cSIngo Molnar The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access 925ced3c42cSIngo Molnar limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed 926ced3c42cSIngo Molnar for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 927ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 928ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via 929ced3c42cSIngo Molnar the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option. 930ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 931ced3c42cSIngo Molnar In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed: 932ced3c42cSIngo Molnar there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a 933ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 32-bit limited device. 934ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 935ced3c42cSIngo Molnar If unsure, say Y. 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9371184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 938ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 9396ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL 94036f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 9418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 942ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 9431184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 945aec6487eSIngo Molnar# 946aec6487eSIngo Molnar# The maximum number of CPUs supported: 947aec6487eSIngo Molnar# 948aec6487eSIngo Molnar# The main config value is NR_CPUS, which defaults to NR_CPUS_DEFAULT, 949aec6487eSIngo Molnar# and which can be configured interactively in the 950aec6487eSIngo Molnar# [NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN ... NR_CPUS_RANGE_END] range. 951aec6487eSIngo Molnar# 952aec6487eSIngo Molnar# The ranges are different on 32-bit and 64-bit kernels, depending on 953aec6487eSIngo Molnar# hardware capabilities and scalability features of the kernel. 954aec6487eSIngo Molnar# 955aec6487eSIngo Molnar# ( If MAXSMP is enabled we just use the highest possible value and disable 956aec6487eSIngo Molnar# interactive configuration. ) 957aec6487eSIngo Molnar# 958a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap 959aec6487eSIngo Molnarconfig NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN 960a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap int 961aec6487eSIngo Molnar default NR_CPUS_RANGE_END if MAXSMP 962a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 1 if !SMP 963a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 2 964a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap 965aec6487eSIngo Molnarconfig NR_CPUS_RANGE_END 966a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap int 967a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap depends on X86_32 968aec6487eSIngo Molnar default 64 if SMP && X86_BIGSMP 969aec6487eSIngo Molnar default 8 if SMP && !X86_BIGSMP 970a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 1 if !SMP 971a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap 972aec6487eSIngo Molnarconfig NR_CPUS_RANGE_END 973a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap int 974a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap depends on X86_64 9751edae1aeSScott Wood default 8192 if SMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 9761edae1aeSScott Wood default 512 if SMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 977a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 1 if !SMP 978aec6487eSIngo Molnar 979aec6487eSIngo Molnarconfig NR_CPUS_DEFAULT 980aec6487eSIngo Molnar int 981aec6487eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 982aec6487eSIngo Molnar default 32 if X86_BIGSMP 983aec6487eSIngo Molnar default 8 if SMP 984aec6487eSIngo Molnar default 1 if !SMP 985aec6487eSIngo Molnar 986aec6487eSIngo Molnarconfig NR_CPUS_DEFAULT 987aec6487eSIngo Molnar int 988aec6487eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 989a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 8192 if MAXSMP 990a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 64 if SMP 991aec6487eSIngo Molnar default 1 if !SMP 992a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 99436f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 995aec6487eSIngo Molnar range NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN NR_CPUS_RANGE_END 996aec6487eSIngo Molnar default NR_CPUS_DEFAULT 9978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 999bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum 1000cad14bb9SKirill A. Shutemov supported value is 8192, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1003aec6487eSIngo Molnar This is purely to save memory: each supported CPU adds about 8KB 1004aec6487eSIngo Molnar to the kernel image. 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 1007dbe73364SThomas Gleixner def_bool y if SMP 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 10103c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10113c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 1012c8e56d20SBorislav Petkov depends on SMP 10138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1018de966cf4STim Chenconfig SCHED_MC_PRIO 1019de966cf4STim Chen bool "CPU core priorities scheduler support" 10200a21fc12SIngo Molnar depends on SCHED_MC && CPU_SUP_INTEL 10210a21fc12SIngo Molnar select X86_INTEL_PSTATE 10220a21fc12SIngo Molnar select CPU_FREQ 1023de966cf4STim Chen default y 10245e76b2abSTim Chen ---help--- 1025de966cf4STim Chen Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 enabled CPUs have a 1026de966cf4STim Chen core ordering determined at manufacturing time, which allows 1027de966cf4STim Chen certain cores to reach higher turbo frequencies (when running 1028de966cf4STim Chen single threaded workloads) than others. 1029de966cf4STim Chen 1030de966cf4STim Chen Enabling this kernel feature teaches the scheduler about 1031de966cf4STim Chen the TBM3 (aka ITMT) priority order of the CPU cores and adjusts the 1032de966cf4STim Chen scheduler's CPU selection logic accordingly, so that higher 1033de966cf4STim Chen overall system performance can be achieved. 1034de966cf4STim Chen 1035de966cf4STim Chen This feature will have no effect on CPUs without this feature. 1036de966cf4STim Chen 1037de966cf4STim Chen If unsure say Y here. 10385e76b2abSTim Chen 103930b8b006SThomas Gleixnerconfig UP_LATE_INIT 104030b8b006SThomas Gleixner def_bool y 1041ba360f88SThomas Gleixner depends on !SMP && X86_LOCAL_APIC 104230b8b006SThomas Gleixner 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 104450849eefSJan Beulich bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" if !PCI_MSI 104550849eefSJan Beulich default PCI_MSI 104638a1dfdaSBryan O'Donoghue depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 10478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 10608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 1066506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 1067506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 1068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1069506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 10703c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10710dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC || PCI_MSI 1072b5dc8e6cSJiang Liu select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY 107352f518a3SJiang Liu select PCI_MSI_IRQ_DOMAIN if PCI_MSI 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 1076b1da1e71SJan Beulich def_bool y 1077b1da1e71SJan Beulich depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_UP_IOAPIC 1078506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 107941b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 108041b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 108141b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 10828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 108341b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 108441b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 108541b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 108641b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 108741b9eb26SStefan Assmann 108841b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 108941b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 109041b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 109141b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 109241b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 109341b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 109441b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 109541b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 109641b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 109741b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 109841b9eb26SStefan Assmann 109941b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 110041b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 110141b9eb26SStefan Assmann 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 1103bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 1104648ed940SChen, Gong select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR 1105e57dbaf7SBorislav Petkov default y 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1107bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 1108bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 1110bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 11114efc0670SAndi Kleen 11125de97c9fSTony Luckconfig X86_MCELOG_LEGACY 11135de97c9fSTony Luck bool "Support for deprecated /dev/mcelog character device" 11145de97c9fSTony Luck depends on X86_MCE 11155de97c9fSTony Luck ---help--- 11165de97c9fSTony Luck Enable support for /dev/mcelog which is needed by the old mcelog 11175de97c9fSTony Luck userspace logging daemon. Consider switching to the new generation 11185de97c9fSTony Luck rasdaemon solution. 11195de97c9fSTony Luck 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 11213c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11223c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 1123c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 11248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 11293c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11303c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 1131f5382de9SYazen Ghannam depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && AMD_NB 11328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11364efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 11376fc108a0SJan Beulich bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 1138c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 11394efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 11404efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 11415065a706SMasanari Iida systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitly on the command 11424efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 11434efc0670SAndi Kleen 1144b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 1145b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 11466fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 1147b2762686SAndi Kleen 1148ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 1149bc8e80d5SBorislav Petkov depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && DEBUG_FS 1150ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 1151ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 1152ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 1153ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 1154ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 1155ea149b36SAndi Kleen 11564efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 11574efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 11585bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 11594efc0670SAndi Kleen 116007dc900eSPeter Zijlstrasource "arch/x86/events/Kconfig" 1161e633c65aSKan Liang 11625aef51c3SAndy Lutomirskiconfig X86_LEGACY_VM86 11631e642812SIngo Molnar bool "Legacy VM86 support" 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 11658f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11665aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski This option allows user programs to put the CPU into V8086 11675aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski mode, which is an 80286-era approximation of 16-bit real mode. 11685aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski 11695aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski Some very old versions of X and/or vbetool require this option 11705aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski for user mode setting. Similarly, DOSEMU will use it if 11715aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski available to accelerate real mode DOS programs. However, any 11725aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski recent version of DOSEMU, X, or vbetool should be fully 11735aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski functional even without kernel VM86 support, as they will all 11741e642812SIngo Molnar fall back to software emulation. Nevertheless, if you are using 11751e642812SIngo Molnar a 16-bit DOS program where 16-bit performance matters, vm86 11761e642812SIngo Molnar mode might be faster than emulation and you might want to 11771e642812SIngo Molnar enable this option. 11785aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski 11791e642812SIngo Molnar Note that any app that works on a 64-bit kernel is unlikely to 11801e642812SIngo Molnar need this option, as 64-bit kernels don't, and can't, support 11811e642812SIngo Molnar V8086 mode. This option is also unrelated to 16-bit protected 11821e642812SIngo Molnar mode and is not needed to run most 16-bit programs under Wine. 11835aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski 11841e642812SIngo Molnar Enabling this option increases the complexity of the kernel 11851e642812SIngo Molnar and slows down exception handling a tiny bit. 11865aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski 11871e642812SIngo Molnar If unsure, say N here. 11885aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski 11895aef51c3SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VM86 11905aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski bool 11915aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski default X86_LEGACY_VM86 119234273f41SH. Peter Anvin 119334273f41SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_16BIT 119434273f41SH. Peter Anvin bool "Enable support for 16-bit segments" if EXPERT 119534273f41SH. Peter Anvin default y 1196a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL 119734273f41SH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 119834273f41SH. Peter Anvin This option is required by programs like Wine to run 16-bit 119934273f41SH. Peter Anvin protected mode legacy code on x86 processors. Disabling 120034273f41SH. Peter Anvin this option saves about 300 bytes on i386, or around 6K text 120134273f41SH. Peter Anvin plus 16K runtime memory on x86-64, 120234273f41SH. Peter Anvin 120334273f41SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_ESPFIX32 120434273f41SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 120534273f41SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_16BIT && X86_32 1206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1207197725deSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_ESPFIX64 1208197725deSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 120934273f41SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_16BIT && X86_64 1210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12111ad83c85SAndy Lutomirskiconfig X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION 12121ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski bool "Enable vsyscall emulation" if EXPERT 12131ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski default y 12141ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski depends on X86_64 12151ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski ---help--- 12161ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski This enables emulation of the legacy vsyscall page. Disabling 12171ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski it is roughly equivalent to booting with vsyscall=none, except 12181ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski that it will also disable the helpful warning if a program 12191ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski tries to use a vsyscall. With this option set to N, offending 12201ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski programs will just segfault, citing addresses of the form 12211ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski 0xffffffffff600?00. 12221ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski 12231ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski This option is required by many programs built before 2013, and 12241ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski care should be used even with newer programs if set to N. 12251ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski 12261ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski Disabling this option saves about 7K of kernel size and 12271ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski possibly 4K of additional runtime pagetable memory. 12281ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski 1229111e7b15SThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_IOPL_IOPERM 1230111e7b15SThomas Gleixner bool "IOPERM and IOPL Emulation" 1231a24ca997SThomas Gleixner default y 1232c8137aceSThomas Gleixner ---help--- 1233111e7b15SThomas Gleixner This enables the ioperm() and iopl() syscalls which are necessary 1234111e7b15SThomas Gleixner for legacy applications. 1235111e7b15SThomas Gleixner 1236c8137aceSThomas Gleixner Legacy IOPL support is an overbroad mechanism which allows user 1237c8137aceSThomas Gleixner space aside of accessing all 65536 I/O ports also to disable 1238c8137aceSThomas Gleixner interrupts. To gain this access the caller needs CAP_SYS_RAWIO 1239c8137aceSThomas Gleixner capabilities and permission from potentially active security 1240c8137aceSThomas Gleixner modules. 1241c8137aceSThomas Gleixner 1242c8137aceSThomas Gleixner The emulation restricts the functionality of the syscall to 1243c8137aceSThomas Gleixner only allowing the full range I/O port access, but prevents the 1244a24ca997SThomas Gleixner ability to disable interrupts from user space which would be 1245a24ca997SThomas Gleixner granted if the hardware IOPL mechanism would be used. 1246c8137aceSThomas Gleixner 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 1264039ae585SPali Rohár tristate "Dell i8k legacy laptop support" 1265949a9d70SJean Delvare select HWMON 1266039ae585SPali Rohár select SENSORS_DELL_SMM 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1268039ae585SPali Rohár This option enables legacy /proc/i8k userspace interface in hwmon 1269039ae585SPali Rohár dell-smm-hwmon driver. Character file /proc/i8k reports bios version, 1270039ae585SPali Rohár temperature and allows controlling fan speeds of Dell laptops via 1271039ae585SPali Rohár System Management Mode. For old Dell laptops (like Dell Inspiron 8000) 1272039ae585SPali Rohár it reports also power and hotkey status. For fan speed control is 1273039ae585SPali Rohár needed userspace package i8kutils. 1274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1275039ae585SPali Rohár Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on old Dell laptops or want to 1276039ae585SPali Rohár use userspace package i8kutils. 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 12809ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 12819ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 1282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 1284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 1285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 1286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 1287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 1288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 12905e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 1293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 1294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1296506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 12979a2bc335SBorislav Petkov bool "CPU microcode loading support" 12989a2bc335SBorislav Petkov default y 129980030e3dSBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL 1300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 1301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 13035f9c01aaSBorislav Petkov Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the IA32 family, 13045f9c01aaSBorislav Petkov e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The 13055f9c01aaSBorislav Petkov AMD support is for families 0x10 and later. You will obviously need 13065f9c01aaSBorislav Petkov the actual microcode binary data itself which is not shipped with 13075f9c01aaSBorislav Petkov the Linux kernel. 1308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13095f9c01aaSBorislav Petkov The preferred method to load microcode from a detached initrd is described 1310cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab in Documentation/x86/microcode.rst. For that you need to enable 13115f9c01aaSBorislav Petkov CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD in order for the loader to be able to scan the 13125f9c01aaSBorislav Petkov initrd for microcode blobs. 1313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1314c508c46eSBenjamin Gilbert In addition, you can build the microcode into the kernel. For that you 1315c508c46eSBenjamin Gilbert need to add the vendor-supplied microcode to the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE 1316c508c46eSBenjamin Gilbert config option. 1317506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13188d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 1319e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "Intel microcode loading support" 13208d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 13218d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 13228d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 13238f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13248d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 13258d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 13268d86f390SPeter Oruba 1327b8989db9SAlan For the current Intel microcode data package go to 1328b8989db9SAlan <https://downloadcenter.intel.com> and search for 1329b8989db9SAlan 'Linux Processor Microcode Data File'. 13308d86f390SPeter Oruba 133180cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 1332e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "AMD microcode loading support" 133380cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 133480cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 13358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 133680cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 133780cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 133880cc9f10SPeter Oruba 1339506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 1340c02f48e0SBorislav Petkov bool "Ancient loading interface (DEPRECATED)" 1341c02f48e0SBorislav Petkov default n 1342506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 1343c02f48e0SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 1344c02f48e0SBorislav Petkov DO NOT USE THIS! This is the ancient /dev/cpu/microcode interface 1345c02f48e0SBorislav Petkov which was used by userspace tools like iucode_tool and microcode.ctl. 1346c02f48e0SBorislav Petkov It is inadequate because it runs too late to be able to properly 1347c02f48e0SBorislav Petkov load microcode on a machine and it needs special tools. Instead, you 1348c02f48e0SBorislav Petkov should've switched to the early loading method with the initrd or 1349cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab builtin microcode by now: Documentation/x86/microcode.rst 1350506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1351506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 1352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 13538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1355506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1356506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1357506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1358506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 1359506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1360506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 1361506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 13628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1363506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1364506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1365506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1366506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1368506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 13706fc108a0SJan Beulich default HIGHMEM4G 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1372506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1373506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 1374506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 14118f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 141769b8d3fcSMatthew Whitehead depends on !M486 && !M586 && !M586TSC && !M586MMX && !MGEODE_LX && !MGEODEGX1 && !MCYRIXIII && !MELAN && !MWINCHIPC6 && !WINCHIP3D && !MK6 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 14198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 14266a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 14298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 14693c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 14739ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 1475d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig select PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 14769d99c712SChristian Melki select SWIOTLB 14778f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1482506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 148377ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemovconfig X86_5LEVEL 148477ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov bool "Enable 5-level page tables support" 148518ec1eafSKirill A. Shutemov default y 1486eedb92abSKirill A. Shutemov select DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT 1487162434e7SKirill A. Shutemov select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 148877ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov depends on X86_64 148977ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov ---help--- 149077ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov 5-level paging enables access to larger address space: 149177ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov upto 128 PiB of virtual address space and 4 PiB of 149277ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov physical address space. 149377ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov 149477ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov It will be supported by future Intel CPUs. 149577ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov 14966657fca0SKirill A. Shutemov A kernel with the option enabled can be booted on machines that 14976657fca0SKirill A. Shutemov support 4- or 5-level paging. 149877ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov 1499cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst for more 150077ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov information. 150177ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov 150277ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov Say N if unsure. 150377ef56e4SKirill A. Shutemov 150410971ab2SIngo Molnarconfig X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES 1505e5008abeSLuis R. Rodriguez def_bool y 15062e1da13fSVlastimil Babka depends on X86_64 15078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 150810971ab2SIngo Molnar Certain kernel features effectively disable kernel 150910971ab2SIngo Molnar linear 1 GB mappings (even if the CPU otherwise 151010971ab2SIngo Molnar supports them), so don't confuse the user by printing 151110971ab2SIngo Molnar that we have them enabled. 15129e899816SNick Piggin 15135c280cf6SThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_CPA_STATISTICS 15145c280cf6SThomas Gleixner bool "Enable statistic for Change Page Attribute" 15155c280cf6SThomas Gleixner depends on DEBUG_FS 15165c280cf6SThomas Gleixner ---help--- 1517b75baaf3SIngo Molnar Expose statistics about the Change Page Attribute mechanism, which 1518a943245aSColin Ian King helps to determine the effectiveness of preserving large and huge 15195c280cf6SThomas Gleixner page mappings when mapping protections are changed. 15205c280cf6SThomas Gleixner 15217744ccdbSTom Lendackyconfig AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT 15227744ccdbSTom Lendacky bool "AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support" 15237744ccdbSTom Lendacky depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_AMD 152494d49eb3SKirill A. Shutemov select DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK 1525ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT 15269087c375STom Lendacky select ARCH_HAS_FORCE_DMA_UNENCRYPTED 15277744ccdbSTom Lendacky ---help--- 15287744ccdbSTom Lendacky Say yes to enable support for the encryption of system memory. 15297744ccdbSTom Lendacky This requires an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory 15307744ccdbSTom Lendacky Encryption (SME). 15317744ccdbSTom Lendacky 15327744ccdbSTom Lendackyconfig AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT 15337744ccdbSTom Lendacky bool "Activate AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) by default" 15347744ccdbSTom Lendacky default y 15357744ccdbSTom Lendacky depends on AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT 15367744ccdbSTom Lendacky ---help--- 15377744ccdbSTom Lendacky Say yes to have system memory encrypted by default if running on 15387744ccdbSTom Lendacky an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory Encryption (SME). 15397744ccdbSTom Lendacky 15407744ccdbSTom Lendacky If set to Y, then the encryption of system memory can be 15417744ccdbSTom Lendacky deactivated with the mem_encrypt=off command line option. 15427744ccdbSTom Lendacky 15437744ccdbSTom Lendacky If set to N, then the encryption of system memory can be 15447744ccdbSTom Lendacky activated with the mem_encrypt=on command line option. 15457744ccdbSTom Lendacky 1546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1547506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1548e133f6eaSRandy Dunlap bool "NUMA Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 1550b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && X86_BIGSMP) 1551b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin default y if X86_BIGSMP 15528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1553e133f6eaSRandy Dunlap Enable NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support. 1554fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1559c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1560fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1561fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1562b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin For 32-bit this is only needed if you boot a 32-bit 15637cf6c945SDavid Rientjes kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1564fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1565fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1567eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeldconfig AMD_NUMA 15683c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15693c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 15705da0ef9aSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 15718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1572eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1573eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to 1574eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge 1575eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead, 1576eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1578506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 15793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15803c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1582506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 15838f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15866ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 15876ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 15886ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 15896ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 15906ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 15916ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 15926ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 15936ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 15946ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1595506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 15971b7e03efSTejun Heo depends on NUMA 15988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1600506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1602506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1603506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1604d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 160551591e31SDavid Rientjes range 1 10 160651591e31SDavid Rientjes default "10" if MAXSMP 1607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 16108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 16111184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1612692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1614506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 16153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1617506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1618506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 16203b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !NUMA 1621506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1622506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 16232792107dSMike Rapoport def_bool n 1624b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 16252792107dSMike Rapoport depends on BROKEN 1626b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1627506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 16296ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 || NUMA || X86_32 || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1631506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1632506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 16333b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 16346ad57f7fSMike Rapoport def_bool X86_64 || (NUMA && X86_32) 16353b16651fSTejun Heo 1636506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1637506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1638b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1640506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1641a0842b70SToshi Kani bool "Enable sysfs memory/probe interface" 16423120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1643a0842b70SToshi Kani help 1644a0842b70SToshi Kani This option enables a sysfs memory/probe interface for testing. 1645cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 1646a0842b70SToshi Kani If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 16483b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 16493b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 16503b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 16513b16651fSTejun Heo 1652a29815a3SAvi Kivityconfig ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1653a29815a3SAvi Kivity hex 1654a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0 if X86_32 1655a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1656a29815a3SAvi Kivity 16577a67832cSDan Williamsconfig X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE 16587a67832cSDan Williams bool 16597a67832cSDan Williams 1660ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwigconfig X86_PMEM_LEGACY 16617a67832cSDan Williams tristate "Support non-standard NVDIMMs and ADR protected memory" 16629f53f9faSDan Williams depends on PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 16639f53f9faSDan Williams depends on BLK_DEV 16647a67832cSDan Williams select X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE 16657b27a862SDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 16669f53f9faSDan Williams select LIBNVDIMM 1667ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig help 1668ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig Treat memory marked using the non-standard e820 type of 12 as used 1669ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig by the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP reference BIOS as protected memory. 1670ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig The kernel will offer these regions to the 'pmem' driver so 1671ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig they can be used for persistent storage. 1672ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig 1673ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig Say Y if unsure. 1674ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig 1675506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 16776fc108a0SJan Beulich depends on HIGHMEM 16788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 16849f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 16859f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 16868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 16879f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 16889f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 16899f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 16909f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 16919f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 16929f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 16939f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 16948c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst to adjust this. 16959f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 16969f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 16979f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 16989f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 16999f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 17009f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 17019f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 17029f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 17039f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 17049f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 17059f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1706c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1707c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1708c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1709c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 17108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1711c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1712c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1713c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 17149ea77bdbSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW 1715d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS" 1716d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64 1717d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin range 4 640 17188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1719d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS. 1720fc381519SIngo Molnar 1721d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel 1722d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin must not use, so that page must always be reserved. 1723fc381519SIngo Molnar 1724d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin By default we reserve the first 64K of physical RAM, as a 1725d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin number of BIOSes are known to corrupt that memory range 1726d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin during events such as suspend/resume or monitor cable 1727d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin insertion, so it must not be used by the kernel. 1728fc381519SIngo Molnar 1729d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin You can set this to 4 if you are absolutely sure that you 1730d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin trust the BIOS to get all its memory reservations and usages 1731d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin right. If you know your BIOS have problems beyond the 1732d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64K area, you can set this to 640 to avoid using the 1733d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin entire low memory range. 1734d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1735d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does 1736d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin not work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware 1737d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin hotplug events) then you might want to enable 1738d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check 1739d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin typical corruption patterns. 1740d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1741d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Leave this to the default value of 64 if you are unsure. 1742fc381519SIngo Molnar 1743506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1745a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL 174687d6021bSArnd Bergmann prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 && (M486SX || MELAN) 1747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1749506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1753506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1754506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1762506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1770506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 17716fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 17726a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT 1773506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1774506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1775506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1782506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1796506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1803cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.rst> for more information. 1804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 180595ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 18062ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 180795ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 180895ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 18098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1810aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1811aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 181295ffa243SYinghai Lu 1813aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1814692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1815aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 181695ffa243SYinghai Lu 18172ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 181895ffa243SYinghai Lu 181995ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1820f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1821f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1822f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 182395ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 18248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1825f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 182695ffa243SYinghai Lu 182712031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 182812031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 182912031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 183012031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 183112031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 18328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 183312031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1834aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 183512031a62SYinghai Lu 18362e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 18376fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 18386a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT 18392a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 18408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 18412e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1842042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 18432e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 18442e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 18452e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 18462e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1847042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 18482e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 18492e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 18502e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 185146cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED 185246cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 185346cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi depends on X86_PAT 185446cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1855628c6246SH. Peter Anvinconfig ARCH_RANDOM 1856628c6246SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1857628c6246SH. Peter Anvin prompt "x86 architectural random number generator" if EXPERT 1858628c6246SH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 1859628c6246SH. Peter Anvin Enable the x86 architectural RDRAND instruction 1860628c6246SH. Peter Anvin (Intel Bull Mountain technology) to generate random numbers. 1861628c6246SH. Peter Anvin If supported, this is a high bandwidth, cryptographically 1862628c6246SH. Peter Anvin secure hardware random number generator. 1863628c6246SH. Peter Anvin 186451ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_SMAP 186551ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 186651ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin prompt "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention" if EXPERT 186751ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 186851ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security 186951ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin feature in newer Intel processors. There is a small 187051ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is 187151ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin also a small increase in the kernel size if this is enabled. 187251ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 187351ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin If unsure, say Y. 187451ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 1875b971880fSBabu Mogerconfig X86_UMIP 1876796ebc81SRicardo Neri def_bool y 1877b971880fSBabu Moger prompt "User Mode Instruction Prevention" if EXPERT 1878aa35f896SRicardo Neri ---help--- 1879b971880fSBabu Moger User Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) is a security feature in 1880b971880fSBabu Moger some x86 processors. If enabled, a general protection fault is 1881b971880fSBabu Moger issued if the SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW or STR instructions are 1882b971880fSBabu Moger executed in user mode. These instructions unnecessarily expose 1883b971880fSBabu Moger information about the hardware state. 1884796ebc81SRicardo Neri 1885796ebc81SRicardo Neri The vast majority of applications do not use these instructions. 1886796ebc81SRicardo Neri For the very few that do, software emulation is provided in 1887796ebc81SRicardo Neri specific cases in protected and virtual-8086 modes. Emulated 1888796ebc81SRicardo Neri results are dummy. 1889aa35f896SRicardo Neri 189035e97790SDave Hansenconfig X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS 1891284244a9SDave Hansen prompt "Intel Memory Protection Keys" 189235e97790SDave Hansen def_bool y 1893284244a9SDave Hansen # Note: only available in 64-bit mode 189435e97790SDave Hansen depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64 189552c8e601SIngo Molnar select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 189652c8e601SIngo Molnar select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 1897284244a9SDave Hansen ---help--- 1898284244a9SDave Hansen Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing 1899284244a9SDave Hansen page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the 1900284244a9SDave Hansen page tables when an application changes protection domains. 1901284244a9SDave Hansen 19021eecbcdcSMauro Carvalho Chehab For details, see Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst 1903284244a9SDave Hansen 1904284244a9SDave Hansen If unsure, say y. 190535e97790SDave Hansen 1906db616173SMichal Hockochoice 1907db616173SMichal Hocko prompt "TSX enable mode" 1908db616173SMichal Hocko depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 1909db616173SMichal Hocko default X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF 1910db616173SMichal Hocko help 1911db616173SMichal Hocko Intel's TSX (Transactional Synchronization Extensions) feature 1912db616173SMichal Hocko allows to optimize locking protocols through lock elision which 1913db616173SMichal Hocko can lead to a noticeable performance boost. 1914db616173SMichal Hocko 1915db616173SMichal Hocko On the other hand it has been shown that TSX can be exploited 1916db616173SMichal Hocko to form side channel attacks (e.g. TAA) and chances are there 1917db616173SMichal Hocko will be more of those attacks discovered in the future. 1918db616173SMichal Hocko 1919db616173SMichal Hocko Therefore TSX is not enabled by default (aka tsx=off). An admin 1920db616173SMichal Hocko might override this decision by tsx=on the command line parameter. 1921db616173SMichal Hocko Even with TSX enabled, the kernel will attempt to enable the best 1922db616173SMichal Hocko possible TAA mitigation setting depending on the microcode available 1923db616173SMichal Hocko for the particular machine. 1924db616173SMichal Hocko 1925db616173SMichal Hocko This option allows to set the default tsx mode between tsx=on, =off 1926db616173SMichal Hocko and =auto. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for more 1927db616173SMichal Hocko details. 1928db616173SMichal Hocko 1929db616173SMichal Hocko Say off if not sure, auto if TSX is in use but it should be used on safe 1930db616173SMichal Hocko platforms or on if TSX is in use and the security aspect of tsx is not 1931db616173SMichal Hocko relevant. 1932db616173SMichal Hocko 1933db616173SMichal Hockoconfig X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF 1934db616173SMichal Hocko bool "off" 1935db616173SMichal Hocko help 1936db616173SMichal Hocko TSX is disabled if possible - equals to tsx=off command line parameter. 1937db616173SMichal Hocko 1938db616173SMichal Hockoconfig X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_ON 1939db616173SMichal Hocko bool "on" 1940db616173SMichal Hocko help 1941db616173SMichal Hocko TSX is always enabled on TSX capable HW - equals the tsx=on command 1942db616173SMichal Hocko line parameter. 1943db616173SMichal Hocko 1944db616173SMichal Hockoconfig X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_AUTO 1945db616173SMichal Hocko bool "auto" 1946db616173SMichal Hocko help 1947db616173SMichal Hocko TSX is enabled on TSX capable HW that is believed to be safe against 1948db616173SMichal Hocko side channel attacks- equals the tsx=auto command line parameter. 1949db616173SMichal Hockoendchoice 1950db616173SMichal Hocko 1951506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 19529ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 19535b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1954f6ce5002SSergey Vlasov select UCS2_STRING 1955022ee6c5SArd Biesheuvel select EFI_RUNTIME_WRAPPERS 1956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 19578b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 19608b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 19618b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 19628b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 19638b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 19648b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 19658b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1967291f3632SMatt Flemingconfig EFI_STUB 1968291f3632SMatt Fleming bool "EFI stub support" 1969b16d8c23SMatt Fleming depends on EFI && !X86_USE_3DNOW 19708f24f8c2SArd Biesheuvel depends on $(cc-option,-mabi=ms) || X86_32 19717b2a583aSMatt Fleming select RELOCATABLE 1972291f3632SMatt Fleming ---help--- 1973291f3632SMatt Fleming This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly 1974291f3632SMatt Fleming by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. 1975291f3632SMatt Fleming 19764f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst for more information. 19770c759662SMatt Fleming 19787d453eeeSMatt Flemingconfig EFI_MIXED 19797d453eeeSMatt Fleming bool "EFI mixed-mode support" 19807d453eeeSMatt Fleming depends on EFI_STUB && X86_64 19817d453eeeSMatt Fleming ---help--- 19827d453eeeSMatt Fleming Enabling this feature allows a 64-bit kernel to be booted 19837d453eeeSMatt Fleming on a 32-bit firmware, provided that your CPU supports 64-bit 19847d453eeeSMatt Fleming mode. 19857d453eeeSMatt Fleming 19867d453eeeSMatt Fleming Note that it is not possible to boot a mixed-mode enabled 19877d453eeeSMatt Fleming kernel via the EFI boot stub - a bootloader that supports 19887d453eeeSMatt Fleming the EFI handover protocol must be used. 19897d453eeeSMatt Fleming 19907d453eeeSMatt Fleming If unsure, say N. 19917d453eeeSMatt Fleming 1992506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 19933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 19943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 19958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 2000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 2001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 20029c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 2003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 2004506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 2005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 2007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 20088636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "kernel/Kconfig.hz" 2009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2010506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 2011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 20122965faa5SDave Young select KEXEC_CORE 20138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 2015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 2016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 2017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 2018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2019506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 2020506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2021506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 2022506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 2023bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven initially work for you. As of this writing the exact hardware 2024bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven interface is strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be 2025bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven made. 2026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 202774ca317cSVivek Goyalconfig KEXEC_FILE 202874ca317cSVivek Goyal bool "kexec file based system call" 20292965faa5SDave Young select KEXEC_CORE 203074ca317cSVivek Goyal select BUILD_BIN2C 203174ca317cSVivek Goyal depends on X86_64 203274ca317cSVivek Goyal depends on CRYPTO=y 203374ca317cSVivek Goyal depends on CRYPTO_SHA256=y 203474ca317cSVivek Goyal ---help--- 203574ca317cSVivek Goyal This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is 203674ca317cSVivek Goyal file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument 203774ca317cSVivek Goyal for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as 203874ca317cSVivek Goyal accepted by previous system call. 203974ca317cSVivek Goyal 2040b799a09fSAKASHI Takahiroconfig ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY 2041b799a09fSAKASHI Takahiro def_bool KEXEC_FILE 2042b799a09fSAKASHI Takahiro 204399d5cadfSJiri Bohacconfig KEXEC_SIG 20448e7d8381SVivek Goyal bool "Verify kernel signature during kexec_file_load() syscall" 204574ca317cSVivek Goyal depends on KEXEC_FILE 20468e7d8381SVivek Goyal ---help--- 204799d5cadfSJiri Bohac 204899d5cadfSJiri Bohac This option makes the kexec_file_load() syscall check for a valid 204999d5cadfSJiri Bohac signature of the kernel image. The image can still be loaded without 205099d5cadfSJiri Bohac a valid signature unless you also enable KEXEC_SIG_FORCE, though if 205199d5cadfSJiri Bohac there's a signature that we can check, then it must be valid. 205299d5cadfSJiri Bohac 205399d5cadfSJiri Bohac In addition to this option, you need to enable signature 205499d5cadfSJiri Bohac verification for the corresponding kernel image type being 205599d5cadfSJiri Bohac loaded in order for this to work. 205699d5cadfSJiri Bohac 205799d5cadfSJiri Bohacconfig KEXEC_SIG_FORCE 205899d5cadfSJiri Bohac bool "Require a valid signature in kexec_file_load() syscall" 205999d5cadfSJiri Bohac depends on KEXEC_SIG 206099d5cadfSJiri Bohac ---help--- 20618e7d8381SVivek Goyal This option makes kernel signature verification mandatory for 2062d8eb8940SBorislav Petkov the kexec_file_load() syscall. 20638e7d8381SVivek Goyal 20648e7d8381SVivek Goyalconfig KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG 20658e7d8381SVivek Goyal bool "Enable bzImage signature verification support" 206699d5cadfSJiri Bohac depends on KEXEC_SIG 20678e7d8381SVivek Goyal depends on SIGNED_PE_FILE_VERIFICATION 20688e7d8381SVivek Goyal select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING 20698e7d8381SVivek Goyal ---help--- 20708e7d8381SVivek Goyal Enable bzImage signature verification support. 20718e7d8381SVivek Goyal 2072506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 207304b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 2074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 20758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2076506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 2077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 2078506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 2079506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 2080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 2081506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 2082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 2083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 2084330d4810SMauro Carvalho Chehab For more details see Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst 2085506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 20863ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 20876ea30386SKees Cook bool "kexec jump" 2088fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 20898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 209089081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 209189081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 20923ab83521SHuang Ying 2093506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 20946a108a14SDavid Rientjes hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP) 2095ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 20968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 2098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2099506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 2100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 2101506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 2102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 2103506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 2104506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 2106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 2107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 2108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 2109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 2110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 2111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 2112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 2113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2114ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 2115ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 2116ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 2117ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 2118ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 2119ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 2120ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 2121330d4810SMauro Carvalho Chehab kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst 2122ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 2123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 2125506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 2126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 2127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 2128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 2129506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 2130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 2131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 2133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2134506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 213526717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 213626717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 21378f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 2139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 2140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 2141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 2142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 2144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 2145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 2146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 2148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 21498ab3820fSKees Cook (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is used as the minimum location. 2150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 21518ab3820fSKees Cookconfig RANDOMIZE_BASE 2152e8581e3dSBaoquan He bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image (KASLR)" 21538ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RELOCATABLE 21546807c846SIngo Molnar default y 21558ab3820fSKees Cook ---help--- 2156e8581e3dSBaoquan He In support of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR), 2157e8581e3dSBaoquan He this randomizes the physical address at which the kernel image 2158e8581e3dSBaoquan He is decompressed and the virtual address where the kernel 2159e8581e3dSBaoquan He image is mapped, as a security feature that deters exploit 2160e8581e3dSBaoquan He attempts relying on knowledge of the location of kernel 2161e8581e3dSBaoquan He code internals. 2162e8581e3dSBaoquan He 2163ed9f007eSKees Cook On 64-bit, the kernel physical and virtual addresses are 2164ed9f007eSKees Cook randomized separately. The physical address will be anywhere 2165ed9f007eSKees Cook between 16MB and the top of physical memory (up to 64TB). The 2166ed9f007eSKees Cook virtual address will be randomized from 16MB up to 1GB (9 bits 2167ed9f007eSKees Cook of entropy). Note that this also reduces the memory space 2168ed9f007eSKees Cook available to kernel modules from 1.5GB to 1GB. 2169ed9f007eSKees Cook 2170ed9f007eSKees Cook On 32-bit, the kernel physical and virtual addresses are 2171ed9f007eSKees Cook randomized together. They will be randomized from 16MB up to 2172ed9f007eSKees Cook 512MB (8 bits of entropy). 21738ab3820fSKees Cook 2174a653f356SKees Cook Entropy is generated using the RDRAND instruction if it is 2175e8581e3dSBaoquan He supported. If RDTSC is supported, its value is mixed into 2176e8581e3dSBaoquan He the entropy pool as well. If neither RDRAND nor RDTSC are 2177ed9f007eSKees Cook supported, then entropy is read from the i8254 timer. The 2178ed9f007eSKees Cook usable entropy is limited by the kernel being built using 2179ed9f007eSKees Cook 2GB addressing, and that PHYSICAL_ALIGN must be at a 2180ed9f007eSKees Cook minimum of 2MB. As a result, only 10 bits of entropy are 2181ed9f007eSKees Cook theoretically possible, but the implementations are further 2182ed9f007eSKees Cook limited due to memory layouts. 2183e8581e3dSBaoquan He 21846807c846SIngo Molnar If unsure, say Y. 2185da2b6fb9SKees Cook 21868ab3820fSKees Cook# Relocation on x86 needs some additional build support 2187845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 2188845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 21898ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE || (X86_32 && RELOCATABLE) 2190845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 2191506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 2192a0215061SKees Cook hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" 21938ab3820fSKees Cook default "0x200000" 2194a0215061SKees Cook range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32 2195a0215061SKees Cook range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64 21968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2197506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 2198506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 2199506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 2200506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2201506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 2202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 2203506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 2204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2205506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 2206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 2207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 2208506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 2209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 2210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 2211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 2212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2213a0215061SKees Cook On 32-bit this value must be a multiple of 0x2000. On 64-bit 2214a0215061SKees Cook this value must be a multiple of 0x200000. 2215a0215061SKees Cook 2216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 2217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2218eedb92abSKirill A. Shutemovconfig DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT 2219eedb92abSKirill A. Shutemov bool 2220eedb92abSKirill A. Shutemov ---help--- 2221eedb92abSKirill A. Shutemov This option makes base addresses of vmalloc and vmemmap as well as 2222eedb92abSKirill A. Shutemov __PAGE_OFFSET movable during boot. 2223eedb92abSKirill A. Shutemov 22240483e1faSThomas Garnierconfig RANDOMIZE_MEMORY 22250483e1faSThomas Garnier bool "Randomize the kernel memory sections" 22260483e1faSThomas Garnier depends on X86_64 22270483e1faSThomas Garnier depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE 2228eedb92abSKirill A. Shutemov select DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT 22290483e1faSThomas Garnier default RANDOMIZE_BASE 22300483e1faSThomas Garnier ---help--- 22310483e1faSThomas Garnier Randomizes the base virtual address of kernel memory sections 22320483e1faSThomas Garnier (physical memory mapping, vmalloc & vmemmap). This security feature 22330483e1faSThomas Garnier makes exploits relying on predictable memory locations less reliable. 22340483e1faSThomas Garnier 22350483e1faSThomas Garnier The order of allocations remains unchanged. Entropy is generated in 22360483e1faSThomas Garnier the same way as RANDOMIZE_BASE. Current implementation in the optimal 22370483e1faSThomas Garnier configuration have in average 30,000 different possible virtual 22380483e1faSThomas Garnier addresses for each memory section. 22390483e1faSThomas Garnier 22406807c846SIngo Molnar If unsure, say Y. 22410483e1faSThomas Garnier 224290397a41SThomas Garnierconfig RANDOMIZE_MEMORY_PHYSICAL_PADDING 224390397a41SThomas Garnier hex "Physical memory mapping padding" if EXPERT 224490397a41SThomas Garnier depends on RANDOMIZE_MEMORY 224590397a41SThomas Garnier default "0xa" if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 224690397a41SThomas Garnier default "0x0" 224790397a41SThomas Garnier range 0x1 0x40 if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 224890397a41SThomas Garnier range 0x0 0x40 224990397a41SThomas Garnier ---help--- 225090397a41SThomas Garnier Define the padding in terabytes added to the existing physical 225190397a41SThomas Garnier memory size during kernel memory randomization. It is useful 225290397a41SThomas Garnier for memory hotplug support but reduces the entropy available for 225390397a41SThomas Garnier address randomization. 225490397a41SThomas Garnier 225590397a41SThomas Garnier If unsure, leave at the default value. 225690397a41SThomas Garnier 2257506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 2258bebd024eSThomas Gleixner def_bool y 225940b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on SMP 2260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 226180aa1dffSFenghua Yuconfig BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 226280aa1dffSFenghua Yu bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable" 22632c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 226480aa1dffSFenghua Yu ---help--- 226580aa1dffSFenghua Yu Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off. 226680aa1dffSFenghua Yu 226780aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say Y here to enable CPU0 hotplug by default. If this switch 226880aa1dffSFenghua Yu is turned on, there is no need to give cpu0_hotplug kernel 226980aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter and the CPU0 hotplug feature is enabled by default. 227080aa1dffSFenghua Yu 227180aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please note: there are two known CPU0 dependencies if you want 227280aa1dffSFenghua Yu to enable the CPU0 hotplug feature either by this switch or by 227380aa1dffSFenghua Yu cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter. 227480aa1dffSFenghua Yu 227580aa1dffSFenghua Yu First, resume from hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. 227680aa1dffSFenghua Yu So hibernate and suspend are prevented if CPU0 is offline. 227780aa1dffSFenghua Yu 227880aa1dffSFenghua Yu Second dependency is PIC interrupts always go to CPU0. CPU0 can not 227980aa1dffSFenghua Yu offline if any interrupt can not migrate out of CPU0. There may 228080aa1dffSFenghua Yu be other CPU0 dependencies. 228180aa1dffSFenghua Yu 228280aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please make sure the dependencies are under your control before 228380aa1dffSFenghua Yu you enable this feature. 228480aa1dffSFenghua Yu 228580aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say N if you don't want to enable CPU0 hotplug feature by default. 228680aa1dffSFenghua Yu You still can enable the CPU0 hotplug feature at boot by kernel 228780aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter cpu0_hotplug. 228880aa1dffSFenghua Yu 2289a71c8bc5SFenghua Yuconfig DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 2290a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu def_bool n 2291a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug" 22922c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 2293a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu ---help--- 2294a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as 2295a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User 2296a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu can online CPU0 back after boot time. 2297a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 2298a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu To debug CPU0 hotplug, you need to enable CPU0 offline/online 2299a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu feature by either turning on CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 during 2300a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu compilation or giving cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter at boot. 2301a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 2302a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu If unsure, say N. 2303a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 2304506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 2305b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 2306b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski prompt "Disable the 32-bit vDSO (needed for glibc 2.3.3)" 2307953fee1dSIngo Molnar depends on COMPAT_32 23088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2309b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are 2310b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski presented with a 32-bit vDSO that is not mapped at the address 2311b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski indicated in its segment table. 2312e84446deSRandy Dunlap 2313b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski The bug was introduced by f866314b89d56845f55e6f365e18b31ec978ec3a 2314b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski and fixed by 3b3ddb4f7db98ec9e912ccdf54d35df4aa30e04a and 2315b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 49ad572a70b8aeb91e57483a11dd1b77e31c4468. Glibc 2.3.3 is 2316b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski the only released version with the bug, but OpenSUSE 9 2317b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski contains a buggy "glibc 2.3.2". 2318506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2319b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski The symptom of the bug is that everything crashes on startup, saying: 2320b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 2321b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 2322b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski Saying Y here changes the default value of the vdso32 boot 2323b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski option from 1 to 0, which turns off the 32-bit vDSO entirely. 2324b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski This works around the glibc bug but hurts performance. 2325b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 2326b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski If unsure, say N: if you are compiling your own kernel, you 2327b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski are unlikely to be using a buggy version of glibc. 2328506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 23293dc33bd3SKees Cookchoice 23303dc33bd3SKees Cook prompt "vsyscall table for legacy applications" 23313dc33bd3SKees Cook depends on X86_64 2332625b7b7fSAndy Lutomirski default LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY 23333dc33bd3SKees Cook help 23343dc33bd3SKees Cook Legacy user code that does not know how to find the vDSO expects 23353dc33bd3SKees Cook to be able to issue three syscalls by calling fixed addresses in 23363dc33bd3SKees Cook kernel space. Since this location is not randomized with ASLR, 23373dc33bd3SKees Cook it can be used to assist security vulnerability exploitation. 23383dc33bd3SKees Cook 23393dc33bd3SKees Cook This setting can be changed at boot time via the kernel command 2340bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski line parameter vsyscall=[emulate|xonly|none]. 23413dc33bd3SKees Cook 23423dc33bd3SKees Cook On a system with recent enough glibc (2.14 or newer) and no 23433dc33bd3SKees Cook static binaries, you can say None without a performance penalty 23443dc33bd3SKees Cook to improve security. 23453dc33bd3SKees Cook 2346bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski If unsure, select "Emulate execution only". 23473dc33bd3SKees Cook 23483dc33bd3SKees Cook config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE 2349bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski bool "Full emulation" 23503dc33bd3SKees Cook help 2351bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski The kernel traps and emulates calls into the fixed vsyscall 2352bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski address mapping. This makes the mapping non-executable, but 2353bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski it still contains readable known contents, which could be 2354bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski used in certain rare security vulnerability exploits. This 2355bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski configuration is recommended when using legacy userspace 2356bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski that still uses vsyscalls along with legacy binary 2357bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski instrumentation tools that require code to be readable. 2358bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski 2359bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski An example of this type of legacy userspace is running 2360bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski Pin on an old binary that still uses vsyscalls. 2361bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski 2362bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY 2363bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski bool "Emulate execution only" 2364bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski help 2365bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski The kernel traps and emulates calls into the fixed vsyscall 2366bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski address mapping and does not allow reads. This 2367bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski configuration is recommended when userspace might use the 2368bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski legacy vsyscall area but support for legacy binary 2369bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski instrumentation of legacy code is not needed. It mitigates 2370bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski certain uses of the vsyscall area as an ASLR-bypassing 2371bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski buffer. 23723dc33bd3SKees Cook 23733dc33bd3SKees Cook config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE 23743dc33bd3SKees Cook bool "None" 23753dc33bd3SKees Cook help 23763dc33bd3SKees Cook There will be no vsyscall mapping at all. This will 23773dc33bd3SKees Cook eliminate any risk of ASLR bypass due to the vsyscall 23783dc33bd3SKees Cook fixed address mapping. Attempts to use the vsyscalls 23793dc33bd3SKees Cook will be reported to dmesg, so that either old or 23803dc33bd3SKees Cook malicious userspace programs can be identified. 23813dc33bd3SKees Cook 23823dc33bd3SKees Cookendchoice 23833dc33bd3SKees Cook 2384516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 2385516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 23868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2387516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 2388516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 2389516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 2390516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 2391516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 2392516cbf37STim Bird 2393516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 2394516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 239569711ca1SSébastien Hinderer boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 2396516cbf37STim Bird 2397516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 2398516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 2399516cbf37STim Bird 2400516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 2401516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 2402516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 2403516cbf37STim Bird default "" 24048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2405516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 2406516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 2407516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 2408516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 2409516cbf37STim Bird 2410516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 2411516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 2412516cbf37STim Bird 2413516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 2414516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 2415516cbf37STim Bird file system. 2416516cbf37STim Bird 2417516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 2418516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 2419645e6466SAnders Roxell depends on CMDLINE_BOOL && CMDLINE != "" 24208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2421516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 2422516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 2423516cbf37STim Bird 2424516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 2425516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 2426516cbf37STim Bird 2427a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirskiconfig MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL 2428a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski bool "Enable the LDT (local descriptor table)" if EXPERT 2429a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski default y 2430a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski ---help--- 2431a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski Linux can allow user programs to install a per-process x86 2432a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski Local Descriptor Table (LDT) using the modify_ldt(2) system 2433a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski call. This is required to run 16-bit or segmented code such as 2434a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski DOSEMU or some Wine programs. It is also used by some very old 2435a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski threading libraries. 2436a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski 2437a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski Enabling this feature adds a small amount of overhead to 2438a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski context switches and increases the low-level kernel attack 2439a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski surface. Disabling it removes the modify_ldt(2) system call. 2440a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski 2441a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski Saying 'N' here may make sense for embedded or server kernels. 2442a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski 2443b700e7f0SSeth Jenningssource "kernel/livepatch/Kconfig" 2444b700e7f0SSeth Jennings 2445506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 24473072e413SMichal Hockoconfig ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES 24483072e413SMichal Hocko def_bool y 24493072e413SMichal Hocko depends on X86_64 && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 24503072e413SMichal Hocko 2451506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 2454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 245535551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 245635551053SGary Hade def_bool y 245735551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 245835551053SGary Hade 2459e534c7c5SLee Schermerhornconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 2460645a7919STejun Heo def_bool y 2461e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn depends on NUMA 2462e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn 24639491846fSKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 24649491846fSKirill A. Shutemov def_bool y 24659491846fSKirill A. Shutemov depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 24669491846fSKirill A. Shutemov 2467c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 2468c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi def_bool y 2469c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi depends on X86_64 && HUGETLB_PAGE && MIGRATION 2470c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 24719c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION 24729c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi def_bool y 24739c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi depends on X86_64 && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 24749c670ea3SNaoya Horiguchi 2475da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 2476e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2477e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 24783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 247944556530SZhimin Gu depends on HIBERNATION 2480e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2481e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 2482e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2483e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 2484e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2485efafc8b2SFeng Tangsource "drivers/sfi/Kconfig" 2486efafc8b2SFeng Tang 2487a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 24886fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 2489282e5aabSPaul Bolle depends on APM 2490a6b68076SAndi Kleen 2491e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 2492e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 2493efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 2494e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2495e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 2496e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 2497e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 2498e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 2499e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 2500e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 2501e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2502e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 2503e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 2504e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2505e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 2506e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 2507e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2508e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 2509151f4e2bSMauro Carvalho Chehab and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.rst> 25102dc98fd3SMichael Witten and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 2511e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 2512e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2513e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 2514e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 2515e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 2516e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2517e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 2518e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 2519e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 2520e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 2521e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2522e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 2523e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 2524e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 2525e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 2526e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 2527e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2528e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 2529e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 2530e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2531e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 2532e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 2533e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 2534e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 2535e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 2536e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 2537e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 2538e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 2539e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 2540e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 2541e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 2542e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 2543e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 2544e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 2545e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 2546e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2547e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 2548e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 2549e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2550e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 2551e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2552e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 2553e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 25548f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2555e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 2556e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 2557e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 2558e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2559e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 2560e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 2561e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2562e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 2563e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 2564e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 2565e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 2566e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 2567e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 2568e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 2569e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 2570e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 2571e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 2572e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 2573e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 2574e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 2575e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2576e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 2577dd8af076SLen Brown depends on CPU_IDLE 2578e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 25798f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2580e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 2581e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 2582e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 2583e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 2584e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 2585e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 2586e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 2587e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2588e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 2589e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 25908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2591e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 2592e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 2593e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 2594e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 2595e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 2596e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 2597e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 2598e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 2599e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 2600e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2601e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 2602e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 26038f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2604e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 2605e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 2606e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 2607e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 2608e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 2609e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 2610e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2611e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 2612e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2613bb0a56ecSDave Jonessource "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig" 2614e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2615e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 2616e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 261727471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 261827471fdbSAndy Henroid 2619e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2620e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2621e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2622e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 2623e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2624e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 2625e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 2626efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 2627e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 2628e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2629e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 2630e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 2631e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 2632e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 2633e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 2634e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2635e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 2636e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 2637e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 2638e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 2639e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 2640e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 2641e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 2642e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2643e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 2644e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 2645e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2646e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 2647e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 2648e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2649e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 2650e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 2651e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 26523ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 265376fb6570SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1" 26543ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 26553ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 26562bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 26572bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 26582bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 2659e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 2660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2661e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 26623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2663efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 2664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 2666e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 26673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 26680aba496fSShaohua Li depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)) 2669e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2670e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 2671b45c9f36SJan Kiszka bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" if X86_64 2672b45c9f36SJan Kiszka default y 26738364e1f8SJan Kiszka depends on PCI && (ACPI || SFI || JAILHOUSE_GUEST) 2674b45c9f36SJan Kiszka depends on X86_64 || (PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOMMCONFIG) 2675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 26763ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 26772bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 26782bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 26793ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2680b5401a96SAlex Nixonconfig PCI_XEN 2681b5401a96SAlex Nixon def_bool y 2682b5401a96SAlex Nixon depends on PCI && XEN 2683b5401a96SAlex Nixon select SWIOTLB_XEN 2684b5401a96SAlex Nixon 26858364e1f8SJan Kiszkaconfig MMCONF_FAM10H 26868364e1f8SJan Kiszka def_bool y 26878364e1f8SJan Kiszka depends on X86_64 && PCI_MMCONFIG && ACPI 2688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 26893f6ea84aSIra W. Snyderconfig PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 26906a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" if EXPERT 26916ea30386SKees Cook depends on PCI 26923f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder help 26933f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 26943f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 26953f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder not have ACPI. 26963f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder 269764a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality 269864a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas is known to be incomplete. 269964a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 270064a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas You should say N unless you know you need this. 270164a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 27023a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS 270317a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "ISA bus support on modern systems" if EXPERT 27043a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray help 270517a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose ISA bus device drivers and options available for selection and 270617a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray configuration. Enable this option if your target machine has an ISA 270717a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray bus. ISA is an older system, displaced by PCI and newer bus 270817a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray architectures -- if your target machine is modern, it probably does 270917a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray not have an ISA bus. 27103a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 27113a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray If unsure, say N. 27123a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 27131c00f016SDavid Rientjes# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA. 2714e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 27151c00f016SDavid Rientjes bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT) 27161c00f016SDavid Rientjes default y 27171c00f016SDavid Rientjes help 27181c00f016SDavid Rientjes Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers. 27191c00f016SDavid Rientjes If unsure, say Y. 2720e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 272151e68d05SLinus Torvaldsif X86_32 272251e68d05SLinus Torvalds 2723e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 2724e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 27258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2726e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2727e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2728e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 2730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 2731e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2732e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 2733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 27348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 2736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 2737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 2738e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 2739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 2741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2742e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 2743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 2744592913ecSJohn Stultz depends on SCx200 2745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 27468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2747e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 2748e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 2749e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 2750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 2751e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 2752e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27533ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 27543ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 275554008979SThomas Gleixner depends on !X86_PAE 27563c554946SAndres Salomon select GPIOLIB 2757dc3119e7SThomas Gleixner select OF 275845bb1674SDaniel Drake select OF_PROMTREE 2759b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 27600c3d931bSLubomir Rintel select OLPC_EC 27618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 27623ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 27633ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 27643ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2765a3128588SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_PM 2766a3128588SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management" 2767fa112cf1SBorislav Petkov depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535=y && PM_SLEEP 2768bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake ---help--- 276997c4cb71SDaniel Drake Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop. 2770bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake 2771cfee9597SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_RTC 2772cfee9597SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock" 2773cfee9597SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS 2774cfee9597SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2775cfee9597SDaniel Drake Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a 2776cfee9597SDaniel Drake programmable wakeup source. 2777cfee9597SDaniel Drake 27787feda8e9SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_SCI 27797feda8e9SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras" 278092e830f2SArnd Bergmann depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM && GPIO_CS5535=y 2781ed8e47feSRandy Dunlap depends on INPUT=y 2782d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 27837feda8e9SDaniel Drake ---help--- 27847feda8e9SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop: 27857bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 27867feda8e9SDaniel Drake - Power button 27877bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - Ebook switch 27882cf2baeaSDaniel Drake - Lid switch 2789e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2790e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 27917feda8e9SDaniel Drake 2792a0f30f59SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO15_SCI 2793a0f30f59SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras" 2794d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && ACPI 2795d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 2796a0f30f59SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2797a0f30f59SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop: 2798a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 2799a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2800a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 2801e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2802d4f3e350SEd Wildgooseconfig ALIX 2803d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)" 2804d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose select GPIOLIB 2805d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ---help--- 2806d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX. 2807d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on 2808d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should 2809d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose get added here. 2810d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2811d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support 2812d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs 2813d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2814d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS. 2815d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2816da4e3302SPhilip Prindevilleconfig NET5501 2817da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 2818da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville select GPIOLIB 2819da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville ---help--- 2820da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501. 2821da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville 28223197059aSPhilip A. Prindevilleconfig GEOS 28233197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 28243197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville select GPIOLIB 28253197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville depends on DMI 28263197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville ---help--- 28273197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS. 28283197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville 28297d029125SVivien Didelotconfig TS5500 28307d029125SVivien Didelot bool "Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform support" 28317d029125SVivien Didelot depends on MELAN 28327d029125SVivien Didelot select CHECK_SIGNATURE 28337d029125SVivien Didelot select NEW_LEDS 28347d029125SVivien Didelot select LEDS_CLASS 28357d029125SVivien Didelot ---help--- 28367d029125SVivien Didelot This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500. 28377d029125SVivien Didelot 2838e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 2839e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 284023ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmannconfig AMD_NB 2841e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 28420e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 2843e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2844e3263ab3SDavid Herrmannconfig X86_SYSFB 2845e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer" 2846e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann help 2847e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS, 2848e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for 2849e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann user-guidance and debugging. Historically, x86 used the VESA BIOS 2850e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Extensions and EFI-framebuffers for this, which are mostly limited 2851e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann to x86. 2852e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann This option, if enabled, marks VGA/VBE/EFI framebuffers as generic 2853e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann framebuffers so the new generic system-framebuffer drivers can be 2854e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann used on x86. If the framebuffer is not compatible with the generic 2855e3a5dc08SNikolas Nyby modes, it is advertised as fallback platform framebuffer so legacy 2856e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann drivers like efifb, vesafb and uvesafb can pick it up. 2857e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If this option is not selected, all system framebuffers are always 2858e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann marked as fallback platform framebuffers as usual. 2859e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2860e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Note: Legacy fbdev drivers, including vesafb, efifb, uvesafb, will 2861e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann not be able to pick up generic system framebuffers if this option 2862e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann is selected. You are highly encouraged to enable simplefb as 2863e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann replacement if you select this option. simplefb can correctly deal 2864e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann with generic system framebuffers. But you should still keep vesafb 2865e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann and others enabled as fallback if a system framebuffer is 2866e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann incompatible with simplefb. 2867e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2868e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If unsure, say Y. 2869e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 28731572497cSChristoph Hellwigmenu "Binary Emulations" 2874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 287839f88911SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 2879d1603990SRandy Dunlap select BINFMT_ELF 2880a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 288139f88911SIngo Molnar select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 28828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 28835fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 28845fd92e65SH. J. Lu 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 28855fd92e65SH. J. Lu 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. 2886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 28896b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 2890eac61655SBorislav Petkov depends on BROKEN 28918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 28940bf62763SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_X32 28956ea30386SKees Cook bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode" 28969b54050bSBrian Gerst depends on X86_64 28975fd92e65SH. J. Lu ---help--- 28985fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI 28995fd92e65SH. J. Lu for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the 29005fd92e65SH. J. Lu full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving 29015fd92e65SH. J. Lu pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint. 29025fd92e65SH. J. Lu 29035fd92e65SH. J. Lu You will need a recent binutils (2.22 or later) with 29045fd92e65SH. J. Lu elf32_x86_64 support enabled to compile a kernel with this 29055fd92e65SH. J. Lu option set. 29065fd92e65SH. J. Lu 2907953fee1dSIngo Molnarconfig COMPAT_32 2908953fee1dSIngo Molnar def_bool y 2909953fee1dSIngo Molnar depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_32 2910953fee1dSIngo Molnar select HAVE_UID16 2911953fee1dSIngo Molnar select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 2912953fee1dSIngo Molnar 2913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 29143c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 29150bf62763SH. Peter Anvin depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32 2916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 29173120e25eSJan Beulichif COMPAT 2918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 29193120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 29223c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 29233120e25eSJan Beulich depends on SYSVIPC 29243120e25eSJan Beulichendif 2925ee009e4aSDavid Howells 2926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2929e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2930e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2931e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2932e5beae16SKeith Packard 2933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2935edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 29365e8ebd84SJason A. Donenfeld 29375e8ebd84SJason A. Donenfeldsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler" 2938